Ups & Downs - WWE Raw Review (July 20th)
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| 0:00.0 | What an absolutely bizarre episode of Raw. This was, my friends, and it kind of started off right away. We learned they had such a good time last week, Javon, Evans and Dragon Lee were going to become a team, and I kind of like the explanation for this. They had such a good time kicking each other's ass now they're like, man, we can be friends forever. When we learned they were taking on the vision in a non-title match, but if they did win, maybe they get a title shot. |
| 0:21.1 | Now, yes, Michael Cole did point out, well, Javon and the Dragon have team before, but come on, you need a little bit more momentum than this. You can't just turn up to what I can say, oh, hello, Adam Pearce. We're now a team, and Adam Pierce goes, listen, man, our tag team scene is kind of lacking right now. So if you go out there and win, I can get you a tag team |
| 0:38.1 | title match. It's wrestling. You can do whatever you want. So if you go out there and win, I can get you a |
| 0:37.5 | tag team title match. It's wrestling. You could do whatever you want. So here's a very early down. People got to be bad. Also though, welcome to ups and downs. The only rest of you show you need. And I cannot believe I'm saying this in 2006. If I give something a down, it's not the end of the world. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean that I hated something, it just meant that on this given day it wasn't for me, and if it was for you, look, I'm doing the dance of joy for you, I think it's absolutely fantastic. Look how stupid I am. Should this be taken seriously at any juncture in this life? No, it should not, but we did just have raw. Somehow I do have this show, so let's suck those downs. The Dragon and Javon Evans went nuts as well as we did get into Austin Theory in Brom Breaker match. Actually, I'm going to be really annoying because I do have another down. Even though Brom Breaker did look a beast during this thing, by the end of it, because Austin Theory carried Maxine Dupre away, it kind of felt like the third man. Brom Breaker, who was challenging for the World heavyweight championship felt like the third man. Bronbreaker, who was challenging for the World |
| 1:27.7 | Heavyweight Championship, felt like the third wheel in this relationship, although technically the fourth wheel, because of course Logan Paul's on the outside also casting distraction. I think we need to get Bronbreaker out of the vision before you can say, hey man, please get Bronbreaker out of the vision. He's almost falling into that role of, hey man, let me get other people over. We still need to get him over. He is super over. He just needs to be elevated and he needs to be elevated like it is a lift. I'm giving it a down. Sean Evans did get a hot tag though after Brom Breaker had missed the spear. Javotte is so damn good. And because of course last week he did that crazy thing over to me the timekeeper's table. we did it again. And listen, I don't think WWE should do this each and every single week, but even here when he does dive over it and he just smashed Brum Breaker, I did kind of look around. I thought to myself when it is pretty damn cool. Shevonne also got a springboard close line for a one to who when of course Maxine Dupree got involved. And that was just when Dragon League was thinking about doing some stumps or getting some stumps in, but she tripped him when yes, Brombreaker hit Spear mode. He absolutely wrecked this guy. So at least it was double B. They got the one, two, three and that rhyme, so it must be true. Actually, I just realized he speared both of these guys. So that kind of makes me think the WW does know what's going on here. And of course, the vision then went to absolutely destroy these two people and out Kenya for a save. And for a while, Oates was throwing everybody around and squishing people in the corner. I really hope we go all the way with Oates this time. Because any occasion that we do give him some television time, he just gets over so easily because some people just have it in their toes. Sadly though, just when he's about to throw Austin Theory through Alan the announced table, Bronbreaker went totally nuts again. And with Maxine Dupree directing traffic, the vision left these guys laying. It really made me laugh. Now they're like a group from the 60s, it's Maxine and her merry men. I will say I do like the Maxine Dupree and Austin Theory relationship. I think we can even lean into that even harder. There is something to this. And look, the match was really fun. I suppose the vision winning does make all the sense in the world. But we should continue to push Trayvon Evans as hard as possible and the same with Dragon Lee. Yes, going back to what we did just mention, we got to do more with Bronn. |
