That's right gentlemen, its the return of David Otunga!




WWE Raw TV taping preview 5/14

After last week's Raw episode was drained of star-power due to John Cena appearing "via satellite" and part-time TV characters Brock Lesnar and Triple H not on the show, WWE is bringing the heavy hitters back to Raw Monday night.

The top item advertised is Triple H's return after missing last week's show to sell an arm injury created by Lesnar two weeks ago. WWE is hinting at a confrontation between Hunter and Lesnar's new representative, Paul Heyman, to keep Lesnar involved in storylines despite missing TV.

Also in-play is the final hype for Over the Limit on Sunday. WWE will be promoting Raw's top match of John Laurinaitis vs. Cena, who is advertised for Raw. Also to be promoted for the PPV is WWE champion C.M. Punk vs. Daniel Bryan.

Laurinaitis's advertised involvement on the show is not limited to Cena, though. Laurinaitis's character has threatened to fire Big Show if Show does not apologize to him on Raw. Laurinaitis tweeted Friday night during Smackdown, "I'm looking forward to @WWETheBigShow's apology on Monday night. I'm sure he'll be sincere. #Raw #PeoplePower."

The Smackdown brand was front-and-center during last week's Raw when their top PPV match was changed to a four-way title match. All four men - World Hvt. champion Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, Chris Jericho, and Randy Orton - are advertised for Raw, including Jericho, who is part of the Raw brand.

Other Smackdown stars advertised are Daniel Bryan, IC champion Cody Rhodes, and Christian, who remains off TV while wrestling at house shows.

-- For the live crowd in Pittsburgh at Consol Energy Center, WWE is advertising a double main event - Punk vs. Jericho in an "Anything Goes Match" for the WWE Title and a six-man tag match. The advertised six-man tag match is Cena & Orton & Sheamus vs. Kane & Daniel Bryan & Lord Tensai.

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I still think Otunga is the drizzling shits in the ring, but the backstage lawyer bit has kinda grown on me. If they're determined to keep him on the roster at least they found something for him to do.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

Me too.

So glad they found a role for him.

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I still can't figure out how they can't find any sort of role for Colt Cabana.

Just stick to the old Heyman rule of positives and negatives and you're good to go. There's no reason for Kelly Kelly to be in the ring. Make her a full time valet.

I should actually give them credit once in a while so let this serve as the first time in 2012. I think they've officially brought back tag teams and managers - or are at least trying to. They're also calling guys up instead of letting them rot in FCW and using valets.

We have the Usos, Colons, kofi and r-truth, swagger and ziggler, titus and darren young, santino and zack, humico and camacho, gabriel and bourne. Aksana and Rosa can't wrestle so they made them valets, something I've always whined about them not doing. Ricardo, Bob Sakamoto, AW and Vicky are full time managers. They found something for Cameron and Naomi. They called up Moxley, Claudio, and Sandow, they're using Danielson (and AJ) awesome right now and Punk has been champ for months now. Even the last ppv was good.

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As long as Vince is alive/coherent, I've stopped getting excited about a rivival of the tag team division. It seems anytime it starts to look promising they'll fuck it up by having Big Slow squash the champs. It pisses me off because I grew up on great tag teams (Tully/Arn, Road Warriors, Rockers, Midnight Express, Hart Foundation) and I still think there is money to be made in a solid tag division. For starters they should quit the practice of randomly teaming up two main event wrestlers. It makes the legit teams look weak by comparison.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

I agree 100%. I think Vince is like Bill Wirtz in that it's not going to get any better until he's dead and then you'll see an immediate turn around.

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"What I have to say I'll say in a 20 minute long rambling monologue about THIS BUSINESS in front of the world."

Hunter's arm is reminding me of the time he saved Sting from the cage during Capitol Combat 1990.

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Long boring promo burying people by Triple H. Is it 2003 and the Reign of Terror?

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If you don't judge my do-rag, I won't judge your red flag

I'm watching Paul Jr and Paul Sr fight while Caveman Paul in a suit rambles on and on and on.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

This crowd WHATing Heyman makes me even more cynical about the rest of this show.

Big Show v Kane??!!?? Color me there.

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So they're not giving Punk and Bryan a single segment of mic time together before the PPV. I mean I know this is a throwaway event anyway but that's still an excessively soft build, especially since there has been time to devote to developing Punk/Laurinaitis/Tensai and Bryan/AJ.

Im listening to the Chael Sonnen interview on Joe Rogan's podcast which seems to be a better choice than watching Raw tonight.

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I just hope it measures up to the Kane-Khali beat the clock classic.

Seriously, this WWE title build makes Bryan-Sheamus at Wrestlemania look well-developed. Wouldn't be surprised if this curtain jerks the PPV, which is a shame given the talent of the two involved.

No way that gets no sold





thanks for the heads up

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That was so hilariously terrible.

Gordon Solie was backstage offering reports that RoboCop was in the building!

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Oh great, a video package on this week-long Show-Ace feud that they haven't talked about 5 times already tonight.

Hello Travel Mug.

We've missed you.

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This never gets old.

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Big Show is going to have to join Team Canada. Or become the RAW janitor. #ThisSegmentBlows

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Hey could this segment go another half hour?

Though at least it had a satisfying conclusion!

Seriously. What the hell is this crap?

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Urlacher's Missing Lauranitis.

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Ok so I'll take this segment as being a complete win as we won't have to sit thru anymore Kane vs Big Show matches.

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No sympathy for a fat ass crying like Tommy Dreamer.

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If you don't judge my do-rag, I won't judge your red flag

Can we really embrace the funk anymore after such an emotional display?