WWE Raw & Smackdown January Thread

[Mercury112491]

I love that there’s two Rumbles and the women’s Rumble has been just as good as the men’s every year. To say it shouldn’t be there or bad for the product is really ****ing weird.


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[TheMatrix31]

If it's was able to hold its own on its own, we wouldn't have to be told all the specific legends "coming back!" ahead of time just to drum up interest.

My criticism is always with the writers and the company.

Write compelling product and it doesn't matter what you do. Don't and you have to resort to announcing practically an entire field for an event that is mostly only fun because of the random "legends!" that want a check I mean come back for one night.

I hope it's a good Rumble nonetheless. I'm jaded on the women's Rumble after what they did to Asuka after she won the, you know, very first one.

[Majingir]

Who would've thought Lesnar/Lashley would have a nice promo battle.

Lesnar doing a knock knock joke in Philly, like Heyman said, now we've seen it all.

And Lashleys reaction to "Bobby Who?" was straight out of the Stone Cold laughing meme.


And now Rhea/Nikki are done, is there even another tag team besides the current champs? Just end the womens tag division on the main roster.

Miz pulled the Ben Simmons card!

[chronoxiong]

Some things I enjoyed from this week's RAW.
-Opening segment. Wow. Lesnar really gets to talk now. That promo he delivered on Lashley felt like a burial. Hard for Lashley to recover from that. The company protects Lesnar too so I honestly have no clue what rebuttal he will get to say on Lesnar. We have two more weeks of build left for their match.
-We have new tag team Champs and its the Alpha Academy. It was brewing for a while but happy to see Otis be winning. Gable is good in his role too.
-Match of the night goes to Rollins/Big E. These two work well together. Shocked Big E lost cleanly though.
-I dont watch NXT 2.0 so I have no clue why that Waller guy interrupted the AJ Styles/Theory match. But hey, at least neither guy took the pinfall.
-Main event triple threat match was solid. Some nice spots as well. Liv Morgan got to do some stuff that impressed me. Not sure if a heel vs heel Title match is what people want to see though. Unless there will be some changes in the upcoming weeks.
-I really wonder what the WWE is going to do with their US and IC Titles. There seems to be no challenger being built up to win them from the current Champions.

[J_Posse]

Good opening fatal - four-way to start Smackdown.

I always feel like the crowd isn't reacting to the Viking Raiders, but they got a solid pop from the crowd after the pin.

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[Majingir]

Has it really been almost 20 years since Lita has been on SD?!

I know SDs womens "division" in the RA era was.........but it's still strange realizing people like Lita and Trish actually haven't really ever been on SD since the 02 brand extension.

[J_Posse]

Those last two segments were ****ing great. Laughed my ****ing *** off....

Not sure how it'll do with the casuals and smarky fans, but I'm loving this female - centric episode so far.

Hoping that mean we'll see Shotzi play a role in Lita's segment.

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[Majingir]

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Zayn: Wait..I didn't.....nevermind.