5 things we indirectly learned from WWE Raw – A regret regarding a feud, a failed cash-in? (3 June, 2019)

This was the last Monday Night RAW before Super ShowDown in Saudi Arabia, which takes place on Friday. After a rather weak episode of RAW last week, we got a good one this time around, as it really helped build the intrigue for the Saudi Arabia show.

Before the show, Paul Heyman announced that Brock Lesnar would be cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on Seth Rollins for the Universal Title on RAW. However, it didn’t happen (more on that later).

Apart from that, Lacey Evans had a match with Charlotte Flair, which was interrupted by Becky Lynch. Cross, accompanied by Alexa Bliss, also had a match with Peyton Royce.

The Phenom, too, came out and cut a promo to let Goldberg know that he is next.

In the meantime, Roman Reigns was smacked all around the ring by The Revival, Shane McMahon, and Drew McIntyre. A match between Reigns and McIntyre was also announced for Stomping Grounds, which brings us to the first of the five points here…

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#5 A regret

They face each other at Stomping Grounds

WWE may have a regret of ending the feud between Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre early. It all began after Reigns made his return after recovering from his leukemia.

McIntyre terrorized him and his Shield brothers prior to WrestleMania, and even beat Ambrose and Rollins in singles matches. However, he only faced Reigns in one match – and it was at WrestleMania itself – which the Scottish Psychopath lost.

After that, the feud ended with Reigns going to SmackDown. However, WWE have reignited it by making McIntyre Shane McMahon’s accomplice and announcing their match for Stomping Grounds.

It seems that the company realized that there is potential for more in this rivalry as it could also elevate McIntyre’s star (a win for him this time, please).

#4 WWE may have big plans for Cross/Ricochet

This is a good pairing

Right now, it wouldn’t be wrong to admit that among the NXT newcomers, Ricochet and Nikki Cross, are getting the most TV time. While Aleister Black, too, gets a couple of minutes on every SmackDown Live episode, he doesn’t have an opponent as of yet and is just restricted to cutting promos.

In the meantime, Ricochet has faced Cesaro for three straight weeks and the pair have put out perhaps the best matches in each of the shows. Ricochet, on top of that, has won two out of the three matches, suggesting that WWE may have big plans for him.

Similarly, Nikki Cross was scarcely used before her pairing up with Alexa Bliss. After the Goddess took Cross under her wing, she is getting matches – and on RAW last night, she actually won her singles bout against one-half of the Women’s Tag Team Champions, Peyton Royce.

Safe to say, WWE may have big plans for her too.

#3 Vince has an evil character

Evil Vince

We already knew that, didn’t we? For some, Vince is the best heel the company has ever had, as his hard-man rule coupled with his on-screen gimmick makes it easy for the WWE Universe to dislike him.

In last night’s episode of Firefly Fun House, Bray Wyatt showed another side of his gimmick – and it was more like a story from his real life than anything else. We got introduced to a new character named Huskus, who is a soft, overweight pig toy.

A while later, when Wyatt was motivating Huskus to get in shape, a Vince McMahon figurine with devil-ish horns appeared and asked Huskus to get his “act together” or else face the sack (which was implied).

It has to be noted that Wyatt was once known as Husky Harris, an NXT rookie who was not really ripped like Wyatt is now.

Anyway, the portrayal of McMahon with devil horns was a classic way of displaying his ‘evil’ character.

#2 Potential Flair-Evans feud?

A feud brewing?

Charlotte Flair was on WWE RAW last night, thanks to the Wild Card rule. She interrupted the promo between Becky Lynch and Lacey Evans before squaring up against the latter in a match.

Just to jog your memory, last week on SmackDown Live, Evans lost her match against Bayley after an unintended interruption from Charlotte Flair, who was at the announcers’ table.

After the end of the match, a livid Evans took out her frustration on Flair and the feud seems to have continued to this week with the match between the two.

However, the match didn’t reach a conclusion as Becky Lynch, who was at ringside, interrupted and Man Handled (just a fancy name for the Rock Bottom) Lacey Evans before leaving the yard.

While The Man interrupted the match, could it be that we are up for a feud between Flair and Evans somewhere down the line?

#1 Failed cash-in

He could regret this

Brock Lesnar was supposed to cash in his MITB contract on Seth Rollins for the Universal Title last night. In fact, he was at the arena and gave Seth Rollins a mauling after Baron Corbin already weakened the WWE Universal Champion with an End of Days.

Lesnar came to the ring and low-blowed Rollins before smashing his back bloody with a steel chair. Paul Heyman was pleading the Beast to cash in his contract but the Beast didn’t, suggesting that he will save it for Friday.

Stephanie McMahon had earlier announced that she would punish Lesnar for making a mockery of the MITB contract. And now that Lesnar brutalized Rollins without cashing in, something tells me that Lesnar is going to kayfabe regret it. Either his cash-in fails at Super Showdown or he loses the contract to someone else (maybe in the 50-man Battle Royal).

Time will tell.