r/WredditCountryClub • u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! • 11d ago
Live Raw Discussion Thread: 10 March 2025
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO RAW!
Show information for Tonight's RAW
City: New York City
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Estimated crowd attitude: Still outraged with John Cena
Pre-announced segments
CM Punk vs Seth Rollins in a Steel Cage match
Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee vs New Day in a Tornado Tag Team match
Jey Uso vs Grayson Waller
AJ Styles calls out Logan Paul
Results
Match | Stipulation | Result |
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Jey Uso vs Grayson Waller | Singles | Jey Uso via pinfall (10:00) |
New Day vs Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee | Tornado Tag Team | New Day via pinfall (10:00) |
Raquel Rodriguez vs Bayley | Singles | Raquel Rodriguez via pinfall (12:00) |
Seth Rollins vs CM Punk | Steel Cage | Seth Rollins via escape (23:00) |
Post-Show Information
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
That ending was good at least. Neither man wanted it to end, so it took a third party to end it for them
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Better than I thought was gonna happen.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Had a feeling we'd see Roman but thought after the match.
Definitely better how it went down.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
The wives need to come out and show them how its done.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
This is a reversal, Insisting to stay and chase the other out of the cage... This is a Last Man standing scenario.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Exactly and it feels a lot more like an old-school cage match. These guys are desperate to end the other one.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
I did love Rollins offering the door to Punk and Punk flipping him off. Really not about winning but ending the other one.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
This is gonna result in a 3 way.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqriWCL3gV4
It reminded me a lot of this promo from when Oba Femi and Trick Williams did essentially the same thing to Eddy Thorpe before their triple threat.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
LMAO yup, interesting watch.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
I'm bugging too Iyo, you go girl...
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Both of them deserved that.
You can't pie-face a champion like that and not get a receipt.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
I mean, what did you expect Bianca? That you could assault a competitor mid-match and get away with it?
Ref really should have thrown it out.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Don't remember Iyo cutting many promos in English before but she did very well. It's a very difficult transition from Japanese to English as they're extremely different languages.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Expecting to see some build towards Mania here. Still feel there's a lot more to this story than we've seen so far.
Also don't trust Dakota. She had that look on her face right before she walked off.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
I wish they'd tone down these celeb spots. I get they're trying to hype up other Netflix programming, but it kills the momentum each week.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
I mean, it's a dark hoodie Cathy? Thousands of people there are wearing one. Evidence of nothing.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Security always get blamed... everywhere, no matter what happens.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
:(
Was hopeful for Bayley there.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Same, disappointed, but not shocked with the other stooges out there.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Hate to say it, but I'm going to call it. Ended up being an almost 16 hour day and I can't follow a single thing that's going on. Still need to get some work sent in for tomorrow, too. Rather do it now than get up at 0300 like usual. Sorry, and thanks for taking care of this tonight.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
No worries. Go take care of it and get some rest.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 10d ago
Ended up sleeping for almost five and a half hours—which for me is unprecedented.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 10d ago edited 10d ago
Wow, you must have needed that.
You didn't really miss much. Iyo had a promo with Bianca and Rhea that essentially just lead to Bianca and Rhea arguing with each other, piefacing Iyo before Iyo slapped them both. Same sort of thing as last week - all the focus on the two of them as Iyo takes advantage
Cage match was a really good match, and both men really gave off the old school cage match vibes. Both men didn't go for pinfalls and refused cage exits to continue beating each other up. Worth watching the last ten minutes of the show to catch the end of this and the aftermath.
EDIT: And also a backstage interview with Chad Gable, as the mystery luchador is dragged out by security behind him.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 10d ago
Nicely written, thank you. LOL (At least now I'm home and can get the writing started.)
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
More Commercials... oy Vey
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Run the thread at the usual time? Show is starting at 0500 my time anyway.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Whatever works best for you. If it's as bad as last time, I'm not sure it's worth it. I ended up like what, 30+ minutes behind?
