Ermaximus, Cool King, Xero, and Tazz Dan Present: Raw Thread for 07/23/12 Billy and Dolph vs. The World.
 

Huge night for Raw. Lot's to discuss so we're going to make this one an all day and night thing. Let's go hombres.

These thread titles are getting worse every week.

Then help me think of something better brother. I'm working off of 5 hours sleep and a red bull.

Still better than anything I could come up with while having 3hrs of sleep collected due to constant waking up and only have a box of Kraft dinner yesterday.

Pretty excited for DX, whatever they have planned for this summer storyline kicking off (if that's actually true), The Miz's goatee and new hair and Punk v Cena.

Very much not excited about seeing Mae Young, Duggan, Slaughter etc do nothing of interest for the 1000th time.

Gonna wear my Mr Ass shorts while watching the DX segment.

Then the lesnar board shorts come out durring his outing, followed by signed scsa vest when he appears and stuns heath, then my taker robe will be on while attempting, and failing, to roll my eyes back in my head while the flicking the lights on and off. Then I shall run around nude slinging the peoples strudle at everyone in a 10 foot radius.
gonna be a hell of a night.

Pics for proof Iggy. I need a new avatar.

i havent been this excited for a raw since bret came back..the dx reunion to start the show should be amazing

The fact it's going to be the FULL DX makes it better. I'd honestly be even more shocked if they bring Tori back for the night too.

If Road Dogg runs down the whole "Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls..." speech I will be very happy.

I want to see the Outlaws come out together but I reeeeeeeeeeeally want to hear 'Assman' on WWE tv in 2012.

hahaha ditto

double ditto

Nah, this is now a Cool King joint also.

PEOPLE POWER!

Would be an odd swerve if he was named the new Raw GM.

Undertaker vs. Heath Slater

I refuse to sticky this until you come up with a better title.

I'm thinking Austin/Slater.

i think slater is going to take a beat down from about 6 different legends tonight

Come see Xero in the infamous "RAW CHAT", TONIGHT at 8PM/7PM Central. There will be prizes, beer and pie.*

*There will not be prizes, beer nor pie, unless you provide your own.

I predict that the WWE UNIVERSE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA is made the new GM of RAW.

I'm so F'N pumped for this show.

1000th anniversary wood.

RAW will close with Vince McMahon waking up the night of Survivor Series and deciding not to screw Bret. We are then sent back in time next week to November 1997 and start of RAW as if Bret was still with the company and everything was hunkie doory.

LOL since HBK, Bret, and Triple H will be on hand, RAW 1000 ends with a recreation of Survivor Series 1997, only this time Triple H interferes and the match indeed ends in a DQ.

"Survivor Series '97: How you always dreamed it. Uncut. Uncensored".

Been saying this since the Tout announcement.

Soooooo new GM by end of September?

I hope DX invade TNA in army clothes.

Tatanka is going to Tomahawk Chop the shit out of someone.

what did Road Dogg used to say instead of "tagggggg teammmm championsssss offf theee worrrrrld" when they werent champs

I also think Taker will come out and Tombstone Slater

Is anybody excited about John Cena cashing in his Money in the Bank breifcase vs. CM Punk for the WWE title?

yes I feel as if the rock could play a part in that match Somehow....SummerSlam could end up being bigger than WrestleMania. Rock vs Punk, HHH vs Brock.

I can't wait, but am nervous they'll have Cena win.

What time is the pre-show?

What are the chances of the Mean Street Posse showing up?

Also, what city is this in?

St Louis

i wish they did this at msg..atleast be the same city as the first raw..but if thats my biggest complaint (so far) then theyre doing okay

I expect Slater to eat about or around 25-45 finishers tonight. Guy deserves a mid-card push for this.

I have seen many dark omens that may predict this. At least it should be a good match, maybe a long one with the extra hour to spare.

I believe this match would have been better left as a surprise.

I'll take the over/under on that.

Calling it now. Big Bad Bats makes an appearance.

i agree..imagine him walking into the arena the last like 4-5 mondays...

