WWE RAW - Payback has been paid, back - May 1st, 2017 ***OFFICIAL THREAD***
 

Raw Preview : Quick Hits


* Braun Strowman rules Team Red

* Cesaro & Sheamus reach their boiling point

* There’s no room for “The A-Lister” in The Bálor Club

* Bayley seeks retribution in tag team bout

* Hobbled Kingslayer stuns Samoa Joe

Roman should hide in a house of mirrors tonight...would love to see Braun rampage through it.

And here...................we.............................go.

While I can appreciate a good Alexa Bliss celebration...

This show should just be three and a half hours of Braun.

Well if this doesn't have brawl written all over it.

Poor Bayley, looking so sad...heartbroken for her. 💔:(:'(

I thought that thing in the middle at first glance was one of those giant cakes you put a hot chick in to surprise you.

Or in the women's case, a guy.

Alexa is GOLD

Why is Alicia fighting Mickie?

Quite an interesting start to RAW

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Good opening segment..... Good job by Alexa Bliss......

A+ bitch work from Alexa Bliss

Alexa so good. Noid was wrong 1000 percent.

Bliss has come a long way from being that odd draft pick for Smackdown way back when.

I also agree, Noid is wrong.

Is Alicia Fox classified as a heel tonight?

I guess

I know I'm expected to be happy right now but I can show restraint.

This is good but its kinda backwards Sasha is being a heel nd Alicia is doing the face in distress bit

Fox is the Big Show of female turns.

8 Raw women currently active and in the ring right now. 1 MIA

6 Smackdown currently active. 1 MIA, 1 on leave, 1 "coming soon".

Can't Raw just give up one more female? Please?

I liked Bayley in the beginning but every week her almost crying face makes me hate her even more.

GO ALICIA!

Why would Bayley ever do a "side suplex"..... did it last night too.......

Just seems like you take the exact same time/effort to do a "Bayley to Belly", which is ten times more devastating for whatever reason.......

Shes been a heel for a good while including 205 live where she reveled herself to be a gold digging psycho bitch

WHERE'S BRAUN?!

GET THE MAN OF THE HOUR OUT HERE!

I feel like Yosemite Sam in that Looney Tunes cartoon right now.

lol at bad FX

I think we all know who they should give to the A-show.

Enzo?

Second match always involves boring tag team stuff....... never fails........

every1's voice and the way every1 talks in this "Leesa mattress" commercial.......

*eye twitch*

Watching Raw @ work on my computer but still feel angry that I'm @ work

The only way Enzo Amore should be able to beat a guy the size of Gallows should be if Gallows had a stroke in the middle of the match.

"Too much big man for him right there"

I've missed Booker.

Don't do that. I was implying he's a lady..a very ugly one.

V glad I don't get this commercial by how much Triple A is annoyed by it.......

Neville is much better as a heel

Look a goblin king and his steward

Jesus, Cole. Just pick a nickname for Seth Rollins and stick with it.

Matt Hardy's Twitter this evening is freaking hilarious.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We'll be on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash">#RAW</a> tonight looking for <a href="https://twitter.com/WWESheamus">@WWESheamus</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECesaro">@WWECesaro</a>.<br><br>Nero just returned from a dental repair with the DELIGHTFUL Dr Isaac Yankem. <a href="https://t.co/YZlYXSUGaV">pic.twitter.com/YZlYXSUGaV</a></p>&mdash; REBORN by FATE (@MATTHARDYBRAND) <a href="https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/status/859200510406017024">May 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Seth does not work as a face.

Seth Rollins. Motivational Speaker.

Get in line, Seth.

It could be worse.

He could be talking about how much The Secret helped him.

Oh. Now we get to this.

Balor's new shirt doesn't work for me. From a distance, it looks like he's wearing one of those obnoxious fake tuxedo shirts.

Running for mayor and still finds time to take on new patients. respect

Finn Balor vs. Brock Lesnar would be terrible

Looks like a bad interpretation of connect the dots.

