Superstar shake up bay beeeeeeeeee

Leafs game baybeeee. Seriously with all the sports going on is anyone going to be watching RAW.

I'm watching a full RAW for the first time in months

tbf, I would've completely forgotten about it had MMSS not posted about it.

So the Miz jumps Shane from behind and Shane still gets the upper hand until the Miz gets his hands on a chair?

Also, why would the Miz go to Raw? Are they just squashing the Shane/Miz feud? Makes very little sense. If, for whatever reason, they think it's best to move Miz to Raw, shouldn't they have had Shane play up the heel role, say something like "I hate to do this, because I love wiping the floor with the Miz so much, I'm the best in the world, etc" and then had the Miz be frustrated because he won't be seeing Shane (in kayfabe) anymore?

This makes no sense.

ummm...what?

RAW off to a hilariously bad start. Miz to Raw at this moment is bad.

First segment ends and they play Ricochets music and Cole goes 'OH MY GOD, does this mean Ricochet is now a member of Monday Night Raw!!??"

Why the hell would it mean that? Ricochet and Black have been on 100% of Raw and SD episodes since their debuts. Unless someone makes a statement, why does them being in a match mean they are now Raw property without an actual announcement?

Also, LOL at scheduling a 6 man tag main event, which is literally a repeat of the match a week or 2 ago but with a "mystery partner" as the shields third instead of Dean Ambrose. Very creative.

Also, LOL at introducing Ricochet and then following it up with---EIGHT MAN TAG TEAM MATCH COMING UP NEXT!

They just aren't trying. Like, at all.

+1 to all of this. Especially the first point which I just shook my head at when Shane got any offense in.

I'm in disbelief at "The Viking Experience," "Igar" (?) and "Eric."

This was wrt "The Viking Experience". wtf? How about "War Raiders"??!?!

Well, it's pretty clear at this point that in kayfabe Shane McMahon is the best in the world, and a superior wrestler to reality star Michael Mizanin

I can't get over "Erick." They could pick any badass Viking name there is if they really wanted to change the names for god knows what reason, and went with "Erick."

Has Ambrose legit left? Seems they made too big a deal about it to be real.

Probably just setting up a bounceback clothesline.

They had an after RAW celebration for him last week. Hard to think it's fake after that.

I wonder if the live crowd realized the name change? Guessing not or they would have **** all over it.

They're milking this Ambrose goodbye tour so much that even Gene Simmons is shaking his head.

Lol I changed the channel as Black was getting his intro, and totally missed The Viking Experience. That's amazing

Not that the brand split means anything for more than a couple weeks a year, but guessing SD might be getting at least a couple of big names with the network switch this year.

If the shake up involves NXT and 205 Live also, are they going to be sending Raw and SD guys too those shows too?

Find it amusing they still have Andrade and Vega together considering they're both engaged (I think) to other talent (Charlotte & Alistair).

Shane isn't exclusive to Smackdown any more. All the McMahons are now authority figures on both shows.

They're business associates!

That match was really good imo. And gave me optimism for an Almas push that I'm sure will be dashed in the coming weeks.

Rey is better than Mr America?

He's also better than Mankind, Vader, and Kane.

I don't approve of his finisher. I picture Droz every time he does it. shrug