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Last night's WWE Raw was an eventful show, even if it had a stretch of wheel-spinning filler. As the company continued to build toward SummerSlam, Stephanie McMahon's "historic" announcement was that the first all women's pay per view was coming.
As eye-rolling as her usual attention-seeking antics are, if booked well, the show could be a hit, and a test of sorts to see if an all women's show on the WWE Network or women's tag team titles can be in the cards in the future. Hopefully, we'll get a New Women's champions by then.
Elsewhere, the build to SummerSlam got a bit clearer, and WWE has, unfortunately, if unsurprisingly, chosen the worst case scenario in one very major match.
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Losers: Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt
One might as well consider the burial of the broken/"Woken" gimmick and the Deleters of Worlds complete. After losing to the B team again, it looked like the team turned heel, but we've seen heel Bray Wyatt for far too long, with bad results.
This felt like a way to get the contractual rematch clause over with en route to SummerSlam, where the Authors of Pain likely await to end the B team's Cinderella story and their unexpected tag team championship reign.
All in all, this entire rivalry has been a damning indictment of the state of the Raw tag team division. Compared to just a year ago, when Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose's reunion was among the hottest stories that year, this feels like death. It's on ice even compared to SmackDown's tag team tournament.
Something in the tag team division is going to need to change, and soon. Might a couple of callups from NXT be in the cards?
Losers: Sasha Banks and Bayley
They were brawling a few weeks ago. Now they're teaming up against local jobbers. Yawn. Whatever.
Unless women's tag team titles get revealed en route to this all women's pay per view, this entire "rivalry" has been a gigantic waste of time for over six months. Do you remember how exciting their feud was in NXT in 2015? Now look to today. Those days are long gone.
Winners: The Authors of Pain
Though this is just wheel-spinning, the takeaway is that the Authors of Pain are getting a lot more exposure than they did after their call-up in April. This is one-sided as far as a rivalry goes, but it's getting people used to what the Authors of Pain can do.
With the Deleters of Worlds now thoroughly defeated, they'll almost certainly step up to the plate at SummerSlam, where they'll have a nasty surprise in store for the "champions."
Winner: Roman Reigns
To the surprise of no one, Roman Reigns got his win back over Bobby Lashley, rendering their Extreme Rules match pointless. In doing so, WWE have chosen a route that is guaranteed to get a riotous crowd at the Barclays Center on August 19th. The match itself won't be any good either.
The best we can hope for now is that this nonsense finally ends in Brooklyn. And that a certain monster lugging around a green briefcase is on standby to save things from getting too heated.
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