WWE Raw 11-3-14

[Jerry Hattrick]

 

 

 

Haha, two hardways, one to open the show and one to end it. It's hilarious how Orton kept going back to sweep shit off the table and still happened to headbutt the only damn thing on it. Look like it really jacked him up, too.

Is there a master list somewhere of objects Orton has landed on?

Honorable mention: The "FUCK"ing table leg. A close call.

*Ladders

*Monitors

*A hole where a monitor should have been.

*Whatever the hell he landed on tonight.

*Somas

I'm sure the list goes on and on

 

 

 

 

"WE DIDN'T LAND ON RANDY ORTON! RANDY ORTON LANDED ON US!"

          - Monitor X

 

Stephanie: Randy, this isn't what we had in mind when we told you that we were going to get your ass on TV.

[caley]

-The Kane gif was great, but it's missing the uproarious round of laughter from the people in the front row who were close enough to notice it.

 

-Speaking of great crowd reactions, during the token Bray Wyatt appearing out of nowhere moment, then his noise hitting and him disappearing with the chair still rocking, you can clearly hear one guy loudly say "WHERE DID HE GO?!" as if he's never seen Bray Wyatt, or, you know, pro wrestling ever before in his life! I'd like to see this guy watching ECW: "OH MY GOD, THE LIGHTS WENT OUT AGAIN...WAIT, WHERE DID SABU COME FROM?!" or classic Undertaker: "WAIT, I THOUGHT THE CASKET WAS EMPTY! OH MY GOD!"

 

-It struck me during the main event, that one problem with Raw is a seeming disinterest in letting viewers go home happy.  I get that you have to have the heels win sometimes, and that the goal of Raw is to get people to buy the PPVs (or order the network to watch them) and see the heels get their comeuppance, but part of what made the Attitude-era Raws so hot was that you would get equal amounts of "Stone Cold just gave McMahon the stunner!" as you got "McMahon has screwed Austin again!" Tonight, with the crowd super-hot for the Orton face turn, they should have called an audible and had Orton RKO everyone, including Triple H, then announce an indefinite suspension on Smackdown or the network for attacking non-wrestlers.  That was the most I've enjoyed Orton in quite some time, as a matter of fact, but I'm not sure the heat will still be there by the time he gets back.

 

-Also, piranesi, I think that was an earpiece hanging around Noble as he got tossed out of the ring.  They showed him before from an angle and he had an ear-piece in.

[Cristobal]

I'd like to think that "90% satisfaction rate" was a "worked shoot" type of thing where we're SUPPOSED to know it's BS.

I'd like to think that.

[Overly Critical Man]

I was waiting to mark out for an RKO in mid air as Rollins went for the curb stomp off the table. And this is coming from a guy that's hated Randy Orton for the better part of a decade. What has the WWE done to Orton?

[Cristobal]

Given him time off to shoot a movie, like they did with Ambrose a month or so back?

[Phantom Lord]

 

 I wonder if Nikita would do a show for them and just give Rusev a nod of approval. Surely the WWE has cleaned it self up enough for him to associate himself with them.

The backstage thing with Nikolai Volkoff was completely awesome - it'd be like a tour of Russian wrestlers giving their thumbs-up to the new generation in Rusev.

 

 

I'm just picturing Ivan Koloff, Crusher Krushev, Boris Volkolf, Nicholai, and maybe Nikita all dressed up like old Soviet generals saluting Rusev. What a glorious thing that would be.

[Big Fresh]

I wonder if Nikita would do a show for them and just give Rusev a nod of approval. Surely the WWE has cleaned it self up enough for him to associate himself with them.

The backstage thing with Nikolai Volkoff was completely awesome - it'd be like a tour of Russian wrestlers giving their thumbs-up to the new generation in Rusev.

I'm just picturing Ivan Koloff, Crusher Krushev, Boris Volkolf, Nicholai, and maybe Nikita all dressed up like old Soviet generals saluting Rusev. What a glorious thing that would be.

