Trying to remember but when did the whole RKO OUTTA NOWHERE thing start?

Was it when Orton hit an RKO on a flying Matt Sydal years ago on RAW or before that?

Okay, 2 hours of WWE is enough. Really good show. Everything was solid i think (ignoring Charlotte and all the female stuff). Randy shines like a star that the WWE desperately needs more of. Maybe Lashley will get there but isn't he getting old?

Oh well, will look up how BRAUN!!! Does in his match tomorrow. 3 hours is to much wrestling imo.

No idea. Seems like he was born with it since the saying has been around so long.

These COVID vaccine ads by WWE these past few weeks are a bit ironic considering NXT supposedly has been plagued by COVID "truthers" and wackos for the past year and their haphazard handling of the pandemic is why they routinely keep getting hit with outbreaks.

Someone tell Vince they should storyline break Nia's collarbone on one of these slips!

:| at Mandy & Dana chucking a bucket of water at Shayna and Nia slipping like a dumbass on it.

For something WWE finds funny as a gag, they sure didn't want Mandy slipping on the ramp to be shown on Mania's replay version on the WWE Network and taking away the origin of the Nia slipping gag.

6-woman tag match was decent at best. Lost all interest in it after the Mandy & Dana stuff happened though.

Guess Sonya really did become a heel authority figure OUTTA NOWHERE based on her belittling Mandy and Dana backstage.

CLIMAXED

This evil Alexa stuff might be the corniest thing WWE has done in years, especially after she started going heavy into her own Fiend-like direction.

Smeat, keep your eyes off Lilly

That doll should be lit on fire, obliterated out of existence, and chucked into a dumpster afterwards since if the Chucky series is any indication, nothing good ever happens when being around creepy dolls.

Oh god this Charlotte vs. ref stuff is actually going to be a recurring thing if this match is any indication.

Charlotte vs. Mandy stunk because of it.

Since the main event match is next, the lack of AJ Styles & Omos since Mania has been very noticable.

Either Styles got hurt during the RAW Tag title match at Mania or one or both got hit with COVID since there is no reason to not have them on RAW in recent weeks. If its not injury or virus reasons, then WWE is being stupid by cooling off whatever momentum and fan interest Omos got from his Mania performance.

Way earlier, probably going back to Mania 21 when he countered Taker's chokeslam attempt into an RKO.

Lashley is gonna murder Mace and T-Bar

Yikes at Strowman almost hitting a legit Super Brainbuster onto Drew.

Took way too long for Drew to get into a flat position to land correctly from the Superplex.

:lol: at Strowman beating Drew because MVP is a dumbass and just made Lashley's odds for Mania Backlash even worse now.

Drew vs. Strowman was pretty good overall despite the shenanigans at the end.

This week's show was mostly average overall. Didn't have much for really interesting stuff but it did move along mostly well and was a big improvement over the past few weeks of RAW.

I think that's what really popularized it, but it came before that one.

Sort of like CM Punk's infamous rant retroactively becoming known as the "pipebomb" even though he hadn't cut the promo where he had said that yet.

that ref may be the new little natch an be flairs ref

Preview for tonight's show:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Turns out we have <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a> Tag Champions. Who knew? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAWTonight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAWTonight</a></p>&mdash; WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWECreative_ish/status/1389224080579178501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Likely going to end up missing the latter half of the show since I won't be at home.

Letting Omos speak this much for this Styles & Omos and New Day promo segment doesn't seem like a good idea especially since his delivery style doesn't really match his current persona as a menacing threat of a giant.

Guess Omos' new routine is him having to yell every time he does a move. Doesn't matter what the move is, he just starts yelling the moment he's about to hit it.

RAW Tag Title match was decent.

Turns out I got to bail sooner than I thought. First part of RAW was nothing special but not terrible either.

the botch queen eva back

Yessssss Eva is back! It's really gonna hurt her not having a live crowd because she can easily be the top heel in the division

Riddle just hurt Elias I think. Landed on his forehead from the top rope.

Just came back.

Eva Marie returned?

Hopeful she improved a lot during her time away because if not, then WWE is just going to set her up to fail badly just like her last run.

:eek: Mansoor managing to escape 205 Live purgatory.

Probably going to have him dethrone Sheamus for the US title if the rumors about his win streak only being done to appease the Saudis is true.

So. Mansoor winning the US title is about to happen I see.

Oh wait shoulda known this wouldnt end clean.

:lol: at Mansoor's win streak ending via a DQ

Wonder if WWE even has any idea what the payoff to this possessed Alexa with her creepy doll storyline is supposed to be since whatever it will be probably is going to be extra terrible.

Feels like they merged the Fiend stuff with whatever direction Lars Sullivan was meant to go in from those creepy school and childhood stories he did for a few weeks on Smackdown for Alexa's new storyline with her doll.

Strowman has a really big booger stuck in his nose based on that zoom in of his face when Lashley was trying to pull his jaw off.

WWE really doing their best to make Braun feel like an afterthought in this WWE title feud.

Missed half of the show but based on what I was able to see, tonight's RAW was nothing special and first time in a long time where I didn't feel anything or cared about what went down. Its almost always the same stuff every week on RAW in regards to whatever happened the week before is what happens again the next week with some minor changes here or there.

When something new or really interesting actually does happen, its either terrible or just gets repeated the following weeks until it loses all of its luster. Like this week had the RAW debut of Mansoor for something interesting and WWE's way of continuing his low key Goldberg-like win streak on the main roster was to just quickly throw it away the first chance they got.

good thing she just had a promo, compaired to nia lana and tamina eva is a flair.

Mansoor had a 49 match winning streak across NXT, 205 Live, EVOLVE, and the Saudi shows.

Debuts on Raw and immediately loses by DQ.

Eva Marie.... seriously?




ugh.


"Women's Wrestling"

Best heel in the company

Not for the right reasons tho.


Like, it is worse than "go away" heat. Its "I dont even wanna tune in" heat.


I've found just watching PPV's makes it much easier to digest, but still. GTFO