"hi heath, okay tonight were gonna have vadar rough you up for 3 mins, thanks."
"hey heath, tonight sid is going to come out, hit you some then give you the least protected power bomb youre ever going to take, good hustle, go get em"

and tonight:
" hi heath were going to have austin,vader,ddp,sid, doink, steve blackman, bautista, jbl, bill clinton and rosie o'donnell give you their finishers. but dont forget to sing that one man band song okay? great"

And after that Mae Young will give you CPR.

or give you the stink face.

Cena becomes Champ AND the permanent GM, AND beats throws all the legends out in a battle royal and wins!!! Do this, and the Swog being the Anonymous GM makes absolute sense.

CM Punk ‏@CMPunk
Yup. Tonights show is going to rule.

Not posted for the horrible shooting, but for Punk in the corner.

FRONT PAGE!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

Damn, really wanted to know which of those 6 cars tested won.

The one that would be the most expensive.;)

I am picturing this as Slater caught in some form of a WWE Rube Goldberg contraption.

Seconded.

I approve of the thread title. :y:

Knowing my luck, I'm gonna totally forget this starts early tonight and show up an hour late.

For some reason I'm feeling Goldberg shows up on RAW tonight.

I'm hoping for a Punk/Rock back and forth

If there was ever a perfect opportunity for Jericho's countdown clock, tonight would be it.

Show starts with a countdown clock on the giant screen, everything goes black, and then the RAW #1000 logo shows up on screen to start the special event.

http://www.tout.com/m/b0zc2x?ref=twt55u5c

Who you trying to kid, Alicia?

http://www.tout.com/m/mctsm9

Slater gettin mad

@uk people. Is it starting at 12am or 1am?

Is Tout the new Twitter?

New Raw theme, possibly just for tonight:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FxnFJG6CW20" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

It is pretty much a video version of twitter that WWE has invested some money in, and therefore want everyone to use.

Hey, Ermaximus, an Asian chick was smashing her boobs in St. Jim's vid!

I saw that DamnDirty. :y:

Stopped watching after the chicks put their clothes on.

Me too! Dammit, why do all the greatest things in nature get ruined by man-made devices?

Hell of a storm around here. Really hope I don't lose power or something. Been watching the past month and half so that I would be "in the loop" for this week.

Goldberg to turn up and get squashed by ryback :-D

This WWE title match should be win/win as far as taking steps to legitimize the title again.

At this point, you've either got Cena getting it back which, love it or hate it, put the title on the biggest full time star in the company. Or you've got Punk getting the high profile match against "the man" and retaining which should catapult it back up a level by saying (kayfabe-wise) "The title doesn't belong to the 'top guy' in Cena but only because Cena failed to beat him for it. Therefore Punk can make a claim to being the new face of the company. To be the man, you've got to beat the man. And he did."

This is all assuming it doesn't end in a DQ finish of some sort. Even then though, at this point with Cena using MITB to cash in and all, I can't see Cena leaving without the title and just being "Ah well" and moving on to someone else. Even if that someone else did cost him the title.

Bats will be there to give Cena the cheat code. No way he is walking out without the title tonight.

DQ Finish with Brock, Rock, Taker and Triple H all beating down on Cena and Punk and starting a new Millionaires club.

Aces and Eights gonna interfere in the title match tonight. MARK MY WORDS.

Okay Hornswoggle.

30 pages

Can not WAIT to seethe epic return of the Ultimate Warrior, he is the only one that would be "shocking" to me... even Hogan wouldn't be as shocking

There is also an Intercontinental Title Match tonight. Really hope that Christian does not lose. Will probably be against Cody Rhodes.

How long till the show starts?

About an hour and 30 minutes I believe.

Very possible

Isn't there a preshow online like they're doing with PPVs?

Thanks honey.

I hope the St Louis crowd truly appreciates what they'll witness tonight, and goes crazy.

Hope they prove to be a wild crowd tonight.

This Raw is going to be ridiculous. Can't wait.

The rock will cost cena the title. Mark my words! Woooooooo!

I wish they would have planned out the site of this show with that in mind and held it at MSG or Philly or Chicago. A good wrestling town. Maybe not Chicago on account of the ridiculous Punk bias. We already got that at MITB last year so Cena deserves a fighting chance to get SOME people not wanting him to die. NYC or Philly would have been awesome though.

Don't disappoint St. Louis. Take notes from that random awesome Arizona crowd for MITB.