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OLI: The best ones will be read out on the WrestleTalk Podcast. Unless your name is Adam Corona.

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Matt Adams

This show was ridiculous! SO many video packages and talking segments. A bunch of nothing happening matches and I still dont care about much at Summerslam, especially Seth and Roman. I am sure that Oli will tell me it was a good, interesting show though.

Jake Miller

This isn't a sanctioned MMA match or anything. Why are they having a weigh in for Brock and Oba? That's dumb. On another note, SummerSlam would be a good spot for Solo to screw Seth and rejoin the family if that's the route they're going.

Jake Miller

Also Raquel going for the intercontinental title instead of being in a qualifying match for the ladder match at SummerSlam is wack

JJ Bittenbinder

Nothing worth discussing on Raw, so, slideshow of the wedding Oli? Thoughts on the World Cup? Seen the Avengers Doomsday trailer? A history lesson on Limp Bizkit by Luke? I'll take anything...

Don

Don't know who the bigger dork has been this year: Bronn or Gunther. Sure Bronn's burial has been well documented this year, but Gunther started the year retiring AJ before his career ender gimmick ran into a wall, got stuck in a random feud with Seth to become the only superstar that needed a favor to a non-gm to jump to the other brand and challenge for a title, to lose said title match, and finally get rugpulled by a suspended gm who granted him a stipulation for a shot at the title at Summerslam only for the same gm to cause him the match with interference. Regardless both superstars got buried by bad booking

Mr. Grimes

Loved Lyra's performance on Saturday. She really seems to be hitting her stride as a heel and I'm excited to see where she goes next. Hopefully Iyo wins the belt at Summerslam and we can get Lyra vs Iyo at some point in the next year and a half Also, am I the only one who remembers WWE announcing the "John Cena Classic"? Just making sure no one has forgotten PS: Amazing work remembering to ask people for their thoughts for the second time in a row Oli, absolutely incredible! I stay tremendously proud of you. Everyone else could learn a thing or two from you!

Glen Robert Lower

Can we end the whole judgment day thing already, they’re starting to drag danhausen down with them making his spots seam boring and repetitive.

Astrol effect

This was my 10 year old little sisters first time watching raw we enjoyed it as a family. Also a few months back I left a comment on yalls YouTube channel after backlash. I was in the crowd and had a triple h fears oli Davis sign

Graff

Couldn't care less about Raw however I'm waiting for that story we missed last week. Also, they mentioned Batman & Robin on commentary, and I got to thinking who's who? And especially which Robin are we talking here?

Brett A

Adam Pearce about to get an email from HHH about how the fans want to see a variety of matches including men and WOMEN.

Christopher Bohl

I think it is rather telling that most of us would prefer to spend our time discussing anything else besides Monday Night RAW.

Flame4506

Not much happened this week story wise but I really enjoyed the pacing for the first two thirds of the show. $25 for the cheap seats is pretty desperate for getting Summer Slam tickets sold.

Brent

All we remember the John Cena Classic being announced but in order to get an uptick for tickets for Backlash, WWE announced John Cena being there. Then Cena came out to announce the Classic except it wasn't a complete formed idea at the time from reports. TKO has banked on the casuals forgetting about it until they have an actual idea on what it should be which has worked so far.

Nmedley

I find it odd that they keep hyping up lesnar being undefeated in hell in a cell when he’s only had 2 matches both against the undertaker. Like I was expecting it to be at least 5 or 6 matches before I looked it up

cc

Why are we doing a weigh in for Brock and Oba? Unless their match is for the HEAVYWEIGHT belt (which, it's not), OR, they're bringing back the Cruiserweight championship, then what is this absolute farce of the upcoming weigh in segment?

Chris deaton

Eh. It was fine. Ended super early

Brent

It's Bron by far. At least Gunther has been in the upper midcard/main event consistently compared to Bron who has become the silent heavy of a pathetic failed stable feuding with lovable jobbers.

Brent

Brand split only exists when it wants to be.