[HumanChessgame]

 

 

 I wonder if Nikita would do a show for them and just give Rusev a nod of approval. Surely the WWE has cleaned it self up enough for him to associate himself with them.

The backstage thing with Nikolai Volkoff was completely awesome - it'd be like a tour of Russian wrestlers giving their thumbs-up to the new generation in Rusev.

 

 

I'm just picturing Ivan Koloff, Crusher Krushev, Boris Volkolf, Nicholai, and maybe Nikita all dressed up like old Soviet generals saluting Rusev. What a glorious thing that would be.

 

 

Aside from Nicholai, were any of these people actually Russian?

[Pete]

I wonder if Nikita would do a show for them and just give Rusev a nod of approval. Surely the WWE has cleaned it self up enough for him to associate himself with them.

The backstage thing with Nikolai Volkoff was completely awesome - it'd be like a tour of Russian wrestlers giving their thumbs-up to the new generation in Rusev.

 

I'm just picturing Ivan Koloff, Crusher Krushev, Boris Volkolf, Nicholai, and maybe Nikita all dressed up like old Soviet generals saluting Rusev. What a glorious thing that would be.

 

Aside from Nicholai, were any of these people actually Russian?

Nikolai was actually Croatian.

[mco543]

Aside from the New Japan Russians 25 years ago I don't think any Russian has been legitimately Russian.

[J.T.]

 

Hulk Hogan @HulkHogan  ·  4m 4 minutes ago

Sad day for America and WWE Universe,Rusev as US Heavyweight Champion makes me sick,John Cena where are you when we need you brother. HH

 

The US title passed from an Irishman to a Russian and the Intercontinental title is held by an American. 

 

Only in pro wrestling.

 

Nikolai was actually Croatian.

 

Volkoff was Croatian, Ivan Koloff is (gasp) Canadian and started off using an Irish heel gimmick.

 

I can't think of any workers using Russian gimmicks who were actually from the TAFKA The Soviet Union.

[NintendoLogic]

Vladimir Kozlov is from Ukraine.

[Patrick B.]

Was a bit surprised by the factoid that Sheamus has NEVER tapped out/submitted in WWE.  His losses have been few and far between until recently, so I could believe it.

 

I remembered the best-of-three-falls match with Mr. Brie Bella where Sheamus lost a fall to the Yes Lock, but I looked it up and THAT was a pass-out-in-the-hold finish as well.  So, in that regard, well played.

[Burgundy LaRue]

 

 

 

I wonder if Nikita would do a show for them and just give Rusev a nod of approval. Surely the WWE has cleaned it self up enough for him to associate himself with them.

The backstage thing with Nikolai Volkoff was completely awesome - it'd be like a tour of Russian wrestlers giving their thumbs-up to the new generation in Rusev.

I'm just picturing Ivan Koloff, Crusher Krushev, Boris Volkolf, Nicholai, and maybe Nikita all dressed up like old Soviet generals saluting Rusev. What a glorious thing that would be.

 

 

What does Tom of Finland have to do with this?

[RIPPA]

 

 

The angle will be terrible because Lenny gimmicks tend to be that way but if it means more Renee reaction shots - I am sold

[Pete]

HHH: "I'm calling Orton."

Steph: "Randy Orton?"

Me: "No, Bob Orton. Senior."

 

That whole setpiece was why I despise the way they script these things, as if they assume no one in the audience actually watches from week to week. "RANDY ORTON? THE MAN WHO LAST WEEK DEFIED US, THE AUTHORITY, AND TOOK OUT SETH ROLLINS? SETH ROLLINS, THE FUTURE OF THE WWE? THE WWE, THE COMPANY WE CURRENTLY RUN, AS THE AUTHORITY? THE AUTHORITY, WHO LAST WEEK WAS DEFIED BY RANDY ORTON? RANDY ORTON, THE MAN WHO..."

 

After 20 fucking years, you'd think they could write people more naturally than this.

[PetrolCB]

Based on that pic, here's a quick off topic question; what if Nash got the Tugboat gimmick and Ottman had Oz? What'd that make Nash in the Natural Disasters?

