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So with WWE on Netflix now, are they going back to 90's type RAW?

I tried watching and they silenced the Rock's F bomb. They started off boring as fuck so I tapped out. The Rock and Cody should have just started sucking each other's cock off in the middle of the ring.

I haven't watched WWE RAW in a long time so no big loss for me. lol

Armadon said:

Lol hogan showed up and the crowed straight booed him.

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Why would LA cheer for a racist Trumper?


That was the first time I've watched a full wrestling show since 2007. The only match worth a shit was the woman's match. Maybe 4 matches in 3 hours? Otherwise everyone was largely sucking themselves off for being on Netflix.

Show was genuinely awful.

Two indulgent self important promos about WWE to open the show. I'm already watching the show, why are they trying to convince me to watch the show by telling me how important it is? Just do the show.

The Rock hugging people we thought he was going to feud with.

Multiple filler segments of "here's a comedian with a netflix special, here's a past it actor with a netflix show, here's WWE Superstar midcard champion #6 from Friday Night Smackdown LIVE only on USA Network."

Appearences from retired wrestlers. Who the fuck is Jimmy Hart and why does he follow Hulk Hogan around? I'm nearly 40, I'm not old enough to have Hull Hogan nostalgia. I do have American Badass Undertaker nostalgia and seeing him show up to congratulate Rhea Ripley is ???.

Matches paying off long term feuds missing a lot of the context for new viewers, delete the shit above, interview the wrestlers and have longer pretaped promo packages.

New Day showing up be to jesters, missing all the context of their heel turn.

Jey Uso has a catchphrase so he's "over" and has a match ?????

Seth Rollins vs CM Punk looking fake as fuck, especially the finish. I guess it's a reflex action to shuffle around and bounce off ropes while unconscious?

I liked the Logan Paul Promo. I liked KO showing up out of nowhere to attack some Polynesians.

They need less American Sports style presentation where it's slow and boring on purpose to create TV ad slots, this doesn't translate well for UK sports fans and that's why there's never been a major TV deal for wrestling here.

The first episode of Monday Night Raw on Netflix drew 4.9 million live views globally, Netflix announced on Thursday. It averaged 2.6 million households in the U.S., Netflix added. That figure is 116% higher than Monday Night Raw's average of 1.2 million households in 2024, and it was the highest viewership for any other episode of the show in the past five years. The inaugural show also doubled its age 18-to-49 demographic compared to last year, according to Netflix.

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Looks like it was a huge hit.

Where do you watch previous matches now that Peacock lost the rights? I wanted to go back and see some of the stuff from December.

According to a new report from Wade Keller via PWTorch VIP, Baker could be done with AEW altogether. Keller claimed there’s a growing frustration with Baker from management as well as her fellow wrestlers, citing another incident after her altercation with MJF.

Keller reiterated that even when Baker was on top of the women’s division, all was not well behind the scenes. He added that Toy Khan is now fed up enough that he’s decided to focus TV time on others, leaving Baker kicking her heels on the sidelines.

Meanwhile, it’s been reported that Rey Fenix is one of several AEW stars expected to sign with WWEwhen their current deals expire. According to the report, Malakai Black, Miro, and Ricky Starks will all be on their way to the sports entertainment giant as soon as they’re able.

Bryan Alvarez said the Baker stuff is overblown. Who knows. It's typical AEW drama of he said she said.

I love Penta, so I hope the WWE treats him right.

They botched Penta already.

He's a creepy Day of the Dead skeleton and he cut a "happy to be here" newbie babyface promo that Tony Storm is doing right now as a parody.

Not sure how you sell cool skeleton masks to Mexican kids and also have a coherent character with that look and moveset.

He needs to go murder Io and Kairi again like in Lucha Underground, Netflix will enable this.

I felt the segment last week was excellent. He looked like a legit superstar. They had him debut in the best city possible. It's a shame they won't let him use his real finisher, but a package piledriver is not something they will allow. They did let him do a destroyer so that was surprising.

Penta has a ton of alter ego's. If they want him to be heel, they'll just have him be Penta Dark. The WWE and him are going to make a boatload of money on masks.

Never watched the Lucha bros, penta has impressed me so far. Was expecting an Indy level high flyer the way I seen him described. Him vs. Pete Dunne was solid. I thought he probably should have gotten a clean win over gable. Building him up and I also heard he was a tag team double move specialist? I don’t mind aew stars coming over but the one I wish would the most is Dustin.

BunkyChutt said:

Never watched the Lucha bros, penta has impressed me so far. Was expecting an Indy level high flyer the way I seen him described. Him vs. Pete Dunne was solid. I thought he probably should have gotten a clean win over gable. Building him up and I also heard he was a tag team double move specialist? I don’t mind aew stars coming over but the one I wish would the most is Dustin.

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His brother Rey Fenix is his tag partner. He will be coming over as well. He's more of the high flyer of the two. He's in limbo in AEW because they extended his contract time due to injury. They are making him sit at home because TK is being a cunt. It's not like the WWE hasn't done it before either though.

Chris said:

They botched Penta already.

He's a creepy Day of the Dead skeleton and he cut a "happy to be here" newbie babyface promo that Tony Storm is doing right now as a parody.

Not sure how you sell cool skeleton masks to Mexican kids and also have a coherent character with that look and moveset.

He needs to go murder Io and Kairi again like in Lucha Underground, Netflix will enable this.

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Watched his second entrance and starting to see the fun mexican kids dressup angle better.

Think I was wrong!

He's churning them out now. 10 seconds in is funny as fuck.