WWE Raw Review: Masked Men Stupidity, Judgement Day Finally Turns on Finn Balor, Bailey #1 Contender

<v Speaker 1>Well, it finally happened. Dominic Myss Stereo and company have
<v Speaker 1>finally turned on Finn Balor, and it looks like we're
<v Speaker 1>going to be getting a match at WrestleMania Finn Balor
<v Speaker 1>and Dominic Miss Stereo. But sadly, no Intercontinental Championship is
<v Speaker 1>on the line unless Penta gets involved, which is still
<v Speaker 1>very possible, but I'm a big fan just on principle
<v Speaker 1>of one on one at WrestleMania. That said, again, I'm
<v Speaker 1>not going to have a fit if Penta is involved
<v Speaker 1>to put the Intercontinental Championship on the line, and then, honestly,
<v Speaker 1>that seems the most likely. So a really nice segment there.
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Seth Rollins
<v Speaker 1>debacle of more mystery men continuing to multiply in WWE.
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about the women's side of things and the
<v Speaker 1>tag Team Championship Number one contenders and all the rest
<v Speaker 1>of it. We're going to get into all of that,
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<v Speaker 1>into Money Night Raw. It I think overall was a
<v Speaker 1>It was an okay show. You know, it still doesn't
<v Speaker 1>feel like we're less than forty days now till WrestleMania,
<v Speaker 1>but perhaps that'll change as we get closer. Sometimes the
<v Speaker 1>bill does wait till last second, sometimes it never comes
<v Speaker 1>at all, and sometimes it comes early. And right now
<v Speaker 1>I would say it's running a little bit late, but
<v Speaker 1>we've got some stuff to talk about here. As Monday
<v Speaker 1>Night Raw emanated from Seattle, Washington. That's where it was
<v Speaker 1>at the Climate Pledge Arena. Oh my god, they actually
<v Speaker 1>need I'm gonna just leave that alone. So we have
<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierson the He said he had some unfortunate business
<v Speaker 1>to attend to, and he asked Seth to join him.
<v Speaker 1>A mass mystery man arrived and stood on the broadcast
<v Speaker 1>table over a dozen masked men that hopped over the
<v Speaker 1>barricade and joined him in the ring. And we had
<v Speaker 1>then the fans chant holy s, which was totally unwarranted.
<v Speaker 1>Seth eventually was revealed as one of the men he
<v Speaker 1>had masked. He stood there with Pearce, and he said
<v Speaker 1>they see eye to eye and that they doesn't like
<v Speaker 1>the Vision, but he asked instead the masked men attacking
<v Speaker 1>aren't unacceptable. Pierce said Rollins isn't medically cleared and questioned
<v Speaker 1>what would happen if the Vision members got their hands
<v Speaker 1>on Seth. We then had Logan, Paul, and Austin Theory
<v Speaker 1>make their entrance and essentially said there's a bullet with
<v Speaker 1>Seth's name on it, and they climbed the ring apron
<v Speaker 1>and that's when Rollins put his mask on and the
<v Speaker 1>other mass men joined him in the ring. They all
<v Speaker 1>shuffled so that nobody could see which one was Rollin's
<v Speaker 1>and then they all exited the ring. So we played
<v Speaker 1>ring around the Rosie here and that's when al A
<v Speaker 1>Knight's theme played. He came out and fought with Paul
<v Speaker 1>in Theory and they started to get the better of
<v Speaker 1>Night before Jimmy and Jay come out to help clear
<v Speaker 1>Theory from the ring and they set up for one
<v Speaker 1>d on Paul, but Theory pulled him out to the
<v Speaker 1>floor and Jay's entrance music played and he and Jimmy
<v Speaker 1>then played up to the crowd. That was not all
<v Speaker 1>they did on Monday Night, as we'll see at the
<v Speaker 1>end of the show. But I have mixed feelings about
<v Speaker 1>this this mass Man. Actually they're not really mixed. I
<v Speaker 1>mostly feel that this, this version of the Masked Man
<v Speaker 1>series has more than run its course. I'm not sure
<v Speaker 1>why they feel the need to even put Seth in
<v Speaker 1>this position. Does Seth have to run away from what
<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce has to say? Is he afraid of what
<v Speaker 1>Adam Pierce is going to say? Probably that if he
<v Speaker 1>continues to do what he's doing, he'll have no choice
<v Speaker 1>but to suspend him because he's quote unquote not medically cleared.
