Tonight, on a three-hour Twitter poll:
The Shield stood alone as WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs drew to its chaotic close, with the renegade triumvirate knocking off Ryback & Team Hell No in a frenzied Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match in the bowels of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Barclays Center. And now that the dust has settled, the fate of WWE is up in the air — as the band of rogues continues their vicious mission to restore “justice” to WWE. Will their crusade include attacks on a new slew of targets? Only time will tell.
And what of AJ Lee’s betrayal on John Cena? How will the former Raw General Manager justify costing the Cenation Leader the Money in the Bank contract?
On a lighter note: It’s the Slammys! That magical time of year when the WWE Universe gathers to honor the best, the brightest, the biggest, the smallest the weirdest, the trendiest and the Tout-iest of the year that was. Will WWE Champion CM Punk repeat as Superstar of the Year? Or will The Shield endeavor to crash this party as well? There’s only one way to find out, but before you do, here’s our five-point preview for this week’s Raw … (via WWE.com)
Five-point preview:
1. This year the Slammy Awards are #RAWACTIVE, which means the results will be even more palatable to the masses than usual. Up for the Match Of The Year Slammy, you can choose between Naomi vs. Eve from TLC, the first Raw match between Ryback and Tensai or TRIPLE H AND UNDERTAKER HELL IN A CELL AT WRESTLEMANIA END OF AN ERA WHAT WILL YOU DECIDE LET THE FANS VOICES BE HEARD
2. This is a sentence in WWE’s Raw preview:
With Sheamus left in ruins by the big man’s chair strikes, who will step up to try and take the title from the giant’s titanic clutches?
The only good answer:
Tonight: Big Show vs. DJ Gabriel!
3. 3MB continues their sudden crusade against Spanish speaking people, probably, and will get into it with Car Stereo, because they’re the only other people in the company who speak Spanish. Or Rosa Mendes, for maximum lulz.
4. Jerry Lawler makes more jokes about giving his genitals to people as Christmas presents.
5. At least 3 commercial break explanations of how Wrangler jeans have crotches in a U-shape, so they don’t split your penis in half like a wet log.
As always, my 10 favorite comments from tonight’s WWE Raw open discussion thread will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw column. To nominate a comment for top 10 consideration, please reply to it with a +1.
Enjoy the show, everybody.
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I’VE REFRESHED A 10000 TIMES NOW ! WHY ISN’T B&WOR UP YET ?!
Me too. Pageviews!
Check the Mental Hospitals. I think this episode may have broke Brandon.
Also, this may be real late, but I’m now nicknaming AJ the Pornstar Puppy, because she bounces all over the place like a puppy and she has the logic of a Porno flick.
we should referr to her as that from now on … so that we would look cool when mr.mcmahon takes that idea !
oh and
THIS BUSINESS
I think Big E Langston should always use AJ’s entrance music.
Because nothing says big, black dude like AJ’s music
+1
So is his end-of-an-era match with Camacho is off on NXT?
BTW where was AJ when Dolph really needed her at cashing in?
HE NEEDS THAT MONEY! Hunico isn’t coming back from deportation soon enough!
Of all the current NXT guys Big E has been my least favorite recently, but calling him Ryblack made me laugh the most out loud I’ve ever laughed
Ryblack? (sorry.)
Ugh, this Philly crowd has been good at times, but they’re AWFUL at women. That, and the Goldberg chants. Besides those things, they were great. At least they actually got excited about things, that’s better than a lot of raw crowds.
More like “Feed Me More….. Steroids!” Right guys? Right? Wow, now Cesaro’s out. He’s right, he really is stronger, and smarter, than Ryback. Then again, so is my roof. I’ll be quiet now, since everyone else finished the show hours ago. But Flair though! He was there, and he was Ric Flair! Okay, fine.
But really though, did you guys see how he was Ric Flair, and he was there? Pretty great, despite the fact that he kept being all weird and creepy and old manny about how bad he wanted to get laid. It’s like he substituted space mountain for dick mountain. Have a little class grandpa Flair, I’m trying to love you over here.
