{"id":43539,"date":"2017-06-12T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=43539"},"modified":"2017-06-13T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T18:16:53","slug":"mcneills-live-tweetblog-raw-612-brocks-goodness-gracious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/06\/12\/mcneills-live-tweetblog-raw-612-brocks-goodness-gracious\/","title":{"rendered":"McNEILL&#8217;s Live TweetBlog of RAW 6\/12: Brock&#8217;s Here.  Goodness, Gracious&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3959394472\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Raw from Lafayette kicks off with a visit from our WWE Universal Champion, Brock Lesnar. Great Balls Of Fire!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StaffMcNeill07_120.jpg\" alt=\"StaffMcNeill07_120\" width=\"120\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Heyman explains that last week, Samoa Joe was the shark and he was the chum. So this week, Paul Heyman brought a bigger boat.<\/p>\n<p>Heyman tells Samoa Joe that he&#8217;s the biggest, scariest Samoan of them all, which has to be news to Roman Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>Samoa Joe makes his entrance. Booker finally talks. I thought they had his microphone turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Joe goes after Brock. Raw GM Kurt Angle sends out security, the undercard and the midcard out to break them up. Wisely, he does not elect to DIY.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd chants &#8220;This is awesome!&#8221; Yes, some times it really IS that easy to book a wrestling show.<\/p>\n<p>Moments ago, we learned that Michael Cole &amp; Corey Graves spent a whole week saying &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221; with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>Elias Samson has a new song called &#8220;Louisiana is a Laughingstock&#8221;. I would have opened with &#8220;House Of The Rising Sun&#8221;, but that&#8217;s me.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-4253364374\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Last week on Raw, The Miz beat up everyone in the building except for Dean Ambrose. So now we get Ambrose vs. Samson.<\/p>\n<p>Why yes, I definitely want my color commentator to compare one of our headliners to an Adam Sandler character. Who wouldn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you can discuss tonight&#8217;s Raw via social media by using the hashtag #WhatBasketballGame?<\/p>\n<p>Wade needs to take one of our PWTorch cub reporters and put him on Booker T transcript duty.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else get the impression Ambrose and Samson haven&#8217;t worked together very much?<\/p>\n<p>Miz comes down to the ring to take over calling the ma&#8230;I mean, to interfere against Dean.<\/p>\n<p>That certainly did end. I can&#8217;t wait to see Rollins &amp; Ambrose reunite to fight Miz and&#8230;Okay, let&#8217;s not finish that thought.<\/p>\n<p>Later tonight, The Hardys go two out of three falls with Sheamus &amp; Cesaro. Tomorrow, it&#8217;s Styles\/Nakamura\/Zayn vs. Owens\/Corbin\/Ziggler. Also? It&#8217;s Taco Tuesday.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-4149607297\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Here comes a Goldust promo. That&#8217;s better. He and R-Truth shouldn&#8217;t touch until the pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you know about my personal problems?&#8221; I know your doctor can prescribe you a little blue pill&#8230;I mean, that&#8217;s what I hear.<\/p>\n<p>Before you we go to our special Purple Ropes match, let&#8217;s look back at how good Cedric Alexander was before we started booking him.<\/p>\n<p>Can we get Alicia Fox over to where they&#8217;re taping &#8220;Bachelor In Paradise&#8221;? I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;d fit in.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for WWE tonight. The basketball game hasn&#8217;t started yet.<\/p>\n<p>Get your Dad a three-month WWE Network subscription for Father&#8217;s Day. (Assuming your father is over 54 and in their target demographic.)<\/p>\n<p>Cedric Alexander vs. Noam Dar. I really don&#8217;t recommend talking to your bae on Snapchat while walking to the ring.<\/p>\n<p>That match was your official Shucky Ducky Quack Quack Moment Of The Night. (Presented by Red Lobster.)<\/p>\n<p>Did You Know? Roman Reigns&#8217; video package receives 63% fewer boos and catcalls than Roman Reigns himself. True Story.<\/p>\n<p>Next week on Raw, Roman Reigns announces that he&#8217;s the official host of SummerSlam. Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the hell Bray Wyatt&#8217;s talking about, but I&#8217;m pretty sure he doesn&#8217;t like Seth Rollins.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I&#8217;m expecting Booker to tell us that Bray Wyatt &#8220;steams a good ham&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bray Wyatt escapes Seth Rollins by turning the lights out and running backstage. Good plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Hardys tell Charley they&#8217;re ready to jump off a bunch of high places to regain their WWE World Tag Team Titles.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: John Cena is officially a free agent. Which means his next phone call will be from Ozzie Newsome.