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Live Report From Last Night’s Raw

March 31, 2015 | Posted by Larry Csonka

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I missed the first few segments of Raw since I left work a little late, and the traffic in the Bay Area (as usual) didn’t make matters any better. From what I found when I got there and talked to the people around me – Paul Heyman gave a great promo (as usual), and that Brock Lesnar was pissed and the rematch was happening tonight. I asked around as to which ridiculous chants were going on – and they said “Suplex City” for Lesnar and “You look Stupid” for Sheamus. The match between Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler was supposed to be pretty good and that Bryan was really over with everyone, and Sheamus’s return kind of fell flat.

The first match I saw was the four-way tag match with the Lucha Dragons. Man, were they over. Anything NXT was over in this show in a big way. Good match, the Dragons winning got a nice pop. People were surprised that the championship match was next – Brock’s pyro was really loud, especially the one on the ring apron. Seth Rollins got huge cheers. Brock performing the F5 on Michael Cole was awesome, and probably the biggest cheer so far. Stephanie McMahon got monster heat when she came out. The camera guy and Cole were doing the stretcher job all through the commercial break, which was way too long.

Mizdow vs. Stardust – Great cheers for Mizdow. People seem to like Stardust, I think the red mini-cape kind of thing he’s wearing helps his look. Miz got good heat for the post-match beatdown.

Curtis Axel vs. Neville – AxelMania chants were everywhere. Neville got a huge pop – people were surprised that they changed his name. Everyone loved the Red Arrow finisher.

Huge boos for John Cena – lots and lots of boos. A few women in the crowd cheered for Cena but actually shifted to Dean Ambrose when he came out, and cheered for him in the match. Match of the night – many “this is awesome” chants. Some “You can’t wrestle” chants for Cena. Another chant – “John Cena Sucks” to the tune of his music. This one was pretty crazy and happened many times tonight.

Divas Match – Paige seemed most over out of everyone. The match was actually pretty good. An interesting thing happened in the middle – The crowd started chanting “You Suck Cena” or “You Suck Bryan” or whoever the spouse was for each diva. Crazy stuff. It was a little disrespectful, but this crowd didn’t care.

Lots of love for Goldust – I think everyone thought this might be his last match. Rusev got a lot of cheers.

Main Event (6-man tag) – Roman Reigns drew massive boos. Again, Ryback was really over with the crowd. This whole match was hijacked by the fans. Some of the chants were – “This is boring”, “You’re worse than Cena” (for Reigns), “NXT” and “We are awesome.” Huge boos for the spear at the end.

Once the show went off the air, Sting entered for the interview. Lots of cheers. Nice promo, but they seem to have taken the “Sting” out of his momentum after the Mania loss. Bo Dallas was awesome, and there were a few “Bolieve” chants. Nice ending to send the crowd go home happy. No dark match, as after this, Lilian Garcia thanked the crowd for attending Wrestlemania and Raw, and told us about the Raw event in San Jose on August 3.

Overall – okay show. The crowd brought it’s A game, but apart from the Lesnar and Neville segments, the WWE didn’t in my opinion.

Top 5 Pops – Lesnar, Cole getting the F5, Neville, Lucha Dragons, Seth Rollins
Most Heat – Reigns, Cena, Stephanie, The Bellas, The Miz

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