Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of the With Leather WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread, wherein the 2,000 comments from the funniest fans on the Internet is replaced by two hours of nothing but me and Lobster Mobster sharing pics. You’re probably at the pool eating hot-style dogs, but in the event you aren’t, we appreciate you being here to talk pro graps.
On tonight’s show!
Last week, Big Show knocked John Cena out cold with two punishing WMDs. Will The World’s Largest Athlete continue on his path of destruction? Can Cena recuperate and get payback on his No Way Out opponent? WWE.com breaks down these and other hot topics heading into tonight’s Raw SuperShow at 9/8 CT.
Also:
1. Will CM Punk “fall” for AJ, and if so, will he be nice to her even once?
2. Will Kane have to be around for some reason?
3. With Chris Jericho suspended into retirement (?) because of an ill-placed flag kick, will someone else randomly attack Randy Orton to set up a match at No Way Out? If so, will it be poor aborted-push Christian again?
All this and probably more on tonight’s edition of Raw.
- The top 10 comments from tonight’s discussion, assuming it’s not just me and THESTINGER talking about who we do and don’t find attractive, will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 5/28/12 report. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1.
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In honor of tonight, bigskamz had to change his profile pic. Sorry Lord Tensai.
Can we call the dicussion thread tonight The Max?
I just finished watching Raw.
Best: I’ve been saying this for years, but, it never made sense for the Big Show to be some clown when he could be a freaking monster. Now all they need to do is have him talk less and do more ARRRRRGHing and we’ll be set.
Another Best; That Big Johnny WWE 13 cover looked pretty amazing. I’d buy the shit out of that copy.
Worst: Triple Punk speaking
Ultra Best: Dolph Ziggler is leaving Swagger and will (hopefully) get his push that he got robbed of after he jobbed to Ryder.
It was actually a pretty decent Raw. Minus the 19th century nationalism being jammed down our throats and CM Punk speaking, Raw was pretty good.
I know it’s been said, but I loved SelfAwareCreative tonight. Show pointing out Brodus dancing in the ring mere minutes after he was fired was beautiful. If this is where the “reality” era is headed, I approve.
It’s the WWE we’re talking about here. It’ll be very selective. Kind of why Cena being in Nexus and doing things because he could get fired has yet to be brought up yet. Which is also a stupid reason why Cena of all people is callling out Big Show for doing something to get his job back and earning a major contract in the process.
I still like CM Punk, but I definitely think that he should spend more time cutting promos and fueding with Bryan, and should spend absolutely ZERO time doing anything else. Him fueding with Big Johnny does nothing. Him fueding with Bryan could do EVERYTHING! Their finish was epic, and they barely made a deal out of it. I mean c’mon! How long did we have to hear Big Show gripe about Rock’s feet touching the floor first? Where is that type of argument between Punk and Bryan?
So, to sum up Show’s heel turn:
Cena: Aww, don’t blame yourself, Show.
Big Show: I don’t blame myself, I blame all of you!
Cena: Us? How can you possibly blame us?
Big Show: It ain’t easy, it just proves how great I am.
It’s bad when I lose interest in a segment as soon as I hear CM Punk’s music…
I actually assumed D-Bry attacked Kane on SD so that Kane would interfere on Raw and attack Bryan, getting the DQ and Bryan the win…
Brodus is confused because Big Show did not run and jump at his head and fall to the ground like everyone else does…
Tune into Santino’s foreign exchange this week, as Santino goes hunting for a new, fresh funkasaurus!
Next week Brodus Clay turns heel because the funkadactyls WEREN’T THERE FOR HIM~~!
Wait wait wait… i was reading some comments about the last segment… and even though it is semi racist that Show had to beat up on the 3 black guys who are popular with the fans (not me or most of y’all, but those people), but how is this Show’s fault? He talked shit about Clay, backed it up, and then got ambushed, foiled that, and decimated all parties involved (excluding himself of course). This is the Big Show I want to see. He’s got the attitude, the continuity, the wit, the power, the arrogance, and the ability to back what he says up that a true giant should have. Show honestly shouldn’t be losing unless he gets triple criticaled, and now that he is in Mark Henry mode I hope he does well.
Besides, Cena should lose. He talked shit about the Rock and lost, he taunted the hell out of Brock and won though was worse for wear, and he won the US Title off of Show at Wrestlemania, Show better kick his ass at the untimely No Way Out
THOSE people?!?!
I’m one of those people.
To answer your sort-of question, it seems trendy around here to call Show racist, or to cry racism whenever one or more of the company’s black people has something bad happen to them. I can’t tell who’s being ironic and who’s not anymore.