Balor and Rollins should star as villainous vampires in the next Blade movie.

Ambrose with a hell of a reaction there.

So where's this going? 2 people want Brock, Dean's bored, Miz is being Miz.

was this for the IC title or the Universal title?

Ok....????....

Okay then.

Missed the first hour, anything interesting happen?

Booker just said he gave Dean, Kurts number but Dean clearly said Mick gave it to him..

So, this whole segment was just a way to distract people from the fact that Brock won't be around for a while.

Probably not until THE GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Nah. 8-women tag match. Heels won.

Gallows beat Enzo............I think. Wasn't paying attention.

And now this triple threat for #1 to the IC title.


But, we're all waiting for Braun.

I feel like Seth didnt know what promo he was suppose to cut.

Wow RAW has managed to not be terrible for an hr and its not post WM its who would've thought BRAUN and Payback was the shot in the ass this show needed?

I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!

The fuck? The ambulance got it's revenge on Braun?

WWE has so much money in a "I'm not finished with you" t-shirt. Take my money!

I see, so just the usual weekly Beat Up Enzo series.

Braun probably ate the medic that tried to treat him and then closed any open wounds he had with fire.

I was on the Bliss bandwagon long before you losers. Easily the best female talker and tonight she showed the fuck off.

I like Noam Dar's theme..... miss Alicia Fox with him......

Rich Swan makes me uncomfortable

Jack Gallagher's knees make me uncomfortable

Whoa whoa whoa, Drebin.

I've never not been on the Bliss Bandwagon.

You can fight the rest of those losers, but I thought we were cool.

Pale English nerd comes out and gives a black guy and a Japanese guy umbrellas.

Michael Cole: "This is what 205 Live is all about!"

Kill me.

A 6-man cruiserweight tag match.

I don't know if this is a good idea or bad idea.

Or Vince is saying "AH FUCK IT! PUT 'EM ALL ON AT ONCE! CROWD DOESN'T CARE ANYWAY!"

Ok, bro..... I was on the Bliss bandwagon before she even debuted on NXT and I saw some promo class thing where she was playing Scott Dawson's trailer park girlfriend.........

I dont care about her bandwagon. I just wanna drink Alexa Bliss's dirty bath water.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Kendrick's pants look like it came from a video game from how shinny and blue it is.

Like Double Dragon II style.

So Neville and Tony Nese are brought to you via the Sony Vegas cloning technique

THE BIMMY

here's a phil collins song from Tarzan everyone



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I'm not advocating for more Lesnar appearances or anything as that would kill his vibe as a special attraction. It's just funny to me that even in kayfabe terms it's largely impossible to say Lesnar isn't the most important wrestler in the company because on multiple occasions now they've happily let him vacation for months on end while still being champion.

They don't really attempt to hide it either, he's simply allowed to get away with it because he's Brock Lesnar.

I mean whos gonna say no to him?

God this is much more like the Cruiserweight division I remember

Technically, Stephanie McMahon because she's bullet proof and gets to emasculate everyone forever.

Cruiser 6-man tag was good overall.

Still surprised WWE hasn't bothered to ban Gallagher's headbutts considering their concussion lawsuit stuff and the brutal incident from Japan a few weeks ago.

I want Cole to die for mentioning GI BRO.

I hate to say it but the crusierweights are boring to me anymore. I like most of the guys but something just doesn't click for me.

Feel like faces have won 95% of the cruiserweight division matches on Raw.

Nobody if he continues to draw at the house shows he is advertised for and WWE Network numbers go up or stay the same.

I don't think he makes much contact. It's all well placed thigh slaps from what I've gathered. I'm sure the first time someone gets legitimately rocked, though, they'll pull the plug.

Cesaro and Sheamus with new #Heel jackets

Yeah but that stuff has a short shelf life. Wrestling is the foundation not Flippy Shit.

as someone who has never smoked in his life, these anti-smoking commercials are really getting on my fucking nerves

Leesa Mattress commercial again!

Finally the dullness of tonight's #RAW is about to be #Obsolete