Here are the main talking points from Monday Night Raw, which had a chaotic ending.
The Shield Saves The Big Dog
The night started with newly crowned Universal Champion Roman Reigns giving Finn Balor his long awaited title rematch, which was set for the main event. Hours later, Reigns and Balor were putting on a clinic when Braun Strowman stormed to the ring. Despite this distraction, Reigns put away Balor with a spear for the win. Strowman then entered the ring and handed his Money in the Bank to the referee for a cash-in. All of a sudden, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, in full Shield gear, came to the ring and stopped Strowman in his tracks and helped Reigns take down the monster with a triple power-bomb through the announce table. The interesting part to this was that The Shield was getting booed throughout this, which begs the question, are The Shield bad guys now? if this is the case, then I would love to see them just tear through the entire Raw roster.
Rousey Runs Riot on McMahon
Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon hosted a championship celebration for new golden girl Ronda Rousey, with the rest of the Raw women’s division surrounding the ring. McMahon tried to claim Rousey as her protege and that her WWE success is down to her. Rousey was having none of this and snapped McMahon’s arm in an attempt to break. The heels of the women’s division tended to McMahon and the babyfaces celebrated with Rousey in the ring. This could be leading to a Survivor Series 5-on-5 match between Team Rousey v Team McMahon, which will be a nice throwback to the Survivor Series match between Team Austin v Team Bishoff back in 2003.
Constable Corbin Promoted
Whilst backstage recovering from Rousey’s attack, Stephanie McMahon wasn’t pleased with general manager Kurt Angle and told him to take some vacation time for the foreseeable future, by doing this McMahon promoted Constable Baron Corbin to acting Raw general manager. It will be a nice change of pace seeing Corbin as GM, and I’m hoping that all this leads to a match between Angle and Corbin down the line.
Triple H hypes up the Showdown with Undertaker
WWE COO Triple H returned to Raw for the first time since Wrestlemania 34 to address his match against The Undertaker at Super Showdown in Australia on October 6th. He proclaimed that the era that ended at Wrestlemania 28 is back. It will be great to see these two legends of the craft go at it one last time.
Single wins for The Revival
Despite losing their Raw tag team title match against The B team on the Summerslam Kickoff show, The Revival’s Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson won their respective singles matches against The B team’s Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas. This feud is getting tiresome and I hope it ends soon at that it ends with The Revival as the champions.
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