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WWE RAW 24/6/19 | My Coherent Review.

First two hours? Not bad. That third hour other than the main event? Pretty bad. This was a meh show overall that had a hopeful start. By The way, It's odd that a firefly funhouse segment didn't air. 

Opening segment.

One night after retaining the Universal Championship against Baron Corbin, Seth Rollins kicks off Monday Night Raw.
The show kicked off with Seth Rollins after he ruffled some feathers with his tweets about the overall WWE product. He talked about his title victory and then, his real-life girlfriend in Becky Lynch came out to support him. 

Seth Rollins sarcastically told her that she interrupted him and also said that he has the best backup plan referring to Lynch. 

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Baron Corbin's music hits and Lacey Evans from behind, sought attacked Lynch while Corbin showed up to beat up Rollins which failed and Baron Corbin proposed a mixed tag team match between the heel team and the babyface team at Extreme Rules for both the RAW women's championship and the Universal Championship. 

However, Becky proposed a stipulation that if they lose then no more championship opportunities to which they accept. Would it be interesting if they proposed a tornado mixed tag team match but I don't know if it fits the PG mould or not? 

As far as my opinion goes, I don't mind it but a stipulation match like a tornado tag or something would build a sense of interest and it fits the overall theme of Extreme Rules. 

Daniel Bryan, Rowan and The Revival vs The Usos and The New Day. 

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Micheal Cole in commentary, made mention that The New Day are the top challengers for the SmackDown Live tag team championship. In other words, if you lose a match then you earn a championship match. 

The team of Bryan and Rowan were eliminated by The Revival with a sucker punch from Dash Wilder to Daniel Bryan and The Revival immediately eliminated The New Day with the shatter machine to Xavier Woods. 

The closing moments were pretty good. The Revival were going to do a superplex but Scott Dawson succeeded at it while Dash wasn't and Jey Uso delivered the splash to Dawson and that's how The Usos won the match. WWE, just give me those two guys fight for the championship already because I'm really interested in it. 

Miz TV. Special Guest, R Truth. 

… 24/7 Champion R-Truth & Carmella!
This segment was funny. R Truth basically said that he can't eat or sleep and even some of the superstars were pretending to be cops. 

Out came Drake Maverick and he said that he couldn't compensate his marriage to which Truth replied with "fibre is good for you" because Truth thought that he was constipated. 

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A match between Maverick and Truth was official for the title and after Truth won the match immediately, the rest of the roster ran and Truth somehow escaped while Drake Maverick cried walking to the backstage area. Drake needs more than a brotherly love hug. God damn it, I feel sorry for him. DAMN YOU TRUTH!!!!! 

Roman Reigns vs Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre. 2 on 1 Handicap Match. 

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Shane because why not, made this made a tornado tag match. This match was literally a beatdown but instead, it was a match until The Undertaker yes The Undertaker, showed up and he wasted no time to even the odds but the problem is that the match had no conclusion. Also, I'm curious as to why The Undertaker helped Roman? Maybe his history with Shane had to do with it or his history with Roman? Will find out soon enough. 

Braun Strowman vs Bobby Lashley In A Tug Of War. 

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Braun Strowman kinda won this until Bobby attacked the monster among men with a rope and got a knee strike on Braun's back. Meh. 

After that, AJ Styles came to Anderson and Gallows for motivational talk and Luke said that they'll handle their match with The Viking Raiders. 

The Viking Raiders vs Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows. 

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Did Anderson and Gallows win a match this time? *Dean Ambrose voice* nope. 

Then, Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss were talking in the locker room about a way for Bliss to get a rematch for the women's title and minutes later, Nikki Cross was talking to Natalya and Naomi about Alexa Bliss and after a bit of a confrontation, they made a match between Bliss vs Naomi. Whatever. 

Also, there were four title changes for the 24/7 championship Inside the ring. Health won it, Cedric Alexander won it, EC3 won it and R Truth got the title back and ran with Carmella to the backstage area. 

At least Cedric won his first main roster championship (if you count the cruiserweight championship). I'm a bit disappointed with this but hopefully, that changes next week.  

Kofi Kingston vs Sami Zayn. 

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There was a boring segment before this that included Zayn, Owens and Kingston and in it, they in Sami and Kofi were "trading big verbal blows" to each other. The match overall was okay. Kofi Kingston won that match with a roll up and then, Owens called him out for a match with Kofi and Kofi Kingston accept it.

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Kofi won his match with Kevin via a count out and then, Samoa Joe came out and straight up assaulted him. Why did Samoa Joe did this to Kofi and not Ricochet? I have no idea. At least Dolph Ziggler had motivation as to why he beat up Kofi several weeks ago on SmackDown Live. 

Alexa Bliss vs Naomi and Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross vs Naomi and Natalya.  

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This was a quick one which is weird in the post women's revolution era. Naomi did a basketball slide but it accidentally hit Nikki Cross and Bliss took that distraction, spikes Naomi with the DDT and that's how Bliss won the match. 

Now, to address how the second match came about, Naomi got a bit of a beating from Bliss and Natalya made the save. The team of Bliss and Cross won the match with the neckbreaker to Natalya and Bliss pinned Natalya because she made the tag. That tag match was boring in my opinion. 

AJ Styles vs Ricochet. 

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AJ Styles kicked Anderson and Gallows out of the match because Styles wants to win this match clean as a whistle. This match saved the third hour because that hour sucked. 

AJ Styles actually won the match with the phenomenal forearm to Ricochet. I don't mind this win because we're likely gonna get a rematch with no commercial breaks in between and that's a good thing. 

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos: 

Like: AJ vs Ricochet, The Miz TV segment, the 8 man tag team elimination match. 

Didn't like: The promo segment between Kofi, Sami and Kevin, Samoa Joe’s attack to Kofi was just random and didn't make sense, Bliss and Nikki Cross vs Naomi and Natalya, the handicap match had no ending or conclusion to it. 

What do you guys think about RAW yesterday? Sound off in the comments below. Follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy and follow this very blog for honest pro wrestling opinions. Anyway, stay safe smarks.

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