This week’s RAW started as Kevin Owens and Big E were seen backstage. Owens was trying to convince Big E what happened last week was not his fault. E left the place same that he did not care.
Seth Rollins came out to the arena. He welcomed everyone to “Monday Night Rollins” and mentioned Survivor Series, finally. He then talked about Kevin Owens that was scheduled later tonight. He said Owens was a snake, he could stab anyone at anytime. He reminded Owens’ and called him a liar. Kevin Owens came out and attacked Rollins, Rollins somehow escaped.
WWE RAW 08.11.2021 Results & Ratings
Match 1 – AJ Styles, Omos and The Dirty Dogs defeated RK-Bro and The Street Profits in an eight man tag team match
The match was book for 15 minutes, surprisingly and it was quite a fun match. The babyface side dominated most of the match. At the end AJ and Omos fought with the Dirty Dogs. Omos hit Riddle with the Two Handed Chokeslam and AJ was trying to tag himself in to take the pin. But Ziggler tagged himself in and this ended up the two teams fighting each other. Ziggler pinned Riddle to win. Riddle was down for a really long time.
Rey and Dominik Mysterio was seen inside the ring as they were called up by Adam Pearce. Pearce cut a short promo on Survivor Series and said that every member of team RAW had been a former World Champion accept of Dominik. So he had to prove himself to remain on team RAW. He was given a mystery opponent and that mystery opponent turned out to be Bobby Lashley.
Match 2 – Bobby Lashley defeated Dominik Mysterio by submission
The match went on for nearly five minutes and it was a squash. It was a much needed squash for Lashley after everything he went through recently after losing the WWE title. Lashley made Dominik submit with the Hurt Lock.
Match 3 – Big E defeated Chad Gable
The match was five minute long and Gable was quite impressive in this match. It was dominating victory for Big E after all. E pinned Chad Gable after the Big Ending.
Backstage Sonya Deville and Adam Pearce introduced the five women for the RAW side who would compete against SmackDown at Survivor Series, they are Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, Queen Zelina, Carmella and Liv Morgan. The left out three (Nikki ASH, Dana Brooke and Doudrop) asked questions why they were not selected and they asked questions.
A fatal five way match was also announced among the five members of Team RAW where the winner will be given an opportunity to face Becky Lynch for the RAW Women’s Championship.
WWE 24/7 Championship segment is next. This is one of the best and most entertaining segments of the night. A match started between Reggie and Drake Maverick. Drake won the match and finally killed the terrible reign of Reggie.
Quickly, Akira Tozawa pinned Drake and won the title. Corey Graves came out of the commentary table and pinned Tozawa to win the title. Byron Saxton also came out and pinned Corey to win the title. Drake Maverick once again won the title as he pinned Saxton and at the Reggie won the title by pinning Drake.
Thankfully they planned something fun with the 24/7 Championship. The booking of the title had been really bad since Reggie won the title.
Match 4 – Fatal 5 Way No. 1 Contender’s Match – Liv Morgan defeated Carmella, Zelina Vega, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair
It was a really fun match. It was booked for nearly 15 minutes and all women who participated in this match did really good. The match was almost won by Bianca Belair but Doudrop interfered and cost her the win. Liv Morgan meanwhile pinned Carmella with a roll up. So Doudrop turns heel and a non title feud between her and Bianca might be next.
Match 5 – Seth Rollins defeated Kevin Owens by countout
Before the match, Seth announced whatever happened last week was preplanned between him and Kevin. Maybe it was just mind games. The match went on for a surprising 20 minutes at it was undoubtedly the best match of the night. At the end, the fight went outside. When the count was about to over, Rollins managed to get inside the ring, but Owens failed since he had a collision with Big E and he was counted out.
After the match, Kevin Owens went on to attack Big E. He beat down E really bad. The official said to come out to stop him. Finally, Owens turned heel. Owens stood tall at the end as this week’s RAW went off air.
Overall, it was one of the best nights of Monday Night RAW for this year. For a very long time WWE relied upon quality over quantity. Only five matches were booked for the night when there always has been eight or more. There were beginnings of some new feuds, everything went really well this week. The only downfall of this week was Survivor Series could not be promoted very well. We give it 4 stars out of 5.
Sportzwiki Ratings – 4/5