Official Monday Night Raw & Smackdown Thread

[pwaldo]

AJ STyles and Samoa Joe could turn things up as would kevin owens and cesaro. They need better angles not just Cena yapping.Alot of talent being wasted

The WWE needing to be saved by TNA guys?

[Zeppelin1985]

During the WHC main event match last night I was thinking of Dixie. I said to myself, "look, Dixie! The ONE guy you should've NEVER let go, is now in WWE and main eventing their pay-per-view".

Not to mention reigning WWE Tag Team Champion, Xavier Woods aka in TNA as Consequences Creed.
Current NXT World Champion Samoa Joe..
Austin Aries
Eric Young

And in all likelihood Bobby Roode.

[ajcorleone]

Roode moonlighted for a minute he could be huge in WWE. WWE has a stale roster and some new blood regardless where they are from is needed. Rusev,Del Rio,SHeamus,Cena same old story and where the hell is Randy Orton hurt again sheesh.

[Zeppelin1985]

Still lots of injuries. Wyatt, Harper, Neville, Rollins, Itami and now Enzo. You would expect Orton and Cena back soon.

Who does everyone think will be let go in "spring cleaning"? I say Hornswoggle, Adam Rose, Fandango, The Ascension, Darren Young, David Otunga, Cameron. And probably some NXT talents.

I feel like Ryback will either ask for his release or not be re-signed when his contract expires.

[ajcorleone]

Ryback was not at Monday’s RAW in St. Louis, following his loss to Kalisto during the Payback pre-show on Sunday. PWInsider.com reports that the former Intercontinental Champion was sent home and is off TV indefinitely.
The two sides are reportedly at odds over contract negotiations, and there’s talk that Ryback himself may have asked to be taken off TV. His current contract with the company expires this summer.

[Zeppelin1985]

Wow....I didn't know it was that serious already about Ryback.

[pwaldo]

Who does everyone think will be let go in "spring cleaning"? I say Hornswoggle, Adam Rose, Fandango, The Ascension, Darren Young, David Otunga, Cameron. And probably some NXT talents.

When was the last time they fired a bunch of people? Seems like every year it comes around now they don't fire anybody because "it is bad for business". They just let contracts expire and just never sign the guy again instead.

[Zeppelin1985]

I think a month or 2 ago they released several NXT guys. The most notable guy being Bull Dempsey. Every year after WrestleMania is when I thought they did their firings.

[pwaldo]

Oh no they did fire guys before after Wrestlemania but now that TNA is not really a threat they don't really seem to do it as often. It isn't because of TNA I think just because the media now targets them and if you fire a lot of people it causes bad press which then makes your stock go down. I honestly can't even recall the last semi big name they fired that wasn't because of drugs or something else like that.

[Zeppelin1985]

I think the last "big name" not fired for drugs etc. was probably ADR when slapped the twitter guy for making a racist remark about Hispanics. This happened after the whole CM Punk debacle, right? For some reason I keep thinking it was before.

I sadly remember Kaitlyn asking for her release. God, do I miss seeing her. Then of course AJ Lee retiring.

Actually, announcers Kyle Edwards and Rich Brennan (aka Millhouse lookalike) were recently let go.

I wish they would break up the 3 Stooges announce team though. They are so God awful.