Two Live Fan Reports From Last Night’s WWE RAW Broadcast

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My friend and I scored fourth row floor seats hard camera side for face value at the last minute and it paid off. Ryder’s dad was in front of us and my seat was directly behind Dana Warrior. Lots of action on the floor in front of and behind us.

Before and a couple times during the show, the U.K. fans had dueling chants of which hotels they were in. Then the “Travel Package” group started their own in section 109.

Fandango was first out for WWE Superstars for his one big night of the year. The crowd was happy to dance along.

Literally everyone yelled along with Big E for his New Day promo. I’m glad we got to give King Barrett a proper send off.

The crowd popped when Apollo Crews’s debut was teased before the commercial break, which made his entrance feel a bit flat. Still good cheers nonetheless.

I loved how they had Roman Reigns gloat and take the crowd head on. It drew major heat that only helped the other four that entered.

Baron Corbin wasn’t quite over. This was the beach ball segment. His attack outside the ring was directly behind us, which was really cool.

Zack Ryder was over and the execution of bringing back Maryse and the Intercontinental Title change were well done. Miz got good heat instead of the indifferent heat he’s been receiving.

The crowd hated Charlotte and even when she cut the babyface portion of her promo about the women, fans didn’t want to cheer. Eventually the “Women’s Wrestling” chant started and there were genuine smiles on all the ladies’ faces.

Nobody cared about The Usos vs. The Dudleys. We were all waiting for Enzo Amore and Big Cass, whose family was also in front row all night. When WWE cut to commercial, they were really confused.

The pop of the night went to Enzo and Cass for their debut and again, everyone joined in the promo.

The match of the night was the main event. A lot of people expected Samoa Joe or John Cena for the fourth spot, so Cesaro was a great surprise. Many expected him to win, but AJ got a great pop for his win, as well. AJ celebrated and there was no dark match.

This year’s Raw after Mania was top notch and definitely beat last year. That’s saying a lot since we had no Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, John Cena, or even Dean Ambrose.

Here’s to hoping the annual April/May slump isn’t as bad this year. Dr. Phil will make sure of it.

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Raw was for mine, disappointing. It really felt like a marathon. One of my friends asked me for the matches (they’re at work back in Australia) and when I wrote them out it felt like a superstars episode. Live was the same. Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler lost the crowd to the point we were all cheering and chanting for a beachball.

Raw Highlights

-Sami Zayn’s pop.

-The Fatal 4 Way main event.

-Charlotte’s bragging.

-Chris Jericho seeking heat and nothing else. Jericho is great. He said he wouldn’t let us idiots hijack the show so we chanted ‘we are idiots’. That was pretty funny.

-Enzo Amore and Big Cass woke the crowd up. Cesaro’s return was cool but not shockingly he didn’t win.

Raw Lowlights

-While we popped for Shane McMahon as general manager for the night it made zero sense. None. At all. The matches aside the Fatal 4 Way.

-No knock on the talent, but The Dudleys v The Usos, Miz vs. Zack Ryder, Sasha Banks vs. Summer Rae, Corbin vs. Ziggler, and Tyler Breeze vs. Apollo Crews. Meh. Superstars deluxe.

-No Samoa Joe. No John Cena. No Brock. No Taker.

-WWE continued ignoring of how not over Roman Reigns is. I read in the report what JBL said. What on earth? The whole show was a drag between the bookends.

Jim Ross’s show was much more enjoyable than Raw.

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