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This show had three weeks of build instead of the usual four considering that Crown Jewel happened this month ( click here to check out my review for that ) but will the show be any good? Will have to wait until tomorrow but first, here are my coherent and honest predictions for Survivor Series 2018.    (Kick-Off Show) Tag team Survivor Series Match Honestly, I don't care if either RAW or Smackdown Live wins this match but if I had to pick I'll go with....... WINNER: Smackdown Live Team (MAIN SHOW) Buddy Murphy (c) vs Mustafa Ali for the Cruiserweight Championship  Even though I admittedly don't watch 205 Live all that much, I do think based on watching some of their matches that they are a great talent so there's no reason why they can't give us a classic.  However, Buddy Murphy just won the championship at Super Showdown a month ago and having Mustafa Ali win the title this Sunday just doesn't feel like that it's the best time for a title...

Smackdown Live was while not a great show, it was a much better go home show than Monday Night RAW. Why you ask? Well, I’m gonna tell you what’s good, what’s ok and what’s bad. Now, on with the review.  WHAT’S GOOD The Opening Segment The show started off with AJ telling that he’s going to beat Brock Lesnar this Sunday until Paul Heyman outta nowhere showed up and grabbed a microphone.  Paul then went out of this way to praise AJ’s work as a wrestler and a champion. Styles then stated that while he lost the match itself last year, he, unlike Brock, wasn’t limping.  Daniel Bryan showed up and warned AJ not to mentioned his name which was rather odd. AJ then mentioned his name and then a brawl happened.  After that, they announced the main event for this show for the WWE championship which if you read my what’s bad section, you already know my thoughts on it. Overall a good segment.  WHAT’S OK The Miz vs Rey Mysterio Okay, matc...

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor news of the week that I don't have time to do it separately. Without further ado, here are the 5 news week.  WWE RAW Will Go Straight 3 Hours  If you hate RAW going overtime because you got work/school the next day then I got some good news for you. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com reported that Monday Night RAW will be a hard 3 hours for now on which means that overruns are done from now. WWE RAW's overruns have been a thing since the mid-1990s with the Monday Night Wars in ratings supremacy between WWE RAW and WCW Nitro.  A source close to them said that this was possibly a USA network decision. I feel like this will fix the pacing of the show itself and just get to the point without dragging on. In other words, I approve of this.    Jim Ross Possibly Done With WWE On March   As you might know, Jim Ross signed a 2-year deal ...

If you read my last week’s Smackdown Live review ( which you can click here ) then you'll know that I thought it was okay. Well, I could say the same thing about this week’s show but it was a bit better.  So, I’m only gonna tell you what’s okay and what’s good. Here we go.  WHAT’S GOOD Rey Mysterio vs Andrade “Cien” Almas  This is a dream match but did it live up to a dream match? Hell yea, this was a great match. Really liked the slide that Mysterio does into a DDT on the outside. Rey won with the 619 and then outta nowhere, Randy Orton hit the RKO.  WHAT’S OK The Opening Segment  Pretty much this segment goes like this. Paige opened Smackdown live and introduced Shane McMahon. Shane then tried his cheap pop that usually works but it didn’t which I thought it was funny. After that, they run down the match card for Survivor Series.  Shane then called out the team captain and it was Daniel Bryan but Bryan got interrupted by The Miz....

The first RAW of November 2018 and as usual, it sucked. Why you ask? Well, I’m gonna tell you what’s good, what’s ok and what’s bad. Here we go.  WHAT’S BAD Sasha Banks, Bayley and Natalya vs The Riott Squad  Look, I just wanna get this out of the way. Not only the match itself felt very similar to last week's match but the ending made NO SENSE whatsoever. If you don’t know what I’m talking about pretty much by the end of the match, Natalya did the sharpshooter to Sarah Logan and then Ruby Riott grabbed Jim NeidHart’s glasses and broke it which made Natalya cry. I mean, who won this match? Was it the Riott Squad or the team of Sasha Banks, Bayley and Natalya? Sadly, just like the whole “Who threw the pie at Kevin Owens’ face?” We will never know.  Nia Jax vs Ember Moon and Finn Balor vs Bobby Lashley Why do those matches exist again? I put those matches in one post because just like the 6 women tag match, the matches felt way too similar to the prev...

This show reminds me of a typical Monday night RAW episode in the sense that It was skippable and if I didn't watch the show itself, I wouldn't miss anything. In other words, it sucked and here's why.  Rey Mysterio vs Randy Orton  Man, Randy Orton arguably has the best dropkick in WWE. The match was decent. Rey won with a sunset flip into a roll up, then Randy outta nowhere delivered an RKO to Rey Mysterio and assaults Mysterio on the outside. I mean I don’t mind this considering that Randy has to look good with his heel run so far.  The Miz vs Jeff Hardy  The match was rather quick in my opinion. The A-Lister won the match with the Skull crushing finale.  Seth Rollins vs Bobby Lashley Man, this first round tournament other than the first match was not only quick in match length but also rather dull in my opinion. Rollins won the match with the stomp (terrible name).  Kurt Angle vs Dolph Ziggler The match that I’m looking ...

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor news of the week that I don't have time to do it separately. Without further ado, here are the 5 news week.  NXT Takeover Is A Can't-Miss Show (No shit, Omar)  Why you ask? I mean for God sakes, the match card so far consists of a War Games match between The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong) vs. Pete Dunne, Ricochet, and War Raiders (Hanson and Rowe), Alester Black vs Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa vs Velveteen Dream for the NXT championship. I would love a hell in a cell match of some sort between Black and Gargano but that's just me. NXT Takeover: War Games is set to take place on Saturday, November 17, 2018.  WWE Doesn't Have Big Plans For Daniel Bryan   Daniel Bryan had his WWE championship match early on Smackdown Live this week against the champion AJ Styles which was supposed to be on Cr...