Official RAW Thread 4/3/17: WrestleMania Fallout!

Has anyone heard an update on Bayley? She seemed to be having a little trouble staying on her feet.

Really enjoyed this show, even more excited for Smackdown tonight

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The ball was dropped with Emma's return. She should've been incorporated with the Dana/Charlotte storyline to begin with. Instead, we get her to return in a 6-woman tag. When her and Dana got into the ring together, I thought we'd see something between the 2, but they tie-up like nothing's transpired between the 2, what so ever. Like there was no history; then Cole tries to play up that they did have history, but it just fell flat. I think that bothered me the most about last night. Could've made a really GREAT angle with the 2, leading to a fall-out and have closure to their friendship... but instead, we just got plain $#!t on.

The element of surprise will ALWAYS work! Hence, was NOT expecting The Revival to debut on RAW! Great surprise, just wrong brand imo (especially now that RAW also got The Hardyz).

The crowd really spoiled themselves with the 'FINN' chants during Brock's segment. Because of that, when Finn finally DID return for the main event, it was cool but not as cool as it could've been had the crowd kept their mouths shut about him in the first place.

(Speaking of the crowds, the whole "DELETE! DELETE! ect" hand gesture reminded me of Nuremburg WW2).

And not sure what direction they're taking Braun Strowman; twice now, he's punked backwards (once for UT, and now with Lesnar last night). I thought Braun was supposed to be the monster who looks for challengers.......... ?? The E is def killing his momentum (and quick!)

I'd really like Seth to take a break and let his knee heal up. Getting Seth not 100% is commendable for his efforts, but that's just it, he's a guy who delivers well at 100%. Maybe come out saying "I got my revenge on Hunter, I'm gonna go home and heal up, and when I come back, I'm coming back for 1 thing only.... that Universal title. So whoever's holding it when I return.... be prepared for The King Slayer" ect something along those lines.

Otherwise, great show as every year RAW After Mania.

Goldberg's post show speech was pretty emotional, I respect the guy a whole hell of a lot more. The fans boo'ing him have that right, but they might never have that moment with Bill again. He did something special and it took guts for him to come back like he did.

I understand what you're saying about the crowd losing their minds for Finn during the Brock segment.


But honestly that's the spot he should have been in. ESPECIALLY on a night like last night. Yeah the crowd wanted Finn but they wanted Finn vs. Lesnar.

Once Jericho got taken out and the Lesnar segment had passed it was way too clear that Finn would be the big reveal at the end. Thus killing the reaction he should have gotten.


Save the Jericho attack for his entrance and Finn would have gotten a much better reaction.

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I totally agree!

Finn should've come out during Brock's segment. They had Braun come out, only to back down; killing off a great deal of momentum they built up the last 9 months. Guy's a badass for sure, but his character took a BIG step backwards, last night.

A good Raw, but there's a few things that were glaringly obvious to me. The Hardyz aren't going to be broken. If they were, they'd of come out and had a promo, but instead, they were protected by being put into a Match as they knew full well that if the Hardyz cut a promo and it wasn't in the broken gimmick then that crowd would have cr*pped all over it and been hugely disapointed. There's absolutely no other reason as to why they were in a Match. I just don't understand why they would prefer to have a watered down novelty act of Team Xtreme over one of the hottest and most entertaining gimmicks there is. You can see Matt is trying to still say his phrases and sneak an odd delete gesture in here and there, but he's not in character and you can tell even from him he's thinking it's a shame. Maybe WWE just want to re-produce the gradual breaking again so that people who aren't familiar with it will be.

As expected, Roman also isn't going heel and they're going to continue to persist with him as a babyface despite the loudest pouring of boo's I can ever remember. We knew this from the way the commentators instantly put a piece in as he was coming to the ring to state how the Crowd 'might be slightly upset tonight as they are just upset that Undertaker may have had his last match' (not that they just hate Roman). They then re-itterated after the segment that this 'isn't your typical WWE crowd tonight, they have lots of fun booing the people they normally cheers and cheer the ones they normally boo', just so any new casual fans tuning in don't take it seriously. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Also, as expected, all roads lead to Roman, which inevitably brings us to the sole reason Lesnar is holding that title. Roman is essentially going to be the one that's ended up not only getting the rub from retiring The Undertaker, but getting the rub from beating the all dominant Lesnar who ended the Streak and conquered Goldberg on top of that. The only way I can see any light at the end of the tunnel, is, permitting Roman defeats Lesnar at Summerslam, is if WWE are toying with us, by having Roman forced so badly down our throats, come Wrestlemania 34 season they'll be a saviour (new Daniel Bryan situation), for someone to defeat Reigns and get the ultimate babyface rub.

I'm hoping Angle gets one more Match but I'm not optimistic. Thought it was pretty cute that they made sure to have four 'indy darlings' close the show to appease the live fans. Unfortunately, I couldn't help but look at all four and think they will be dancing with each other in that little pack for quite some time. I can't see any of them getting elevated to the Title unless they are on Smackdown.

All 4 were NXT Champion as well

So the only real surprise was Dawson and Wilder - who may be good wrestlers, but are otherwise bland and boring as , with not an ounce of personality or charisma between them. Never did like them on NXT. Also, things they should've chanted at Reigns:

"You don't deserve it"
"Vince's boy toy/friend"
"Not your yard"


Why did you need to triple post? You could have put all your crappy, anti-Goldberg whining in one post. Also, how's he going to make a retirement speech in a studio? He should've been on RAW anyway - it was stupid that he wasn't.

...and one was IWGP Jr Heavyweight champion.

That has more gravitas to it to me than being NXT champion.