WWE RAW REVIEW JANUARY 6, 2025 - THE NETFLIX ERA BEGINS!

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  • @OgGeo
    @OgGeo 20 днів тому +2

    you guys have the production quality and analysis of a channel that should be WAYY more popular. keep going!! subbed and y’all got my ears fs

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  20 днів тому

      Wow.. THANK YOU! Means a ton! We will keep it up!

  • @AssembleShow
    @AssembleShow 21 день тому +1

    Hey good episode ❤

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      Thank you! What did you think about raw?! You should stop by for our livestreams!

  • @TehBlueTown
    @TehBlueTown 21 день тому +3

    I expected Liv to lose and she did. I’m disappointed with how the reign and Rhea feud was booked, but proud that Liv was able to use what she was given to turn into a big main event star. I hope they can keep the momentum going for her. I think she can be a really good mid card player for a bit until she gets back into the world title scene down the line

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      I wonder what’s next for her. It’s almost like idk where she goes or how she rebounds

  • @jeremyvalon44
    @jeremyvalon44 20 днів тому +2

    saying Liv no development is funny, superstar of the year across all promotions for me. she had not even half of rhea followers on x start of year, passed her in no time. held title from may until january. beat becky. beat nia. beat iyo, beat rhea. despite triple h NEVER everrrrrrr getting women right, liv promo ability and acting made this a very exciting year for the women.

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  20 днів тому

      I agree she was the mvp. But at the end of day, it’s like all that work for what? I think Liv’s promo and in ring have always been there, she just was able to showcase it more. Rhea just looked overwhelming strong to us throughout the entire feud minus a couple of times

  • @Kamil-fw8zx
    @Kamil-fw8zx 21 день тому +4

    Yeah, Dom was cooked on this Raw. You've had a fun career. It will be a long time before he recovers from this. I'm just disappointed with how Triple H is booking him, my guy deserves better
    Being a Dom's fan is not easy :(

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +3

      dom needs a big 2025. Not a great start for him, I’m hoping he turns it around

    • @Kamil-fw8zx
      @Kamil-fw8zx 21 день тому +1

      @@codwrestlepod I hope so, but I'm not optimistic about it

    • @Jasmine4Miami
      @Jasmine4Miami 21 день тому +1

      It’s so frustrating. Rhea has literally squashed him at bash in Berlin and Bad Blood and every raw in between. Last night was unnecessary. Tired of them making Dom look so pathetic

    • @jacksonando2612
      @jacksonando2612 21 день тому

      @@Jasmine4Miami but to be fair…. What could he do to Rhea? Not like he can lay hands on her, so she will always have the advantage on that bc she knows he can’t hit her back, I don’t think this world is ready for that content😂

    • @clarkspacewayne2672
      @clarkspacewayne2672 21 день тому

      @@Jasmine4Miami That's just his role for the time being. It's better than where he was at before.

  • @TheSmackShow
    @TheSmackShow 21 день тому +1

    The Rock posted a video about how he received the honor of being High Chief and that he needs to leave his “boyish ways” behind him. The heel Final Boss may have been reminded that he needs to grow up and move on from feuds and to resume being a peaceful Chief.

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      That’s very interesting. I’m sure there’s more and more layers to it all. It’s one of the times where we can really just sit back and watch now. No clue what’s to come

