WWE Raw Review 1/16/23 - FIRST ROCK/ROMAN TEASE + CODY RHODES RUMBLE RETURN
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🗓️ 17 January 2023
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Solomonster reviews WWE Monday Night Raw for January 16th with the first possible tease for a Rock vs. Roman Reigns match at Wrestlemania, Cody Rhodes announces his return for the Royal Rumble and lots of promotion for Raw XXX next week in Philly.
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| 0:00.0 | Another week, another Triple H backstage meeting this afternoon before Monday night Raw, he gave one to the Smackdown roster on Friday. |
| 0:08.5 | So today was the Raw roster's turn to get the same speech, and it was more of the same. |
| 0:14.5 | The objective of the meeting is said to have been Triple H meeting with all the wrestlers to assure them that he is still very much in charge of WWE Creative. |
| 0:24.5 | And that Vince McMahon's only role is sole role in being back in the company is to help spearhead a potential sale of the company. |
| 0:32.5 | But he wanted to put everyone's fears to rest that he is in charge, and he is the one who was running WWE Creative. |
| 0:40.0 | It almost sounds to me as if he's trying to convince himself. |
| 0:44.5 | While that may be true now, I don't know that that will necessarily be the case in the future. |
| 0:52.5 | But that was what was said at the talent meeting earlier today. |
| 0:56.5 | PW Insider, even before that meeting took place, PW Insider had a report up on their website earlier today that Brad Blum, who was basically Vince McMahon's Chief of Staff previously, has been spotted recently at WWE Headquarters. |
| 1:15.5 | So he appears to be back, he had previously left the company. |
| 1:20.5 | They also mentioned that everything has been prepared for Vince McMahon's return. |
| 1:25.5 | His office has been untouched since he left the company in July. |
| 1:31.5 | I just imagine that there's just a layer of dust covering everything in the office, every pen, every piece of paper on the desk, everything is left exactly where it was. |
| 1:43.5 | And so he will be able, if he's not already, to return to the office and just pick up where he left. |
| 1:50.5 | But I know there were a lot of reports about how he's not back in the office and he's not coming into the office. |
| 1:56.5 | If he's not already back, he will be short. |
| 1:59.5 | And so that is the status of things in McMahon Land over there in Stanford, Connecticut. |
| 2:06.5 | We are less than two weeks away from the Royal Rumble, and I have to tell you that it does not feel like we are less than two weeks away from the Royal Rumble. |
| 2:15.5 | This has been one of the more disappointing builds to a Rumble. |
| 2:19.5 | It just does not feel exciting. It just does not feel like the Royal Rumble is this close, but here we are. |
| 2:26.5 | And the last several weeks of RAW have been, well, not good. |
| 2:31.5 | I thought that tonight's show was an improvement. |
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