WWE RAW 6/27 feat. The Architect, The Dude, not The Guy, and a New Day of the SAWFT Club shennigans
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No matter what we screw up tonight, just remember that <a href="https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE">@SashaBanksWWE</a> is here. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAWTonight?src=hash">#RAWTonight</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/747509738745671680">June 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Hell ya. Time to see who beata Reigns up.

Really want the draft day to come already too.

Hopefully we get some suprise posters tonight. Looking g forward to the usual crowd as always.

Seems to me like it is "hurting your legitimacy"/"admitting it is fake" when you announce on your website that Reigns is suspended, but then bring him in to do a "storyline" to explain why he is gone......

Everyone knows the "real reason".... may as well just roll with it....

I 100% agree with Lock Jaw. Should come out and just announce it. If they want to save Ambrose and Rollins 1v1 match then say it opens the door for a new competition to enter the three match dance off.

Maybe they will announce it and then have Shane knock him out with a chair for making a fool of the WWE.

SWAFT Club

Going to be on the Oxy Train for this episode. Hoping this dramatically increases my enjoyment of the show.

60 seconds until "Where is Roman?" chants, which WWE will interpret to mean EVERYONE WANTS Roman instead of "Stop bullshitting us about the suspension, guys."

Are they calling it the WWE Championship again?

...........crowd missed their cue?

Good to see them getting this out of the way, much like the time they had Paul Heyman come out to CM Punk's music.

Good on them for using this.

So, did anybody else's wellness violations ever been brought into storylines like this?

Feeling more like a work now.

Nice. A little realness. Always a good thing.

A very bitter part of me is glad to see them rub his face into it to some extent.

Yep! They're back to calling it the WWE Championship :)

Ambrose should come out to this.

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Not quite like this, but some came up a bit. I can't imagine given being a publicly traded company and how they generally try and take the Wellness Policy as super serious that there's any way that they would ever possibly "work" it.

Confirmed with the name plate

Roman Reigns right now:

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I'm down with Styles in the main event.

I don't think my body could handle an AJ Styles vs Seth Rollins vs Dean Ambrose triple threat match.

Side note for those who haven't heard, WWE gave up on the "Balor Club" name.

Bullet Club dream looking less and less likely now.

That would be a hot triple threat.

Cena gonna interrupt any second....

Fatal 4-way would be better.

John Cena, brought to you by Pabst Blue Ribbon.

AJ vs Cena vs Seth vs Dean would be a big fat YES from me

Shane Douglas?

Missed the first 10 minutes, did they address Roman being out and if so how?

Maaan, Cena is fucking awesome. Wish they never made that super Cena gimmick because he easily could have made another boom period 5 years ago.

Seth sorta made fun of it.

Haha where did Cena grt 5 from?

Showed his tweet, made fun of it, etc.

Roman's still in the match.

Oh. Figured he was gone when AJ said 3 way. Missed the first couple of minutes.

Wondering how much of this on-air stuff is legit heat, since the company put everything behind "The Guy" and he fucked up so bad. If I sank a year of unpopular television time, declining ratings, and lower live gates to try and get a guy over, he still didn't get over, and then failed a drug test? I'd be livid.

Why the hell is he still in the match? Sigh.

Seems like they should call a Fatal Five-way something else to feel special.

Singles, Triple Threat, Fatal Four-way, and Six-pack Challenge all have something unique to it.

Thank god were getting the Danna Brooke part done early

If the back-up plan is to make Cena champ............again, I don't think I can handle it.

Better idea would be to round it out and make it 6 guys. Give Brock a call.

So the title is only being referred to as the WWE Championship now... Interesting...

I'll take another Jon Stewart interference

Apparently pissed Vince enough to punish him with a clean loss. Before that, I think Big Show was the last to do it in a singles match.

Depending on how pissed Vince still is, could end up getting the Orton treatment in the sense of no longer being the undisputed chosen one to carry the company for the future.

