A Live Report From Last Night’s WWE RAW Broadcast

Credit: Justin Doolittle and Prowrestling.net

Six-man tag: The crowd was really hot for Dolph Ziggler and bored with everyone else. Very little heat for Cesaro. Every time an Uso was in the ring, the crowd was chanting for a Ziggler tag.

Lots of boos for the Today show women and the general pointlessness of their appearance. The crowd booed again later on when they announced next week’s “special guest,” which is someone from Atlanta Housewives. Time to ditch this special guest nonsense unless they have a major celebrity who people actually care about.

Bo Dallas wasn’t over at all (to my disappointment) and the crowd didn’t seem to find that finish and his reaction as hilarious as I did.

The crowd seemed baffled by the Roman Reigns segment. They hyped it all night on the big screen and I think most people definitely thought he was going to be there live. Then Michael Cole stood up and said it was time for the interview via satellite, asked one question, Reigns answered, and that was it. I don’t know what happened on TV, but live, Reigns was only on the screen for like 30 seconds and said basically nothing. Bizarre.

The crowd revolted pretty hard against the Mini Gator vs. El Torito match. Non-stop mocking chants, including an arena-wide “This is stupid!” that probably was heard clearly on TV. (It was really, really stupid… one of the worst Raw segments I’ve seen in a while.)

The Rock. What can I say? The crowd went absolutely nuts… dwarfed any other pop of the night. Hell, it probably dwarfed all the other pops combined. It’s pretty rare to get any true surprises these days, but I didn’t hear anything about him being there, and everyone in my area seemed genuinely shocked (not sure if news of him being there leaked before the show or not but no one I talked to had any idea). It was really cool to be there for that. And he was in fine form.

Damien Sandow was over HUGE. This was the surprise of the night for me, as far as fan reactions. I’m talking like non-stop chants, throughout the entire Miz vs. Sheamus match. Every kind of Sandow-related chant you can think of. Big pops for the two or three times he got in a cheap shot on Sheamus. He was doing some hilarious stuff outside the ring too and playing up to the crowd. I don’t know how they can parlay this gimmick into something bigger, but the fans (at least in Brooklyn) absolutely love this guy, and presumably want to see bigger things from him.

The crowd was relatively dead for the final segment. It seemed like a combination of exhaustion, a bit of a letdown feeling since nothing was going to top The Rock, boredom with Randy Orton and Kane, and the fact that we had already seen both John Cena and Dean Ambrose multiple times.

Overall, a fun night, with The Rock obviously being the highlight. Nothing really memorable in terms of wrestling, though.

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