Raw Thread, 12.11.17
 

I mean, it's on the air and all.

yawn..time to go through the motions

Reigns and Cesaro could be tight. If only it weren't so obvious.

Braun vs. Kane is the main event. Winner gets a crack at Brock at the Rumble.

I'm game for staying awake for that.

Deadly Drinking game - take a shot everytime cole says the big dog.

Wonder how Angle and Cole are going to address the Rich Swann suspension. Tap dance around it, totally ignore it?

He was supposed to fight Gulak tonight, right?

Samoa Joe going in


no cheers for the golden boy tonight

Samoa Joe and Kevin Owens should form a team called The Belly Brothers

Replace him with Cedric and hope the audience doesn't remember what happened the last two weeks.

Oh so true.

This all feels weird at the moment.

Ewww the rest of The Shield call Roman the big dog? ugh

We'd all die of alcohol poisoning before Modern Family ended and Raw began.

Theres no way they send Steph out to bust Joes balls

Turned this on. It had the Reigns recap of last week and I became bored. Will tune on randomly to see if I can catch Braun.

Maybe they're doing it ironically.

He's in the main against Kane.

Roman probably had a bad bowl of Skyline chili for dinner and was probably stuck in the bathroom when Raw went on the air.

I'm glad Sheamus appears to be OK.

Main event tonight.

Better off just staying away until then.

No he didn't, dipshit. They're in Cleveland. Cincinnati is tomorrow for Smackdown.

They're in Cleveland, not Cincy.

Just had to pour a little guinness on it.

Awesome. Thanks.

Anybody notice that instead of wrecking people left and right Joe has kinda been established as a guy that needs to sneak up on you?

he went to slyman's and had to shit out a huge corned beef sammich.

Random Thought: Dean Ambrose vs Samoa Joe @ WrestleMania: yay or nay?

No problem there.

Breaks the mold we're used to.

At the same time he doesn't back down from face to face fights and will often call/seek people out.

Why was Roman standing watching a monitor in the back for so long?

I'm DVRing this, but I'm only watching live until my friend is done at the gym. Kinda hoping for a quick workout tonight.

Is there some kind of major show or game on right now? Seems like they're desperately stalling for time.

Abu Dhabi. Hahaha. Garfield always tried to send Nermal there.

Strict dress code in the U.A.E. apparently.

Why is the arena in Abu Dhabi shaped like a dong?

lol at the Abu Dhabi arena looking like a penis

OH MY GOD THEY ALL GOT MICS!

They shoulda stripped to bras and panties after the match like they used to do in the old days

Just a brutal promo

Just Pats-Dolphins for Monday Night Football but that doesn't start until another 10 minutes or so.

TIL: Sonya Deville is the only open Lesbian on the roster

Absolution is better on the mic than the Riott Squad.

I think both squads could use some similar themed gear, though.

They really need to stop having everyone not named Paige give promos for Absolution. Either that or give them better material.

PUT YOUR HAIR UP AND SQUARE UP

Man Sonyas gimmicks days are so numbered

Bo Dallas should challenge Michael Cole to a Tuxedo match for no reason just b/c

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and nothing exciting on the bball front

Not saying much

I think Paige is better 'in the ring/on the mic' than she was several years ago

So if Paige's crew is hell bent on taking over the division.

And the only line of defense these last few weeks is Banks, Bayley, and Mickie James.

Asuka is doing her own thing.

Bliss is staying away.

Where's Nia Jax, Dana Brooke, and Captain Fox in this?

Really liked her on the mic before.... during feud with AJ Lee, etc......

To be fair, Tazz Dan's tombstone is better on the mic than Riott Squad.

Not at all. Sara Logan is just horrid, though.

Nia Jax is chasing Enzo Amore, and Dana and Fox are R.I.P. courtesy of Asuka.

Foxy got jumped last week I think.

Hmph. That's a decent card for the house show in Hartford in a couple weeks.

Too bad it's on a Thursday. Worse night for me.

Is she the country one?

Why is the second segment usually a tag team match that means nothing?

They're definitely suffering from that crippling combination of A) being too new to push back on verbiage to better fit their own voice/vocabulary and B) having writers that have never heard another human being speak in their entire life.

Mickie James will always be great in my eyes

Really like Paige's theme song..... glad they didn't fire her and we get to hear it again......

DARK ONE, PUT YOUR HAIR UP AND SQUARE UP

BECAUSE I WAS BORN AND BRED TO RIP AND SHRED

Yup.

Also, Clash of Champions is THIS Sunday? I watch all the time and had no idea.

Lock Jaw she had a good interview w/ Lilian Garcia earlier

Because WWE is really lazy when it comes to booking RAW.

I feel like WWE writers on-the-job training is watching only the really bad Aaron Sorkin overwrought monologues.

Jinder Mahal should get drafted to RAW and fight Roman at WM if Brock gets injured

Jobbing to Triple H was pretty much the death kiss for Jinders ME run

Oh, Matt Hardy gets his own little pre-match promo-video-thingy.

I know at least last week they said "two weeks away" a few times on Smackdown, but they also didn't start really booking matches for it until last week either.

oh no

A Matt Hardy segment coming that everyone will say is genius and then cause debate and arguments for a week

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Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssss

Either go 100% with woken or 100% with broken. No need to break a CGI "woken"

This Matt Hardy shit is making Bray Wyatt look even dumber somehow.

Get to the match. If there is one.

I'm going to fall asleep to this tonight..especially after Amazon/Christmas breaks me tonight.

I'm really glad no one is watching me watch this right now.

Not a fan of the overuse of graphics going back and forth

How do you justify that garbage?

That's it?

I can see this whole feud being goofy ass promos

Kill me

who's that cruiserweight that looks like a poor man aries

Totally forgot about this.

I never felt such a strong urge to kill myself

hhahha wow. they actually mentioned swann

Liked it last week. Was hoping they'd do something other than dueling promos again this week.

Another flippy floppy fatal 4-way. This time for Swann's spot.

Nice save, creative.

Whoever wanted to know where Nia Jax was theres your answer.

Y'all think they will mention Finn as "the first ever Universal Champion" for the rest of his career because he will never do anything more noteworthy?

Nia Amore

Probably for the best since Bray's feuds usually fall apart because of the wrestling parts.

The next time Finn becomes The Demon he should write NOTOVER across his chest

I like that they didn't try and over-complicate the Swann situation.

They're saving the big match for the Hardy property.

It'll be taped after a Charlotte or Asheville show to save on traveling costs.

I can't think of any reason to care about Balor/Axel. Really phoning it in this week.

Did they take away the accent in Balor?

Cesaro/Sheamus/Joe really took it to "the original Shield" earlier tonight

lol at Axel showing up to wrestle, still wearing the neckbrace