THIS IS MY THREAD!!!

Paige and The Boss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE PENTAGON OF PAIN AND PINFALLS.

I do love me some Paige. :love::heart:

Here's what I don't get. Steve Austin was a psychopath. Why does JBL have a problem with a crazy person with a super generic entrance song being the champ? "Darkest day"? What about Mankin and Austin?

Fill me in...who is The Boss?

Spanish Announce team again.

Poor table is on borrowed time.

If it's going to be 5 guys, then hell with it, might as well dust off the ol' Championship Scramble match.

One might say Bruce Springsteen.

Angela

Sasha Banks, although she's sometimes called "The Final Boss" to distinguish her from, ya know, Vinnie Mac.

No Tony Danza's the boss and Charles is in charge.

:rofl:

No idea why everyone likes Sasha. When Becky isn't involved in the Diva storyline it always seems lame. Can't wait for Becky to finally win the title.

Okay, so I still can't get into women's wrestling.

Really, the fans have much more reason to cheer for Becky over Sasha right now...... but they don't.

Oxy train leaving the station. Dana Brooke and Charlotte now tolerable.

Well that pin was...unique...

:y: Boss wins.

Really odd cut to the crowd at the end.

I'm really curious to see how over Sasha stays once she has to deal with the now pretty terrible booking of the women's division instead of being the invisible cult hero she's been for the past few months.

Don't get me wrong, Sasha's great, but the booking for the division has been shit for several months and has killed a lot of people's momentum. Becky's managed to make all of it work, and I think Sasha can too, but I suspect she's going to lose a lot of her verve if she gets mired in the same shit everyone else has had to deal with.

Titus vs. Rusev.

3rd Raw in a row now? Or are we on the 4th?

I don't get Cole saying she's looking for the Women's title...she pinned Dana, not the champ, whereas Paige has a recent pinfall victory over Charlotte.

So if anyone, Paige should be at the front of the line IMHO.

MONA is the boss

I assume/hope they are waiting for Mania to give Becy the belt. Let her deal with Nattie for awhile and get screwed out of the belt a few more times before Mania.

This is now the 100K Whose The Boss thread

Fun Fact:

Tony Danza is Mercenary's favorite actor (FYI SWISS)

Is N E else happy to see SWISS and RUIEN in this thread????

Lana in basic black.

Don't think I ever seen her in that.

Love Swiss. He didn't even say hi though when he returned AND we are Navy brothers.

Just gonna leave this here for you guys to stare at as this never-ending feud takes up more TV time.

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Rusev does not like the blacks?

who's the boss*

I'm in a hotel right now for work. First time watching Raw in over a year I'd say.

Roo needs to add me on facebook still I think.

Oooooh, the count out win for the hometown guy. :roll:

Mona

I am the Millionaire Killer. Should change my name again to reflect that.

Wonder if Titus kids were impressed enough to call him dad again.

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Fine looking truck they got there.....

The corner camera that they were smart enough to stop actually switching to most of the time because it looks like it was filmed on a Blackberry from 2005.

Kane really wants that job!

Kane?

He's still around?

WTF is Kane doing there? :wtf:

Jesus, I totally forgot Miz got the Intercontinental title.

Kane here 2 dominate

Champion....... ship.

The Devil's Favorite Accountant.

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Miz v. Kane probably. :roll:

Blues Brother Kane

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Ummm they sort of forgot that rule when Brock was champ and probably a few US/IC title champs as well in recent times.

Don't remember them ever actually using it..... even in replays..... I noticed they were there, and I think I saw some WWE.com stuff from them, but that's it.....

Random Countdown movie photo:

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RUSEV MACHKA RUSEV PEWPEWPEW

I distinctly remember them swapping to brief shots there a couple of times like six months ago when they first put them in, because I remember making the 2005 Blackberry joke, but they thankfully seem to have relegated it to still images.

Swiss, pretty sure we are FB friends. Or were?