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[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

I doubt Trips will be overly happy with his old buddy for this, but I don't think he's entirely wrong, I think Punk is still a great big match guy, but these shorter tv matches aren't good for him, especially the tag format if he's on the hot tag, and I don't know why he's wrestling in a t-shirt, it always looks indierific, I hated it when Flair and Sting did it back in the day, but they were at least hiding their moobs, I don't see a reason for Punk to be doing it, it surely can't be to sell merch.

I think if you look at Punk's body of work in 2025 everything he was involved in was good to great, and he had some stellar big matches, but the only really good tv match he had was with Sami Zayn, and it's hard to have a bad match with Sami. Obviously there was the fantastic match with Seth on the Raw Netflix debut right at the beginning of the year, but that was treat like a PLE main event with a lot of time.

Punk is my 2nd favourite wrestler of all time but father time is undefeated and has him in his sights, It's why I don't think he should lose to Bron on January 5th, if they still want that big match with him and Roman, it's now or never, but if they don't want that then I don't think Punk will have an issue putting Bron over, he's undoubtedly ready to be World Champion.

CM Punk 'Is Done' - Kevin Nash Launches Astonishing Attack on WWE Star

Kevin Nash has suggested CM Punk's best days are behind him while criticising his performance as WWE's World Heavyweight Champion.

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[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

Tonight's Raw line-up

 

[Hunter Rider]

Strong opening promo segment, I liked that Punk didn't take the paying the dues bones as he's such a big proponent of NXT, and instead put over that Bron is everything he says he is, and puts over the importance of the World title, and that he's the aging gunslinger not ready to hang up his spurs yet.

Also good to see Bron easing off the bronzer.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Stephanie better not lose here, especially not to Nikki Bella.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Stephanie better not lose here, especially not to Nikki Bella.

Man I’ll be SOOO FRICKIN pissed.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Man I’ll be SOOO FRICKIN pissed.

Thank Zod they didn't do anything stupid, the plan surely has to be Stephanie vs Becky or Liv at Wrestlemania.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Asuka is gold, just yell in Japanese and she can get the crowd going, and nice little brawl with Rhiyo to lead into the 8 woman tag on Smackdown and then the tag titles match next week.

 

[Hunter Rider]

WWE Star Piper Niven May Never Wrestle Again

WWE Superstar Piper Niven’s in-ring future is in doubt following a serious neck injury, according to a recent discussion on Wrestling Observer Live. During a segment focused on the dangers of neck injuries in modern professional wrestling, host Bryan Alvarez mentioned Niven as a cautionary tale...

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[Lobo]

Not gonna get a chance to watch until tomorrow. Hope the last Raw of the year is entertaining

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

WWE Star Piper Niven May Never Wrestle Again

WWE Superstar Piper Niven’s in-ring future is in doubt following a serious neck injury, according to a recent discussion on Wrestling Observer Live. During a segment focused on the dangers of neck injuries in modern professional wrestling, host Bryan Alvarez mentioned Niven as a cautionary tale...

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This is so awful.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

WWE Star Piper Niven May Never Wrestle Again

WWE Superstar Piper Niven’s in-ring future is in doubt following a serious neck injury, according to a recent discussion on Wrestling Observer Live. During a segment focused on the dangers of neck injuries in modern professional wrestling, host Bryan Alvarez mentioned Niven as a cautionary tale...

wrestlingnews.co

I remember recently watching a clip from Evolution 2 where Rhea gave Iyo the release razor's edge and tossed her like Mike Awesome tossing Spike Dudley in ECW 1999, and it looked absolutely sick. But instead of just pinning her Rhea picked her up and did a sitout powerbomb for the pin attempt. Why hit someone with something that looks devastating, only to pick them up and hit something less impressive for a nearfall?

Wrestlers do way too much in their matches nowadays and shorten their careers on extra bumps that add nothing to their matches. The body can only do so much and can only take so much.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I remember recently watching a clip from Evolution 2 where Rhea gave Iyo the release razor's edge and tossed her like Mike Awesome tossing Spike Dudley in ECW 1999, and it looked absolutely sick. But instead of just pinning her Rhea picked her up and did a sitout powerbomb for the pin attempt. Why hit someone with something that looks devastating, only to pick them up and hit something less impressive for a nearfall?

Wrestlers do way too much in their matches nowadays and shorten their careers on extra bumps that add nothing to their matches. The body can only do so much and can only take so much.

Agreed, it's putting a hat on a hat syndrome, and more times than not it just dilutes the better looking moves, I mean we're 40 years on and there's still not a current finisher that looks more devastating than Jake's DDT. Just last week Melo hit a weaker looking finisher after hitting a devastating looking first 48 counter, to win the US title, it made it anticlimactic.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Hopefully this is Jey's heel turn.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Hopefully this is Jey's heel turn.

But that would mean we’d have to watch another stinker between him and his brother…

 

[Hunter Rider]

But that would mean we’d have to watch another stinker between him and his brother…

That's what house shows and dark matches are for! maybe Jim could just go religious, turn the other cheek and head back to Smackdown.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I’m rolling my eyes so hard right now at the Usos.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Joe Tessitore saying "day 1 ish" is the commentary equivalent of a middle aged uncle dancing on tik tok with their niece, minus the family support excuse.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I’m rolling my eyes so hard right now at the Usos.

It's so boring, like I guess this was a end the year on a "happy" note, and the heel turn might come in a rematch, but it's like going backwards, I mean what was that standing walk off the top "splash" from Jimmy, it's like his legs ignored him.

 

[Lobo]

I see the Usos won. Does this mean AJ begins his feud with Gunther, and Dragon Lee goes back to catering?

 

[Hunter Rider]

I see the Usos won. Does this mean AJ begins his feud with Gunther, and Dragon Lee goes back to catering?

I could see a rematch at the Rumble, with AJ and Dragon regaining the titles and Hey finally snapping, or it'll be as you say and they're going to do The .Usos vs Logan Paul & Austin Theory for the tag titles at Wrestlemania.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I see the Usos won. Does this mean AJ begins his feud with Gunther, and Dragon Lee goes back to catering?

That means sadly, there will be one "AJ Lee" and not two.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[AndrewGilkison]

So are they still turning Jey heel, or are the Usos back as a tag team because Jey needs a babysitter to keep him from enjoying too many "libations" (to quote Cody Rhodes from their Payback 2023 press conference)?