Raw Discussion 27/03/17 (Mania Go-Home Show)

I still think the build to this Mania has been one of the worst ever. But the Raw before needs to be good, so I'm expecting it to be. It has to be, this is their final chance on the Raw side of things to sell the PPV, to give people a reason to tune in. You can't (well, they can, but they shouldn't) sell a PPV on name value alone, because that's how people lose interest in it. It's meant to be a special PPV, so sell it properly and give us a Raw that deserves to go on before Mania.

Getting the two part timers in should help, but they've done poorly in getting people invested in that match as they're both hardly there. Good decision though to get them both in for tonight though. They need to be.

I love that Triple H and Rollins have to sign a Hold Harmless Agreement. I get why they're adding that to the story, but when you really think about it all it means is that in the other matches they can sue the other guy if they get injured, which we see a fair bit. I mean technically any move done to them would hurt a bit, so they could sue for that. Let's not think about it though because it's WWE and you have to suspend some belief. I just hope that the match lives up to it, like the Triple H vs Shawn Michaels match when Shawn came back to WWE. That was brutal, and that's what is needed when they make a big deal about signing Hold Harmless Agreements. Don't care about quality so much, but it has to be brutal. Otherwise what is the point?

I expect that we will see Taker. Everyone that has a match on the Raw side should be available and appear on TV. Like I said, it's their last chance to really sell it so they have to appear.

I really hope it's a good show. Raw has been so disappointing recently, more so than usual.

I still think the build to this Mania has been one of the worst ever.

Eh, I have to disagree with this. Do you remember last year's build? It's at least an improvement on that. Last year's Mania was pretty crappy too, so this Mania should be much better unless it turns out to be one of the worst Mania's ever. Either way, regardless of what we think of the build, there's a lot of important shit going down on RAW tonight so by just the grand scale of it it should be a good show. We might get a new GM (although personally I think they'll wait til after Mania), Goldberg and Lesnar are both there (let's hope they don't do the Lesnar-Reigns tug of war again), Undertaker and Triple H-Rollins.

I still think the build to this Mania has been one of the worst ever.

Eh, I have to disagree with this. Do you remember last year's build? It's at least an improvement on that. Last year's Mania was pretty crappy too, so this Mania should be much better unless it turns out to be one of the worst Mania's ever. Either way, regardless of what we think of the build, there's a lot of important shit going down on RAW tonight so by just the grand scale of it it should be a good show. We might get a new GM (although personally I think they'll wait til after Mania), Goldberg and Lesnar are both there (let's hope they don't do the Lesnar-Reigns tug of war again), Undertaker and Triple H-Rollins.

Probably doesn't help that the only match I'm looking forward to is the Cruiserweight match. But yeah, I'm expecting tonight to be a good Raw, will make a nice change.

I'm interested to see what Brock and Goldberg will do tonight. My prediction is Brock gets a nice spear. Should be a good show. Don't think they will address the GM issue until after Wrestlemania though.

So the womens match is now an elimination match. Don't get why that couldn't have been mentioned last week - why leave it until last night to mention it? Not watched it yet, but from what I've read it sounds like it was a good Raw for once. Might have to check it out a lot sooner than I usually do.

Was good enough. Seemed miles better than what we've had from Raw in recent weeks where it's been way below average. Still seems like they haven't worked out how to fill the 3 hours up though and you'd think that after all this time that they would have figured it out. Looking forward to Smackdown which is usually better. If it tops this Raw then it will be a very good episode of SD!

Looks like based on the use of ladders with the tag teams that the tag title match might end up being a ladder match. I hope so, it needs the gimmick.

Am I the only one who can't get into Nia Jax at all? Like I hate her. Shes so bad and boring.