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September Wrasslin' |OT| Almost Brings a tear to my eye

RAW tonight

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UPS AND DOWNS

WWE is the Atlanta Falcons?
 

charsace

Member
A Cena vs Rollins feud can't ever happen if Cena is a face. Cena has reached a point where any guy outside of Orton will be cheered against him. Cena is seen as the heel so when he dominates a guy like he did with Wyatt he hurts them.
 
Thought Raw was pretty good, having a clear direction and backstage segments and not just 'guy comes out and says things, other guy disagrees/beats him'.

Liked how they seem to be moving feuds forward and changing who guys are feuding with more organically instead of just having them beat a guy three times and then beat him on PPV and then Monday on Raw someone else has an issue with him. Example being how they're handling the whole Big Show/Mark Henry/Rusev/Bo thing. Things are moving into other conflicts without sudden stops. They seem to have used the Miz complaining to the Authority to move him and Mizdow from the IC to the US belt. Stuff like that makes the show feel like it has more of a flow, instead of "FEUD 1 segment -- commercial -- FEUD 2 segment -- commercial -- etc".

Plus I'll never complain about the stuff Ambrose is doing.

So, you know. Not bad. Especially compared to the 4 weeks of Raw that lead into NoC.
 
^ Same thing here, I had a tough time finding a fifth and ultimately after 3-4 minutes of thinking I came up with nothing. I guess I could put Ambrose there.

That goes to show you how thin the roster is. Daniel Bryan and Punk gone is just brutal.
 
If you think about it, them putting on a good Raw with a roster this paper-thin is a hell of an achievement. The loss of Bryan and Punk was back-breaking yet we still get the occasional really solid Raw. Not to mention the champion is a part-timer that shows up once a month. It's a miracle we get decent Raws.
 
Check out the first sentence of the recap on DOT COM:

CHICAGO — Forget hijacking Raw, The Authority has a bigger, more pertinent theft to deal with: Dean Ambrose’s burglary of the Money in the Bank briefcase on SmackDown, leaving The Authority’s crown prince temporarily without his golden ticket.
 

Alucard

Banned
Watched the first hour of Raw and caught the final segment so far. Liked what I saw of Rollins and Ambrose.

I've read the spoilers for the stuff in the middle, and it doesn't sound all that promising. What else should I watch?

Been spending tonight watching ROH and am still writing a show report for their latest episode. Some pretty cool spots on the show.

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Recall

Member
Watched the first hour of Raw and caught the final segment so far. Liked what I saw of Rollins and Ambrose.

I've read the spoilers for the stuff in the middle, and it doesn't sound all that promising. What else should I watch?

Been spending tonight watching ROH and am still writing a show report for their latest episode. Some pretty cool spots on the show.

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2005 called
 

Zertez

Member
It seems like almost everyone is injured since many guys have been absent minus a few short promos. The Wyatts had a few promos, Rollins is on the side line running in or away, the Dust brothers had a short promo, but no in ring work for them or the Usos, the list goes on.

They could have at least brought up Sami, Neville or Ascension. I dont think I remember them ever having 3 diva matches on one show. Brie's match was ok, AJ and Alicia Fox was entertaining, but Rosa and Laylas match was horrible with Natty and Tyson fighting over a phone. I would rather have watched Lana walk around or see another solid Paul Heyman promo. Guess maybe they are afraid of using Heyman too much, but he has been killing it for months and they gave him 2 minutes tonight.

Very strange RAW overall, it seems like they had a whole other show written and were forced to change everything a few hours before the show started. Everything felt out of place or filler to waste time outside of Rollins, Ambrose, and the Authority. Even Cenas role felt out of place for him.
 

Hasney

Member
Good morning, HULKAMANIACS. Christ I am hungover. Half day from work though so woooo. Gonna watch Raw when I get home and regret the number of porticini based cocktails I had.
 
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