Hugh Jackman is on the show and in the ring with Dolph Ziggler.

Damien Sandow came out as a poorly dressed Magneto.

(On a side note, I think WWE doesn't think much of Sandow.)

4/28/2014 9:05:48 PM

Will be in contention for worst segment of the year.



[Edited on April 28, 2014 at 9:09 PM. Reason : .]

4/28/2014 9:08:42 PM

they go from the best segment of the year to the worst, all in one night. what a shameful Sandow

4/28/2014 9:09:23 PM

Hopefully the ratings go to shit after that.

4/28/2014 9:33:16 PM

the dreaded hand coming up through the ring...

4/28/2014 10:19:25 PM

That's gotta be...that's gotta be Kane!

4/28/2014 10:26:13 PM

I think unfortunately Ric Flair is reaching the point you can't put him on TV anymore.

4/28/2014 11:11:09 PM

I feel bad for Sandow. He was great at his intellectual savior gimmick and they took it away from him.

4/29/2014 12:44:58 AM

It'll be interesting to see how big a jump in viewership they have for Extreme Rules between last year and this year. I've never watched a non-big 4 PPV live, but since I've already got the network, I'm probably going to turn to it, at least for a couple matches.

4/29/2014 11:04:26 AM

He's got the whole world in his hands

5/4/2014 10:07:25 PM

Outside of the Shield and Barrett, a big stinker tonight.

I did like all of the tiny props for the WeeLC match, but the terrible mini announce team and the even worse mini ring announcer killed it for me.

5/4/2014 10:46:38 PM

yeah, that was pretty terrible

I actually liked the DBD vs Kane match, reminded me of the Attitude Era. lots of backstage fighting, busted up cars, and a flaming table. the forklift was a nice touch too.

5/4/2014 10:53:41 PM

I really dug the WeeLC match, but I'm a sucker for midget wrestling in general so they had me early on.

They shot themselves in the foot having Shield-Evolution so early. That match was incredible.

5/5/2014 7:44:03 AM

I like how the guy with the fire extinguisher comes running into the shot to set up in the corner...before Kane even pulls out the gas cans.

Also enjoyed how 2/3 of the names of the mini announce team changed from the beginning of that match to the end.

Very underwhelmed by the show in general. Shield/Evolution was very solid, everything else meh. I like Barrett, but I didn't think that match was anything special. Big E is going to fade into the mist at this point I think, he gets no fucking reaction whatsoever.

5/5/2014 8:10:17 AM

Quote :

"Also enjoyed how 2/3 of the names of the mini announce team changed from the beginning of that match to the end."

This is the thing that gets me. Just a little preparation would've gone a really long way, but instead you've got mid-segment name changes because JBL came up with a better name WHILE WATCHING A MATCH than anyone could muster in the fifteen minutes before the minis went out there.

Couple that with the botching announcer and it was a total shitshow. I would've liked the match by itself as straight comedy, and I appreciate that you have to have a mini announce team to have a mini announce table spot, but I almost turned it off.

5/5/2014 12:37:14 PM

all bow to Vladimir Putin and Lana's legs:



[Edited on May 5, 2014 at 4:20 PM. Reason : .]

5/5/2014 4:19:14 PM

I guess Russia annexed Bulgaria

5/5/2014 5:14:29 PM

they put Putin up on the screen last night, so I guess Rusev is now Russian

5/5/2014 5:30:13 PM

picture that got out that made Steph angry, see if you can spot why

5/5/2014 6:08:30 PM

Cena and the Wyatts are broskis?

5/5/2014 6:13:35 PM

this show sucks, they're neutering Bryan, he needs to ditch Brie as far as being with her all the time on TV, they just had a skit worthy of the Kane/Cena/Zack Ryder/Eve Torres angle.

(Bryan did have a good match with del Rio)

5/5/2014 10:04:17 PM

Brie is a worse actress than Katie Vick

5/5/2014 10:16:24 PM

http://deadspin.com/this-is-what-a-wwe-raw-script-looks-like-1570327862

5/6/2014 12:46:12 AM

some odds and ends things you may or may not find interesting:

-Ring of Honor will be having two shows the coming two weekends with a lot of talent from New Japan Pro Wrestling, you can get them on UStream (although in June they're going to do TV-based PPV as opposed to iPPV)

-speaking of which, A.J. Styles became New Japan's top champion

-Chris Benoit's oldest son David is going to make his pro wrestling debut this summer, think he'll use the name David Benoit. For his debut he'll be tagging in a Calgary promotion with Chavo Guerrero, a friend of his dad's.

-Mason Ryan was released by WWE, other name of note released was Eddie and Vickie Guerrero's daughter in NXT, Raquel Diaz

-the Hardy Boys' match with the Briscoes in Cameron, N.C. sold out the building (1100 fans)

-WWE had pretty disappointing financial results, and look to be trying to amp up the network: first, they fired the head of programming, and then John Cena was not on Raw last night at all the night after he lost a cage match to Bray Wyatt, they announced on the show he'll be doing a promo on Network show tonight Main Event

-WWE are probably going to sign super good Japanese wrestler KENTA

-Goldberg is interested in doing WrestleMania 31

5/6/2014 7:51:27 PM

Sandow lost to XAVIER WOODS in a dark match before Main Event last night

Oof

5/7/2014 9:11:39 AM

There's only one thing to do with Sandow, Ryder, and Xavier Woods at this point:

5/7/2014 9:42:36 AM

Losing dark matches before a internet streaming only show is a good way to not be on the roster for much longer. Sandow's drop has to be one of the fastest ever. From solid MOTB cash-in match to less than afterthought in rapid fashion. At least Cena really needed that win.

