RAW - 5.4.20
 

Side Note: Whatever happened to Slicky Tricky Damon, he has disappeared from tpwwforums

He caught Coronavirus at trivia when he didn't wear a mask

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any Star Wars references on tonight's show will be purely unintentional, as <a href="https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VinceMcMahon</a> has no idea what those movies are <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/1257323286456758276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

On great, a Nia Jax segment...

Walmart futons.

How...……...cheap.

Must've been the only place open

The one Shayna is sitting on looks like its going to break in half any minute now.

WWE getting a bit too happy with running Gauntlet matches these days.

Feels like they've had more Gauntlet matches happen within the past year to year and half than they did for the prior 10 years or so.

Also why even have Tozawa be in the Interim Cruiser tournament if they just keep jobbing him out on RAW.

This gauntlet match is dumb so far

Nia's chair bump looked dumb


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Chile they had to jump my girl...�� <a href="https://twitter.com/NiaJaxWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NiaJaxWWE</a> <a href="https://t.co/hhvSKOzsqc">pic.twitter.com/hhvSKOzsqc</a></p>&mdash; Malik�� (@nitemaredianas) <a href="https://twitter.com/nitemaredianas/status/1257465593315446784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

why was lashley dq'd, I wasn't paying attention

Is this live?

I bet they're kissing cousins

He pushed the ref after the ref was trying to push him away from continuing his corner attack on Humberto.

Whole thing came off bad just like this Gauntlet match so far.

Jesus, AJ. You're promoting one of the worst fast food places?..bad food, good ice cream.

They let your buds go...get da fuq outta there when you can.

And AJ is back after one DQ commercial lol

Ah, Thanks Smeat!

Zelina's faction just can't pick-up a win.

:| WWE wasting Styles big return on one of the most dullest and boringest Gauntlet matches in WWE history.

The new season of Rock's Titan Games show is going to utterly massacre RAW's abysmal ratings if things continue the way they have been with these empty arena shows.

Wouldn't it have made sense to at least promote AJ returning in a era of diminishing ratings?

I was rooting for Jinder Mahal to get added to MITB tbh

I imagine AJ, Black, or Daniel will win the case but Otis would be the coolest option..

Not even the Humberto vs. Styles part of the Gauntlet match was enticing enough in the end.

Meltzer mentioned in one of the recent Observer Newsletters that Buried Alive matches are still one of the few things WWE respects when it comes to booking and not spoiling the return of the match's loser beforehand.

WWE product is shit but I'm actually looking forward to the battle of Titan Towers.

Seth needs to ditch the man bun since it doesn't really fit with his look nor Messiah gimmick.

Brendan Vink's face looks like what would happen if you combined Ted Dibiase Jr's face with Health Slater or Adam Cole's face.

Or maybe just Slater and Cole's face merged together.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">5 of the 6 of the Men's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MITB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MITB</a> entrants are white. It's the 13th <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MITB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MITB</a> match with One or fewer minorities. Three of them had zero minorities. <br><br>BOOOOO!!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/Yow20btf7q">pic.twitter.com/Yow20btf7q</a></p>&mdash; Alfred Konuwa (@ThisIsNasty) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsNasty/status/1257476283316842496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'd love to see Ricochet in AEW

I think Rey should do NJPW a'gain. He's gaining nothing in WWE

Tag match was pretty good but guess Heyman and RAW Creative had a sudden change of heart on Cedric and Ricochet's big tag push if they just lost to a bunch of nobodies.

Not a good week to be African American on RAW so far

Not surprised since this is also the same company that held a World Cup tournament two years ago where pretty much everyone involved represented the US. Also won by someone who wasn't even an actual participant going in.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I've never seen so many black wrestlers and referees (male and female!) on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> TV in my life and it's during a time where it's never been more dangerous to be wrestling. <br><br>I'm sure that's just a coincidence. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EssentialStaff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EssentialStaff</a></p>&mdash; Alfred Konuwa (@ThisIsNasty) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsNasty/status/1257465522519552000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Vink seems like the type of wrestler Vince will orgasm over

Continued...

Street Profits vs. Viking Raiders was pretty good even though it also had WWE's typical lazy booking with tag champs losing non-title matches.

Should have saved this match for Money in the Bank instead.

I was on the phone with work. Did I miss anythi....

nevermind. that's a dumb fucking question

Almost half of these Top 10 Money in the Bank moments from WWE are just someone simply being smashed through a ladder.

I know everyone thinks Aleister will win MITB but I don't see it. Gotta set up a future opponent for either Drew or Braun and I don't see Aleister turning heel anytime soon.

Probably will be AJ or Baron Corbin who wins.

WWE running both MitB matches at the same time either is going to be an entertaining train wreck or something that will make Vince Russo blush in terms of all-time terribleness.

Don't see it ending up any other way especially since its going the cinematic route and likely going to be way longer than needed.

Charlotte's promo skills somehow have gotten worse over time which is usually the opposite of what happens when WWE invests in that much promo time for someone.

Liv Morgan is good

I think Vince is too pissed off at the world to even think about Corbin right now...alright with me.

RAW thread finally made it to pg 2 for the last 30 minutes of the show

Not sure its a wise idea to book Charlotte in a very competitive match against Liv considering her big hyped match coming up this Wednesday.

Only way this makes sense is if its the start of a big push for Liv or a Liv-Charlotte feud for the NXT title on RAW which would then mean WWE/NXT Creative threw away a potential Io vs. Charlotte feud in favor of a much weaker one in terms of interest.

Ending stunk but match itself was surprisingly good.

Wow they are really taking this no Roman Reigns thing seriously.

Top MITB moment is now the time Seth cashed in at Mania and pinned Brock for the win apparently.

Match of the night

Liv had a good showing against Charlotte

That cracked me up

RAW commentators ended up accidentally spoiling what was the #1 MitB moment when they mentioned earlier in the show about Rollins having one of the best ever MitB moments while the countdown was still going on.

Well, that was an episode of RAW that aired on television.

McIntyre vs. Murphy was decent.

RAW itself was somewhat average at best but WWE pretty much doesn't know how to book entertaining go-home shows anymore. First half of RAW was very boring while the latter half was mostly good. 3 hours is just way too long for a WWE style empty arena show.

I enjoyed the Liv/Charlotte and Drew/Murphy matches. Id more fairly say the back 3rd of Raw was good vs the latter half.

The Gauntlet match is what soured me a lot on tonight's show. Between that and the 1st hour being a big pile of nothing, didn't enjoy the show till the Vink & Thorne vs. Cedric & Ricochet match.

If RAW was two hours and started post-Gauntlet match, it would have been one of the better go-home shows in a long while.