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[Bluekaveli]

What kind of silly ass question is, what do they intend to do with roman next? Motherfucker, what's always the goal for Roman? Make him look strong, they did this so he can overcome the odds and get off screen because maybe fans will feel sympathetic that he could've died so they will cheer when he comes back next week but that's not going to happen. He's going to get booed even more.

End goal: make him look strong.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

I should've stayed with dropping Raw after last week's, Braun becoming the biggest face in the company aside, that was boring. Alexa completely outclass both Sasha and Bayley on the mic at the same time which was kind of hilarious even if expected.


From the cut to "Roman" getting set off the edge while on the stretcher to the ambulance tipping was clearly pre-taped, of course they also didn't show the other side of the gimmicked ambulance for obvious reasons, just that weird cut to the back as Braun was tipping it over

 

[Zach]

Backlash 2009 will tickle your fancy.

He better go Broadway with Flair.

 

[HashtagLapsed]

Watching last nights Raw. Was Kurt always that short? Sami and Miz are towering over him

I think I have said something similar before, but I find it so weird going to wrestling shows after seeing people presented on TV.

I'm a bit over 6ft myself, but seeing these wrestlers live, it is always so weird. Most of them are way smaller than me and most of my friends.

Asuka and Ember Moon are fucking tiny too.

I understand they WWE present and promote a certain image, but it seems ridiculous when you actually go to live events.

 

[Brian_FETO]

At least they teased a Nia / Bliss team last night.

which doesn't make much sense since they are both after the title

It does when you have Nia turn on Bliss and become more of a face/tweener and the bratty little mean girl gets comeuppance. I mean there's like 2 ways you can go with hired muscle in wrasslin logic

 

[Guzim]

Oh, I think I forgot to say: Ricky Steamboat can still go, brother!

I assume you're watching 25 on the Network? Did you ever see it when it aired on PPV? Kevin Dunn originally cut to a different shot when Ricky Steamboat "skin the cat" so that originally wasn't shown on the PPV. Luckily, they fixed it for the Network.

 

[RecRoulette]

Catching up on RAW. Ok so far.

WTF was up with Jinder throwing super stiff elbows and punches to Finn? His face was fucked up from it. Let's just have Jinder fuck up one of your top faces for no reason.

Oh hey Bray is feuding with Finn now.

I wonder if Vince told Jinder "Let's see what he's got" before the match

 

[Heroman]

Catching up on RAW. Ok so far.

WTF was up with Jinder throwing super stiff elbows and punches to Finn? His face was fucked up from it. Let's just have Jinder fuck up one of your top faces for no reason.

Oh hey Bray is feuding with Finn now.

He watched okada vs Shibata.

 

[Zach]

I assume you're watching 25 on the Network? Did you ever see it when it aired on PPV? Kevin Dunn originally cut to a different shot when Ricky Steamboat "skin the cat" so that originally wasn't shown on the PPV. Luckily, they fixed it for the Network.

Yes, I'm watching 25. Kevin Dunn is a schmuck. I try not to pay attention to camera stuff because it distracts, but there's something glaringly dumb at least once per show.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Ember is 5'2" max and Asuka is like 5'3", so yeah they're rather tiny.

I remember seeing Big Show in person down in OVW and I'm around average height but seeing him in person up close I was kinda underwhelmed. ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Bluekaveli]

I wonder if Vince told Jinder "Let's see what he's got" before the match

He's getting him prepared for his hard hitting match with the beast incarnate!

 

[Caderfix]

From the cut to "Roman" getting set off the edge while on the stretcher to the ambulance tipping was clearly pre-taped, of course they also didn't show the other side of the gimmicked ambulance for obvious reasons, just that weird cut to the back as Braun was tipping it over

The camera man was legit shook, that's why we didn't get a better angle. It was all real, friend.

 

[Mahonay]

I wonder if Vince told Jinder "Let's see what he's got" before the match

Honestly what I was thinking. I haven't seen Jinder be that stiff in the ring other times.

Oh hey Sami actually won a match.

 

[Hasney]

Oh hey Sami actually won a match.

Keep him hot for Smackdown

Spoiler

I hope

 

[klonere]

If you thought Wyatt vs Orton was corny bullshit I cannot WAIT to see what they have cooked up for The Demon King™ vs The Eater of Worlds™

 

[Zach]

Aaaahahaha, Triple H, Vince McMahon, and Shane McMahon... what a supergroup!

I'm fast-forwarding through this garbage.

 

[Caderfix]

I'm 5'11" and was super disappointed when I saw myself towering over The Great Khali in a WWE house show back in Brasil. They're all so tiny.

 

[Kaladin]

So are Eric Rowan and Luke Harper on their own again on a brand Bray isn't on?

That worked out well last time.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Kurt WAS always that short. HHH shit-talked him for that early in his career until someone suggested HHH actually fight him and see how things go.

 

[Mahonay]

Lol @ the crowd popping hard for Braun shoving Reigns on a stretcher off a loading dock. God damn.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Aaaahahaha, Triple H, Vince McMahon, and Shane McMahon... what a supergroup!

I'm fast-forwarding through this garbage.

Isn't this the match where Triple H is carried out on a stretcher to na na na hey hey goodbye chants?

 

[Seijuro]

I wonder if Vince told Jinder "Let's see what he's got" before the match

Shouldn't Finn be used to stiff working styles after years of working for NJPW? Finn should rock him right back next time.

