WWE Monday Night Raw Talkback (Spoilers)

[BLACKHEART]

RAW preview for Nov. 18
RAW is live in Bridgeport, Conn., tonight at 9/8 CT on the new TNN!

There's a new World Heavyweight Champion on RAW following some dramatic action at Survivor Series. Shawn Michaels defeated arch rival Triple H for the gold at Madison Square Garden. How will HBK's reign as champion begin? What will he have to say about last night's Elimination Chamber Match? The only way to find out is to tune in to RAW tonight on TNN!

Also, WWE.com has learned that a No. 1 Contender for HBK's World Heavyweight Championship will be named tonight. What kind of match will decide this distinction and which Superstars will be involved? Find out this evening on RAW!

Survivor Series marked the reunion of arguably the greatest tag team of all time. Tonight, the Dudley Boyz will officially spring back into action! Bubba Ray and D-Von will join with brother Spike to take on 3-Minute Warning and Rico! No table in the Arena at HarborYard is safe!

Also on tap for tonight, Tommy Dreamer will tag with Jeff Hardy against William Regal and Lance Storm, Christian clashes with Goldust and teacher meets student in a School of Hard Knocks Match as Al Snow battles Christopher Nowinski. It all happens live tonight. Tune in to RAW at 9/8 CT on TNN!

[Dark Spider]

Oh and with the end of last nights Survivor Series, my Test Immunity Counter will end. Ever since last year, I have been keeping count of when Test's year long immunity will end and last night, it finally ended.

But looks like he won't be fired any time soon... :( . He has been just given a new gimmick and even the use of Stacy for it. Darn you Test...

[Mister Intensity]

RAW is so booorrringggg tonight. Two matches under five minutes in the first hour. While I admit the Scott Steiner interview was good, why did they follow that with a Victoria vs. Stacy match. That's enough of an excuse to turn the television off. And they wonder why the ratings drop throughout the show.

Mister Intensity

[czyznyck99]

Wait a sec, I thought the Victoria vs. Stacy match was good, well, the post-match was anyway. For weeks I just wanted to see two divas get the smackdown from Victoria, and while I thought it was going to happen last Tuesday with Trish and Torrie, I'll take Trish and Stacy just fine :p .

I will say one bad thing about this. Why, oh why team up with Steven Richards? Didn't he do this earlier this year with Jazz? Doesn't anyone remember how bad that was? If they weren't playing Steiner to be a face, I would have paired Vic up with Big Poppa Pump.

It looks like Bischoff got the last laugh after all on the whole trade. So let me get this straight, Big Show was traded for Bautista, Ivory, the wrestler formally known as Val Venus, and D-von? And Big Show is Smackdown's champion? Kudos to Raw :cool: .

While I saw Bautista coming the second we get Flair "wrestling" in his street clothes, that was awfully impressive.

Anyway, decent main event. Probably Stenier vs. Jericho at Armageddon. And for once, no Triple H! (Honestly, though, get well soon Game).

Later.

[EinBebop]

And Maven. Don't forget Maven. Even when it was just Maven that got traded, I still thought Eric got the better end of the deal.

[The Penguin]

I would say RAW got Ivory and D-Von for sure and probably Val. Batista doesn't count as part of the trade because he was "fired" by D-Von before the lock-down and he had vignettes airing when Show was still there. Val Venis and Maven could have easily just negotiated with RAW because they were both off TV before the lock-down. Didn't Maven show up before Big Show left?


Anyway, I was pretty happy with RAW tonight. The show seemed to go by pretty fast which is always a good sign. :)

Geez I sure would hope we can get through RAW without Triple H. :rolleyes: I don't have a real problem with Hunter, but that would just be terrible to think about.

Hey! HBK promised he wouldn't bore us. Just how many times can he be the "neeeeee-ww sheriff in town." :rolleyes:

Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley have each taken two steps back. I like the Dudley Boyz and both were starting to flounder, but 8 times out of 10 you can't be a tag team forever. You can only go bad, go good, have a small fight and win the Tag Titles so many times and I think the Dudleyz are already there. Bubba feuded with Triple H and I still stand firm in my belief that Reverend D-Von should have been a great character.
And what was with that theme? "Get the Tables" is waaa-y better.

