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Chapter 1: What creative blunders are highlighted in the wrestling industry for 2025?
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Chapter 2: How did Seth Rollins' fake injury impact storytelling in WWE?
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Chapter 3: What went wrong with the MJF and Jeff Jarrett feud in AEW?
Hey, friend-o, Steve here. LR. And welcome back to Going In Raw, the only pro wrestling podcast you need to be listening to. It's time today for another one of our count-out episodes, given that we're nearing the end of the year, inching oh-so-close to 2026. It's time to look back... These are always easy because it's like all we got to do is look to the past.
No, that's literally the space that you're in behind you. We're not looking behind you. He said look behind us. Well, that's why I just reiterated with the past after you looked behind you.
Chapter 4: How did Charlotte and Tiffany's off-script promo affect their match build-up?
Nobody's there, man. No, nobody's there. What am I looking for? I'm talking about going back in time. You can't do that. Time travel, you can't do that yet. Yet. You got it right. Yet. That's correct.
Chapter 5: What were the repercussions of R-Truth's return to WWE?
Anyways, we're going to look back on the year. We're going to reminisce about all the creative blunders in professional wrestling. Because here's the thing. People love negativity. They'll, oh, man, you're going to talk shit. I'll click. You're going to say nice things. Nah, nah. Yeah. They'll pass on that.
Chapter 6: How did the Rock's promo with Cody Rhodes fall flat?
Why not take advantage? What, we can't do that? We're not allowed to take advantage of that? Nah, nah. Yes, we are. We are, yeah. Yeah, we are. Anyways, so yeah, this is the top creative blunders in pro wrestling. We've got some WWE on here. We've got some AEW on here.
Chapter 7: What led to John Cena's sudden face turn in WWE?
Apparently, New Japan had a perfect year because I didn't watch it. I mean, they gave House a torture of their own pay-per-view. I mean, you can't argue. They get an A++ as far as I'm concerned. So let's go ahead and dive into this first up. Number 10. 10.
Seth's fake injury. So let's go back to Money in the Bank this year, 2025. Seth Rollins won that.
Chapter 8: What were the major issues with the WrestleMania 41 Night 2 main event?
And heading into SummerSlam, CM Punk was getting a title shot against Gunther. But in between that, I believe it was July 12th of 2025, Seth Rollins took on LA Knight. Yeah, yeah. In a match. And during that match, Seth faked a knee injury. And they tried to play it off kind of as best they could as a real thing.
Hey, no, listen. Credit where credit's due.
They did a good job. It was clunky and awkward like you'd expect from a real injury. But usually, especially if it's like a lower leg injury or a leg injury, if it's legit, they just stop the match. Yeah. This is a situation though Seth was like, I'm going to carry on. Bang, BFT, LA Knight gets the win.
And they even had LA Knight leave the ring kind of muttering to himself like, that wasn't how it was supposed to be. Yeah.
Yeah.
So Seth disappears from TV for about three weeks, shows up at SummerSlam after Punk, beats Gunther for the world title, cashes in, wins the championship. And I put this number 10. There's a layer to this in that pretty quickly after the injury angle happened, the Siren X main event, it was reported that it was an angle.
Yeah, that's the big thing. Honestly, the creative blunder here was letting that out, was like that getting out. And I still take issue, not with the dirt sheets, because they're doing what people are paying them to do. Yeah. with WWE not being able to keep their people from spoiling shit, you know?
And these people that are spoiling shit, shame on you, because you're ruining it for the rest of us. Because I thought that the actual faking of the injury, I thought that was really well done. The execution of the cash-in itself, I thought left some to be desired.
Yeah, and I thought the follow through after the initial angle on Siren Knight's main event Like, just having Seth disappear, you know, and would have been more effective if he did the promo thing the next Raw, saying, my knee's wrecked, going to be out for a while. You know, have him come out and deliver a teary promo. You know, being crestfallen about the idea of missing...
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