Raw Thread - 10/8/18 - HHH & HBK respond to the Brothers of Destruction's heinous attack. In the year 2018.
 

Also, two six person tag rematches from Australia. Evolution and Crown Jewel should both start to shape up.

The preview makes me think this is a huge mistake. But here we are.

Trish Stratus will be there too.

meh..just hope I don't miss Brees breaking the passing record while listening to the nail on a chalkboardconics.

I wouldn't be shocked to be Heath Slatering this thread this week.

At least they're in Chicago. Hot crowd.

Chicago.

Oh boy.

Better tell the crowd he ain't coming back.

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How is this going to lead into a 25 minute Baron Corbin match

Anybody else thought he was gonna open up by saying "Are you ready?"

What a slap in the face. At least when Cena and Rock was Once in a Lifetime, they waited a year until their second Once in a Lifetime match. This Last Time Ever match is only like a month apart from the Second Last Time Ever match, which was like eight years after the End of an Era match.

For the last time ever *COUGH* in Australia *COUGH*

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

ABT, I regret to inform you I'm only probably here for an hour or two. I want to fit in NJPW's King of Pro Wrestling show from last night before bed.

This recap video for Taker-HHH is doing a great job of hiding how much that match dragged on and was somewhat boring at Super Show Down.

I feel like this will be a really boring RAW but I'm going to give it a shot

Aside from the WWE staff, probably nobody.

Now we get there.

Quick what's the best way to kick off Raw ?
I know I know with an old schoolTriple H promo

I'll be in Chicago for Crown Jewel. Hopefully no one will want to watch it with me.

I'm not mad at you.

A membership to New Japan World is looking better and better right now.

Not very Christian of him to tell us to suck it

The most anti-climatic "I'm coming out of retirement" speech possible.

Granted, the crowd popped for it being framed as "DX is back"

And so ends the only retirement angle that seemed like it would stick.

I don't understand how anybody could even work up the energy to be excited about another DX reunion.
Guys you're almost 50 come on

The promo sorta made sense, but please, not that fucking match.

Are we going to get dick and poop jokes at the Undertaker's expense all month?

Wow, those new DX shirts are awful

So with DX back again, who's getting the Spirit Squad treatment of being shipped back to NXT or future endeavors?

Night of a thousand rematches

Really glad they are doing several re-matches from Super Showdown tonight. Real useful show that was.

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No ill will to Shawn.

If someone asked me if I'd come out of retirement for a million dollars in oil money, my boots would already be on before the sentence was finished.

Probably Dolph again

TPWW, ARE YOU READY...……..to see a politician, a man who can barely walk, a corporate suit, and born-again Christian/wannabe actor, get back in the ring?

Torn because I have many fond memories of All State Arena but then again...just burn it down, please. Just burn this whole show down

Katie Vick 2.0

Shawn and Taker are my two of my all-time faves

and I can say this wholeheartedly: I'm not excited about this at this time.
Shawn's retirement was the one I hoped would always stick. The one who kept his word.

Yeup. I like to think Vince just kept tossing briefcases of money onto a table every time HBK said "no" until he relented. Maybe even used the spare MitB cases so they became legit money in the bank.

Suit with no shirt.

Bold choice Lio

Don't worry, Seth Rollins is wrestling tonight.

Rush has made Lashley more interesting, if even just a little bit.

This guy got a mic?

That's a dumb move.

Lio Rush is now Abraham Washington.

I give it a month before he makes a Kobe joke.

Nowhere near as bold as opening up a show with Triple H talking and then following that up with Bobby Lashley that takes some brass balls

KO..future TNA champ

I was gonna go there.

Thanks for handling it.

I was there live for that!

BOLD PREDICTION:

Lashley handily defeats KO

lol at crowd booing Lashley

I can only hope that this is an attempted heel turn for Lashley/Lio.

If not, WWE is somehow even dumber than I thought.

Lashley trying to steal the Samoa Joe walk away from a dive and failing

Lashley works better as a heel anyway.

This is the same company that keeps trying to push Becky as the bad person because Road Dogg thinks he's playing some sort of meta game with crowds.

Lol at Leo Rush getting Lashley LESS over

Wow the crowd does not like Lashley at all and Lio Rush appears to be making it worse w/ a live mic...