<v Speaker 1>That I guess what the idea is is Seth, after
<v Speaker 1>all he's done in the business for how many years now,
<v Speaker 1>has to resort to anonymity to show up on the show.
<v Speaker 1>What are we doing? Why is the crowd they should
<v Speaker 1>boo this? I was hoping that the chance we're not
<v Speaker 1>saying Holy yes, that it was saying something else. This
<v Speaker 1>is I'm sorry, it's garbage as far as what Seth
<v Speaker 1>should be able to be doing here. And it's only,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, a two on one scenario. If Seth
<v Speaker 1>is that worried too about the vision Paul Hammond's not
<v Speaker 1>that he was ever a physical threat, but he's gone.
<v Speaker 1>Bron Breaker, Bronson, Reid gone gone. Now we have Logan
<v Speaker 1>Paul and Austin theory, and you also have common enemies
<v Speaker 1>that you can align with like l A. Knight and
<v Speaker 1>obviously the USOS. So what exactly is Seth gaining here
<v Speaker 1>by showing up as an anonymous masked man. What's happening here?
<v Speaker 1>I'm not you know, I'm not sure. We haven't even
<v Speaker 1>really heard from Seth either. He's been back for a
<v Speaker 1>few weeks now, we haven't even heard from him. What
<v Speaker 1>are we doing? Maybe they don't know. Maybe they're buying
<v Speaker 1>time to see if braun Breaker is somehow miracally available,
<v Speaker 1>because that would be the clearest best match for Seth
<v Speaker 1>and the one they were seemingly eyeing prior to his
<v Speaker 1>return and prior to the broun Breaker injury. So perhaps
<v Speaker 1>they are buying time to see if hey, can you
<v Speaker 1>heal another couple of weeks, we'll buy you more time
<v Speaker 1>on TV. Seth won't really target anyone specific, He'll just
<v Speaker 1>be targeting the vision as a whole and see what
<v Speaker 1>Doc said. Maybe that's what they're doing. But for now.
<v Speaker 1>I don't like the mask man stuff. I'm a fan
<v Speaker 1>of Seth Rollins and his return, but the masked method
<v Speaker 1>is totally unnecessary and really illogical, really illogical. And also
<v Speaker 1>where are the who are these dudes? Are we ever
<v Speaker 1>gonna find out? I mean, they're just seemingly local talent.
<v Speaker 1>There's one of them that is very overweight, that is
<v Speaker 1>really funny that's been making the rounds. It's something about,
<v Speaker 1>you know, when they you know, something about hiring you
<v Speaker 1>for a job that you shouldn't be getting a job
<v Speaker 1>for or something I don't know. But nonetheless, Seth is
<v Speaker 1>running and hiding and it doesn't really fit his personality
<v Speaker 1>right now at all. And anyway, I mean, if Adam
<v Speaker 1>Pierce also wanted to tell him something, he I mean,
<v Speaker 1>there's email, there's you know, text, or he'll just announce
<v Speaker 1>it on the area. Doesn't have to have Seth there
<v Speaker 1>to make it valid or whatever. So let's move on.
<v Speaker 1>There's more's more to talk about here. We got lyra
<v Speaker 1>versus Eo versus Bailey versus Raquel versus Oscar versus Ivy
<v Speaker 1>Nile in a gauntlet match for a shot at the
<v Speaker 1>Women's Intercontinental championship. The eliminations were as follows. Lyra was
<v Speaker 1>eliminated by EO Sky in nine minutes and twenty seconds.