 

[Zach]

Isn't this the match where Triple H is carried out on a stretcher to na na na hey hey goodbye chants?

No idea. Can't handle Orton/H anymore. H won, though.

 

[Bluekaveli]

Hard body face bending Jinder needs a push.

 

[Brian_FETO]

Shouldn't Finn be used to stiff working styles after years of working for NJPW? Finn should rock him right back next time.

Sure, but not after years of working for WWE

Finn already popped his dislocated shoulder back in and finished a match, I think he's proven himself to Vince at this point lol

 

[Mahonay]

Shouldn't Finn be used to stiff working styles after years of working for NJPW?

Jinder is a giant roid man who threw what looked like a shoot elbow to the face to a much smaller Finn. Finn was not working stiff in return, and hasn't been during his entire time in WWE. Not the same, at all. lol.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

The Braun beatdown last night was so FnP. THAT is the kind of absurdity WWE needs to be trying to reach, not Final Deletion-type absurdity.

 

[RecRoulette]

We better be getting these two on SmackDown tonight, as a team again

 

[Toki767]

Lol @ the crowd popping hard for Braun shoving Reigns on a stretcher off a loading dock. God damn.

The best part was when they were setting up Reigns on the stretcher and the crowd was chanting "You deserve it!"

Best use of that chant I've ever heard.

 

[Heroman]

We better be getting these two on SmackDown tonight, as a team again

They can be called the job squad.

 

[Caderfix]

In an actual wrestling match, Kurt Angle defeated Brock Lesnar at a 90 pounds disadvantage. Brock didn't take him down at all. Calling him out due to his height is so dumb.

 

[Mahonay]

Lol oh my god Braun pushing the ambulance over. So dumb. Fantastic.

 

[RecRoulette]

They can be called the job squad.

I mean, who better to have a feud with Asuka when she gets the call.

 

[Heroman]

Shouldn't Finn be used to stiff working styles after years of working for NJPW? Finn should rock him right back next time.

He should be, the dude has wreslte people like Shibata.

 

[Tall4Life]

I mean, who better to have a feud with Asuka when she gets the call.

they already feuded with her in nxt

 

[Mahonay]

OHHHH MYYYYYY IT'S EL VAGABONDO

 

[Brian_FETO]

DRIFTER! AND NAKAMURA!

ONE OF NXT'S MOST POPULAR RIVALRIES

 

[jmdajr]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Forbes List
Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

 

[Kaladin]

What do you do with Nakamura other than main event? He's a once in a lifetime talent like Lesnar.....also, if AJ and Nakamura are on Smackdown, how is that not in the plans?

 

[Kaladin]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

Brock got that money truck

 

[Caderfix]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

Lesnar, man... Fuck...

 

[Tall4Life]

What do you do with Nakamura other than main event? He's a once in a lifetime talent like Lesnar.....also, if AJ and Nakamura are on Smackdown, how is that not in the plans?

I think it definitely is now. WWE has cooled off on Cena being involved in everything so the world title scene on SDL will be pretty exciting and not centered around putting over one guy, which is what Raw's world title will be about

 

[sf2fanatic]

which doesn't make much sense since they are both after the title

Bodyguard status right there. Bliss had that smirk were she was interested in teaming up

 

[Beefy]

I don't want to be THAT guy, but Roman deserves every bit of kudos for putting himself on the receiving end of that beat down to give fans what they want.

Depends what happens next.

 

[Sephzilla]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Forbes List
Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

$15.8 million dollars for two wrestlers who wrestle in 4 matches a year total...

 

[kiguel182]

In an actual wrestling match, Kurt Angle defeated Brock Lesnar at a 90 pounds disadvantage. Brock didn't take him down at all. Calling him out due to his height is so dumb.

Even with that disadvantage Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist. Lesnar can't compare wrestling wise. Angle is in a class of his own.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Forbes List
Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

I'm curious to know how much money Orton and Rollins would have made if they had been full time for the whole year instead of returning from injury at a later stage.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Dean making some good money. I can see why he's just you know, whatever.

Forbes List
Top 10 Highest-Paid WWE Wrestlers
Pos. Wrestler Earnings
1 Brock Lesnar $12 million
2 John Cena $8 million
3 Triple H $3.8 million
4 Roman Reigns $3.5 million
5 Dean Ambrose $2.7 million
6 AJ Styles $2.4 million
7 Shane McMahon $2.2 million
T8 The Undertaker $2 million
T8 Seth Rollins $2 million
10 Randy Orton $1.9 million

This is pretty sad on so many levels. I wonder how much Finn makes?

 

[Caderfix]

Even with that disadvantage Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist. Lesnar can't compare wrestling wise. Angle is in a class of his own.

Exactly. Brock was huge and on NCAA level, and still, Angle is such a high level athlete that he was able to handle him without much problems. That's why HHH calling Angle out on his height is so dumb. The guy is a machine, even now after putting his body though hell.

 

[Sephzilla]

It was really good. If I had to rate it for the local newspaper, I'd give it four and a quarter starz. Imagine how cool it would've been had kicking out of finishers not become commonplace. It was still effective, but it could have been more meaningful. That was the kind of match you should save that foolishness for. Ah well.

Honestly, kicking out of finishers wasn't that commonplace around WM25. It happened but it wasn't as ridiculous as it is now. HBK/Taker @ WM25 is sort of what started the modern day finisher spam/kickout fest