DA' HELL HAPPENED #74: WWE Monday Night RAW - January 1st, 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of the "Da' Hell Happened" of 2018! It's good to be back, and it's even better when WWE produced a good show so I can review it here on my first article in a long time. So let's roll!
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Intercontinental Champion Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe for the Intercontinental Championship
Let's just take a moment to appreciate how great this match really was. It stole the show, and it was the proper way to send the fans home thinking about how 2018 can be so great for the WWE. With The Miz's return on the horizon, it seems fit that a babyface keeps the title so the real champion can come back and have his championship back. Samoa Joe would be an awesome Intercontinental Champion as well, without a doubt.
MVP OF THE NIGHT (HONORABLE MENTIONS):
Jason Jordan: The kid trying to prove a veteran wrong story is actually working for Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins' team. As RAW Tag Team Champions, the duo only wrestled one match side by side, and that match was last week when they won the titles. They have a lot of work to do to be a oiled tag team as they want to, but it's a very interesting part of what RAW brought out yesterday.
Finn Bálor: Declared himself as a participant of the 30-man Royal Rumble match on January 28th, and teamed with two "good brothers" who can bring some relevancy to what he is doing on television every week. He's a too sweet extraordinary man who can do too sweet extraordinary things (that is hard to say).
Braun Strowman: The "Monster Among Men" keeps his path cleaned. Rhyno didn't stand a chance, and with Kane trying to persuade him to join forces and face Brock Lesnar, Strowman didn't blink an eye, and left Kane high and dry in the ring at the end of the night, facing a Beast alone.
Asuka: WWE normally surprises us in these situations, but I can safely declare Asuka is the odds on favorite to win the first ever 30-women Royal Rumble match. Beating the RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss and setting the score, remaining undefeated, 28 days before RR, gives us the sense she's the only one capable of winning that match. The "Empress of Tomorrow" is coming for you, Royal Rumble!
MVP OF THE NIGHT: Roman Reigns
You can't say you successfully retained your championship against a brute force of nature and still got revenge for one of your brothers in arm at the same time. Reigns did that. A great match that was to start the new year, and one that promises to be great as the others ones for the "Big Dog" (if you said that in Michael Cole's voice, you're cool). I think mid-card Roman Reigns is great, and I hope he does the transition to the World Title picture much better than he did after losing the United States Championship. WWE shouldn't give the fans any more reasons to boo Reigns, and he doesn't deserve that anymore.
DA' HELL HAPPENED MOMENT OF THE SHOW: Bullet Club back 3 days before Wrestle Kingdom?
I love WWE, but sometimes the company makes me disgusting. 3 days before the biggest "non-WWE" event, Wrestle Kingdom 12, takes place in Tokyo, WWE decided to reunite Finn Bálor, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows on RAW. If you don't know it already, these three (especially Bálor, who was the co-founder of the group with Bad Luck Fale), were part of one of the biggest groups to ever be created in pro wrestling history, Bullet Club. This group created chaos and started in New Japan Pro Wrestling, the company that will present the biggest "non-WWE" event on January 4th called Wrestle Kingdom 12.
They had so much time to do it, why do it 3 days before WK? Well, I think we all know that. I'm still watching WK, WWE. Too bad you're not the only big wrestling company in the world.
Tomorrow I will be back for another DHH, this time with the review of what the hell happened on tonight's SmackDown LIVE. See you there!
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Intercontinental Champion Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe for the Intercontinental Championship
Let's just take a moment to appreciate how great this match really was. It stole the show, and it was the proper way to send the fans home thinking about how 2018 can be so great for the WWE. With The Miz's return on the horizon, it seems fit that a babyface keeps the title so the real champion can come back and have his championship back. Samoa Joe would be an awesome Intercontinental Champion as well, without a doubt.
MVP OF THE NIGHT (HONORABLE MENTIONS):
Jason Jordan: The kid trying to prove a veteran wrong story is actually working for Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins' team. As RAW Tag Team Champions, the duo only wrestled one match side by side, and that match was last week when they won the titles. They have a lot of work to do to be a oiled tag team as they want to, but it's a very interesting part of what RAW brought out yesterday.
Finn Bálor: Declared himself as a participant of the 30-man Royal Rumble match on January 28th, and teamed with two "good brothers" who can bring some relevancy to what he is doing on television every week. He's a too sweet extraordinary man who can do too sweet extraordinary things (that is hard to say).
Braun Strowman: The "Monster Among Men" keeps his path cleaned. Rhyno didn't stand a chance, and with Kane trying to persuade him to join forces and face Brock Lesnar, Strowman didn't blink an eye, and left Kane high and dry in the ring at the end of the night, facing a Beast alone.
Asuka: WWE normally surprises us in these situations, but I can safely declare Asuka is the odds on favorite to win the first ever 30-women Royal Rumble match. Beating the RAW Women's Champion Alexa Bliss and setting the score, remaining undefeated, 28 days before RR, gives us the sense she's the only one capable of winning that match. The "Empress of Tomorrow" is coming for you, Royal Rumble!
MVP OF THE NIGHT: Roman Reigns
You can't say you successfully retained your championship against a brute force of nature and still got revenge for one of your brothers in arm at the same time. Reigns did that. A great match that was to start the new year, and one that promises to be great as the others ones for the "Big Dog" (if you said that in Michael Cole's voice, you're cool). I think mid-card Roman Reigns is great, and I hope he does the transition to the World Title picture much better than he did after losing the United States Championship. WWE shouldn't give the fans any more reasons to boo Reigns, and he doesn't deserve that anymore.
DA' HELL HAPPENED MOMENT OF THE SHOW: Bullet Club back 3 days before Wrestle Kingdom?
I love WWE, but sometimes the company makes me disgusting. 3 days before the biggest "non-WWE" event, Wrestle Kingdom 12, takes place in Tokyo, WWE decided to reunite Finn Bálor, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows on RAW. If you don't know it already, these three (especially Bálor, who was the co-founder of the group with Bad Luck Fale), were part of one of the biggest groups to ever be created in pro wrestling history, Bullet Club. This group created chaos and started in New Japan Pro Wrestling, the company that will present the biggest "non-WWE" event on January 4th called Wrestle Kingdom 12.
They had so much time to do it, why do it 3 days before WK? Well, I think we all know that. I'm still watching WK, WWE. Too bad you're not the only big wrestling company in the world.
Tomorrow I will be back for another DHH, this time with the review of what the hell happened on tonight's SmackDown LIVE. See you there!
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