For the second week in a row, RAW put out another mostly enjoyable episode. In the spirit of the 29th Anniversary of Survivor Series, the main event was a "traditional Survivor Series five-on-five elimination tag team match", headed by team captains Rollins and Reigns.
Here are the match results:
- Kevin Owens defeated Dolph Ziggler
- Cesaro defeated The Miz by submission
- The Lucha Dragons defeated Sheamus and King Barrett
- Alberto Del Rio (w/Zeb Colter) defeated R-Truth
- Paige defeated Becky Lynch, Brie Bella, and Sasha Banks
- Team Reigns (Roman Reigns, Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso, Ryback, and Dean Ambrose) defeated Team Rollins (Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)
The Wyatt Family addressed the WWE Universe and basically said that they now have the souls of Undertaker and Demon Kane. Which meant Bray now had the power of Taker's cheesy purple lightning and Kane's turnbuckle pyros. While Vince cringed and face palmed at this segment, I was eating this shit up. I loved it, I seriously loved it. It's like a subtle passing of the torch to making the Wyatt Family a monstrous heel faction. I'm interested in seeing where they go with this.
It's almost as if WWE took note on how the #1 Contender's Matches did so well last week that they decided to repeat it for the Divas Championship. The best part is that the Divas segment featured all of them solo, with no respective team members being at ring side. Which meant we got to hear Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks' awesome entrance theme. It was a great match for all of the women, with Brie Bella being somewhat out of place. In the end, Paige came out victorious after she took out Becky. It was somewhat of a disappointment to see Becky and not Brie take the pin, and also for Sasha to be left out of the title picture again. This sets up the 2nd title match for Survivor Series.
The main event saw Team Rollins with his champion members, The New Day and Kevin Owens, eagerly waiting in the ring for Team Reigns' reveal. The big surprise was seeing the return of the Usos (both of them!) coming to Cousin Roman's aid. The third member was Ryback (which Owens was not happy to see). As if they have saved the best for last, the final member was revealed to be Dean Ambrose. It didn't matter how predictable the final choice was; Ambrose got a great big pop from the audience, with Reigns coming in second.
The match ran on for for more than half an hour and the eliminations happened in the following order:
- Xavier Woods was pinned by Jey Uso
- Kofi Kingston was pinned by Jimmy Uso
- Jey Uso was pinned by Big E
- Jimmy Uso was pinned by Kevin Owens
- Big E was pinned by Ryback
- Ryback was pinned by Seth Rollins
- Kevin Owens was pinned by Dean Ambrose
- Seth Rollins was disqualified
- Survivors: Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose
The main event event was great, especially when it came down to Reigns, Ambrose, Owens, and Rollins. Owens was noticeably mocking and badgering Ambrose and Rollins kept yelling, "WHY CAN'T YOU DIE DEAN?!" As usual, Ambrose takes the most punishment in the ring while Reigns rests outside for the hot tag. In the end, Reigns and Ambrose became the winners via DQ when Rollins used a chair to attack them. Yeah, that looked pretty familiar. Instead of making Rollins look strong in the end, Reigns no sells and pulls a Superman punch on Rollins, causing him to retreat out of the ring as he clutched his title.
Aside from that LOLREIGNSWIN ending, RAW wasted no time in setting up Survivor Series. They're doing a much better job with this than last month's Hell In A Cell. Of course, it probably might not translate well in ratings. I hope WWE can overlook that and focus on telling their stories and creating their stars for their established fanbase.
I think Owens just found his next opponent :D
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