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RAW - 10/10/2016


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While the Splash Brothers name for the tag team was obvious - the jobbers Bayley has faced in consecutive weeks have both had the last name of Fields

So clearly someone is going to give Bayley a cookie obsession or something

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Oh and RAW clearly loves themselves some CWC

The two matches combined totaled 8 1/2 minutes and they added tubo Sin Cara

Gran Metalik might want continue to mysteriously have new bookings he has to fulfill in Mexico

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Having a shoehorn gimmick ppv for no reason has always been a dumb idea, but FFS it's not a surprise either. Let's see: Sasha keeps fighting Charlotte for the title but people keeping interfering, leading to fuck finishes. So last chance for Sasha, IN THE CELL. She wins the title.

Seriously, it can't be that hard.

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Anyone else catch that the announcers kept cutting off Kendrick when he was trying to respond to their questions. I thought it was pretty annoying as he was trying to talk and then Cole or Saxton would just talk over him with some superfluous babble.

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When I was a kid, cactus jack was a god among men. A large part of what addicted me to this business was cactus and all that came with him. To see what at one time was one of the baddest sumbitches walking into a sad sack in a flannel suit just kills me a little bit inside. Just go away, mick

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9 hours ago, _MJ_ said:

I haven't watch in awhile.  Have they given a reason why Triple-H helped Kevin Owens win over Seth Rollins yet? <_<

No, and it's beyond irritating.  The closest they've gotten to answering that is vaguely suggesting that Stephanie had an affair with Rollins. Seth even said he was the best piece Steph ever had on last night's show.  I'm guessing HHH interferes with the Owens-Rollins HiaC match, but they should have dealt with this weeks ago.

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3 hours ago, Mike Zeidler said:

Thus ends the women's revolution

I dunno, I think it could be a lot of fun if you run Emma as the diva who wants to take it back to the good old days, doing photo-shoots and bra-and-panties matches while Sasha, Bayley and Charlotte resist.

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16 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

The women's revolution died when they decided to run Sasha/Charlotte as many times as Orton/Sheamus

Oh am I not allowed to point that out?

Wait... you're telling me there are more than 4 women on the Raw roster?   GTFOH with that...

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There never really was a revolution, insofar as it was officially endorsed and announced by Steph ("The Authority") from its inception. But things are better now, however it is we've ended up here, and--semantics aside--I think Sasha/Charlotte "deserve" the cell (whatever that means). I do wish, though, that they'd sold why they deserve it--the competitive nature of the rivalry, the interference, the desire to hurt one another--rather than sending Sasha out to cut another promo about the (nominal) revolution. "I want to work good matches and elevate the division as a whole!" isn't compelling material for anyone. 

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12 hours ago, _MJ_ said:

I haven't watch in awhile.  Have they given a reason why Triple-H helped Kevin Owens win over Seth Rollins yet? <_<

No. They're waiting pretty much till after football season's over to explain that this way they can say "well, Triple H surely isn't a low draw".

I can't believe Goldberg is coming back to settle a feud over a video game. There were so many better video game feuds over the years they could have done if they wanted to do this.

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2 hours ago, Overly Critical Man said:

The talk about the women's revolution is up there with Dolph Ziggler telling everyone he's been stealing the show every time he wrestles as false narratives that they hope the fans buy into.

and Seth Rollins being an architect

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The womens revolution hasn't worked because like everything that starts happening organically in WWE (except for Bryan getting over) they decide to take it and HAMMER IT INTO THE GROUND in one way or another. Women's wrestling was getting over in NXT so WWE takes it and says "LOOK ITS A REVOLUTION ITS COOL EVERYONE LIKE IT LIIIIIIIIKKKKEEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!" automatically killing the organic nature of it and on top of it they just throw Charlotte, Becky and Sasha out onto Raw all at once and said these three are really good and it made the rest of the women looks second rate to them, except Nikki Bella who the announcers would go out of their way to put over.

The women have worked their hardest to get it over and it has been working but they really set up the whole thing to falter and come off flat. The women's three way at Mania helped things out and the brand split has helped them be able to showcase their abilities but damn does it also show how thin the womens roster in WWE is on both brands. which means we're probaby gonna enter random turn zone again like it was before, oh I guess Alicia Fox is a heel this week" flash forward to next time Fox is on TV "she's a face again"....WWE just doesn't know how to let things grow and mature naturally they're too eager for the quick gratification (again except for Bryan getting over which they fought tooth and nail for some reason).

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49 minutes ago, Sublime said:

The womens revolution hasn't worked because like everything that starts happening organically in WWE (except for Bryan getting over) they decide to take it and HAMMER IT INTO THE GROUND in one way or another. Women's wrestling was getting over in NXT so WWE takes it and says "LOOK ITS A REVOLUTION ITS COOL EVERYONE LIKE IT LIIIIIIIIKKKKEEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

They're at least now suffering from the same kind of stupid  booking mistakes that make every other part of the company suffer.  But let's not forget that it wasn't too long ago when they wouldn't have taken it and said:

"LOOK ITS A REVOLUTION ITS COOL EVERYONE LIKE IT LIIIIIIIIKKKKEEEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

but would have taken it and said:

"LOOK TITS A REVOLUTION TITS COOL EVERYONE LICK IT LIIIIIIIICCCKKKK IT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Wait, the Woman's Revolution failed? Sasha and Charlotte just had a killer MOTYC main event that was a rematch to their original MOTYC title change that was the highlight of the first brand split Raw. I'd like the other women to have more time. But they have three hours to fill with storylines and are also trying to shoehorn in the cruiserweights. They just set up Bayley/Dana to have an extended feud. Nia's ready to move into something fun. There were two women's matches on the last Smackdown PPV.

The women are a major part of two shows. They're treated seriously. They're having good feuds with storylines revolving around who is a better wrestler and not some softcore porn act.

That's what the whole thing was about. The Divas stuff was trash. Now it's worth watching.

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They definitely are in a better worse place

I am assuming Nia is in that "we are keeping you off TV until you come back to feud with the Sasha/Charlotte winner" (Bayley gets the loser)

I have no idea what Summer Rae's role is anymore. She isn't at RAWs anymore since she is always snapchatting from fashion shows or Hong Kong when RAW is going on

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I am ambivalent, at best, about the cruiserweights. I'd rather have more of the women's division than cruiserweight matches. The CWC was great in its own vacuum but trying to fit it into a show where playing a character is more important isn't worth it to me. Kendricks can do it but I don't know if anyone else can.

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