Ronda Rousey suspended!
We’ve got a new Intercontinental Champion!
And Bo Dallas is really good at cosplaying as his brother.
I’m Oli Davis, click the ‘i’ above my head to vote for what you thought of the show
- where you can choose from In Awe, Cor, AVRAWGE, Poor and Bore - as I review the 18th June,
2018 edition of Monday Night Raw ...in about 4 minutes.
After a video package recapping Alexa Bliss’ Money in the Bank win and cash-in the previous
night, Kurt Angle opened the show with extra happy floppy wrists because Raw got both beefcases.
Which will hopefully get Undercover Boss Stephanie McMahon off his back.
Wait a second…
Baron Corbin’s also got new hair.
Just how undercover is Stephanie being?
Bliss pointed out that everything she did at Money in the Bank was legal, but that didn’t
stop Ronda Rousey’s super mean face.
Alexa then went onto do the standard WWE thing where the heel talks forever and the babyface
just stands there and takes i- OH MY GOD RONDA’S ATTACKING ALEXA!
RONDA’S ATTACKING KURT!
RONDA’S ATTACKING BOTH ALEXA AND KURT WITH THE BEEFCASE!
RONDA’S ATTACKING REFEREES!
Ronda even beat up a table.
This is how you book Rousey.
Not with ‘gee Nia, do you really think I’m good enough to face you’ or smiling high
fives down to the ring.
As an absolute ass kicker.
This is the best non-wrestling performance she’s had in WWE so far, and the crowd went
crazy for her.
Kurt ended up suspending her for 30 days.
Hopefully she turns up next week Stone Cold style and continues to beat everyone up.
And the excitement didn’t stop there, as Dolph Ziggler answered Seth Rollins’ open
Intercontinental title challenge next - a match up I forgot was possible on Raw.
But Rollins wasn’t 100% following his match the night before, and just like how Seth grabbed
Elias’ belt at Money in the Bank, Ziggler hooked the tights for the win here.
Dolph is the new Intercontinental Champion, which him and Drew McIntyre teased would be
the first of many.
Watch out Brock Lesnar -ah, who am I kidding, he doesn’t watch Raw.
Seth is invoking his rematch clause for next week.
Even with Bobby Roode selling his ribs from Money in the Bank, he still beat Curt Hawkins
in a minute.
You thought Boss Time was bad?
Sick of the Big Dog?
Well brace yourselves for getting very annoyed with Monster in the Bank in several weeks’
time.
After Braun’s in-ring celebration and call out of Brock Lesna-there’s no point, he
doesn’t watch Ra-, the only other guy selling his injuries from the previous night Kevin
Owens turned up to try and befriend Strowman.
He wanted to shake ‘these hands’.
This set up a storyline weaved throughout the night, which made the Authority-aligned
Owens and Constable Corbin vs the Strowman and Finn Balor bromance for the main event.
The other night long narrative was Bayley and Sasha Banks making up to take on the Riott
Squad, losing to the Riott Squad, and then brawling backstage afterwards.
Banks was definitely the more heelish here, but it’s hard to care about either woman
at this point.
The Deletors of Worlds quickly beat Heath Slater and Rhyno, but the real brilliance
of this segment was the B Team’s Bray Wyatt and Woken Hardy parody promo onscreen.
Jinder Mahal spoke about the winds of change again before his match with Chad Gable.
And that wind has blown Jinder right back to his old 2016 gimmick of preaching peace
and spirituality.
He won quickly with a Khallus.
After a backstage segment that reached peak Raw authority figure - two people on their
phones!
- Kurt relayed Stephanie’s big announcement in the ring about deciding Brock Lesnar’s
next opponent.
Which itself reached peak Universal Championship challenge segment, because Roman Reigns then
interrupted saying it should be him.
Bobby Lashley made his case too, and Kurt revealed the winner of a 5-way at Extreme
Rules will get the title shot - a concept that The Revival conveniently took umbrage
with.
Holla holla, it’s an actually really fun tag team match, playas.
Lashley tagged himself in at the end to hit Roman’s spear for the win.
Mojo Rawley then beat No Way Jose in the definition of a Third Hour Raw Match.
Elias sung a song about wanting to be in the Extreme Rules 5-Way, which thankfully nobody
interrupted because it was a genuinely really good song.
As was the really fun main event, where the best stuff surprisingly came between Strowman
and a still-waistcoat wearing Corbin, who are actually pretty similar heights.
With Braun putting KO through the barricade outside, Baron hit the End of Days on Balor
for the win.
Overall, a bad night for babyfaces, but the episode really felt like a reset of the brand
now we’re on the Road to SummerSlam.
Storylines that wove throughout the night, the newsworthy angles of Seth losing his title
and Ronda getting suspended and some really fun matches mean this week’s Raw is Cor.
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