Triple H has clashed backstage over NXT at Survivor Series! AEW’s top boss has fired
shots at CM Punk, WWE’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and Randy Orton! And the wrestling
on last night’s Raw was great, the finishes, eh not so much.
Click the timestamps below to jump to any of those stories right now. Don’t worry,
we’ve still got the short review of Raw which is coming up right now, and I’ll be
replying to comments for the first 30 minutes after this video goes live! It’s just that
YouTube’s algorithm is kicking those shorter videos’ butts, so we’re trying out the
best of both worlds! I’m Oli Davis, and welcome to the 18th November
2019 Raw… in about 4 minutes!
Rather fittingly a year after the angle that made her during SmackDown’s invasion of
Raw, Becky Lynch opened this Survivor Series go-home episode saying she doesn’t give
a bollocks about brand supremacy. Can someone please tell Vince McMahon that we don’t
either. So she wants to have a good old Irish fight in Boston right now.
The IIconics interrupted with their accents, which brought out Charlotte Flair. Because
she’s blonde. She cut a heelish promo claiming ‘forces’ want Charlotte and Becky to tag
together, which is presumably WWE’s new way of saying ‘plot holes’, and they made
Billie Kay tap in about a minute. Then the 3 Horsewomen of Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke
and Marina Shafir attacked the 2 Horsewomen of Flair and Lynch, where Becky awesomely
punched a security guard in the face in frustration. That’s 5 out of a potential 8 Horsewomen.
It’s happening. Caruso alert! Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins
are such an enhancement act, even their backstage interviews are squash matches, where AOP beat
them up so they couldn’t have their tag team title main event.
Humberto Carillo beat Karl Anderson with the Street Profits’ help to get a United States
title match against AJ Styles next week. Which would be a good story of the underdog babyface
working his way through a faction, if AJ hadn’t already beaten him decisively three times
in a row. Lana revealed she’s filed for divorce and
has a restraining order on Rusev for 90 miles. Or 90 days. Or 90 feet. Nobody really knows
because she forgot her lines. Bobby Lashley then beat No Way Jose with the Masterlock
and snogged Lana. Weirdly, the ‘Rusev Day’ chants were probably the loudest the crowd
were for anything on the show, despite this storyline being cucking awful.
Caruso alert! Seth Rollins says he’s putting his Team Raw spot on the line against Andrade
because he fights all challengers. Which still doesn’t really make sense - but it’s ok
because this match was great. That’s how you make Seth cool again - in great matches
that get time. The near falls got me, and the crowd were chanting Burn It Down but then…
Lucha House Party interfered in SmackDown shirts. I was momentarily very excited, thinking
they might be starting a faction with Andrade, because Brand Split LOL, but then they attacked
him too, for Seth and Andrade to unite and fight them off. Because they just love Raw
so much. This was a very lame finish to a great TV
match, and one that doesn’t make any sense - as if SmackDown truly wanted to screw with
Raw, they’d help Andrade win, as Seth’s Survivor Series captaincy was on the line.
So it’s just a spot rather than anything with substance.
Samoa Joe’s on commentary, by the way. He’s very good, and much bigger than everyone else.
Then Buddy Murphy revealed himself as the One Who Knocks, finally challenging Aleister
Black trapped in the closet! Which Black missed, only making it out when Murphy had already
left. 7 months this storyline’s been going on for. 7 months, and you miss the second
person to actually knock. Murphy then won a really exciting match against
Akira Tozawa, remember him! And Black and Buddy had a staredown afterwards. That eventual
encounter will be a kick type Pokemon. Rowan beat an enhancement talent while the
Singh Brothers and R-Truth ran round the ring for the 24/7 title, and he’s still got his
weird pet carrier thing. This is such a waste of Big Red. I’m calling it now, Truth and
Rowan are going to end up as a comedy tag team.
Yes, Kevin Owens vs Drew McIntyre doesn’t make any sense, because they’re fighting
alongside each other for Team Raw at Survivor Series on Sunday. Surely they should be working
on working together. That said, I don’t care because this match was absolutely incredible.
his was an excellent match, with two amazing rope break near falls and a this is awesome
chant. I don’t want either man to lose! Oh, but not like that.
Triple H’s music hit, Raw went to an adbreak, and came back to an in-ring segment with Hunter
and KO. Drew had Thanosed away along with the idea there was ever actually a wrestling
match going on. Triple H tried to recruit KO, and it all turned into an NXT vs Raw brawl.
Say it with me folks, it’s spots, with noooo substance!
Caruso Alert! Here’s Paul Heyman to reveal Brock Lesnar vs Rey Mysterio will be No Holds
Barred. Interestingly, he never says it’s a spoiler Brock will win. It’ll either be
a miracle or a massacre. That’s important, because every time Heyman says spoiler, Brock
wins lol, Brock has won.Rey then cut an excellent promo in response.
