My personal highlight was spotting a "Ryback for President" sign. What drives a man to think this never mind write this type of thing fascinates me. I would love to meet this man for a brief moment before scampering in the other direction. Oh, and the new Wyatt Family is awesome. Apart from those two points this was a really terrible show, one of the worst for a while, and WWE would be wise to never reference this in any way ever again. Ever.
Sting/Rollins/Cena
The powerful image of John Cena and Sting standing together on top of the ramp concluded last night's RAW. The show opened, though, with Sting delivering one of the better babyface promos in a while before he proceeded to stroke HHH's ego. Sting, after being cheated out a debut WrestleMania victory by HHH and his sledge hammer, claimed to have respect for HHH which he can not say about Rollins. Sting went on to claim Rollins isn't half the man HHH is proving that HHH is still going over despite no longer wrestling on the show. Impressive.
What has been a bad week for the WWE World Heavyweight Champion and US Champion was further exacerbated by Stephanie McMahon, inexplicably, allowing Cena to 'cash in' his rematch clause for the US Championship at Night of Champions because apparently rematch clasues are to be 'cashed in' these days. The show closed with no conclusion as to the whereabouts of the WWE WHC and US Champion's statue. Maybe it is where the Hulk Hogan one they continually forget exists.
So, at Night of Champions, Seth Rollins is pulling double duty; first, Rollins will defend his US Championship against John Cena. Then, in the main event, Rollins will defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Sting. Personally, I am a big fan of Rollins pulling double duty as he has consistently proven over the last 18 months he is capable of putting on the best match on the card. The teased dissension between Stephanie and Rollins, as well as Sting's comments comparing HHH to Rollins, suggest a break away from the authority in the near future.
How will this effect both Rollins' championships? Considering WWE's booking pattern with Cena (heel gets first win, Cena gets the second), I wouldn't be surprised if Cena was somehow involved in Rollins dropping the title. I think, this time, the Cena booking rule won't apply to this match and Cena won't get the return win; I'm guessing Cena's "he had the match won" narrative continues at Night of Champions with a funky finish allowing Rollins to retain. Again, I really can't see Rollins dropping the WWE WHC to Sting unless it marks the beginning of a rivalry with HHH. If RAW made one thing abundantly clear, Seth will lose the title, just like he won the title, because of the authority.
The Diva's Revolution
It was Char-my dad is Ric Flair-lotte who beat the clock to earn the right to challenge Nikki Bella at Night of Champions for the Diva's Championship. Members of the P.C.B. faction earned the right to enter a beat the clock sprint tournament to determine the number one contender to the Diva's Championship after emerging victorious in the triple threat elimination tag match at SummerSlam.
Becky Lynch was the first to compete and successfully defeated Alicia Fox in 3:21 seconds.
Charlotte promised to defeat Brie Mode with flair before their match. After a minute of running away, Charlotte pinned Brie after Natural Selection in 1:40 concurrently setting a new time to beat and eliminating Becky Lynch from the competition. The final match saw the final member of team P.C.B, Paige, face Sasha Banks. After a series of roll ups, Paige connected with the Ram-Paige but Naomi and Tamina pulled Sasha to the safety of the outside. Paige couldn't pin Sasha before the time limit expired as she failed to conceal her disappointment at the end of the match.
So, we all know how things go down at Night of Champions, right? After a gruelling match, Charlotte will have Nikki in the figure 8 ready to make her submit before Paige interferes to cost Charlotte the match.
And Nikki Bella's grasp on the Diva's Championship only tightens.
Anyway, the 'Diva's Revolution' continues to ignore the principle reasons the women got so well over in NXT. As opposed to the arbitrary faction wars occurring at the moment, WWE, on the night of introducing the diva's revolution, would have done better to put Sasha/Charlotte/Nikki in a 20 minute match to tear the house down by demonstrating their wrestling prowess. Instead, these women are randomly assigned factions and have random tag matches that last a looooooooooong time under the pretence of revolution. As i have mentioned before, this "revolution" is no more than circle jerkery and an ego massage for Stephanie McMahon. Seriously, if the Russians stood around congratulating each other about their revolution as opposed to actually doing something Communism may never have happened- which, admittedly, may not have been a bad thing. Just like this revolution.
The sooner Sasha Banks wins the title the better. But who knows if that will ever happened after they made her look about as dangerous as King Barrett last night.
Wow. Just wow. This just keeps getting worse every week and must be a serious contender for the worst angle of the year.
A solid match between Ziggler and Rusev predictably concluded with Summer Rae interfering before Ziggler could make the pin after connecting with the Zig-Zag. Sure, fair enough, that gets things heading in the right direction for that mixed gender tag match at Night of Champions they seemed so insistent on.
Things got a lot worse from here.
Post a backstage segment with Renee Young, Dolph Ziggler proceeded to head into his changing room before being closely followed by Summer Rae.
Then, ten minutes later, a screaming Summer Rae emerged from Ziggler's changing room followed by a scantily clad Ziggler with the implication being Summer was spying on Ziggler in the shower. Later on in the show, Lana confronted Ziggler regarding the incident and, despite Ziggler's best efforts to reason with her, Lana took umbrage and seemingly blamed Ziggler for having his privacy violated. Lana's character appears unsaveable as with each week that passes she becomes further removed from the strong, independent manager of Rusev and closer to a histrionic thirteen year old girl.
This angle got more time than Seth Rollins. And it is Monday night Ra-llins! Why this story got so much on screen time at this point is beyond my comprehension as it is doing absolutely nothing for all involved except maybe Summer Rae- and that is only because she wasn't on tv at all before this. Last night's developments throw the proposed mixed gender tag match into jeopardy and quite frankly that is a good thing. Hopefully last night was the beginning of the end of this angle. The sooner WWE realise that no one wants to see this high school bullshit the better.
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