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Monday Night RAW kicked off the show with a bang this week when the WWE Champion Brock Lesnar made his first appearance since Survivor Series and his advocate Paul Heyman made the shock announcement that Lesnar wouldn't be defending his Championship at The Royal Rumble, instead, he would be inside The Royal Rumble match.
Not only does Lesnar want to compete against 29 other stars on January 26th, but he wants to go through all of them to win the match since he opted to start out at number one but it is worth noting that the Championship will not be on the line.
There are a handful of men now announced for the Rumble including Ricochet, Roman Reigns, and Elias but even though it was a stacked episode of RAW that is now on the road to the biggest show of the year, there were still some glaring errors.
3. Audio botch
There have been several technical errors over on AEW over the past few weeks, so it's only fair that WWE is pulled up on theirs whenever they have any kind of technical botch too. Interestingly last night it was another backstage interview that became an issue when Vic Joseph fed to Sarah Schrieber and Rey Mysterio was waiting in the wings.
Mysterio started to cut a promo but most of what he said couldn't be heard until the production crew caught up with what was on TV and the mic on Mysterio was lifted. Schrieber then came into the frame and continued the interview, but the fact that fans had missed most of what the former United States Champion had to say meant that the entire promo had lost its spark from the beginning.
2. What was Rey Mysterio doing?
Rey Mysterio lost his United States Championship to Andrade at a live event a few weeks ago and this week on Raw he was given the chance to become a three-time Champion if he could win it back.
There was a point in the match where Mysterio believed that he had won before the referee reversed the decision when he saw that Andrade's foot was on the bottom rope. Zelina Vega had put his foot there but the official only noticed after he called the pin and decided to reverse his decision and restart the match.
The official ending came after Mysterio was knocked into Zelina Vega on the outside and he then went back inside the ring and was about to take a hammerlock DDT when the official actually broke up the move.
John Cone then told Mysterio to go to the outside to check on Vega where he pleaded and told her that he was sorry before he was then dragged back into the ring and Andrade delivered the DDT to pick up the win anyway.
It was a strange ending that seemed as though something else was supposed to happen but WWE tried to cover it up.
1. That's the priest for the wedding!
Following AJ Styles match against Akira Tozawa last night on RAW, the camera's headed back to the ring and the WWE Universe saw the security attacking what looked like a fan who had entered the ring from the stands.
The show was sent to an ad break so that WWE could get the fan out of the way and when the episode returned it was time for Lana and Bobby Lashley's wedding. Vic Joseph then noted on commentary that the security had made quite the blunder since it was the wedding official that they had attempted to tackle because they thought he was entering the ring without permission.
Pictures surfaced of him whilst being attacked by security which proves that it was obviously just a miscommunication between RAW's officials backstage and front of house security. He was able to recover and still do what was needed as part of the segment so that Lana and Lashley could build to next week's huge match with Rusev but he was definitely a little shaken up following the encounter and the WWE Universe found it entertaining on Social Media.