  • @Austin123.
    @Austin123. 21 день тому +1

    1. The Rock acting like Dwayne was weird to me the entire time. As last time we saw him it was Final Boss and this time it was Hollywood Dwayne.
    2. Jey winning was fine just don't know what they're gonna do with Drew here from here on out. Though I knew Jey was gonna win when Cole said that Jey has never beaten Drew McIntyre before in his career.
    3. Roman vs Solo was a really fun match to watch
    4. CM Punk vs Seth Rollins tore the house down with that banger
    5. WWE showed us that LIv's title reign and her winning Crown Jewel Champion meant nothing. She was just a weak champion who was just holding the title for half a year just so Rhea can take it back.
    Leaving WWE Raw more confused than ever. Also, I feel very bad for the women's division on RAW with Rhea Ripley as Champion again. The issue with Rhea Ripley as Champion is when she was Champion she had a lot of squash matches and had an easy title reign. Not only that, her title reign was boring and had no storylines aside from her stories with TJD and Dom. WIthout TJD nor Dominik, I feel like people will grow very tired of Rhea Ripley as Champion and want her no longer to be Champion. As when she was last Champion she had to miss a lot of PLEs cuz there was no one for her to defend as she squashed everyone having 3 to 5 minute matches and was heavily involved in TJD storyline.
    Honestly feel like we're about to see a very boring title reign from Rhea Ripley as WWE refuses to make her look weak. When she did look weak for against Liv she'd just come back to beat her for a few weeks after that. This is the first time I've seen a feud that was very one sided with it being 1-4:
    - Summerslam: Liv pins Rhea
    - Bash in Berlin: Rhea pins Liv
    - Bad Blood: Rhea wins via DQ
    - Survivor Series: Rhea pins Liv
    - 1st Raw on Netflix: Rhea pins Liv
    It's just a very one sided feud that had Liv run away from Rhea and getting constantly pinned by Rhea. This feud didn't elevate anyone but Rhea Ripley and got Dom out from being her pet. It's a great shame that WWE fumbled this feud badly and made very questionable booking decisions along the way. We're leaving this feud seeing Liv as a terrible Champion with a terrible bodyguard. Like Liv exited 2024 as Women's Wrestler of the Year and entered the new year getting beat up. As you said, it felt like there was no character development from Liv at all.
    Lastly, I do not think we'll see Solo or his Bloodline for a while. Think they'll come back when the Rock turns on Roman.

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      This comment is amazing, and I agree with just about everything you said! The rock stuff last night felt so off, it was great for new casuals, but honestly kind of a slap in the face to the fans who have been begging for an answer to what the hell the 3 fingers meant at bad blood haha. The liv stuff you put together perfectly as well.

  • @jayfern9798
    @jayfern9798 21 день тому +2

    Really enjoyed the livestream last night guys I think the episode was good but I just think the wrong people won all night solo should have won because now it feels like the solo Roman storyline is over . Liv should have won because now her reign is over and how are we supposed to remember it when all she did was run. Don’t get me started on jey winning by a quick pin Drew should have definitely won and Seth should have beat punk in my opinion . I’m just gonna wait for the heel turn from either rock or heyman

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      Thank you for stopping by! We really appreciate that. Yeah on the surface, I kind of agree with you, but I’m going to give WWE the benefit of the doubt on it all. They know better than us. It felt like a “let’s establish all of these top people to a new audience”

  • @jordanford9320
    @jordanford9320 21 день тому +1

    I had to wait to watch this because I was very upset with last night's results realizing that it was for a broader audience. However, I can't get over but they have all of the faces win. Only redeeming thing was watching hulk Hogan get booed into irrelevance.

  • @jacksonando2612
    @jacksonando2612 21 день тому +1

    I also think Rhea has bigger plans and big matches for Rhea like Bianca, Charolette, iyo sky, a proper Becky fued, maybe AJ Lee and Alexa bliss, those are Rhea type fueds, now THAT would be a amazing and proper title reign, her first was exciting and featured it a lot even with the men but not a lot of high level fueds with big names

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      I personally think Iyo wins the rumble and it’s her and Rhea at mania

  • @850bigboy
    @850bigboy 21 день тому +4

    they did kinda make liv an afterthought after the match especially once the undertaker came out & joined rhea at the entrance

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +3

      I really don’t know what’s next for her and that scares me a little bit

    • @850bigboy
      @850bigboy 21 день тому +2

      @ the only thing i can think of is that since she lost her title right after finn balor & jd lost their tag titles it probably going to plant the seeds lead to a judgment day split (even though we've probably been saying that for the longest now lol) and liv & raquel are probably going to be back in the running for the women's tag titles again which kinda sucks after liv having a almost if not 7 month long reign as the main women's champion mostly as a placeholder to get rhea more over as a mega babyface in the women's division and her winning the title back from liv as the payoff. tbh that's basically what the storyline was always really about when you think it

    • @Austin123.
      @Austin123. 21 день тому

      @@850bigboy Well we don't know what's next for Rhea either. There is no one that is built to be believable enough to beat Rhea RIpley aside from Iyo Skye, who just got pinned by Lyra who Rhea beat quite easily in NXT. And for the WWE women's tag titles, honestly, I think that's the deadest division ever. There is only 2 actual women's tag team on the main roster and most defenses are just people getting thrown together to challenge them. It's the most useless belts ever, IMO.
      Perhaps Liv will eventually win the IC belt alongside Dom. Both having matches belts.