<v Speaker 1>Rodriguez was eliminated by Yo Sky in sixteen minutes and
<v Speaker 1>five seconds, and that's after Sky caught Rodriguez and an
<v Speaker 1>inside cradle, and then Rodriguez attacked Sky after and gave
<v Speaker 1>her a to hot a bomb one on the ring
<v Speaker 1>apron and two referees came out to escort Rodriguez to
<v Speaker 1>the back. And the fourth entrant was Ivy Nile and
<v Speaker 1>Eosky was eliminated by her in seventeen minutes. Bailey was
<v Speaker 1>the fifth and Ivy Nile was eliminated by Bailey in
<v Speaker 1>twenty eight minutes. Oscar was the sixth and final entrant
<v Speaker 1>and Bailey put Osca down with Bailey belly for Bailey
<v Speaker 1>to belly for a near fall, and we then had
<v Speaker 1>Osca distract the referee while Bailey was down on the
<v Speaker 1>floor and Kyrie was about to attack Bailey, but Lyra
<v Speaker 1>Valkyria came out and shot Gun drop kicked her and
<v Speaker 1>Bailey returned to the ring and escaped an Oscar lock
<v Speaker 1>and got a rose plant in the three counts. So
<v Speaker 1>Bailey is your new number one contender for the inter
<v Speaker 1>Continental Championship, and that's interesting. So now you have a
<v Speaker 1>j Lee and Bailey seemingly targeting one another at WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 1>But this seemed this does to me sniff and feel
<v Speaker 1>like I'm sniffing it out a triple threat where Becky
<v Speaker 1>Lynch is probably going to come in the back end
<v Speaker 1>and invoke her rematch clause or something. So you're probably
<v Speaker 1>gonna have a triple threat here for the women's at
<v Speaker 1>are Continental Championship. Because how can you build Bailey and
<v Speaker 1>aj successfully for three weeks or said three weeks, but
<v Speaker 1>five weeks, whatever it is. It's difficult to do. Given
<v Speaker 1>Bailey has been a side character for so long, there
<v Speaker 1>doesn't seem to be any legitimate beef there. You're not
<v Speaker 1>going to turn either of them heal at this point.
<v Speaker 1>So bringing back Becky into the storyline probably next week,
<v Speaker 1>is how this is going to stir the drink, so
<v Speaker 1>to speak. She's going to be that straw, all right.
<v Speaker 1>So then we have already an hour two because that
<v Speaker 1>match lasted thirty seven minutes, perhaps the longest women's match
<v Speaker 1>in multiple years. I don't even know the last time
<v Speaker 1>a match went that long, but ever for the women.
<v Speaker 1>But fine, great, a lot of wrestling on a wrestling
<v Speaker 1>show makes sense to me. But also, yeah, whatever happened
<v Speaker 1>to Bailey's personality disorder? That's on my review here from
<v Speaker 1>Pro Wrestling that that's a good point. They just kind
<v Speaker 1>of dropped that, which is fine. I don't need that
<v Speaker 1>it was doomed from the start the way that it
<v Speaker 1>was presented. But Bailey just being Bailey is also fine.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think she's gonna win anything, but she is
<v Speaker 1>a one of the OG's the Women's Revolution. She's a
<v Speaker 1>big name. But you know, I know the world knows
<v Speaker 1>they're not going to really do much with her at
<v Speaker 1>this point, at least there's no reason to believe that
<v Speaker 1>they will. So then we have let's see some packstage stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Al Grande, Americano and Dan Housen had some interaction backstage
<v Speaker 1>and Dan hey. Dan Housen tried to take Americano's mask
<v Speaker 1>so he could try it on, but he stopped him
<v Speaker 1>and Americano, I'm sorry he Americano stopped him and told
<v Speaker 1>him it's wrong to touch a luchador's mask, and Americana
<v Speaker 1>struggled to come up with a word in Spanish and
<v Speaker 1>Dan Housen cursed Americaano. So yeah, fine, segment. Fine. Penta
<v Speaker 1>then came out and we got Penta versus L Grande
<v Speaker 1>Americano for the IC title. The match went, let's see,
<v Speaker 1>I don't have a timestamp here, but Penta ends up
<v Speaker 1>beating El Grande to retain the title, and the finish
<v Speaker 1>was Americano dominating the majority of the match. Penta rally
<v Speaker 1>and then he hits a springboard Mexican destroyer for the victory.
<v Speaker 1>You know that this curse thing needs to get little
<v Speaker 1>bit momentum, and the crowd's already responding to him positively
<v Speaker 1>when it comes to in person. He hasn't yet had
<v Speaker 1>a match, but they seem to be moving along with him.