It’s sort of a running joke, I think. A while ago Big Show punched Jinder Mahal in the face for not speaking English, and ever since then he’s been known as racist Big Show whenever he attacks a black guy. I think most of those people (each and every one of them) aren’t taking it too seriously.
Yeah, it’s all pretty hyperbolic, at least, I thought it was.
Also, for me, Racist Big Show goes back years ago when he called Kaientai “gooks”, then the next week tried to play it off as him saying they were “goofs”.
A Cenaless night on a day dedicated to the military? (Skipped his prerecorded stuff)
So…. is Big Show BITW?
THIS IS THE BIG SHOW WE SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS HAD!!!
Clay looks comfortable dancing this week
Finley’s world champ Cole?
Didn’t No Way Out used to be after the Rumble?
What happened to Otunga’s pose?
No King… Dolph wants to do his own thing without having to be chained down in this tag team division with Swags
Compelling arguments Miz… how about those wins… Oh here comes a guy who knows all about wins
The camera is corpsing… or is that Cole?
Homage to Eddie!
Honestly… I want Miz to begin winning matches again
Miz needs to just ambush Champions from now on until he’s granted a title match. That’s what people used to do…
Is AJ a double agent for D-Bry?
Why giveaway a PPV match??
“What about me? What about The Miz?!?!”
Is Punk compensating for something?
Move out Punk and Jericho… Big Johnny is Best In The WORLD!!!!
Damn it Punk….
Let Big Johnny have his moment Punk…. We already know you’re the face for ’13….
Punk doesn’t know his gaming history. If I do recall, Pac-Man DID in fact get it on with Mrs. Pac-Man and they DID indeed have a Baby Pac-Man… an act that requires testicles… he probably does just keep them in his man-purse lol
Stop lying Punk… I like John the EVPoTRaGMfBR&SD
thought that fan was Viscera… lol
Big Johnny’s music makes his hoveraround traveling look so epic.
Books shall be written!
I…. LOVE THIS BIG SHOW!!!
I want someone to get Lil Jimmy thrown from ringside in a match against Truth. He’ll go apeshit!
Alex Riley sighting…. and no one cares….
lol A-Ry reduced to message sender
People apparently DO care about A-Ry…. I will admit when I’m wrong
ALBERTO DEL RIO! ALBERTO DEL RRIOO!! ALBERTO DEL RRRIOOO!!! ALBERTO DEL RRRRIOOOO!!!!……
ADR for WWE Champ! (I’ll settle with him just having any title (doesn’t include the tag belts) on him)
Rock… Lesner… Big Show… all people Cena has had beef with in the past in his career…
No no no Punk…Alfonso Ribeiro is no David Otunga
And again, loving this Big Show!!
And when’s the last time I heard a Cena sucks chant? Did he somehow rise above hate?
I do believe that Vince is reading this thread intently and making what we say happen
Couldn’t watch with you good folks so I’ll comment as i go along.
MAN I love this new Big Show!
Wow. Show spoke almost long enough for Khali to get to the ring. Almost.
Watching the DVR: Jerry Lawler usually knows what the look on a woman’s face means?
“you said there was candy in here”
“huh…wait…wha…how…how did I get here?”
“I miss my mommy”
I’m curious, how many NAACP awards has WWE received over the years? That’s a stat-fact they could use coming back from “Pizza Hero” app commercials.
The cover of WWE 13 should’ve just been Otunga’s thermos
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I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue while watching Raw.
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Cena wrestled a dark match after RAW ended, a handicap match vs. Big Show and Tensai. Cena won after Big Show knocked out Tensai by accident, and Cena pinned Tensai. Also faceplanted Big Johnny as well. Brodus got hauled off in a neck brace, possibly by sexy paramedics.
Here it is: a rough test copy of the WithLeather Raw Bingo Card: Team Johnny edition.
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There would be three teams a week; they are presently named Team Johnny, Team #Asscape, and Team +Rhodes. I’d post the cards in the comments early Monday afternoon. They would be slightly varied from each other, likely having much of the same content, just scrambled differently.
First team to get five in a row… wins? For pride?
That is amazing. You are amazing.
You, my friend, win the internetz. Or at least just WithLeather for the week, but it’s something. I can’t want for next week.
Everyone get their lucky tchotchkes and gewgaws ready to bingo up Raw next week!
FUNK MOTHERFUCKERS. ITS ON A ROLL
Loki: We have midcarders
Tony Stark: We have a Big Show.