RAW 5/6: Roman is back!

[BaconBits]

Letâ??s see what happens.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

I expect a WM 17 - esque level of RAW tonight

[BaconBits]

I expect a WM 17 - esque level of RAW tonight

I’m thinking it’ll be more 19-esque.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

I’m thinking it’ll be more 19-esque.

good enough for me.

[BaconBits]

So Sami shits on smarks and Roman agrees with them? What sort of sorcery is this shit?

[BaconBits]

So the New Day will be out next, won’t they?

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Lars Sullivan will be out next, probably.

[klunderbunker]

.....and I didn't go to this show why?

[#AbsoluteUnit]

good call bacon

[Spidey]

AH now I get it. They're from Smackdown but they are here on Raw.

[BaconBits]

I think this is just all setup for MITB clusterfucks later.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

bacon is on to something here

[BaconBits]

Can Brock come out and smash everybody at some point? Like go full Hulk?

[Spidey]

fuck sakes get on with the show already

[BaconBits]

I look forward to the 16 minutes of wrestling we’ll get tonight.

[klunderbunker]

fuck sakes get on with the show already

That might imply that they know what they're doing more than ten minutes before the show goes on. That and they know the wrestling doesn't go well because matches go on way too long for a show like this because they have to stretch it out for three hours.

[BaconBits]

Whatever tag team they throw out there is going to be underwhelming, and it’ll be awesome.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

That was all weird

[klunderbunker]

Oh yeah the Brand Split is dying right before our eyes and that’s not the worst thing in the world. This is going to be a good short term fix but if they don’t address the bigger issues (champions losing, stupid stories designed to entertain Vince and the writers, stories that go on forever and pushing people that the fans don’t care about), none of this is going to matter in the long term. It stops the bleeding a bit, but doesn’t build anything back up.

[klunderbunker]

I knew it was going to be Corbin, you knew it was going to be Corbin and the world knew it was going to be Corbin.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Indeed. I was expecting Corbin.

[BaconBits]

I just like that this whole show and going into the future completely shit on the brand split.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Corbin is winning MITB isn't he?

[klunderbunker]

Corbin is winning MITB isn't he?

Probably wins the title without it at some point this year. I'd be surprised if he doesn't.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Probably wins the title without it at some point this year. I'd be surprised if he doesn't.

Don't put that evil on me!

[BaconBits]

Corbin is winning MITB isn't he?

God I hope so. Face champs on both brands and he’s the only true heel they have.

[klunderbunker]

They want the audience to go up.

Fifteen minute (plus) Baron Corbin match.

[klunderbunker]

God I hope so. Face champs on both brands and he’s the only true heel they have.

Oh I really don't know about that.

[Wildcat66]

Probably wins the title without it at some point this year. I'd be surprised if he doesn't.

Can't be any worse than Jinder. I'll say that much.

[BaconBits]

Oh I really don't know about that.

Heâ??s the only heel they have who isnâ??t trying to be cool.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

This Bucks - Celtics game ain't bad.

[klunderbunker]

Can't be any worse than Jinder. I'll say that much.


....I'll get back to you on that.


Heâ??s the only heel they have who isnâ??t trying to be cool.

Bryan isn't. Sami Zayn isn't. Kevin Owens isn't anymore.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Corbin just pinned the Universal Champion. I can't wrap my head around that.

[BestSportsEntertainer]

They really think THAT is a good way to keep people from watching the Warriors and Rockets game?

[Spidey]

I love that Sami is just the writers' self-insert.

[klunderbunker]

Sami starts getting over as a heel, gets thrown in the garbage.

[BaconBits]

Why was the backup alarm going while the truck was going forwards?

[BaconBits]

A jobber six man team is hilarious to me.

[Spidey]

The party no one went to XD

[klunderbunker]

Why was the backup alarm going while the truck was going forwards?

Why was a garbage truck operating at 9pm?

[#AbsoluteUnit]

How convenient that there just was a garbage truck right there. My garbage arrives on Fridays.

[klunderbunker]

The party no one went to XD

Shocky sent in a picture of the crowd and it's half empty.

[BaconBits]

Why was a garbage truck operating at 9pm?

I mean, industrial garbage pickup is all over the place. The dumpsters at my work get emptied overnight sometime. That one isnâ??t as peculiar as the backup alarm.

[BaconBits]

Good lord that was a horrible segment.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Terrible.

[Spidey]

Evans can make you hate her even when she ain't there and her opponents ain't good at acting. A.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

I don't hate her though. She's just 'meh'

[klunderbunker]

“Lacey Evans has sent you invitations to her match tonight. You find them pretentious” is too hard for them to do on their own?

[Spidey]

There was a perfectly good kid to choke!

[BaconBits]

Clusterfuck incoming after this match.

