[Cool King]

Originally Posted by Noid I forgot WWE was on this week. Normally I at least remember "Hey, it's a Raw day" or "I wonder if there's a PPV on this week?" This week I only really thought about wrestling today when I was bored and decided to pop on here. I did think about WrestleMania earlier in the week, but my fandom is very "other" at the moment. I also think D-Bry signing a new contract with the company may be a jumping the shark moment for me. Good for him, but it's impossible to care about WWE right now, and him actively signing with them has made me feel a bit sour and depressed really, lol.

I have found myself doing that before. I would be just about to go to bed then I would remember "Damn, Raw is on tonight" and I would then have to set my box to record it, then I would be able to go to bed.

Recently, I have been questioning why I even bother recording Raw and SmackDown (but mostly Raw).

Last week I pretty much skipped all of Raw because their was nothing on it that managed to catch my interest. I only stopped it to watch The B-Team's match but when Ziggler & McIntyre came out to face them, I just rolled my eyes and hit fast forward because I just knew that Ziggler & McIntyre would win, and they did.

With this week's Raw, I actually skipped all of it. As I was fast forwarding through it, I was keeping an eye out for anything interesting but it was basically just "The Shield Show" featuring squash matches.

• You had Strowman & Co. open the show with The Shield coming out. We then had three men wielding sticks (The Shield) take out around fifteen men (Raw Heels).

• Then we had Nikki Bella vs Ruby Riott in a match that was a foregone conclusion before the match even started.

• After that we had AOP come out with Drake Maverick (who by the way, looks absolutely ridiculous with them) and have a match in under two minutes against two jobbers.

• Triple H then came out to hype up AussieMania.

• The Tag Team Championship Match was around five minutes long and another foregone conclusion before the match even started. Rollins & Ambrose then made an appearance.

• Roode & Gable vs The Ascension was a three minute long squash match because The Ascension.

• Bliss & James vs Rousey & Natalya was really another foregone conclusion but it was a decent length and wasn't really a squash match. I wonder why (I say sarcastically).

• Then we had Elias do what he does and just play a few cords and then get interrupted by someone. On a rare occasion, a match quickly follows. This was one of those rare occasions.

• We then end the show with Reigns standing tall over Strowman.

It's painfully obvious that the end result of this Shield/Strowman & Co. angle is going to be The Shield standing strong with all of Raw's Championships.

Because of that, you're going to get a Tag Team Division that means less than it did before and Strowman looking stupid and like a bitch because he told everyone when he was going to cash in his MitB and he'll be added to the list of Cash-In Losers along with Sandow and Corbin.

Raw's Tag Team Division isn't exactly great but it seemed to be going somewhere with The B-Team actually being shown as working their way up the ranks of the division and The Revival being super hungry for the titles. Before that, Wyatt & Hardy had a decent run and The Bar were actually doing great before the black mark of Strowman & Nicholas happened, just so new titles could be crowned in Saudi Arabia which would please the Saudi's.

With Rollins & Ambrose as Tag Team Champions (and Rollins as IC Champion, who by the way, I actually forgot was IC Champion), I get the feeling that their just going to hold on to them whilst they follow Reigns about trying to make him look good and get people to cheer him.

When you keep digging deeper into what's going on on Raw, you basically find out that everything that is happening is only being done to make Reigns look good, even if he has absolutely nothing to do with certain wrestlers or divisions. The only wrestlers that are safe from anything Reigns related is the Women's Division.

Every single male wrestler's job on Raw is to make Reigns look good.

I find that to be pretty crazy.

It wasn't even anywhere near that bad when Cena was going through is "Super Cena" period. At least back then the Intercontinental Title scene and Tag Team Division, along with the jobbers were all safe being in their own little worlds.