RAW - 7.1.19 - Official Thread
 

RAW: The newer newest new era begins

What time does AEW come on?

Did you guys know Alexa Bliss is single?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Welcome to the <a href="https://twitter.com/HeymanHustle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeymanHustle</a> Era of RAW.<br>Get ready to see one of the greatest creative minds of this generation try his hardest to convince <a href="https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VinceMcMahon</a> that RAW should be entertaining<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/1145692479238365184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Bobby Lashley has been announced as facing Braun Strowman tonight, WOW!!!

First Raw with Paulie in the Captain's chair.

Not gonna notice the changes immediately, but let's see how this goes.

:lol: at production spoiling the surprise of the Street Profits showing up tonight.

Hope Braun kills Lashley right here and ends this feud.

:eek: RAW starting off with a match instead of a long winded talking segment.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Street Profits are at RAW and someone is getting fired for showing them lol <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wwe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wwe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/raw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#raw</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/videobotch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#videobotch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nxt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nxt</a> <a href="https://t.co/dd36EVF4Sx">pic.twitter.com/dd36EVF4Sx</a></p>&mdash; Mr. Exxtra (@MrExxtra) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrExxtra/status/1145845333206978561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This is already the best opening to RAW in as long as I can remember lol

Fucks sake, don’t call up the Street Profits already.

Oh yeah, panic button has been smashed for sure.

OOOPS!

LOL

Graves getting an earful right now for sure.

Not gonna lie, that was pretty sports entertaining.

:lol: at all the backstage crew guys ignoring Lashley and Strowman on the ground.

It's not his fault if the person who was supposed to be in control of the censor button didn't do their job IMO.

This is a great way to start this new era

Paul Heyman with a fucking homerun 10 minutes in.

Is this camera gonna zoom in or switch to another?

Did Dunn have a heart attack in the truck?

lol @ Corey Graves yelling Holy Shit

One can only hope

Did I miss something here? Why was the crowd counting to 10?

That was a fun opener!

Lol @ the crowd counting for a last man standing match

He just buried any kind of OMG moment Bischoff had planned for tomorrow!

So far WWE is playing around with some new camera angles tonight and I like that

And just a random commercial cut.

All around, that was a fun opener to the crowd hoping at the arena and home.

Graves slipping in the "holy shit" and the mini pyro explosions were sweet.

The Paul Heyman era has begun!

The one time you don't want him to keep his finger off the switch.

That was a pretty interesting way of getting around the "no wrestling during commercials" rule and also pad the time for the Falls Count Anywhere match.

I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!

Yeah, they said New Day was taking advantage of it so they could fight the Viking Experience.

I'm kind of speechless right now. I mean I expected a slowly better show, but was not expecting this right out the box.

Awesome

I feel like youtube tv is a couple minutes behind being live tonight

Let's remember there's still over 2 1/2 hours that could be a huge letdown. IJS.

I think this is the first time Braun has done a stretcher job outta the arena