    • @850bigboy
      @850bigboy 21 день тому

      @@Austin123. spot on. maybe they'll have rhea feud becky again but i can't becky losing back to back matches to rhea. it also depends on who is going to be apart of the transfer portal as well bayley was on raw last idk if she moved over to raw but i don't want to see her feuding with rhea because she's not going to win & also turning both becky & bayley heel would feel kinda forced just to try & fixed the lack of credible heel problem in raw's women's division

    • @Austin123.
      @Austin123. 21 день тому

      @@850bigboy No one wants to see Rhea vs Becky again. If LIv had won and Becky Lynch returned. It would build towards the Royal Rumble giving them a match. Say Lyra loses to Dakota Kai, they can reinsert Lyra to team with Becky Lynch again. We see a women's tag match at SNME. Then after that we get the Rumble, Becky vs Liv match up.
      After that feud, you could easily build towards Lyra winning #1 contenders match to avenge Becky Lynch at the Chamber. Though she falls short, and then you could have Liv face someone at Mania.
      Now we are in a huge unknown territory for Rhea. Sadly, it seems we will be getting a Rhea vs Becky match-up that no one wanted to see again.

  • @jenxytrulo82931
    @jenxytrulo82931 21 день тому +2

    I didn't like how the end of the Liv Rhea match cause it made it look like Rhea was gonna be the owner of the title regardless of anything even after Liv carried raw in 2024 and kept views tuned in and her and Dom brought more attention to raw and the product I felt like oh this is her thank you for most of last year like thanks for keeping rheas seat as top dog warm but we'll be taking that and still making you look like you can't handle stronger people in the ring while we are at I just think there wasnt really a payoff for either Liv or Rhea in this upset win by Rhea fine Liv comes out looking strong Rhea comes out strong too but that I just wasn't pleased

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +3

      To me, liv just seemed like she kept the title warm for months. That’s the feeling I have right now and I don’t like that at all

    • @jenxytrulo82931
      @jenxytrulo82931 21 день тому +2

      @codwrestlepod me neither she deserved a payoff regardless of how like ok lose the way you did but leave the ring strong at least and the Dom stuff didn't need to happen the way it did but that's a personal opinion like instead of the hug bit they could've had him go in to help Liv out of the ring and Rhea catch him off guard and hit him with a riptide that way so it doesn't look like Livs revenge tour completely "backfired" or "failed" like Liv still walked away with having taken rheas boyfriend and the judgement day but again that's just a personal opinion then to have taker to come out and celebrate with Rhea kinda to me made it look like oh ok rheas getting everything she's gonna want this year and won't really have to work for it too much

  • @jacksonando2612
    @jacksonando2612 21 день тому +2

    I personally feel like with the Rhea Dom stuff at then end and she finally hit the low blow and riptide on him that’s kind of the sign this was the nail in the coffin and it’s it’s over over with then and everybody is moving on

  • @Rica2256
    @Rica2256 21 день тому +3

    to be honest i don't think that the dom stuff is "illogical" because he didn't want to get back with rhea but he was just trying to steal the title from rhea ,because you can see clearly dom walking sneaky and eyeing the title , then rhea spot him and he faked a hug just like he did at bash in berlin , just chicken heel stuff to allow rhea to do a riptide on him , is not that deep , even after the match he went backstage with liv and raquel

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      We probably are reading too much into it. It just seemed unnecessary at that point for us

    • @jayfern9798
      @jayfern9798 21 день тому +1

      @@codwrestlepod yeah I agree with you for sure I just don’t personally like how they did it

    • @ZANE47_
      @ZANE47_ 21 день тому +1

      I agree with all this they shouldn’t have done that ending with dom but I bet it everyone wanted to see Thea hit the riptide on dom hahah no need to read that into it

  • @nycSnowman
    @nycSnowman 21 день тому +1

    I saw it as the American badass giving the rub to the Australian badass. Creates a cool moment with Rhea. But with Becky being rumored to return I thought for a second that Becky was returning as the undertaker.

