Cain Velasquez "manhandling" Shelton Benjamin on RAW was...embarrassing.

So good for Raw to use Humberto Carillon and street profits but dear god last night was boring af.

When a Shelton Benjamin promo wakes up the show it's not going so well... 3 hour Raw and no divas (the stars are in Australia I think) is a bad combination... a good hour of death in Andrade vs Sin Cara, Alestair Black vs fat Bobby Roode jobber, Viking Raiders vs Hawkins and Ryder, and multiple segments of the already tired Rusev and Lashley storyline. Would have been a good time to give Liv Morgan a match for the first time in like 6 months considering they had 0 divas matches almost one year since WWE Evolution

It's not like they don't have the talent. Just look at NCT and how their women's division is STACKED AF. And literally as good as the men's main event scene. It's like main roster has no idea how to deal with women.

NXT killed it once again, best wrestling show on TV.
That main event where they almost botch that tower of Soo. PLUS FUCKING HEEL BALOR ANR STARTING A GARGANO/BALOR FEUD?!?!??

It's already match of the year and it hasn't happened yet

He will probably be in the OC in a few months

He'll be ruined in the main roster, again.

Also once again, the women's division is the star of the hour. I think they may give them war games? The title.scene is chaotic with four women gunning at Shayna, this may be the best the divisions has ever bee.

It's crazy because WWE can't be stupid enough to not see the massive star potential in Bray as The Fiend. My best explanation is Vince thinks this will only serve to grow The Fiend as a character, while preserving their Universal Champion and major RAW star.

Early Wrestlemania card predictions, cause why not?

Main event: Undertaker (WWE champion) vs Brock Lesnar - LolVince. I expect them to milk the casuals on Smackdown Live, so Undertaker is good way to do it with a storyline similar to Goldberg where he wins the title for last time and then loses it at Wrestlemania in rematch of the streak match. Alternate plan: HHH/Lesnar again - but I pick this one for Super Showdown next year

Becky Lynch (Raw champion) vs Ronda Rousey (Smackdown champion). If Rousey isn't back, Becky vs Nia for Raw match, Carmella (champion) vs Mandy Rose for Smackdown title (Corey Graves storyline)

Seth Rollins (Universal champion) vs Kevin Owens - Rollins is heel and has corporate backing, Owens is anti-authority and claims Rollins is dragging down Raw

Braun Strowman vs Bray Wyatt - If they weren't going to do it at HIAC, maybe it was for Wrestlemania?

Kofi Kingston vs Triple H - Idk, HHH needs a match and he can have a storyline on SD where HHH doesn't believe in him as for real as a singles guy.

Roman Reigns vs Daniel Bryan - I don't know how they will do it since Rowan is on Raw and did things like Bryan threw a table if he was in on it, but I'll say the storyline isn't over and Bryan turns out evil after all, his face turn doesn't feel all the way to me

Charlotte and Natalya (Women's tag champions) vs Sasha and Bayley - Not sure if it's vs Sasha and Bayley, but I'm predicting Charlotte is given the tag title division for a while to mix it up. Natty is another wrestling family type.

The new OC AJ Styles, Finn Balor, Gallows and Anderson vs Ricochet, face Samoa Joe and two other mid card guys - 8 man match to get a lot of guys on the card

IC title - Shorty G (champion) vs Sheamus. Bully storyline

I just don't see Becky holding the title till then. Maybe she should drop it to Asuka at survivor series? Make her the whole the man can't beat. Too early and I literally can't see any potential match ups for WM right now. Everything is so bad I wish they throw it under the table and set it on fire like it's the Firefly funhouse

She has unfinished business with the face breaker so that can be the Wrestlemania match if they have no other options. Ruby Riott could also become available for a TLC or Fast Lane type feud.. I suppose they could also make her win the tag titles with Charlotte if they want to kill some time until Ronda wins the Royal Rumble

They also won't leave Alexa out of the WM card. She's their third (suck it haters) biggest female on the roster.

You can go throw a tantrum and take a 4 month vacation if you don't like that Statement

Brock and Roman are on the same brand again, and that's not the predicted WWE Championship match for Wrestlemania? Come on now.

Wrestlemania:

Brock v Connor McGregor
Roman v Rob Gronkowski
Tyson Fury v Mike Tyson
Becky Lynch v Brie Larson

The Fox Era!

"Divorce Court" is closing Raw tonight.

EDIT: And now we're getting a "Lana on a pole" match at Survivor Series, with the winner receiving a live sex celebration on Raw the next night.

Wow WWE got Natalya v Lacey Evans onto Crown Jewel. WWE has been pretty bad lately, but bringing women’s rights to Saudi Arabia would probably their greatest Social achievement no?

November: Humberto Carrillo
December: Berto Carrillo
January: Berto Rio
February: Berto

Skinny B

I FUCKING CALLED IT. YASSSS NXT FOR FOING COHERENT STORYTELLING!!!

The Fiend is Universal Champion, and no one cares. GREAT JOB as usual WWE.

I was wondering how we would get to Brock v Mysterio at Survivor and now we have a main event.

Grats to Wyatt though.

Aaaaaand now, most of the roster is stuck on Riyah (or whatever) and won't make it to Smackdown.
Ok first it was stupid af to make these guys flight +14hours to get to Smackdown. AND WHAT THE FUCK is happening there?

And having most of the roster delayed in Saudi Arabi just resulted in WWE delivering the best SmackDown in a very, very long time. And Adam Cole/Daniel Bryan was one of their best matches of the year, easily.

It seems very likely HHH put this show together, and look what he was able to deliver in such a short amount of time.

Gurl this episode. I'm in awe at how much better this was.

What, the Fiend actually won? Why didn't they draft him to Raw? Why didn't they just make him win at Hell in a Cell? I did like the match outside of the red light. Crown Jewel was decent I guess... Mansoor actually has a lot of potential. The tag team turmoil coming down to Gallows and Anderson vs Viking Raiders kind of took the air out of the balloon, I feel The Revival or Ziggler/Roode fit the "Best Tag Team in the world" nickname more. Nice to see history but the women's match was bad, and AJ continues to be a B- match machine. Cain Valesquez looked horrendous. Fury's personality fits WWE perfectly (his entrance was amazing) but obviously a pretty raw match.