RAW 09/30/2019 - Season premiere, now with brand new graphics and new set to make 2K20 outdated before release
 

Considering the brand spit has been around since 2016, they're yet to integrate Tom Philips, Renee Young, Mauro Ranallo and others in to the game. The LED ring aprons and posts still look horrendous, there are countless ring announcer errors which are never corrected, nor is the issue with multiple titles acknowledged. They've been coasting by for a while now. If there is one thing that they're consistent with is the availability of legends like Brutus Beefcake, Greg Valentine, Papa Shango, Tatanka, Big Boss Man, Colonel Mustafa etc.

They finally got around to adding Southpaw Regional Wrestling from 3 years ago. As dlc

For realsies? Like, I can play as Clint Bobski or Porkchop Jones? I can have a Women's match with Debbie Desperado vs... uh... I guess she wins by default.

Surprised flair is there with this lawsuit he has against them. As for the new set etc, pretty sure i seen mentioned they're bringing pyro back to tv.

Probably their peace offering for a easy payday.

You’re asking a lot given they can’t get a title belt to sit on a shoulder correctly after more than 2 decades.

It's weird there's a PPV Sunday but like zero hype for it vs SD on fox

Very encouraging start to running 3 major brands on prime time cable and network TV huh?

New set

They stole AEW's rainbow gimmick!

Anyone know who won US Flag vs Gay Flag at PWC???

I'll tune for a little bit to see how this new announce team does.

The fans in attendance won as they got to see a black man and a gay man beat each other up. That's important in their culture.

Just realized that they haven't updated the RAW graphics on WWE.com yet.

I like the new set

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">EXCLUSIVE: Get a first look at the brand-new set for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a>, premiering TONIGHT at 8/7 C on <a href="https://twitter.com/USA_Network?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USA_Network</a>! <a href="https://t.co/Sb39EvhYMu">pic.twitter.com/Sb39EvhYMu</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1178813023017979909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Any chance since it's the season premier, the main event will end with a clean pinfall?

WWE is terrible at planning out things in advance. Even worse when they have 2-3 weeks to build a PPV.

WWE had way too much stuff with higher priority hogging almost all of the focus and hype the past few weeks.

I can't see how that will happen.

Feel like they should have gone with a wider Tron/entrance stage since the square design sticks out a bit too much compared to the set design.

Who is gonna be the first person out tonight? Corbin I bet.

Prob Seth. I hate him now you know.

IT'S Unikitty!

IDK I guess I'm just a normal internet tool who hates WWE top babyfaces until the have overcome real life adversity in front of our very eyes.

well damn

Welp...that's the pyro budget for the year

New signature music and intro.

Set looks like a half pipe. Should’ve picked something from the soundtrack to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series.

Eventually, someone's gonna get the idea to grab a piece of wax cardboard and slide off that Titantron since it's got that slope on the bottom.

Like the new set honestly, especially the pyro set up. Not sure how I feel about the new theme song though. And I rather like the band Skillet. But the theme just didn't fit for me.

Pyro :love:

Yep. Just shove that camera right in Dom's face.

Jerry Lawler seems optimistic.

Uh-oh. Brock and The Boss.

Feeling comforted by Jerry Lawler's voice

omg announce team is so much better based on the 45 seconds I've been listening

Lesnar gonna take Dominick to Suplex City

Brand new season but still starts off with the same old trope of a promo segment.

Rey's jacket is dope AS F.

Ain't nothing better than a show-opening sacrifice.

lol if Dom kicks Lesnars ass.

Quite a reception for Lesnar

They’re gonna have to change the Raw and Smackdown openings in a couple of weeks assuming the networks are big on the “no cross promotion” stuff.

The Women’s Tag and 24/7 titles might have to become brand exclusive if that’s the case. I’d guess Fox would get the 24/7 title with a bunch of people from Fox shows coming in for title reigns.

Yes me too. Imagine how you will feel hearing Tony and JR.