I like that Miz is stealing the AKI man gimmick from WCW revenge and am totally on board with WWE man. And once again, I hate that I live in a place that keeps me from being able to hang out in this thread every week.
After seeing Kofi and Sheamus 30 times, we’re all forgetting the most important thing to note:
WHERE IS F*CKING FANDANG
This guy on Twitter called Big E Langston Ice Train. I almost died.
Following the rules of the Walking Dead, Ezekiel Jackson will be eaten by zombies and/or shot next week on Raw.
NO!!!! Can’t we keep Zeke instead of Big E?
I need moar Body Slamz in my life.
♫ THIS HERE IS WHAT YOU CALL SEGREGATION ♫
♫ IT’S THE INTRODUCTION OF CAMPS OF CONCENTRATION ♫
♫ NO MISCEGENATION, PRO DISCRIMINATION ♫
♫ EVERY SOCIAL INSTITUTION’S SEGREGATED ♫
It was nice to see Ric Flair tonight. I hope he could afford to tip David when he got dropped off.
Hooray, more characters!
Good God Almighty…that’s Kama Mustafa’s singlet!
Battle of the awkward fist pumps.
A muscle-bound moron who spouts idiotic catchphrases and knows five moves. That’s change I can believe in. Thanks Ryback.
One other note, Ryback was genuinely over – amongst what looked like well-adjusted and intelligent adults as well. Lot of t-shirts, really solid pops. Didn’t seem like crowd piping was going on either.
“Who gives a fuck about a goddamn Slammy?” – not Flavor Flav, not from “Terminator X to the Edge of Panic”
Just got back from the show. While painfully boring at parts, at least the Shield wasn’t buried. The best thing about those guys right now? They don’t shit their pants when Ryback’s music hits and run away. They stop what they’re doing and strategize, and even when he tosses them around, at least they don’t look like complete pussies.
While the HHH and Flair returns were great, nothing was better than John Cena going to a new level and NO-SELLING THE SUPERSTAR OF THE YEAR AWARD, deciding to give it a guy that’s been absent for two years because he said he really likes being back in Philadelphia and it’s just the greatest!!!111 Thank goodness Punk came out as the rest of that segment was great.
I will say, the Philly crowd (and this pains me) cannot be considered a top smarky crowd any longer. Maybe my opinion will change if a PPV ever comes back here again, but the last couple RAWs and Smackdowns have been a kid-friendly crowd with really faint ECW chants to try to muster some kind of nostalgia. The lower level in particular (where I was) was littered with smaller kids, which is great for them, but nothing like being in a Chicago, Brooklyn or MSG crowd.
Oh and they really missed an opportunity to get Zigger a good pop – his no-entrance appearance early did mildly well, but people are trained to react to entrance music – that could have gone better. Crowd was completely burnt out after sitting through 4 hours of wrestling and a big HHH ovation when Dolph came out later. For shame.
Mark Sanchez might soon be joining Jack Swagger on Mars :-(
Ric Flair’s Liverspots. The horrifying downside to HDTV.
Not really sure what to think tonight. A couple different forums online really liked tonight’s Raw; and when I searched “#Raw” on Twitter, the posts were generally positive. Are we all too snobby for our own good?
Tonight has a lot of cheap accolades and success for the typical WWE “heroes”. I’m not surprised that we disliked it and that others were more kind.
I would actually assume that a popular Raw on here would be routinely disliked on other commenting venues.
Someone in here please tell me they just saw the end of that Jets-Titans game.
I’m glad I tuned in, a perfectly Jets kind of game. Tirico killed it on the commentary.
“That is the way this game should end, that is how the Jets’ season should end. Ugly!”
*Sigh*
My thought pattern “Wow, despite that pick they still have a good shot at winning this ga- aw the season’s over.”
This “AJ in the Shield” talk saddens me. If they add a female member, it HAS to be Paige.
I really hope they get Ziggler and AJ well away from Cena. He’s just going to drag down their characters by having to get his win back on Ziggler and calling AJ a slut. Also, Langston seemed pretty over with the 5 count gimmick on NXT, it strikes me as silly that the WWE never brings a person up onto the main roster with the gimmick they’ve been using and getting over with previously.
