The Official Monday Night RAW Thread

[Jarrod1983]

Just the start of Heyman's 2025 version of the Dangerous Alliance. Totally called him starting something in the Mania thread and said Bron would be a good young talent to elevate. Would not be surprised to see Seth end Jey's reign, possibly with help from Drew since he loathes Jey and would be down to help kill Punk, Roman and Jey. I'm licking my lips at possible Roman, Punk, Jey vs Seth, Bron, Drew War Games in November. They can obviously fill the other slots but I'd say there's a good chance of that happening.

[Nash Diesel]

Hopefully it's better than his 2013 version with Ryback and Curtis Axel.

[Badger]

Hopefully it's better than his 2013 version with Ryback and Curtis Axel.

Considering Bron is actually talented and Heyman’s been working extensively with Breakker behind the scenes, I don’t think this would be too difficult lol.

[Jarrod1983]

Hopefully it's better than his 2013 version with Ryback and Curtis Axel.

Not even comparable! What happened last night feels different to me. The original DA was all serious established talent plus the young stud in Austin. Everyone that had issue with Roman would have came. Thats the Alliance part. That's why Drew will come. If KO was around he'd be the other.

[Jarrod1983]

Also Becky will be the Madusa of the group. I might be getting ahead of myself but it feels like pieces are being positioned.

[Nash Diesel]

I wouldn't be negative to it. Another stable to go after Roman and friends. Roman and Punk fighting them off would be good enough for me but they could also use this as a way to really push a young up and comer.

[Jarrod1983]

I guess we'll see! I don't want to fantasy book but dam that feels like a year at least of TV, if not two. I like how Roman and Punk have become reluctant allies too. This thing can have so many layers if they choose to go this route.

That could have been a super group though, Paul leading Seth, Drew, Becky, KO and Bron. That's a Dangerous Alliance.

[Tyson]

-Bron Breakker, 2025 MITB. Rocket activated.
-Bayley loses her Mania payday to pad Becky’s stats and a next day heel turn? Swing and a miss.
-Wonder if we see the Undisputed championship get hotshot around for the short-term; John got #17, he doesn’t need to hold it forever. Randy surely goes over in his hometown, no?
-Meh on Rusev and the inevitable Black return. The company already has more than enough upper midcarders that aren’t getting shine, those two aren’t jumping the queue.
-Iyo Sky season, I’m here for it.
-The Judgement Day implosion over the IC title should be fun to watch.

[3puppies]

I wanted to mention how smart it was how they used JD McDonough in his return. Dude was likely to get cheered based on how he had to step away, so they make it a surprise, having him give the cheat-to-win assist.

Since there's a lot of TV time to fill, I wonder if Carlito and JD get a chance to earn a tag title shot while Balor gets invited to earn a shot at Jey's title. Judgment Day having a chance to have everyone holding gold. Balor says he wants to do it on his own while Carlito/JD welcome the assist from DirtyDomDom and the ladies, and earn their shot, while Balor comes up short.

Liv and Racquel denying they had anything to do with Bayley's attack makes it clearer that Becky probably did it. But I wonder if Bayley goes after Becky first, or if Lyra does. Lyra desperately needs a storyline to help her develop her character, so I suspect she's losing her title to Becky, and will go back to chasing it.

It seems obvious to me that Cena retains over Orton by pulling a classic heel cheat move like a pull of the tights or by standing on the middle rope, or maybe just a low blow. Either way, I am looking forward to it.

Rusev is nothing without Lana. Feed him to Punk, then release him.

[Murphy]

Assume John wins all his matches, leading to the days counting down and him dropping the title in his home town in his last match, at the December PLE. Handshake, babyface turn. Goodnight!

Bit like the old 'Summer of Punk' in ROH in 2005, with Punk counting down the days to leaving and going to WWE. Winning the title after it was known he was on his way. So using this as the blueprint.