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Monday Night Raw came to us tonight from the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, featuring the go home show to the upcoming SummerSlam pay-per-view (PPV) scheduled for this Sunday night in Brooklyn. The show wasn't that great and didn't present a lot of action.
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The go-home show wasn't a must watch. However, the show had some positive points and negative points. Let us talk about the good and bad of this week's Red brand:
#1 Yeah: The Opening Segment and the match
Ronda Rousey wasn't great on the mic talking about the death of Jim Neidhart (father of her best friend, Natalya) and how she is going to win the Raw Women's Championship. However, the segment became interesting when Ronda Rousey beat down the security guards offered to Alexa Bliss on behalf of Constable Baron Corbin. Not only that, she took the fight with Alicia Fox in the ring.
The match between Alexa Bliss and Ember Moon was also quite decent. I liked the way WWE kept both Ember Moon and Alexa Bliss strong after Ember hit Eclipse on the champion, but was kicked by Alicia Fox that led to DQ. The champion became safe and didn't look weak before her match with Ronda Rousey.
#1 Naah: The mid-match promo
The mid-match promo took place in the match between Bobby Roode and Titus Worldwide and Authors of Pain and Mojo Rawley. While the match was going on, the WWE started promoting their WWE SummerSlam matches rather than showing the match properly.
While the promo was also not about the match going on, it didn't make sense. Many people watching the show at home would have changed the channel due to this.
#2 Yeah: The tribute to Jim Neidhart
WWE in many ways, paid tribute to Jim Neidhart on tonight's Raw after his death last night. First, they let Ronda Rousey speak about it in the promo and then presented a video on Jim Neidhart.
While the death of Jim Neidhart was heart-breaking, it was emotional to see WWE pay tribute to the legend in different forms.
Also, The Revival paid tribute to him during their match by using the move he used to use with Bret Hart and British Bulldog. RIP Jim, you will be missed.
#2 Naah: No Mickie James
Mickie James and Alexa Bliss were interesting together. But now, she is nowhere to be found. Neither does she comes with Alexa Bliss as her sidekick nor does she fights in the matches.
Personally, I enjoyed Mickie James and Alexa Bliss more than the pairing of Alexa Bliss and Alicia Fox. Please bring back Mickie James WWE.
#3 Yeah: A huge return
Seth Rollins, since the past two months, was fighting both Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler alone. Not only that, he was losing constantly to Dolph Ziggler due to that and was overpowered by them.
But now, he has got a company. He brought Dean Ambrose back with him tonight and it was nice to see Dean clean the house with Seth Rollins.
Dean Ambrose looks better than ever and it will be great to see how the match between Seth and Ziggler goes at SummerSlam now.
#3 Quality of the matches
The men's matches produced by Raw this week were boring.
Not only they were bad, they made the show look weak and bad. It also showed us why watching 3-hour show constantly will bore you.
The tag team championship match also did tell us why Raw's tag team division lacks behind. Expect things to be better at SummerSlam.
Special mention: Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman
This was probably the best segment on Raw. Paul Heyman stabbed Roman Reigns in the back by sprinkling a spray in his eyes and letting Brock Lesnar beat the hell out of him!
Then, why was the segment bad? The segment proved bad because after being attacked by Lesnar 2 weeks ago, Heyman is now again in the corner of Brock Lesnar.
This means that Lesnar and Heyman are together again and we will see Roman Reigns Vs Brock Lesnar w/ Paul Heyman. It is a bad idea by WWE. It should have been better if WWE would have allowed Heyman to stab Lesnar and help Reigns defeat him at SummerSlam. Let us see how it goes.
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