I'm sorry to be so blunt but Evil Alexa can tie me up and do whatever she wants to me. Damn.

thats why they won't do it one of them might die

Something about that Bliss promo segment felt a bit too dirty or erotic than it probably should have been.

I'd say RAW Creative was on crack or got high when they came up with the script for tonight's show but that would have been a big improvement over tonight's garbage so far. Currently on track to be an all-time worst for a PPV go-home show.

Tuned in for a few minutes for the first time in ages.

What was that Shane Strowman bullshit? Why is Strowman looking weak to a 50 year old?...Slime?

love murder machine Asuka. FINISH THEM ASUKA.

:lol: at the slow mo replay catching Shayna doing a thigh slap.

Vince probably chucked something backstage when he saw that.

Whelp that Asuka vs. Shayna match was a big pile of nothing. At least it didn't end in some lame DQ or no contest finish.

This is the Asuka I want. DO IT.

cmon Asuka hit the ref

Think Asuka just snapped and became a badass attempted murder machine.

....omg they are doing Shane v Strowman at Fastlane.....that means we have to watch this match multiple times....noooooo

US title match was pretty good.

Didn't change anything about Retribution being nothing but a useless heel stable under Ali's leadership.

WWE airing an ad promoting the COVID vaccine is a bit funny and ironic considering NXT got hit with another outbreak and has a bunch of COVID truthers running amok there.

This is the third time Drew has had a talkie segment on tonight's show.

RAW Creative was an auto-pilot when they came up with the script for tonight's show.

Lashley vs. Sheamus was a very good hard hitting match.

As a regular show, RAW was mostly dull and bad but as a go-home type show for Fastlane, it was awful overall. More time and focus was spent hyping up and building to Mania than Fastlane.

WWE's build for Fastlane has been awful on the RAW side to the point WWE should just have not bothered doing the show this year and spend all that time making the road to Mania build a lot better than its been so far.

Because Sweaty Shane yet again has to put himself into a storyline so he can do another spot monkey match.

They're literally making Braun look as stupid as Shane says he is. Also, a face shouldn't be getting humiliated unless it's after a gang beat down where he really had no chance.

Braun getting beat up 1v1 and then getting slime (why again?) just makes him look weak.

Before we know it he'll be donning his rosebud gear again and wrestling as The Gladiator.

Someone beating Goldberg clean at one Wrestlemania and then losing to Shane McMahon at the next is peak WWE.

Nothing matters from a previous storyline after a week. :roll:

A week? After 5 minutes more like.

Preview for tonight's show:

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERaw</a> it's the debut of <a href="https://twitter.com/RheaRipley_WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RheaRipley_WWE</a> immediately followed by people online complaining about how we handled the debut of Rhea Ripley <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/1374030060479508483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If the spoiler about their debut plans for her are true, wouldn't be surprised at that happening since its going to undo the past year and a half or so of character development and direction from her time in NXT.

:eek: at RAW actually starting off with a match and not some long winded or rambling talkie segment.

This Lashley vs. Sheamus match has a weird structure.

The rare heel vs. heel match in WWE but Sheamus suddenly is being booked as if he was a face with this "face in peril" and overcoming the odds treatment.

Its like RAW Creative suddenly forgot everything they did for Sheamus these past few weeks. Even had Drew come out to save him during the post-match attack despite those two being in a blood feud as of yesterday.

Match itself was pretty good though.

Serious Peyton is kind of boring.

I wonder if anything other than Orton/Cosplay King will be announced for Mania on tonight's RAW

Considering that fiery promo Peyton gave a few weeks ago on RAW Talk, this Peyton vs. Asuka match is seriously lacking in energy and/or excitement.

Maybe WWE was right about not giving Peyton singles matches after all.

Asuka vs. Peyton was mostly decent but that went way too long and just exposed how sloppy Peyton still is in the ring.

Rhea/Asuka a better idea than Charlotte/Asuka

:lol: at the rumor of Ripley being a heel for her RAW debut was true after all.

Well that was a lame way to setup Asuka vs. Ripley at Mania.

Rhea channeling her inner Charlotte with how she got that RAW Women's title shot out of nowhere.

Wouldn't be surprised if Rhea is just taking over whatever RAW Creative originally had written down for Charlotte for this Mania build since there is no other reason for why they completely erased a year's worth of top face star build and direction she had on NXT.

Just realized every title match announced for Mania from the RAW side was just someone randomly demanding a title match and getting it granted without having to do anything to earn it.

Drew got it for the WWE title, AJ Styles & Omos with the RAW Tag titles, and now Rhea with the RAW Women's belt.

All that's missing is someone to do the same to Riddle to complete the titles set on RAW.

yeah i think they will keep her a face and just have a good face vs face at mania.

:lol: at this new Miz & Morrison song preview.

