WWE RAW Discussion Thread - June 16, 2014 from Cleveland, OH (#1099)

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When

United States: LIVE, Monday Night, June 16, at 8/7c on the USA Network

United Kingdom: Tuesday Morning, June 17, at 12AM on SkySportsHD3

 

Venue

Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH

 

Confirmed Matches/Events

 

Kevin Hart to Appear as the RAW Guest Star

 

Build to Money-in-the-Bank

[Guest FreeSpirit]

Reigns, Cesaro, Wyatt, Ambrose, Rollins and Rusev. The future looks so bright for WWE. Excellent RAW so far!!

[Guest Inno]

Really? REALLY? It's the worst one since... um... last week

[Guest John Hancock]

Really? REALLY? REALLY!? I thought it's been pretty good too. "Excellent" might be a little hyperbolic, but it's certainly not been bad.

[Guest Edgehead]

Good week for Roman Reigns, not just the battle royal but also the "shenanigans" that got him into the battle royal. I'm looking forward to seeing Ambrose v Rollins which I guess will happen at MITB seeing as neither of them are in the ladder match & sorry to say this Dean but you looked a bit gay in that vest :lol

[Guest The Beltster]

Reigns is going to be a something special when he gets his run.

[Guest Edgehead]

And we now have 2 Goldusts, because 1 just isn't enough :lol

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Reigns is going to be a something special when he gets his run.

 

With you on that one, future Main Eventer vibes all over - I can't wait to see when that breaks out fully!

[Shaun2J 127]

That Stardust reveal. xD

 

[Guest Inno]

3 non finishes in the first three matches, the vomit gag that you just know Vince crumpled himself at, Stardust and the predictable finish to the battle royal and Cena match made me hate it :/

[Guest John Hancock]

I don't care about non-finishes on T.V., I'd rather that than waste potential pay-per-view matches. The vomit gag was, admittedly, pretty terrible. I also didn't like the way Reigns was presented, he was really whiney, and manipulative, and dishonest, and creepy, and slimy. It was classes chicken-shit heel behaviour. Very strange for a monster-face, plus, it straight looked like that stuff was coming out the wrong end of Stephanie. How could she vomit and making gagging noises at the same time? Why was she being sick in a toilet, yet facing the door? I think we can all agree that Stephanie McMahon repeatedly shit in Vickie Guerrero's face.

 

I had no problem with Stardust, whatever, it was silly, but it's not in the top ten silliest things on RAW right now, and I thought the predictability of the battle royal was refreshingly straight forward. It did what needed to happen. I guess that all depends on how much you like Roman Reigns though, and, despite on of the weirdest face segments since Edge tricked Kane into murdering his Dad, I still like Roman Reigns a lot.

 

Yeah though, Cena still can't cut anything close a promo, but, whatever, that's there with the entire commentary team and grossly arrogant self-back-patting charity plugs in terms of things you just have to tolerate if you want to watch wrestling. It's never getting better, it's never going away.

[Guest The Beltster]

Just watched an old episode of Superstars from 1989...Jesse Ventura and Vince were so great. Everything today sucks.

 

Everything. Even the good stuff.

 

It sucks.

[Guest fattyfudge]

I really enjoyed RAW this week to my surprise, and actually thought it has been the best one for a while! I'm still not sure i like Cody Rhodes as Stardust but i guess its refreshing his character.

 

Literally the only bad thing i can think of this week is the involvement of Cena. Yet another win, and yet another title shot, this time at a PPV. It's so bad because you know he's one it before he even steps into the ring, and they had the opportunity to put over so many other superstars in the PPV other than the guy the majority of fans quite evidently dislike...

[Omega 354]

I'm willing to give The Dust Brothers a chance. We complain often enough that everyone is just Generic Wrestler #1 and this is really different. It'll probably turn out to be the drizzlingliest of sh*ts but f*ck it, I'm going to try and give something a chance.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Really enjoyed Raw this week.

 

Just waiting for Cody to turn on Goldust now, this Stardust thing is crap.

 

Seth/Dolph was as always really good as was Dean/Barret. Also enjoying the slow build for Roman....when they pull the trigger it should be amazing.

 

Bray/Sheamus was another great TV match.

 

The return of Cena to the main event facing Kane......BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

P.S. I don't mind Seth keeping the Shield attire, it goes with his 'I created the Shield' thing so all is good

Edited June 19, 2014 by Ciaran The King