Official "BOOOOO-lieve DAT" RAW Thread 3-21

The most exciting part of the night for me was Ryder getting in a actual Mania match.

That being said, they just did a multi-person ladder match for the IC title last year...
Also, if they are going to do this why not just make it an even eight person match.
Throw Breeze or someone in there.

Well, Ambrose vs. Strowman didn't really make sense imo, so I'd rather take the more interesting nonsensical match.

RAW was the most Meh of all time.

from PWTORCH...



I couldn't agree more with the Shane/Taker comment. That match is a lose/lose.

They hit the nail on the head. The whole night i was just scratching my head at what i was watching. WWE really has no clue what the they are doing right now.

Mania, thus far, feels like it's being booked by a 5 year old on EWR.

Never have I felt so drained with the WWE Product, and it's purely once again down to nothing short of bizarre decisions and booking. Why Dean Ambrose vs Braun Strowman closed the show is beyond me, we gained literally nothing from it. They're trying to keep the Wyatt's relevant, yet they don't even have a feud going into Wrestlemania. I'm guessing Bray is going to cost Lesnar the Match, which is pointless as Wrestlemania is supposed to be where the biggest feuds culminate, not left unanswered. If after all this time they're going to set up Lesnar vs Wyatt, then why aren't we getting this at Wrestlemania full stop? Oh, because they didn't realise Ambrose would be this hot so needed something bigger for him. It just sums up the lack of pre-planning going into this years Wrestlemania.

Then if it wasn't already complicated enough, we have even more of a problem on our hands by now not knowing who we want to win between Undertaker and Shane. Nobody wants to see Undertaker retire, but nobody wants to see the Authority and Vince continue 'in power'. It's an absolute mess, and if the big grand plan is to have Shane win only to re-instate Undertaker the next night on Raw when he's in power, then what an absolute joke and spit in the face that is, as quite simply, all people will remember is Undertaker losing again at Wrestlemania. If anything, it will only ruin his send off when he finally does retire next year or whenever, as we would have already seen it happen in Texas. Even then, people wont know how to react as they'll be wondering if Shane will bring him back or whatever, it wont seem set in stone that he's gone. The only other way they can go with this is for Shane to turn Heel during the Match and align with Vince, in an attempt to stay in power together and get rid of the Undertaker, leading to Sting or Cena to come to Taker's aid for a 'Wrestlemania moment'. This feud has fallen absolutely flat on it's head too, it's nothing short of the result of bad booking and the fact that while it may look good on paper, it really just doesn't make any sense. A simple Undertaker vs Shane Match and feud would have been fine, they didn't need to bring in Vince and have this whole personal family and power of Raw story to it, it's only made the situation confusing.

Then we get to the Intercontinental Championship picture which has now become a complete muddle full of 7 guys that are the victims of 50/50 booking. I understand that they think the transfer of Owens vs Zayn from NXT doesn't carry over enough mainstream attention, but why didn't they just go flat out on it after the Royal Rumble. 2 months is more than enough time to make people aware of the history and back story between these two. Now we just have some big spot fest Ladder Match where in reality Owens, the Champion, is the only one in the Match that really matters.

AJ Styles vs Chris Jericho has fallen flat too, and we're still two weeks off. It's not surprising considering we've already seen it 3 times over the past few months, AJ hand Jericho both now carry no aura about them as they wrestle and win/lose virtually every week, and the Match has now become based on 'a chant', which if anything, will now only put people off even singing it (which is exactly what happened when Styles chanted it on the mic, it fell on flat ears).

I honestly think Shane/Taker is being done right.