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I know they sent out a text to everyone who has the WWE app advertising HHH vs. Axel right before Raw came on so I get why they made it a point to come out and tell people HHH wasn't competing but they went about it all wrong. HHH is not a face. He can't play a face and he never could. Unless HBK is prancing around with him, they fans don't want to cheer HHH. He plays a heel as good as anyone, anyone without booking power, but as a face he is essentially the same character but he is picking on the heels. He can still serve a purpose but it needs to be to put over people, not bury them. At this point, I could do without seeing HHH on any programming as active talent.
The Shield once again puts on the match of the night. I'm not hating on the six man deal. It's awesome for them to keep taking out super teams. They haven't lost clean in a six man yet and they shouldn't. Nothing else needs to be said.
The only good thing about this backstage segment with Orton and Team Hell No is its giving D-Bry some air time, and he is taking this weak-ass storyline about being the weak link and is making it work and watchable, just like he always does with the weak stories he is given...
Ok, Daniel Bryan is so fucking good in his role. Other than his grooming habits, I don't have any issues with him at all. The weak link thing is kinda basic and lame but Kane and Bryan's chemistry makes it work.
So what kind of marriage do HHH and Steph have if they don't even show up to shows together. On that note, if mom, dad, and grandpa are at the show and shane is in China and Linda was somewhere else, who has their kids??? I have a feeling that we will see them next week. "Papa, please don't wrestle. We want you to feed us without having the shakes." I get it but it's a little much for one show. Maybe if they spread it out more it wouldn't feel like we are watching General Hospital: WWE Edition.
Yes, it's good to see real tag teams on Raw. It's a shame they keep burying PTP. They are a perfect heel team. The Uso's just don't do it for me. They are good but I just don't dig it. I guess they are going to be the next team fed to The Shield. Now that I think of it, The Shield should run over every team in WWE. They have beaten teams made up of former World champs and we are supposed to believe that The Uso's, who haven't been on Raw in a year are going to be a threat?? Not buying it. That's another topic all together.
The unofficial Best of 7 series with ADR and Big E has been good when Big E wins but I am just not buying ADR's wins. They all just seems a bit odd. He hasn't had that one real decisive victory. If he can't beat Big E, how is he going to beat Ziggler?
Sheamus is so bland. It's so ridiculous. The face/heel lines are so blurred anymore that as long as you play to the crowd, you are a face. Sandow and Rhodes could be a great addition to the main event scene if they weren't buried every week.
I liked Jericho/Heyman part 2 but it wasn't as good as last weeks Highlight Reel. Still better than 90% of the locker room could do on their best day.
Kaitlyn got the most silent reaction of anyone I've ever seen. She walks out to some shitty pop music and she is trying to be all punky. It doesn't mix and the fans could care less. They just want to see AJ Lee win the belt. I'm sure once she does, they won't do anything with her either.
Wyatt Family. Enough said.
Once again, Daniel Bryan is sooooooo good. He pulled a really entertaining match out of Ryback. The crowd was into every nearfall and I actually didn't fast forward at all during this match. Just a really good match. PPV quality.
This is not the way to get Axel over. You cannot put him into matches with guys above him. Cena can't lose to a new guy as the champ when he is in a program with Ryback for the belt. Axel can't afford to lose right now but having him win by count out every week is not a good way to establish him as a force to be reckoned with. I read that some Wikipedia use edited Axel's wiki entry to list "The Count Out" as his finisher. He needs to beat guys like Miz. Perfect was a tredmenous IC champ. They should have Axel come in to continue the family legacy. He could bring prestige back to the belt.
Ah, I didn't know about the message thing, I did download the WWE App ages ago, but never use it haha, so that makes a bit of sense for saying that Trips wasn't going to compete, but still the way they went about it I felt was all wrong and a waste of time, definatly feels a more like a soap opera than normal haha
I cant argue with you saying The Shield put on a great performance and I do like seeing them in 6 man tag action, I just would like to see them facing some different people rather than the same people all the time
D-Bry is awesome at what he is doing, which is why I was saying that he is making the story work, even if I don't like the story, D-Bry has taken it to a level that I cant imagine the writers would have ever thought he could....
The Usos have been playing on (I cant remember which one, whether it be Jimmy or Jay) one of their relationship with Cameron from TOF on WWE Superstars and it made for some interesting viewing in a mixed 8 person tag match and I would be interested in seeing a TOF vs Uso feud etc which would keep Tag teams on the show etc, but as for Uso's being contenders for the Shield, I cant see that... If they are determined to keep Rhodes Scholars together, then they would be perfect contenders to go against The Shield...
