[Cool King]

For some reason, TPWW died yesterday as I was in the midding of posting in this thread so my post never saw the light of day yesterday.

My post was long as it was after WrestleMania, but to cut to the chase:

• We all knew it was happening but this Austin/McMahon angle meets Rule 63 of the Internet could actually be entertaining.

Rousey appears to have settled in to WWE life now, which is good. Before, she seemed a bit shy and uneasy at first to me but I think she'll be ok, especially once she gets more experience on the mic.

• I hate it when Cole & Crew do the whole "This isn't a traditional crowd" spiel.

• It's Ember Moon! AKA: Someone I'm not familiar with because I don't watch NXT! That's a recurring theme for me for this Raw.

She seems alright, although wasn't she a heel in NXT?

Cool finisher though. We really don't have enough "top rope attack on a standing opponent" finishing moves.

• I knew Strowman & Nicholas wouldn't be champions for some reason by the end of Raw.

It just leaves me wondering, what was the point in it all?

Good promo by the kid though. Not even twenty-four hours after his debut, he's cutting promos of a quality that Reigns can only dream of.

• Two seconds into No Way Jose appearing on my screen and I already hate him.

He's essentially just a black Adam Rose and I absolutely hated Adam Rose's gimmick.

• As much as I enjoy Miz and the Intercontinental Championship, I really would like to see him go to SmackDown and be in the WWE Championship picture and even winning it.

Jeff Hardy being back is cool and I'm glad he's not involved in Matt's shit he has going on.

• I don't understand why Paige got a sendoff like she was a legend.

Apart from being a contractual thorn in the WWE's side when she went crazy and caused a lot of bother for the WWE with her dealings with Del Rio, arrests and porn, she's done pretty much fuck all during her time with WWE.

She twice won a patronising championship no one liked or cared about and she was the first winner of a championship in a developmental brand.

Oh, and she shouted "this is my house" about twenty times every time she stepped in a ring.



There are jobbers with better WWE careers than that.

• I really wasn't expecting Bobby Lashley to show up and I don't mean to Raw that night. I mean to WWE.

I don't read dirtsheets or anything so I didn't know talks were happening or if he was spotted around arenas or what, so his appearance was a genuine surprise to me.

It's a shame he didn't return with his old theme though. That theme was bitchin'.

The new one sounds alright though.

• Angle with that shot at TNA was great.

• I was waiting for Authors of Pain to show up. Again, as they're NXT guys, I'm not familiar with them but my first impressions are that they are what you would get if you mixed 3 Minute Warning and The Shield together.

It sucks that Ellering won't be with them now though. I actually think having him by their side would be good. We don't have enough tag team managers these days.

• When it comes to Wyatt and Hardy, I'm waiting for one of two things to happen this year.

1: Wyatt attacks Hardy and his partnership was just a ruse.

2: Wyatt slowly distances himself from Hardy after a while and this is all just a way to repackage Wyatt and get him away from all the Sister Abigail's and buzzards.

• Overall, Raw was good, although the WWE should stop referring to the post-WrestleMania Raw as "Raw After Mania" and just refer to it as "NXT Raw", as that's essentially what it is. Every year.