If a WWE employee says "RKO" and fails to immediately follow up with "Out of nowhere", how quickly do they get future endeavored?

Smackdown is just jawdroppingly bad and has been for months now. And I say this as someone who is generally positive about the product and tries to recognize the difficulty in putting on a good show week after week. WrestleMania is approaching and it's clear that they have no idea what the hell they're doing.

RE: Braun, I think him just smashing things and going RAWRRRRRRRR has a pretty limited lifespan, especially if they have to keep escalating his stunts. He showed some personality on Mixed Match Challenge (I doubt anyone else watched this, but it's a fun show) and I think it's a good thing to tap into if he's a babyface, as long as he is still threatening and capable of destruction like on Raw.

205 Live is the best wrestling show currently airing. Enzo being a disgusting rapist was the best thing that could have possibly happened for the brand.

Is Cena incapable of doing a proper cross face or just refuses to do so? Like it really couldn’t look worse.

Pretty awesome that Cole is telling Rollins to tap because creative's idea tonight is pointless.

When he first started using that as his finisher, people told him that he was legit hurting them so he took their health over making it look good.

edit: off the top of my head, if you look at his STF on Brock at SS 2014, that was pretty snug.

Just turned on Raw to see Rollins pin Cena. And then Elias runs in.

What is going on here?

I joined this match in progress and came here to ask what's on the line here. I assumed it was an EC play-in on the line, but then they implied that Seth is already in on that match.

...so I gather that the answer to "what's on the line" is "nothing"?

Its a gauntlet and the last match was phenomenal. And about the cena crossface, so the one Rollins did earlier was hurting cents? Because I️ feel like a guy imitating the finisher should not be performing it better than the guy he’s imitating.

Gauntlet match. Seth beat Roman first.

Some sort of gauntlet match. But I missed the first 12 minutes too so I don't really know either. But Rollins has looked real f'n good.

Is there anything on the line here?

Again, Cole points out that this match is pointless. If he's talking about strategy, wouldn't Elias's best move be to walk in the ring, crack Seth with the guitar, and leave? Get DQed, mess up Seth, Seth still has to fight Braun.

I'm enjoying the hour+ of straight wrestling, but I just wish something was on the line. Why kill yourself for nothing?

I thought I heard the winner gets to come out of his pod last.

Nope. The Drifter or whoever has that spot, I think.

Very high quality Raw so far but like everyone else is asking what the helll does the winner of this gauntlet get?

Edit: Nevermind they just said winner gets to enter last at Elimination Chamber.

They should have made the match Elias won for "not one of the initial two" and this match for last one in.

I don't see why this is hard.

Didn't they already decide that?

I dont know whats going on if im hearing **** or what but now in Elias's post match interview they said he is entering last. So im confused now.

Creative needs to get "these hands".

I thought I'd see CM Punk back before Jeff Jarrett. Guess Lex Lugar still has a shot at the HOF now too. Last I heard, Jarrett got booted from his own company and was in rehab.

Is there a Luger/Vince beef?

Wasn't there something stemming from the first Nitro. Lugar (along with Jarrett) were two guys he personally named in his infamous speech about guys your not going to see anymore the night he bought WCW (if I remember right).

Edit: Apparently there was an issue originally, but it's since been patched up (as seems to happen when a lot of these guys who screwed Vince end up having personal/health issues).
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...vince-mcmahon/

I don't remember Luger being part of that.

If you take Lex at his word, they don't seem like they fall into the category of having a major rift (despite that sudden WCW jump in '95): http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...vince-mcmahon/