Riddle is another one massively benefitting from it not being Vince in charge any more because he's not just the cheery high guy any more. I wonder if him and Rollins settled their ill will prior to this or if they just decided if they're feuding anyway they might as well get stuck into each other and it results in lines like that from Rollins.
Really hoping they get a good 15-20 for their match though because those two could have a corker.
They've buried the problems.
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They've also appeared on UpUpDownDown together (as part of a tournament) which I'd doubt they'd do if they still hated each other.
Oh, fair enough, then yeah they're just getting into it.
Should be match of the night on Saturday depending how much Walter and Sheamus go to town on each other.
They've even got them feuding in the parking area with no actual WWE cameras around:Originally Posted by Ian
Really playing into their former problems.
Haven't watched RAW yet but maybe they even use "security cam footage" of it.
They're doing a better job of pretending there aren't conveniently cameras everywhere that something is about to happen and having people actually do things without a cue.
Was it also Rollins and Riddle where Raw the other week started with Smith running down the show then suddenly they cut to a cameraman pegging it to get footage of them having a ruckus in the back? Whoever it was it's nice to see them laying things out in different ways.
Riddle has got his first name back too.
So has Theory. But they seem to be in a stage of making him look daft to compensate for Vince's wild overpush.
I'm going to assume Riddle getting out there barefoot cements it as a work.
And the two guys in full referee outfits that just so happened to have been in this car park.
Christ
I don't think anybody was questioning that it was a work were they?
Nah. In an era where everybody films everything, WWE could probably be fine to just do more of this. Stick a plant in the crowd and you've got yourself some easy footage and you've worked the crowd.
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Thankfully some things have yet to change like the natural TV viewing positions
Why's there a TV stand in the middle of what looks like a locker room?
Watching RAW now, Sami Zayn is incredible:
That was easily the worst RAW of the Triple H era. It wasn't bad but nothing really stood out in terms of wrestling although the KO/Jey match was decent.
Just checking out the Worlds Collide card there. I was going to watch Bate / Breakkkkkkkker anyway because Bate is obviously excellent but didn't know Carmelo Hayes was wrestling Ricochet. Well up for that.
Watched a bit of Dynamite. Moxley and especially Punk cut good promos but the obvious story from this is Punk losing and spiralling out of control, so it’ll be interesting to see how they pull that off in Chicago. Else Punk wins and they’ve hot potatoed the title and the whole angle in two weeks, whereas they could have got a few months out of this. There’s only these two guys and a couple of others who can carry a feud on the mic, they brought out fucking Ace Steel and he had more fire than most of the roster lol.
Also watched the trios match which was proper shite. Omega, Ospreay, Aussie Open are all great yet they had another ridiculous spot fest with no story and no timing. They’re trying to go full lucha libre and aren’t even good at it. Having said that, the Omega introduction was pretty fucking funny and the eventual singles match should be brilliant.
Apparently Boatman is coming back on Raw. I hope his gimmick is "is a train" again.
Did he actually have a choo choo sound effect or was that one of those ridiculous jokes that's just plausible enough to be true?
20 seconds in.
Such a stupid gimmick, he moves at least twice as fast as any American train does these days and it completely ruins the immersion.
Get Hornswoggle to ride him.
Strowman is dreadful. I thought Triple H was the saviour?
Apparently he's only coming back if the writers have something good for him.
Are you saying he wants to Control His Narrative?
He's not awful. Used right, such as with his excellent series against Roman and the feud with Bork (before he was lolled to death in the match) are good examples of how he can be good. He was really, super over going into that.
The Lashley/Boatman/Drew triple threat was a really fun match.
He's good for a hoss fight and I dare say you'd get a good match out of him with some of WWE's smaller guys now they're less likely to be seen as pitiful midgets.
He was pretty bad at the beginning but I seem to remember him being Competent Largeman by the end.
Once he got himself in shape he was pretty good and you'd get a good match out of him with almost anyone.
AEW just debuted Big Cass, who has actually been doing some half decent work in Impact the last year or so. Which is more than Braun can say.
As a side note, Impact has been pretty excellent the last few months.
Oh yeah he was suuuuper green and he's never going to be a workhorse type but by 2017 with the Roman matches and some others he'd become very solid. They should have either put the title on him while he was getting big pops or just kept him the fuck away from the "we need to have everybody lose to the F5 so it'll be super exciting when Roman kicks out of 78 of them" thing.
He was good when he was lifting airplanes and turning over barns each week but it got really weird when one of his last things was standing up to Shane McMahon who was bullying him or something equally stupid.
He was standing up for everyone that had ever been called a dumbass and then got sacked and spent a year controlling his narrative.
I NEED Sami to get some fake Samoan tattoos put on him.
Big fan of Roman and Drew right up until everything after the bell.
Yeah, just skimmed through the matches. I couldn’t tell if BT kept the cameras rolling or not. What was that concert all about?
Sheamus’ match was nice and brutal
Loaded this up and already I'm livid that Pat McAfee and Corey Graves were not on comms together.
Crowd being super hot really elevated the event.
I think it was fairly good with Sheamus and WALTER being the clear stand out:
In the main event I really was hoping they'd have done something to allow Drew to win a title as he deserves it. I was so pissed off when Solo Sikoa popped up.
Oh and what a weird fucking way to take it off the air.
Roman v Drew was pretty good and genuinely did their best to feel like Drew could win and then they picked a really dull and boring way to finish the match.
Can they really not think of a way for him not to lose that doesn't involve some random Uso coming out to save him? They had the perfect storm tonight I feel.
I thought the crowd were pretty up and down and the main event a bit too plodding at times and kept losing a crowd already prone to zoning out a bit. The ending was also a bit too busy. Those two can do much better and all the Fury stuff and post main event bit can do one.
Sheamus / Walter was what I was hoping for, just two big lads battering the fuck out of each other and I liked Rollins / Riddle. I liked the throughline that Riddle is good enough to hang with Rollins but Rollins was actually getting to do his calculating bad guy thing for once and Riddle's brashness was getting the better of him. I preferred those two matches to the main event.
Also Dom looks a right state.
That Benoit shirt was the second best thing on the show.
Gunther / Sheamus was, unsurprisingly, cracking meat-based fun from the stare down at the start to the ovation at the end. Putting the Imperium lads back together has to be a good move too and I'm of the opinion it doesn't matter that they've called them Heinz von German or whatever, although I suppose the saddos chanting 'Walter' is a slight improvement on 'this is awesome' or 'fight forever'.
Reigns / Macintyre had a terrible ending but was fine, lol at anyone thinking they would end that reign outside of America in the middle of their afternoon. Never going to happen.
Praying that MJF is the ladder match joker tonight, coming back to take the belt off Punk and do a Rob Van Dam and hold the title forever, because nobody even comes close to his level.
Punk has a belt to lose?
Dominik Mysterio going sneaky and having a top flight mullet is a beautiful tribute to his biological father.
I like how they didn't have a massive stage but just a fancy enough entrance way surrounded by fans, looks much more lively that way
When he beats Mox yeah.
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