<v Speaker 1>And I had a bit of a monologue last night
<v Speaker 1>on my show where I said, Hey, I might be
<v Speaker 1>wrong about this guy. I hope I am, because that
<v Speaker 1>would mean that this is a success and it's something
<v Speaker 1>totally different, and that could still be the case. This
<v Speaker 1>could still be a flop, but it's trending in the
<v Speaker 1>right direction and using a lot of metrics including T
<v Speaker 1>shirt sales and crowd reaction, which is obviously one of
<v Speaker 1>the top things you'd want to look at to determine
<v Speaker 1>if it's working. Okay. A promo video aired where Stephanie
<v Speaker 1>Baquier was speaking in Spanish and subtitles were shown, which
<v Speaker 1>is totally fine, and she said live was made by
<v Speaker 1>the experts around her where she was forged in Hell. Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 1>your tattoos certainly tell you that, don't we. Steph Vequier
<v Speaker 1>said that she sees more in Morgan than Morgan sees
<v Speaker 1>in herself. She said Morgan sees herself as a cheap blonde,
<v Speaker 1>and she said Morgan always takes the easy way. Vicer
<v Speaker 1>then spoke in English while saying she would bring blood,
<v Speaker 1>sweat and all of her experience to remain the women's
<v Speaker 1>World champion at WrestleMania. I had no issue with this promo.
<v Speaker 1>They continue to work very well together and building nice
<v Speaker 1>and steady up to WrestleMania. I think this is a
<v Speaker 1>really nice pairing so far. And I actually had people
<v Speaker 1>critique me or say keep your religion out out of it.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what some platform, Well, no, it's it's
<v Speaker 1>I'm not preaching my own personal beliefs in religion at all.
<v Speaker 1>It's being just looking at objective reality and observing that
<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Vaquier has demonic tattoos. That's just an observation, you know,
<v Speaker 1>Like I'm not sitting here preaching anything to anyone. She's
<v Speaker 1>just she just does. And that's it. That's all I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna say about it. Would I get that? No, But
<v Speaker 1>that's not called preaching anything about religion. So if that
<v Speaker 1>offends you, then find another show. That's all there is
<v Speaker 1>to it. I mean, all right, So then we have
<v Speaker 1>Triple A Mega Champion, Dom and Live and Raquel make
<v Speaker 1>their entrance. Dom takes the mic and demanded a rematch
<v Speaker 1>for the Intercontinental title, and Dom is back to being
<v Speaker 1>booed pretty good here, and he said he didn't want
<v Speaker 1>to do it in the ring, but Balor was making
<v Speaker 1>him air their dirty laundry in public because Dom was
<v Speaker 1>blaming Finn. Finn comes out and to a big reaction,
<v Speaker 1>and Dom asked Baler where he'd been. He said he
<v Speaker 1>hoped Balor was there to tell him that he got
<v Speaker 1>him a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship, and Finn asked
<v Speaker 1>Dom if he got it all out, and Balor conceded
<v Speaker 1>that Dom would be the Intercontinental Champion. Still if it
<v Speaker 1>weren't for him. Balor said he was sorry, but he
<v Speaker 1>was trying to help. He was trying to reach and
<v Speaker 1>or rather teach Dom a lesson. He said the judgment
<v Speaker 1>dyes family and they would always have Dom's back, and
<v Speaker 1>recalled Dom telling him he wanted to be the greatest
<v Speaker 1>Mysterio of all time, and he tried to guide Dom.
<v Speaker 1>But the more he helps, the more he realizes that
<v Speaker 1>Ray Mysterio was right. Maybe you are a spoiled little
<v Speaker 1>prick and Dom shoved Balor, who responded with an overhead
<v Speaker 1>kick didn't really land well, but you know, kind of
<v Speaker 1>immaterial there. Balor removed his jacket and grabbed Dom. McDonough
<v Speaker 1>pulled him away, and Dom charged towards Balor, who moved
<v Speaker 1>around McDonough. Eventually all of the members, including the women,
<v Speaker 1>of course, because they can. They're allowed to dish out
<v Speaker 1>punishment but are never ever allowed to take any make
<v Speaker 1>that make sense, But everybody joined in beating down on
<v Speaker 1>Finn Balor, who eventually gets a frog splash two of them,
<v Speaker 1>one with a chair, and that's that. So here we go,
<v Speaker 1>the moment that we've been waiting for, or at least
<v Speaker 1>thinking about anticipating for years. How often you say that years?