Michael Cole on the verge of "The crowd the Monday after Super ShowDown, where they boo who they normally cheer"

let's hope it does for him what a heel turn did for Nakamura and (Becky somewhat)

Seriously, who the hell thought this was a good idea?

Rush is coming off as more annoying than helpful. Like if they were both heels, this would make a lot of sense and be more effective.

Ever since he came back, WWE has no clue what to do or how to handle Lashley. They had something interesting when he beat Reigns but flushed that down the toilet since they never planned anything beyond it.

WWE's next opening montage is going to be "Then, Now, Forever: It's the Monday after Sunday, where the crowd boos who they normally cheer and cheer who they normally boo!"

Damn this was a good plan.

I think this is somehow more cringeworthy than Bayley: This is Your Life

And now creepy uncanny valley AJ Styles is sneaking up on me

Does the crowd seem a little dead to you guys

BAH GAWD STUNNER!

On the flip side, K.O. could have a hell of a babyface run with the slightest nudge in that direction

WWE talks about they put on shows 52 weeks a year, but this is the equivalent of a TV show playing the same episode two weeks in a row and acting like its new.

I mean

I like Lio Rush and I wish I were dead right now.

This Rush guy was neat when he did those flippy things...now I just want to run him over with a car

Ouch.

That was a disaster of a match and whatever WWE was expecting for reactions.

The World: Why is Lashley suddenly a heel?


WWE:
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Sooo KO is a face now I....what is going on

Well I guess Bobbo is a heel now

It took Vince a long time to realize KO attacked him

No wonder WWE had Cena say nothing about Lashley in his post match promo at SSD.

At least as a "heel turn" Becky's turn made sense, even if the crowd had zero interest in booing her.

Bobby Lashley went from smiley I LOVE EVERYONE AND MY SISTERS to Abraham Washington's cheating mauler in like 48 hours.

Lashley finally does something interesting as a character ... I give WWE about 2 weeks before they forget about it or drop the potential heel run.

Oh for God's sake it's still going

I wish WWE would hire Ryback back just so when stuff like this happens he could walk out and say "STUPID!!!!"

You're nuts, man.

Next week he'll be back to smiley happy babyface with absolutely no follow up or explanation.

With Bobby Lashley there's just zero interest hopefully they can fix that

:lol: at the name of the Battle Royal tonight.

The World Cup?

Doesn't FIFA have that shit on lockdown?

Seems to me like that's the biggest reaction he's gotten since his return. Lio's mic gimmick was obviously heel, Kevin was wrestling like a baby face, and Bobby's post match actions were heel. I think they nailed it.

Holy shit. Was that a dare to see how many words they could fit into a commercial bumper?

ACTING GENERAL MANAGER BARON CORBIN'S ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE WORLD CUP IN SAUDI ARABIA ANNOUNCEMENT REVEAL PARTY

Renee is looking sharp

Lashley/Lesnar never happened. hype died. the thing with Sami...this thing with KO...

Not to mention that Rush was already a heel on 205. There was nothing to make him face besides who Lashley had been facing.

I do stand corrected, as a heel act it works. Coming in though, you can't blame me for not assuming the heel turn was coming.

It shows like this that make me think you know maybe wrestling does need to take a break every once in awhile

I for one am very excited for The Acting General Manager of Monday Night Raw Formerly Known as "Constable Corbin" Baron Corbin's Ultimate Battle Royal For A Spot in the WWE World Cup at WWE Crown Jewel: The One Night a Year Where a World Cup Tournament Takes Place in a WWE Ring After a Qualifying Match Occurred On The Monday After SuperShowdown Invitational.

Wait

We're getting fucking Mixed Match Challenge rematches on Raw now?

Seeing as to how Rush was already a heel, I assumed that Bobby joining up with him and not telling him to fuck off was a silent heel turn already. He finally put the exclamation on it tonight, for anyone still not clear.

In EWR terms, "A singles heel turn by aligning with a heel manager".

For the love of god

I feel like there was one last week.

Lio Rush is *this close* to having the infamous X-Pac 'go away' heat

he just keeps on coming back

There's at least an 80% chance he's going to refer to Lashley as "The X-Factor" and the following week they will have that music.

Don't say things you can't take back

WWE is pretty much out of ideas on how to drum up more interest for this season and fix its viewership problems.