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Post by Big DSR Energy on Feb 27, 2023 23:11:34 GMT -5
The match will be eh-good at best, but the real highlight will be Becky making fun of that li'ttle weirdo all these weeks Ronda's gonna get slaughtered on the mic. Will we get a police-car-backseat-scissoring callback?!
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Post by hbkid718 on Feb 27, 2023 23:18:50 GMT -5
Here's everything that happened last week, Week 8 in WWE & NXT.
Here are my Raw Thoughts (with some Facts mixed in since I had time to do the research):
Good opening segment with Solo Sikoa, Jimmy Uso, & The Street Profits to set-up the opening match. The Street Profits VS The Bloodline was an awesome match. Great finish. Love Kevin Owens out of nowhere. Great way to start off Raw. Not counting his Mixed Match Challenge Matches with Naomi, this was only the time that Jimmy teamed up with someone other than Jey in a 2-on-2 Tag Team Match (teamed with Zack Ryder in a loss to Harper & Rowan on Main Event on 5/15/15 & he & Big E lost to The Bludgeon Brothers on Smackdown on 3/13/18). Triple H wants Quality over Quantity for WrestleMania. Brock Lesnar VS Omos is not a quality match. OK segment since MVP is a good hype man. Brock Lesnar was funny, loved the F-5. But Lesnar VS Omos could end up being the Worst WrestleMania Match of All-Time, taking Uncle Elmer VS Adrian Adonis from WM 2 out of the top spot. Solid promo by Lita & Becky Lynch, looking forward to their Women's Tag Title Match later. Can't wait for Raw next week & the return of John Cena. It's definitely WrestleMania Season. Cody Rhodes VS Chad Gable was incredible. I really wished it went another 20 minutes with Picture-In-Picture. Good promo by Cody Rhodes, but I really wish that Cody & Roman Reigns aren't even in the same ring until WrestleMania. It would make their match even more special when the first time they are face-to-face is in the ring when the bell rings. LOL,Baron Corbin got interrupted again, this time by Kevin Owens. Good promo by KO. Awesome a new WrestleMania Trailer with Bianca Belair & Montez Ford doing Titanic. It was OK. I like Seth Rollins & Becky Lynch's The Joker & Batman better. At least it's not a 25 year old movie. Good promo segment with The Judgment Day, putting over their respective feuds. Horrible segment with Otis & Maximum Male Models. I'm still seeing all of this hate for Kevin Patrick. Leave the poor man alone. He's doing great. So he's not the most energetic. He's better than a lot of past RAW Commentators. People need to get on Hulu & listen to him & Byron Saxton on Main Event. They are great. Asuka VS Carmella was a fun match as Asuka finally defeats Carmella in their 3rd match against each other. Bianca Belair's promo was OK. Interesting attack by Carmella though we have seen Bianca VS Carmella too many times in the past with Bianca always winning. I like these videos with Edge earlier & now Bronson Reed even though it is to promote Creed 3. Candice LeRae VS Piper Niven was OK but the crowd was sleeping. That is such disrespect to the women busting their asses in the ring. I'm still intrigued in seeing where they are going with Nikki Cross. Good promo with Johnny Gargano. Him VS Otis later will be a waste of time, but him VS Finn Balor next week should be amazing. I figured The Miz was going to announce that he's the host of WrestleMania. It's only fitting especially since he's not feuding with anyone to get a WM match Seth Rollins was hilarious knocking Miz out & then stealing his phone to FaceTime with Logan Paul. But besides that, The Miz really doesn't have to do much as WrestleMania Host, as the hosts really don't do anything. The only worthy thing that hosts have done in the past was New Day announcing The Hardys at WM 33. I don't even remember the other hosts. Since WrestleMania is 2 nights, they should have The Miz host Night 1 & LA Knight host Night 2. Very good promo by Bayley & Damage CTRL. Great promo by Austin Theory as he continues the build to his match with John Cena for WrestleMania. Bobby Lashley VS Elias was a complete waste of time & was the worst match of Raw so far. Lashley's promo sucked too. He needs a manager to do his talking. Lashley VS Bray Wyatt is going to be another bad match at WrestleMania. After saying that, we get this crap with Bray Wyatt even with Uncle Howdy. Bray returned with those cool vignettes, but now he has crapped the bed. Funny segment with Carmella, Chelsea Green, & Adam Pearce. Carmella & Chelsea could be a fun tag team. Johnny Gargano VS Otis was pretty good despite the crap with Dexter Lumis & MMM. It was the 2nd 1-on-1 match between them after Raw on 10/3/22, which was won by Otis. MMM is the 2nd worst thing under the Triple H Regime after Hit Row. Great Paul Heyman Promo. Another awesome Raw on deck for next week: Owens VS Sikoa, Gargano VS Rollins, Belair VS Carmella (though we have seen it numerous times). Plus Rollins & Paul face-to-face & the return of John Cena. Lita & Becky Lynch VS Damage CTRL was a great match. I love Trish Stratus being back to equalize Bayley. I thought that we would get a DQ to set-up a 6-Woman Tag at WrestleMania with Damage CTRL losing the titles to Shayna Baszler & Ronda Rousey before WrestleMania so they can do the 6-Woman Tag & do a Women's Tag Title Match at Mania. This ended Damage CTRL's Reign at 2 Defenses & their Reign lasted 114 Days, which was the 5th Longest Reign of All-Time. With Lita & Becky's win, Lita is now the 1st WWE Women's Champion to become Women's Tag Team Champion & Becky is the 7th Raw Women's Champion to become Women's Tag Team Champion, the 8th Smackdown Women's Champion to be become Women's Tag Team Champion, & the 6th to win all 3 Championships. This was Lita's 1st match overall since she lost to Becky Lynch at Elimination Chamber on 2/19/22 & her 1st on RAW since she, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Natalya, & Trish Stratus defeated Alicia Fox, Mickie James, & The Riott Squad on 10/29/18 & her 1st 2-on-2 match since she & Trish Stratus defeated Alicia Fox & Naomi at Evolution on 10/29/18, 1st on Raw since she & Edge defeated Carlito & Stratus on 8/7/06 & 1st Women’s 2-on-2 Tag Team Match on Raw since she & Victoria defeated Molly Holly & Stratus on 11/29/14.
