Smeat is the definition of dedication...or insanity.

No clue since every time I think this show can't get any worse, it somehow does and I keep torturing myself in the end. Only bright side is at least it makes my job for the weekly shows reports a lot easier since I never have to think about what was the worst show I watched each week.

If it wasn't for the fact I've been playing games on my Switch during RAW most of the time, I probably would have gone insane a long while ago over RAW's terribleness.

:lol: at Sheamus destroying Humberto Carrillo after he answered his open challenge match.

Almost completely forgot Carrillo was on RAW.

:eek: Asuka beat Charlotte. Sure it wasn't clean but still surprised it actually happened.

:lol: at Charlotte beating up the ref afterwards.

:lol: at RAW ending with Charlotte beating the crap out of a ref. Managed to completely overshadow Asuka's big win in the end.

This week's RAW stunk a lot. Feels like not since somewhere between 2009-2011 has RAW had a streak of shows this boring and terrible overalll. Like peak SuperCena era in terms of general awfulness.

Elias might be the most successful turnaround NXT callup of any male wrestler. He was literally nothing in NXT, but he has had segments in like 4 Manias in a row, Network specials, all sorts of stuff.

Remember they were starting a Nia/Enzo relationship angle right before he got fired? :rofl:

well when the show gets bad enough we can watch it just to laugh at it like a bad movie rifftrax.

This is why I watch AEW at the bar on Mondays.

Just another night of filling content.

awful awful awful. just awful . I don't know how this thread made it to 23 pages lol

Because it started in November :lol:

oh hahaha that makes more sense

:shifty:

Okay guys. Going to watch RAW tonight until a boring segment comes on and I go to Netflix instead. Pretty excited.

Preview for tonight's show:


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We're not gonna still make him call himself <a href="https://twitter.com/TBARRetribution?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TBARRetribution</a>, right? <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/1386702460761300992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

so you will watch 10 mins

Kinda funny that they start pushing retribution after basically breaking the group up.

Someone in WWE creative really does have a strange fascination with handicap matches these days since that's another week in a row where RAW and/or SD featured this exact type of match.

Very good opening match.

We are 12 minutes in :D

If the entire show is as entertaining as Strowman is then we are in for a good Raw.

:lol: at the DQ finish.

Getting DQed for beating up someone too much is such a lame way to end a match. Also third match in a row for Mace & T-Bar that ended via a DQ.

:lol: at a countout win for Mace & T-Bar.

On one hand, at least it broke the DQ streak for those guys.

On the other hand, WWE went a bit overboard with their booking of this Retribution vs. Strowman/Drew feud because they backed themselves into a corner for it and didn't want Strowman nor Drew to suffer a real loss while not wanting to make Retribution look like even bigger losers than usual.

BRAUN!!!!!!!!!!!

Braun is sooooo good.

Did Smeat go full anti WWE?

nah he just hates how bad raw got

well he got another match tonight

Morrison being back with Miz as if nothing happened the past two weeks interesting. He didn't show up on last week's show and Miz had teased a potential breakup between the duo the last time both were together.

Miz, Morrison, Elias, and some random guy. Golden.

The faces are plain and boring though

Nah more of RAW being terrible for months just made me feel way less interested or invested while also lowering my threshold for the show's booking and quality.

I've had some issues with SD and NXT during the same time frame but their shows generally have been more enjoyable than not to sit through. Also feels any problems those shows have don't linger around as long or feel as if WWE doesn't care to fix them like RAW's serious problems.

It is a shame Elias never became a star.

lets see what flair has to say about dave meltzer

Miz, Elias, & Ryker vs. New Day & Priest was pretty good.


He's got the character part locked down but his ring skills are what holds him back from becoming a big star in WWE. Like he's in Baron Corbin tier when it comes to his singles matches usually being dull or boring but he doesn't have the status Orton has to not be hurt by it.

Wait what did I miss why tf is Charlotte on my TV?

Wait, Sonya now has management power over both brands?

Thought it was just the Blue Brand she had any power in.

:| at Charlotte's "indefinite" suspension being just a week long.

Wait ... what's stopping Adam Pearce from just telling Sonya to F off and reinstate Charlotte's punishment?

I assume he has a higher rank than her in management because WWE never mentioned before of her actually being on the same level.

The Charlotte stuff was boring but I have only been interested in like five female angles ever. Going to give that a pass.

Please don't compare anyone to Baron ever. That is a grave insult but I understand what you mean.

guess sonya is the new heel gm of raw and smackdown

Oh, are they trying the Cena thing? Sheamus is no Angle though.

Who is the guy who beat up Sheamus?

That dive by Humberto was both cool and way too close to him crashing his head onto the announcer's table.

ruien you must have giving this show good luck tonight has been better raw then the last few weeks.

Still find it a bit funny that the first time WWE gets to do Bobby Lashley's new lighting-based entrance in front of a live crowd, an actual storm took place during Mania.


Its felt mostly average soo far but has flowed along better and a huge improvement over the past few weeks of utterly horrible quality.

Omg. Why does Bobby Lashley have the mic? He has MVP...........

Does he usually speak? This should be like Heyman/Brock...... Bobby should RARELY if ever speak.

He's been more talkative since winning the title but for the most part, MVP has been the main speaker of the duo and former Hurt Business group.

MVP is so good. Wasn't this a group before? Oh well, all Bobby needs is MVP.

RKBro

Rock n Sock Connection 2.0

Oh no, Riddle's dumbness has started to infect Orton.

A Bro version of Orton would probably be really funny though.

Hmmmm. Was about to give up when Riddle came on but Randy saved it.

till he gives riddle an rko after a match

They are going to throw some dumb female match in after the commercial break huh. Does anyone matter in the female division besides Sasha, Becky, Charlotte, or Asuka yet?

Yes and got dumped because Vince probably woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day. Both MVP and Lashley tried to convince him to change his mind but were not successful.

you get to see the nia beast she is on every show

Nope and you could make the case that Asuka is borderline on being in that group based on the way she's been treated these past several months and even well before Charlotte returned to RAW.

Let the flops fly!

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