I know we already have the Raw viewing thread, but I think Raw 1000 is big enough that it deserves it's own thread.

The night starts off with the return of the greatest duo of all time:



We then get the wedding between these two:



After that these two:



Respond to whether or not they will accept this man's challenge:

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Next we get the return of (not via satellite) of this man:



And finally to top it all of the main event is a match between Mr. Money in the Bank:



And the WWE Champion:



It also looks like this man will be commentating the match:



Let's just hope the ending to Raw 1000 isn't

In b4 blueboyaids.gif.

what the **** is this thread?

I like that Raw1000 flyer image at the top. Pretty bad ass looking.

Austin or GTFO.

How many matches will there even be besides the title match? The poster in OP has 4 long promo type things and is still missing the revealing of the new GM, surprise legends, tout, probably promo time for current superstars and god knows what else they come up with.

Noticed that too. They really dropped the ball; they could've made this a PPV-caliber show. Wouldn't have taken much to at least announce a tag team title match or something. But considering the typical PPV now is ~4 announced matches and 3-4 filler matches, I guess it was to be expected.

We will be getting a women's title defense based on the results of the poll on Raw though.

Didn't the poll indicate that Christian is defending his IC Title? There's that.

DX isn't the best duo ever. Here are some superior duos:












And one more impressive duo for good measure:

+1

If Heath Slater is to make any appearance I'm hoping it's against Razor Ramon.

I also hope the new GM is NEW.

Glad Bork Laser is finally back on TV.

Don't care too much for whatever The Rock has to say.

If Raw opens up with PG DX I'm just gonna turn the TV off and record it.

Boy, you must really hate PG-era DX to put a Hornswoggle pairing there. I mean sure Fit Finlay is one of the toughest no-nonsense wrestlers out there in history but still, you still put a Hornswoggle pairing?

They've already announced that's what they're doing. They said it on last week's broadcast.

The Hornswoggle pairing was a joke.

the one time in 2012 a cm punk title defense headlines a wwe event and he's gonna lose it to john cena

rock on

Here's my predictions of the things that have been announced so far:

DX reunion will probably be aids unless it's interrupted by Lesnar and Heyman.

AJ/D-Bry wedding should be pretty entertaining, I would guess Kane makes a run-in.

Hopefully Christian gets a good opponent to face, so the IT title match will be good.

Rock segment will be aids.

Punk/Cena will be an awesome match with a very interesting finish. I really have no idea who will win, but rumors are that the "big Summer angle" will start at Raw 1000 so I would guess it starts during this match. I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that Punk turns heel and beats Cena with the help of Brock and Heyman.

All reasonable predictions. I was calling for the Punk heel turn earlier too.

my prediction:

http://youtu.be/SQ7_5MMboo4?t=8s

Isn't Punk still the #1 merchandise seller? Seems like bad business to just turn him now. I'm calling a no-contest for the WWE Title match, Cena re-cashes in his Cena in the Bank at Summerslam.

Given that this show has gotten more hype than they give anything that isn't WrestleMania, I tend to think that Vince will apply the same anti-schmozz approach that he takes to matches on big PPVs.

As for the top merchandise seller thing, under that reasoning no top faces would ever get turned. If Punk is the top merchandise seller then I'm sure it's by a relatively narrow plurality rather than him churning out ridiculous numbers. That is to say...I doubt he does anything that couldn't be replicated by others already in the company.

I also imagine Punk's merch is going more towards smarky types that don't care if he's heel/face, compared to Cena who seems to sell a lot with little impressionable kids.

My prediction:

Yeah the Ryback is a solid prediction

The Ryback suffers his first loss to Gillberg, imo.

Either one would work.

On that note, we never did get to see Goldberg vs Gillberg, did we? If I remember right, Gillberg only made a short appearance during The Rock Concert in 2005(4?) when Goldberg was with WWE.

They should main event the show.

Early predictions:

Christian retains.
Slater loses.
Ryback wins.
Cena wins, only to drop it back at SS.

Punk joining Borks stable would be cool.