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March 2nd, 2021, 12:02 AM
#1601
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March 2nd, 2021, 12:09 AM
#1602
Originally Posted by
rom7878
Lashley deserves it
I saw part of the top of the show where they set up the 8pm title match. I'm glad Drew brought up he had dealings with the Hurt Business last year. I tuned in to see if the match would happen, which it didn't. So when I tuned in one last time to see the end of the show, I thought there would be shenanigans with the lumber jacks. Boy am I surprised it was played straight. Miz did try the get DQed route, which I appreciate. But he just wasn't squirrely enough, and we have a NEW WWE champion. Even though he's a heel, I think if there was a crowd there, he'd get cheered. Nobody can deny he didn't pay his dues to get the top belt.
And Miz can still crow about being a two time WWE champ, and 2-0 in MITB cash-ins. Not bad.
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March 2nd, 2021, 12:10 AM
#1603
Shame on me for thinking they were going to start Raw with a match simply because they said they were going to. It was also funny how they talked about the bitterness between Sheamus and McIntyre and how we were finally getting a payoff towards that but again, Sheamus was getting overshadowed. Kind of sucks for him but it's quite fitting for how the last two-plus months have gone.
I expected the match between Sheamus and McIntyre to be a hard-hitting slugfest and that's what was delivered and then some! Twenty-four minutes of physicality. The announce table refused to do the job tonight. Two bumps and didn't really budge. Out of the two, the first one looked less ideal than the second one. Fun finish with both of them going their finishers at the same time but McIntyre caught him first. It looked gnarly on the replay too.
Nia, one half of the tag champs, against Naomi. Shayna, the other half of the tag champs, against...Charlotte. Huh? Go figure. If there's no story later for Naomi to get redemption for getting her ass handed to her, this was definitely a waste of time and of her.
It's a shame Nicholas wasn't available as the mystery partner for Strowman. Eye rolling doesn't justify how little I care about what Strowman is doing right now. Talk about botching a character. The saving grace was that they didn't switch the titles. The story between Strowman and McMahon didn't need a silly tag title reign so I'm glad they didn't go that route. If they are going with those two at Mania, I guess the only intrigue comes in how the match goes. McMahon really hasn't phased a physical/power guy in their peak in quite a while. That's about all I've got.
Priest went way down in terms of a sparring partner this week. I'm quite stunned and relatively appalled that the match between Priest and Elias went as long as it did and was diluted as much as it was. It certainly got sloppy in some parts. Elias clearly has deteriorated as a worker in the ring as most of the stuff he did were rest holds or silly strikes. He feels like a guy at this moment that could get market corrected rather easily.
How freaking short is Kayla Braxton? Her eye level was with Orton's chest. The Deep-Fake Orton saying that Orton is going to come face-to-face with everything he's done pretty much seals the deal for me that Fiend/Orton will culminate in a Firefly Fun House match. With Orton's history, that will be quite interesting. The stuff leading up prior to that...not as interesting.
The Raw Women's championship picture is as cold as you could possibly imagine. Then it's set up to potentially have a face/face match between Charlotte and Asuka or Asuka playing heel, which means Charlotte works an unnatural role. Ugh. Rhea needs to arrive and do so in a hurry. A very scary thought I had was one that a lot of the stuff Charlotte and Ric bickered about last week was a means for Ric to bring Rhea to Raw. That would be a terrible, terrible way to debut her on Raw, so I really hope that's just a trashy figment in my mind and not a plan they actually execute.
There was potential there in the Charlotte/Shayna match but they clearly had no interest in having a lengthy match there, which was odd considering we wanted to give buckets of unnecessary time to Priest/Elias.
The six-man tag match was not much of anything but LHP is a damn fun watch. Of course, Retribution lost again. They look silly while Ali gets some time to run. The fact he pinned the champion is something but I doubt it leads to much. That finish could have been disastrous, though. That looked like an Avalanche Backstabber but it clearly didn't work out that way.
I noticed that Miz has side plates on his title that is just the WWE logo but upside down, like he has for his mic flag. Nice touch. Phillips started the night by saying this episode was "one of the biggest nights in the history of Monday Night Raw." I don't know about that but they certainly did a job in having a show-long story. They played a pretty dangerous game to set up the possibility that Miz would duck three matches in one night. Luckily they saw how dreadful that would be and the swerve was that was no swerve. It got kind of weird at the end where McMahon (a heel) was berating Miz (a heel) as he was set to finally face Lashley (a heel?). Good for Lashley, though. He's come a long way from that stupid-ass story with Lana and Rusev. He's been one the best-booked and most protected guys in the company and that work has been paid in full now. If MVP could actually work right now, THB could have all of the gold. That's wild.
Miz will gradually move back to Bad Bunny, McIntyre will come chasing back for his title and I anticipate the build for the match between McIntyre and Lashley will be quite good.
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March 2nd, 2021, 12:39 AM
#1604
What a difference a year has made for Lashley. He went from an embarrassing wedding and marriage angle with Lana to destroying the Miz and winning the WWE title. What an epic turn around.
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March 2nd, 2021, 12:44 AM
#1605
Lashley is a king. Good on him.
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March 2nd, 2021, 12:50 AM
#1606
Her right to choose…
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