Choke's WWE Raw Rant and Smackdown Preview 5/27/2013 - 5/31/2013
Posted by: choke May 29, 2013 | 1903 views | 3 comments
A recap of this week's Monday Night Raw and a preview (no match spoilers) of this Friday's Smackdown. MAYBE some Main Event thrown in as well?
RAW Review
RAW was a good show this week IMO. They actually gave us some, albeit predictable, good title matches with Ambrose vs Kofi and Hell No vs Shield. While I think Kofi might be out of the picture for now, looks like Hell No will probably get another shot at the belts at some point, probably Payback. Either way, the Shield has proven to be a dominant force this season already, much as I predicted. Also 15 more stips added to the Cena/Ryback match. Anyone think Cena loses? I don't. Biggest news may have been in the form of the Vignette for the Wyatt family which I will admit I fast forwarded thinking it was a Duck Dynasty promo. I'm not even kidding about this.
Obviously word has been extremely positive ever since Husky debuted this new character in NXT (?), and the promo (which I watched after the fact) was pretty cool, so I expect a big debut for him and the other two he's with (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan? I googled that). The big question as far as drafting any of them is when will they debut? WWE has obviously shown a tendency to show these promos well in advance of a wrestler actually debuting, so we could be seeing them up until the Monday after Summerslam. I think anyone's best guess would be for them to possibly come out after maybe MITB. Just a guess. Are they worth drafting now? I would say if you have a completely worthless member of your roster, it might be worth a shot picking up Wyatt himself just on the off-chance he debuts at Payback or the Monday after. For the others I'd hold off until more is known.
Smackdown Preview (no match spoilers)
1. Seth Rollins vs Kane: Guessing Kane gets the win here to set up....
2. Roman Reigns vs Daniel Bryan: Reigns getting the best of Bryan to set up the "weak link" storyline some more
3. Ryback vs Kofi: #poorkofi Gonna call for at least 2 post-match Shellshocks
4. Alberto Del Rio vs Big E Langston: We haven't seen this enough? I'm afraid until Ziggler gets back we'll probably see Langston lose each time. If Ziggler is ready he could run out and cause a schmozz, but there's really no reason to give Big E any more wins over the #1 Contender at this juncture. I dont really understand why this is even happening tbh
5. Curtis Axel vs Sin Cara: Obviously Axel will go over, and why are we seeing this again? I dont understand the WWE, EVER
6. Chris Jericho vs Cody Rhodes: Hard to see Jericho losing with the CM Punk challenge deal....
7. Dean Ambrose vs Randy Orton in a non-title. Gotta end in schmozz right? Actually, we could see a clean Orton pin continuing the WWE's age old tradition of having their top tier guys bury the mid card champions. THEN a schmozz. Either way, UGH
Rising:
1. Bray Wyatt: Gonna be a monstrous point getter when he debuts. Question is: when?!
2. CM Punk: Didn't think this was going to happen until Summerslam, and honestly it still might not if Heyman has something up his sleeve, but for the time being, I'll buy into it
3. Luke Harper/Erick Rowan - Big gamble, but big reward if they do in fact debut soon
Falling:
1. 3MB: Complete and total fodder right now for any 3 man group the WWE can whip together
2. Kofi Kingston: Rematch complete, zero chance of him winning it back anytime soon IMO
3. Antonio Cesaro: ZERO POINTS. ZERO.