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Today we’ll be taking a look at some of the things that took place on this week’s
raw including Alexa Bliss and retribution
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As usual, the Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss Storyline left us with a lot to talk about and discuss
So let’s dive into what’s new with this story.
We didn’t get too much from Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss this week, but we were left we
quite a lot to speculate about
The “moment of bliss” segment with Randy Orton opened up Raw this week.
Alexa Bliss gave Randy Orton a proper introduction and the way she was acting was very similar
to what we’ve seen in the past from some of the Firefly funhouse puppets
First thing you’ll probably noticed is that Alexa Bliss referred to Randy Orton as her
“favorite superstar”
Was she being serious about that claim?
Of course not, that’s a line that Bray Wyatt’s puppets have used a lot
That line mostly comes from Ramblin Rabbit.
He’ll usually address whoever Bray Wyatt is feuding with and always refers to them
as his “favorite superstar”
He did it during the Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt feud and several other feuds, Ramblin
Rabbit always seems to be a big fan of whoever Bray Wyatt is facing
So it’s interesting to see Alexa Bliss borrow that line from Ramblin Rabbit and refer to
Randy Orton as her “favorite superstar”
Randy Orton comes out and he obviously doesn’t trust Alexa Bliss enough for him to just sit
next to her, so he stands up for a majority of the interview
Orton provides some great backstory for his feud with Bray Wyatt from a few years ago
He mentioned how he had to find Bray Wyatt’s weakness back then and his weakness was the
Wyatt family’s home
So once he found Bray Wyatt’s weakness, he really went after it and that’s why he
did what he did with burning down the house
However, orton claimed that he doesn’t know The Fiend as much and has to find his weakness,
so that he can attack it again
Now this is something that WWE has teased, they teased the idea that The Fiend may have
a weakness even earlier this year.
We had all had our theories and speculation.
Some thought the weakness could relate to the red light in his matches, his mask, maybe
something in the Firefly Funhouse, there just had to be something that served as his weakness
or his source of power
We all assumed that we’ll see that weakness exposed during The Fiend’s first loss, but
that never happened either
The Fiend lost to Goldberg, but no real weakness was put on display in that match.
Then again, a lot of fans would like to forget that match even happened, so we won’t acknowledge
that match
But it still left us with the question of: what is The Fiend’s weakness?
Well Randy Orton picked up on it pretty fast, he claimed that Alexa Bliss was The Fiend’s
weakness
Alexa still held her ground against Randy Orton, even standing up against him and getting
in his face very seriously, but as the tension kept building, The Fiend saw enough and decided
to make his entrance
Orton even bragged on being right about his weakness while The Fiend was on his way out
The Fiend comes out and Alexa Bliss is in Randy Orton’s arms.
Did Alexa jump into his arms?
Did Randy scoop her up?
It’s hard to tell because that all happened in the dark, but either way, The Fiend is
extremely hesitant to attack Randy Orton since Alexa Bliss was in Orton’s arms
Randy hands Alexa back to the Fiend and quickly gets out of ring to close the segment
So that was quite interesting.
The commentators also made it sound like it was a side to The Fiend that we never saw
before since he was so hesitant and basically begging Randy to put her down
The segment got a little bit of mixed reactions online and understandably so
We understand the relationship and connection between Alexa and The Fiend, but it was still
very strange to see The Fiend in such a vulnerable and begging state
Randy didn’t even have Alexa in a threatening position and The Fiend was still scared of
what he might do to her
So does it make The Fiend look soft?
Is it out of character for him?
Just from that moment alone, it did feel really weird to see The Fiend act like that, but
we have to give the story some time to unfold
We don’t know where this might go, but I do feel like Randy Orton is going to expose
the weakness now that he truly knows what it is for sure
The same way he went after that house to destroy Bray Wyatt all those years ago, Orton may
very well continue to threaten Alexa Bliss just to get The Fiend in that vulnerable state
again and really break him down
So we’ll have to see how Alexa Bliss plays a role in this story because it looks like
she’s gonna play a key role here since she’s been exposed as the weakness to The Fiend
But let’s talk about the other big moment from a Moment of Bliss and that was the prop
of the doll being locked inside the cage
Now this very well could just be a prop for the segment, but I feel like there could be
some good symbolism with that doll as well
So the first thing I thought of was what if the doll is representing the real Alexa Bliss,
her old personality that has been basically thrown in a cage and trapped since she’s
been in this trance with The Fiend?
That makes a lot of sense, that old Alexa Bliss that we’ve seen for all these past
years is basically locked away and can’t get out similar to that doll inside the cage
It also brings up another idea I was thinking of, what if Alexa Bliss really is trapped
and doesn’t wanna be with the Fiend?
We’ve seen little hints of that heading all the way back to Smackdown a few months
ago where Alexa explained to Nikki that she didn’t know what was going on and that she
had no control over it
Then we had moments, especially the one in their match, where Alexa snaps out of the
trance and she’s looking at her gloves and attire like “what am I wearing?
Where am I?”
She even cries in Nikki’s arms at one point before snapping back into the trance
It appears that Alexa was only messing with Nikki cross and pretending to snap out of
it, but what if Alexa Bliss honestly was out of the trance there for those brief moments?
What if that actually was the trapped version of Alexa Bliss that was able to get out for
a quick second and cry out to Nikki for help?
If that’s true then that changes everything and once again relates to that doll in the
cage because that’s what going on with Alexa Bliss right now
She’s trapped under whatever spell or trance with The Fiend and doesn’t know how to get
out of it
That’s a really good concept and I wouldn’t mind seeing that play out either especially
more down the line
Maybe the way Alexa Bliss leaves Bray Wyatt is by snapping out of this entire trance,
so that would make for quite the interesting storyline as well, but we’ll see how that
plays out
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Retribution played a big role in this week’s show as well.
Slapjack picked up the big win over Ricochet, Ali tried to recruit Richchet, and Reckoning
had her first match on Raw against Dana Brooke
Reckoning ended up losing that match and was scolded by Ali after the match since failure
is the an option for Retribution
But the most talked about moment of the night was Reckoning’s wardrobe issue
With only a few seconds into the match, Reckoning’s mask flew right off her face.
This obviously wasn’t planned and was just a live mistake
She didn’t go pick it back up from the floor and put it back on.
She just continued to wrestle and the commentators and Ali never acknowledged the fact that she
was completely bare faced and unmasked
It’s a big deal, but at the same time, it’s really not a big deal
Everyone knows that it’s Mia Yim behind that mask and character, so it wasn’t a
huge shocking moment
WWE even acknowledged that Reckoning was Mia Yim because they showed her NXT matches in
Reckoning’s video packages before, so it’s not like it was a ground breaking unmasking,
but it was still worth mentioning
WWE obviously didn’t know this was gonna happen because she never really wrestled a
match with that mask on, but now they know how easily it comes off
The commentators no-sold her mask coming off and just continued to refer to her as Reckoning
But If she’s going to continue to wrestle in a mask then maybe WWE should consider switching
up her mask to something that’s more stable and will stay on for the duration of a match
But what are your thoughts on today’s wrestling news?
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