Live Notes From Monday Night Raw
Back from the show with some quick notes.
1. This wasn’t the most interesting show. The big reveal of Balor at the end was hardly a surprise, though that’s just going to happen every now and then. Other than that we had Reigns’ promo (which only kind of felt like a heel turn as WWE still won’t go full speed ahead with anything he does), the Revival (again not really a surprise) and Angle as GM (not really a surprise, though Teddy Long’s R-Truth style cameo was hilarious).
2. Reigns reached a new level of booing tonight. I’ve never seen such loathing.
3. The THANK YOU TAKER opening was rather touching.
4. As is always the case on here, the wrestling meant nothing, though it’s not supposed to.
5. Uh….oh yeah there’s the Draft (or whatever it is), which is going to change everything. That kind of makes tonight’s show worthless, which isn’t the best possible idea. Make the announced next week and do the Draft in two weeks, or after Payback. It’s not like it’s doing you much good by announcing it tonight.
6. Overall, the show was entertaining, but it’s kind of collapsing under its own reputation. If you don’t have 134 different stories and angles and surprises, it feels underwhelming. It was good, though there’s only so much you can do when your surprises aren’t really surprises.
7. Oh and the beach balls. SCREW OFF WITH THOSE THINGS ALREADY! During the Neville match, there were probably close to 25 of them being batted around in the span of five minutes. It’s really, REALLY distracting for someone trying to watch the match (much like the Wave in the main event) but then again this crowd, which claims to be a bunch of wrestling fans, would rather entertain themselves because apparently WWE doesn’t do it for them.
8. Could anyone make out what they were chanting during Sheamus/Cesaro’s match? I never could get it.
Yeah if there is one thing that needs to go away is the dumbass Beach Balls. Though i did laugh at Chris Jericho bringing it up in his backstage promo. Other than that it was a fun RAW and Roman Reigns is a freaking pro the way he handled that heat.
He knew that would be the reaction and that’s what was prepared. It that impressive
I much rather would have preferred Balor coming out in the Lesnar segment than the main event teaming with the guy who put him out of action in the first place and bragged about it.
Yes, a guy who has had 3 main roster matches should so face Brock Lesnar.
Balor needs a long, strong build to face Brock IMO. But would be epic and a huge push for him. Daniel Bryant style
Were you surprised by the F you roman chants?
Not at all really.
They were literally chanting “hey hey hey Sheamus and Cesaro” over and over (which then led to cesaro playing along and pointing to himself and sheamus)
That makes sense. The closest I could get was “Sheamus is Awesome” but it didn’t sound right.
Doo Doo Doo Sheamus and Cesaro!
It’s apparently a take on an old British pop song. I had never heard it before, but it’s been stuck in my head all day.