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Sweet hype pack for Liv/Rhea..... seems like it should be a Mania match.... but dunno how they'd stretch it more....
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Huge pop for Macauley Culkin
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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No respect for Will Freidel.... Topanga gets a name key and verbal mention but he doesn't.....
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Rhea Ripley hot braud
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Rhea Ripley wins... but now here comes Undertaker to challenge her
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Might turn it off now that Liv/Rhea is done..... that was also one of the main reasons to tune in....
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CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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I am here for Drew McIntyre, he is the best!
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Great production value, hot opener with Roman/Solo and very good main-event with Punk/Rollins
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Hearing Hogan got booed out of the building seems
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Was it that bad?
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I had tuned out by that point but I tuned in to that segment just to see... there were a good number of cheers still, but I think the boos were indeed louder.
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The production of the show was amazing. I like the new aesthetic choices. They bask in things and take ages to get from A to B, but they don’t need to rush and it seems to be getting everything more over. This was a great hour of wrestling stretched over 3.
CM Punk and Seth Rollins had some brilliant ideas for the main event. Glad Chad Gable could make the show. Not much to gripe with or even champion content-wise. |
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Lol, Macauley Culkin has way more charisma than most wrestlers though.
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Macaulay Culkin outpopped DX
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They should do a PPV called “In Your Home Alone” and it should feature Macauley Culkin wrestling in a hardcore match where the heel walks into a bunch of traps.
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I acknowledge my tribal Culk
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The Immortal Culk
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CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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Was curious about the replay, and they left the commercials in the replay, which was never done for Raw on the Network, Peacock, or Hulu. That must mean Netflix is getting paid an insane amount for ad space if it is going to be perpetual instead of just during the live airing.
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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I never saw commercials at least up until the point I watched.... other than internal WWE promos and commercials of course.
It would dip to black and act like they were going to break, but then it would just immediately come back. They would do the same acting as if they were coming back from a break. |
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That is interesting. I for sure just saw a Subway commercial on the replay.
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... uh, that was a Wrestling Isn't Wrestling joke. It occurs to me that someone might think he somehow sucked off the whole building one at a time to make himself that over by airtime if they never seen it or don't remember watching it. |
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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However, they thankfully didn't pull the HULU forced-watch horseshit (on a service that initally had commercials as either/or for if you paid for a subscription or not, then changed to a tiered commercial free service, then just did away with "commercial free" and now makes you watch them regardless because "fuck you, give us your money" that's why) and it was more like a DVR'd show- I could just skip right through the shit unless something caught my eye like a previously unwatched show. |
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CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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I am the cheese
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Reports going around that WWE is thinking about leaning into Hogan's heat and making him a heel, maybe have him manage somebody. Could explain why McAfee was able to have the parody press conference.
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I don’t really see the point in that. Hogan’s not exactly a versatile performer and I am skeptical it would actually get anyone over. The focus would probably be on him, and he can’t even bump to blow the heat off.
Just save him for special appearances and things that people can choose to go to if they seek him out (signings and the like). Don’t jam him down peoole’s throats in 2025. |
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Kieran Culkin was at Raw too and had a cool interaction with CM Punk after his match.
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Hey TPdub is back, weird.
I tried to watch the first Raw on Netflix but honestly the Roman vs. Solo thing was pretty terrible so I turned the TV off after it. Gave it a shot. |
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Wonder when the last time he dropped the leg was... probably TNA right?
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I have approximately 0% interest in seeing Hogan on TV for anything.
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I understand why they want Hogan under some sort of deal, but keeping him limited to video games and historical pieces may not be a bad idea either.
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Not too pumped for Raw. Chad Gable vs. Penta and Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser will both be “bangers” though. The latter could be the best match of the year so far.
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I also had these two thoughts and I knew you would also probably hate the circular mic flag,,,,
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thought the first Netflix episode was "good" but I don't know that I'd have been roped in as a new fan. not enough rasslin action.
but I knew the show would be more "look at how cool we are" than actual rasslin so I was prepared. matches were good, though |
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HULU kept moving their goalposts. The last time I had them as a standalone deal (currently have the D+ launch package such as it is now), they went from having a free version with commercials, and a paid version with no commercials. Then, they made a third, more expensive version with no commercials, and the original subscription had "limited" commercials. Then, the "limited" commercials got super intrusive to the point where the "free" version was unneccesary. So they scrapped it. Then, the "commercial-less" tier started showing commercials. That's when I stopped paying for HULU for years until the aforementioned Disney thing happened. |
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Honestly, I think Hogan’s time has passed. His name still carries weight, but trying to shoehorn him into storylines now feels forced. Special appearances here and there would be fine, but trying to make him a regular part of the show? Not so much.
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Watched a bit of the show....
Feel like Jey Uso really "dropped the ball" on his promo... it is ok to be emotional, but channel that emotion into passion, Uce. He eventually got into very little of it, but he should have been giving an impassioned speech about how long he has been around and how he always thought he was going to be a tag team guy, until he embraced being "just me, Uce" and now is finally going to prove all the doubters wrong and prove that he is "Main Event". The material really wrote itself.... Even after Gunter came out and was talking about his legacy, the material was right there for Jey to be all "It ain't about your legacy, Uce, it's about mine". Hopefully he can take some notes and get back on track once he is "less emotional". Saw the Charlotte/Rhea segment too..... Charlotte looking near unrecognizable from what she once looked like... good to see that they are having her embrace the boos and heel it up a bit rather than just trying to stubbornly make her a face. Overall I think the fans are gonna be sour on it.... prematurely ended the big Liv/Rhea feud which should have ended with the "money moment" at WM with Rhea finally getting the title back in order to shoehorn in a big match for Charlotte. Feel "bad" for Liv who deserved that spot after all she has been doing. The "rubber match" for Rhea/Charlotte I guess has a certain bit of drama to it, but won't be nearly as big as a feel or big of a match as Rhea/Liv would have been. |
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I haven’t seen the segments themselves, but the way you describe it makes it sound like Jey Uso’s post-IC Title win promo. That registered with people, but you can’t recreate those moments. Jey’s already done the “everyone thought I’d only be a tag wrestler” thing. “Damn right I was going to win the Royal Rumble” would have been a good tone to take.
I prefer Rhea/Charlotte. The Liv stuff was reaching its limit and wasn’t going to deliver as well in the ring. Moving Liv down plays with the fans a bit and they might end up reacting positively to her as a star. Watching her at the Rumble (see what I did there?), she seemed to interact a lot with Bianca & Naomi. I wouldn’t be opposed to that being the tag match at WrestleMania. Or Liv bypasses Raquel as a partner and chooses a new heel ally to team with — Raquel can corner. Then Jade can come back and help Bianca & Naomi. |
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