Sunday’s Horror Show At Extreme Rules At Aol.com pay-per-view didn’t just have a
hardcore theme, but also the consistent structure of great in-ring wrestling, weird or stupid
finish.
One of which was Rey Mysterio vs Seth Rollins in an Eye for an Eye match, that saw Rey’s
eye get extracted from its socket, and Seth threw up.
I’ve been meaning to talk to you both about that, you might want to lay low for a while.
But while many thought that finish was terrible, it could’ve been even cornea...
According to PWInsider, the original plan on the week of the pay-per-view was to use
CGI, or, in this case, CG-Eye… - with “an entire sequence that would have seen Mysterio's
eye pop out”.
Apparently the finish was already filmed, but Vince McMahon, who was “very hands-on”
with the Eye for an Eye match production, “hated the look of the effect and the sequence”,
so it was removed from the final broadcast.
Instead they went for Rey holding a fake prop eye, and Seth’s gonna, he’s gonna puke
so the finish didn’t look so bad.
Bullet dodged there.
Rey losing the match, and his eye, was reportedly a way for WWE to write him out the promotion
if he doesn’t re-sign, as he’s been working without a contract for a few months now.
Another Raw star who’s long been reported to leave, however, got a much nicer send off.
WrestlingNews.co is reporting that Kairi Sane is now done with WWE after yesterday’s TV
tapings, following her victory over SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley on last night’s
Raw.
Why couldn’t you book her like that when she was staying with the company?!
Kairi will be leaving WWE to return to Japan to be with her husband, and remains on good
terms with WWE, with the door open for any future appearances, especially when WWE tours
Japan.
Natalya seemingly wished Kairi well, posting a picture of her and Kairi on Instagram, with
the caption “THANK YOU Kairi Sane ANCHOR EMOJI”.
With WWE taping multiple episodes yesterday, Kairi could still appear on Friday’s SmackDown
or next week’s Raw.
But someone who definitely won’t be appearing anytime soon, is Randy Orton’s manager Ric
Flair - who was noticeably absent on last night’s Raw main event between Orton and
the Big Show.
Especially because the TV graphics continuingly had Flair in Orton’s corner.
This may be due to coronavirus, as according to the New York Post, “a source familiar
with the matter” claimed that Ric Flair had tested positive for Covid-19 last Wednesday.
Flair himself has refuted this claim, stating “that is absolutely incorrect”.
Instead, he argued his wife, Wendy Barlow, has tested positive for Covid-19, but they
have been living separately from one another in their “5000 square foot home,” where
“he lives in the basement and she lives upstairs on the third floor” to quarantine.
But the whole situation was made more controversial when Flair was reportedly spotted making a
Starbucks run without a mask on, and handing cash to the worker.
When the New York Post attempted to speak to Flair about the situation, he hung up the
phone but continued to state over text message that his “health is excellent”.
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Seth Rollins opened the episode talking about how the visual of him extracting the eyeball
of Rey Mysterio will stay with him for the rest of his life.
Us too, Seth.
It was rubbish.
After explaining the medical terminology for Rey’s injury was Globe Luxation, which sounds
like a premium travel brand - this episode is brought to you by Globe Luxation!
- Seth then started blaming ‘you people’, us fans, for making him this way.
But now Mysterio is out of sight, nice pun, but also technically out of contract, Rollins
can make Raw in his own image!
Aleister Black stood up to Seth, starting a decent opener between the two, based on
Rollins working over Aleister’s right arm.
Aleister valiantly fought back, very nearly evening winning with a Black Mass, but Murphy
interference eventually cost him.
Seth and Murphy then beat up Black afterwards, playing up an injury angle for his arm, while
Rollins screamed there’s no-one here to save him, but his Messiah.
Thing is, there should be some people there to save him.
Seth might’ve got rid of Rey, but there’s still Humberto Carillo and Kevin Owens.
And where’s Rey’s son Dominic, who was a big part of the eye for an eye build?
He’s presumably being kept off TV as a bargaining chip in Mysterio’s negotiations, but it
makes for a messy, inconsistent story.
Farooq then fist bumped with MVP and Lashley backstage, I don’t know why he was there
either - for Shelton Benjamin to beat R-Truth for the 24/7 title and join the Hurt Business
as it’s latest Executive!
