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LUKE: The best ones will be read on the WrestleTalk Podcast

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Jamaal Ellison

This is so dope. Who could have guessed that creative is actually capable of remembering its own booking. I really wish they would have held Rhea and Roman to the same standard of accountability that they're holding Chad to.

Jamaal Ellison

This is your warning shot Bang!!!😂

Marc Joosten

Haven’t watched Raw but needed a background show while I was working so I completed a background binge of wrestletalk’s best of 2023 8 hour video and let me say that was more entertaining than most WWE shows since Mania 41 have been

oak_slaney

An actually enjoyable episode of raw! Maybe that was just because I got to watch it in the evening because it was in London, but a lot happened that excited me, Lyra’s heel turn was good and needed, but felt overdue, loved the Gable segment, Maxxine’s attitude there makes sense given her new affiliation with Theory, and a very enjoyable main event that hopefully gives the tag division some new life and simultaneously gave Seth and Bron’s match more stakes. Thumbs up from me

Dominic Walls

I really hope Oba wins King of the Ring. However Oba has said Brock Lesnar 3 time to summon him, and I expect to have my heart broken :T

Brett A

People always talk about how TKO is responsible for the price increases in WWE, but now TKO has clearly bought Wrestletalk as Patreon has gone up a wallet busting 50 cents. I know Oli is sponsored by AEW but soon we will have Monday Night Wars sponsored by Penguin Chocolate flavoured products. #wIndividuals

Inexplicable Shorts

I’ll just say it. I want Liv as double-champ. The latest Judgment Day backstage segment makes me think there will be some interference on Saturday, costing her out of spite (either them or a returning La Primera). But, love or hate the self-proclaimed greatest women’s champion of allllll tiiiiime, you can’t deny the character work Liv’s put in. Worthy of knocking off Rhea imo. But do I trust Triple H to book her with two belts when he can’t even handle one?

oak_slaney

Forgot to mention though, jey uso SUCKSSS, I know the jokes always been that he gasses himself out yeeting before matches/promos, but he genuinely seemed so out of breath in the segment with Oba 😂

Marc Joosten

I cackled when I was reminded of all of the “Kevin Patrick-isms”. That feels like a damn lifetime ago.

Anthony Davis

As much as I would love for oba femi to win, I discovered something that points the other way. No Samoan has won the king of the ring, male or female, which means Mr jey... uso.... yeet.... will almost certainly win

Anthony Davis

Also still love solos facials come to see them every time he's around

Brett A

we also need to Yeet in celebration

Mr. Grimes

I really haven't cared about Raw these past few weeks but I am HERE for this Lyra heel turn. I think Lyra is fantastic and think a heel turn is certainly an interesting direction to take her. Nonetheless hoping it will inspire me to start watching WWE again PS: Hope the upcoming wedding is awesome Oli, congratulations in advance!

Lewis Wainwright

Commentary from Cole and Graves made me cackle to myself on tonight’s raw ‘This is not a jovial Jey Uso tonight, he understands the task at hand’. says Cole while at the same time Jey is on the top rope yeeting to the crowd like he does every week on Raw

Brent

I imagine Luke and Oli got triggered by Michael Cole saying that Jey vs Je'Von on Smackdown was an "instant classic". The only WWE match this year that has the right to be an instant classic is Roman vs Punk at WM42 (not counting Mask vs Mask because it's AAA not WWE). I heard reports of Liv getting injured during a house show but it looks she is just fine to get beat up by Iyo. I really do hope that Rachel and Roxanne turned on Liv on Saturday after being constantly being ignored by Liv as she tends to Dom who just constantly fails right now. I really want a payoff to Danhausen's science experiments soon. I can only take so much of various WWE members getting executed by his equipment before it becomes overdone. I figured Bayley would be the one who turns heel on Lyra not the other way around. As I just finished typing that sentence, I remember that the Brits love Bayley and couldn't turn her heel on their mother soil. I really felt sorry for Gable as Maxxine, Akira, and Otis rejected his apology but I want to believe in the redemption arc. Probably the best story on Raw right now.

Charles Berg

When Cole said "things are getting explosive!" And then brie mode started playing. My brain immediately thought. "Yeah, explosive diarrhea." JTJ.

CDE

This was the most I've enjoyed raw in ages. Its amazing how much better the show gets when they decide to actually progress storylines! Really interested in seeing a Lyra heel run. Womens IC division could be great soon with Lyra, Dupri (both as heels), and Tatum paxley all challenging sol. Also did you guys notice the new tko trick last week, they said the Gunther Vs Cody match would be advert free, only to end the match, run ads then have Cody restart the match. I am stating on the record now that this trick will be utilised at wrestlemania next year!

cc

If we have to endure more of the Bloodline, I'm just happy that it means we get more Solo on our screens. He is such an under utilized comedic force. His little smile and nod of the head to Jimmy before Samoan spiking him was great.

