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Post by XIII on Jun 12, 2023 22:02:08 GMT -5
Imperium NBA wins the Championship
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Post by ayumidah on Jun 12, 2023 22:02:10 GMT -5
Kinda love how no one, especially Owens and Sami, cared about Riddle still laying limp on the entrance ramp lol
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Post by ayumidah on Jun 12, 2023 22:03:26 GMT -5
she can't judge after that promo she was involved in earlier.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 12, 2023 22:04:23 GMT -5
That was a fine RAW Some dull spots but it was fun for the most part I might just give it a 7 in the poll because of the main event and Maxxine's armdrag.
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Post by XIII on Jun 12, 2023 22:05:14 GMT -5
Kinda love how no one, especially Owens and Sami, cared about Riddle still laying limp on the entrance ramp lol Dude was a chump all night. Maybe theyβre about to fire his ass. lol
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 12, 2023 22:06:44 GMT -5
Now we can focus on NXT!!!
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Post by asuka007 on Jun 12, 2023 22:08:56 GMT -5
Now we can focus on NXT!!! m Becky wants to watch Rhea punish her daughter Gigi.
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Post by ayumidah on Jun 12, 2023 22:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by ayumidah on Jun 12, 2023 22:12:06 GMT -5
Now we can focus on NXT!!! I am stupidly happy we get Edris vs Malik tomorrow. Tag teams fighting each other to prove how close they are and somehow gaining mind reading abilities because of it makes me oddly happy.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 12, 2023 22:12:38 GMT -5
Now we can focus on NXT!!! I am stupidly happy we get Eldris vs Malik tomorrow. Tag teams fighting each other to prove how close they are and somehow gaining mind reading abilities because of it makes me oddly happy. I love that it's become one of HBK's favorite tropes.
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Post by hbkid718 on Jun 12, 2023 22:13:56 GMT -5
Here are my Raw Thoughts:
Since I was finishing up my Weekly Column, I didn't have time to organize any Facts & Stats for tonight's Raw
Good opening segment. I like the continuity of Rhea Ripley becoming the Women's World Championship to coincide with Seth Rollins' World Heavyweight Championship. But like I said on Friday, names & the actual titles don't matter to me as long as lineages do not change. Cody Rhodes & Dominik Mysterio going back & forth were good. They should have a good match at MITB as like I said last week, Cody had classic matches with Rey Mysterio, so it's cool that he's now wrestling Dominik. I like The Miz's cheap shot attack. Cody Rhodes VS The Miz was a great match. Cody got busted open on the back of his bad, but it's not as bad what he did to himself in that other company. Interesting interaction with Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, & Becky Lynch and then cool to see Chad Gable & Otis training Maxxine Dupri. Good Becky Lynch promo. I like when she messed up her promo she adlibbed. I wish they were allowed to do that more instead of being scripted. Zoey Stark's promo was pretty good. Sonya Deville & Chelsea Green were OK. I like Becky's line of "Enough Talk" as a tribute to Birthday Boy, Mark Henry. Oh, sorry to the WWE Production Team for working overtime this time of year, as they have to put up all of the ladders for the next 3 weeks until MITB. Becky Lynch VS Chelsea Green was pretty good but short. I like Zoey Stark watching the match on top of the ladder. Good segment with The Judgment Day. Love the lights & smoke. I'm intrigued with the way that Balor has been reacting lately. The Big D looks like one of the shows that even if I watch 1 second of it if it was after Raw or NXT, I could feel my brain cells die. How do shows like that get on the air? LOL AEW bought time during Raw for a commercial for AEW Collision. They're really desperate for the ratings. For some reason, I thought Matt Riddle & Damian Priest have wrestled tons of times in the past, but they only wrestled once, on Raw on 9/26/22 (looked it up during the commercial). But they have awesome chemistry as their match was excellent. I love the 6 Men in the Men's MITB Match. All 