Weekly TV Thread - June 17 - June 23

Mark Henry returns tonight but it may not be quite the return that many are expecting. He's been hinting on Twitter that he's going to announce his retirement.

It'll be interesting to see where the World Heavyweight Championship situation goes tonight. There's no doubt that Del Rio was acting like a heel last night and Ziggler was the sympathetic face. 

Hopefully last night finally ended the stale Cena/Ryback feud and something new starts up tonight.

It sounds like Punk will be on the show tonight but I don't know that for sure. 

ALBERTO DEL RIO IS GETTING HEEL HEAT

The impossible has happened

Punk turning face
ADR turning heel
Ziggler turning face (probably)

...Orton turning heel? Hopefully?

And Christian return

Cool show so far

Did WWE get new writers sometime in the past week? They were on autopilot for months and then all of a sudden they decided to completely shake things up all at onceJML897

Well, Money in the Bank is coming up, and of course SummerSlam right after. Assuming they care to build up to the latter event, this might be a sign of things to come.

TruthTellers, they aren't in Chicago. Grand Rapids, Michigan, I believe. 

Did WWE get new writers sometime in the past week? They were on autopilot for months and then all of a sudden they decided to completely shake things up all at onceJML897

ADR, you're in MI... You're closer to Canada than Mexico... Do you expect ppl to care for you?

ADR is the Hispanic CM Punk... Ironic that's who his new feud is with  

AJ is awesomeJML897

Agreed! I wish she went further lol.  

This is a really well-booked show so far. All of their decisions make sense and you can tell they're building towards things.

Weird. 

Zeb managing Cesaro also makes sense. JML897

really? 

[QUOTE="JML897"]Zeb managing Cesaro also makes sense. ToTheBank

really? 

It makes sense when it comes to the fact that Zeb can help Cesaro get over. 

Oh man, I really wanted to hear Lesnar say something on the mic, THEN attack Punk. He hasn't said anything for like, a year. Last time he did any meaningful mic work was with Laurinaitis. Which, BTW, way don't they make Big Johnny the GM of Raw again? I mean, I know he was bad, but he was so bad that he was actually worth watching just to see how much worse he could get. Anybody remember when he congratulated Miz when he joined Team Teddy... I mean, Team Johnny.TruthTellers

I miss the Johhny Ace days. =/

With regards to Henry's "retirement," the fact the WWE kept mentioning his tweets and even had a graphic for it made it the whole thing pretty obvious. I just kept thinking how Edge's retirement announcement went in comparison as far as the "build-up" goes. 

idk, I still sort-of feel like that was actually Henry's retirement announcement. That was some damn good acting on his part if it wasn't at least somewhat legit. One last match at MITB + then a real retirement is my guess.

Main Event has Cody Rhodes and The Miz on commentary... Miz is bad in the ring, but i have come to enjoy him at the announcer's table... These two had some hilarious banter... worth a listen