WWE RAW & Smackdown Thread

[Majingir]

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The only way Charlotte beating Tiffany works is if it's a double turn that sees Tiffany becoming a face. If she cut that promo on RAW, it would have avoided the whole awkwardness before Rhea came out.

I think Tiffany is the face going into this feud anyways. She needs to win though.

They're going to build up all this now not as "Rumble winner Charlotte chooses her WM opponent" but "Champs beg Charlotte to face them", the champ who faces her better win or else they'll just look stupid.

Even this week when Charlotte was like "I'll face you if you get on your hands and knees and beg." I was hoping Tiffany would drop Charlotte and when Charlotte is down and out, Tiffany kneels down over Charlotte and in an angry tone is like "I beg you to face me now." Which would certainly be twisting Charlotte's own words against her while Tiffany comes out of that looking like an even bigger star.

[Majingir]

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Gunther is on team No Yeet.

He tries to throw his jacket at McAfee, misses, and nails a kid in the crowd with it.

Jey vs Gunther at WM!

Now the question becomes, who faces Cody?

Reigns vs Cody Thrice in a Lifetime?
Rollins vs Cody (4?)
Punk vs Cody?

Cena vs Cody I could see being that match. Seems like a match Cena would be fine being his last WM match.

Jey vs Gunther I could see as a night 1 opening match (before people complain, don't forget, rumble winner Rollins vs Lesnar kicked off WM one year too).

Cena vs Cody main events night 2.

Punk vs Rollins .....vs Reigns main events night 1?

[UFCMPunk]

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Gunther is a party pooper........ to quote Sheamus, "I was enjoying that."

[UFCMPunk]

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Gunther is on team No Yeet.

He tries to throw his jacket at McAfee, misses, and nails a kid in the crowd with it.

I noticed 49ers Tight End George Kittle sitting behind the announce desk in a Penta shirt, he should have threw it at him lol.

[UFCMPunk]

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So it does seem as if you watch it live then you get to see everything that happens during "commercial break" which essentially shows you who gets a TV entrance and who doesn't. Neither Liv/Raquel or Damage Ctrl had entrances during TV essentially.

[UFCMPunk]

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Who knew that if you gave your Women's Tag Division time that they would put on a good match... shocker I know!

That was such a great tag team match between Damage Ctrl & Liv/Raquel, also Liv got busted open.

[TripleCrown9]

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Liv Morgan got busted open. They're really taking the WWE 2K25 advertising to a different level.

[stlducks]

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So it does seem as if you watch it live then you get to see everything that happens during "commercial break" which essentially shows you who gets a TV entrance and who doesn't. Neither Liv/Raquel or Damage Ctrl had entrances during TV essentially.

I wonder if it matters what your Netflix package is? I have Netflix with ads so I still have commercial breaks when watching live.

[UFCMPunk]

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I know that technically watching live you can see it, but they really should just air these promos and entrances on the actual broadcast. How does Bayley not even get a televised entrance? This is confusing.

[SmashMan]

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I wonder if it matters what your Netflix package is? I have Netflix with ads so I still have commercial breaks when watching live.

Yeah. I do appreciate the 3 minute timer for commercial breaks though.

[UFCMPunk]

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I wonder if it matters what your Netflix package is? I have Netflix with ads so I still have commercial breaks when watching live.

Yeah I'm paying for the one with no ads, you might be right that it depends on what package it is. I'm glad though as seeing these are kinda cool honestly, it's almost like I'm seeing something I shouldn't.

[Bard]

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Bailey and Lyra are strangely sloppy tonight. Counting 3 bitches so far.

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[UFCMPunk]

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So with Bayley in the Chamber, have to assume Roxanne wins her Chamber qualifying match next week on RAW? It was a bit sloppy but back to back good matches for the Women.

[UFCMPunk]

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Yeah I'm all for these little off-air segments to just be shown on TV. McAfee having fun with the crowd and getting them to sing Happy Birthday to Cole was great.

[Majingir]

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So it does seem as if you watch it live then you get to see everything that happens during "commercial break" which essentially shows you who gets a TV entrance and who doesn't. Neither Liv/Raquel or Damage Ctrl had entrances during TV essentially.

I wonder if it matters what your Netflix package is? I have Netflix with ads so I still have commercial breaks when watching live.

I know that technically watching live you can see it, but they really should just air these promos and entrances on the actual broadcast. How does Bayley not even get a televised entrance? This is confusing.

I had the ad free tier for the first month and switched to the cheaper ad tier for right now. I've noticed 0 difference in watching so if things stay this way, I might be paying a fraction of the cost I even had to pay last year for the WWE Network which would be a bonus.

I will say this, I love the "3 minute warning" (did someone say 3 minutes?) they have for the ad break should you be watching live, but I hate how if you're not watching live, you miss it. The on demand/replay version cuts out anything that occurs in those 3 minutes.

I love that for NXT and SD since over here they just show a generic "we'll be right back" screen with call waiting like music playing during it, so that gets wiped out if you watch it not live.

But cutting it out for Raw makes no sense when Raw actually does have content during that 3 minute window. We're talking promos (New Days this week), entrances (Bayley), fun in arena moments (McAfee going for the cheap pops and cheap heat but then also getting the crowd to sing happy birthday to Cole).

Why can't THAT stuff stay in the broadcast? Ironically, once that 3 min window is up, when they return from it they often air a WWE ad which or course doesn't get cut out.