6 men can win & I wouldn't have a problem with it. We are guaranteed a first time winner. I like GUNTHER & Ludwig Kaiser attacking Riddle to continue their feud, which should be a fun match for the Intercontinental Title. Another fun fired up promo by Cody Rhodes. Wow. A change of character coming for Natalya. Interesting. Hilarious segment with Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn & Imperium. Owens gets funnier by the week. Fun to see Adam Pearce. No Facts & Stats tonight, so don't expect any of the Tag Title Match later. Sorry. I want another match on Raw. There's no need to recap a storyline from Smackdown. We're going to see it during Smackdown this week. There's no need to see it on Raw too. Keep the brands separate. Another bad promo for Jinder Mahal & Indus Sher. Cedric Alexander & Shelton Benjamin should use their Free Agent Status and stay away from Raw for the foreseeable future. They need a change of scenery & should go to NXT or Smackdown. Ricochet VS Bronson Reed was a great match that deserve 2 segments. But the DQ Finish was stupid. There's no reason for Reed to not get the win & then have Shinsuke Nakamura attack afterwards. But I still like the feud continuing. Another hilarious segment with Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn. Good I love the dissension between Ricochet & Shinsuke Nakamura & Ricochet being mad at Nakamura for interfering in his match & costing him the match. Yes, the Tag Titles will be on the line for Owens & Zayn & Imperium. Can someone save me the trouble since I'm too lazy to look it up to find out when the last time an IC Champion wrestled for the Tag Team Titles? Thanks. I didn't like that segment between Seth Rollins & Finn Balor at first. The crowd's singalong was annoying & took away from the segment. It's getting worse than the stupid What Chants. At least they let Balor speak, which was great, but that was complete disrespect to him. Rollins' response was good & their match at MITB will be incredible. And probably because of the stupid, moronic fans, they're going to have to cut out a match or the time of a match later which is disrespectful to those wrestlers. The fans should be ashamed of themselves for doing that. Raquel Rodriguez VS Shayna Baszler was horrible. Ronda's suckiness (don't know if that's a word or not) is rubbing off on Baszler, who used to be a great wrestler. Also, Ronda's ego is so big that she can't even have her Tag Team Partner enter the ring to her own theme. Even though this is the exact same video they showed on Smackdown, the Iron Sheik Tribute Video was excellent and once again made me cry. Chad Gable VS Erik was OK, but a little short. I like this version of Maxxine Dupri instead of her as the manager of MMM. Amazing video on Rhea Ripley. Interesting conversation with Finn Balor & JD McDonagh. I love the seeds being planted already for Damian Priest winning MITB & possibly cashing in on Balor if he can beat Rollins. Good promo by Seth Rollins. I love the idea of a Open Challenge next week, but I hope it's not Logan Paul as the one answering his challenge. Nakamura VS Reed should be good but Ricochet will interfere. I hope they mute the crowd next week. I just realized that they only have 5 participants for the Women's MITB Match & the last spot is a Raw Wrestler, so that means we're probably going to get a Last Chance Qualifying Battle Royal next week which is stupid for people that shouldn't get another chance. I also just realized that Seth Rollins didn't even say a word about Bron Breakker's challenge for tomorrow's NXT. I wonder why & why did we see the same commercial twice? Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn VS Imperium was incredible. I can even ignore the stuff with Riddle to take GUNTHER out of the match so he wouldn't have to take the pin.
Here are my Raw Match Rankings: 1) Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn VS Imperium 2) Cody Rhodes VS The Miz 3) Matt Riddle VS Damian Priest 4) Ricochet VS Bronson Reed 5) Chad Gable VS Erik 6) Becky Lynch VS Chelsea Green 7) Raquel Rodriguez VS Shayna Baszler
Ends a great Raw except for 1 or 2 segments. MITB will be an awesome PPV.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Jun 12, 2023 22:33:01 GMT -5
Vincent McMahon it's time to acknowledge your Nugget overlords
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