Raw is Eggscellent - 11/22/2021

[Dolfan in NYC]

Nikki needs to not answer her phone for the next month or three.

 

 

[Peck]

Loved E's Festivus gear.

[Doragon]

Lot of stuff happened on this episode.

Dana Brooke's first title. Zelina's first WWE title.

The weirdo fan recreating WCW fan invasions.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Video of the fan attack on Rollins:

 

It appears he jumped from the lower bowl side stage. 

 

I hope he enjoys spending his residence on Rikers Island for the next month or 3.

[Dog]

Fuck that fucker.

What the fuck?

[Peck]

Randy Anderson just rolled over in his grave for that little fucker escaping without 3 or 4 broken ribs. 

[DEAN]

Zelina was fun being terrified of Rhea Ripley.  Both ladies matches were sub Dark Elevation matches,.

[S.K.o.S.]

There's a more complete video of the fan attack where Seth doesn't look like he got COMPLETELY killed like he does in that first vid.  The fan doesn't come down on top of him and Seth actually grabs a choke for a bit.

[Cobra Commander]

Seems like Becky doing the "traveling fanbase which shows up for big PPVs is acting shitty" promo right now is a little early since it could get even worse with more international travel possible in the upcoming months. Some of the exact crowd being talked about in that promo probably won't take the promo as inspiration to be less shitty because some people become bigger jackasses if a woman tells them they're being a jackass.

A reasonable portion of the problem is due to the WWE and not the fans.. but there's no shortage of shows from multiple feds where the fans in the best seats on the hard cam look completely disinterested in what's going on all night. Like if they were being held hostage and made to watch a 3 hour RAW, they wouldn't act much differently from how they usually act. Dimming the lights more is an idea even if it screams "we're covering up empty seats" but I wonder if it's possible for a fed to not have a set hard camera so we can see how disinterested the fans on the other side of ringside are during various matches.

Also might want to look at the show setup to see if there's some obvious weakspot where the security fucks up and lets people rush Seth Rollins. They're perennially lucky that people rushing wrestlers on live TV don't have a sharp object or anything that grim like what happened to Monica Seles (I'd think security is good enough to make it difficult for some jackass or unhinged person from being able to bring something like that into a show but you never know)

[SirFozzie]

Raw was not eggscellent. 
 

Raw was eggscruciating.

[romdam]

God I can't sit thru these anymore.  Watching this and AEW, this just comes off as another weekly primetime scripted tv show.  There's no energy or emotion.  Compare promos on from the two shows and there's so much difference.  I tried again to watch a Raw, but can't.

Plus the cutting, jumping camera shots make me nauseous.

[Tarheel Moneghetti]

Are we sure that fan wasn’t just trying to double-check Seth’s vaccination card?

[The Natural]

Yeesh.

[AxB]

7 hours ago, S.K.o.S. said:

There's a more complete video of the fan attack where Seth doesn't look like he got COMPLETELY killed like he does in that first vid.  The fan doesn't come down on top of him and Seth actually grabs a choke for a bit.

Well, he does but he doesn't. He gets the guy in a front facelock, but does nothing to control his body, so the guy clears Seth's legs and gets to full mount really easily. Although once he gets there, he goes straight to hair pulling, so clearly the 'fan' doesn't know his Jits either.

 

[The Natural]

 

[chriskbrown50]

5 hours ago, The Natural said:

Yeesh.

Listened to Busted Open - said it was 5k.  In NYC which is WWE's backyard the night after what was at one time a huge PPV. I feel for the talent - that was painful. The hard part is we have seen WWE in transition historically but who is the young talent on the men's side who the next set? NXT is been reset completely (not that any NXT talent on the men's side has been successful).  We know that the first Diesel WWE champ run was largely the low point in the 90s - but the product is much more exposed these days.  Raw was an hour then - now they have 5 hours 

Edited November 23, 2021 by chriskbrown50

[The Natural]

[Curt McGirt]

13 hours ago, Peck said:

Randy Anderson just rolled over in his grave for that little fucker escaping without 3 or 4 broken ribs. 

Yeah, right. You know that guy had his picture tore up like Bird in The Wire as soon as security took him through the curtain. 

[hammerva]

14 hours ago, Dog said:

Fuck that fucker.

What the fuck?

The worse is the fans clapping and high five him as he is doing the walk of shame up the aisle.  Plus what the fuck was PS Hayes doing.  Was he the last line of defense in case he avoided 5 WWE "security" guys

[Burgundy LaRue]

14 hours ago, Dog said:

Fuck that fucker.

What the fuck?

That so many seem to be analyzing Rollins' fighting technique more than worrying about him being ambushed and whether the 'fan' had a weapon--that mindset isn't much better than a rail jumper.

[RIPPA]

The attack on Rollins has lead to a lot sharing of clips from the old chaos that would happen on Nitro

I had never seen this one of Dave Penzer lowkey killing a man

 

[Doragon]

[J.T.]

17 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

The attack on Rollins has lead to a lot sharing of clips from the old chaos that would happen on Nitro

I had never seen this one of Dave Penzer lowkey killing a man

 

Larry Dale "don't call me Pee Wee" Anderson was not fucking around that night.

[odessasteps]

There’s a rumor on Twitter it was a [special needs] fan. Any truth to that? 

[Burgundy LaRue]

The guy was apparently catfished by someone pretending to be Rollins and got swindled out of some money, it seems. Looks like he thinks he's part of the Samoan Dynasty, too. He was wearing a Bloodline shirt last night. So mental illness is on the table.