RAW [01/27] - Aftermath of the Rumble (Spoilers)

[DaylitoJames]

Everyone asking why no one came out to help must've forgot what a total a$$hole he was during his Rated R run.

Z-Man would have came out and helped

 

[PharaohAtem]

edge dapped up everyone backstage and the commentary yet none of them came to his aid

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I absolutely hated everything with Rated RKO/DX/Cena during that time frame. Maybe it was because I was in college at the time, but it made me tune out from WWE on the regular.

Dont let people try to revise stuff from that era. It was awful

 

[sbud]

So I assumed they were gonna do a rated rko run with a orton turn a month before WM but one I guess they do a 1 and 1 with some dusty finishes to lead up?

 

[luckyse7enz]

Should’ve built to a Rated RKO tag match in Saudi then doing the heel turn on the very next Raw

Yeah...I figured they'd get a "You Still Got It" run for the tag titles and the turn at SaudiMania or Elimination Chamber to lead into the one-off at Mania but eh....I'll let this cook.

 

[ALTRUISM]

2010 Cena would've made the babyface save

 

[NoMorePie]

2010 Cena would've made the babyface save

Whole locker room just showed they don't fukk with edge like that


Every man for himself

 

[Hey_zeus]

I absolutely hated everything with Rated RKO/DX/Cena during that time frame. Maybe it was because I was in college at the time, but it made me tune out from WWE on the regular.

I thought it was garbage too.

 

[InstantKlassik]

Why whenever they have somebody come back from a real life injury, they immediately target the legit injury in storyline. shyt is dumb and irresponsible as fukk.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

lowkey between lesnar/drew and orton/edge the mania build is already better than last year

 

[CM_Burns]

So I assumed they were gonna do a rated rko run with a orton turn a month before WM but one I guess they do a 1 and 1 with some dusty finishes to lead up?

Edge might be off TV with an injury for 4 weeks

 

[sbud]

Why whenever they have somebody come back from a real life injury, they immediately target the legit injury in storyline. shyt is dumb and irresponsible as fukk.

vince got them signing literal suicide pacts so they can hear the roar of 12000 people cheering for them again. Carnie shyt to the extreme.

 

[Novembruh]

Good segment until the conchairto. Shouldve teased it, then had refs and security pull Randy off. Edge coming back from that makes the match feel less dangerous.

Nah. They finna use this to keep him off TV through to the next PPV. Have Edge show up and cost him during the final sprint to WM, and then they can go int blood feud booking without over-using his presence.

It makes sense in retrospect. It's why they were hitting his character notes so heavy-handedly throughout the show; looking back it's like when they're about to write a character off a show so they play the greatest hits. Even had him raise his own 'death flag' about finishing his career on his terms.

Weirdly enough, this was the best done and worst done thing on the show at the same time. The lack of even a singular ally coming out to try and make the save fukked it up; if they'd just had the one, even just Christian rushing down only to eat an RKO himself or something, that combined with what happened could have made it easily the best thing Orton's done in the company in over a decade, if not period, and damn sure woulda made it a top segment of the year that'd likely hold up the whole year.

It's just... them details, man.

Hit the clangy poles in the back and refs and agents appear like roaches from nowhere.
Brush R-Truth with your shoulder and a ref magically appears from nowhere like it's fukking magic.
Try and cripple a Hall of Famer on live television, and you get multiple camera angles and everyone in the back are apparently neatly folding their gear, or showering, or boxing up what's left of catering into to-go boxes and ain't nobody got time to rescue the man.

It was a beautiful dive that failed to stick that landing.

 

[ALTRUISM]

Yeah...I figured they'd get a "You Still Got It" run for the tag titles and the turn at SaudiMania or Elimination Chamber to lead into the one-off at Mania but eh....I'll let this cook.

Maybe this'll be a long-term build like the good ol days.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]