The Official Rock Took His Abdomen and Went Home Raw(4/8/13) Thread
 

I want to talk about how The Rock walking out is going to affect the show tonight.

Also I got MITB tickets. That should be a fun show no matter who's involved. I wonder if Ziggler will wait until that night to cash it in or cash it in, lose, then win it again, then cash it in the same night. So much potential fun is possible

Sure, I'll go make one now.

This IS the Raw thread now.

One day I'll get my name in the title...one day.

Oh my first one, awesome! I wonder how they will adjust to The Rock walking out. With Punk leaving for a few months, who is going to challenge Cena? Lesnar? Henry? I would say Ziggler but they have made him look so weak against Cena.

aand the server got too busy.

You don't have to be mean about it. VSG said this is it so I edited the title.

Looking forward to RAW tonight.

Apparently he's injured? That makes no sense unless the reporting was crappy. That wouldn't be a no show, it would be a out with an injury.

Would an injury keep The Rock from showing up?

Without Punk Raw is going to need a top heel. They could use guys they always use (Kane who could turn on Bryan and challenge Cena, Henry who could just interrupt Cena and challenge him for his title, or Lesnar if he's still around) but I would like to see a top face on SD turn heel to challenge for the strap.

I would LOL if John Cena talked about his redemption and how he proved he was the best and now he's retiring as the WWE Champion. They then run a tournament to decide the new WWE Champion while Cena takes some time off.

No idea where will go now. A lot of the focus has been on the Part Timers recently and Punk who is leaving.

Where Cena goes should be interesting. We all didn't see the Brock Lesnar thing coming last year so I'm holding judgement until after the show before going off on possible directions with Cena.

HHH coming back on a more full time basis? How will they fill the upper spots, and with who?

Side note, so wish they had the HOF tonight and not tomorrow night. I'm dyin to listen to some of these speeches from Saturday.

John Cena vs. Triple H would be very cool. Have they ever faced each other when they've both been faces?

Yeah, unless it was severe, he could just come out and wouldn't even have to take a bump. Heyman could just lay the seeds for WM30 himself.

If they have nobody else to face Cena I think Triple H making one last title run would be cool.

If you took your ball home or were possibly injured it might quadruple your chances.

Maybe they can do Dolph Ziggler vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Kane vs. Primo vs. Hornswoggle in a battle between all AJ's ex-lovers in the WWE to decide who gets to face Cena frist?

I'm just saying Triple H making a run would be cool so you know who will let me back into that certain group that I was kicked out of for no reason.

I also have MITB tickets. Pumped for that.

And intrigued for this RAW, as I always am the day after WM.

I've always wanted to see a heel that slanders babyface wrestlers, and tries to get them into compromising situations or exposing their worst qualities. They would point out that Chris Jericho said that we would never see the Highlight Reel ever again, and yet we have -- making Jericho a liar. This heel could also try to get Cena to fight Hornswoggle, by arranging them as opponents or something in a must-win situation for Cena. It'd take some setting up to explain it, but basically the heel would get his kicks out of making Cena beat the shit out of a midget.

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I would love for The Rock leaving to be a work and a heel turn. Since Cena is never going to turn and isn't meant to appeal to us, others are going to have to turn. I didn't like the whole passing the torch moment because Cena has had the torch for years and has won multiple main events and titles. I always consider passing the torch to be with a younger guy who is up and coming like Cena winning the title at WM 21, not 29. Ziggler would be a good guy to pass the torch to but he is made to look weak and jobs. Even worse were the two midcard champions Barrett and Cesaro. The IC and US champions are titles given to up and coming stars but those two were just used as fodder for main eventers. Cesaro the US champion doesn't even get a match at Wrestlemania? Barrett lost in the pre-show. Those titles used to mean a hell of a lot more than they do now. The IC title used to be treated with lots of respect. Even recently Zack Ryder winning the US title was the moment of his career. Now that title is on a guy not even making it onto the biggest PPV of the year that was 4 hours long's card.

Antonio Cesaro vs. Sin Cara for RAW tonight, pls.

They might as well retire the IC, US, and Tag belts. There doesn't seem to be much of a purpose for anything outside of the two top titles.

I don't think WM was as bad as people are saying. It was solid. Maybe it wasn't historic like 17 but still, good. There have been many that were worse.

The Rock has always been good at agreeing to put guys over. I really want to know what the deal is. I doubt they will be honest on Raw but it will eventually leak out.

On Twitter people seem to be saying The Rock is injured and it was his idea to feud with Lesnar. Also a major angle for Cena will be starting tonight.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>In the middle of last nights Wrestlemania match I tore my abdomen &amp; adductor muscles off the bone. Just part of the job. But as we know..</p>&mdash; Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/321409581173571584">April 8, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Fixed?

Well that explains it. Question now, Why didn't WWE know of this before he left?

That seems like a lot of effort.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>..It's all about <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23JustBringIt">#JustBringIt</a>. WWE Universe THANK YOU for all the love &amp; well wishes. Means everything to me. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23LeaveItAllInTheRing">#LeaveItAllInTheRing</a></p>&mdash; Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/321411294173462529">April 8, 2013</a></blockquote>
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I don't understand why they need to set the stage for Lesnar/Rock a year in advance, especially if both are going to take long hiatuses between now and the next Mania anyways.

OMG the shirt. Oh no.

Welcome, to the Road from Wrestlemania!

Well, look at the bright side. Cena's new shirt is making him wear the title as an actual title belt.

Probably the worst Cena shirt he's had but :lol: when its used with the actual title.