I'm really liking Apollo Crews.

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I'm really liking Apollo Crews.

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I feel like I should, but I have no idea where they're going to take him. I just have no reason to like him or dislike him.

Yeah, they need to take him somewhere. But he's got presence, athleticism and charisma. He just needs a story.

Solid Ambrose promo all the way around.

I still can't believe how badly they messed up Sandow after the Mizdow angle. The guy was white hot and they gave him a huge pile of dog **** to work with

Please tell me that wasn't a ploy to bring in Roman fans

I feel like that's an awesome thing for Roman to do with the make a wish, but I can't help but to think it's a ploy to make him more of a face. Am I just too jaded to think it's anything else?

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Please tell me that wasn't a ploy to bring in Roman fans

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Glad I wasn't the only who thought that

It was my first thought also. I don't like that it was either, though

Wrong emote, not even sure how that got selected

Ok, that ending was kind of badass.

I hate the Cesaro/Miz segments.

Agreed, and I really like Cesaro

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Ok, that ending was kind of badass.

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Yeah, I'm actually really intrigued to see what they end up doing this Sunday

Why was there no Ten Bell Salute for Chyna tonight??

Maybe because Stephanie doesn't lIke the fact that her big **** used to **** her husband??

I feel like they've gone WAY too fast what could've otherwise been a brilliant angle. They should've slow played Anderson and Gallows instead of rushing them in with two weeks to ultimately have an impact in the main event. I do like the fact that there is a great deal of unpredictability right now with who turns on who with what while Balor waits in the wings. Still, typical WWE writing that rushes storylines with very little payoff. I do hope something major takes place this weekend that helps take things up to Summerslam.

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No, next week is the Zayn/Ambrose vs Owens/Jericho tag team match

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I just realized that I was wrong about this being on last night's Raw...apparently it was on last week's Smackdown

I saw a rumor that WWE Creative are considering bringing War Games back this year. The last one was in 1998 when WCW had it as a yearly event.

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I saw a rumor that WWE Creative are considering bringing War Games back this year. The last one was in 1998 when WCW had it as a yearly event.

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Would be great if they could do t right! That was always my favorite PPV!!

I remember watching Fall Brawl '96 during the NWO's imposter Sting storyline. Still one of my favorite PPV's ever! I guess I was 11 and they had me duped...I was so excited when Sting came out!

That was the beginning of one of the greatest storylines of all time! I don't know that there has ever been a better build up than the year and a half that led up to Sting-Hogan at Starcade '97

Hard to believe that was 20 years ago :/

Payback Tonight....call your shots!
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Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens

The Vaudevillains vs. Enzo and Cass

Baron Corbin vs. Dolph Ziggler

United States Championship
Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback

Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (C) vs. Cesaro

Women's Championship
Charlotte (C) vs. Natalya

World Heavyweight Championship
Roman Reigns (C) vs. AJ Styles
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My predictions:

- Ambrose (Clean)
- Owens (Cheap...continue the feud)
- The Vaudevillians (want Enzo and Cass, but it's better for the Vaudevillains....Dudley's will cost Enzo and Cass the Match)
- Baron Corbin will destroy Ziggler
- Ryback...new champion
- The Miz (with help from Maryse)
- Charlotte (and then move on from this feud)
- Roman Reigns walks away the champion after interference from Gallows and Anderson

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Payback Tonight....call your shots!
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Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens

The Vaudevillains vs. Enzo and Cass

Baron Corbin vs. Dolph Ziggler

United States Championship
Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback

Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (C) vs. Cesaro

Women's Championship
Charlotte (C) vs. Natalya

World Heavyweight Championship
Roman Reigns (C) vs. AJ Styles
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Ambrose clean

Zayn by DQ

Vaudevillains thanks to interference by the Dudleys

Corbin clean

Kalisto clean

Miz through dirty tactics

Charlotte thanks to Ric

Roman because of something that happens with Gallows, Anderson, and maybe Balor

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Payback Tonight....call your shots!
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Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens

