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<p>Last week’s RAW was one of the most abysmal and horrendous in a long time. Let us see if this week’s edition can salvage anything.</p>
<h2>The McMahons Make Their Ground Breaking Announcement</h2>
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<p>This had been teased a lot on various social networking platforms throughout the week. All the superstars are out and Mr McMahon himself is in the ring. He calls out Stephanie and Triple H who come out to a deafening roar of boos. They go on to say that it isn’t everyday that history is made and they are here to do just that. They announce an all-woman PPV for October 28<sup>th</sup> by the name of ‘Evolution’. All the women’s title including the NXT Women’s championship will be on the line at the PPV. The Mae Young Classic finals will also take place that night</p>
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<p><strong>Review: </strong>This is an awesome way to start this week’s RAW. The women’s PPV holds great promise. We just hope that it isn’t the same debacle as the ‘Great balls of fire’. The women’s revolution has hit a stalemate and this, in theory at least, seems like a great idea. However, we need to take this with a grain of salt. WWE has a track record of spoiling promising premises. Expect this PPV to be built up like the next big thing in WWE but ending up as a big let-down. That is unless WWE creative goes crazy and does something awesome. This segment was, however, good and exciting.</p>
<p><strong>Rating:</strong> <i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>The B-Team Holds Onto Their Championship</h2>
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<p>The match begins with the B-Team being the underdogs but somehow they manage to win yet again with Curtis Axel pulling off a rollup and that too an accidental one. Woken Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt beat down the B-Team after the match.</p>
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<p><strong>Winners and still the RAW tag champions: </strong>The B-Team</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>It is great to see that WWE hasn’t dropped the ball with the B-Team. Even if they are picking wins in all kind of silly manners, a win is a win and every week the B-Team holds on to the championship, the more credible they become and this feud gathers more momentum. Three of these four men had been like a rudderless ship a few months back. This is great for the tag division as well.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Baron Corbin Relocates Finn Balor</h2>
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<p>Finn Balor is talking to Chad Gable when he sees his stuff being carried around. On further inquiry he finds out that he is getting his own locker room which turns out to be a child’s playhouse. Corbin walks in and makes fun of him and tells him that he has a match later against Drew McIntyre.</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>Baron Corbin is starting to warm up in his role as the constable. His feud with Balor is slowly but steadily gathering steam. Wish WWE did something with Chad Gable.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Sasha Banks and Bayley are Friends Again?</h2>
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<p>Before the match the two women talk it out and agree that they have to be on the same page for the women’s PPV. They then face Samantha Simon and Karen Lundy, two local jobbers and pick up the win easily with Banks locking in the Banks Statement.</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>This is where WWE begins faltering. Time and again we have seen WWE doing this where they begin something and then abandon it midways without any explanation whatsoever. These two women feuding against each other would have presented an exciting angle for the Evolution PPV. Now we are back to the old stifling routine where we will probably see them in a multi-woman tag match at Evolution.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-down" style="font-size: 35px; color: red;"></i></p>
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<h2>Braun Strowman Demonstrates His Mantra</h2>
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<p>Elias is out to talk about his album but backs off as soon as Strowman’s music hits. Braun plugs the women’s PPV and has a funny smile when mentioning Alexa Bliss. He then calls out Lashley and Reigns and says that their efforts are futile as he is coming for them with his briefcase. Kevin Owens limps out and says that Strowman cannot just do whatever he wants. He tells how Strowman crushed the dreams of Owens’ son and daughter of Strowman and Owens becoming friends.</p>
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<p>The verbal barrage continues until Corbin walks out and says he is here to handle it on behalf of Stephanie and he wants to help Strowman control his anger. He brings out Jinder Mahal and Sunil Singh to try some meditation techniques. Strowman decks them and hits a running powerslam on Singh.</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>This feud as we have mentioned before has been the highlight of RAW. It sort of mirrors the feud Rock and Mankind had. Braun and Kevin have a wonderful chemistry and know how to work well of each other. Jinder in his new role as an advocate of meditation is also much better than his former self and hope he can evolve into something more meaningful.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Mickie James Picks Up a Rare Win</h2>
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<p>Alexa Bliss is in James’ corner. The match is quite good with the experienced women putting on a nice wresting match. Bliss causes a distraction towards the end that allows James to hit the Mick Kick for a win.</p>
<p><strong>Winner: </strong>Mickie James</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>Obviously, Alexa was the focus here and while the exact direction WWE plans to go with her is unsure yet, all this seems to be the groundwork for something. Possibly she will be involved in a multi-woman match for the championship. Expect her to retain the title at Summerslam.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Authors of Pain Gets Their A** Handed to Them by Titus Worldwide</h2>
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<p>Elias is interrupted yet again. Akam and Rezar come out and start talking smack. They call out Titus worldwide and start insulting them. Titus O’Neil and Apollo Crews take them out and send them reeling</p>
