Why WWE Raw’s storytelling CRUSHED IT:
🔥 Punk/Rollins verbal duel – best feud in wrestling today.
🤫 Giulia’s muted debut – why it’s not a concern yet.
💎 Hidden gem: Roxanne/Giulia vs. Iyo/Rhea was a match-of-night candidate.
⚠️ Frustration: Grande Americano’s stalled push needs urgency.
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🔥 Punk/Rollins verbal duel – best feud in wrestling today.
🤫 Giulia’s muted debut – why it’s not a concern yet.
💎 Hidden gem: Roxanne/Giulia vs. Iyo/Rhea was a match-of-night candidate.
⚠️ Frustration: Grande Americano’s stalled push needs urgency.
💬 Best Raw moment? Comment your pick!
#WWERaw #CMPunk #SethRollins #BeckyLynch #Giulia #Wrestling
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00:00WWE Monday Night Raw going down after Backlash and I like we'll run through it here sorry I
00:14think this was a home run I think they did a phenomenal job of um kind of building up a number
00:19of different things and really building up some momentum in this um I think they set up the Rollins
00:24Punk all of that stuff very very well I think the pro sorry the promos with everyone involved
00:31were excellent uh the brawls the beat down in the back I think it's I think it's hitting all the
00:36right notes the one thing that I'm not loving about a lot of the talk around the the Rollins group
00:41right now is everyone's like oh you know what it's the next evolution yeah it's it's Paul Heyman
00:46Ric Flair um Seth Rollins Triple H uh that they have their Batista now so now we're just looking
00:52for Randy Orton oh it has to be Austin Theory and I just I I don't think we need to do that
00:58beat by beat you know I think you can have your own group in your own way I I I know that there
01:05can be a lot of things wrong with the internet wrestling community this is one thing we do a lot
01:09is we see something that is kind of similar and it's like oh well we have to go with this now
01:13and it's like well you have to hit beat by beat everything that was in this group it has to be this
01:17it has to be a this it has to be a this um we do this with storylines too like for a long time
01:22the best way to introduce someone in the internet wrestling community's minds was okay you have this
01:27guy come out and you have him cut a promo and say that he's beat everybody and there's nothing left
01:33for him to do and then the music hits and oh my god it's this guy and now he has something left to
01:38do which is it's a great way of introducing someone like Goldberg when they introduced Goldberg
01:44in that exact way but it was the example everyone used always when there was a new whatever coming
01:50into the company um Brock Lesnar coming back or you name your whoever you want it was always a oh
01:58well it's that that let's go with that one and now recently um everyone wants the Wrestlemania main
02:04event to be the Wrestlemania 40 main event right like how many times were you thinking and look I got
02:10caught up in it too where it's okay it's gonna be Cena against Cody Rhodes and oh my god out comes
02:16Travis Scott but don't worry it's Bad Bunny or Sami Zayn or whoever coming out to save the day oh but
02:22now the Rocks music hit and sweet Jesus it's Stone Cold Steve Austin who comes out it's like okay yes that
02:27would be awesome and it was when they did it at Wrestlemania 40 with almost the exact same people
02:31uh so we can tend to fall into the well we have seen this before and oh we can do a tribute act to
02:38this I I don't I don't think you need to shoehorn Austin Theory into this because he is somewhat
02:44similar to what 2004 Randy Orton was just because you kind of want to have evolution back again do
02:51that in the video game I don't I don't think Austin Theory is ready for this sort of a thing quite
02:57frankly I think if you put Austin Theory in this it would be like if they would have put
03:01Mark Jindrak in the original evolution Austin Theory has a look and he has a talent but it
03:07has not been put together in any way shape or form um that leads me to believe that there could be
03:12something there to turn him into the next Randy Orton in this pretty important group on Monday
03:18Night Raw honestly Grayson Waller would probably be a bit of a better fit if you could kind of tone
03:22down the goofy and kind of serious him up a little bit I think he would be a better fit but I mean
03:28look there is going to be a lot of talk about who the third man is probably not Mabel um shout out
03:35the three people who get that joke but I I just I would want to caution against just putting someone
03:41in there because it fits this one group that we all really liked that this is somewhat similar to I
03:47don't think Paul Heyman's winning the tag team titles either just putting that out there um so that
03:51you know just a little thing that I've noticed um out on the chatter around this um Roxy and Julia
03:57against Io and Rhea was a ton of fun the match itself I thought was fantastic and a really really
04:02good showcase you don't love beating the young team so early but I do think there is good value
04:07in just being in a very very good matchup like this and I I thought again it was a great match
04:13and a really good showcase one thing that I'm getting frustrated with apparently this is just a
04:17segment of me bitching about the internet wrestling community but you see a few people posting online
04:23when Julia comes out it is not a massive crowd reaction and a lot of people pointing oh crowd
04:27reaction for Julia not strong oh man guess um everyone was wrong about the hype around this
04:33girl that's like look no shit like she has been on the main roster for three weeks let's let's chill
04:40like people's excitement over at least mine my excitement for Julia wasn't oh man this girl is
04:44going to be super over right away it is uh no this is one of the best wrestlers in the world
04:48so we're going to get to appreciate her now at a a high level and eventually those crowd reactions
04:55are going to be there but just to assume that someone who like this is one of her first intro
05:00like first like walk down the ring with music intros ever in WWE and to assume on the main roster
05:07and so to assume that oh well the crowd reaction is going to be insane oh it wasn't failure of a
05:13of a character failure of a call-up that's just it's so dumb and it is so it's if I went through
05:20it it's probably a lot of people who are AEW fans trying to be defensive about things and stuff like
05:24that but it is it's really frustrating when you see that right away it's oh yeah no she's a bust
05:29it's been two weeks let's chill a little bit shall we um elsewhere Jay's promo I thought was
05:35fantastic like the crowd is so behind him right now and then he calls out Logan Paul does exactly
05:40what he needs to do to build up Saturday night's main event and then right after it Gunther saying
05:45I'm going to put you in your place and Jay's like no no no no I'm in my place I thought that was
05:49I thought that was excellent I thought it was a great rebuttal from his character and exactly what
05:53it needed to be from Jay same thing with Becky Lynch coming off of a loss at at Backlash uh Becky
05:59Lynch with another just fantastic promo I would have liked a little bit more Valkyria on this show
06:04coming off of the biggest win of her main roster time but Becky proving on the show why she is one of
06:09the best ever um and we're all having fun with this El Grande Americano thing I think we need to
06:16take a step forward with it now the the Gable Penta matchup was fantastic but it's it's kind of the
06:21same story every week and so I think we need a little bit of um uh a little bit of an evolution
06:27in this one before we can like really get going into it because it's just it is it is becoming very
06:33one note like oh it's Chad Gable oh it's in a mask and everyone knows what it is and oh he's putting
06:38some metal in there now which probably really hurts but whatever we need need a little bit more
06:43advancement from this story now uh moving forward so those are my thoughts on uh what we saw from
06:49Monday Night Raw again a really good show and WWE building up some momentum uh coming off of what was
06:53a very very good WWE backlash