I gotta agree with everything you said about putting Axel in the IC Title scene though, make him look strong and bring back some meaning to the IC title could be a way for him to secure a good legacy, and would also make sense within Heymans grand sceme, because surely it makes more sense to have Brock who is the Special Attraction, Punk who is the World Title contender and Axel who is the IC Title contender, all Heyman is missing is a tag team and you have a perfect faction, or with Heyman its more like a family like the Heenan Family, where they all don't really appear together but the 'Heyman umbrella' embodies them all
I'm glad that they're finally starting the move away from Kane and Bryan. It's gotten stale, so at least this is something different. And if we get to see Bryan going nuts and putting on great matches to prove a point, then I'm definitely all for it. He needs to get back to singles action and have more high profile matches.
Still makes me laugh that they advertise what's currently happening on their app during a match. At least do it during a shit one like a Khali match or something. Or advertise it just before going on a break so that people can watch whatever interview is going on during that instead of a match. The timing of them wanting people to watch things on the app just makes no sense to me.
Turning basic and lame into awesome is kinda Daniel Bryan's thing
Turning basic and lame into awesome is kinda Daniel Bryan's thing
Got all excited to read a Shaolin wrestling post and this is all we get... Disappointed Chris. I expect better from you... Even Belly puts more effort in, and that's never a lot...
Turning basic and lame into awesome is kinda Daniel Bryan's thing
Got all excited to read a Shaolin wrestling post and this is all we get... Disappointed Chris. I expect better from you... Even Belly puts more effort in, and that's never a lot...
It's his first post back. Gotta let the guy warm up a bit. That being said, one sentence? At least throw a couple together. Make it look like you are kind of trying...
I thought trips had retired?
I thought trips had retired?
No such luck. He beat Lesnar in the retirement match, so he can hang around squashing young(ish) talent for a little while longer.
Turning basic and lame into awesome is kinda Daniel Bryan's thing
Got all excited to read a Shaolin wrestling post and this is all we get... Disappointed Chris. I expect better from you... Even Belly puts more effort in, and that's never a lot...
It's the new age of touch screen phone posting. Typing is tough
Well you guys know the deal by now, as usual, this isn’t a Review as such of this weeks Raw, but just my thoughts that I am thinking and thus typing as I am watching the show...
Ah, the usual Raw replays with a suspenseful voiceover... It would be alright if the same replay hadn’t been shown all week across all other WWE programming... I don’t see why they don’t just create a new show and all they air is replays of Raw, oh wait, they do.. its called Smackdown..
Stephanie comes out looking good and smiling but I cant see the point of anything she was saying, I mean she makes it sound a rare thing that someone would compete 24hrs after a ppv and then why is she coming out telling everyone that she is going to allow Trips to fight tonight, i mean I can see why they are doing this as they are trying to highlight the dangers of Concussions etc, but there is no need at all for this promo, the end of the day everyone knows Steph is the boss and she doesn’t need to tell the world that someone isn’t competing, I mean she didn’t come out and say that Tyson Kidd isn’t competing tonight and Evan Bourne isn’t medically cleared to fight etc... so why Trips??
Here comes Vince and its just a massive Love Fest with what appears like hair implants on Vinces head, as he seems like he has more than usual haha... Vince is here to request the audience not to boo steph for not allowing Trips to compete... This whole thing is pointless and they are going about the concussion story in the wrong wrong way as all they are trying to do is say “Hey look at us trying to be the good guys, don’t boo us, we trying to do the right thing” It could have been done in a faster, less time consuming and creative way than this Boring Promo... Fast Forward...
The Shield come out to save the end of the first 15minutes of the show... But unsurprisingly, WWE Creative have decide it would be a good idea to put them in a Six Man Tag Match against... Wait for it.. Randy Orton & Team Hell No.. I mean come on... this has been done sooo many times its verging on the embaressing now.. Last week The Shield were used really well, in singles and Tag Team competition, without interference and now they are back to the boring Six Man Tag which has the same result as they always do... The Shield won... Its almost like they were stuck for things to do so just picked an idea up from every other week in the last 3 months...
The only good thing about this backstage segment with Orton and Team Hell No is its giving D-Bry some air time, and he is taking this weak-ass storyline about being the weak link and is making it work and watchable, just like he always does with the weak stories he is given...
So Trips has just arrived apparently and he finds out that his wife and father in law have gone out publically and said he isn’t wrestling and not gone to him personally first... Kinda come across now as Wife vs Doctor... Doc says he is cleared to wrestle but the wife says no haha Was hoping Vince was gonna bitch slap Trips then, would have atleast given me a reason for wasting 2mins of my life watching that segment.