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<p><strong>Review: </strong>Titus O’Neil has been in the spotlight recently owing to the mature way he reacted to the whole Hulk Hogan issue. That has given him a lot of mainstream attention and this seemed like WWE’s attempt to cash in on that. The AOP have been a bit monotonous of late and this could give rise to another meaningful feud in the tag division which the WWE needs desperately. It all depends on how the next few encounters between these two teams are handled by WWE.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Owens Gets a Sweet Deal of a Match</h2>
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<p>Angle is backstage cozying up to Stephanie weirdly. Corbin walks in and says that the Strowman incident has to be handled correctly. Kevin Owens joins them and asks for a match against Strowman at Summerslam and if he wins even if it is by DQ, he get the Money in the Bank briefcase. Angle begins to disagree but Stephanie allows it and Owens gets his match</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>This adds another important dynamic to this feud. It is highly unlikely that Strowman will lose the briefcase. The most probable scenario is that Strowman beats Owens yet again and later when Strowman tries to cash in, Owens foils his plans.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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<h2>Mojo Rawley Beat Tyler Breeze Yet Again</h2>
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<p>Rawley picks up the win with an Alabama Slam.</p>
<p><strong>Winner: </strong>Mojo Rawley</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>The less said about this match the better. There is definitely a group of people in WWE creative who feel that if they keep pushing the same thing down people’s throats, they will eventually accept it. This match was a carbon copy of pretty much every single match Rawley has had over the last few weeks and was just as pointless.</p>
<p><strong>Rating: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-down" style="font-size: 35px; color: red;"></i></p>
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<h2>Finn Balor Battles Drew McIntyre</h2>
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<p>The match is a good hard-hitting and high paced one until Dolph Ziggler gets involved and causes the DQ. The two then beat on Balor after the match prompting Seth Rollins to make the save.</p>
<p><strong>Winner: </strong>Finn Balor by DQ</p>
<p>Angle comes out and makes it a tag match between the four</p>
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<h2>Balor and Rollins v/s Ziggler and McIntyre</h2>
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<p>This is another fast paced match and there is good tag work on display. Each team has their strong moments until Rollins hurricanranas McIntyre out of the ring and connects with the stomp on Ziggler for the win.</p>
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<p><strong>Winners: </strong>Seth Rollins and Finn Balor</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>A great display of athleticism between the four men. How WWE handles this from here on will be interesting. Assuming that the Intercontinental title has to be on the line, expect a triple threat between Ziggler, Rollins and Balor for the IC title or another one on one match between Ziggler and Rollins.</p>
<p><strong>Verdict: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i><br />
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<h2>Moon Sinks Morgan</h2>
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<p>Moon is the one who gets in most of the offense and picks up the win with an Eclypse.</p>
<p><strong>Winner: </strong>Ember Moon</p>
<p><strong>Review:</strong> This was starting to feel like the start of something good but WWE threw it all away this week. This matchup had no heart nor did it give us a reason to even care about it. WWE is as clueless as we are as to where this is heading.</p>
<p><strong>Verdict: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-down" style="font-size: 35px; color: red;"></i></p>
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<p><strong>Rollins informs us that he has been given an IC match for Summerslam.</strong></p>
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<h2>Surprise! Surprise! Reigns Wins Again</h2>
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<p>Elias is out again and again gets interrupted by Lashley’s music. He storms off. Lashley and Reigns put up another slugfest and there are multiple dangerous looking spots and close calls. Reigns eventually wins with a Superman punch and a spear and thus earns the opportunity to face Lesnar at Summerslam.</p>
<p><strong>Winner: </strong>Roman Reigns</p>
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<p><strong>Review: </strong>We all knew this was coming. The possible scenarios from here on are as follows</p>
<ul>
<li>The best path: Reigns beats Lesnar but Strowman cashes in and becomes the champion. This is the best route WWE could take as Strowman is red hot now and could carry the company.</li>
<li>Reigns wins and becomes the champion: This could happen either of two ways. Reigns wins. Strowman comes out to cash in but is stopped by Kevin Owens as we mentioned earlier or Strowman doesn’t cash in at all. If this happens, WWE can expect rating to plummet even further over the next few weeks.</li>
<li>Lesnar retains. We have been here so many times before. Everyone is sure that Lesnar is going to drop the tile and WWE pull off a coup by keeping him as the champ. This time, however, this scenario is the least likely as WWE have already achieved the aim of removing CM Punk’s reign from the top of the list of the longest reigns and it is confirmed that Brock Lesnar has his sights firmly set on UFC. If WWE decides to go this way then it is as bad as the second scenario.</li>
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<p><strong>Verdict: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-down" style="font-size: 35px; color: red;"></i></p>
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<p><strong>Overall Review: </strong>While this show was definitely an improvement over the last week. The main event picture still feels like a let-down. Most of the segments, however, where fun and this was one of the more enjoyable RAWs of recent times.</p>
<p><strong>Overall Verdict: </strong><i class="fa fa-thumbs-up" style="font-size: 35px; color: lime;"></i></p>
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