WWE RAW Discussion Thread - May 5, 2014 from Albany, NY (#1093)

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When

United States: LIVE, Monday Night, May 5, at 8/7c on the USA Network

United Kingdom: Tuesday Morning, May 6, at 12AM on SkySportsHD3

 

Venue

Times Union Center in Albany, NY

 

Confirmed Matches/Events

 

Dean Ambrose © to Defend the U.S. Title in a 20-Man Battle Royal

 

Debut of Adam Rose

 

Extreme Rules Fallout

[Guest John Hancock]

Wow, literally no one gives a shit about RAW today. You're missing out on some laugh out loud horrible acting from Hotter Bella, and it appears they rehired that guy who writes all the TERRIBLE Kane angles.

[Guest Drake]

Brie Bella has to be THE worst actress in the entire ****ing world. This is ****ing cringe worthy. She's up there for starring in a Sci-Fi channel movie. Jesus effin christ. Horrible stuff.

[Guest John Hancock]

The screaming was the best, it was so terrible. You wouldn't get that in one of those shitty straight-to-DVD, $10 budget slasher movie box-sets they always sell at the front of target.

 

EDIT: There's is absolutely no way Adam Rose will ever get over outside his theme music. Although it's admirable that WWE have pitched an entire gimmick off the back of "Hey, remember when those English guys sung Fandango's music that one time last year?".

[Maxximus 353]

I've tried to watch wwe stuff the last two weeks, but more than ever I see how empty and phoney everything is. It all just seems meaningless. I would say I'm just having another existential crisis, but it's only with wrestling - everything else is pretty great. I've developed some sort of apathy that doesn't seem to be going away. Post Mania blues maybe? I dunno.

 

Reading about Extreme Rules and Raw tonight, it sounds like I'm not really missing anything anyway.

[Guest John Hancock]

I actually liked Extreme Rules, and I'm me.

[DC 536]

EDIT: There's is absolutely no way Adam Rose will ever get over outside his theme music.

The gimmick has been working well on NXT, so I'm willing to give it some leeway on RAW for now.

[Maxximus 353]

So JTG is a rosebud now? That's fantastic.

[Guest StefanC]

When it comes to the Shield vs Evolution...I can see HELL coming...if you know what I mean.

[Omega 354]

I know it isn't going to happen but.... Evolution V Shield in a War Games match?

[Evil Gringo 279]

Anyone else think this horrid Kane angle is the WWE's way to plug the upcoming direct to DVD release of See No Evil 2?

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Raw was good this week but coming off Extreme Rules I feel it should have been much better. The show opening Battle Royal was welcomed but as always until they whittle down to 8 or 6 guys the match itself is always mediocre. I would rather have seen a 6 way elimination match. The last 10 minutes of the match were the best, Ambrose in my opinion was the standout but seeing as WWE really never got behind his reign in the first place then Ambrose came across as lucky champion. Personally I would like to see Ambrose enter into a feud with Sheamus as their hard hitting crazy styles go well together.

 

Cesaro/RVD was another notable match. A vast improvement on their previous singles clash, this time they seemed work together rather well and it paid off. The more aggressive Cesaro is welcomed, the attack on RVD was well orchestrated. Would like to see Cesaro credited with side-lining RVD for a while much like Orton did to HBK in 2007 and Jericho to HBK on 2009 I believe.

 

Bryan/Del Rio was another good match, when he wants Del Rio can really excel and as always Bryan was rather good. Really good back and forth match, Del Rio and Bryan work well together which in turn produced a sound technical match. When you see Del Rio perform like this it’s a shame his skills couldn’t be utilised better in WWE.

 

The middle portion of Raw really seemed to drag, especially the Los Matadores/3MB stuff. I also found the supposedly serious Kane/Bryan/Brie shenanigans really laughable, Kane on top of and rolling off the car reminded me of the Wrestlemania 17 hardcore match. The match at Extreme Rules was good but this a feud that should have ended there.

 

Adam Rose debut BOMBED, where some acts..Shield/Wyatts/Cesaro flourish after being in developmental/NXT Rose looked cheap and tacky. I know it’s one appearance but there are others in NXT who are far more deserving for a place on the main roster and who could actually be taken seriously.

 

Shield/Wyatts’s (4) as always stole the show, what I find unique about these six men is that they seem to do something different every time they clash. Yes the fundamentals are the same but you can never say each match is identical. Rollins is quickly becoming the standout member of the Shield and a clear fan favourite, from his performances this year you can see why ROH made him their World Champion at 21 years of age. Rollins is easily the most educated of the 3 man unit, his ring skills and timing are very efficient and his promos have improved greatly in the last six months. Seth Rollins is a future World Heavyweight Champion. The match itself was very good and the action was plenty just a shame the crowd didn’t get involved until Harper started going crazy. The crowd I felt didn’t give the match what it deserved but hey what you going to do? The ending was full throttle with everyone getting involved including Evolution, really good finale and post-match beat down which only has prolonged the Evolution/Shield feud……War Games anyone?????