<v Speaker 1>It finally happened. We have Finn and Dom, and again,
<v Speaker 1>as I mentioned earlier in the show, Penta is probably
<v Speaker 1>going to be put into this. El Grande Americano, an
<v Speaker 1>outside Chantel Grande is put into this and make it
<v Speaker 1>and make it a fatal four way. Again, we don't
<v Speaker 1>even have Finn versus Dom official yet, much less a
<v Speaker 1>triple threat, much less a fatal four way. But you
<v Speaker 1>can kind of read the tea leaves and see perhaps
<v Speaker 1>where they're going, and they could easily make this a
<v Speaker 1>fatal four way. At bare minimum. I think they'll make
<v Speaker 1>it a triple threat and throw Penta in there. But
<v Speaker 1>it happened, and I'm glad it did. I think that
<v Speaker 1>it was Uh, it was well executed. No complaints on
<v Speaker 1>anybody's end here. I think everybody played their part well.
<v Speaker 1>Finn has an uphill battle now facing JD, facing Dom
<v Speaker 1>and of course the women who are immune because they're women.
<v Speaker 1>So how is Finn going to approach this? I think
<v Speaker 1>bring in Penta level the playing field, knowing he's also
<v Speaker 1>an opponent for WrestleMania, but in the introm helping him
<v Speaker 1>take out Dom. And JD maybe having some tag team
<v Speaker 1>matches down the line here when we get close to
<v Speaker 1>wrestle Mania. So good stuff. The analysis here, according to
<v Speaker 1>Pro Wrestling Net, it says a strong angle. I would
<v Speaker 1>have held off on Balor coming out to his old
<v Speaker 1>tam until after the others turned on him, but that's
<v Speaker 1>a minor quibble. I thought McDonough might be his own
<v Speaker 1>man to set up a triple threat involving the male
<v Speaker 1>Judgment Day members. I suppose it could still happen, but
<v Speaker 1>there was no hint during the angle. I don't know JD.
<v Speaker 1>He's coming into his own but I think Penta being
<v Speaker 1>involved to have an Icy title an IC title match
<v Speaker 1>is probably the path that they take. So we then
<v Speaker 1>have some backstage stuff with Javon Evans and Adam Pearce
<v Speaker 1>and Kingston and I'm just gonna move on. It's just
<v Speaker 1>not a big part of the show here. So Obafemi
<v Speaker 1>versus Russev was the next match leading into the third hour,
<v Speaker 1>and the match was sadly really short three minutes and
<v Speaker 1>five seconds, with Oba Femi beating him after the fall
<v Speaker 1>from Grace Clean. When crowd was and I'll agree with
<v Speaker 1>this analysis was not as hot as they should have been,
<v Speaker 1>and at the same time, Russev versus Femi, it doesn't
<v Speaker 1>really on paper grab your attention. I think it's maybe
<v Speaker 1>because we're still waiting for Brock and Obafemi. I feel
<v Speaker 1>like that's where a lot of people have assumed the
<v Speaker 1>companies going for WrestleMania and so everything in between is
<v Speaker 1>just filler and we know it. So perhaps that's why.
<v Speaker 1>But also the build for Femi Russev, I mean, they did,
<v Speaker 1>but they could, but it didn't exactly light the world
<v Speaker 1>on fire. So everybody knows this is filler. It's time
<v Speaker 1>that they're filling to help build Oba that is already over,
<v Speaker 1>and they know Russev's going to lose. They're waiting for
<v Speaker 1>a big opponent. It's WrestleMania season. So you put all
<v Speaker 1>that together and you get a reaction that isn't as
<v Speaker 1>hot as some people think it should be, so still
<v Speaker 1>a good victory for Obafemi. We then have a let's see,
<v Speaker 1>oh Cmpunk come out and Punk said he wasn't sure
<v Speaker 1>if they'd be with him tonight. He delivered the stupid
<v Speaker 1>great to be a live line and hype the crowd
<v Speaker 1>mentioning the Seattle Seahawks. I can't believe Cmpunk at his
<v Speaker 1>at the point he's at in his career that he
<v Speaker 1>still needs to rely on naming the city's sports teams
<v Speaker 1>to get a pop. Are we still doing that? Really?
