WWE RAW Discussion Thread - June 9, 2014 from Minneapolis, MN (#1098)

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When

United States: LIVE, Monday Night, June 9, at 8/7c on the USA Network

United Kingdom: Tuesday Morning, June 10, at 12AM on SkySportsHD3

 

Venue

Target Center in Minneapolis, MN

 

Confirmed Matches/Events

 

Triple H to Open the Show with a "Blockbuster Announcement"

 

Stephanie McMahon to Provide an Update on Daniel Bryan

 

Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns to Appear

 

Build to Money-in-the-Bank

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[The Fury 65]

Reports are coming in Daniel Bryan has not been cleared for money in the bank so you may expect to see an announcement tonight

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Thats just what they WANT You to think...

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Fingers crossed they strip him of the belts

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WWE.com is reporting that Triple H will open RAW with a "blockbuster announcement" and Stephanie McMahon will also have an update on Daniel Bryan.

 

I expect Triple H's announcement to be that Seth Rollins will be in the Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match or something to that effect. Either that or Triple H will announce Seth Rollins & Randy Orton vs. Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns at Money-in-the-Bank. I'd prefer the former, personally.

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[DC 536]

I read on Uproxx that there are reports John Cena and Adam Rose were injured over the weekend.

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Man, I love how amazingly assholish trips and Steph are...:lol

[Guest Ciaran The King]

I'm loving Raw so far, no more Bryan as Champion sooooo happy :)

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Seth Rollins is suited and booted - a true evolutionary, if you will! :devil

[Guest John Hancock]

Not in the north-east, not on the west coast, not on Lake Michigan; annoying crowd.

 

I can't wait for the day scientists discover the link between shouting "WHAT?" and developing testicular cancer.

 

EDIT: Yay, they stopped! Well done Seth. I love it when a heel kills that chant by just cutting a good promo, without really needing to address the reaction.

 

HA! John Cena can even get The Shield booed. There's not a face-pop in wrestling that man can't ruin. I hope they make him the third member of the Shield, just for the japes of it all.

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[Maxximus 353]

I hope they make him the third member of the Shield, just for the japes of it all.

 

I heard rumors about this earlier today and I pray it comes true. Please, wwe, drive me even further away.

[Guest John Hancock]

It would bring me back in. It's like that thing that a 0/10 movie is better than a 5/10 movie. If WWE went full retard, I'd watch every show.

[Maxximus 353]

Yeah but that 0/10 movie is usually only good for one watch just to laugh at. After that it's wasting time.

[Guest John Hancock]

That's a filthy lie, imagine if Ed Wood had been put in charge of the Twilight Zone/ It would have been amazing! RAW could be that. I mean, of course, I'd rather have the Twilight Zone, but we're not going to get that, wrestling isn't going to be good, we had a good few months, and now it's over until the planets align again. Until that day comes, I'd rather have complete trash getting booed out of the building every week than hum-drum plodding along.

[Maxximus 353]

You do have a point but you had to invoke Ed Wood knowing I'd be on board, you sneak!

[Guest John Hancock]

There'd be muffins too. Free muffins, all the flavours.

[dsrchris 190]

I could barely bring myself to read this thread, let alone watch the damn show.

[Maxximus 353]

I know dude, it sucks. The dark days of wwe are upon us again. It's 1995 2.0.

 

The only way to will fix things,and I know this is gonna sound crazy, is Cena needs to leave wwe for tna where he becomes a heel, brings in millions of fans causing tna to switch back to Mondays and kicking off The Monday Night Wars II.

[dsrchris 190]

:lol

 

Well, we're f*cked then.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Wouldn't it had made more sense for the Shield to go at it alone with the Wyatt's, are they not meant to be the face team?

 

Storyline/character wise The Shield teaming with Cena goes against everything they stand for, and not only that choosing Cena last night show's zero thinking from WWE. Instead of teasing for someone new for a few weeks/month they thrown Cena in straight away I know not as a member but someone else could have benefitted from the rub of the Shield/Wyatt's/Authority

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someone else could have benefitted from the rub of the Shield/Wyatt's/Authority

 

In what way?

[Guest Ciaran The King]

In the way of mixing it with the upper card, the Shield/Wyatt's are currently on fire and someone who needs the exposure, the chance of being someone could have got the chance. It shows a lazy attitude that WWE went with the easiest option in Cena than either leaving the Shield to stand alone or drafting in someone new

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With the exception of Daniel Bryan getting stripped of the title, RAW was pretty uneventful. You basically could have watched the first segment and you would have seen the only part of the show worth watching. Fun fact, by the way. The last time Daniel Bryan lost a title, he was stripped of it.

 

It seemed strange to me that neither Triple H or Seth Rollins had any involvement in the main event. I expected Seth Rollins to do something, but instead, Triple H & Rollins were just watching the match backstage. Seems like a waste of feud development to me.

 

I cannot express to all of you how angry I get whenever I see Alicia Fox on my television. Why is she still getting any TV time? Also, why does Paige only get booked like every other week?

 

That Sheamus/Barrett match was surprisingly good. I am a bit surprised that Sheamus went over though. Surely, Barrett would have been a smarter choice.

 

Cesaro's walk to the ring gets more and more ridiculous every week and I'm convinced that he is making it that way every week. Without the Mr. McMahon character, Cesaro is definitely filling the ridiculous walk void. Out of the four guys confirmed for the match, Cesaro is definitely the one I want to win. With that said, I doubt WWE will give the title to Cesaro. That would be too unexpected of them. They will probably have Orton win the title or, even worse, Del Rio (okay, maybe not Del Rio).

 

While I am a big fan of seeing a seven-man Ladder Match for the vacant title, it is unfortunate that we won't have a "Mr. Money-in-the-Bank" this year. Speaking of the ladder match, with three spots left open, does anyone want to hazard a guess as to who it will be? I'm thinking that Kane is probably the most likely to be added, as well as Seth Rollins and either Dean Ambrose or Roman Reigns. Personally, I think they should put Rollins, Ambrose, & Reigns in the match, but I expect that feud to be put into its own match somehow. I would not be surprised at all to see John Cena or Bray Wyatt added to the match, either.

 

Is anyone else expecting Bo Dallas to be Goldust's mystery partner next week?

 

What is it with them giving John Cena tag teams as backup against The Wyatt Family? First, it was The Usos and now it's Ambrose & Reigns. Was booking The Usos against Fandango & Damien Sandow really more important than just keeping The Usos as Cena's backup and keeping the Cena/Wyatt and Shield breakup angles separate? If I wasn't sure that they would job Rusev out immediately, I would suggest a Cena/Rusev feud.

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[Guest Ciaran The King]

I'm sure Del Rio's contract was coming to an end?

 

Seth & Trips could have cost the Shield/Cena the match at the last minute

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Seth & Trips could have cost the Shield/Cena the match at the last minute

 

Exactly! Instead, they keep Triple H & Seth Rollins backstage and Cena/Shield go over The Wyatt Family cleanly for no reason whatsoever.

 

I also like how Triple H didn't care that Cena was teaming with Ambrose & Reigns. He just said that it didn't matter because The Shield would be destroyed by the end of the night then didn't do anything to ensure that. In essence, he just assumed that The Wyatt Family would be able to handle Cena and The Shield without any complications and, not only that, but The Wyatt Family would, somehow, bring an end to The Shield.

 

Did anyone else notice that Stephanie said that there were some qualifying matches on SmackDown? I assumed that they had her say that as an excuse to put Randy Orton in the match, but then the commentators immediately put an end to that. It's like they're not even trying anymore.

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