The July 4th edition of Raw obviously had its share of playing up to the American Independence Day. The first few minutes of the show featured a food fight. This was going to be one of those filler shows it seemed. Also, we had Vickie Guerrero excusing her way to talk about the brand split and how she’ll be more than happy to be the one to run the show.
This show had many memorable moments, some of them were quite repetitive and the card was developed more for the upcoming PPV. The Women’s division had possibly the best build up going forward for the championship.
Here are the 5 points to note from this week’s show
The Conversation
Arguably, the best moment on a show that went on and on and on was the promo segment between Charlotte and Sasha Banks. Banks is coming for that title and she is very likely to win it.
Charlotte tried to scream her way around this segment trying to undermine Banks and tell her that she wasn’t even in the conversation when Banks fired back that she is the conversation. This segment was fire from Banks’ end and Charlotte was the perfect heel you wanted to be turned down to ash.
Charlotte may scream Daenerys Targaryen’s lines that her ‘reign has just begun’ but her days are numbered from now on.
The Heels
Talking about heels, how good are The Club? AJ Style, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are a great team and that chemistry is understandably because of the fact that these guys are friends in real life.
They bullied the face that runs the place - telling him to speak about July 4th, instead of himself, running him down and tearing his confidence apart by informing him that nobody likes him and the locker room is on their side since everybody knows how much Cena buries performers.
They were out to do what they’ve always done and beat the heck out of the Cenation leader until Enzo Amore and Big Cass came out and made the save.
One more match for Battleground was set and it’s this tag match.
Rusev Day
He may be Russian but he has been one of the greatest US Champs in the history of the WWE. Rusev is a monster, Rusev is a Bulgarian Brute and Rusev is darn entertaining. Check out his Twitter or his interviews.
The man can be hilarious and intimidating at the same time. He beat Titus O’Neil today which was obvious. He also chanted for the country whose title he holds so gloriously and told the dull Columbus crowd to eat their little weenies.
This man is not in the main event, but he should be. What a bad guy!
The Bad Guy
This show was all about the heels working well. If Vince McMahon thinks that Seth Rollins has the potential to be one of the biggest bad guys then he’s not wrong and all Rollins fanatics can enjoy!
Rollins was amazing on this show. He’s bratty and his relentless promos and quips on Roman Reigns seem to work more towards waiting for Reigns return. Ambrose is a champion and thoroughly enjoyable but WWE is making it clear that soon it’s going to be all about Reigns vs Rollins.
Even the dullest crowds are cheering for Reigns to be pulled out of the triple threat match at Battleground. Rollins has only proven his point since his return. This heel stint has been wildly successful so far.
Xavier Woods freaks out
No more fun and frolic and comedy. The Wyatt Family didn’t just issue a threat they asked the mascots of the Power of Positivity to come to their turf and fight a war. Kofi Kingston and Big E were unmoved by Wyatt’s trademark eerie promo but Woods wasn’t the same afterwards.
We’ve been seeing it for some weeks now but it all came to reckoning this week. Woods told his teammates, his brothers that this isn’t like just another feud, it is more than that and if his teammates can’t come to their senses and take it seriously then they very well don’t have to be a team anymore.
