7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Feb 24)
Sadist fun and unpublishable puns.
This week's episode of RAW was paradoxically mundane and insane.
Nia Jax squashed some random jobber in the sort of match she's been wrestling for six months or so. Charlotte faced off against Sasha Banks for the umpteenth time - and of course, with it not taking place on pay-per-view, Charlotte lost. It was nothing out of the ordinary, for the most part.
WWE, however, felt the need to (pretend to) reinforce the ring for the Big Show versus Braun Strowman main event, even though there was at least three more tonnes more mass in the Royal Rumble match which took place less than a month ago. Then again, WWE insulting the intelligence of their audience isn't insane - it's par for the course. Roman Reigns was booked, for the second week in a row, to get the better of RAW Tag Team Champions Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson - even though they are the god d*mn champions, Roman Reigns is already engaged in a filler feud before his real WrestleMania feud, and WE F*CKING GET IT ALREADY, HE'S MEANT TO BE REALLY HARD.
Of course, this being wrestling, the lunacy was not confined to WWE's flagship. In a week during which amateur wrestling outdrew it (!), the scripted bastardisation remained as insane - if not as popular - as ever...
7. The Rock's RAW Antics
The dark segment following this week's episode of Monday Night RAW wasn't the typical, Roman Reigns wins to send 10% of the crowd home happy affair. The Rock emerged after the show drew to a close, despite being fired by Vince McMahon before it started (!), to film a scene for the Fighting With My Family Paige biopic.
The appearance of an actress playing AJ Lee compelled fans, being such an imaginative bunch, to chant CM Punk's name. The Rock, unlike Stephanie McMahon before him, didn't need a RAW staffer to anticipate the reaction and pen a very obviously rehearsed barb on his behalf. He simply attempted to meet the demand by supplying those in attendance with a phone call - a verbal exchange between the golden boy and persona non grata. Punk was out walking his dog, unfortunately. Like most of us, he had better things to do than sit through three hours of RAW.
Funnier still is that Triple H cannot do a thing about it. The Rock, who also unsuccessfully attempted to FaceTime Punk, is untouchable.
With CM Punk no longer there to bury, it seems assured that Triple H will make do with a surrogate. This is the same man who kicked Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett in his Prestons purely to make him out to be the hard man ahead of his WrestleMania XXIX match with Brock Lesnar. If I was Cedric Alexander, I'd probably give RAW a miss next week.