WWE RAW Discussion Thread - July 7, 2014 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (#1102)

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When

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

United Kingdom: Tuesday Morning, July 8, at 12AM on SkySportsHD3

 

Venue

Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

Confirmed Matches/Events

 

Bret "Hitman" Hart to Make a Special Appearance

 

Non-Title:

John Cena vs. Seth Rollins

 

Chris Jericho vs. The Miz

 

Build to Battleground

[Guest FreeSpirit]

What a notorious city for WWE. The screw job and King's heart attack. Looking forward to tonight's show though. Always love WWE shows when they cross the border into the Great White North!!

[Guest HH-Evolution]

It's bizzarro land, remember? :lol

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It's bizzarro land, remember? :lol

 

Yeah. I wonder how many times we will hear that ragged, old WWE cliche tonight? I'm pretty sure they have referred to Canada as "Bizarro World" every time they have held a show there.

 

Naturally, Bret Hart is booked for an appearance on RAW. After all, WWE can't have RAW in Canada without dragging "The Hitman" out to remind him of Montreal.

 

Also announced for RAW is John Cena vs. Seth Rollins, which is sure to a match filled with shenanigans. I also expect some sort of Santino farewell either on RAW or SmackDown (or maybe even Main Event).

[Guest Inno]

Signs in the crowd. "Follow the buzzers" and "Roman Regne". LEARN TO SPELL, CANADA.

 

The "Emma stole my heart too" sign was good though :D

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Fandango is officially terrible on commentary, good god! :lol

[Chris2K 176]

When Bo ran into El Torito on his victory lap I cried with laughter.

 

I also did this the second and third time when I rewound and watched it again and again.

[Guest dpddave]

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bolieve

 

edit - wow that's freaky timing

[Guest HH-Evolution]

Bo, Leave! :P

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bolieve

 

edit - wow that's freaky timing

 

What sold me on Bo Dallas knocking down El Torito was Torito's sell job. Watch it closely, he just falls flat on his face and goes still. That's what made it hilarious to me. Knocking down El Torito almost made me a Bo Dallas fan....almost, but he still looks like the Happy Mask Guy from The Legend of Zelda and he still has a jiggly beer belly.

 

I'm glad to see that they had Jericho go over The Miz. I have no interest in seeing a long rivalry between Miz and Jericho and I'm already intrigued by the Bray/Jericho feud. As much as I would love to see RVD and Jericho get a run with a championship again, I can't deny the fact that booking these guys to put over the younger talent is a smart booking idea.

 

Speaking of RVD, putting him against Rusev was an unusual decision for WWE to make, but I rather enjoyed it. Putting Rusev's power game against RVD's high-flying ability made for a pretty interesting match.

 

Why does Fandango talk like Val Venis? The Fandango character has transformed from a dancing fool into a creepy dancer. His facial expressions always make me uncomfortable, but I did enjoy how uncomfortable JBL was :D

 

By putting Sheamus in the Battleground Battle Royal, Battleground could be the perfect opportunity for WWE to unify the Intercontinental and United States Titles. With that said, they obviously won't do that because this is WWE we're talking about here.

 

The way they did the Funkadactyl break-up, that almost looked like a shoot fight between Naomi and Cameron. Given how terrible they both are, that could have been a rare "accidental shoot fight" where they were trying to fake a fight, but because they lack any basic acting or wrestling skills, it ended up looking like a real fight.

 

Even though we all know where this Paige/AJ angle is going, I still like how they are doing it and I can't wait for the Paige heel turn. Only time will tell, but turning Paige heel could be what saves her career at this point.

 

I don't know about anyone else, but Randy Orton just bores me to tears in the ring. I can't pinpoint exactly why, but his matches are always boring to me. I haven't seen an opponent yet that can make a Randy Orton match interesting.

 

Is it just me or does Triple H & Stephanie go "on vacation" every time RAW goes to a different country? I'm pretty sure they were "on vacation" when RAW was in the UK too.

[Guest pheadley]

liked the end with reigns and cena. cenas acting was great, could imagine him crying saying why does nobody like me lmao

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Good to Raw, matches were all very good...especially Orton (Ring General) v Ambrose (what a F**k up he is) and Rollins/Cena. Also enjoyed the Wyatt. Miz/Jericho and Cesaro/Kofi

[DC 536]

Ambrose (what a F**k up he is)

What do you mean by "a f*ck up"?

[Shaun2J 127]

Yeah, I'd like to know too.