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Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed destroying themselves and everything around them was really fun and entertaining!

CM Punk gave one of his best ever promo's, Balor and JD successfully defended their tag titles against New Day which led to another step towards New Day breaking up, Bianca Belair and IYO Sky had a great match, Judgment Day attacked Priest and Ripley again and stood tall as the show went off air, no more matches made Bad Blood following last night.

Shout out to the new commentator Joe Tessitore, it was his third Raw and he wasn't great in his first but he has been a lot better and he's growing into the role, apparently he is getting a lot of praise backstage, when he gets all pent up and excited he sounds like Mauro Ranallo.

 

[Darla Starch]

Good timing because of the Netflix series about her that just dropped, more proof of the WWE Vault YT channel being fun just to see what kind of wild stuff they'll release from time to time

 

[Com Fox]

Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed destroying themselves and everything around them was really fun and entertaining!

CM Punk gave one of his best ever promo's, Balor and JD successfully defended their tag titles against New Day which led to another step towards New Day breaking up, Bianca Belair and IYO Sky had a great match, Judgment Day attacked Priest and Ripley again and stood tall as the show went off air, no more matches made Bad Blood following last night.

Shout out to the new commentator Joe Tessitore, it was his third Raw and he wasn't great in his first but he has been a lot better and he's growing into the role, apparently he is getting a lot of praise backstage, when he gets all pent up and excited he sounds like Mauro Ranallo.

Hopefully no one pulls a JBL and bullies Joe off the commentary team

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Great cinematic shot involving Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes on Smackdown, they met on the field of Georgia Tech which is the city that will host Bad Blood, they hit a few verbal barbs at each other until Cody said he will have Roman's back as long as Roman has his and as it ended Roman said that once the Bloodline stuff is done he will be coming for Cody's title, the whole thing was shot like a mini movie with the different shots and tense music, Roman arrived in a fleet of blacked out cars like the President!

Kevin Owens was watching all of this and looked disappointed because his friend has teamed up with the guy with whom he has been fighting for four years, he went to ring to give his opinion but was interrupted by the Bloodline (no Solo last night) this led to a six man tag main event between KO, Street Profits and the Bloodline, the match went fine until it broke down into a brawl with Bloodline on top until Cody made the save, when Cody and KO were in the ring it looked like KO would hit him with the chair but but the eventually hugged, but you know the KO turn is coming.

LA Knight beat Andrade in his title defense and it lead to a brawl between Andrade and Carmelo Hayes backstage so that feud is not done, Bayley and Naomi both pinned Nia Jax at the same time so they will have a number one contenders match next week, more curious Giovanni Vinci stuff where he had another match with Apollo Crews but he got pinned in about a minute.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Jey Uso is the new Intercontinental champion, he beat Bron Breakker in a very good main event match on Raw last night, its Jey's first singles title in WWE. It was a surprise that we had a title change last night but I do thing its a good call as it was a great moment for Jey who is a popular and very over babyface, Breakker's title reign lasted for 51 days but I wouldn't worry about him going forward as he is still only 26 and has a pretty bright future. Tessitore was great during the match as well and some of the calls he made towards the end were fantastic.

There wasn't much else on last night as it was a pretty average show, Xavier Woods slow heel turn is continuing as New Day lost to American Made and they are definitely heading towards a break up, Dominik Mysterio will be locked in a shark cage during the women's world title match between Morgan and Ripley at Bad Blood which I think will be hilarious!

Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed will have a last monster standing match next week, they had a brawl last night which involved a lot of security getting beat up and Reed eventually backed out, no more matches made for Bad Blood which is next Saturday.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

The Vince McMahon Netflix documentary series is out now...

 

[Com Fox]

Jey Uso is the new Intercontinental champion, he beat Bron Breakker in a very good main event match on Raw last night, its Jey's first singles title in WWE. It was a surprise that we had a title change last night but I do thing its a good call as it was a great moment for Jey who is a popular and very over babyface, Breakker's title reign lasted for 51 days but I wouldn't worry about him going forward as he is still only 26 and has a pretty bright future. Tessitore was great during the match as well and some of the calls he made towards the end were fantastic.

There wasn't much else on last night as it was a pretty average show, Xavier Woods slow heel turn is continuing as New Day lost to American Made and they are definitely heading towards a break up, Dominik Mysterio will be locked in a shark cage during the women's world title match between Morgan and Ripley at Bad Blood which I think will be hilarious!

Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed will have a last monster standing match next week, they had a brawl last night which involved a lot of security getting beat up and Reed eventually backed out, no more matches made for Bad Blood which is next Saturday.

I am pleasently surprised how the Intercontinental Championship match ended. Works out this way, Bron being another dominant Heel would be overdone when we had a lot of those during The Bloodline era (and I was already sick of them) and even now that Bronson Reed is starting to do it. Giving Bron Breakker losses will make him far more compelling while also showcasing Jey Uso here with his first singles title.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Tonight will be the last three-hour Raw of the year, the shows will move to two-hours until the Netflix move in early January.

WWE Bad Blood is this Saturday and I think the build for the show has been pretty lackluster, the only match with any real hype about it is Cody/Roman v Sikoa/Fatu and the only reason for that is that Cody and Roman are teaming up, Priest v Balor seems pretty dead and they have dropped the ball on it, its the same really with Liv v Rhea. Drew v Punk in a Cell match is pretty big but that feud has been stale for a while now so its a good thing that its coming to a definitive end, only the four matches made for the show too instead of the usual five or six.

 

[JohnBM01]

When I first watched pro wrestling circa 1997, "RAW is WAR" and "WAR Zone" were two-hour shows. And of course, (then) WWF Raw was in competition with (then) WCW Monday Night Nitro. I'd watch both but love the WWF/WWE. Every now and then in the past, RAW would be three hours long. That was until they completely went to three-hour shows.

All of this said, of course I'll watch as much RAW as I can tonight.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I think I know why Raw will be two-hours for the next few months.

WWE Raw's contract with USA was due to expire in September but they managed to get a short extension which will take them to the Netflix move, USA must have already had some other programming scheduled to replace Raw and maybe they have had to move things around to accommodate a three-hour Raw and couldn't do it, hence two-hours of Raw until January.