The Vaudevillains vs. Enzo and Cass

Baron Corbin vs. Dolph Ziggler

United States Championship
Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback

Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (C) vs. Cesaro

Women's Championship
Charlotte (C) vs. Natalya

World Heavyweight Championship
Roman Reigns (C) vs. AJ Styles
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My predictions:

- Ambrose (Clean)
- Owens (Cheap...continue the feud)
- The Vaudevillians (want Enzo and Cass, but it's better for the Vaudevillains....Dudley's will cost Enzo and Cass the Match)
- Baron Corbin will destroy Ziggler
- Ryback...new champion
- The Miz (with help from Maryse)
- Charlotte (and then move on from this feud)
- Roman Reigns walks away the champion after interference from Gallows and Anderson

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Ambrose
Owens
Vaudevillians (they don't want two face tags going at it)
Ziggler but Korbin goes dirty after
Feed me more
Cesaro
Charlotte won't lose title until banks gets another shot or Bayley comes up
Roman, and goes full heel

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Payback Tonight....call your shots!
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Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens

The Vaudevillains vs. Enzo and Cass

Baron Corbin vs. Dolph Ziggler

United States Championship
Kalisto (C) vs. Ryback

Intercontinental Championship
The Miz (C) vs. Cesaro

Women's Championship
Charlotte (C) vs. Natalya

World Heavyweight Championship
Roman Reigns (C) vs. AJ Styles
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My predictions:

- Ambrose (Clean)
- Owens (Cheap...continue the feud)
- The Vaudevillians (want Enzo and Cass, but it's better for the Vaudevillains....Dudley's will cost Enzo and Cass the Match)
- Baron Corbin will destroy Ziggler
- Ryback...new champion
- The Miz (with help from Maryse)
- Charlotte (and then move on from this feud)
- Roman Reigns walks away the champion after interference from Gallows and Anderson

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Ambrose

Owens

Vaudevillans. Enzo And Cass are already over. As long as they don't get the Wyatt treatment, in fine with this loss.

I think HBK Jr. Will actually take this. Idk why, I just can't remember the last match he won.

Kalisto with the title has done nothing with the title. I think Ryback takes it just to try something new.

Miz, maybe an appearance by someone new wanting a IC title shot

Charolette takes this. Bret maybe puts ric in a Sharpshooter and charolette gets the roll up

Reigns wins, full heel turn. Either Anderson and Gallows become part of the Roman Empire, or after Balor debuts, Balor club turns on AJ.

Also, as far as who gets raw, I think Shane gets raw, authority gets smackdown, brand split ensues since they're both on USA now. Hopefully they almost bill it as a raw type show 2x a week. As far as storytelling/starpower/matches.

Shane just shows back up and gets Raw? I feel the brand split but the authority have been putting in the time for years, Shane will get smackdown

Shane leaving again seems more likely than him getting raw in my eyes

Idk, might not be shane, but I feel more people have been tuning into raw this past month than before. I just think if they go back to the authority it's Gunna get old, fast. I think it'll be either Shane or some other surprise face running raw.

But for tonight, I could see the authority coming out to cm punks music just to be extra a$$ holes/heels since its in Chicago.

Just turned on the pre show. Great move just now by Kalosto to Ryback on the outside, but also major props to Ryback who had to obviously move into it to make sure he caught Kalisto

I just turned it on into a ddt

Oh man this guy...this is the next Jim Ross.

Yeah he's by far the best announcer they have. They need to pair him up with Corey Graves

Hes been a commentator for UFC before right? Hes a good announcer. It's like he's actually announcing it and not reading a script. Looking at you cole AMD jbl

That match seemed bigger than it was. Maybe that's what good announcers do haha or maybe it's because I started watching it in the last 5 minutes

Yeah I think so, but I'm not 100% sure.

That was one of the best matches I've seen Ryback have in a while. Hopefully he's been improving, but I think a lot of it was Kalisto

Well, 0-1