| 3:41.0 | But in terms of just sitting there and enjoying a 10-minute match, I am going to give it an up, dare I say, it was super-duper fun. We then had highlights from Fanatic Fest, which yes, WWW did have a big presence at, and Logan Paul and Tom Brady fell out. Tom Brady even gave Logan Paul a slap. So probably come WrestleMania or another big show, I would hazard a guess that we are |
| 3:44.6 | doing Logan Paul versus Tom Brady. Now, WW, we can do whatever the flub they want. |
| 3:48.8 | They've been evolving celebrities for the last 30 years. But to sum it up in a sentence, |
| 3:52.9 | this is not what I want to see. It does not get me excited. And actually, I think if |
| 3:57.3 | WW does do this, |
| 3:58.9 | I may feel more disconnected than ever. When the Judgment Day cornered Danhausen and told him to give their money back. I was like, didn't we pay this off a satellite's main event? I thought that was the whole point. And while the New York Knicks came to Danhausen's aid, and as it turned out, the Knicks will help Dan Housen, but only if you're in New York. |
| 4:15.2 | Dan Housen then went to the ring because he was going to try and sort this situation out. But before that, we did get another return video for Big Cass. This is the second one, of course, and there is still no mention of Enze Amore, and I just that's a really smart thing to do, because if Big Cass does have his big return, and it is just a singles guy, well, he has come so far |
| 4:31.4 | in the last few years, I think if WWE can get this correct, he may fit in very nicely to the upper tier mid-card scene, or at least being terrifying, he's so damn big. I'm excited about this, I think we can do something with it. Dan He also did admit he doesn't actually want this money, but doesn't want the judgment day to have it either. So of course, because he wanted a big old cheer from this |
| 4:49.6 | crowd, he was like, hey, man, you're a bunch of humans. Let me give you the human money. Surprise, surprise, here came the Judgment Day. They didn't wait around either because J.D. McDonnor, Dominic Mysterio and Livmore can just beat the absolute hell out of this guy. when somebody broke the rules. Nobody said Joe Hendry's name. We didn't trigger his magical powers, |
| 5:06.1 | but he did come to the ring to make the save. So what the hell was that about? Hilarity though, it did open the door for Lithgow to get that cash back. And as soon as JD and Dom Dom realised this, they were like, you know what we can tell it. When we went backstage and shot horror, it turns out it wasn't real money. It was just a bunch of |
| 5:22.1 | bills with Dan Housen's face on it. But that makes me laugh for multiple reasons. One, it screwed over |
| 5:26.3 | the Judgment Day and they were super mad about this. But it also means that Dan Housen was going to |
| 5:30.6 | troll the fans. Imagine some kid who thought they were going to get 100 bucks and instead they |
| 5:34.7 | got Dan Housen dollars. I mean, maybe they'd be happy, but also I |
| 5:38.2 | bet they'd be a bit upset. Now, to be fair, Dan Housen protested this and told the Judgment Day and Adam Pearce, who everybody was yelling at, hey man, I think this is real money when J.D. McDonough accidentally threw the money back and it hit Oberfemmy. Now, I can't lie, this did entertain me, because Ober was just like, I do not like it when |
| 5:55.4 | random objects hit me, so now I shall kill you in the ring. And Pierce was like, well, that sounds great. Pierce Tilly had an open card as well, because he also made Dominic Mysterio versus Joe Hendry for later. When Oberfemmy went to the ring, J.D. McDonough refused to get in. So Joe and Danhausen then chased them out. They threw J.D. |
| 6:12.3 | in the ring. And of course, he got squished in around about two minutes. I can't lie. I had a very good time with this segment. If you watched it and thought you were on drugs and you were like, what the fluff is WWE doing? I would not argue with you. But ultimately, I just watched WW2B entertained, Dan Housen makes me laugh, |
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