Bad Bunny going to defeat Miz at WrestleMania

Stupid Puta

Miz's trajectory on RAW this past few weeks has been weird.

Went from being a typical MitB case holder loser to winning the WWE title to having a wet fart of a title reign to now challenging a celebrity to a match at Mania.

WWE should have never taken the MitB case off of Otis to begin with since Miz's double tenure with it was one of the all-time worst/lamest.

Bad Bunny wheezing and being gassed after barely doing anything isn't a good sign for this Miz vs. Bad Bunny match at Mania.

Why the hell would they make it a one on one match? So much for them seeing Damien Priest as a big star.

Because Bruce Prichard sucks as the boss of RAW's creative and WWE's creative in general.

That promo segment between Styles & Omos and New Day did more to deflate whatever interest I had in seeing that RAW Tag title match at Mania than helped.

RAW has been mostly a big dud so far tonight.

:lol: at New Day having to cheat in order to beat Styles despite them being faces in this feud.

Kofi vs. Styles was pretty good despite that lame finish.

Either WWE has been subtly telling people to not smoke weed or else you become just as big of an unlikable doofus and moron like Riddle or Riddle doesn't care at all at being made to look like arguably the biggest dumbass character ever in WWE history.

Kind of a Dick move by McIntyre to cost Shelton and Cedric their Wrestlemania check this year. Greedy Drew, Greedy.

That Claymore kick by Drew to Cedric as the finish for the Handicap match looked amazing.

:lol: at Lashley gong to the jobbers room to offer them some sweet money if they get rid of Drew.

Also :lol: at Ricochet being in that group.

A bit interesting only Hogan is getting these special ad segments while Titus who is his co-host for Mania just gets a brief throw-away line on RAW.

:| at train sound effects being added to Strowman's plowing through guys at ringside routine.

Holy crap, they really are doing Shane vs. Braun at Mania.

RAW's side for Mania's build has been god awful so far.

:lol: at the production botch for the reveal of the cards for both nights of Mania.

So Randy's grand plan to deal with the revived Fiend was to just burn him again. No wonder his plan failed miserably.

Also RAW sucked tonight but on the bright side, it wasn't as terrible as last week's show. A couple of good matches but nothing on tonight's show was really that interesting or worth a recommend if you missed it.

That rumor a while ago about how WWE was going to make drastic improvements to their booking of RAW after the Rumble ended up being complete BS since these shows since then have been just as bad and boring as before.

Lashley gets mad at Shelton and Cedric for helping him because he wants to take out his opponents himself. Later in the show, he asks a bunch of people to help him take out Drew McIntyre

what

Also, I like charred fiend and I don't care who knows.

Preview for tonight's show:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pretty sure you just hallucinated that moment last week on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWERAW</a> where there was a train sound effect when <a href="https://twitter.com/BraunStrowman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BraunStrowman</a> was running around the ring.<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/1376595754903539712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Whelp Vince probably just soured on the idea of Lashley being a big star on RAW after Lashley botched saying the word "title" for the first line of his promo.

Almost sounded like he said he was going to give whoever took out Drew before Mania a "turtle" shot.

:| at Hurt Business breaking up as a group. One of the very few good things RAW had going on these past few months and RAW Creative just tossed it away.

omfg Riddle implying Sheamus doesn't have a soul because he's a ginger lolololololololol

OMG this Riddle promo segment might be his worst one yet. RAW is off to such a shitty start so far.

I feel like the Hurt Business breaking up is a swerve. They'll reunite and beat down Drew later.

I wouldn't be surprised but they've also been teasing at a potential break up these past couple months.

WWE picking the wrong time to break up one of their very few hot acts on RAW does sound like something right out of their playbook.

Sheamus vs. Riddle was a very good hard hitting match ... and WWE decided to deflate some of Sheamus' heat right after by making Riddle look like a giant sore loser.

Got a chuckle from the photo of Strowman in a dunce hat but that Shane promo and their feud in general has been horrendous.

Like all-time worst tier for a Mania feud.

lol that train sound effect when braun runs over people outside the ring is the dumbest shit ever. It's dumber than a chain dickflip.

:| Braun really is gong to have the fake train sound effects for his ringside rampage from now on.

Hope Braun is really happy with whatever he's getting paid in WWE since RAW Creative is doing their best to destroy whatever lingering mystic or appeal he has in WWE.

so we get to see shane fall off a cage again

Miz & Morrison's music video was pretty good but it went on way too long to the point where it stopped being funny.

The one they did mocking Strowman was a lot better though.

Someone botched big time since this Lashley vs. Shelton match was announced before the commercial break as a 2-on-1 handicap match but after the break its just a regular singles match.

Was wonder if Cedric was going to actually westle in a suit.

now we got game night

:lol: at Omos trying not to laugh during his promo because of how stupid that game night segment was.