Lily Petal

Can someone explain to me how we can break up Lyra and Bayley in less than a year but the Judgement day just keep going and going . . . and going . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and going . . . . . .and

Lily Petal

It's like saying Bloody Mary or Candyman or Beetlejuice 3 times. Don't do it!

Lily Petal

If you do trust HHH with booking you have NOT been paying attention lol

cc

I understand Dom is beloved, and he is a terrific chicken shit. But am I the only who finds his skills on the mic to feel stunted? It's very odd: when he's on a podcast he sticks so well to kayfabe and is charmingly charismatic. The moment he cuts a promo on TV - like tonight with Chad - he feels like AI trying to learn how to speak like a human.

Wahab Fares

Was during halftime of Argentina vs Austria that I remembered Raw was happening right now as its in London. loaded it up on Netflix, saw Yeetman taking forever with his entrance, closed the stream and decided to focus on the Messi show instead

James H.

I'll give credit to Austin Theory. I don't care about his character or style, but at least he is trying. Bron looked like he wanted to be anywhere else, especially during the backstage segment.

Defaultusername

Kinda tired of Screammode. I wasn't watching during Paige's first run and now 2 months after her return, I'm still not sure who she is or why I should care. She and Brie just seem so boring and have no story going on or character dynamics. Enjoying Chad's redemption tour. Just worried WWE will drag it out too long.

Brent

I truly think even WWE realizes that Brie's theme is so horrible that it plays first before Paige's theme takes over and becomes the entire entrance theme.

Moses

Really bad episode of Raw imo. Judgment Day,The bloodline and the vision all going round in circles Because the creative team are lazy. last night’s episode all showed just how thin WWE’s main event scene really is. Without Punk and/or Roman on the show everyone (except probably Oba) feels very mid-card.

Florian Groß

A very fun episode overall. I am still kinda invested in Gable's redemption arch, but they really need to have this pay off in some big, title-winning fashion. The Lyra heel turn was very well done, I hope they follow up on that in similarly good fashion. The main event was really good, I just hope they find some way to revive the tag divisions now. Other than that, as short as they were, the KotR/QotR promos really hyped me up quite nicely, I can see both matches go either way.

Finn

Austin theory got the crowd chanting for cm punk during a rest hold like it’s 2014 what a crowd

Sedin Magic15

So, Seth is losing at Night of Champions right? Win or lose, can this feud finally be over? Please??

Trinity Morris

Here’s an idea they can do even though they probably won’t do it, Have Oba win King of The Ring, Face Brock Lesnar and win on night 1, night 2 lose to Roman. He won’t lose momentum losing to Roman, he climbs back up the ranks, wins the rumble and beat Roman at mania. Been watching you guys for so long, have loved supporting wrestletalk

Ben Kind

Chad Gable continues to be the most interesting character on RAW, his speech to Otis was so genuine - it truly made me heartbroken watching Otis walk away On a side note, did anyone else get early 2010s PTSD when Michael Cole said Brie Bella learned the Yes Kicks from the Miz?

Peter Siddorn

Is it just me or do you think if Jey does win the King of the Ring and faces Cody at Summerslam half that crowd will be either be leaving the building (If it goes on last on night 1) or just leaving to do something else?

Harry Burke

I absolutely hate when they do this. It's supposed to be intimidating I suppose, but when Jey Uso is going "This is [big gasp of air] your warning [has asthma attack] shot, bamm [keels over and dies]" it really hits wide of the mark.

Vic Cutting

Sorry lads, jeys winning king of the ring, and maya world is winning the women’s Owen hart cup. I like you guys a lot but I can’t believe you don’t see how blindingly obvious this all is… I’m ashamed really . Jam that jam but sadly (joking, love you guys, jam that jam)

Chris

I really loved the alpha academy and Gable section, and it was my favourite bit of the show. Im also interested to see where Lyra's turn goes, perhaps linking to Tatum getting called up? I struggled to get into the main event. Much like the crowd, I was also just waiting for seth to show up so I didnt buy into anything happening in ring Overall I found it an ok episode, with some interesting shoots of storylines

Brandon

suitable go home episode of Raw, here are my list of thoughts. I guess Liv vs Iyo is going to fulfill the same purpose as an AEW Eliminator Match. Iyos gonna win and then face her again at summerslam for the title. Lyra turning heel is SOMETHING new for her and will probably lead to some good matches against Bayley (and Tatum since she reportably is primed for a post summerslam callup). overbooked match aside, the street profits have gold again which will always be a plus in my book, hopefully the tag division does... anything with them outside the vision. bron looking like he wanted to kill himself during the backstage promo and standing as far as he could from Logan and theory was fucking hilarious. almost as funny as the Jey/Oba segment that somehow made Oba look like a seasoned veteran and Jey look like an inexperience NXT callup. Oba buried Jey like he was John Cena talking to someone with a yellow arm band. Highlight of the episode was the chad segment, the more serious maxxine works so much better here then it did with the nattie shit we seem to have abandoned. the thing that stuck out to me the most is that BOTH King and Queen of the ring finals will for some reason be on the free ESPN hour, genuinely curious about the ratings of these PLEs before and after that first hour that led to this decision to open the show with the selling point

Brandon

hopefully its candyman rules since you need to say HIS name 5 times to summon him

Brandon

the awkward silence from the crowd after that before they chanted Oba broke me

Jack McEwen-Quy

Please don't let Jey win, i don't want Jey vs Gunther 2 or Jey Vs Sami Zayn. I want the rocket to stay strapped to Oba Femi.

