Raw Highlights 3-23-20

Magnificent beast and their advocates

Paul Heyman list just a few of the victims of Brock Lesnar throughout his career and ends his promo with “then, now, forever”. That is a badass promo to work the WWE worst ng of then, now and forever into it for Brock.

A replay of the 2015 wwe championship match at the royal rumble is a good match to play in its entirety. The match really holds up and shows why Brock is STILL the man.

Calling you out in Style

AJ Styles takes more shots at the undertaker. I’m kinda glad AJ Styles isn’t scared of the Undertaker and really wants to expose him, a lesser character would not be able to pull this off; we’ve seen Bray Wyatt and even John Cena try and fail. “Who is this man, where has he gone?!” a very important question from AJ and perhaps, if this is the last match for the Undertaker he needs to absolutely bring it. What the hell is a boneyard match though?

Angel Garza & Andrade[c] vs Cedrick Alexander & Ricochet

Angel Garza sports a new look while Zelina Vega takes a shot at Charly’s looks and misses. One of the dumbest things anyone could write is to take a shot at Charly Caruso’s looks; it’s lazy and completely tone deaf. Andrade actually cut a decent promo with the few words he spoke, Andrade and Garza want the titles. Cedrick Alexander were going to end up in a tag team together sooner or later. Neither one is particularly great on the mic but they are so good in the ring it’s ridiculous.

The background noise was great for the match, WWE should have found a way to do this all along. Street Profits added a pretty cool , dare i say, “sports like feel” to the match. Street Profits scouting their talent and being impressed, putting them over on commentary was good enough to start a program.(Later The street profits beat jobbers to keep their skills sharp heading into wrestlemania.) This match was the shot in the arm WWE programming has needed. Andrade and Ricochet may not get main event pushes yet but they are “blessed and highly favored”. So is Cedrick Alexander to a degree. The end was botched but it was the ending regardless, it didn’t even really look that bad, ref still counted 3.

Prophetic

Seth speaks nothing but truth, I’m not sure how his character is actually a heel when you listen to what he’s saying. Kevin Ownes is the perfect guy to have a feud with Seth Rollins because together they will rebuild the red brand.

Honorable mentions

1. Charly sits down with Shayna Bazsler. Charly did an okay job in the segment, Shayna was definitely in the spotlight but out of the shadows came Becky Lynch with some LOUD chair shots.

2. Aleister Black gets a squash win.

3. Charlotte vs Asuka at Wrestlemania replay. The Queen is interviewed backstage about the match with Asuka and her upcoming match with Rhea Ripley. Charlotte flubs a line but goes right through it like a champ.

4. Orton drops hot fire on the mic again. This time Orton closes the show and accept Edge’s invitation to a last man standing match at Wrestlemania.

Final take

Wrestlemania is all about stories this year, it’s all wwe can focus on, lets see what the “fans” come up with so they can bury wwe and claim that stories aren’t what they wanted. With that said, wwe is so overproduced that it stole some natural moments in this show. Too much, “business as usual” coming from WWE productions, Raw shouldn’t be so stiff, none of wrestling should be. No need for a ton of cuts with no audience.

#Andrade #BrockLesnar #Shaynabaszler #BeckyLynch #SethRollins #Raw