[klunderbunker]

You know where this is ending so just hve the title change here. Stop stretching this stuff out longer than it needs to be.

[BaconBits]

You know where this is ending so just hve the title change here. Stop stretching this stuff out longer than it needs to be.

I feel thatâ??s a byproduct of just having to fill too much TV time each week, and itâ??s supposedly going to get even worse because SD is rumored to be going to three hours on Fox.

[klunderbunker]

STOP

SHOWING

THE

CROWD

WATCHING

THE

TITANTRON!!!

[Spidey]

God help me, these are incredible.

[klunderbunker]

God help me, these are incredible.

Just wait until the stock holders and sponsors are furious about them showing children.

[BaconBits]

I just want all this to all end with Bray in a pothead gimmick.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

If those things were my friends, I'd go play in traffic.

[BaconBits]

Broken face? Seriously?

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Not the greatest Rollins promo to say the least.

[Undying]

if only Rollins had a personality, he might actually be interesting

[BaconBits]

Not the greatest Rollins promo to say the least.

He’s a bad face promo. His promos were better when he was Trip’s handpicked dickbag of a champ.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Just wait until the stock holders and sponsors are furious about them showing children.

Have they shown children yet?

[klunderbunker]

Have they shown children yet?

About six minutes ago.

[BaconBits]

Have they shown children yet?

They just did.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

About six minutes ago.

I literally missed it, I was making tacos. How bad was it?

[Spidey]

Cool camerawork there.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Thank you Charly

[Spidey]

This is entertaining?

[klunderbunker]

This is entertaining?

You bet it is pal.

[smarkmouth]

So judging by the reaction to the rest of the show, I'm tuning in at exactly the right moment, yeh?

[smarkmouth]

WWE really selling that commercial time at a bulk rate tonight, so it seems by this one match that I'm watching.

[klunderbunker]

Monday Night Raw
Date: May 6, 2019
Location: US Bank Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio
Commentators: Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Renee Young

WWE seems to already be hitting the panic switch as the shows are hitting some pretty low numbers. Therefore, Roman Reigns is back tonight to settle some unfinished and unspecified business. Normally it would make sense to advertise this more than a few days in advance and on television instead of online but WWE has never been one to plan ahead. Let’s get to it.

Click on the link below for the full review.

The Quick Fix Is In (http://kbwrestlingreviews.com/2019/05/06/monday-night-raw-may-6-2019-the-quick-fix-is-in/)

[Jack-Hammer]

Eh, not so sure about the Wild Card thing. Seems like a good idea in principle but you ultimately have WWE resorting to the same old bullshit. For instance, why not just go head and put the tag title son the Viking Raiders tonight instead of going through with another tag match between them that nobody cares about? Unless, of course, it's to show even more contempt by actually having Hawkins and Ryder defeat this genuinely good team. We also looked to have a tag match between two solid teams in Gallows & Anderson and the Revival but it's instead turned into a skit from an 80s movie with the Usos having rubbed icy-hot into the crotches of the Revival's tights earlier in the night. So, we didn't get a match, we just got more juvenile nonsense that Vince thinks is funny. Oh, and the worst thing of all is that we go back to the lame ass, dead tired idea we see about once a month in WWE of two guys who don't like each other being forced to team up only for a misunderstanding to cost them the match. Even worse though, this time around saw the reigning Universal Champion pinned by Baron Corbin so, whoop-de-fucking-do, this means a championship match for Corbin before long.

Also, why not have a competitive match between Sami Zayn and Braun Strowman instead of the usual bit of either the big guy destroying the little guy or big guy chasing down the little guy and then destroying him before getting rid of him in a quasi-humorous way? Vince could still have had Strowman win, so why not make both guys look good by having a competitive match in with Zayn holds his own, forces Strowman to exert himself and dig for a win? You know, kind of like they'd have probably done in NXT? I'd take that any ol' day of the week over Vince's obsession with high school level machismo.

I continue to be intrigued by Bray Wyatt's new gimmick. It could be something epic or something so horrendously bad that we're all scarred for life.

Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre was a fun, physical 3.5 star bout. I wasn't wild about the ending as it's just inching us back closer and closer to the formula where Roman Reigns almost never loses, whereby I think fans will turn on him once more. Losing to McIntyre would've cost him nothing and Drew could use the win. True, Reigns didn't outright win given that Shane and Elias interfered in the match to prevent a count from being made, but that's about as close as it's gonna get to Roman Reigns losing a match.

Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship was another fun 3.5 star bout that saw Kofi retain his title in a good, fun, well paced matched with a straight forward ending. No muss, no fuss, Kofi has his first successful true title defense and now can move forward with Kevin Owens.

I give Raw a C overall. Not a bad show, but one that could've been far better if Vince would just dump the usual shenanigans and quit putting focus on the wrong talent, or at least use guys who actually have talent.