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs-Warriors game has tipped off, which means, yep, it&#8217;s Kalisto vs. Apollo Crews.<\/p>\n<p>The story here is that Titus is trying to sign Akira Tozawa, because he&#8217;s more likely to get screen time on &#8220;205 Live&#8221; than on Raw.<\/p>\n<p>Miz has a business proposition for Heath Slater &amp; Rhyno. (Okay, mostly Slater.)<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t end well. So later tonight, it&#8217;s Spray Cheese vs. Miz &amp; a mystery partner. (PRO TIP: Don&#8217;t pick Bray Wyatt.)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Rodriguez family. They&#8217;ll be watching Enzo &amp; Cass mysteriously get knocked unconscious at a theme park.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa Bliss tries to talk her way out of another match with Nia Jax. Talk to Sasha Banks. She knows what that&#8217;s like.<\/p>\n<p>Mickie James is out. She&#8217;s been watching old episodes of Prime Time Wrestling, and she&#8217;s challenging Bliss to a SummerSlam Sing-Off.<\/p>\n<p>This segment was already going south, and now it&#8217;s been hijacked by whatever Emma&#8217;s calling herself.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha Banks shows up and attacks Alexa. This just got interesting, so let&#8217;s throw to a pizza commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Loyal reader @JerichoKenny asked about Bayley. I hear she&#8217;s spending the evening at the Santa Monica Pier with Austin Aries.<\/p>\n<p>Moments ago, Raw assistant GM Teddy Long turned that last segment into a six woman tag team match, player!<\/p>\n<p>Sasha\/Mickie\/Dana vs. Alexa\/Nia\/Emma. Alexa walks out on her team after hearing that the Warriors took the lead again.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up next, Corey Graves has a sitdown segment with Bayley. Coming up even later, Corey has a sitdown segment with Peter Rosenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Finn Balor&#8217;s video package. Seriously, who IS in the building tonight? Other than Gran Metalik and Curt Hawkins?<\/p>\n<p>I hope Bayley&#8217;s heel turn is a lot more interesting than Bayley&#8217;s explanation for not using a weapon at Extreme Rules.<\/p>\n<p>Spray Cheese vs. Miz &amp; somebody. Whatever you do, be sure to watch the match instead of googling &#8220;wwe divorce florida&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Miz&#8217;s official A-list tag team partner is&#8230;(wait for it)&#8230;a dancing bear on a tricycle. Where is Mr. Greenjeans?<\/p>\n<p>It sure was nice of Jerry Lawler to loan Corey Graves his joke book.<\/p>\n<p>I take that back. The Revenant joke was funny.<\/p>\n<p>The bear just lit up Heath Slater. Miz thinks the bear is Dean Ambrose. Nope, it&#8217;s a jobber. The second bear is Dean Ambrose.<\/p>\n<p>So Maryse can&#8217;t keep a straight face, and everyone else in the match is headed to the Blue Moon Saloon. Does that about sum it up?<\/p>\n<p>The announcers run down the next Raw pay-per-view, Fantastic Testicles Ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Neville vs. Rich Swann in a non-title affair. Neville jumps Swann before the match. &#8220;That&#8217;s what you get for dancing!&#8221; yells the Master of the Spinaroonie.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, look. Neville is a graduate of the Paul Levesque School of Ponderous Promos.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Enzo &amp; Cass vs. Gallows &amp; Anderson, Take Four.<\/p>\n<p>So, you&#8217;re never going to guess what happened during the break&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Enzo and Injured Cass hit the ring and somebody should tell Karl Anderson that overselling is a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Big Show makes the save for Enzo. For a guy who just suffered a concussion, Big Cass sure put things together quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And now, R-Truth&#8217;s response to Goldust. He has Netflix too. He watches movies.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, is Brock Lesnar still here? How about Samoa Joe?<\/p>\n<p>Sheamus &amp; Cesaro vs. The Hardy Boys. We&#8217;re cramming two out of three falls into 25 minutes, NEXT.<\/p>\n<p>A recap of our top story tonight. Roman Reigns still isn&#8217;t here at Raw.<\/p>\n<p>Sheamus &amp; Cesaro take the first fall. Over on the other channel, we&#8217;re in for a hell of a finish. (Harper is batting in the 9th, with the tying run on first.)<\/p>\n<p>During the break, Gallows &amp; Anderson totally stole Noam Dar&#8217;s pizza. Interesting booking decision.<\/p>\n<p>Twist of Fate on Cesaro. We&#8217;re all square at one fall each. What were the odds?<\/p>\n<p>Cesaro locks in the sharpshooter on Matt Hardy. If this were Montreal, the match would be over already.<\/p>\n<p>Twist of Fate on Sheamus. Cesaro makes the save. Swanton bomb on Sheamus. Cesaro pulls his partner out of the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they really did a double countout spot in the final fall. Hey, you have to save something for the pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>This feud must continue, but Raw must end. I&#8217;m filling in for Wade this Thursday on the PWTorchLivecast.com at 1 p.m. EDT. 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