Last night's RAW was actually fun! There was no boring opening promo from The Authority or from a bragadocious Seth Rollins. No, Undertaker opened RAW and talked about how his streaks are meant to be broken but that he couldn't stand Lesnar (mostly Heyman) bragging about being the 1 in the 21 and 1 and breaking the streak. His revenge actually makes sense, which leads to the first announced match for next month's Summerslam with Undertaker vs. Lesnar. This resulted in HHH calling Heyman to NOT let Brock attend, although Heyman did show up just to make a scathing response to Undertaker. Which also lead to this glorious segment in the first hour:
It looks like Brock is back to being a monster heel again but at this point, I didn't care. It was pure fun to see the roster, ordered by HHH and Stephanie, to hold these 2 giants back (suspiciously missing from the roster was Ambrose, Rollins, Reigns, Wyatt, Harper, Cena, and Orton). Although we're getting another repeat of Undertaker vs Lesnar for a main event, this renewed determination in Undertaker definitely makes it look like this won't be repeat of their Wrestlemania 30 match.
Luke Harper (yay!) and Roman Reigns had a match, this time with Bray Wyatt and Dean Ambrose, respectively at ringside. This was a good match, with Reigns doing a good job of selling his injured arm and Luke Harper being viciously technical and doing his signature "YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH." Reigns won via DQ when Wyatt interfered, so of course, Ambrose interfered as well. Ambrose may have great chemistry with Rollins but his bromance with Reigns is just so god damn adorable.
Another big highlight was the fact that there was TWO DIVA MATCHES. Charlotte defeated Brie Bella and later on, Sasha Banks and Naomi defeated Becky Lynch and Paige. No bitchy or catty behavior. Team Bella was at ringside doing commentary and they didn't interfere. And neither segments were short or rushed; it was straight up women's wrestling. How awesome was that?
The main event was Randy Orton, John Cena, and Cesaro vs. Rusev, Kevin Owens, and Sheamus. Normally, these 6-Man tag team matches would be one of the most boring segments on past RAW episodes but it turned into another fun match. The most jarring thing was seeing Orton and Cena being buddies, which is understandable since Orton is currently a babyface. What made the match great was seeing a cocky Sheamus abandoning his team because he doesn't need this, leaving Owens alone in the ring. He couldn't get to Rusev because he was being tended to by Summer Rae, who transformed herself into a Lana lookalike (which is admittedly creepy because she said Rusev likes it). When Rusev got back in the ring, Owens kicked him in the face (which Cena approved) and also left the ring. Poor Rusev got to witness Lana suddenly walking down the ramp and attacking Summer Rae, leaving him open to an incredible sequence with Cena doing the AA on him, Cesaro grabbing him to do the big swing, and then catapulting him to Orton to do an RKO.
A bunch of new rumors have been swirling since last week that will lead to some new storyline developments going into Summerslam, such as the return of Sting, Stephen Amell in a feud with Stardust, another Shield reunion, and HHH going against Seth Rollins. I'm not sure how any of this will pay off. They better continue to make RAW and Smack Down! later episodes as fun as last night.
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