RAW 1.20.20 - Go Home for the Rumble, sponsored by slik
 

Brock appears

Rusev/Liv vs. Lashley/Lana

Rey vs. Andrade ladder match


slik will be in attendance, huzzah

You gonna sneak in with an AEW shirt or sign? :rofl:

No but I love people watching at rasslin events so I will be on the lookout for both

Yes that's always fun! Hope it's a good show!

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Need a picture to see if it's half full at showtime, Slik.

Upper level blocked off, 16k arena

Lower level filling up tho

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last RAW before the Royal Rumble means we at least know how the show is ending. Now it's just the other 2 hours and 59 minutes that need work. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAWTonight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAWTonight</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1219299053927833606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I haven’t watched Raw or Smackdown in a couple months but I always watch the Rumble so I’m gonna try watching tonight to catch up on what’s going on.

……….Rollins-Gun?

With a one-glove Michael Jackson wannabe leading them?

Oh dear.

Even my interest in the Rumble is the lowest it’s ever been. I’m watching because it’s the Runble and that’s about it.

Murphy with the hair bun sort of looks like a slimmer version of NXT UK's Joe Coffey.

Owens and Joe have a pretty good tag team aesthetic

Guess they really did use Big Show as nothing more than just a fill-in for this Owens/Joe vs. Rollins feud which makes it even dumber he got the bulk of the focus or spotlight for both matches.

Wouldn’t a ladder match to blow off a feud for the biggest active title on Raw be a good match for a ppv

The ladder match now?

I would have stashed this maybe midway in the show to keep the viewers hooked.

Not enough time

First championship ladder match on Raw since 2007.

Heh, I was at that show. Jeff Hardy vs Carlito from the Raw 15th anniversary show.

Lol buddy and Seth for the tag titles, not AOP

That is one fancy ladder match belt holder.

Lol they’re gonna win the belts. Seth always gets a random tag title run with a new partner.

Ooh so we're 2 years from RAW XXX

Yeah wouldn't be surprised if that happens. Also sort of funny AOP got passed over considering they are the actual tag team of Seth's group.

Ouch, Andrade.

How's the neck.

Andrade came way too close to seriously screwing up his neck with that landing on the ladder.

This is pretty good! Andrade is a real talent.

That was a nasty looking botch

C'mon Rey. Really?

jfc and another nasty spot

Andrade taking way too many bad spots here.

Lol Andrade taking a billion awful bumps and still winning

If Mysterio was 20 years younger this match would have been awesome.

called this awhile back but I'd like to remind everyone that Zelina is going to switch to Humbertos side and screw Andrade

Ladder match was very good overall.

Every time I see Zelina Vega I think of how lucky Aleister Black is.

Ladder match was really good. Botches made it even better but obviously that was brutal. Rey could be out for a while after that. Likely has concussion.

When are they going to realize they should but the platform off at shoulder level for blacks entrance....and the camera guy just needs to stand 2 steps to the right. Wtf man.

He needs to take a break. He was botching hard in that match. Sad to see. His neck has def gotta be hurting pretty bad after the spot where he was hanging from the belt.

Jobber without. Name had it easy..run and fall down

:lol: at Black back to doing meaningless squash matches.

Haha if this is the start of a Goldberg style streak I would be cool with that. Fun squash from Allistar. Do it WWE!

Not counting the rumored NXT surprises, the field for the men's Rumble looks pretty weak this year in terms of legit potential winners. Like only Reigns feels like a legit winner because WWE didn't really bother to build anyone else up as a legit contender during the Road to Rumble.

Brock is either being eliminated within the first 5 entrants...or they’re going to do another bullshit “goes out under the ropes and sells outside the ring the entire match” deal

Everyone on RAW should just start acting like the IC title is the big strap and should just ignore Brock.

Orton super over here

Ricochet is still pretty bad when it comes to delivering WWE style promos. Don't know why they keep having him do them since they almost never come off well in the end.

Really good Raw so far. I mean it's not like AEW hot but it's good for Raw.

He is horrible. Voice was shaky.

There are like three people on the roster who cut good promos. Everyone else is bland and generic and they all sound exactly the same.

Yeah. If there is one thing that NXT and the Performance Center hasn't been good at developing for years, its been at developing people to be good at WWE style promos.

Like Enzo might have been the best and possibly only one from there who developed into a good to great WWE promo talker. Everyone else either struggles or are better off doing non-WWE style promos.

:lol: at Drew's shitty sell of the RKO.

Why hasn't AEW booked Real1 (NZ0) against Joey Janella in a loser and winner death match.

The biggest winner tonight is the ring post for getting Asuka’s ass sat on it for a whole match.

Becky vs. Kairi was decent at best.

How is it only hr 3...this thing drags

I am bored

RAW is pretty much always like that outside of some rare exceptions during the year. Even with Heyman in charge, RAW still goes through the same motions and drag points.

Good call

Viking Raiders losing the tag belts woke me up

vince still hates tag teams

Ref spot at the end was dumb but :lol: at two guys randomly paired together beat the tag champs in their first match.

Lol this is Seth’s 6th tag title run and 5th different partner

Viking Raiders tag reign was mostly a dud so maybe Murphy and Rollins will have a better one since Vince usually only cares about a tag team if it includes a big name star in it.

TPWW Survivor thins out even more tonight. Thought Erik without a 'c' and a last name and a mystery cage critter would be a tougher out, but I guess not.

Note: Otis in a video segment is more over than most of the roster tonight

Well...that was the highlight of the night

Not sure a slow mo video of Otis jiggling around is PG.

Also that was a pretty bad SNL parody skit.

hardy getting ready to lead dark order

What's Matt doing out there. Figured he was off into the sunset

:eek: Erick Rowan facing an actual RAW guy instead of some random no name jobber for once.

jobbing out on the way to aew

This Rowan cage storyline has been terrible. Having a long drawn out storyline isn't bad on its own but Rowan's mystery cage has been lacking a lot in terms of entertainment and interest.

Most of my row has left...kids bored..show is too fucking long

nice trashbag robe

So is Mojo going to become the Steve Blackman of the 24/7 title in the sense of having a real and/or serious reign with the belt after all the comedy stuff before?

lana botch time

Considering its past 10:50 and the mixed tag match hasn't even happened yet, the rumor of tonight's show going till 11:30 might actually be true.

Mixed tag match was pretty dull overall.

No go-home Rumble brawl to close the show or even during the show itself was a big disappointment.

RAW itself was average at best but went downhill a lot in the latter half.

Dumbest part of Seth and Buddy winning the tag titles was them being a thrown together team. If only there was an actual tag team in Rollins' group that would have made for a big man slugfest...

Was supposed to be 34 extra minutes according to my cable guide, but honestly I'm glad it didn't happen. 6 or 7 hours (or more) of WrestleMania ONCE a *year* is bad enough. We don't need to give Vince the idea to try to convince USA to make RAW 3 1/2 fucking hours. FUCK. THAT.

The dumbest part is they're in the Group with the actual tag team (AOP) who would have at least been a comparable opponent to the Vikings.

That was his point, genius.

WWE is fun live, even though parts of the show I got bored during...the umpteen Jimmy Fallon w WWE stars clips they play during commercial breaks gets old

lolDroford

I felt bad for Becky actually
She got a huge pop
Crowd kept chanting for her
Commercial with four different video clips, fans would start to chant Becky after each vid assuming commercials were over
When they finally did end and it was back on air less were chanting for her

Glad you had a good time. I can't say I've ever been to a bad show live either.

I meant to add that I could see it being the base for AOP turning on Rollins but does anyone really care one way or another