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WWE Raw 5/8/23 Review - BROCK LESNAR SCREWS CODY OUT OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Sports, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Wrestling

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Solomonster reviews WWE Monday Night Raw for May 8th with the RACE FOR SECOND PLACE kicking off to crown a new World Heavyweight Champion, with Seth Rollins punching his ticket to Night of Champions and Brock Lesnar screwing Cody out of the tournament. He runs down the full bracket and what he thinks the final will be, plus the just-released bracket for the NXT Women's championship tournament.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Gorilla Monsoon and I'm your host Bobby the Brain Hina. You're not the host. The Salamonster is never heard of him.

0:08.0

Give me a break. You're listening to the Salamonster sounds off. Actually, I do know that guy. I think he owes me money. Oh, will you stop?

0:17.0

Well, it wasn't Puerto Rico. That's for sure. Although most crowds admittedly, they're not going to be like that crowd we had in San Juan on Saturday night.

0:26.0

Honestly, they didn't have much to get excited about tonight in Jacksonville. Outside of the race for second place, which kicked off tonight on Monday night Raw, the race for second place for the new world heavyweight championship.

0:43.0

Our first two of four triple threat matches that we are getting on television this week, two on Raw, two on Smackdown to determine who goes to the finals at night of champions later this month to crown the very first ever world heavyweight champion tonight.

1:02.0

It was Damien Priest, Seth Rollins and Shinsuke Nakamura in our first of two triple threat matches with Seth Rollins to the surprise of no one moving on to meet the winner of the other triple threat later in the night with the Miz, Finn Balor and Cody Rhodes.

1:22.0

Cody Rhodes had to be a favorite going into tonight, but if you watch that backlash show on Saturday night and the way things ended with Cody and Brock, you had to know that we were getting a rematch with Cody Rhodes and Brock Lesnar.

1:36.0

The only question was how were we going to get there once they announced on Sunday that Cody was going to be one of the 12 men in this tournament and Brock was not.

1:45.0

You put two and two together, it wasn't hard to figure out what they were going to do tonight and what you thought they were going to do is exactly what they ended up doing because Brock Lesnar showed up tonight on Raw and he cost Cody Rhodes the chance to go to the semi finals to challenge for the championship.

2:03.0

He cost Cody the match, laid him out with an F5 and he laid down the gauntlet to a challenge for night of champions not to a match, but to a fight.

2:15.0

But that wasn't even the biggest thing about that segment. The biggest thing about that segment involving Brock and Cody is that it featured some of the worst piped in crowd noise that I have ever heard on this show before.

2:28.0

When you are manipulating the crowd audio, when you are manipulating the sound and it is overcoming the audio from the person's microphone, making it difficult to hear what the person is trying to say, making it sound almost like the microphone wasn't even working.

2:46.0

It's time to back off a little bit. It's time to tone things down.

2:53.0

The semi final tonight was Seth Rollins and Finn Valor. That is a rematch of the final for the Universal Championships seven years ago at Summerslam when they crowned that champion for the first time.

3:05.0

So we had that rematch in the semi finals tonight to close out the show.

3:11.0

This is also the first night that the new rosters took effect now with the WWE draft in the books tonight was night number one for the new raw roster, which is there on your screen right now.

3:27.0

That is your new Monday night raw roster officially as of tonight and it was not a very exciting start outside of the tournament stuff.

3:36.0

This was a boring show tonight. But one thing when I look at this graphic here and I see all of the Monday night raw roster lumped together like this one thing in particular that stands out to me which I think is a plus because we talk a lot about the lack of tag teams and the lack of real tag teams in WWE over the past few years.

3:59.0

And the need in my opinion to have one unified set of tag team champions as we do now right we have the tag belts have been unified since the Usos beat RK bro last year.

4:11.0

And they're still unified under Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane who were part of this roster but look at the tag teams that we have on this roster. Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane are the champions they are part of Monday night raw.

4:22.0

But you also have Imperium, you have Alpha Academy, you have the Viking Raiders, you have the Judgment Day who can team up at any given moment you have even even Dexter Lumis and Johnny Gargano now looks like the way from NXT is reunited on the main roster they could be a tag team.

4:41.0

We had a vignette tonight for Veer and Sanga from NXT who are about to make their debut very soon.

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