Original plans for Raw

[gl83]

-The original plan for Monday's WWE RAW was for Big Show and Mark Henry to face Erick Rowan and Luke Harper, which was actually taped for SmackDown.

The plan was for Bray Wyatt to attack Big Show after the match and lay him out with Sister Abigail, as a way to show how dangerous Wyatt still is. The idea was to come out of RAW with momentum for Wyatt.

Plans changed some time Monday afternoon and they went with the six-man match that pretty much saw Cena run through The Wyatt Family.






Credit: PWInsider Elite

[El Hijo del Havoc]

How do you go from putting Bray over huge to the entire Wyatt Family getting squashed in an afternoon?

[Deleted]

What could have happened to make them go from "keep Wyatt Family looking strong" to "let's finish Wyatt Family on the Altar of Cena"? on the day?

[jagilki]

Wyatt picked a peanut out of the bowl without using a spoon, then sneezed.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

[Deleted]

Okay. What that tells me is that they've just given up on him for no particular reason IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOW.

This has to be Vince's work.

[Hit Girl]

Aug 27, 2014 13:55:05 GMT -5 El Hijo del Havoc said:

How do you go from putting Bray over huge to the entire Wyatt Family getting squashed in an afternoon?

Aug 27, 2014 13:55:47 GMT -5 @ihateeverything said:

What could have happened to make them go from "keep Wyatt Family looking strong" to "let's finish Wyatt Family on the Altar of Cena"? on the day?

A crazy old man who changes booking plans on a whim

[kevin]

A big PPV win over Big Show and Bray Wyatt is right back where he needs to be.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Cena happens

[Deleted]

Aug 27, 2014 14:07:19 GMT -5 kevin said:

A big PPV win over Big Show and Bray Wyatt is right back where he needs to be.

I doubt if they're even gonna be on a PPV after this.

Why waste a PPV slot on those bearded hacks when we could have more COMEDY SEGMENTS?

[hossfan]

Bray must have said something really bad about Bobo Brazil to warrant that change in the script.

[Madagascar Fred]

sounds Vincey if true

[A Platypus Rave]

Bray just had to sneeze in Vince's presence didn't he

[MrBRulzOK]

I'm guessing Vince's mindset was "Cena looked too weak at Summerslam! We gotta make him look strong this week, DAMN IT!" As for why it was the Wyatt Family that was thrown to the slaughter, I suspect it was because they were a considerable enough threat that it would look even more impressive when Cena managed to lay them all out single-handedly.

And honestly I can see what they were going for. At the very least they did try to protect Bray by not having him get pinned in the end.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Aug 27, 2014 14:34:07 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

I'm guessing Vince's mindset was "Cena looked too weak at Summerslam! We gotta make him look strong this week, DAMN IT!" As for why it was the Wyatt Family that was thrown to the slaughter, I suspect it was because they were a considerable enough threat that it would look even more impressive when Cena managed to lay them all out single-handedly.

And honestly I can see what they were going for. At the very least they did try to protect Bray by not having him get pinned in the end.

That doesn't do much when Bray was pretty much dummied by Cena for their singles match, then ultimately AA'd after the tag match.

[Hit Girl]

Vince has his own insane ideas about who needs to get their heat back, who the fans support, who they hate, who they've got bored with etc....

Little or none of it having any relation to reality.

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Aug 27, 2014 14:34:07 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

I'm guessing Vince's mindset was "Cena looked too weak at Summerslam! We gotta make him look strong this week, DAMN IT!" As for why it was the Wyatt Family that was thrown to the slaughter, I suspect it was because they were a considerable enough threat that it would look even more impressive when Cena managed to lay them all out single-handedly.

And honestly I can see what they were going for. At the very least they did try to protect Bray by not having him get pinned in the end.

They didn't protect Bray though - he got abused for 10 minutes before it and his goons only jumped in when he was getting some sort of offence on Cena, which looked even more stupid.  Harper tapped and Rowan was beaten so bad he was nowhere to make the save.

All members of the Wyatt's were crushed by Cena, not just Bray.

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Aug 27, 2014 14:34:07 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

I'm guessing Vince's mindset was "Cena looked too weak at Summerslam! We gotta make him look strong this week, DAMN IT!" As for why it was the Wyatt Family that was thrown to the slaughter, I suspect it was because they were a considerable enough threat that it would look even more impressive when Cena managed to lay them all out single-handedly.

And honestly I can see what they were going for. At the very least they did try to protect Bray by not having him get pinned in the end.

It reallly didn't matter. Cena ragdolled him for what felt like an eternity, just like Brock did to him. That's a really dumb story to tell, I'm sorry.

[Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer]

I wonder if Vince sent Triple H on an errand/to look for some IcoPro and changed Raw when he was away??

[Prince Petty]

I wonder if Triple H has ever tried just ignoring Vince's ideas, and then when Vince blusters in on him about why Raw didn't go as planned, Trips just says, 'but that's what you asked for, Vince. Don't you remember?'

It's worth a shot.