Asuka beat Natalya. Caruso alert! Randy Orton will replace Hawkins
and Ryder’s tag title shot with Ricochet. The tension between them is actually really
intriguing, and I like how they’re essentially using the plot device of co-existing at Survivor
Series as the first chapter in their story. But the rest of this match was just a backdrop
for all the brands to brawl with big names like - Lucha House Party, Dolph Ziggler and
Heavy Machinery. NXT then got involved, along with some Raw
midcarders and Rollins, but it was Kevin Dunn’s motion sick camerawork that unfortunately
stood tall as I couldn’t really see anything through the crash zooms and fast cuts. Hunter
said NXT’s doors will be wide open for anyone on Raw or SmackDown this Wednesday. Which
will be a difficult storyline to balance with them also building towards Saturday’s War
Games.
That was this week’s Raw in about 4 minutes. Click the ‘i’ above my head to vote for
what you thought of the show, where you can choose from: Rawsome, Cor, AvRAWge, Poor and
Rawful. And let me know your thoughts in the comments because I’ll be replying to them
from outta nowhere!
I thought the in-ring wrestling on this show was terrific. Seth vs Andrade, Murphy vs Tozawa,
and, mostly, Owens vs McIntyre. It’s such a shame, then, that two were mired by really
lame finishes. And the invasion storyline unfortunately has no depth, as it’s really
just spots and no substance. But I enjoyed the wrestling so much, this week’s Raw is
AvRAWge.
Now over to Laurie with news on Triple H’s backstage clash over NXT at Survivor Series,
and AEW firing shots at WWE!
Thanks Oli, time for some news from me.
And to quickly build on that huge go home angle from Raw, there is still some deciding
to do ahead of Survivor Series.
Because it currently stands that team Raw comprised of Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Ricochet,
Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton will take on Roman Reigns, Shorty G, Mustafa Ali, Braun
Strowman and King Corbin and Team NXT, which is comprised of multi time WWE Champion vacant.
Five times. The other teams don’t stand a chance.
I think it’s vacant any way because it kind of looks like kicking out time at the Torture
Garden.
Now why are all those spaces vacant? Well Triple H is either leaving them open in the
hopes that Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens or someone turns on the main roster, or he’s waiting
until after Takeover Wargames to see who is even still cleared to compete?
Kona Reeves you’re up dude!
Well there have been reports that it might be backstage creative differences holding
up the decision. WrestleVotes on Twitter posted something they had heard from a source:
“Hearing that over the past few weeks there has been a push from creative to have Triple
H as a member of Team NXT in the men’s elimination match. That idea has been met w/ mixed reactions,
including that of The Game. I’m told he does NOT want to be part of the match this
Sunday.”
So you’re telling me Triple H doesn’t want to put himself ahead of the development
of new talent? Who said wrestling hasn’t progressed since the attitude era? Or this
year when he took on Batista with the help of Ric Flair...
Doesn’t mean they couldn’t cram Shawn Michaels in there as trainer and captain and
call it quits.
Someone who previously called it quits and now hasn’t and has made wrestling fans have
emotions ranging from “you sell out” to “I love you” is CM Punk, who will make
his honest to goodness return to WWE branded programming tonight on Backstage on Fox.
Ahead of the show Punk tweeted: "It IS weird trying to catch up on 5+ years of rasslin',
I'm doing what I can. There's bright spots, mostly women from what I can tell. There's
BAD too. I'm gonna talk about it, and no one is safe. Join us. “
And then tagged Renee Young, WWE on Fox, Booked T, Paige here, Vince McMahon and AEW President
and CEO Tony Khan.
Which worked the same way as tossing a pipebomb over the garden fence - there was retaliation.
Khan fired back with: "No one is safe? Sounds like a plane full of wrestlers in Saudi Arabia!"
A sick burn made up by that liar Dave Meltzer. This naturally garnered some online heat and
few were more venomous than the Viper Randy Orton who spat back a link to an article on
Jacksonville.com about Tony’s father Shahid Khan being investigated for corruption back
in 2018.
Saying: "What's that whole thing about glass houses and stones?"
Unperturbed by the shatterable nature of his domicile, Khan retorted once more with: "I
thought you only tagged me in your posts when you were grasping for leverage. That article's
over a year old + is about baseless claims made about my dad years ago. That's the best
you can do, nothing. Meanwhile in the time since that was written, you used the N word
on twitch."
Randy waited a while and then came back with: “Jacksonville Dixie:
Why else would I tag you? If I wanted to talk business, I’d call your father.“
Which despite not even addressing the last part of Tony’s point also falls down because
didn’t he also just call Tony’s father corrupt? Do you want a deal or not?
While this chaos span out of his initial Tweet, Punk hopped into a Q&A with Wale asking how
often people called him Whale and if we was gonna watch WWE on Fox.
Wale, apparently drunk on Tequila on a flight, so take what he says with a pinch of salt,
and a slice of lemon said: “Yes . Only because @ReneeYoungWWE is the
curator we all need . My questions is ....Are u gonna enter the royal rumble ? (I bet u
won’t answer.. don’t worry wrestling twitter doesn’t come here )”
Punk then clarified his position again: “Nope. I’ll talk about it though. I work for Fox!”
But what if team Fox got in on Survivor Series and then it was like Punk, Renee, Ryan Satin,
Vacant and Vacant, an unstoppable team!
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