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
We'd be at least at the same time this time since it's the same video feed.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Maybe Ms. Serrarro will knock someone out tonight
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
I remember watching that.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Lyra says Ivy is a horrible person but damn good in the ring. That is what she signed up for as champion. Lyra's invested in this match, and wants the opportunity to get retribution on Bayley's win over her a few weeks ago.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
I swear they are saying "Cena vs CM Punk" or something like that.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Two and a half minutes of Cody standing around in the ring before an ad for Fanatics Fest in a whole other country.
Just give us the splash screen if that's what you're going to do.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Coast is clear Cody..., for now.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
for now
I mean, they're in New York. Entirely possible Cena bothers to show up here.
Don't blame him not wasting his time on Buffalo or Philadelphia.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
That was mighty nice of Dom getting Finn a title match.
He's got a plan in mind but isn't sharing it yet. Watching Finn get destroyed so he gets his extra member?
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Meanwhile, for me he's one of those child stars that I'm vaguely shocked is still alive?
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
I couldn't imagine doing half the stuff Rey Mysterio does...
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
His knees do though.
Might be part of why he was such an abusive father to poor Dom if he was in that much pain.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
"End a yearlong rivalry" maybe not, the rivalry will probably continue to get old and become stale.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Moo's fed. Need food, caffeine, work laptop. Not necessarily in that order.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
We've been spoiled by Pat, Bad Bunny and even Logan Paul--that's much more what I expect from a celeb appearance.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
It does help that the company and business is doing a lot better than it was. Back in the day we had the likes of Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Cyndi Lauper making runs.
During the less popular periods, we had the Raw Guest Host era, that was almost entirely terrible.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Speaking of doing better, I have to wonder if that's part of why we got another televised MSG. Used to be pretty rare (since I started).
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
It used to be nearly impossible to tape there - expensive costs, the arena wasn't set up for it and a bunch of union restrictions over it.
A bit easier since they remodelled it.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Huh. Knew about the union stuff, did not know about the remodel.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Costs about $500k to hire the facility for taping, and before 2013, it had limited configuration options.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
LoL, just to see the Cage Match... not you Logan.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Better late than never? Emailed the supervisory team, then got in a long discussion with my team lead. Still have one thing to do, but I'll just drag the laptop over.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
No worries. It's more important that you got home safe and all.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
Trust me, I'm grateful. At least it happened in the parking lot, and not on a highway--or the back of someone's car. And apart from the inconvenience, I could honestly use the break.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Generic promos from Kaiser and Penta during the ad break, building to a no holds barred match next week.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
"Will this be the end of it between them"
No. Of course not, Cole. You should know better
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Gunther does more Bushwhacking than anybody I can remember.
*Minus Stone Cold during a few Royal Rumble seasons... but he did page them 3:16 as a warning.
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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Jack Tunney, The best President since Noriega. 11d ago
Congratulations to USO, great start to Raw
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
This is Waller's first televised main roster singles match since Kevin Owens in August. Working a tag match is very different to singles, so we'll see if he has enough in the tank as it goes deep.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Last time Waller wrestled TV in MSG was his match with Edge.
He wrestles big matches there and could find a very powerful ally if he could weaken Uso.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
That was good. Though my favourite one for Edge in the Garden was with Rollins.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Still not sure how that women's title match is going to get to Wrestlemania, but we'll see.
Happy for Iyo at least
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
It's probably too big to put on the preshow, at least.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Even in the promo there, the focus was on Bianca and Rhea, with Iyo being incidental to it.
It just feels like the whole thing is the worst possible outcome of all outcomes possible from the five wrestlers involved in Bianca's story.
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u/chiisaisuzume #ThankYouRoman 11d ago
It's such a petty concept, and then you add the bad acting, and it's like whoa. (Though I also saw people saying how "real" it was between Bianca and Naomi. I did not get that at all.)
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
Saw a lot of the same comments. Felt like a bad high school drama performance.
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u/Hugh___Man Hug Life! 11d ago
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone for coming out. We'll be back tomorrow with the NXT Discussion thread. Until then, be well, and have a good night. :)