Cookie Monster

This Raw could of been an email, low key thought Ambrose/Moxley was going to be mentioned during one of the video packages. On a side note I was at Saturday Nights Main Event and the Oba chants were deafening, I really hope they dont mess this up

Don

I could argue that Gunther had a bigger fall from grace. He went from a former champion and feared competitor all the way to punching bag of the Codyverse and least important member of the tag match on SNME. Meanwhile, Bronn has been stuck ever since he joined Seth

@Brett Nathan 995

We Officially Missed The Amazing Great But Worst Part Of It Days Of Away From Back To Beginning We Are Going To Miss The Better Days Of The WWE Professional Wrestling Season Tons Of Refixing Like All The Other What’s Ifs The Cloudve Been The Missed Opportunities / Rebookings Me I Don’t Watch Wrestling Anymore I Knew John Cena Was Officially Retiring From WWE Thats How I Officially Quitting WWE Professional Wrestling Permanently Forever Instead Of Being Watching Wrestling I’ve Been Doing Working Elsewhere & Watching Boxing Yeah Mostly Boxing On Netflix Premanetly I Trust Know Everything About Professional Wrestling From WWE Standarded Straight Up Sucks Right Now So Yeah In The Far Near Future From Now That WWE Officially Is Going Out The Business As WWE Officially Well Completely Dead Please Get Ready Get Rid Of Triple H Out Of The WWE Professional Wrestling At Once He’s So Sinks I Hate Triple H Everything About Him Please we Can Do Putting Back In The Intnotai Like London Wrestlemana Live In The Webliy Only Do The Last Time We Do It London/ Australia Then All Of The Business Officially Gone Like Erased Entirely From Existence

Sage

2 weeks away from summerslam and we got 5 minutes of the guys in the main event… but at least Roman was there with Jalen Brunson right? 😄

Brent

I wonder if next week's Raw will have Roman saying how much this week's Raw was so worse without him being on the show. It was an okay Raw. I would have like a Lyra promo but oh well. Lack of women's matches is odd for WWE. There was no Roxanne or Raquel this week either.

Isaac hansel

Not to make this tribalistic but an observation I’ve made as of late is the difference of wrestlers in AEW and WWE whose stories aren’t in the main event tier of the shows. Just looking at dynamite from last Wednesday and this week’s Raw. For example, on dynamite we have undercard stories such as mark davis vs Andrade, Kyle fletcher and the international title jealously saga, and wrestlers who are at the level of Tommaso Caimpa (Jericho feud not withstanding), Darby Allen, Bailey, and so many others. All of these wrestlers have something to do every week either but wrestling a good to a really good tv match or having a promo or segment that keeps their story going in an interesting manner. If we flip the coin and look at the raw undercard which consists of people and stories such as Chad Gables redemption arc (Chad to aew confirmed!) this is a good story but where’s the confidence or goodwill that they actually will capitalize on it, the J.D. verse, Solo’s… what’s his story right now besides looking cool in a red suit and still trying to get the gloves over. The difference these have nothing to do with the people or their work because I believe all of them in both companies have a lot to show and are very talented people. However AEW is showcasing the talent of the undercard and the main event beautifully. If you are an undercarder in wwe you are made out to be a chump, someone that sucks, or just a character we are supposed to believe is stupid. I believe the reason that AEW is so hot right now is not just because of the brilliant showing that the main event is happening but it’s that when you watch an AEW show you know attention is being given to every single part. Even if you only wrestle a 3 minute match like oba vs JD you know they will care about the quality of the segment and at least give some effort. Wwe has continuously shown that if you are not in the main event then they won’t care about the quality of your segment. If wwe wants to get hot again they have to care about every character and every second of the day. This episode of raw wasn’t a bad one it just felt like the same formulaic AI-esk slop they have been putting out since we no longer have the John Cena sized bandaid to cover the cracks.

Sage

Both SPRINT and team serene would outbook current wwe… especially with top guys like Goldberg and hogan 😉

RedHood93

I know that you guys have talked about this before, but like the decline of Bron Breakker is just sad. He wanted out of the vision and can anyone blame him? He's stuck in a nothing tag feud that's more over Maxine Dupree than the tag titles. He's not even a tag team guy he's lower mid card at best

Lily Petal

Adam Corona here, oops, I mean, er, ah, Dan Layton here, yeah, I am Dan. Where were the women tonight?? Not one match! See, I am Dan and not He That Shall Not Be Named!

