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WWE NEWS AND NOTES:
- FINALLY.... THE ROCK RETURNS TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW. And that was virtually the only thing of note that took place on Monday because otherwise WWE has been a complete and utter rut lately with their writing as of late. God awful.
- Before anyone starts in, in NO WAY was that a burial of Rusev. Rusev was sucker punched and tossed from the ring. He was not hit with Rock’s finisher or a “People’s Elbow”. He landed on his feet and was held back by Lana. He was put over in the promo by Rock and looked strong and got some rub. It was a good segment.
- I have legit lost count of how many consecutive weeks/shows that we have gotten a main event involving some combination of Ambrose/Cena vs. Orton/Rollins/Kane. It has to be every single show for the past 3 months now no?
- If not, it is at least almost as many times as we have seen some sort of match involving the Usos vs. The Dust Brothers. I felt like it was groundhog day during the first half hour of RAW since it was the same stuff we have seen week in and week out on both RAW and Smackdown.
- I AM A LEMON and so are the fans in Brooklyn as Adam Rose got ZERO REACTION when he and his gang danced to the ring with Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Speaking of, that had to be the worst segment in RAW history right? It was at least on par with Katie Vick. I almost wished breast cancer on them for putting me through that.
- SIDE NOTE: Thea Trinidad was back as a Rosebud as was Mandy Leon from Ring of Honor. They both need to be hired full time. Damien Darling best known for being WWE Hall of Famer’s Sunny’s ex-boyfriend who she has went to jail over numerous times was also a Rosebud.
- Intrigued by where they are going with Harper and Rowan. These vignettes are excellent.
- I STILL BO-LIEVE!!!! Although that finish had me cringing as the timing was way off. LOL. Poor Mark Henry had to stand around like a dope while the referee was slow counting. Henry needs to be a top level heel already. He is better off in that role so they need to hurry with the turn.
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- Dean Ambrose as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin v2.0 is catching on. The fans get it and are into it. And before you get on WWE writing for having Ambrose not get the better of everyone week in and week out, neither did Austin before he became World Champion. When he just started to catch fire as a babyface after Mania 13, he was a tweener still and got his ass handed to him a bunch of times by people like Bret Hart and the Undertaker from week to week including being left lying in the ring.
- Of course the polar opposite of Dean Ambrose is Brie Bella who is supposed to be the hot babyface that fans wouldn’t piss on if she was on fire. They totally do not give two sh*ts about her. They do dig the “YES” chants though.
- I enjoy the fact that they are at least covering all bases when it comes to the Natalya/Tyson Kidd angle since it is spanning NXT, RAW, Smackdown and Total Divas.
- So let’s get this clear for a second. WWE hypes last week that Roman Reigns will talk on RAW. Then, even though Roman Reigns was in NY earlier in the day at an autograph signing and even though he was backstage at RAW, they do a “taped” segment with him? What is even better is that he was told late last week that it would be an in person, in the ring interview and he said so earlier in the day when doing media interviews hyping RAW. So no one told him. Plus, like I said for weeks now, maybe even months, ....
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