🔴 Raw Thread 1/29: Raw is Rousey

Never seen anyone feel so bad about winning lmao

What a performance from Finn balor last night at royal rumble.

Next night loses to John cena and fails to qualify for a qualification match for the universal title.

Wow.

Well, that was a RAW.

If it interferes with my fantasy of a Golden Lovers live sex celebration reunion, it can right off.

Don’t celebrate, Sasha’s forehead took up at least 23 pages.

Call me crazy and maybe you’ll think I’m grasping for straws, but I still think we might end up with Brock vs Balor. Balor was the standout in the Rumble, barely losing, then has another good showing against Cena. They’re trolling I think. They really want to make Balor a super underdog vs Brock. So I think he’ll make it into the chamber in a last chance battle royal or something for the final spot in the Chamber. Even when Cena won, the announcers were emphasizing Balor not being in the main event of WrestleMania and not being in the chamber. They’re trying to inorganically create a Daniel Bryan story, but it will still work IMO.

I only watched the main event, and that was one of the laziest performances I've ever seen from John Cena. Aside from a few exceptions, the guy has seemed like he's been completely checked out in every match I've seen him in for the past year. I don't blame him with his Hollywood career taking off, but everything he does now just seems like he's going through the motions.

Very disappointing that they didn't have Ronda on tonight, but I'm guessing she had to fly back this morning to continue filming her movie.

I have my doubts that they have any plan for Finn yet but they also seem to be treading water with Seth Rollins (be honest, the Jordan stuff is going no where and isn't WM worthy) so I wouldn't mind a singles match between Balor and Rollins.

Thought this was a good show and a nice follow up to last night. Cena/Balor, Asuka/Sasha, and Miz/Reigns were all very enjoyable. Was sad not to see Ronda, though, but I assume she's back on set.

I didn't like Cena going over Finn. Granted, we don't necessarily know what the plan for either of them is at Mania, but John Cena doesn't need these wins anymore. He should be beating guys like Elias, and putting over guys like Balor. It's not going to hurt him any to lose a competitive match to a guy who is on the show every week. He's basically impervious to loses, and he's not around long enough at any given point in time for him to rack a ton of them up. Weird to see John more or less work heel for the last two nights, too. His demeanor was different.

Very weird not to see anything from Seth or Jordan tonight. I don't necessarily mind saving that stuff, because there's a long way to Mania, but it would've been good to give Seth a brief backstage promo while Jordan continues to sell his supposed injury.

I thought Coach was good, given that it was his first night behind the desk in a very long time. You could tell Cole and Graves had a hard time adjusting to not having someone to pick on. They tried, but Coach was up to the task and defended himself pretty easily. He and Cory seemed to be a little chippy with each other. I wonder how that'll play out.