CDE

After weeks of watching and thinking “well this sucks”, I really enjoyed this episode, sure it was mostly mid card shenanigans (sorry bron breaker) but there’s nothing wrong with that if it’s done well. All the matches were decent (although no women’s match in a two and half hour show is inexcusable imo). JD refusing to fight OBA and then going flying in the match did more for me than most the video segments trying to build hell in a cell and I do wish that someone would remember Joe hendrys gimmick and actually say his name to get him involved in segments. Even Seth Rollins and the USO’s didn’t overstay their welcome tonight so it must have been good!

Lily Petal

Bron wins hand down. Wait, this is something you don't want to win. Bron loses? That's not good either.

Lily Petal

Roman and Jalen are still walking to the ring.

Lily Petal

I had chicken and rice for dinner tonight. That is something other than RAW.

JJ Bittenbinder

Nice, what would be your starrating of the dinner & why would it be 7 stars if you ate it in the Tokyo Dome?

Lily Petal

I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what you were spelling using the first letter of each word before I realized that wasn't what you were doing!

CDE

If he does I hope LA knight comes out and points out that across SNME and tonight’s Raw the worst segment by far was Roman’s aura farming main event on Saturday.

Brandon

the premium definition of a filler episode. the only thing that interested me at all was the big cass promo revealing it will 100% not be a nostalgia act and seemingly focus on cass' real world issues

Ripper3112

Zero women's segments or matches on the entire card that is absolutely abysmal, I guess creative had nothing for them 🙄. (Or is it they are just bad at booking and dont care)

Wahab Fares

I’d be super impressed if you guys managed to drag the podcast to the hour mark, such a nothing show this week. that Roman/seth segment on SNME gives me second hand embarrassment

Wahab Fares

Every time Oba wrestles, it just makes me sad knowing he’s not walking out of SummerSlam as World Champion. Especially with how boring Roman’s reign has been

Mr. Samuel Scratch

Aka: the thing Trips gave up on after a year The bald fraud

Miguel Vega

Hello Oli and Luke, this question is for Oli, im thinking of going to Italy with my girlfriend next year for her birthday. Where would you recommend staying at, and what activities would you recommend??? Oli and Luke have a wonderful day!!

Hayden Matzkows

Unrelated to raw but when can we expect Wonder Oli to make his triumphant return?

Brendy

Roman Reigns is like me in high school, showing up and just doing enough to get by

Daniel Mohorcic

I haven't watched raw in a few months and thought we may get some aftermath from Saturday. Fool me, this episode was the most nothing episode. Also,I don't know how they did it, but the hype packages showing the history for Seth and Roman are like anti-hype packages. It should have just been Oba vs. Roman.

DennyDorko

Two questions: 1) Now that Luke is back, any chance we get a review of the 3-part Jeff Jarrett/TNA "Dark Side of the Ring" episode? I really want to know how much of it you think was accurate, and how well you think they handled all the controversies. 2) With all the advertisement for Unreal on Raw the past few weeks, I started to considered there are really 3 possible explanations for how the shows have become so bland: -all the writers combined can't come up with anything interesting for some very talented wrestlers to do; -they come up with good ideas and Triple H shoots them down; -they only pitch ideas they think he will like, which aren't that great (what I think probably happened under Vince). Which do you think it is? I know Oli is found of saying "they're bad at booking and don't care," but surely someone in that room does care because (unlike Triple H) they can be fired if they aren't seen as contributing.

Chief The Original

Was there live. Very mid show. No stars. Chad & Penta match had no drama. Bloodline stuff was alright but actual match was meh. We chanted for tables the entire time. Oba is great. Heyman promo was great but should’ve been live. Judgment Day stuff has fallen off. I will say say Je’von Evans is awesome to watch live. Poor Joe Hendry & poor Bron Breakker

Brent

Danhausen has officially been sucked in the Judgment Day Vortex along with Iyo Sky. It was funny that during his promo, Danhausen thought he was done with the Judgment Day but we all heard that line before. I really think the only way to get out of it is a steel cage match. It worked for Seth since he got out of the Bron feud.

Inexplicable Shorts

Turned to my friend afterwards and said, “So… is SmackDown the better show now?”

Vectron44

"So what's new on Raw?" "Well, Roman and Rollins are feuding over their past in the Shield" "No, what happened this week!" "Well, Chad Gable is feuding with Penta" "No, THIS week- what's new?" "Well, the Judgement Day and the Vision keeps interfering in matches" "Look, did you even watch Raw this week!? What's LA Knight doing?" "Oh he's teaming with Solo Sikoa and Royce Keys!" "Oh that sounds interesting!" "Against the Bloodline." "Oh for God's sake..."

