This week's RAW might legit have been the worst one of the year so far.

Drew vs. Sheamus and Lashley winning the belt were the only good stuff to come out of this show and even then, the build up to Lashley's title win was atrocious.

The sooner Bruce Prichard gets the boot, the sooner RAW can turn aound from being mostly dogshit terrible to somewhat terrible or average quality range.

It's nuts they got rid of Heyman for Bruce

You mean the 1.3 million less people? Strange brag but ok :rofl:

Lashley is cool... Feel like McIntyre will win to "give him his WrestleMania title win in front of fans" but wouldn't mind Lashley having a longer reign... Has a great look

Was a huge Bobby Lashley mark back in the day. Glad he’s finally WWE Champion. What a comeback :y:

Yeah McIntyre winning the title in front of fans is the current rumored Mania plan at the moment.

Could easily see Lashley getting the belt back by SummerSlam since I doubt Drew would get another lengthy reign. Maybe Drew vs. Sheamus as the big post-Mania feud for the title and then redo Lashley vs. Drew with Lashley getting the belt back.

Good for Lashley. They seemed hell bent on getting him over way back when. Good for him for sticking it out and making it all the way back and getting to be a top guy.

I look forward to him getting to go into a main event mania match against McIntyre.

And as they don’t have Lesnar this year, Lashley is the next best thing.

They should make that his official nickname "The Next Best Thing"

Ugh..why take the title off Miz? h8 Lashley...

Preview for tonight's show:

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If it wasn't for the airing of a taped backstage interview segment, RAW almost managed to have the rare instance of a match starting off the show ... nevermind Miz is giving a pre-match promo right now.

At first, I thought there was something wrong with Miz's mic, then I was like oh wait lol

S, is Morrison going to inadvertently cost Miz the match?

:lol: at the shitty looking CGI lighting effects for Lashley's entrance.

Lashley's new "All Mighty" tron looks cool though.

That had to be a rib by Vinny Mac to AEW :rofl:

On one hand, Lashley looked great destroying Miz for almost the whole match.

On the other hand, that match didn't need to go anywhere as long as it did since it was nothing more than a somewhat decent extended squash.

:lol: at R-Truth's poem & apology to Braun

:lol: he even did the MIB mind wipe thing.

That Strowman & Shane apology segment was very anti-climatic.

Hopefully that's the end of the storyline between the two since I still have zero interest in that being a potential Mania feud.

Why does Sheamus look like a Gangs of New York character?

Of course it's going to lead to a Mania match, because Shane is a masochist

the match we all want to see is jeff hardy vs shane crazy stunt match, but i don't think vince will ever ok that. he don't want to see his son die.

lmfao wtf was that dumb ass stairs spot with Sheamus and Drew just now lmao holy shit.

:| at an amazing No DQ match between Drew & Sheamus ending via a no contest.

Its like WWE saw what AEW did last night for the Eddie Kingston & Jon Moxley show closing stuff and decided to copy that for tonight. Big difference was that Kingston & Moxley stuff was done after the explody match ended and not as the actual finish to it.

So, setting up a Hell in the Cell I imagine?

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RAW Tag titles match being booked for Fastlane's go-home show only means one of two things is going to happen:

1. Something screwy is going to happen in order for Hurt Business to retain and lazily do the title rematch with New Day at the PPV
2. WWE going to do the very dumb thing of having a title change happen right before a PPV and lazily setup the rematch for the PPV

If it was any other company, there probably would be a third or more options but those are the only two options WWE loves to do for title matches booked right before a PPV.

WWE suddenly changing Regal's hyped up mysterious big announcement into two announcements instead pretty much confirms the rumor of NXT moving to Tuesdays is true.

That wasn't going to be the original big announcement from Regal based on PWInsider.

Riddle vs. Slapjack was pretty good.

Retribution under Ali's leadership is still nothing more than a bunch of losers who can't get any meaningful retribution or revenge against anyone.

:lol: at Shane accidentally breaking one of the mics with the mic check tapping.

How is Shane already wheezing when all he did was walk down to the ring.

Not sure if Shane forgot his lines or someone thought all that dead air was a great idea for a promo.

So, like I said, I've been a way for a while, so is it fair to say they're trying to make Bray Wyatt/The Fiend, Ministry Undertaker 2.0?

Holy hell was that promo by Shane horrendous.

Easily in the all-time worst tier in WWE history.

MY HOLE

Maybe if he was having other people besides Alexa Bliss join his creepy stable.

This current version of Bray feels more like if Undertaker was a B-movie horror villain.

:lol: at Reginald now working for Nia & Shayna.

This new relationship story between Nia & Reginald is already giving off Harvey Wippleman & Bertha Faye vibes.

botch time let's see who screws up in this one

Despite what Charlotte keeps claiming in interviews, how is she at face on RAW based on how she's been acting in promos since her return?

Like Dana & Mandy didn't do anything to provoke that bitchy type response from her in their backstage interview segment.

Holy hell, how many times can they say this is "A Wrestlemania Worthy Match" without bringing up the fact that it IS A REMATCH FROM WRESTLEMANIA???

Considering Charlotte is on like her 4th or 5th face, it's a bold claim :rofl:

WWE replaying Lashley's new entrance and his match against Miz was really weird considering it wasn't a top of the hour style recap moment and interrupted the entrances for the Styles vs. Orton match.

Someone messed up in production since it made no sense to air it.

lmao oops one of the ring posts didnt go off