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This week's episode of Monday Night RAW seemingly surrounded whether or not Seth Rollins was going to apologize to the WWE Locker Room. Rollins went ahead with the apology but the mystery of The Authors of Pain continued as the former Universal Champion denied any involvement with their beatdown on Kevin Owens last week.
AOP attacked once again on RAW this week, taking out Kevin Owens but this time they dragged him into the back and nothing more was said about the angle.
RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch was a notable absence this week since Charlotte Flair was forced to take on The Kabuki Warriors in a handicap match. Flair was unsuccessful in her attempt to beat both Asuka and Kairi Sane after Sane was able to pin the former 10-time Women's Champion.
It was an interesting week on RAW as the company came down from the high of Survivor Series weekend, which means that once again the show contained a number of botches.
#3 Jerry Lawler thought that Aleister Black's finisher was called Black Magic
Aleister Black returned to the ring this week on RAW and managed to defeat Tony Nese when he delivered a thunderous Black Mass. Since this was the first time Black had wrestled on RAW since he was drafted over, Lawler hasn't had the opportunity to commentate on a match that Black has performed in, which could be why he thought his finisher was called Black Magic.
After the move was delivered, Lawler shouted out Black Magic before Vic Joseph later stated that it was called Black Mass. Black has a number of moves relating to his name but he doesn't have anything in his arsenal called Black Magic, so it's confusing how Lawler came across the term.
#2 Production Botch
Erick Rowan was victorious over No Way Jose this week on RAW but the conga line decided to try and uncover what was in his cage, which only served to infuriate the big redwood further.
Rowan destroyed Jose and sent a message by delivering his finisher twice to ensure that the RAW locker room is aware that he wants his cage to stay private.
Rowan was in the backstage area following the match and ready to be asked about what was in the cage, but when the show returned from the break, the company was looking to replay the viciousness of his match with Jose, but loaded up the wrong video and almost played Charlotte Flair's match instead.
What's even worse is that it said "earlier tonight" under the video, when Charlotte's match was actually last week, since Becky Lynch once again left the former 10-time Women's Champion alone to fight off both Kairi Sane and Asuka, even though she only faced Asuka in a one-on-one match.
WWE corrected the error and played the write video package minutes later so many fans may not have spotted the botch.
#1 Didn't Kairi Sane tap out?
Kairi Sane and Asuka accepted Charlotte Flair's challenge of a two-on-one handicap match and somehow the Women's Tag Team Champions were able to come out on top. Sane and Asuka took the fight to Charlotte Flair, even though originally Becky Lynch was supposed to be fighting by her side, but she didn't appear on RAW until after the show went off the air.
There was a point in the match where it looked as though Charlotte had actually won, when The Queen missed a moonsault, she took Sane into the Boston Crab and looked to put pressure on her back, but when the referee went to ask Sane if she taps the former NXT Women's Champion tapped the canvas with her hand twice.
Technically, it looked as though Sane had actually tapped out before Asuka was able to save her from the submission, so much so that even Jerry Lawler on commentary asked if Sane had actually tapped out since it did look as though she had given up, but the match still continued and later ended with Sane pinning Charlotte.