RagingM0ng00se

No women’s matches or in-ring segments is an absolute disgrace. Bless Dan’s heart, thank god he doesn’t have to review Raw this week, I think he’d have an aneurysm. I’ve come to expect some of the bad aspects of HHH’s booking, but this episode sunk to a level that I thought we had moved past as an industry, and worst of all, was also f’ing boring. Genuine 1-star show for me.

‘The Auditor’ Oliver

So… are we ever going to book the women? Or are we keeping them on ad breaks and in men’s storylines?

Peter Siddorn

RAW was nothing. Bigger question for you both. Does Summerslam hit 30K of actual tickets sold for both nights?

Scott Adams

Below average episode overall compared to the last few weeks. However, just a general thought that came to me watching it. I could not care less about Solo in the MFT story (pick one, I don’t think any were good) and always skipped past it. Now, I actually really like his character and he feels far more compelling. When creative effort is put in, it works, but they only do it for brief periods and pause stories.

Jack McEwen-Quy

Too much wrestling on my entrances show tonight, do better WWE. Ps. Also too much in ring men, where did all the women and there matches go?

Jack McEwen-Quy

Like an email on myGM mode Oba: "Hey Adam, JD threw his bag at me backstage, I want a match with him tonight!" Adam: “An Instant Rivalry? Sure I can make that happen!"

Kevin Fleuriot

When was the last time Raw opened AND Closed the show with matches ? I'll need the chocolate meter on this episode

Leon Mkhize

Bron Breakker deserves better and you can see that he’s really not into this Vision thing anymore

Homerstar

Coming out of Saturday Nights Main Event, Lyra was the most interesting thing and the one that most people were talking about in the comment section. So in typical WWE fashion, they don’t capitalise on it and she’s not on the show tonight.

That Welsh Guy

So glad I listened to Dan and let the Sami stuff play out. Now I got to see him be the 5th most important person in a tag team match on SNME. Super worthwhile pay off to him losing the title to punk......

Chris

I have absolutely nothing to say about this show, besides I'm really enjoying the LA Knights 4th wall breaking promos he now does, reminds me of Kevin Owens from a few years ago. Also have you seen the Doomsday trailer yet??

Jamie Brown

Please give Seth new music

James Markin

Seriously whose the heels and faces with the Bloodline? Seth is clearly the heel and Roman is the whitemeat babyface on Saturday, then on Raw Seth's the face turning down a heel Solo, and then finally Solo's a face getting an nWo beatdown from a heel Bloodline.

FJC Racing

I think WWE may have booked this show thinking Summerslam was a week early, and this was a filler episode before anything meaningful happens before Summerslam. It wasn’t bad, just not good. Possibly the most skippable episode of RAW since mania based on storyline alone? Even the Rollins/Fatu thing was not really necessary.

Leon Mkhize

How did Rusev become so much of a charisma vacuum???

Yeetus Skeetus

Im sorry for swearing but how the fuck is Liv vs Iyo bulit around Danhuasen

Darren Lloyd

This episode was them punting and I can’t figure out why

Shawn Lindsay

Oli can you go away you are making Raw bad 😄

Fin Levett

I looked at a RAW recap and I thought I mistakenly picked last weeks show, that’s how repetitive it is these days

sam

hi Wwe is sam downing

G the B (Greg the Bastard)

Its payday for me so I have human monies. New episodes of Unreal to watch later, put Raw on and see 2 hours and 15 minutes runtime. What a start to the day! When was the last time Raw started with a match? Big fan of that! Really enjoyed the show as a whole. Not a lot of dead time and felt fast paced compared to recent months

JJ Bittenbinder

Ok, we got the Doomsday trailer react on Cutscene, but I'm still waiting for my history of Limp Bizkit presentration by Luke...

Lily Petal

I would give it 4 stars because it was well seasoned and juicy. To get it to 7 stars at the Tokyo Dome I want to eat it with the 4 Horsewomen!

Lily Petal

Your post made me sad because it was so true. Then I got to the the last 4 lines and giggled!

L3 Productions

I know this isn't really raw related but honestly unreal season 3 in a tough watch I actively rolled my eyes so many times what they said about bron was crazy "we don't want to shove bron down there throats" like come on