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<h2><strong>A chaotic start to RAW</strong></h2>
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<p>Remember the good old days when the Universal Champion would only show up very occasionally and defend it even more rarely? We are back to those days.</p>
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<p>Instead of the new champion opening the show, it was Baron Corbin who did so to massive boos. There was nothing wrong with that but this brought back all the negative memories of not seeing the most prestigious title of the show for months.</p>
<p>Things quickly moved on as we got several announcements regarding Survivor Series. Alexa Bliss captaining the women’s team was somewhat expected and the right decision. The idea of either Angle or Corbin captaining the men’s team isn’t very appetizing. We already got Angle last year and Corbin just isn’t polarizing enough despite what he did at Crown Jewel.</p>
<p>The last part of this segment was fun though. Braun Strowman beating people up left and right never gets old and that makes us madder as he would have made such a better Universal Champion. Brock Lesnar as champion simply sucks.</p>
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<h2><strong>Riott Squad try to get heat but fail while Apollo Crews gains another inconsequential win</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>Sasha Banks, Bayley &amp; Natalya vs. The Riott Squad ended in a No Contest: </strong>WWE has done this time and again where they use the recent passing of someone to generate cheap heat. It never works and it didn’t today.</p>
<p>Natalya decided to come out wearing her late father’s glasses. The match was actually going very well with the crowd really hooked into it but it all came crashing down to earth when Riott broke the glass into pieces and just walked away with her posse while Bayley and Banks tried to console Natalya getting counted out in the process.</p>
<p>Where is WWE going with all this? Please put a legitimate storyline and these women can work wonders. So much talent being wasted.</p>
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<p><strong>Apollo Crews def. Jinder Mahal: </strong>Apollo beat Jinder Mahal in a matter of minutes and while it felt good to see him pick up yet another win, there seems nothing long term is in place and it is only a matter of time before he jobs to someone bigger and we already have plenty of that going on in WWE.</p>
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<h2><strong>RAW gets new Tag Team Champions</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>AOP def. Seth Rollins: </strong>One thing we never got an answer to at Crown Jewel was what was going to happen to the RAW tag championship after Ambrose turned on Rollins. That was answered tonight.</p>
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<p>Rollins gave a passionate promo slicing and dicing through everything that is wrong with WWE right now. He addressed the Brock Lesnar situation which was bold of WWE and fills us with more hatred that WWE is aware of how much this hurts their product and they are still persisting with it. What followed was mercifully short.</p>
<p>Rollins was put in a handicap match with the AOP for the tag championship and while he did his very best and came really close to beating the AOP single-handedly, the AOP proved to be too strong in the end and won their first title on the main roster.</p>
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<p>While this did not feel as momentous as it should have, it does put the tag titles back in the hands of a proper tag team and that was highly necessary considering the current state of the tag division on RAW.</p>
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<h2><strong>Strowman hunts Corbin while Elias beats Ziggler</strong></h2>
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<p>Strowman continued doing what he does best and kept wreaking havoc backstage trying to find Corbin. While this was getting a bit silly, it was the good kind of silly that we love about wrestling.</p>
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<p><strong>Elias def. Dolph Ziggler:</strong> What followed was even better. We are loving this side of Elias. He is just so much more fun and while he knew how to rile up a crowd, he definitely knows how to make the crowd happy and to walk with him.</p>
<p>Ziggler cut a typical heel promo about how he was the best in the world only to be called a baby by Elias. The match that followed was great too. Elias seemed a little slow on his feet initially but soon picked up pace. Elias won after a couple of near falls. We can get behind these two feuding which would do wonders for the mid card in WWE right now.</p>
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<h2><strong>Rousey gives another lousy promo</strong></h2>
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<p>Rousey&#8217;s last major promo had plenty of flaws but was mostly overshadowed by the “breaking down doors” comment. She clearly lacks the delivery skills to make a promo impactful and WWE is relying on creating such one-liners to mask her obvious shortcomings.</p>
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<p>Tonight it was all about the “baddest bitch on the planet” but it didn’t have the same bite. This can really impede Rousey as that is exactly what happened with Roman Reigns during his initial days.</p>
<p>WWE would be better off putting Rousey under a manager. We are definitely excited about the Rousey and Lynch match-up at Survivor Series but this was an underwhelming way to build it up.</p>
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<h2><strong>A weird alliance forms in the women’s division</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>Nia Jax def. Ember Moon: </strong>Jax coming out just as Rousey’s promo ended to remind her that she would be waiting for her title shot was okay but what followed was just heaps of weirdness. Jax and Ember moon fought in one of the most off-kilter matches ever. It just felt like two amateurs trying to do stuff in the WWE ring.</p>
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<p>Jax beat Ember Moon and that brought out Tamina. Jax and Tamina stared at each other and it seemed like the two were going to fight which no one asked for but it got weirder as the two women used Moon as a punching bag and embraced each other.</p>
<p>This means that Jax is now a heel but why? These turns are happening so fast and thick that it is hard to keep up with who is a face and who is a heel. WWE seem to be on a mission to test out the patience of their fans. The most likely explanation is that WWE is building a formidable heel tag team for when they reveal the much rumored Women&#8217;s Tag Team Championships.</p>
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<h2><strong>Finn Balor cements his spot as the jobber on RAW</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>Bobby Lashley def. Finn Bálor: </strong>This one just breaks the heart. We are having yet another pointless feud between Lashley and Balor for no apparent reason. Balor was basically humiliated into a loss and while Balor did get some offense in, it all just seemed too easy for Lashley.</p>
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<p>It was another distraction by Rush that allowed Lashley to pick up the win. As we keep saying every week that this feud could work if WWE built it up nicely but weeks into this “feud”, we still do not know why these two are fighting. The wrestlers are also not being given enough creative freedom while Lio Rush is only making matters worse which is a pity considering how well he started off.</p>
<p>Most hurtful is the fact that Balor is serving as a pedestal for other wrestlers which just isn’t right. He got Claymore kicked by Drew McIntyre which just shows how downtrodden Finn Balor has become in the eyes of the creative team at WWE.</p>
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<h2><strong>A confusing end to RAW</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>Drew McIntyre def. Kurt Angle: </strong>This match was supposed to determine the RAW team captain. It turned out to be a ruse as Drew McIntyre replaced Corbin in the match after Corbin ran away out of fear.</p>
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<p>The match was actually very good and if this is a passing of the torch kind of thing WWE wants to do then it is great. Hopefully, there is some fallout from all this. What we do not understand is why Corbin would be a great captain? We guess that is a problem for next week.</p>
<p>This match was fun as it was something new and refreshing between two men who a few years back were not even expected to ever wrestle in a WWE ring again let alone against each other. Angle still has it and we wish that WWE does right by him and puts him in a great feud as a great send-off.</p>
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<p><strong>Overall Review: </strong>RAW has sucked for weeks and what happened today did nothing to change that. Starting random feuds, face and heel turns for no apparent reason seems to have become the norm.</p>
<p>A recurring theme of WWE as a whole now is to start thing randomly as opposed to building it up which means that nothing feels worth investing time in. This was a lackluster show and has to improve massively to be able to build up Survivor Series properly.</p>
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WWE Monday Night RAW Results & Review: November 5, 2018

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