To put it in plain, unseasoned English, this was not a good show. As a matter of opinion, this was a very bad show. Easily one of the worst RAW episodes all year.
Becky Lynch Talks About Her Survivor Series Opponents.
That's what her promo was all about pretty much and also the promo basically described who Becky Lynch is. Who The Man really is. What makes that promo impressive was that the dialogue was heelish on paper and it was executed as a babyface promo.
The last superstar that does blur the lines between a heel and a face promo on top of my head was The Rock.
Anyways, that led to the WWE women's tag team championship and speaking of which.
Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch vs Kabuki Warriors For The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.
Okay. Isn't Natalya supposed to be in Becky's place or something happened that prevented that from happening? But, I really liked when Charlotte allowed Kairi Sane to tag Asuka. It's different and I like it.
Shayna Baszler showed up during the match and stands outside the ring watching that match unfold and then, Bayley attacked Shayna Baszler from behind which distracted Becky Lynch leading to a roll-up pin by Asuka and the warriors retain the tag titles. The match was boring until the end and that had nothing to do with the in-ring aspect.
AJ Styles and his Good Brothers challenged Ricochet and Humberto Carrillo to a two on one handicap match but Randy Orton added himself in the team of Ricochet and Carrillo making this match into a 6 man tag team match.
Drew McIntyre vs Sin Cara.
Sin Cara is in the list of guys that can't convince WWE to end his contract other than the former Tye Dillinger (get it? ConVINCE? Vince McMahon?). Anyways, Drew won the match with the claymore kick.
The Bollywood Boyz vs R Truth For The 24/7 Championship.
Truth was chasing Samir and Sunil Singh and the boys from Bollywood encountered Erick Rowan and he dismantled them to which R Truth looked at him and wisely left the place. Whatever.
Seth Rollins Reflects On The NXT Invasion Last Week.
Rollins walked into the ring with little to no reactions from the crowd. Don't know why I said that but there you go. Seth Rollins tells the world that RAW is home and wants to challenge the United Kingdom's best.
The best is Imperium and the leader of that group in Walter says that he wants to bring some integrity back in this sport. Rollins then basically says that if Walter is the UK's best then he must simply prove it.
Did Walter prove it? Nah. The match ended in a DQ thanks to the rest of Imperium stomping on Rollins and then, The Street Profits and Kevin Owens rushed to the rescue. You know what that means……..Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens and The Street Profits vs Imperium.
Lawler played the role of a casual fan in the sense that he was so disconnected on who's Walter and his gang.
That shotgun dropkick from Walter to Rollins looked so brutal that I'm surprised that he's not his finish. The babyface team won the match with the stomp to Alexander Wolfe from Seth. The match was aight.
The way it was set up from a one on one match to a tag team match was played out. It's like watching a movie that uses a played out movie line whenever they encountered a villain catching his/her loved one "let him/her go" if that makes any sense?
Cedric Alexander vs Andrade.
This was aight. Andrade won the match with the hammerlock DDT. Glad that he's getting some W's lately thanks to mostly Zelina Vega but I get it.
Zelina's real-life husband, Aleister Black cut a promo in his dark man cave and he basically said that he's waiting for somebody to knock on his door to pick a fight with him. Why are they using that trope again? I just don't get it.
Lana Confesses Her Current Status.
Lana said that telling the truth is something that she's good at and she has cheated on Rusev because Rusev cheated on her first despite showing no evidence to support that statement.
She then went on to say that she had sex with Bobby Lashley for the first time and she liked it. Oh, and she revealed that she's 9 weeks pregnant thanks to Rusev which she lied, later on, to psychologically mess with him.
Out came the daddy and he wanted to make sense out of this situation like most fans. Lana then slapped Rusev which was a plan to distract him so that Bobby could decimate the Bulgarian Brute.
Imagine if this storyline was a movie. Now, process that and what you think? Don't know about you but to me, it's bad. It's so bad that it makes all the bad rom coms look really good in comparison.
Erick Rowan had a squash match that he obviously won and was carrying some object that was covered so I don't know what that is.
The Viking Raiders vs Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews.
WWE did a great job on describing who Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrew are to the casual audience in a highlight video. Another thing that was great was how Andrews sold the Viking Experience finisher.
Two things they've announced in regards to Survivor Series. One, for the first time ever, we're getting a triple threat 5 men and women tag team matches between all of the major brands.
Two, Shinsuke Nakamura will face NXT's Roderick Strong and RAW's AJ Styles and who doesn't want to see that?
Ricochet, Humberto Carrillo and Randy Orton vs The O.C.
In a backstage segment before this, Ricochet told Randy that he doesn't trust the viper given his nature of being the RKO outta nowhere guy and the fact that Ricochet took the RKO more than once.
Because of that, they build some tension with each other in this match up. This is one of the rare moments that I appalled WWE for their continuity and it doesn't build this stigma that the babyfaces are dumb at least in this storyline.
Anywho, the match was fine for what it was. Humberto Carrillo pinned AJ Styles with the moonsault after Orton delivered the RKO on the United States champion and won the match in the process.
So, to recap for all of you slow mofos.
Like: Opening segment, Ricochet and Randy Orton stuff, the video package for Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews.
Didn't like: Wasn't Natalya supposed to be in the women's tag team championship match? (the match was not good either), Lana's confession, the played-out "one on one match into a tag team match thanks to an interference", the recycling of Aleister Black's promo of picking a fight with him.
What do you guys think about this episode of RAW? 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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