Official Monday Night Raw Thread: 1/5/2015

I've got a a man dressed like a ing bunny in my signature. My issues with RAW ain't because I'm 'old' and it's a kids program..

HURRY UP BEFORE SMACKDOWN COMES ON AND WE GET RECAPS OF RAW!

OH CRAP

That Raw sucked, the Accensions promo and commentators response was Vince killing them, read on some other sites he and Dunn are just going to kill NXT guys because they feel they are overrated and not putting on better shows than the main roster. After tonight's show I feel sorry for the main roster. Vince look at your product it was awful tonight. cena who works through hostile crowds and other crap even looked like he knew that last segment was crap.

Nailed it!

Neither can I.   That's my biggest issue with the Authority angle in a nutshell.  Being able to arbitrarily change matches like they did last night with Ziggler, Rowan, and Ryback is just too over the top for me.

I realize that we're supposed to suspend belief when we watch WWE programming, but there are so many things wrong with this angle.   No one in a management position would be allowed to behave that way in this day and age.  No one would work in a hostile environment like that in this day and age.  Are we supposed to believe that Cena is just going to sit in the back and watch his teammates get pummeled in 2 on 1, 3 on 1, and 4 on 1 situations?  What face does that?  How is firing some of your top draws good for business?

It's an angle that has a very short shelf life.   During the buildup to Survivor Series, I was into it because I hadn't watched the WWE in years prior to that.  There was the buildup with the faces getting beat down and facing insurmountable odds, and then there was the payoff on Survivor Series.  Then I started going back and watching Raw episodes from 2013 and 2014 to see what I had missed, and it was the same angle over and over again with Big Show, Daniel Bryan, etc.  It got old very quickly.

As I said before, I'd rather listen to Triple H and Steph than that ridiculous parade of guest managers they fed us, but if this angle is going to work, they need to take it down several notches to the point where the Authority's tampering is much more subtle and believable.  I'd like to see the Authority act in the best interest of the faces every once in awhile, have someone like Rollins pitch a fit over it, and have Triple H look Rollins in the eye and basically say "I don't like it either, but that's what's good for business."

Now Kidd and Cesaro are rosebuds linked with Adam estrogen.Just Tyson Kidd and Cesaro alone as a tag team was good enough.RIP Cesaro's and Kidd's career.

They're officially rosebuds? Because they celebrated with them once and used a disguise there to attack someone? Just like Summer Rae did earlier this year and she's not a rosebud.

Please, tell us again how you jump to conclusions.

They've kind of back doored Reigns into this angle through Big Show. So he can show up and super team with Cena at any point is the way I see it.

I don't know what they'll do with Ziggler and Co. They really can't afford to keep Ziggler and Ryback off the show for very long, as there two of like 5 babyfaces that draw a reaction. Keeping them out of the Rumble would be a mistake from a quality perspective. I don't think there is much of anything they can do to avoid the Reigns-Rumble situation at this point.