Official Rumble Fallout Raw Thread: 1/28/2019

Good. Now he can focus on her lass kicking ability rather than the fact that she's ridiculously good looking.

I wonder if there are men and women out there who only concern themselves with how the wrestlers look? If so, why are you even watching wrestling? There's literally magazines, stock photos/photo shoots. You don't need to hear Renee Young talk. You don't need to watch Seth Rollins hit the curb stomp. If your reason for watching wrestling is aesthetics, there are plenty of other mediums to use to see it instead of sitting through 2-,3-, and even 7-hour shows.

You can look good and be on tv, but if you're watching just because she's hot, why are you bothering to sit through hours of tv? If someone is no longer attractive to you, are you going to stop watching them? If so, why are you wasting your time watching when there are other ways to do it? You're telling me you'd sit through hours of unentertaining tv just for 15 minutes of watching someone you find attractive in the ring? That's a weird waste of time, but I guess it's your prerogative.

And, there's no Tamina fan club for 2 reasons:
1. She has this permanent look on her face like she was told her father murdered someone.
2. Her wrestling ability is extremely questionable.

So do you believe in your heart that if you improve Tamina in the ring to at least above average and transplant that damn the man gimmick to her, along with the last 6 months or so of Becky booking, that she would get the reactions Becky does now? 50% of liking or disliking a character is their look.

I know they always get the booking right for WrestleMania season, but last night's RAW seems to have gotten everything right. It was awesome!

- The Rollins/HHH/Ambrose promo to start off the show was great. It felt like they're turning Ambrose into a tweener, which is what he should have been in the first place rather than a full heel.

- Ambrose's overselling of the Curb Stomp was perfect.

- Nia interrupting Dean's promo to attack Dean was fantastic! I know most internet fans HATE Nia Jax with a passion and likely always will, but I feel that for the first time in her main roster career, creative are finally handling Nia Jax right. Now she's an unstoppable, uncaring monster juggernaut who will happily beat up anyone, and that now includes the men's division. Now they just need to get rid of Tamina, because she's dragging Nia down and taking away from her monster persona. I really want to see Dean Ambrose VS Nia Jax at WrestleMania now. WWE should be doing more intergender wrestling, and this is a great idea.

- I love that Alexa Bliss ate the pinfall in the tag team match. Mickie has already been booked into oblivion, so she shouldn't be dragged down any more. I want to see more of Nia Jax after her booking and her performances over the past couple of days, and Dean can cost Nia and Tamina at Elimination Chamber to further their feud. And I'll be honest, I want to see Alexa Bliss losing for a good while. I'm not hating on Alexa Bliss as a performer at all. I think she's great, and maybe has the best mic skills out of anyone in WWE right now, man or woman. But she was superbooked for so long and handled so poorly until Ronda came along, that I really don't want to see that again anytime soon. I want to see her continually lose important matches for a while, until it gets to the point where I want to see her win.

- Kurt Angle losing clean to Baron Corbin was a bit weird. I really don't understand why Corbin is still wrestling in business attire. Why on earth hasn't he gone back to wrestling attire?

- Finn's promo was really good, and I enjoyed Lashley's beatdown on Finn, which is not something I thought I'd say. I think this is the beginning of a solid feud that will lead to Finn winning the Intercontinental Championship. After Finn's performance against Lesnar at the Royal Rumble, he deserves something to give him legitimacy.

- Riott Squad definitely deserved to be in the Chamber, and now they are. I will say that I think Dana Brooke has performed really well the past couple of days.

- Elias' heel turn was a bit baffling at first, but I can buy it if it's just so he can feud against Jarrett for WrestleMania. It was fantastic to see Road Dogg come out wearing a Becky Lynch shirt. That shows that even the people behind the scenes are fully behind Becky. I've never seen much of Jarrett, but I enjoyed the segment nonetheless.

- I thought they'd wait until Elimination Chamber or Fastlane for Ronda to vanquish the final remaining Horsewoman that isn't Becky Lynch, but now she's beaten them all.

- That Becky/Ronda segment was fantastic! It was really hilarious to hear the crowd vehemently booing Ronda every single second that she was speaking. And I say that even as someone who Ronda turned into a fan of hers. This is entirely the direction they should proceed in, with the audience rejecting Ronda in favour of Becky. It's not going to work as well if they try to keep Ronda as a sympathetic face.

Didn't realize you can do that live. I better start doing that through the Superbowl.

I'm an old school fan. I don't recall thinking "man, I love Paul Orndorff because of his sexy physique." I loved the guy because he could go in the ring. Same goes for guys like Brad Armstrong, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Randy Savage.

You're confusing character with physical attraction. You're subsequent post reveals that. We buy into a character. No one is thinking Braun isn't impressive in terms of physique, and if his character was a dancing dinosaur, we'd turn off. Would you do otherwise?

Same goes for women. It's impressive to see Nia Jax steamroll people. Tamina on the other hand isn't. She looks uncomfortable in the ring and always lost.

I'm agreeing with all of that. I agree that you shouldn't watch wwe if you don't like pro wrestling. It can't be all about nikki Bella and her rack. I'm with you on that. You have to have SOMETHING ELSE. Could be skills in the ring, on the Mic, a cool gimmick, etc. I'm just saying it is fairly right about looks mattering. The becky/tamina swap shows that. But even with the guys, if you look like Pete Dunne I don't like you. If you look like the shield, I'm in.

God I ing hate the curb stomp it looks so LAME

stick with the hi fly flow bruh