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This week RAW stole the show and the 1st place, outshining even our personal favorites of NXT! This week SDL totally gave up the women's division competition, giving us a squash match and some raw... sorry I meant Smack talk, backstage! NXT make a stand and it was good stand, but Raw's Main event is the winner with it's shocking and controversial ending!
EMMA VS. MICKIE JAMES
...AT LAST IT'S ALL ABOUT HER!!!
Before we starting to disect the Main Event, we can't miss the ordeal! Actually I enjoy Emma's little, sweet backstage segments, how they evoke a consequences, most of the time negative for our favorite, bad RAW Aussie!
Real talk! Guys, I love the idea of Mickie James working with Emma (or Paige). This is so surreal! A clash between two amazing generations of Superstar - Modern days Legendary former-Diva and NXT takeover Sensation! It's really unique and priceless and I hope that both Mickie and Emma are enjoying that!
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| Nice try, Mickie! |
About Mickie! Since her return James is kind of calmly, balancing booked between win and loss situations. I think that her mother-wrestler situation is something that WWE are complying with, which is great. To show some human sides out of the merciful-no family and private matters-just work- attitude is great! My problem with James booking is that she really needs to do something classic... and it needs to be something really good and it must involve a fellow former-Divas, form her era of dominance - like Trish, Beth, Victoria...I PREFER MELINA! Melina Perez is someone who can really bring the greatness and the amazement of the old days, the golden nostalgia by working with Mickie James to tear down the house! Mickie is still that great competitor with a lot of legacy, we can see that in her every match, but we need to see her facing someone great as she is from her old days in WWE and her greatest rival, aside from Victoria,Trish and Beth, the one with whom she had a real chemistry is MELINA!
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| Just steal it! |
Emma! Emma needed this victory on RAW (she has one on Main Event). She desperately needed it, to get some life in her career, to get more heat for her heel character! It was a great, roll-up victory, out of nowhere, after a good fight. And her screaming 'I started the women's revolution!' at the end, like a hysterical cuckoo, crazy about the victory, was just a funny element of overall! I really want to see more victories from her, maybe over Alicia Fox, or even Bayley and Sasha Banks, because she can do it!
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| 'Finally! It's all about me!' |
On the other hand, her appearance every week is the fresh beam, that RAW needs with it's controversial title pictures and confusing crowd reactions!
OR IT'S ABOUT 'CURSES' AND 'NEVER ENDING FRIENDSHIPS'
Sasha Banks didn't break the magical circle of bad luck, that surrounds her title defenses. Alexa Bliss prove her theory this Monday at RAW, when she nailed the stunning DDT, to win her second WWE Raw Women's title!
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| Kissing it goodbye! |
Actually that wasn't the best part for me! But let's analyze the things one by one!
First I like the desperate way Alexa tries to make the audience to booed her! She is screaming at them, when they cheer her and they cheer her because she is the heel that we all love! The divided support for the both women were something usual this days and it doesn't mean that they are not working their characters well! Just the view of the audience is partly mature - not only a gimmick related, it's now more into the women's performance! Most of it!
Second: This is a 100% amazing performance for both of them. I really enjoy it, aside from the ending. It was dynamic and emotionally charged. If the rumors of their dislike of each other is true, I think that Banks and Bliss showed what it means to be a super professional and how to do the work. Every spot in this match was well done and intensive from the big slaps, through the sunset flip powerbomb and superplex, Bnak statement and DDT-ending! I am not sorry for this re-match booking - it was amazing and shocking! These girls really know how to work with each other aside the rumored private issues. This is dedication and professionalism! I just can't divide their performance on good or bad! It was completely, high quality, tensions main event!
