WWE RAW 23/9/19 | My Coherent Review.

I had little to no problems coming out of watching this episode. It was a very good show overall with a couple of things that I believe it wasn't offensive, to say the least. 

Seth Rollins' Doesn't Fear The Fiend. 

The show before the season premiere next week started off with Seth Rollins after we've witnessed the altered version of the WWE forever intro. 

Seth explained in his promo about how he saw the living embodiment of a nightmare and promised the world that he will survive the destructive structure in two weeks because that's what he's going to do. 

Braun Strowman came out to say that unlike Seth's opponent, the monster among men doesn't pretend to be Mr Rodgers playing around with puppets.

Seth didn't like the way Braun treated him in this segment so he challenges him to a match later that night. It didn't do anything for me in terms of excitement but it was okay for what it was. 

The Viking Raiders vs The O.C.

The O.C's theme song is something I gotta get use to because I'm not feeling it right now. That match should've happened next week given that it's a high key tag team match but this was a decent replacement I guess. 

After the referee kicked AJ out of ringside due to him getting involved in this tag team match, Cedric Alexander beats him up from behind.  The Viking Raiders prevails once again with the Viking Experience. 

Charly Caruso interviewed one of the competitors in the fatal five-way match Robert Roode and she asked why Roode will come on top in that match? He answered by saying that he pinned Seth Rollins to win the tag team titles and his W will be glorious. 

Micheal Cole interviewed Becky Lynch in a sit-down interview and he asked questions regarding Sasha Banks and the Hell In A Cell match. 

Becky Lynch said that Sasha always escapes but in order to escape the structure the boss has to go through her. This was a short but decent interview. 

Rusev vs EC3. 

Such a shame for EC3. He could've been so much bigger than this. Rusev won the match with the accolade. 

Nikki Cross vs Sasha Banks. 

This was a good match. Nikki almost busted her legs with that crossbody on the outside. Cross almost took out Banks with the swinging neckbreaker but Bayley distracted the ref which led to Bliss taking out Bayley by throwing her on the barricade.

 Cross then delivered the crossbody but Banks reversed that into the bank statement and she won her match. I will say this, that match made Nikki look very good in this. 

The O.C were stroking their egos in a backstage segment then The Street Profits had an interaction with The Miz which the A-lister announced that the season premiere of Monday Night RAW will feature a Miz TV and his guests are Hulk Hogan (which got a negative reaction from the crowd) and Ric Flair so that should be great right? Right? Right? 

Lacey Evans vs Ember Moon. 

This match ended with the woman's right then a sharpshooter. Meh. Oh, and Natalya had an interview about what just happened in that match. 

Something that's much more interesting than the Evans and Natalya feud is the firefly funhouse. In it, the rabbit and the pig were arguing for a Seth Rollins' action figure and he broke the toy in half so that the rabbit and the pig would share it because like Bray said, sharing is caring. As usual, this was good. Those segments always gets better and better. 

R Truth and Carmella ran to the ring while the rest of the roster surrounded the ring just standing. Carmella told R Truth that she's tired of running all the time and Truth felt bad for her but that was a swerve and she pinned him to become 24/7 champion.

The rest of the women's division chased Carmella with R Truth's help. The fact that the women's division got involved was actually funny. 

Baron Corbin vs Chad Gable.

Corbin got an altered version of his theme because he's a king obviously and my thoughts? It's fine. At one point, Corbin threw Gable on the crowd area onto a bunch of security guards. 

The King then hits Chad Gable with a chokeslam because that's what you pull out when you're a big man. Gable delivered the german suplex followed by a moonsault but that wasn't enough to win this match. 

The match ended in a DQ due to Corbin using a stick to hit Gable in order to escape the ankle lock. A very good match. Can't wait for a rematch to happen possibly at Hell In A Cell. 

Afterwards, An AOP promo was aired it was about how the tag team division is soft and they proved their point by leaving the room and beating up No Way Jose and Heath Slater. 

This was actually good and the reason being is that it's a soft reboot that is needed for this team in AOP. 

AJ Styles vs Ricochet vs Rey Mysterio vs Robert Roode vs Robert Roode. Winner Faces Seth Rollins For The Universal Championship Next Week. 

Mysterio and Ricochet kicked off this match with two suicide dives being delivered by both guys. AJ Styles and Robert Roode teamed up to beat up Ricochet which got TNA chants from the crowd but that lasted short with a Pele kick from Styles. Mysterio and Ricochet had a short interaction, shades of their time in Lucha Underground. 

After Ricochet delivers the Recoil to Roode, Shinsuke immediately hits Ricochet with the Kinshasa and the king of strong style eliminated Ricochet. 

AJ Styles eliminated Nakamura with the phenomenal forearm then Robert Roode eliminated the phenomenal one with the glorious DDT. 

Mysterio then escapes the Glorious DDT and delivers the 619 to face Seth Rollins for the universal championship. A very fun match with a decision that I didn't expect so this should be a great one. Can't wait to watch this match next week and I'm sure you guys are too. 

Seth Rollins vs Braun Strowman. 

Rollins hits two frog splashes back to back but the big man wouldn't lose. The universal champion then delivers two suicide dives and Braun reversed the third one and turned it into a chokeslam on the ring apron. 

Braun was about to hit the running powerslam, however, the lights went down and The Fiend choked out the monster among men with the mandible claw.

That ending was chilling like last week's episode. It kinda looks like we're getting a triple threat match for the universal championship at Hell In A Cell or maybe, The Fiend makes his RAW debut match against Braun Strowman? We shall see how this plays out. 

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos. 

Like: fatal five-way match, Nikki Cross vs Sasha Banks, firefly funhouse, Baron Corbin vs Chad Gable, the women's division chasing the 24/7 title. 

Didn't like: Nothing. 

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