WWE: Monday Night Raw 193: Complete and utter bullshit

[Jussi]

If Ronnie does take a a break but intends to come back, I hope she takes on Io, Kairi and Asuka some day.

 

[Fro]

Hat trick.

Or on this night, a DeBrincat

LOL...2 more for a Kucherov?

 

[TimeZone]

That was not a good Main Event, to say the least.

 

[Jussi]

That was not a good Main Event, to say the least.

I would have preferred Gargano/Ciampa vs The Revival to this.

 

[Alex Jones]

I get a feeling this was the match we were supposed to get last night.

Yea don't get why we didn't get this one last night.

 

[c9777666]

LOL...2 more for a Kucherov?

3 goals for him tonight, Kucherov had 2 goals

 

[Kairi Zaide]

LOL...2 more for a Kucherov?

Debrincat also has 5 points tonight!

 

[Fro]

lol, fair...what I get for not checking the stats...

 

[TimeZone]

I would have preferred Gargano/Ciampa vs The Revival to this.

I would've preferred more than that to this.

Yuck.

 

[GKJ]

If the main event was DIY vs. Revival, the crowd probably would leave thinking it’s the dark match or 205 live

 

[Deen]

**** hockey. Screw the fans, this is still a good match.

Huh?

 

[GKJ]

Someone brought up running college towns for TV’s — this was a college town. Cajundome home of the Univ. of Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns.

 

[Deen]

Someone brought up running college towns for TV’s — this was a college town. Cajundome home of the Univ. of Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns.

They are still selling tons of tickets in the big city's. They won't sacrifice the bottom line for a cheer.

 

[GKJ]

They are still selling tons of tickets in the big city's. They won't sacrifice the bottom dollar for a cheer.

The point I was making is that they should only run big cities. Vince is big on perception, he’s gets pissed when crowds don’t react, because when they don’t it makes the shows look worse than they are. You’re supposed to sit at home and wish you could be in the crowd. It would be different if the show was bad but it wasn’t.

 

[Deen]

The point I was making is that they should only run big cities. Vince is big on perception, he’s gets pissed when crowds don’t react, because when they don’t it makes the shows look worse than they are. You’re supposed to sit at home and wish you could be in the crowd. It would be different if the show was bad but it wasn’t.

You have to hook people in long term to actually care about these matches. When Triple H is out there for the 30th year in a row you might doubt the quality. There hasn't been one feud that has been consistent from start to finish in the last 10 years. Ciampa and Johnny Wrestling is the closest they've came. Maybe Punk/Jericho, but even that was laboured and just wrong the way they went about it.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

when you really think about what we just watched, this Raw was seriously weird as f***

 

[Deen]

when you really think about what we just watched, this Raw was seriously weird as ****

I'm on board with Heavy Machinery. The stocky guy is awesome.

 

[GarbageGoal]

I did a little research, the last time they were in Lafayette was a Smackdown in September highlighted by Shinsuke vs Jeff Hardy in a no contest and Rusev Day winning a no 1 contenders match versus The Bar. It was also the one where Becky dressed as a fan in glasses hopped the rail and attacked Charlotte.

 

[Sheppy]

That crowd killed RAW.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

That crowd killed RAW.

It was just weird in general. We just had six NXT callups (okay, five) and now we get the four top NXT talents (sans Dream and Cole) on this show in some of the most anticlimatic debuts/arrivals (that opening wasn’t so good), have DIY go through their story and jump straight into teaming (ugh) and beating the champs, Black is dominated in his match vs. Elias, you have this weird shit with Heavy Machinery and Lacey Evans, Ambrose is jobbed out, Sasha and Bayley had an awful promo and then you have a main event that ultimately meant nothing and you ran short on time to do whatever angle you may have wanted to run.

The layout of the show has been weird for a while and they’re trying to change it up but it still feels like “same old WWE, but this time attempting something different but it’s not working” compared to “this is fresh and fun WWE.”

I don’t know. The crowd didn’t help, it was f***ing awful, but the show was weird from the very beginning.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Also they f***ing called Aleister Black “moody.” These dumb main roster mother f***ers.

 

[Mike Louis]

WWE needs to go to USA Network and change the commercial break format so they do commercial breaks between the matches (no more interrupting a match or angle with commercials) and no commercial breaks during the last 15 minutes of the show.

 

[offkilter]

I agree this whole show was weird. None 9f it makes sense unless you look at it as laying the ground work for an NXT invasion angle.

Think about it...

Triple H opens the show with announcing the debut of several big NXT stars, establishes NXT as the third main brand, and throws both Charlotte & Rhonda, the chosen ones by Stephanie and Vince under the bus by saying their beat down was "really frickin cool".

It will be interesting to see if Triple H shows up on Smackdown tomorrow with more NXT stars or the ones that debuted tonight.

 

[SeidoN]

When I saw reports of those 4 guys being backstage, didn't buy for a second they were all debuting. NXT main event scene just got gutted on front of a dead crowd

 

[Emperoreddy]

It was really a lame way to introduce them. Especially because it’s clear at least DIY isn’t done on NXT yet (Black might be). Just hold off until you actually have things for them to do.

 

[SeidoN]

Inb4 Dream and Cole are on smackdown tomorrow and Vince is kill information NXT because it's too over