RowdyRoutyPiper

Jey Uso I imagine is grateful that he has an over entrance and catchphrase, because if he cut an out of breath, high pitch raspy promo like this in the 2010's, guarantee the following week he would have a character that has asthma attacks in ring and has to hide inhalers everywhere around the ring.

Jack McEwen-Quy

Does HHH know he's book 6 matches for Night of Champions? Don't worry I'm sure it'll fail the World Wrestling Flavour Index or WWF for short.

Jamie Brown

I cannot hear the start of Brie Bella’s entrance music without thinking of Sullivan ordering cheese after a meal (TLC worst entrance themes)

FJC Racing

I liked the idea of Bayley/Lyra breaking up and I think Lyra being the one to go heel was a genuinely good twist. However, I do wish Bayley had ate the pin (or at least done something to mess up Lyra at the end) since I’d prefer Lyra’s character not to be a toddler throwing out their toys because they’re losing

JTNL

As much as I want Oba to beat Jey, I think it would be an incredible moment if Jey won and then announced that he wants Roman at SummerSlam instead of Cody. Have Jey finally snap, turn fully heel, and go after Roman because he's tired of living in his shadow. But I get that most people probably aren't excited to see Jey v Roman again.

Chris deaton

insane that Bron should have won the world championship last year and now lost the tag championships with Austin theory he didn’t even win on his first defense.

RealDoubleJ

Maybe im just getting old but Chad Gable's apology tour is reminding me of Sgt. Slaughter post-WM7 wanting his country back apology tour. Hopefully this leads to Gable snapping when The Vision beat down Otis and coming out with all that babyface fire we need from him But nevermind that, what a croooooowwwwwdddd!

Lucas Harrison

I dont understand why people like danhausen anytime I see him I just fast forward through it. I know yall praise him but I thought you guys would get tired of the same old comedy gimmick I just dont understand it 😆 🤣

Jimic

Watching those kids yeeting along with Jey at the start of the show made me sick! How could they be so foolish, don't they realise that this guy can't wrestle, get's out of breath easily and is only in this postion because of his annoying yeet gimmick? (not to mention his bloodline genealogy) But then it suddenly hit me, an epiphany! Was this what it was like when you guys had to watch John Cena all those years ago when he was the guy on top, and I was the annoying kid singing along in the crowd and doing all the goofy catchphrases?! Is this just the cycle of hate that all wrestling fans have to live through? What do you two wise uncs think?

JJ Bittenbinder

I swear if Jey Uso wins KOTR I'll stop watching WWE... Well, I won't, but I'm sure as hell telling everybody that I am!

Homerstar

Loved the Chad Gable segment. Chad was believable, but you can also understand Maxxines side as well. The problem is that I wish Otis and Tozawa just went back to Chad because I don’t want this to go on for 6 weeks like every other WWE story.

Matt

I thought this was a great episode. Lyra needed the freshening up as a heel, always excited to see the Street Profits become tag champs and that Oba promo 🔥

Darren Lloyd

If you only want to know who wins King and queen of the ring just watch espn for the first hour

Lew Jc

Long time watcher and occasional commenter if there's anything worth saying. I work in a chophouse in canary wharf and was at the door after closing hours on Sunday and had 4 big dudes enter the front, im thinking 'ffs we're closed' only to get in front of them and it turning into me having to turn away solo sikoa, angelo dawkins and jacob fatu. Firstly lol and wow but Was a bittersweet moment as it would've been fun to sit them and have them in my section as it would've been perfect to interact with them, btw dawkins doesn't get credit for his size, solo is a normal chill dude and jacob KNOWS how to go under the radar if you wasn't a smark you'd never know its him. Very funny as we get most celebs who come through the area for stuff a personal favorite previously and that i think the older crowd will love was serving bulk and skull when comicon was at the excel centre Anyways thats unrelated my real question is what happened to keith apicary?

Lily Petal

YES!!! I just watched the Raw review and Luke read out your comment so I had to come here to respond. Yes, this is exactly what adults like Luke, Oli, myself and countless others felt with the C-nation of kids who loved every annoying, goofy, can't wrestle, buries everyone, fine speech, stupid insults John Cena! YES!!!

saul rothman

DID WWE ACTUALLY LISTEN TO FANS!!! Wait I can hear that monkey paw curling it's fingers