Ex TNA Champion Makes RAW In-Ring Debut! Wrestlemania 33 Match Off?

One *big* Wrestlemania match looks like it’s definitely off!
Another one looks like it’s more probably on.
And people actually cheered for Dana Brooke.
I’m Oli Davis, and this is the 13th March 2017 edition of Monday Night Raw...in about
4 minutes.
“Down goes Goldberg!” is Paul Heyman’s latest catchphrase, which he used several
times when talking about Brock Lesnar’s F5 on the Universal Champion last Monday.
Despite Lesnar’s impressive muscles, there was no real meat here.
Just Heyman trying to advance a feud between two guys where neither wrestles anyone else
on TV.
Eat, sleep, conquer, repeat the same basic promo points over and over again.
Stephanie McMahon then gave Mick Foley a fun task backstage - by the end of the night,
he has to find someone to fire from the Raw roster.
It's the McMahons' favourite family pastime.
Sasha Banks’ slow heel turn continues, as she hooked Dana Brooke’s tights for a very
quick win, which babyface Bayley still cheered.
Charlotte berated her protegee for losing once again, but Dana finally stood up for
herself!
Again, actually!
Because she already done that before.
Tony Nese grabbed the tights for the pin in this tag match - the exact same finish we’d
just seen in Banks vs Brooke.
Jericho and Sami got the DQ win when Owens and Joe wouldn’t stop beating down Zayn.
The brief moment where Y2J and KO went at it was a fierce tease for their Wrestlemania
match.
Jericho later announced he’ll be talking to ‘the real Kevin Owens’ on next week’s
Highlight Reel segment.
Hopefully there’s a rhyme about beating KO on a boat, just like he did in that classic
Smackdown promo against Chr-STEVIE RICHARDS.
Because this was the night of dirty finishes, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows caused a double
DQ by attacking both sides in this number one contenders bout.
Their plan backfired, though, as Mick Foley then made their Wrestlemania match a three
way.
Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker for Wrestlemania 33 was officially made last night on...Twitter.
Not on Raw for an actually dramatic moment.
If I may be serious for a moment, the anti-Roman sentiment took an ugly, dark turn in his match
against Jinder Mahal, with one fan’s sign reading ‘Roman Reigns likes Nickelback’.
There’s a line, and you just crossed it.
Reigns still managed to hinder Jinder despite Undertaker’s distracting dong.
In response, he called out the Deadman, but instead got Shawn Michaels - just the latest
WWE legend who can’t make people like Roman Reigns.
Especially when the Big Dog repeated his ‘it’s my yard’ line, and promised to retire the
Undertaker.
People don’t like that idea.
Turn him heel.
Braun Strowman then completely bulldozed Roman at the top of the ramp - for which Reigns
did a brilliant bump - to chants of ‘Thank you Strowman!’
Former TNA World Champion Austin Aries finally made his in-ring debut on Raw, but even he
couldn’t get more than 4 minutes for a Cruiserweight match.
This should’ve been a squash to get Double A over.
Instead, it was pretty dull, with one very dangerous looking botch when Aries dropped
Daivari on his head.
The New Day’s talkshow segment with the Big Show revealed a very telling Wrestlemania
detail - the Giant has officially entered the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal,
meaning his long-reported match with Shaw appears to be off.
Show took out his frustrations on Titus O’Neil, squashing him with three chokeslams.
It’s better than being fired, Titus.
Nia Jax took the show’s third DQ loss when she refused stop beating down Bayley.
The way this storyline is going, she still might be added to the Women’s Championship
match at Wrestlemania..
Oh jeez, I thought.
There’s 20 minutes of Raw left.
And Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley are in the ring.
Oh god, we’re going to get a 20 minute long in-ring promo to close the show.
To their credit, this actually turned out pretty good, if still way too long.
Foley chose Stephanie as the person he was going to fire.
He’s finally standing up for himself - even when Triple H came down to berate him - for
way too long, again - out came Mr Socko for the Mandible Claw.
He could never overcome the Game though, so Seth Rollins hobbled down to help - throwing
aside his crutches and unzipping his hoodie to reveal a Kingslayer t-shirt.
Rollins and Hunter brawled - with Seth taking actual bumps - but The Game got the upper
hand.
Raw went off air with Triple H taking out Rollins’ injured knee.
So that was this week’s Raw in about four minutes.
Here’s the usual ratings recap, from top to bottom - In Awe, Cor, AVERAWGE, Poor and
Bore.
This week’s Raw is Poor.
Heyman and KO’s monologue promos were repeating the same stuff from before, there was no outstanding
wrestling to hook me in - like last week’s fantastic Neville vs Rich Swann match - and
the same finishes were overused.
That’s what happens when you have the same people wrestling each other week after week.
You have to cheat people out of proper finishes to build to the eventual pay-per-view match.
Raw should be mixing their competitors up to draw out programs.
See Smackdown for how this should be done.
What did you all think?
Let me know in the comments down below, and make sure to vote in the poll above my head
to give it your own rating.
I’ll announce the results on tomorrow’s WrestleTalk News.
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