Kane in a suit was insanely cool and I'm waiting to see how he's handled. Is he just generic muscle for the Authority? Or does he have a trigger? Like people have mentioned, he didn't actively partake in the Big Show beatdown.
From the Sandow match and the parts of the six-man that I saw, Cena seems to have learned a couple of transition moves - the back suplex to neckbreaker is certainly new. SIX MOVES OF DOOM? Also, that match was awesome.
I didn't catch a whole lot else on the show, the opening match between Punk and Bald Spot Wyatt was decent enough. I kept wondering how the inevitable Bryan run-in would happen with Bray sitting right there in his chair, but they circumvented that by having him run in only after Bray was already on his way to the ring. Also, classic choreography in making sure that during the carnage, Bray escaped completely unscathed.
There has to be a struggling indy somewhere willing to let Dr. Unlikely to take control and book them all the way into the big leagues.
Corporate Kane is probably the biggest take-away from the show last night. It's weird and funny, but also intriguing - I don't think they're just going with "Kane wears a suit now like Bossman did that one month"; he was a completely different guy, akin to Bradshaw morphing into JBL.
Originally posted by JimBob SkeeterWell, Harper, anyways, as Rowan is wearing the mask and just nods accordingly.
I'm really sad the mask was ever removed. The Lovely Mrs. Tracker is mesmerized by the family's gimmick. Virtually the only things on RAW that interests her are the Wyatt entrance and post-match rituals ending in the blip of the video.
"To be the man, you gotta beat demands." -- The Lovely Mrs. Tracker
Originally posted by CRZWow, do you know how close we were to a show with an Eva Marie main event match? Thank goodness for that four on one DQ at the end!
Come to think of it...we almost had two weeks in a row with a Divas' main event match.
There were TWO Divas matches this week! When was the last time that happened?
Heck, when was the last time the Divas roster was full enough for two matches? One a six-(wo)man tag!
"Tattoos are the mullets of the aughts." - Mike Naimark
"Don't stop after beating the swords into ploughshares, don't stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them. Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into ploughshares first" - Yehuda Amichai
Originally posted by SKLOKAZOIDI really like how competent they're making Orton in the ring as champion, but I don't like how all of his emphasis is as HHH's proxy.
Yeah, if I'm ranking how much people benefited from the big post-SummerSlam direction, I would go
1) Triple H 2) Big Show 3) Rhodes Brothers - easily the best thing to come out of the storyline; saved Cody's floundering face turn and got a super-motivated Goldust a new job 4) Daniel Bryan - completely unsatisfying payoff, but was booked as a supreme fighting machine and will probably be one of the top babyfaces now 5) The Shield - given a renewed main event purpose after losing momentum in July and August 6) Randy Orton - was supposed to be restored to prominence as the top heel, but is just the setup guy for HHH; impactful new title reign ended immediately; got his ass kicked by Bryan at almost every turn 7) Usos coordinates on the Z-axis) Dolph Ziggler and Miz
Originally posted by wannaberockstarI've never seen so much hand-wringing...
Brother, I've been on board with Raw since last Survivor Series for the most part. I get paid good money by NYSE:WWE Inc. to talk them up on small, insular message boards. But at this moment I'd like to skip past the next couple months of Big Show beatdown main events all the way to the ****1/4 Usos/Shield/Rhodes/Americans ladder match at the TLC PPV and the subsequent build to the Rumble if that's okay.
I just think one simply can't escape the WWE seasonal affective disorder theory, where the winter is good, the spring is boring, the summer is exciting, and the fall is bad.
Originally posted by John OrquiolaSomewhere in the back, Jojo pulled her curly hair out and kicked a Total Divas camera man in the shins.
A furious Jojo storms into Kevin Dunn Studios to record a hot remix of the Wyatt theme song.
Brie is getting pretty decent. Brie and Nikki's work going forward will be a good nature/nurture experiment if Brianna becomes a stiff, high-speed technician and Nicole becomes a gregarious ham who comes back from her next broken shin in 1/3rd of the time.
Originally posted by used2bcool
Originally posted by BigDaddyLoco I still feel like the Wyatts are missing something. Maybe a crazy lady would help, go full Devils Rejects with it.
Well, the oft-mentioned Sister Abigail can always materialize, so there's plenty of scope for that.
In some of their original videos, wasn't there a chick from developmental basking in the sun on a tree branch?
Originally posted by JimBob Skeeter*Rowan and Harper get that "Well, DUH!" look on their face*
Well, Harper, anyways, as Rowan is wearing the mask and just nods accordingly.
Harper: "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
Originally posted by Dr Unlikely
Originally posted by JustinShapiroSo what's the boringest case scenario to prepare for?
Originally posted by JimBob Skeeter*Rowan and Harper get that "Well, DUH!" look on their face*
Well, Harper, anyways, as Rowan is wearing the mask and just nods accordingly.
Harper: "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
Harper has now easily become one of my younger daughter's favorites. She and I go back and forth doing that call and mimicking his goofy facial expressions. Loved the opening match, as the lovely Mrs. whatever is a big CM Punk fan.
Loved the CM Punk Fathead in the crowd. The youngest also said she would want one of those with Fandango's face for her room (yeesh).
So far we are up to Fandango match, looking forward to seeing their reaction to Corporate Kane in the next day or two.
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Originally posted by JimBob Skeeter*Rowan and Harper get that "Well, DUH!" look on their face*
Well, Harper, anyways, as Rowan is wearing the mask and just nods accordingly.
Harper: "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."
Harper has now easily become one of my younger daughter's favorites. She and I go back and forth doing that call and mimicking his goofy facial expressions. Loved the opening match, as the lovely Mrs. whatever is a big CM Punk fan.
Loved the CM Punk Fathead in the crowd. The youngest also said she would want one of those with Fandango's face for her room (yeesh).
So far we are up to Fandango match, looking forward to seeing their reaction to Corporate Kane in the next day or two.
Harper is one of those guys where he doesn't have 'the look' but somehow has it. I guess it's the years of experience working the indies that make him know how to work his character.
Oh, he had a spooky clip last week on NXT where he talks, as he's going after Kassius Ohno. Awesome video. iirc they have a match this week.
Originally posted by KevintripodI was wondering out loud to my wife if it was a clip-on tie since it hung down so short, but then I remembered Kane is a really tall guy.
The tie thing was the first thing I thought too. It's gotta be hard for someone that tall. I'm 6'1" and I prefer to have tall-guy ties to ensure they're long enough when I'm wearing them. I don't know where one even buys a tie long enough for someone who's 6'6" or whatever Kane is supposed to be. Same place Big Show gets his suits, I guess.
Or maybe in the Sears mens wear department where Undertaker bought his Kane outfit.
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