1/22/18: Raw 25 & Enzo Gone! IT'S A CELEBRATION!

[AquaCityBoy]

Seeing Braun ragdoll Brock is always entertaining so I guess that brought the grade for this episode up to a D+.

 

[dakidbanks]

You saved the thread bro

I see those ring ropes tho.... #SDset

 

[reigun]

They had two venues and 25 years worth of talent...and that was the show we got?

Like my man Luke Cage would say.....Sweet Christmas.

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

200+ pages? Raw was that good?

IS YOU YOU CRAZY...RAW IS ASSCHEEKS....its 200 pages of mostly jokes

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I just looked it up

The cheapest tickets at the Manhattan Center tonight were $450

They all paid $400+ to see a flabby Undertaker cut an incoherent promo, a horrible Bray/Hardy match, a bunch of homos reuniting for the 100th time in the last 5 years and a squash tag-team match

Just think, those "Wrestlerama" ass reunion shows with old geezers from the glory days sell tickets for cheap and you get to shoot the shyt with those dudes. WWE fans took the L

 

[trick]

That's why they focus on kids, as long as they can get a percentage of kids to stay fans into adulthood they'll be fine. Also the international audience plugs a lot of money problems they'd have if they were strictly a North American company.

If I had children and they were watching this, I'd block the channel. I feel like I lost some brain cells from watching this.

I honestly don't believe they've had this bad of a run creatively in a long ass time. I think mid 05' to early 07' is the closest and in those years they at least had Cena (and Batista for a while) being a big draw. Now they don't even have that

Yeah, it's just bad TV. If the empty seats and ratings declining for 18 years straight isn't enough for them to understand that they need to make some changes, nothing will. I don't see how some people think there's a wrestling boom, if anything, the business is in a very bad place right now, at least creatively.

 

[Fenian]

Dx are nothing but homos.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

This RAW was about what I expected. It helps that I was in here and that this is the first one I’ve watched in full in a long time.

I’m just glad I wasn’t in the Manhattan Center

 

[#1 pick]

IN

 

[El Guapo]

They need to stop doing anniversary theme shows. Bringing out all these wrestlers doesn’t make the product look cool for the demographic they’re trying to reach.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

............

WOW!!!!

This shyt is crazy?

All these NY cats...
who live in 900 sq ft apartments paying $3250 a month for rent....

worked so many extra hours the past 2 months to make and have enough extra cash to afford tickets and round trips for this show.

Only to have such a lackluster experience such as what they had tonight on both arenas but mainly in the MC

GOTDAMN New York

Martha

 

[R=G]

200+ pages? Raw was that good?

Here's what happened

Great Austin pop
Vince getting heat for no reason
Stephanie talked too much
Trish said nothing
MVP was a prop
Titus/Crews got a commercial plus match
They basically told us Asuka isn't winning the Rumble..which means the Ronda $hit is real
Sasha will MATTER to some degree on Sunday
Bliss looks ridiculously short next to Charlotte
The ApA segments got silly....
Boogeyman returned
Taker did a weird promo
They tried to use Bryan to get Miz booed against Reigns
Miz won
Elias punked Cena
Michaels got booed for pandering the Network

 

[Dreamzeedream]

Seeing Braun ragdoll Brock is always entertaining so I guess that brought the grade for this episode up to a D+.

Damn the show was bad?. I'm at work. Couldn' work

 

[cartierhoe]

I mean they managed to make an anniversary show bad, usually those are the bright spots in a shyt product but they outdid themselves this time

 

[Fenian]

If I had children and they were watching this, I'd block the channel. I feel like I lost some brain cells from watching this.



Yeah, it's just bad TV. If the empty seats and ratings declining for 18 years straight isn't enough for them to understand that they need to make some changes, nothing will. I don't see how some people think there's a wrestling boom, if anything, the business is in a very bad place right now, at least creatively.

Aye it's nights like tonight that makes you embarrassed to be a wrestling fan.


WWE is in a huge slump right now but other companies are doing pretty good, icw which is my local promotion can sell out 5k arenas in Glasgow for the major events for example.