<v Speaker 1>He still needs to fall on that. That's usually something
<v Speaker 1>that's done by heels to piss them off, which is
<v Speaker 1>at all times, at all levels, I think acceptable. But
<v Speaker 1>if you're trying to get a pop from a crowd
<v Speaker 1>as a babyface to get them behind you and using
<v Speaker 1>their sports teams, that is something that usually younger babyfaces
<v Speaker 1>do to kind of manipulate the crowd. So I don't
<v Speaker 1>think Punk needs to be doing this, but maybe he
<v Speaker 1>was concerned that they wouldn't be with him. So Punk
<v Speaker 1>recalled that the World Heavyweight Championship was created because Rains
<v Speaker 1>wasn't defended that defending it frequently enough, which actually I think,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, while that's true, I also think that it
<v Speaker 1>devalues the World Championship by just saying that, like we
<v Speaker 1>all know that, and it also wasn't just created. There
<v Speaker 1>is a lineage that WWE it just chose to ignore,
<v Speaker 1>but just saying they created a title out of thin
<v Speaker 1>air because the other guy with the real title, doesn't
<v Speaker 1>want to defend it, just inherently devalues the championship that
<v Speaker 1>is now on raw or that wherever it may be,
<v Speaker 1>wherever it may live. It's to me not the best
<v Speaker 1>way to say it, but let's continue. He also talked
<v Speaker 1>about how he levels this place up and he's Punk
<v Speaker 1>said it's been on his mind all week. Unfortunately, I
<v Speaker 1>lowered myself to Roman Rains's level. I don't know exactly
<v Speaker 1>how he did that, but okay. Jimmy and Jay then
<v Speaker 1>come out and joined Punk in the ring, and Jay
<v Speaker 1>demanded that Punk apologize. Punk asked why Roman was still
<v Speaker 1>sending his cousins to do his heavy lifting, and Jay
<v Speaker 1>said he came out on his own and demanded that
<v Speaker 1>Punk apologize. Jimmy said it had nothing to do with Rains,
<v Speaker 1>but everything to do with respect. Jimmy said he has
<v Speaker 1>a lot of respect for Punk, and he said Punk
<v Speaker 1>says what's on his mind and speaks from the heart.
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy said, Punk and talk all the trash he wants
<v Speaker 1>to about Rains, but he disrespected their late uncle who
<v Speaker 1>has no voice, and he said, so apologize. Punk said
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy was right, and he said Jay was coming in
<v Speaker 1>a little hot, but Jimmy was right in that Cicca
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have a voice. Punk asked if they believed their
<v Speaker 1>uncle could hear them, and the USO said yes, and
<v Speaker 1>Punk said he respects Cicca. He said he didn't know
<v Speaker 1>him as well as he knew Offha and Punk were
<v Speaker 1>called working for him and said that he was under
<v Speaker 1>the Samoan learning tree. It was a privilege to have
<v Speaker 1>Semu drop knowledge on him. So Punk said every one
<v Speaker 1>of their family has shown him respect except that one
<v Speaker 1>son of a bee. And Punk said that if Seca
<v Speaker 1>can hear them, then he sees what a gaslighting, egotistical,
<v Speaker 1>plastic politician that Rains is. Jay got fired up and
<v Speaker 1>told Punk they needed him to hear I'm sorry, So okay,
<v Speaker 1>before we get into that, some just massive logicals here.
<v Speaker 1>So they dousos come out because they were upset about
<v Speaker 1>what Punk said about Rains last week and specifically Sika. Right,
<v Speaker 1>except they just said that, well, you can talk all
<v Speaker 1>the trash you want about Roman. Well that's what he's doing.
<v Speaker 1>How was he talking trash last week about Cicca? He
<v Speaker 1>just said he's going to bury him next to his father.
<v Speaker 1>He's talking trash about Roman the very thing that you
<v Speaker 1>just said you're okay with kind of weird. And then
<v Speaker 1>again Punk was insulting Roman Rains. Yet the USO said
<v Speaker 1>they're not out there because of Rains, and Punk continues
<v Speaker 1>to insult Roman Rains and that's when they still get
<v Speaker 1>heated up. So which one is it? Usos? Which one
<v Speaker 1>is it? Kind of weird and Punk shook Jimmy's hands,
<v Speaker 1>said he was sorry, did the same with Jay and
<v Speaker 1>he was sorry. Of course, you all know which this
<v Speaker 1>is going to turn into. It's a sorry, backhanded accompl
<v Speaker 1>or a backhanded sorry, and that's what this was. He
<v Speaker 1>said he was sorry that Rains treated them and the
<v Speaker 1>rest of their family like garbage for years and never
<v Speaker 1>once came out to apologize. He said he was sorry
<v Speaker 1>that Rains disrespected Dusty Rhodes by calling him irrelevant. And
<v Speaker 1>he said he's sorry that Rains tricked the USOS in
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the world into thinking he gives damn
<v Speaker 1>about any of this. Punk said, if Rains did care,
<v Speaker 1>he'd be standing in the ring talking to him rather
<v Speaker 1>than having his young boys, and that's when all hell
<v Speaker 1>broke loose and he got punched. I think by Jimmy
<v Speaker 1>with a right hand. That was it. So the whole
<v Speaker 1>thing was about the line last week with Ciampunk saying
<v Speaker 1>he's going to bury Roman reiins next to his father.
