Welcome to the “Seth and Becky’s daughter is causing all kinds of fights tonight” edition of The Wrestling List. LOL. I cracked up tonight at how she was in two storylines tonight escalating things. It got Seth to go after Heyman. Then, Becky used it as a reason of how sick she is of AJ. LOL.
I’ll get into Raw first. The show opened with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman still fuming over what happened last week with Oba Femi. Heyman pushed that it happened because Brock had beat up 15 masked guys and then got distracted by Seth Rollins and how Oba peaked last week. This brings out Oba Femi once again where there are no excuses or distractions. The two face off and the crowd is just crazy for Oba. Oba is way over with the crowd. Brock strikes first and lifts him up for a F5 but Oba is able to slide off and then clotheslines Brock over the top rope sending him crashing to the floor. Once again, Oba looked like a monster against Brock. Brock was in big selling mode of looking concerned about Oba as he retreated. Good stuff there. The Bloodline stuff continued this week with The Usos taking on Logan and Austin. Logan went to use the brass knuckles but LA Knight’s music hit who came out to put a stop to that. Knight gives the brass knuckles to Jey who nails Austin which does get him DQ’d. After that, Jey got in the ring and nailed Logan as well. Later, Punk runs into Jimmy Uso who gives Punk a heads up of to be careful cause his brother is on the war path but he won’t tell Punk what to do. Punk appreciates the comment. In the ring, Punk addresses the segment from last week including the “old” comment where Punk says it doesn’t bother him being called old and he embraces it. He says it’s about who called him that. Jey arrives and is pacing the ring saying how he’s tired of Punk always running his mouth about his family. Jimmy arrives trying to defuse the situation with Jey saying to let Roman deal with Punk. Roman then arrives and tells Jimmy that they already had their match tonight and to take Jey to the back and leave “his” ring. We’re starting to see the old Roman show back up here with that type line and also telling the others what to do. He says to respectfully take your brother and leave to which Punk says to stay because Roman will need their help. This sets Jey off who jumps across the ring and catches a punch from Punk. Jimmy then jumps over too and him and Punk just kind of entangle with no physicality which I took as Punk showing that he has no problem with Jimmy as shown with their convo from earlier. However while they’re entangled, Roman runs in with a superman punch. He goes to leave and Jey says to do more. Roman turns and continues to beat down Punk culminating with sending Punk through the table. As Roman walks off with the others, Punk is laughing as officials are checking on him as he is starting to recover on the table with Punk saying I’m not the one who needs help.
Let’s move to the women’s side of things. We have it official for WrestleMania with AJ Lee and Becky Lynch. Becky cut a promo tonight talking about the importance of the Intercontinental title and how she wanted to make that title. Now, she’s furious that AJ stole the title. She said she took a break and went home to her family for a bit but that she caught her daughter skipping around singing Light It Up. LOL. Becky talks of how AJ was in the divas era and how she ended the divas era. AJ Lee arrives and Becky takes off into the crowd. AJ cuts a promo standing on the announce table facing Becky. AJ talks of how she’s “walked her like a dog” every time they’ve faced each other and says that if she has to embarrass her at WrestleMania just to get her out of her life that she will. She also says that she’s going to show her why she’s the best of her generation, Becky’s generation, and maybe even the next generation. “Why I am your favorite wrestler’s favorite wrestler and apparently your daughter’s favorite wrestler”. LOL. Bayley and Lyra faced off with Asuka and Kairi with Bayley and Kairi getting the win. They then cut a promo laying out a challenge to the champions for next week. We had a brawl between Stephanie and Liv. Stephanie ran out and nailed Liv from behind during her and Dom’s entrance. As security grabbed Stephanie, that left Stephanie vulnerable and Liv got on offense. The two brawled heavy into the gorilla area. One nasty takedown bump on to Liv on the floor in there that sounded nasty.
Other notes from Raw. Heyman called out Seth Rollins on his own saying to come finish him off. Rollins arrives standing on the announce table and then the police arrive. A happy Heyman has basically baited Rollins into violating his restraining order. The police lead Rollins away while Heyman continues to talk trash. Eventually he says Rollins will go to jail, Becky will divorce him, and then Paul will have to adopt their daughter. That gets Rollins pushed too far and he gets free. Rollins runs in the ring and nails Heyman knocking him to the mat. A laughing Rollins is then caught back up to by the police. Je’Von Evans got the win on Waller. Some words had between Waller and Kofi after the match. Penta retained the Intercontinental title vs Dom when Finn Balor came out and nailed JD which distracted Dom. Penta gets the pinfall. Finn, JD, and Dom battle in the post match. Segment backstage with IShowSpeed talking to Pearce when Danhausen walks in. Danhausen pitches to Speed about sharing Speed’s social media account saying they can call it IShowSpeedhausen and they’ll split the profits. Speed says no to which Danhausen then curses him. LOL. Speed is looking confused yelling to Pearce “cursed? Who is he???!!” LOL.
Next week’s Raw at Madison Square Garden has three matches already set. Bayley and Lyra vs Tag Team Champions NIa Jax and Lash Legend. Iyo Sky vs Raquel Rodriquez. Usos vs Logan and Austin Theory in a street fight.
Sooooo, remember last week when I debated that I don’t think you’re going to get the crowd to boo Randy Orton. Yeah, they don’t want to boo Randy Orton. LOL. Orton’s push is basically that he loved being the lovable guy for all the kids etc but he’s going to do what it takes to win the title. During the show, he got into an exchange of words with Cardona and beat down Cardona. Later, Jelly Roll talks to Orton saying how it wasn’t right and he needed to apologize. Orton is listening saying yeah, you’re right. I’ll do the right thing. He brings Cardona out and then just beats him down again. The crowd cheers for it and is full Randy Orton. So, now what? LOL. Mentions of Cody are drawing some boos on TV. Now, we have a similar setup to last year where Cody is going to get booed against a heel in the main event where the crowd doesn’t want to boo the one that got the heel turn. I assume Orton has to do a segment with Jelly Roll at some point where he’ll turn on Jelly Roll and that may be their only chance to get heat on Orton. I’m sure they’ll just chant RKO at this point. LOL. I said this last week but there is a point that legends get to where fans just won’t accept booing them anymore. Orton hit that mark when he returned from his back injury. Fans just love and respect him too much to play the boo the heel games. I don’t know what their plan is but if they want fans to boo Orton, it isn’t working. Even if they somehow do, it will be temporary and they’ll cheer him at Mania.
Other happenings from Smackdown. That Drew/Jacob brawl was awesome. Good stuff there. At the end of the show before the big spot, I said are they still fighting???? LOL. New tag team champions crowned with R Truth and Damien Priest winning the gold. The women’s tag title match went as expected. The Bellas cost Charlotte and Alexa the belts last week so we knew there would be something to cost the Bellas this week. Charlotte stopped Nia from hitting Brie with the championship belt which ended up getting them involved and a DQ. The Bellas and Charlotte and Alexa end up battling. Nia and Lash then take out everyone. I’m sure we get to a three way here. Maybe four if Bayley and Lyra get involved in this next week too.
That’s it for tonight! Have a great night!
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