Nice to see The Usos and PTP getting some tv time and putting on a nice TV match, wondering if they are going to try and bring the Usos & TOF storyline to RAW that they have been running with on Superstars
ADR vs Big E is up next and the only thing im looking forward to in this match is hopefully a split from Big E and AJ as Id love to see him turn face as I think the fans would love to cheer for him as he was crazy over in NXT and already looking forward to seeing RAWs first 5 count... The match itself was ok, except they doing the same spots they just showed on the replay from Smackdown and from Raw last week, there has been nothing new shown so far in this match and it feels like im watching a live action replay... And further to my disappointment, there was no split or sign of it between Big E and AJ either.. but no surprise that ADR won, it would be a bit stupid having the number 1 contender lose 2 matches in a row to Big E.
Sheamus vs Rhodes.. I instantly went for the fast forward button when I saw Sheamus coming out, had to resist because didn’t want to miss Sandow on commentary, am hoping for Rhodes to actually get a win here and maybe jump back on the ladder of singles competition, the IC title has meant nothing since he lost it.. But no Sheamus has to win once again, and then comes over to the commentary and in the worlds of Chux, resorts to babyface dickery by offering his hand to shake then hitting Sandow.. How is that the actions of a good guy?? He needs to take a lesson from Jericho last week, and how he never resorted to any babyface dickery when he was in the ring with Heyman...
Trips storms off, big deal and now D-Bry runs into Ryback and Ryback tries to be the tuff guy and as big as he looks, you know D-Bry could make him tap if he wanted to... shame already know how that match will go with Ryback winning, cant stand that guy...
So Vince is shaking Heyman and Axel’s hand and saying that he wont be fighting Trips this or next week, which means we will get to see Steph and Vince next week again no doubt... and now we get Axel vs Cena tonight... wonder how they will give Axel a sly win this week, which isn’t hurting him but these wins are not helping him either...
Fandango’s music comes on.. I hit Fast Forward... I see Kalhi coming out and see no reason to stop the fast forward... Fandango tries to walk off with the worlds worst acting by Summer Rae, good job she looks good.. and then here comes the Miz to be the good guy but Barrett comes from behind with a bull hammer elbow and apparently this Fandango vs Kalhi match has turned now into Barrett vs Miz... hmm.. Not sure about this one... Seems like it was just an excue to put Fandango on the show and once he had hi entance, they didn’t really have any use for him so they ended the match seamlessly... Creative should be proud of that one... Not..
Im never one to really like contract signings, but if it gets Jericho and Heyman in the ring together, then this could save the whole show, just need to tell the King to get out of the ring and let these 2 talk and school the rest of WWE how to do a promo... Heyman starting off with a nice line about being able to sign contracts in the back in private not out in the ring, a bit like every other promo there has been tonight, no need for any of it.... CM Punk can be out of WWE for a few weeks and still get a better response than half of the locker room, and it was great hearing Paul Heyman and Jericho go back and forth a little bit even with a cheap pop by Jericho... Thought by the end we were getting a preview of Basic Instinct 3 haha but even thought it came close, there was no babyface dickery from Jericho, just some good humor...
Fat Forwarded through the Divas 6 person tag match.. Its all setting up for AJ to win the title, lets hope they do a better job at her title reign than they have done with Kaitlyns...
Wyatt family are coming and I cant wait, just hope they do it as well as they have done with the shield, if they do then it will be great, im just not holding my breath so much.
Oh so Ryback enters the arena in the back of an ambulance again... Why is it heels have to enter in a vehicle.. JBL did it, then ADR did it but stopped soon as he became a face and now Ryback is travelling around in the back of an ambulance, considering we already saw him backstage with D-Bry, why does he have to get a lift in an ambulance to the ring.. hmmm... Bored of Ryback soo much, I cant say it enough, I don’t like listening to him try and talk and cant stand him trying to wrestle.. No he gets himself disqualified by putting D-Bry through a table and King makes it sound like a really vicious thing that the table was broken “Completely” in half... No matter how many times Ryback puts someone through a table or tries to be a bad bad man, ill never see him as a credible world champion as he cant work a decent match to save his life, and god help us if it ever came down to Cena vs Ryback in a NORMAL wrestling match, we would be bored to sleep....
No Axel and Cena begin their match before Ryback and D-Bry have left the ring, thats twice in 1 show they have done this, are they running out of ideas that they have to recycle ideas on the same show?... Again as I had predicted, the match was nothing more than a way for Ryback to get one over Cena, and Axel wins by Count Out again... Not really doing much to further Axel as a contender for anything or anyone, but I guess its not hurting him so much either and its good that he is getting some air time, but they need to do better with Axel..
Shows over... and I could have happily not watched any of that and i can say I honestly wouldn’t have missed a thing....