<v Speaker 1>That's the whole thing. That's it. Uh really, I mean
<v Speaker 1>he's threatening that. That line just inherently threatens the life
<v Speaker 1>of Roman Reigns. It didn't at the time insult to
<v Speaker 1>anyone in their family, anyone in their precious bloodline of
<v Speaker 1>a family that everyone should just apparently bend the knee to.
<v Speaker 1>But all it did was insult Roman Reigns and threaten
<v Speaker 1>Roman Reigns directly, no one else. And the whole segment
<v Speaker 1>here was built on they're mad about his line about
<v Speaker 1>the you know, he's going to bury Roman Reigns next
<v Speaker 1>to his father. Again, where's the insult to the father here? Now?
<v Speaker 1>Punk did go on to insult Roman Reigns more and
<v Speaker 1>that heated them up more. But you just told us
<v Speaker 1>the USOS are out there because of the of the family,
<v Speaker 1>not Roman. But all Punk's been doing is attacking Roman directly.
<v Speaker 1>That's it. So there's a little bit backwards and I'm
<v Speaker 1>not sure where the USOS are going to stand here.
<v Speaker 1>I thought they were kind of on their own here
<v Speaker 1>in their own world, and now they're crossing over into
<v Speaker 1>multiple stories with the Vision now with Punk, and also
<v Speaker 1>they're in a tag team that where they're presumably chasing
<v Speaker 1>the tag titles. So the USO's got their hands in
<v Speaker 1>several different cookie jars here and they I mean, they're
<v Speaker 1>a great tag team as we all know. Dare I say,
<v Speaker 1>a legendary tag team. But it's gonna get messy as
<v Speaker 1>to where they end up at WrestleMania. I don't want
<v Speaker 1>them getting lost in the Punk Roman story. So hopefully
<v Speaker 1>this is not a long term story for them, because
<v Speaker 1>they should have their own path. Chasing the tag titles
<v Speaker 1>is fine, and it should be actually where they go,
<v Speaker 1>but if they're just ringside for Roman and Punk, that
<v Speaker 1>would be very lame, and I I would feel for
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy and Jay that's not where they belong here. But again,
<v Speaker 1>I think Raw was effective enough to build things towards WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 1>I believe we do have Brock next week, so he'll
<v Speaker 1>have his first Hey, whoever wants to come out and
<v Speaker 1>fight me, and it'll be somebody that's underwhelming. I really
<v Speaker 1>truly don't believe that it's going to be revealed until
<v Speaker 1>very close to if not at WrestleMania, who his opponent is.
<v Speaker 1>It'll just I think string On and Paul Hayman will
<v Speaker 1>come out at WrestleMania and you'll have him talk about
<v Speaker 1>how the locker room's afraid that no one has stepped
<v Speaker 1>up over the last several weeks and that Brock has
<v Speaker 1>instilled fear into every man in the locker room. And
<v Speaker 1>then he'll leave or about to leave, and that's when
<v Speaker 1>Obafemi or someone obviously has to be a big name
<v Speaker 1>come out. That's my guess. They could reveal the person
<v Speaker 1>next week and then they build to that match towards WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 1>That that also is an option, and many people have
<v Speaker 1>said that that's what they think is going to happen,
<v Speaker 1>where the maybe Tombafemi who comes out next week, they
<v Speaker 1>just they don't wan at all and they bring the
<v Speaker 1>person out so they can have promos and all the rest.
<v Speaker 1>That's very possible that they do that. So I'm leaning
<v Speaker 1>towards my result rather than the reveal being next week,
<v Speaker 1>but both are plausible. Both makes sense. Yeah, So I
<v Speaker 1>just throwing another option out there that seems to be
<v Speaker 1>counter to what most people believe. So yeah, overall again
<v Speaker 1>a decent raw, a decent raw, bit of a short
<v Speaker 1>show here because I still need to get my head
<v Speaker 1>screwed on straight after my trip and recording last night
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