WWE RAW or JUST STRANGER THINGS (Wrestling Soup 1.6.26)
WRESTLING SOUP
Wrestling Soup Network
4.3 • 753 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
[2:00-2:30] Introduction and show setup - Discussing Monday Night Raw's quality issues
[2:30-4:00] Raw show structure critique - Too many women's matches, lack of coherent booking, disappointing for live Brooklyn audience
[4:30-5:30] Kabuki Warriors vs Rhea/IyO Sky tag match - Best match of the night, good action but questionable placement as opener
[9:30-13:00] Asuka/Shayna Basler Twitter incident - Cultural misunderstanding about toughness compliment
[14:30-15:30] Stranger Things promotion - Just a van, no actors, completely underwhelming tie-in
[22:30-25:00] Gunther/AJ Styles segment - Gunther looking weak, poor booking decisions
[29:00-32:00] Maxxine vs Becky Lynch - Too much time given, Maxine too green for featured spot
[21:30-22:30] Stephanie Vaquer injury angle - Rushed off TV despite being over with fans
[33:00-35:00] Paul Heyman group criticism - None ready for main event spots except possibly Drew McIntyre
[34:00-35:00] Logan Paul/Austin Theory promo - Disconnected and ineffective
[38:00-44:00] CM Punk main event - Stumbling through promos, match with Bron Breaker was sloppy
[40:00-48:00] Bron Breakker concerns - Too green, dangerous spots, needs shorter matches
[49:00-52:00] Liv Morgan return - Poorly positioned after multiple women's matches, crowd was dead
[54:00-58:00] Judgment Day storyline - Falling apart, no clear direction for members
[58:00-1:05:00] Overall show critique - Poorly structured, felt like contractually obligated content
[1:05:00-1:08:00] International shows vs US shows - Better matches given to international audiences
[1:05:00-1:07:00] Saudi Arabia performance center discussion
[1:09:00-1:13:00] Commercial breaks - Excessive ads on Netflix, VPN workarounds
[1:13:00-end] Wrap-up and closing thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hoie, hoie, hoie. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, what's going on? |
| 0:11.6 | Sorry, I was just making a Jade Cargill house show. |
| 0:14.8 | Ah, well, you know. |
| 0:17.3 | I had to drop a Jade Cargall real quick. |
| 0:22.7 | You got right over there? |
| 0:23.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm fine, dude. |
| 0:25.9 | It's just, it's, uh, just reading up on some news that I was missing. |
| 0:30.9 | It's all. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah, there's a lot of fucking injuries or fake injuries or whatever. |
| 0:35.3 | I mean, Jesus Christ. |
| 0:37.5 | I was going to say, I understand if understand if last night took it out of you. |
| 0:42.2 | I totally understand if that's the case. |
| 0:44.6 | What do you mean? |
| 0:45.6 | It wasn't a great show? |
| 0:49.5 | I have a feeling that yesterday I was a I had some real I was a little bit |
| 0:58.0 | combative about a lot of things yesterday from a you know from a comedic standpoint I was trying to |
| 1:03.4 | be big silly but today I almost have like this disappointed uncle vibe right now how I feel about the show that happened last |
| 1:14.1 | night like I'm like let down in a way where I'm looking at it and I'm going all right could |
| 1:22.2 | have been shittier I guess but also at the time, I think we were pretty dead on yesterday, |
| 1:31.5 | as far as saying they need somebody that has one idea of how to, how to write these shows, |
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