Here are my Raw Match Rankings: 1) Cody Rhodes VS Chad Gable 2) The Street Profits VS The Bloodline 3) Lita & Becky Lynch VS Damage CTRL 4) Asuka VS Carmella 5) Candice LeRae VS Piper Niven 6) Johnny Gargano VS Otis 7) Bobby Lashley VS Elias
The Road to WrestleMania's Raw stop in Grand Rapids was a fun one except for anything involving Bray Wyatt & Maximum Male Models. Most of the matches were great to excellent. Next Stop: Smackdown in Washington, D.C.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 27, 2023 23:19:44 GMT -5
A part of me does want to see the women's tag match at Mania just to see how horrendous it is when Ronda and Lita are in the ring together.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Feb 27, 2023 23:21:10 GMT -5
My God Lita is slow. She had that surprisingly good match with Becky just last year so I'm a little shocked at how bad she looked here.
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Post by mistery on Feb 27, 2023 23:22:20 GMT -5
The Fightful post show is basically just SRS being flabbergasted at how bad the women's tag title match was, and while its obviously not confirmed, he wouldn't be shocked if Vince was back in creative power after that finish.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 27, 2023 23:24:06 GMT -5
The Fightful post show is basically just SRS being flabbergasted at how bad the women's tag title match was, and while its obviously not confirmed, he wouldn't be shocked if Vince was back in creative power after that finish. See? Don't get mad at us when we make the Vince comments when now SRS isn't even sure lmfao
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 27, 2023 23:26:24 GMT -5
But Lesnar VS Omos could end up being the Worst WrestleMania Match of All-Time, taking Uncle Elmer VS Adrian Adonis from WM 2 out of the top spot. Just curious, where do you rank Taker/Gonzales Mania 9 and Hart/McMahon Mania 26 in comparison to Elmer/Adonis?
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 27, 2023 23:27:14 GMT -5
But Lesnar VS Omos could end up being the Worst WrestleMania Match of All-Time, taking Uncle Elmer VS Adrian Adonis from WM 2 out of the top spot. Just curious, where do you rank Taker/Gonzales Mania 9 and Hart/McMahon Mania 26 in comparison to Elmer/Adonis? Roman/Taker's up there too.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Feb 27, 2023 23:33:42 GMT -5
I prefer him to Vince and it's not even close, but I think HHH just has his own flaws he needs to work on as a booker.
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Post by asuka007 on Feb 27, 2023 23:35:48 GMT -5
WWE really should just make a Women’s midcard singles title. I think it would make sense more than tag belts at this point. WWE keeps going back to like the same 5 women or so constantly as champions, and they do not care about the women’s tag division clearly.
There’s A LOT of women who could benefit from a Women’s IC Title or whatever you want to call it.
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 27, 2023 23:39:22 GMT -5
WWE really should just make a Women’s midcard singles title. I think it would make sense more than tag belts at this point. WWE keeps going back to like the same 5 women or so constantly as champions, and they do not care about the women’s tag division clearly. There’s A LOT of women who could benefit from a Women’s IC Title or whatever you want to call it. Honestly thinking about it, WWE and AEW probably could do a title swap (not necessarily current holders, just the titles): take the TBS title to have more middle card women's matches in WWE, and since AEW is more group heavy, including this thing with Saraya and Storm going against AEW Originals or something, they could go for tag titles. Though personally I would just try to further fix things after Mania season is over, since that's always the best "new direction" time period IMO.
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Post by hbkid718 on Feb 28, 2023 20:35:28 GMT -5
But Lesnar VS Omos could end up being the Worst WrestleMania Match of All-Time, taking Uncle Elmer VS Adrian Adonis from WM 2 out of the top spot. Just curious, where do you rank Taker/Gonzales Mania 9 and Hart/McMahon Mania 26 in comparison to Elmer/Adonis? Taker VS Gonzalez is #2 & Hart VS McMahon is #3.
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Post by hbkid718 on Feb 28, 2023 20:39:18 GMT -5
Just curious, where do you rank Taker/Gonzales Mania 9 and Hart/McMahon Mania 26 in comparison to Elmer/Adonis? Roman/Taker's up there too. I know I didn't like Reigns VS Taker, but don't remember how much I didn't like it and where it ranks in the worst Mania Matches.
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