[Biz Smarkie]

Mudslide.

[SolidGoldBomb]

A bit exposition heavy tonight from The Authority, but still a good show with some fun moments.

 

I love Orton's new Pantera inspired shirt.  But after my first glance it looked way cooler in my mind than when I saw a close up of it.

 

Rollins/Ziggler, Show/Henry & Sheamus/Rusev were pretty solid though.  Nice to see Kidd get a win too.

 

I hope this new free network push gets them the subscribers they need to be profitable, I still love the action and promos but it's getting to be like watching a 4 hour infomercial in between things. 

[evilwaldo]

You know what would draw major heat?  A ten second thank you message from Putin himself and I am sure Vince had someone email the Kremlin just to find out if they would do it.

[Dog]

HHH: "I'm calling Orton."

Steph: "Randy Orton?"

Me: "No, Bob Orton. Senior."

 

That whole setpiece was why I despise the way they script these things, as if they assume no one in the audience actually watches from week to week. "RANDY ORTON? THE MAN WHO LAST WEEK DEFIED US, THE AUTHORITY, AND TOOK OUT SETH ROLLINS? SETH ROLLINS, THE FUTURE OF THE WWE? THE WWE, THE COMPANY WE CURRENTLY RUN, AS THE AUTHORITY? THE AUTHORITY, WHO LAST WEEK WAS DEFIED BY RANDY ORTON? RANDY ORTON, THE MAN WHO..."

 

After 20 fucking years, you'd think they could write people more naturally than this.

 

"Every comic is someone's first."

 

[Rev Ray]

I'm pretty sure the thing flying around Noble was his ear piece transmitter.

Good thing Randy didn't sit on the desk... "It was a million in one shot doc."

[OSJ]

In answer to an earlier question, I don't think that there has been a Russian heel who was actually Russian since George Hackenschmidt.

 

Rowan is the new George "the Animal" Steele, and I don't mean awesome monster George from the 1970s, I mean goofy, stupid George from the 1980s.

 

A Cena-free RAW is always a pleasant thing, despite HH's poochie-like tweet.

 

"Your vodka stinks"? That's the best you got? They don't even manufacture the stuff in Bulgaria, and if you think real Russian vodka is bad, you've never had it, they put gasoline and shit in there.

 

I see that Trips borrowed a shirt from Jamie Noble, but he still had to undo the buttons. Idiot, I'm sure that Matt Brock has a white shirt you could've used.

 

Kane is the new Fred Ottman, after appearing in more tv matches than any other WWE wrestler, I believe that we finally have a fitting legacy.

 

Vince looked shrunken, has he stopped body-building? Or, he is back on the Peruvian Marching Powder? Hard to tell, VKM has always sounded like he's coked up out of his mind even when he isn't.

 

I think if you had Randy Orton in a match in a room that had been cleared of EVERYTHING, he would still find something to hurt himself with.

 

Dean Ambrose = The hero we need. Randy "Fuck, table leg!" Orton = The hero we deserve. (How do you bust yourself open on a Pentel rolli-writer? That's the pen I use, perhaps I should lock them up lest any visitors harm themselves.)

 

I always wondered what it would be like watching dinosaurs fight, now thanks to Big Show and Mark Henry, I know. Awesome, even better in slo-mo, looks like something from Toho Studios.

 

"What's the deal with the eyeballs?" Let's see, you've had a guy on the roster for over a year known for his penetrating stare, you've commented on it ad nauseam ; hmm, what could this possibly mean?

 

"Where did he go?!?": It's still real to him, God bless him!

[Patrick B.]

At one point during the Network match last night, Lawler accidentally referred to Rusev as "Bulgarian".  I can only imagine the spaz attack from hell Vince had after that, screaming into the headsets RUSSIAN RUSSIAN RUSSIAN!

[Curt McGirt]

Maybe Rowan messing with Renee is all a devious plot from Bray to get into Ambrose's head. You take away his ability to master the titties, you take away his very being.