Third and final: I told you that for me the title change wasn't the best moment! It was well worked, but for me the cream of the pie was Nia Jax! Her statement echoed around the arena and straight through the WWE Universe, the pro-wrestling watchers and analysts! You must watch her perform this simple 'back stabbing angle'. Her smile, the smash of the defeated Sasha, more smiles and invitation to Bliss to step on the turnbuckles, then to sit on her friend's shoulder... in the next moment, you can see the face of Nia Jax - cold and concentrated, no smiling, just a second before she nailed the new Champion down and raising her title, promising a total doom for The Goddess. YES! YES! YES! The moral dilemma here was that Nia Jax was manipulated all the time by Alexa Bliss, just to be kept away from the belt! So, maybe Nia's time is now! But we are not in a hurry with our predictions for Jax's title reign, and we are not underestimate Bliss' or erase her chances of keeping the belt with her sneaky tactics!
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| The real winner: Nia Jax! |
TAMINA /W. LANA/ VS. LOCAL COMPETITOR (TINA STOCK)
... TIME FOR RELEASE THE RAGE!
This week SDL, decided to push Tamina and Lana in the center. The way they did it wasn't the great! It remind me of Nia Jax's beginning in RAW, when she was forced to face indie workers in a squash matches. Does Tamina need this? Maybe. Maybe not. Whaever! The ide of the match wasn't to display Tamina's skills. It was meant to be a display of the rage and the power of this new Ravishing Alliance.
For our sorrow, Lana is back to her managing role as we are hoping that she just continues her training.
Their backstage interview was nice as always - you can live without it, but it will not harm if you watch it! The idea of building each other up is nice theoretically, but let's see it in action. Meanwhile Tamina's speech was saying it all - it's all about rage, crash and destruction of everyone, who is crossing their way!
LIFE IS HARD WHEN YOU ARE THE CHAMPION!
The other segment between Miss Money in the Bank Carmella /with James Ellsworth/ , SmackDown Women's Champion Natalya and Naomi, was the usual with a lot of promises for the following weeks. Natalya's Champion confidence is threatened from two sides and the things are getting serious. Next week Carmella, then Naomi in a rematch - the situation is serious!
RUBY RIOT VS. PEYTON ROYCE /W. BILLIE KAY/
... IT'S HARD TO BEAT THEM, WHEN THEY ARE TWO
The Iconic Duo, needed to settle the score! The wild and honorable fighter Ruby Riot, left a huge scar on the Aussies ego, a three weeks ago, when she defeated the odds and Billie Kay. This week Peyton Royce who is in another push position, did what was needed to be done - defeat Riot... after a Big Boot by Billie Kay, outside the ring.
The match was really good, as for me Ruby Riot was a whole level better than Royce. Royce is really nice competitor, but Riot is even more extreme and I enjoy watching her. The crowd was divided and looked that some of them are in the childish phase when the 'Beauty' means 'Good', which in this and many other cases is not true! And that Tope Suicida by Riot was the prove 😜!
At the end we just had the villains steal one, by cheating!
But believe me, what is coming for the Iconic Duo will be more that a payback for Ruby!Just wait episode or two!
Meanwhile, next week the inevitable is happening. We know that Asuka will relinquish the belt and the day of the broadcast will be the day of the End of the Amazing, Historical Reign!
We don't know what will happen. The rumors machine is one and we heard a terrifying one - that the winner of MYC, will be automatically crowned a NXT Women's Champion, which will be a total absurd! It would be a mocking with the NXT women's division, who worked hard every week, to build a foundations of the Yellow and Black brand's legacy!
So next week we will be on for Asuka's speech and we hope to learn what William Regal's plans are for the belt!
RELINQUISHING THE CROWN!
Meanwhile, next week the inevitable is happening. We know that Asuka will relinquish the belt and the day of the broadcast will be the day of the End of the Amazing, Historical Reign!
We don't know what will happen. The rumors machine is one and we heard a terrifying one - that the winner of MYC, will be automatically crowned a NXT Women's Champion, which will be a total absurd! It would be a mocking with the NXT women's division, who worked hard every week, to build a foundations of the Yellow and Black brand's legacy!
So next week we will be on for Asuka's speech and we hope to learn what William Regal's plans are for the belt!
