RAW - March 11, 2019

I was looking forward to this Monday Night RAW because Finn Balor was featured! Hooray! The show started with The Shield and a good bye. I’m not 100% clear why this is a good bye. I think because Dean Ambrose did not renew his contract but they aren’t actually saying why. It is just weird. I’m already over it.

Finn Balor was again going against Bobby Lashey for a title match. This is why we all came here today. I’m kind of annoyed by the fact that they can’t just let Finn be like Brock Lesnar and just hold his title forever. Yep, I went there. They did a whole thing with Seth Rollins and that weird front man guy for Brock and had some guy come out and fight him. It didn’t make sense to me and I’m angry that everyone else with a title has to constantly have matches but he just gets to not even show up. Loser. I seriously hope that Wrestle Mania actually fixes this totally wrong story and Brock retires. If he can’t wrestle, he should have to forfeit his title. Seen it before (hello Finn Balor).

Those NXT guys had another tag team match this time against The Glorious guys. I don’t actually know their tag team name but they have a GLORIOUS song and amazing bathrobes. I just love them. They totally go for it and there is nothing more I ask of my tag teams than being committed to their theme. Sparkles and bathrobes are my thing! They of course lost because WWE demands that I pay attention to those NXT people. I’m not even going to say their names. I’m so over them. Wow I’m over everything this week! Way to get your audience to become uninterested. So Glorious lost and they didn’t even show me their awesome entrance. Fail. I will now stop using the NXT people names. WWE doesn’t control me!

Finn Balor is amazing. The match was already set to fail because you didn’t see that annoying Lio Rush. I have learned over the past few months that if a key annoying person is missing that means some monkey business is happening. It is like when your kids are quiet in the other room. Stuff is going down. So the match starts with Finn’s amazing entrance music and we are all stupidly excited to see a good match. That really didn’t happen. Honestly, Bobby Lashley and Finn Balor are not a good match. Bobby can’t move quickly and it isn’t very attractive to just watch a big guy throw someone down over and over. It looks lazy. Take note, Brock. It is boring and lazy and isn’t wrestling. Okay so anyway, the match is lackluster and then that annoying Lio Rush is in a hoodie and looks like a child and rings the match bell to distract Finn. It messes him up (and I’m still not sure how that isn’t DQ worthy) and Finn loses. Yes people I just said that. Finn lost his adorable little belt thingy. I’m so annoyed. Why are there no real rules and why do they even allow that Lio guy to be there? I mean I think they are setting up for Finn to have a WrestleMania match but I’m less than impressed right now. We have already seen these two battle several times and it is just not an exciting match to me. I would much rather see a Finn vs someone else that actually does wrestling moves. 

These big vs little matches are not that cool anymore, especially when the big guys are only able to throw people around and can’t do any other moves. It just gets old. It would be cool to see Finn versus more old school style wrestling. I’m thinking a Andrade, Rey Mysterio, Daniel Bryan, or even Mustafa Ali. Just more classic and more dynamic moves rather than the big guys that just throw people around. I know I’m sounding like a brat here, but I think this story is played out and until they decide to do something about Brock Lesnar the opportunities for the RAW folks to have more meaningful matches is very limited. I think it is also true when you think about wrestlers like Elias that plays a pretty awesome heel but doesn’t seem to have a clear story line to have matches that are ongoing and different. I mean you can only hit your guitar over people for so long.

The other amazing match that happened was actually a surprise for me. Dean Ambrose against Glasgow guy (Drew McIntyre). Dean was avenging Roman Reigns that got attacked before the match by Glasgow. This was a no DQ match that had “falls count anywhere” which means you can have a tap out or pin anywhere in the entire arena (apparently…). The match was brutal and kind of crazy which I guess fits their characters really well because they are both a little unhinged. There was a lot of in crowd work which always makes me nervous. As someone that has taken her children to a match before, I just worry about people getting hurt or hit. I mean do they prepare you for this? What if you get their gross sweat on you? What if a fan throws beer on you? There are just so many variables that I don’t care for in this type of match. It is the mom in me. I NEED RULES AND EXPECTATIONS PEOPLE. Anyway, it went fine and Dean lost which I think is just leading up to some sort of Wrestle Mania thing.

Other stuff that happened:

Kurt Angle will have his final match at Wrestle Mania (thank goodness, man he looks like he can barely move!), There was a women’s match with two people I don’t know so whatever, then Triple H is going to battle Batista at Wrestle Mania. I think there must be some sort of background to this Batista thing but I don’t care enough to look it up.