This led to a six man tag of MVP, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin against Cedric Alexander,
Ricochet and who’s the mystery third man… it’s the drafted from SmackDown, presumably
fully scrapping the hacker angle, and getting his first name back Mustafa Ali!
Alexander was worked over the the first half of the match, Ricochet for the second.
And then Ali did a torpedo-like dive on Lashley, and hit an 054 on MVP to win.
It is kind of poetic that there’s so much diversity fighting for the United States championship
right now.
But is it really diversity when it’s all just shoved into one division?
Farooq was backstage again, talking to the Viking Raiders.
Why are you here?
You didn’t even say DAMN?!
Billie Kay was missing from Peyton Royce’s corner in the Ruby Riott match next, as the
commentary team said she was dealing with ‘other business’.
They’ve really given up on explaining reasons why people aren't there now.
It seemed to hurt Royce, as Riott won a short match with the Riott Kick.
Caruso alert!
Andrade and Garza told Charly how ready they are for the Street Profits, for the Profits
to jump them.
The Street Profits are now the longest running Raw tag team champions ever.
Which is what happens when you’re off TV for ages, and when you’re on it, you just
go bowling with the Viking Raiders.
They had a decent match that was made memorable by Montez Ford’s incredible mid-air direction
changing Frog Splash.
It didn’t go that long, though, and it’s another clean loss for Zelina Vega’s Gang
of Sexy Men.
They didn’t even infight with each other.
And then we finally found out what’s going on with the Raw women’s championship.
Kind of.
Sasha Banks cut a really good in-ring promo saying that she actually fought for the Raw
women’s title, as opposed to Asuka, who was literally handed it by Becky Lynch.
Bayley said she recognised all Sasha’s efforts, so, as a Role Model, she did the right thing
and counted a pin.
The best heels are the ones who have a point.
And they now also have all the gold.
It’s funny how we don’t mind that when it’s not Charlotte.
The Kabuki Warriors came out for a fight, but they were stopped by the Zordon McMahon,
who’s pre-recorded presence was so strong, everyone stopped in their tracks.
Stephanie explained that while Banks didn’t legally win the title, Asuka never won the
match - meaning Vacant is the champion!
Congratulations Vacant, I knew you could bounce back after you lost the TNA title on Saturday.
Sadly, this doesn’t make much sense.
Asuka should still be the champion.
And that confusion will undermine what they’re ultimately trying to do - pop a rating for
their decider match in two weeks.
Kairi Sane then took on Bayley and shockingly won with a roll-up, especially considering
this is reportedly one of her last TV appearances.
Shayna Baszler was watching on backstage, positioning herself for the next Raw women’s
program.
Dolph Ziggler then tried to manipulate Drew McIntyre for one more title match, as he’d
seen genuine fear in Drew’s eyes.
We’ve seen dumb babyface champions get tricked by this all the time, so it was really refreshing,
and incredibly badass, when McIntyre simply answered: ‘I literally beat you 24 hours
ago in a match where you picked the stipulation, bugger off.’
But sadly, Drew doesn’t have anyone else to fight right now, so the feud must continue.
They’ll have a rematch in two weeks time, where McIntyre pick a mystery stipulation
- an announcement that had someone in the crowd yell ‘eye for an eye’.
Even your own Performance Center recruits are heckling your product.
And then came the unsanctioned main event.
Because WWE won’t sanction a Big Show vs Randy Orton grudge match, but they will allow
Rey Mysterio’s eye to be pulled out?!
This was probably the weakest of Randy’s legend killer matches so far, with the Christian
angle being much better.
Big Show is big, sure, but he shouldn’t be going back and forth with Orton in 2020.
It was only Garza and Andrade jumping him early on that allowed Randy to get on top.
Orton ended up winning with two RKOs, and hit a punt post-match because he isn’t very
nice, while someone brilliantly yelled from the crowd ‘take his eye!’
So that’s this week’s Raw in about 5 minutes.
Let me know what you thought of the show in the comments down below, where I’ll be replying
to people FROM OUTTA A RANDOM CONVERSATION WITH FAROOQ.
Seriously, dude, why are you here?
There was nothing terrible on this episode, but there wasn’t anything stand out either.
The women’s division continues to be the best thing by far in WWE, but everything else
felt like it was treading water.
This week’s Raw is Poor.
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