RAW ON NETFLIX (Wrestling Soup 6.17.25)

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wrestling Soup, Anthony Thomas and Joe Numbers discuss their frustrations with this week's episode of RAW. The hosts feel RAW was lackluster and uninspired, with phoned-in segments and boring tropes. SmackDown had some fun moments, but overall the wrestling shows fall short. They touch on injury updates, including Liv Morgan's shoulder dislocation. The hosts also joke about the absurdity of certain storylines, such as Goldberg facing Gunther, and talk about WWE's aggressive expansion strategy and how it impacts various wrestling styles like Lucha Libre. Additionally, the episode features commentary on the problematic booking of women's storylines and the overuse of certain talent. Overall, their dialogue highlights a need for better writing and more engagement from wrestlers and audiences alike.
00:00 Raw Recap: A Disastrous Week
01:53 Seth and Cody: A Tired Rivalry
02:52 Liv Morgan's Absurd Angle
05:44 Corey Graves Steps Up
07:50 Women's Division Woes
20:51 Goldberg's Controversial Return
32:28 AJ Styles vs. JD McDonough
34:09 Bailey vs. Becky Lynch: A Heated Exchange
35:32 Bailey's Decline and Bird Girl's Struggles
39:05 Liv Morgan's Injury
43:08 WWE's Title Dynamics and Future Prospects
55:20 WWE's Global Expansion and Lucha Libre
01:11:58 Concluding Thoughts on WWE's Current State

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0:00.0	Wrestling soup.
0:03.6	I don't available.
0:07.6	Wrestling soup, I'm Anthony Thomas. He's Joe Numbers.
0:10.8	And Ross sucked ass this week. Raw sucked all the ass.
0:15.2	Smackdown was a little rough, but there was some fun moments on Smackdown.
0:19.3	I did a solo review. Andrew Carleck wasn't around.
0:21.6	I believe he's still in recovery.
0:23.0	But by the way, I didn't know that he was still hurt. That's why on Thursday I was like, oh, you're going to do the show with Andrew. I didn't realize he was still not doing good. Well, I did the show with him the prior Friday, too, and he was still laid up. But I don't think he can actually go back to her because he has to physically stay home.
0:39.0	But yeah, I'm sure.
0:40.0	It sucks.
0:40.5	He got into a car accident, man.
0:42.9	Hopefully he feels better soon because the summer's here. You don't want to spend it inside.
0:47.5	Watching Monday Night, we're all like us, like suckers. Yeah, for sure. This was a, this was a, what a reminder at this point that they are just a little
0:58.3	bit rudderless anytime the sun is shining. Anytime that like they're like, okay, we don't
1:04.1	got to start trying because it mania's coming up or anything. Boy, oh boy, talk about fucking
1:09.8	phoning it in on this one, huh? It feels like they've been doing that for a minute. I mean oh, boy. Talk about fucking phoning in on this one, huh?
1:11.8	It feels like they've been doing that for a minute.
1:14.0	I mean, everything past WrestleMania blurs into each other.
1:18.6	It just, there's nothing really special going on other than, other than Ron Killings, other
1:23.8	than truth.
1:24.9	But even that, I'm kind of waiting for us to get to that next step.
1:28.6	So I'm hoping when Saturday night's main event comes around and we got Truth versus
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