RAW - 5.25.20 - Rob Gronkowski returns
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/RicFlairNatrBoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RicFlairNatrBoy</a> will be on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERaw</a> TONIGHT to give his thoughts on <a href="https://twitter.com/EdgeRatedR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdgeRatedR</a> vs. <a href="https://twitter.com/RandyOrton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandyOrton</a> in the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEBacklash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEBacklash</a> ... PLUS we'll have an exclusive interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/247Champion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#247Champion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RobGronkowski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobGronkowski</a>! <a href="https://t.co/ife42q1wmJ">pic.twitter.com/ife42q1wmJ</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1265058854498426880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Man I really hope they do Styles/Bryan on a card that also features the greatest wrestling match ever.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As always, on Memorial Day we remember the brave men and women of the Monday Night War <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/1264931346587086848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Curious to know if WWE is going to do some tribute to Hana Kimura during Raw since A.) All the other major promotions have done something. And B.) Keep the Asian WWE roster members happy.

Didn't see anything on the website unless it buried somewhere.

I'd be surprised if they did considering they usually only give that treatment to those who had some actual involvement in the company. If WWE had bought Stardom like they wanted for NXT Japan, it would have been more of a lock.

Past ratings on Memorial Day RAWs:

2016 - 3.23 million
2017 - 2.61 million
2018 - 2.49 million
2019 - 2.19 million


Last week RAW had 1.75 million, let's see if they get a bump or continue the drop

Will The Rock steal some eyeballs on NBC

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Da fuck?!

THIS IS HOCKEY!

When was it that WWE started their special tribute videos to Memorial Day for RAW?

Tribute to the Troops event started in 2003 but don't think they were doing special Memorial Day videos back then.

Did WWE do a RIP Shad yet?

Still wonder is Asuka can speak great English like Hikaru Shida.

Friday

Ratings guru Charlotte is here

Roster "crowd" needs to be a crowd.

Faces cheer faces, heels heels.

When Fightful mentioned the crowd was going to be wearing WWE shirts, legit thought it was going to be WWE logo shirts. Having them wear actual merchandise instead was a great choice since now they resemble an actual crowd and not something sterile in WWE typical fashion.

Sounds like a bad Jerry Springer crowd

That KO Show segment was pretty meh.

Either my cable's on the fritz or it's on WWE's end. But the picture is pretty blurry.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In case you were wondering, the NXT crowd isn't allowed to sit down. They've been standing practically all day.</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1265074054689689600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Shame. These days Raw doesn't give you a reason to keep standing up.

nxt has alot of women did'nt know they had so many.

Want to just turn it off.

BUT, I really want to see someone get checked into the plastiglass. Possibly shattering it.

How long til someone gets thrown into <strike>the boards</strike> plexiglass

I could see the Plexiglass staying when crowds return tbh

2 minutes for boarding

More like 2 minutes for boring.


Folks...

Front row should get to beat on the glass

Would explain why they are already wobbling all over the place since their legs must be killing them by now. At least the people in the front could have leaned on the barricade to ease the pain had the plexiglass not been there.

Dexter Lumis wearing an RKO shirt

The Clap?

Ugh.

Interviews mid match lol

How long til WWE has ads on the glass like nhl does

Why are they interrupting this match for a Garza interview?

That's his first title.

Andrade vs. Crews was pretty good overall.

I give Crews about a month at most before WWE gets bored with Crews push and/or US title reign.

The crowd noise is obviously way better than it was before, but it is feeling way too forced in a way that is annoying to me... AEW's crowd noise seems "less fake" to me even though it's also basically fake... idk... Everything here just feels really phony like everything WWE does...

Wheres Barry Darsow

:| Street Profits vs. Viking Raiders in a golf game.

At least basketball and axe throwing fit with the teams gimmicks even if the big gag with the axe stuff was more of a miss.

The crowd's forced acting is going to drive me nuts, leave it to WWE to take a good idea and make it forced

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