Team Raw (contains some Raw spoilers for next week)

**Evil Vito** · 07-28-2010, 03:14 PM

So with Raw being taped next week I went ahead and checked out the spoilers for the show.

Edge and Jericho both quit the Summerslam team and wound up making amends after their months and months of fighting. Edge/Jericho vs. Cena/Bret with the Nexus as lumberjacks is set for the August 9th Raw. Also, the Nexus is trying to recruit The Great Khali.

Now, I think Bret is going to unify the remaining members of the team before the PPV (can't see Khali joining the Nexus either, nobody would care) - but I don't really see Jericho and Edge joining back. So that leaves 2 spots to fill.

I'm curious as to which route they'll take here. Guys like Evan Bourne, Mark Henry, or The Hart Dynasty would have all made sense but the Nexus has already decisively squashed all of them on the last Raw. Santino and Kozlov should have probably been in that match on the last Raw if they wanted to preserve 2 of the other guys for the PPV.

But the pool if guys who the Nexus has attacked is quite thin, too. I think Steamboat may very well have been in the match from the get-go had he not had his brain aneurysm, so he won't be involved. The other legends the Nexus attacked would seem kinda weird. Vince wants to remain written off and the team wouldn't look like a threat at all with Vince and Bret both on it. Daniel Bryan is already booked in the indies until the end of September, and even if he had some opt-out clause the sad reality is the casual fans wouldn't give two shits if he was revealed as a mystery participant.

Then there's Triple H, who isn't ready to wrestle yet. BUT I suppose if the idea is for him to be behind the Nexus, he could make his big surprise return and remain on the apron the whole match. He'd only have to do a Pedigree on Cena when he finally got the hot tag.

So yeah, any thoughts on who they might use to fill in the spots? They'll probably just go the Evan Bourne and Mark Henry route, but I guess we'll see.

07-28-2010, 03:14 PM	#1
Evil Vito President of Freedonia Posts: 58,316	Team Raw (contains some Raw spoilers for next week) So with Raw being taped next week I went ahead and checked out the spoilers for the show. Edge and Jericho both quit the Summerslam team and wound up making amends after their months and months of fighting. Edge/Jericho vs. Cena/Bret with the Nexus as lumberjacks is set for the August 9th Raw. Also, the Nexus is trying to recruit The Great Khali. Now, I think Bret is going to unify the remaining members of the team before the PPV (can't see Khali joining the Nexus either, nobody would care) - but I don't really see Jericho and Edge joining back. So that leaves 2 spots to fill. I'm curious as to which route they'll take here. Guys like Evan Bourne, Mark Henry, or The Hart Dynasty would have all made sense but the Nexus has already decisively squashed all of them on the last Raw. Santino and Kozlov should have probably been in that match on the last Raw if they wanted to preserve 2 of the other guys for the PPV. But the pool if guys who the Nexus has attacked is quite thin, too. I think Steamboat may very well have been in the match from the get-go had he not had his brain aneurysm, so he won't be involved. The other legends the Nexus attacked would seem kinda weird. Vince wants to remain written off and the team wouldn't look like a threat at all with Vince and Bret both on it. Daniel Bryan is already booked in the indies until the end of September, and even if he had some opt-out clause the sad reality is the casual fans wouldn't give two shits if he was revealed as a mystery participant. Then there's Triple H, who isn't ready to wrestle yet. BUT I suppose if the idea is for him to be behind the Nexus, he could make his big surprise return and remain on the apron the whole match. He'd only have to do a Pedigree on Cena when he finally got the hot tag. So yeah, any thoughts on who they might use to fill in the spots? They'll probably just go the Evan Bourne and Mark Henry route, but I guess we'll see.