All he did was hit Cena with the Big Finish. Give it a minute.
Since everyone else used Ryblack, how about “Obsidianberg?”
I’m a fan of Ry-Bony myself.
RybOnyx
Stan Blacksky?
RybOnyx wins!
And so we read from the book of Vince “THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR WHO BEGOT LEX LUGER WHO BEGOT GIANT GONZALEZ WHO BEGOT VISCERA WHO BEGOT THE GREAT KHALI WHO BEGOT THE RYBACK WHO BEGOT BIG E”
Combine them all and throw on a pair of Khaki Jorts and what do you get?
A Vince McMahon boner.
I hope Big E is explaining to Cena’s lifeless body how he has fingers and five toes and five other fingers & toes.
Would this be considered a new talent initiative? I can’t remember so many new guys debuting.
They’re doing a terrible job pacing this. The show became stale, and now it’s just a constant blitz of new faces, with all of the “old” heels simply becoming jokey faces.
Maybe they realized that the roster’s so thin, they’d have trouble filling the Rumble.
AJ is supposed to be the new Miss Elizabeth? She’s more like the new Bobby Heenan. Except instead of the Brain who out-thinks everyone, she’s the Vag who..well, you get the drift.
I feel like there were some amazing parts of Raw tonight but I can’t remember any of them except AJ climbing a ladder.
There was that part where everyone said Ry-Black.
My favourite was when we all said Ryblack.
All I remember is Rolox.
I didn’t say it :(
Serious answer: Punk dropping truth on Flair.
Serious answer but not really: AJ’s shorts.
I was saying Rybl-urns.
“and the penile swab?” *sighs* I sent it to DNA, gosh.
“And every day he took off his legs” said in the most ho-hum manner imaginable.
yeah…RAWs been off air 15 minutes and I already forgot what happened. I’ll be back for the B/W tomorrow evening to remind me.
ROBERT TEPPER OF ‘NO EASY WAY OUT’ FROM ROCKY 4 FAME JUST FOLLOWED ME ON TWITTER.
:O
What’s his Twitter handle? I want to thank him for the hours of workout inspiration he has provided for me.
+ all the Lamborghinis with infinite gears for angry-shifting flashback montages
Finally, someone to fill the void left by Bobby Lashley.
Kristal?
Mason Ryan is still technically on the roster.
Someone might want to check on Brandon. This could very well be the RAW that does him in…
Man, this one was tough to sit through. Thanks for making it more enjoyable than it had any right to be, y’all.
If Big E is going to be on RAW, he must use AJ’s music at all times, and he is never allowed to smile. He just has to make SERIOUS FACES to Light it up.
So Big E is John Cena’s Anger Translator?
+ Luther
+ HIIIIII.
This was kind of like the Treehouse of Horror special where Willy kept dying. Someone kept showing up (3MB, Shield, Ricardo) to try to show you the way out of the horrors you’d stumbled into, but then BAM–axe to the back.
+1
That was about as random as anything Kevin Nash did last year.
Blackberg.
+1 to everybody who thought they were the only person who came up with Ry-Black.
A+ you tried.
Finally! A wrestler with a Harlem Renaissance gimmick.
a very cultured +1
No, a Renaissance Stable called the Cotton Club.
+1 dream deferred
There will be no slow motion or still life of Big E strolling through Watts in a red, black and green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving for just the proper occasion.
I’M GONNA CALL HIM BLACK LESNAR JUST TO BE DIFFERENT
Blesner
Hey, that’s Bobby Lashley!
+2 you know, just to be different
Ahmed Johnson?
We already had one of those: Bobby Lashley
ITZZ\\ RYBLACKZZzz hahahah because he’s big andenclwdcnlmw
This was the Inception of Raws. Borderline confusing, average at every turn, weak characters, but a cheap ass ending that will keep everyone talking.
my dreidel is still spinning.
FYI: If next week doesn’t give me my goddam Friday After Next then I’m gonna write a sternly worded letter.
HAHAHA!
+1!!
What we need to do is pick a week and all of us get a copy of it and just watch it together.
Yes! On board for that.
I’m in.