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John Felix Anthony Cena Explains His Motivation Behind His WWE Return.
The reason why the former 16-time world champion came back to world wrestling entertainment is quite simple.
He wants the blue belt that Roman Reigns is currently holding.
Why? Because according to Jacob Toretto, Roman Reigns is a piece of sh*te. Side note, Cena will be on Smackdown this week to confront the tribal chief so there's that.
I ain't mad that Cena showed up to RAW instead of Smackdown to air his motivations since the gut wasn't part of last year's draft.
This current iteration of Roman Reigns vs John Cena is a dream match that somehow feels like it was leading to that big destination and not a random face that WWE wants to put against the universal champion.
Overall it was simple, to the point segment that did its work on building this universal championship bout.
Riddle And The Viking Raiders vs AJ Styles, Omos And John Morrison.
Omos' lack of cooperation with The Miz, led to a victory for the opposite team with the Viking Experience. A good opener is all I have to say.
Jaxson Ryker vs Elias In A Symphony Of Destruction Match.
This match kinda surprised me in the sense that it wasn't horrible as I thought it would be.
Jaxson Ryker wins with not a superplex but a MAGAplex through the table (what can I say? I love to laugh).
Rhea Ripley Asked For A Rematch For The Red Women's Belt.
Charlotte Flair basically said about how she doesn't tear a page of a book because she created the book.
Out came the Aussie herself, Rhea Ripley and like the title stated above, Ripley wanted a rematch because that's the WWE way of creating a story.
WWE is like that kid that spams the rematch button every time they lose a game of Fifa in kick-off mode.
Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville made the rematch official for later in the episode. However, something really surprising happened.
The match ended via a DQ due to Charlotte using the belt to strike on Ripley (we've seen her beat Ripley clean last night. So, why would Flair pull that move?).
Ripley hits the riptide on the queen and then Nikki A.S.H runs to the ring and hits the crossbody to become the first-ever women's champion.
WWE definitely did this because the crowd is back and they wanted to give the audience "the shock".
I do not hate this ending. But, I did hate the ending of the women's championship match before the cash for the reason I just stated in brackets above.
Natalya And Tamina vs Nia Jax And Shayna Baszler.
The women's champion won thanks to, you guessed it, a distraction from Shayna Baszler.
Jax then told Reggie to go F himself and the dude was left all alone until he picked up the 24/7 championship from Akira Tozawa. Cool.
Sheamus vs Humberto Carrillo.
Speaking of rematches. Sheamus wins with the brogue kick.
Bobby Lashley's Open Challenge.
The person that accepted Lashley's challenge is the returning Keith Lee.
And on his first night back, the dude already took an L with Bobby Lashley.
I wouldn't mind a loss here but the issue is that the match was so one-sided for the most part that it felt at times like a squash and WWE shouldn't especially be doing that to Keith Lee.
Speaking of returns. Goldberg showed up and confronted the WWE champion. Big yawn.
After a fantastic build that Bobby Lashley had for the previous PPV, this was a big step down in terms of storytelling and overall interest.
Jeff Hardy vs Karrion Kross.
Jeff Hardy kept his word because "no more words" is back and I love it.
To quote Peaches And Herb, "reunited and it feels so good".
Hardy prevailed with a roll-up using the ropes.
Pretty lame to have the champion lose like that. Kross looked like an amateur compared to the way he's been written in NXT.
Alexa Bliss had the usual "scary yet optimistic" speech in her playground towards Eva Marie and Doudrop. Cooool.
And the final segment of the night before the cash-in was Drew McIntyre just destroying Jinder Mahal and Indus Sher with chair shots.
Am I the only one that doesn't give two sh*ts about this rivalry? Of course, I'm not the only one because it's Monday Night RAW.
So, to recap for all of you slow mofos.
Like: Opening segment, the 6 man tag team match, "no more words" is back.
Didn't like: Rematches that I do not care about, Keith Lee getting the squash from Bobby Lashley, the ending of the women's championship match before the cash in, Karrion Kross looking like a loser after his loss from Jeff Hardy, *yawn* Goldberg.