Steven getting hit with Stacy's "Test-icular Cannon" was funny as heck. Good to see Steven has upgraded from Jazz. I was rather intrigue by the story last time and hopefully now it will finish.

:rolleyes: Once again Dreamer gets hit with a "vicious kick" from Regal. Am I the only one who thinks that just looks stupid as heck? My god Tommy looks weak after taking that.

It was cool hearing Steiner speak, but it was pretty typical for him. Jericho calling him a "jive-talking moron" was funny as heck. Y2J is the man. :D I noticed they used "Break Down The Walls" here and later he'll use "King of My World." As JR would say, "PRODUCTION ERROR!! PRODUCTION ERROR!!" :p

So RAW has new Tag Belts now. At first I wasn't sure if I liked them, but by the end of the show I was happy with them.

:eek: Ace Reporter Gregory Helms with green hair! What does this mean? He's not The Hurricane is he? http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/sick.gif
:p
Seriously though I really like the feature on his theme which will be up next as I listen to my Anthology (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55939) CD. :cool:

The hard knocks match was excellent. With that chalkboard we had brawn hitting brains—literally. The skeleton part was absolutely awesome. We even got Hamlet from Nowinski. :cool: And of course what would a hardcore match featuring Al Snow be without the bowling ball! :D Christopher was really thinking for a strong finish.

Ric Flair come across as awfully pathetic crying about how HHH was goint to mess up anyone who hurt while The Game was out. How sad. Batista's interference was interesting.
Could the Four Horsemen rumor a friend told me to true?

Was it just me or did Booker's promo seem lame and pointless?

The finish of the match made Booker T look like a first class sucka. I can't believe how bad he looked slowly trying to get into the ring and not coming close to making. :rolleyes: Ugh.

That HBK-RVD face-off was begging to be used as a picture and sure enough WWE.com (http://www.wwe.com) has thrown it up on the main page.


Look for The Big Question sometime tomorrow. I must go to sleep. :yawn:

[Robin2099]

Well, thumbs in the middle for this Raw. Here's my good and bad:
Good: Using Kane to help push Batista. I didn't see it coming, and using a big man to put Batista over will help even if the matches suck.
-HBK vs RVD: This match already has me excited about next weeks Raw. Memo to Shawn though. Lose the Survivor Series tights.
-Big Poppa Pump: Good interview and good to see Jericho being used more.
-The three way dance: Good spots, and decent workrate.
Bad:
-Victoria: Do they seriously think that bitting off Stacey's nail is going to get her over? I would of used the old school "chair to break the ankle" spot, have Victoria break Staceys ankle, out comes Trish, Steven nails her, Victoria tries to do the same to Trish, and is stopped by the Refs. Heat for both Steven and Victoria, and more heat to see Trish beat her.
-HBK as a face: This is like a replay of 1996. HBK is much better as a heel, even though he's too over to be one now. And hopefully we wont have another Dynamit Kid on our hands with Shawn.
Overall, Raw like each week was just average, and needs a lot of work to improve.

[BLACKHEART]

That movie Victoria did to Stacy was awesome. I hope she does it again and again and again.

Big Popa Pump hahahahahaha

[czyznyck99]

Originally posted by SLIPKNOT
That movie Victoria did to Stacy was awesome. I hope she does it again and again and again.


I agree, I taped RAW last night and kept rewinding that move. It looks like a really nasty neckbreaker :cool: .

Later.

[Robin2099]

That move actually used to be done by the Hurricane before he quit using it for some reason. It's a variation of Misawa's Tiger Driver 91.

[Jin Kazama]

No, Hurricane's involved dropping the person on the head. Victoria dropped Stacy on her knees. It's almost the same, but sort of reversed without really reversing it. Still, very good move, but not the same as "Sugar Shane"'s Vertebreaker.