Tonight, on the With Spandex WWE Raw open discussion thread:
Just about every Superstar on the roster has retribution on their minds in the lead-up to WWE Payback, live on the award-winning WWE Network. But first, Raw rolls through Cincinnati, where Rusev has vowed to meet John Cena face to face. As the WWE Universe awaits this combustible confrontation between The Super Athlete and The Champ, what else is in store for Monday night’s hottest show? WWE.com has some ideas. (via WWE.com)
Our five-point preview:
1. Will this confrontation between John Cena and Rusev end with John Cena defeating him 3-out-of-4 times (including three times in a row), or will monkeys fly out of my butt? Stay tuned for these COMBUSTABLE ELEMENTS!
2. Last week’s show was great, but pulled in the lowest audience of the year. Does WWE understand that if the show’s exceptionally bad one week people might not tune in to the next week’s better episode, or are they just gonna throw Sami Zayn under the bus and give us six more months of Orton and Reigns? GUESS WHICH ONE, YOU GUYS.
3. Luke Harper and Erick Rowan are friends again, I guess! That’s something! Tonight they should team up to infiltrate Bray Wyatt’s smoky promo room and wrap his entire head in duct tape.
4. Randy Orton’s new t-shirt looks like a screencap from Fire Pro Wrestling and features him RKO’ing … what is that, a face-hugger? One of those hands that teleports you out of dungeons in The Legend of Zelda? A shadow with the face of Stannis Baratheon?
5. There are lots of rumored returns for tonight, and they’re all either non-wrestlers or injured people. Let’s place our bets on who gets their shoulder injured next! I call Neville!
+1 your favorite comments from tonight’s open discussion thread and I’ll include 10 of the best in tomorrow’s Best and Worst of Raw column. Enjoy the show, everybody.
