In case you missed Monday Night Raw last night, let me fill you in: Braun Strowman got real pissed.
It all stemmed from Sunday night’s Roadblock: End of the Line, where Sami Zayn lasted longer than ten minutes with Strowman. That sounds like some sort of weird sex contest, but actually, it was a wrestling match. Zayn begged for the match, and after he got it, showed some real heart in going the distance.
The problem: it turned Strowman into a real Grinch.
He started the show by rampaging through the backstage area, kicking mail bins, throwing large crates, and throwing dudes in t-shirts through doors. Do guys in t-shirts just randomly hang out in the backstage area? Also, where was Strowman? Maybe the guy looked like a regular dude because he was and Strowman was in the part of the arena accessible to fans. Holy shit, maybe that was a fan he lifted towards the heavens?
Anyway, Mick Foley got him to calm down long enough to tell him that people have families and Zayn wasn’t even there. So, being the hard bargainer he is, Strowman proceeded to wreck shit all night. He beat up Titus O’Neil and Sin Cara, interrupting a match no one cared to see anyway.
Then, he showed back up in the main event to beat down Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. The real highlight came when he tossed Sin Cara off the stage, through a Christmas tree, and onto a mountain of gifts:
.@BraunStrowman just launched @SinCaraWWE through a Christmas tree into a pile of presents!! #StrowmanMassacre #RAW pic.twitter.com/xgOX2woI6k
— WWE (@WWE) December 20, 2016
Not going to lie, that’s probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen in wrestling in a bit. They didn’t show the part where he suplexed a 20ft tree and threw it down, but that was pretty cool, too.
Just kept waiting for Santa Claus to show up and whoop some ass, but it never happened. He’s busy I guess.
So, what did we learn tonight? Strowman hates cartons, mail bins, lowly backstage workers, Titus O’Neil, Sin Cara, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and most importantly, the Christmas spirit.
Braun Strowman really hates Christmas. pic.twitter.com/BGzFJHJqED
— SoBros Network (@SoBrosNetwork) December 20, 2016
Also, I love that this beast of a man was almost a magician….
fun fact about braun strowman – there was a big pitch for him to have a magician gimmick. was given this before i left WWE. #wweroadblock pic.twitter.com/9T87WgywFH
— elf james (@chillhartman) December 19, 2016
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