This is a show with an audience mostly over 30 years old being written for an audience under 8 years old.

This is the worst RAW I have seen in ages. It's a massive trainwreck.

it even has train noises for us

:| another ad hyping up Hogan as the host of Mania.

Even included a kid giving a Hogan style promo for it.

Meanwhile Titus is still a huge afterthought as the co-host. Almost like WWE never actually really cared to include him but mostly did so to lessen the bad PR against them had it been just Hogan.

Styles vs. Woods was decent despite the lame DQ finish.

Tonight's RAW has been a huge swing and miss so far and there is still an hour left to go.

I did like Omas' double underarm powerbomb.

Drew has some troubling anger issues that doesn't seem healthy for him.

Wonder if Dr. Shelby is taking appointments during the pandemic since Drew could really use his help.

pick on strowman time

now it is time for nia to botch

Ouch at Asuka getting boinked on the head with a table.

What's with WWE this year and them wanting to stink up both Women's title feuds with this Nia & Shayna garbage stuff.

more nia stink

Wonder if I can send a request to NBC for them to scrub out this entire episode from their Peacock service since its been mostly shit outside of like one match and 1 segment so far.

Remember when they used to put video packages together for Hall of Fame inductees? They are so lazy now.

Is it just me? Or did the title look MASSIVELY bigger around Bobby's shoulder?

I don’t like to wrestling shame because everybody likes what they like.. but HOW THE FUCK DOES ANYBODY WATCH THIS? It’s insane. Not even funny bad like late WCW. I haven’t really watched in years but this... this is the most embarrassing stuff in the history of television. Jesus Christ.

Yeah WWE's handling for this year's class feels very haphazard and rushed.

Could have just inducted last year's class for this year's ceremony and save this year's class for next year so it can get the spotlight it deserves. Instead feels like they are doing a new class for this year just for the sake of it and not because its needed.

Not even getting rid of the stink of Retribution helps Ali since Drew mostly squashed him tonight.

How Bruce Prichard still has a job in creative in WWE is a huge head scratcher since I doubt Vince is that naive to not realize RAW's creative has gotten way worse under Prichard's control.

:| Corbin making a surprise appearance on RAW tonight.

This already shitty episode managed to get even worse.

RAW fucking blew tonight. Easily was one of the worst ever Road to Mania shows in recent years.

I thought maybe because I'm dealing with a flu/cold, tonight's RAW would be better by comparison even if it was its usual meh in quality but instead it was way worse.

Going to be outside saturday and sunday night.


thinking of holding a steel rod in the air during a thunderstorm.

The Riddle backstage skits I've seen.......seems like the most mind-numbing gimmick imaginable. I can't believe anybody thinks it makes him look good or likable in any way.

It better be. They're one of the only great things going in wwe.

It feels like we say this every year, but this seriously is like, the worst build up to Wrestlemania ever.

I feel like the last good build was for Mania 34.

Of course hardly anything was paid off on the actual card, but the build to the card was really solid across the board.

I can't watch any WWE anymore as it's just cringeworthy but reading the results, I'm not shocked they decided to end the best thing Raw had going for the show. I guess they felt Lahley needed more heat or something :roll:

the whole company just seems like a huge cluster fuck right now.

I seriously wonder what the wrestlers are making. Andrade said he walked away from $3 million. If that guy had a $3 million contract, what are top guys like Roman or Lashley making?

i don't think he was making 3 mill that is aj styles money. unless that was a 5 year deal 3 mill for 5 years i see that.

Loose MF Cannon

Breaking up the Hurt Business is incredibly dumb. They're one of the few bright spots on this show.

Right, not per year, but he also didn't just sign a new contract recently. Probably 3 years at a Million per is what he walked away from, according to him.

Even more so because they were doing a slow build toward Shelton and Cedric imploding, and instead suddenly Lashley didn't like them?

Yeah. Arguably them, Drew, and Asuka have been the only good things about RAW in months. Maybe R-Truth as well but mostly for his antics and not the 24/7 title division in general.

The thing I don't understand is what was the purpose of Lashley breaking up the Hurt Business if he was just going to quickly align himself with Corbin afterwards. Think his bounty offer was only for the RAW locker room so it doesn't make that much sense for a SD guy to accept it.

You really think he cares who does the deed? I don't think there was a Raw only stipulation on Lashley's offer.

Even if the offer wasn't exclusive, WWE could have at least picked someone that was a lot more interesting to be a hired gun for Lashley than Corbin.

Could have also waited till the RAW after Mania to break up the Hurt Business since the big stip of them being barred at ringside for the WWE title match at Mania is now moot.

Lashely/Corbin/Drew as the top heels of RAW vs Roman/Seth was a bleak time.....