***WWE Monday Night Raw 1/12 Discussion Thread NO SPOILERS***

[TheMatrix31]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Am I the only one who LOVED the Austin video? WWE can do vignettes better than anyone. Loved the piano into Cult of Personality. Awesome.

Man, that Austin induction video was absolutely incredible! Great show last night, in my opinion.

[summersa74]

Quote: Originally Posted by TimmeH

HBK-Cena are money when they're in the ring together. I can't believe they've wasted two of their three encounters on free TV. They could have brought in alot of buys back in 07 if they would have had a couple post-Mania rematches(although I know HBK had injury issues later on that year). There match was every bit as good as their last two, in fact, I think I enjoyed this the most of the three. It had much better pacing, the back and forth action was great, and I think they did a good job telling the story with JBL involved. It just lacked the awesome crowd that the first two had. Overall it was a very good show. I'm almost definitely ordering the Rumble now.

I was there last night. First time at a wrestling event. There was a small blizzard going on, plus parking was an absolute nightmare, so that sucked some of the energy out of the crowd.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Am I the only one who LOVED the Austin video? WWE can do vignettes better than anyone. Loved the piano into Cult of Personality. Awesome.

No you're not. That was awesome and seriously gave me chills. WWE's production on things like this are top-notch.

[Lintyfresh85]

The walk into the empty hallway by Austin, to the blood falling down his face to the piledriver by Owen all leading to the Austing 3:16 speech... which lead to 'Cult of Personality' was excellent. I'll definitely be watching that video again.

I'd love for The Rock to go in with Austin this year in the Hall of Fame. That would be great, and very appropiate as they were the two biggest Attitude stars.

[goh]

One extra high quality match per week isn't going to hurt. Doesn't have to be a super match or main event stars or people that haven't wrestled each other before.

[JiggidyJames]

Characters and promos sell PPVs, not good matches on free TV.

[RedheadKingpin]

Am I the only guy who hopes that the real McMahon shows up next week and fires Stephanie.

[highheatkingsb]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedheadKingpin

Am I the only guy who hopes that the real McMahon shows up next week and fires Stephanie.

Just got a chance to watch RAW today. I'm kind of sick of the whole people getting fired angle. It's really growing old. I'm glad Vince is coming back, maybe he'll just demote Steph to the new Superstars show. I'm sure they'll have to have a GM also.

The HBK/Cena match was awesome. Every now and then it's nice to see on free TV, I'm hoping JBL wins at the Rumble and HBK somehow wins the Rumble, setting up the ending angle between the two. I'm not a fan of the angle itself though, like anyone in the world believes HBK is on hard times, to me it makes JBL looks like he's above the company itself, paying him more than what he'd make under Vince's promotion. I don't like that aspect of it, and I have to keep telling myself I'm suppossed to use my imagination. For what it's worth though, they are doing it well.