5/7/2014 9:45:21 AM

The cash-in was when they killed him. A guy coming off a busted arm just barely beat a guy whose damn finishing move is an armbar. Then Sandow ambushes him, still attacking the bad arm, and loses the cash-in match clean. It was so horrible.

5/7/2014 9:53:51 AM

The reason for the cash-in in hindsight was they made the decision to unify the two titles, if you're doing that you don't want Sandow to be one of the two, and they had made the decision that Sandow is not worth much, so they just wrote out his Money in the Bank stipulation. I'm not of the opinion every cash-in should win as WWE had pretty much done up to that point, the Money in the Bank cash-in had become cliche (ex-John Cena getting screwed out of winning at Raw 1000 in C.M. Punk's heel turn). Swagger for example should've never won the title.

For fastest drop, I give you Dolph Ziggler. Won the World title from Del Rio the night after Wrestlemania 29. This past Monday he was eliminated in the battle royal by the Cobra.


Shawn Michaels is a guest on Jim Ross' podcast. He was in gorilla position at Wrestlemania and said Vince made the call for Undertaker to lose 4 hours before the show started.

[Edited on May 7, 2014 at 11:27 AM. Reason : .]

5/7/2014 11:01:50 AM

Daniel Bryan. Your babyface champion. Stands up to all challenges no matter how dangerous or how big they are. Will fight for victory for all his fans. He has...

5/7/2014 2:12:07 PM

Raw is Adam Rose-Dead on Arrival.

Raw is Alicia Fox Push.


BREAKING NEWS: Daniel Bryan is vacating the WWE title. He's having neck surgery on Thursday.

This company is so screwed if true.


[Edited on May 12, 2014 at 8:47 PM. Reason : /]

5/12/2014 8:33:22 PM

USA is dead on my cable feed.

Sounds like that's a good thing.

5/12/2014 8:43:55 PM

doesn't sound like he's vacated it yet, probably waiting for after the surgery. but shit, guess it'll be back to watching family guy reruns monday night if true...unless mcmahon drives a big truck of diet pepsi up to cm punk's house

5/12/2014 8:55:15 PM

so for the record, WWE champ is injured to setup Brie vs. Stephanie

5/12/2014 10:08:08 PM

still no decision (apparently they're waiting for the surgery), but assuming they do, who do they put the belt on?

Kane? HHH? Orton? Batista is unlikely because of his movie. Cena ? Or do they leave it vacant until DBD comes back healthy and he has to start his fight all over again? I can see them running an angle where The Authority argues over who should be the A+ player, and between their internal bickering and The Shield interference, they can never complete "for the Vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship" matches, so the belt stays vacant (though they already did that with Orton and DBD).

5/13/2014 11:18:03 AM

If Bryan's out for an extended period of time and Cena goes on another title run, I'm checking out for a long time.

5/13/2014 12:06:37 PM

Probably should figure out a way for Brock Lesnar to get the title (if only he didn't work sporadic dates). In my opinion, he's the best current option. But my guess is creative was probably going through with this plan at Summerslam or Survivor Series to ride through to Wrestlemania.

5/13/2014 12:38:11 PM

Quote :

"If Bryan's out for an extended period of time and Cena goes on another title run, I'm checking out for a long time."

5/13/2014 12:38:55 PM

Lesnar would be money if they could get him to compete, but he prefers the "four matches a year" structure, and I can't say I blame him. putting the belt on Lesnar would be no different than keeping it on DBD while he can't defend it, because Lesnar ain't coming to RAW every week either.

5/13/2014 12:52:36 PM

Meanwhile, at the Brooks residence...

5/13/2014 6:35:04 PM

Is there another truck filled with Walking Dead comics and DVDs?

5/14/2014 10:04:48 AM

Quote :

"Batista is unlikely because of his movie."

Batista is actually likely if just because of his movie. Once the press starts, I'd imagine the WWE would love him showing up to interviews rocking the belts.

5/14/2014 6:24:36 PM

Roman Reigns and Randy Orton were doing a match on a house show in the UK and botched a spot. Here's Reigns' eye:

5/15/2014 10:49:36 PM

"In an overreaction based on the news about the television deal, at this writing WWE stock is at $11.29 per share, or down 43% from its close yesterday."

-WO

5/16/2014 5:02:11 PM

Might not be a bad short term option for folks, should get a nice bump when the network goes global.

5/16/2014 5:23:36 PM

don't think it'll be the hit they're thinking, on wrestling sites there's tons of people in UK and Canada that have figured out how to setup a proxy to subscribe to the network, so when WWE opens up internationally, those people will subscribe there but they're no longer going to subscribe in the U.S., so it's a net zero

granted those are the hardcores doing this stuff via proxies, but who are the people that are going to buy the WWE Network? hardcores

I don't think they'll ever get the money back through the network they lost giving up PPV, unless they do something like double the price of the network and take off Mania, Summerslam, and maybe the Rumble.

here are two TV deals announced this week, showing how TV execs view things, per Meltzer the MLS deal was huge news inside WWE and they were pissed about it:

MLS: 200,000 viewers per game on TV, $90 million TV deal
WWE: 4 million viewers per week on TV, $170 million TV deal

...and MLS doesn't even have commercials during the game.

[Edited on May 16, 2014 at 5:39 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2014 5:34:40 PM

If they double the price I'm out regardless. Double it and take away the big shows? I'll laugh as everyone else bails too.

5/16/2014 5:46:41 PM

this is pretty good

5/16/2014 5:48:41 PM

With the Blackhawks in the Western Conference Finals against the Kings again, it'll be interesting to see if Punk re-emerges on Twitter to take on @BaileyLAKings.

5/17/2014 2:35:05 AM

just announced him and A.J. are engaged

5/18/2014 9:32:09 PM