22 WTF Moments From WWE RAW (August 1)
Tomspiracies taken to new heights... or lows...
Brock Lesnar returns to WWE RAW this week and I'm asking one question and one question only ahead of the show: with Brock Lesnar in attendance, how many references to his two failed drug tests to WWE's creative teams dare to write into Randy Orton's promos. **it turns out zero. In fact, they weren't even mentioned at all. Paul Heyman was allowed to big him up like he always does**
Other than Brock's return to a WWE ring for the first time since WrestleMania, there wasn't really anything else for us fans to get excited about ahead of the show. Oh no wait, Jinder Mahal was scheduled to make an appearance, potentially making this RAW the biggest of the year. I was being sarcastic there...
With SummerSlam just three weeks away now, this RAW would be used to carry things over and potentially set up another match or two. Last week we learned that Charlotte would be getting her rematch for the Women's Championship at the biggest party of the summer against Sasha Banks, while Seth Rollins and Finn Balor would be going at it with the new WWE Universal Championship up for grabs. Outside of those bouts, a spot on the SummerSlam card for a RAW Superstar was anybody's who wanted it.
Here are all the WTF Moments from Monday's show...
22. The First Segment
For the first time since around 2004 (am I going a bit too overboard there?) the opening segment of a WWE RAW wasn't occupied by a boring 20 minute promo by a plethora of authority figures.
Instead, it was occupied by a number of Superstars getting a number of cheap pops for jokes and general tomfoolery that served no real purpose.
Yes, the segment set up that mixed tag between Banks/Amore and Jericho/Charlotte but the japes and conversation between the four Superstars was more filler than it was killer.
Mick Foley must have been writing the scripts for this because, as we're all too well aware now, he loves the cheap pops that were being handed out willy nilly by the crowd.
Nevertheless, the segment was 1000 times better than anything Stephanie McMahon could have put together if she was allotted the same amount of time on the mic.