Wrestling Thread 5/19-6/1 | WWE Payback PPV - Shield v Evolution | Will Daniel Bryan Forfeit His Tit

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Tonight's Raw has just finished taping from London, England.  Please refrain from posting or talking about spoilers for tonight's show.  If you must, please use the spoiler tags.

The big news for tonight's show is the state of Daniel Bryan's WWE World Heavyweight Title.  Daniel Bryan had successful minimally invasion neck surgery this past Thursday and will be out of action for a few weeks.  WWE is pushing the surgery/injury in storyline to be much more serious than it actually is, that way when Daniel Bryan does return, it will come as a surprise.  However, there is still legitimate talk of taking the title off of him.  We will find out more tonight.  Daniel Bryan is expected to be on tonight's show via satellite.

The other key things for tonight's show:

• Will Rusev continue his assault against African Americans?
• We will have further build for The Shield v Evolution match at Payback.  It will likely be an elimination match.
• More silliness between John Cena and Bray Wyatt.  These two will have a Last Man Standing match at Payback which means even more outside interference than in their cage match at Extreme Rules.  I am so done with this program.  Bray should have gone over Cena at WrestleMania to elevate him to a next level star.  Now instead, we're dealing with three months of crap, possible more.
• Speaking of crap, more Adam Rose.
• Bad News Barrett should be over like a rock star tonight.
• Outside of the top three matches, is anything else set up for Payback?  Hopefully we get some matches tonight.
• More Alicia Fox craziness?  I actually saw her segment on Main Event and was pretty entertained.
• Probably a long, boring Sheamus match.

The much more interesting story to me is WWE's real life struggles with Wall Street.  I followed their conference call to investors today, and WWE once again provided no concrete information on their new television deals (other than Vince saying it was a disappointment) or updated Network subscription numbers.  There was absolutely no reason for investors to feel confident after today, and I'm surprised the stock didn't drop more than it did.  WWE is still telling investors they will have 2.8-3.5 million Network subscribers globally by 2015 which is just beyond unrealistic.  There were no indications that any management changes would be taking place.  The highlight of the call was when George Barios got disconnected leaving only Vince on the line, and you could clearly hear Vince mutter "Oh S***".

 

[hymen man]

I'll watch here and there but most of my attention will be on the WCF game.

 

[Case]

I'm going to try and tolerate Raw as much as I can, but I expect I'll be focusing more on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives than on wrestling sports entertainment..

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

Don't expect much

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Will not watch today raw.. The NBA has my full attention..

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Don't expect much

 

[MajinZuub]

I'll probably record and watch tomorrow

 

[illoquent aka dsk]

Final Massa Rusev.

Need him to go back to being The Final Boss.

 

[macbk]

Read through the spoilers of tonight's show.

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Nothing crazy and pretty much an expected show.

 

[retrogearsolid]

Looks like another garbage Raw. Only thing I'm interested in is my dude Bad News Barrett getting a huge pop from the British crowd. The NBA and the Rangers have my attention tonight.

 

[Warmachine85]

Nba 2k14 tonight I gotta get my player stats up lol

 

[Peep Game]

2.8-3.5 million subscribers by 2015??? do they not know we're halfway into 2014?

 

[moneylicious]

Bryan injured? Only one solution...

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[retrogearsolid]

Yeah, the estimated projections for WWE Network are so unrealistic that it's comical. I'm subscribed to the network and I think it's great and that it's worth the $10 a month for old PPVs and vintage programs alone, and throw on demand streaming of new PPVs and that's a great bonus. However, that's because I'm a diehard wrestling fan and I see the value in watching old stuff. For casual fans, they just watch Raw on USA and probably stream PPVs illegally like how we used to do it. No real incentive to pay $10 a month for PPVs they can watch for free. Maybe if the current product was actually better, they would care enough to subscribe.

 

[Peep Game]

I'm definitely getting one of these shirts

 

[jewbacca]

I'll be watching Raw for the first time in a couple months tonight. Hopefully it is not too bad 

 

[liquidswords]

The spoilers

 

[Meangene45]

I'm definitely getting one of these shirts

 

[jdcurt2]

I don't like the idea of Evolution/Shield being an elimination match. It pretty much means Rollins and Ambrose are going to be jobbed out.

 

[Meangene45]

Just read the Raw spoilers see you guys next week :x:x

 

[steebie j]

Another one of them weeks huh...

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

Just read the Raw spoilers see you guys next week :x:x

Was trying to avoid reading them but I'll have to check it out if it's that awful. Brb

 

[rell826]

Rangers game, Thunders game >>>>>>> this

 

[gregzzy23]

How many times is Cena gonna wrestle Harper? Jeez

Anyway, I predict the Network will never hit a million subscribers, certainly not 2.8-3.5 mill. Its at what, 400,000-600,000 right now? Why would anyone believe that number would be doubled/tripled?

 

[robpzee612]

Just read the spoilers and it just another crappy Raw.