Live Discussion: Raw 5/4/09

[C.M.]

Family vs. Legacy
Shane McMahon failed to avenge his family at Backlash, allowing Randy Orton to win the WWE Title. But after attacking "The Viper" on Monday night, Shane O'Mac will have another chance to exact retribution from his nemesis on Raw


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[The Todd]

After Smackdown, I really don't feel like watching RAW. Do I want to watch Shane put up a fight with Orton, before Legacy give Orton the upperhand then Batista/HHH runs in to stop the punt? No. I seem to recall seeing many situations like this recently.

Smackdown has lots of intriguing storylines developing from one show. RAW has done nothing of late.

 

[Tastycles]

I'm going to watch Raw, but it's going to hurt.

Orton is boring, and it's not as if Shane is going to do anything good, so that is 20 dead minutes. Big Show vs Cena is not a feud I want to see develop, so another dead ten minutes. Santino will get 5 minutes of shit for his sister. There are 36 minutes of adverts. So only 49 minutes has the potential of being remotely good.

 

[Lil Wes]

Meh, Kennedy return plz.

 

[E7]

habitual watcher

 

[Uncle Sam]

Here's me betting Shane will look better than Orton.

 

[Harthan]

They're doing Shane vs Orton all backward. They gave us the hardcore match on PPV first, then the destruction that puts him out, and now we get the standard TV match. It seems like it's more appropriate the other way around. But so be it. I hope it's not the real main event and maybe we see something cool.

MVP being useful again I'm all for. I'd like to see Kennedy back, it's been too long.

 

[E7]

Smackdown this week will be better

 

[TwistofRKO]

Same crap, different Monday.

I like Orton, but this is getting stale fast. Shane again? How long before he gets on the ropes and DiBiase & Rhodes come out only to have Shane beat them up, before Orton knocks him off while being distracted?

What else for tonight? Cena vs Big Show in a non-match affair? Maybe a 10-diva tag match, throw in Miz vs The Brian Kendrick and I think we'll have a good idea of what's going to be on tonight.

 

[Tastycles]

I was nearly late. I tell you, you move to one of the biggest cities in the world, and the shops have still run out of milk at 2am. Fortunately, there was one accross the street.

 

[Tastycles]

Oh good, a recap to start.

 

[Harthan]

Rumor holds there's an arm wrestling contest. I hope it's Cena/Big Show, but it's probably Santina/Beth Phoenix.

 

[Steamboat Ricky]

I remember this match...the match that never ended.

 

[brahma62]

Why is Shane McMahon in another match, so we can see his horrible punches once again?

 

[It's...Baylariat!]

WOW! Opening match!

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

Must be a good main event at the end for this to be the opening match.

 

[Harthan]

My word, they've put this match in the perfect spot. I was thinking we'd have to sit through a whole night of recap and promos, but we get it out of the way in hopefully 15 minutes? Excellent.

 

[Steamboat Ricky]

Opening match?

 

[brahma62]

Thank goodness this is the opening match

 

[Tastycles]

At least its at the start so the backlash of the fight an last for the whole PPV.

 

[Tastycles]

At least its at the start so the backlash of the fight an last for the whole show
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[Tastycles]

At least its at the start so the backlash of the fight an last for the whole show.

 

[Thriller Ant]

They always use that camera angle when they aren't coming out of the tunnel

 

[Steamboat Ricky]

Shane looks pretty ridiculous out there.

 

[It's...Baylariat!]

I say next year, Shane McMahon goes into the WZ Tournament