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      I saw a report that they chose to do the undertaker spot instead of that but idk how accurate that is

  • @Zazz-u9p
    @Zazz-u9p 21 день тому +1

    Didn’t love what they did with the storylines I wonder if triple h didn’t have full control. I think he would’ve continued with rock as a heel but Dwayne’s precious public image.. and of course the shilling of Netflix

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      The stories almost felt like they all came to rushed convulsions last night. It really feels like a “okay, where do we go from here now” at this point

  • @clarkspacewayne2672
    @clarkspacewayne2672 21 день тому +1

    Does Jacob and the Tonga's attack Solo because "losing has consequences". After a while, Jimmy and Jey eventually come to the aid of Solo because "family is family".... is this the start of Solo's redemption and seeing he was wrong? Wrestlemania program would be Fatu & Tongas vs Jimmy, Jey and Solo uniting as brothers?

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      I think this is a great thought! They did say losing has consequences so it would make sense that they do that. I honestly have no idea what they do and I’m excited about that, this might be the way they go and I’d be here for it!

    • @clarkspacewayne2672
      @clarkspacewayne2672 21 день тому

      @ I wouldn’t mind Solo going back to the “Street Champ” gimmick

  • @jordanford9320
    @jordanford9320 21 день тому +1

    Also the whole rewriting history and saying that rhea was manipulated by edge into joining the judgment. Everything in the next sentence completely trashing Dom for joining the judgment Day and glossing over the fact that he was also manipulated into joining the judgment Day by Rhea. I can't with this hypocrisy. Everyone else gets there deep history and lore. But Rhea? He realized they screwed up her bookings so much that she gets to have history ruwritten for her to be a victim when she was the instigator. I don't understand. Why is she the special one?

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  20 днів тому +1

      It’s one of those times where WWE just desperately wants this one talent to be their top face, so they have to bend some stories and logic to make it happen. Is what it is I guess, just happy that we can finally move on from this liv rhea rivalry that has been begging to end for months

  • @jackwebster9246
    @jackwebster9246 20 днів тому +1

    Fairly boring. Too many kick-outs of finishing moves, why?
    Agree about this Drew stuff, they kick out of the big finishing moves, and he loses to a roll up? What? He can still beat Cody at Maina but he needs to find that ruthless Drew, like when he returned to WWE! Give me THAT Drew!
    Fluffy is awesome! Couldn't care less about everyone else they showed. But this guy 😁
    Just watched his new Netflix comedy special! Awesome stuff! Simply hilarious!

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  20 днів тому +1

      Fluffy has always been great! The drew loss felt weird to me and I really didn’t like the finisher fest in the main event

  • @m1illion1
    @m1illion1 21 день тому +1

    I have been holding this for a while but now that the dust is settled.
    The Detroit Lions are going to kick the pansy ass chefs all up and down NOLA. Don’t cry. It’s just one of those things.

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      😂😂😂😂 come for the kings, you best not miss!

  • @DuranStonnell
    @DuranStonnell 21 день тому +1

    Generally don’t know how I feel about today shows at all, lots of good and bad points mashed up together I think , jon cena promo was like the show rocky and cringey in parts and pop at other parts

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому

      Yeah I think that was our takeaway as well! Especially for something that was built to be “mania like” it just didn’t hit all the way for us

  • @WisemanLA88
    @WisemanLA88 21 день тому +1

    LIV ain’t gonna be happy about Dom trying to get back with Rhea!!! Also what did you think was gonna happen, Dom!!! You think she’s gonna give you a hug after everything you did to her??? NAH-NAH!!!!!

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      Kind of what we think. Has to be acknowledged

    • @jordanford9320
      @jordanford9320 21 день тому

      I don't expect people to know this (it's 90s wrestling) but Eddie in WCW and early in WWE did this exact thing if you notice he's sneaking up to steal the title. Then gets caught and plays it off. Dom has been leaning heavily into early heel Eddie. And this was one of those things.
      At least that was my take

  • @WisemanLA88
    @WisemanLA88 21 день тому +1

    MAMI’S ALWAYS ON TOP AND THE WINNER AND ONLY ORIGINAL TRIBAL CHIEF RRRRROOOOOMMMMMMAAAAANNNNNNN RRRRRRREEEEEEEEIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!! Also how about them BOO’S FOR HULK HOGAN 😂😂😂😂😂 should’ve had Austin come out

    • @codwrestlepod
      @codwrestlepod  21 день тому +1

      I know Austin was originally in talks. Definitely should’ve been him 😂

    • @WisemanLA88
      @WisemanLA88 21 день тому

      @@codwrestlepod OHHHH HELLLL YEAHHH 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