Looks like Rey isn't gonna be in a championship match tonight!

Just sit there and take it, boy.

I guess they decided enough people didn't know who Rey Mysterio was so they ask him to plaster it all over his body

I've been wanting to see Walter vs Brock... I'll take Dominick though!

:yes:

Looks like Rey Rey is interfering in the WWE Championship match tomorrow.

Dominick cane take a bump pretty good..... Storm Wrestling academy knows what it is doing

Holy shit! Dominic taking bumps.

C'mon Brock. Throw Rey like 30 rows deep. You can do it.

Damn that was good! Having King sell it was key!

Oh boy it's not over! Jesus he's gonna kill'em.

Interesting @ seemingly no heel announcer on Raw since I guess Lawler is gonna be a face

:eek: Lesnar almost flung Rey out of the ring

They probably should drop the teenager angle. lol

Advertisers aren't gonna be happy

legit lol @ this

Fuck anyone who bitches about WWE using legends. Obviously it's the best shit.

Jesus, what a segment. Way to kickoff RAW.

I guess the face WWE locker room are cowards

I am okay with this.

Good segment

Did I just hear someone say "one more...one more" :lol:

Brock looks like he's gonna go insane! Hahaha what a prick!

no lawler just hates hymen, kind of like bobby the brain hated Hogan

Contrary, court records show Lawler loves hymen.

Oh no, the cops were called. :roll:

Commentary sort of really bad

Wait for it...…..

Damnit, Lawler. He's 22...This isn't Melrose Place

Lol those are some shitty EMTs

WELL LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHIN...

Give it some time, I don't think it's going bad.

:lol: at the medics and everyone else just half-assing putting Dominic on the stretcher.

Would love to experience 90 seconds of Bliss

Like 6000x better than the previous team imo

Crowd is really loud tonight

Can't tell if WWE is using new cam mics and the crowd is extra hot tonight or they might be pumping in crowd sounds since the audio sounds a bit messed up.

Harry fucking Carey and Harry Doyle could suck at commentary with Vinny Mac in their ear all night

With pyro being back the big losers are the announcers for having to sit mere feet away from the explosion.

I don't like the actual entrance door on the new stage but otherwise it's a good improvement.

Lawler assumes everyone is a teenager because...reasons.

Teleportation can't come any sooner.

Srly. Ever been to a Rammstein concert? You can feel their pyro across the damn arena.. well, their's is fire but still

:rofl:

HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME

I almost died when the Usos' old pyro hit.

If that Batista DLC pack includes him having a Batista Bomb as a melee attack, I'd buy Gears 5 in a heartbeat.

I wish they would pump in like a "base layer" of crowd noise tbh... Like WCW Nitros... always made the arena seem incredibly loud and sweet

WTF lol ambulance alarm just going off out of nowhere

So sick of Becky. I can't wait until she takes her ass to Friday SD

Sasha vs. Bliss was sort of a mess and not because of the in-ring stuff but because of all the stuff happening on the side during it.

That segment sucked. Reminded me of a Diva's match.

LOL @ the guy Holding his title in red shorts near Sasha just LOL @ HIM!

I don't h8 new commentary at all, just think Vic and Dio will grow into it as it goes on

Wish Jesse Ventura was on commentary instead of Dio Maddin, talking about 9/11 conspiracy theories and stuff during Raw

Becky & Sasha start brawling

Lawler: THe Claws Have Come Out!

:lol: at WWE potentially pulling a bait-and-switch with the Universal title match tonight.

Makes last week's elimination match even more useless and meaningless if it does happen.

I think that Rey will win the championship tonight and end up facing Lesnar at Suvivor Series. The Fiend will cost Seth the championship tonight and defeat him in a non title match at HIAC. Bray will take off until after Survivor Series where he will eat Rey Mysterio at TLC or The Rumble and go on to face The Demon Finn Balor (who will win the Royal Rumble) at WM for the Universal Champion.