There Was Also Wrestling On That Lavar Show Last Night
Welcome to the weekly RAW roundup! I had pretty much no idea who Lavar Ball was at this time yesterday, and now I do. Because of professional wrestling. What a beautiful sport! Let’s talk about the other shit though, because that happened too.
Roman Reigns opened the show with a pretty good promo shitting on Samoa Joe and Braun, but uhhh, Braun didn’t take too kindly.
Braun may be the only must watch wrestler in the world. Everything this guy does is just fucking awesome. Everything. The way he throws these guys 218348749 feet in the air, the way he tells Roman “I’M NOT DUN WITCHU YET!”, all of it. Fucking love the guy. Hope he never turns into a midcard dancing comedy act.
Finn Bálor teamed up with The Hardy Boyz to take on Elias Sampson, Cesaro, and Sheamus, and it was fine. A fun match with everyone’s usual spots. Nothing special, nothing bad.
FINALLY! Goldust and R Truth got to do something in the ring. Goldie had the old one piece on, along with the bleached hair, and attacked R Truth before the match began with the distraction of his cameraman. Hopefully he keeps adding more and more things about old Goldust to him like the wig, the robe, Marlena, and tourettes.
As we all know, Lavar took over the show at this point. God bless the Miz. I also found out the consensus is people hate this guy and feel bad for his kids? Fuuuuuuuck that. Lavar rules. His kids are little shits. Look at their faces. I hate those twerps.
The youngest one started yelled the N word into the microphone at one point, that was something.
Enzo came out and called out Big Cass. I was really curious to see where this was going, and it took me on a roller coaster. Enzo owned up to all of his shit and apologized to Cass, which is something that like, no pro wrestler ever does ever, so that was cool. Cass accepted his apology, and they made up. They let this play for so long that I thought, “Holy shit, did they realize their mistake and just decide to retcon the whole thing? This almost makes it WORSE!” But then, at the last second…RAINMAKKKKKKEEEEEERRRRRRRRR! Cass delivered a furious clothesline to Enzo, and gave him the ol’ Spike Dudley bump up the ramp. It looked like it hurt, but not as much as my heart hurts.
Samoa Joe ambushed Brock Lesnar during his entrance, and it was fantastic. Once again, I got the vibe that this was a real fight, and Brock is the reason behind that. He sold the choke well by somehow making his face turn purple, struggling and throwing Joe against the stage, and staying on the floor struggling for air after Joe was pulled off. I’ve been into this feud just about as much as I could be. I think since Joe won the five way at Extreme Rules it’s been aces.
The show closed with the first ever historic women’s gauntlet match, and they reeeeaaaallly need to stop calling everything to women do historic. This Trent tweet makes fun of it the best…
Nia Jax actually held her own and gave her best performance ever, putting over Sasha Banks in the end. I’m glad Banks finally has direction, because it’s felt like she hasn’t for the majority of her career. That’s not a knock on her necessarily, but other than the Charlotte feud that went on for six months too long, what else has she done? Nothing.
Another really enjoyable RAW this week, and hopefully SmackDown will keep the streak alive tonight. Make sure you tune in to From The Top Rope tomorrow, FOLLOW US on Twitter and Instagram, and SUBSCRIBE on iTunes.