2024-11-25 WWE RAW - REVIEW

Commentary: Joe Tessatore, Wade Barrett

Location: Glendale, AZ

Venue: Desert Diamond Arena

Attendance: 12791 (wrestlenomics)

Live TV Viewers: 1.51 million avg (fightful)

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The Malapert Smark Podcast Review System:

🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]

🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]

👍👍 - Loved It! [+2]

👍 - Liked It [+1]

OrangeCassidy 1/2 👍- Kinda Liked It [+0.5]

👊 - Indifferent [0]

👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]

👎👎 - Hated It [-2]

🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]

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10 Angles

Totals for this episode of Raw:

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark 

🔥 1

👍 4.5

👎 1

👊 2

TOTAL SCORE: +9.5

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert 

👍 4

👎 3

👊 3

TOTAL SCORE: +1.0

Robert TheFrozenAsian 

👍 6

👎 1

👊 2

TOTAL SCORE: +5.0

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Angles:

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1) Damian Priest Interrupts Jackie Redmond’s Interview Questioning Gunther on His Recent Struggles Only To Berate Gunther… Gunther Responds With Attack On Damian, Only To Be Sent Through Announce Table Himself

TWO SEGMENTS (9:21)

-Replay: Gunther's failed sneak attack on Damian Last Monday on Raw

-In Ring Jackie Redmond Interview: Gunther... enter Damian Priest

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👎

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👎

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “The burial of Gunther continues. What did this guy do to Triple H? On our latest podcast I made a joke that the only explanation is that Gunther must be leaving the business and jobbing to Damian on the way out. It’s the only explanation!”

⭐️Vlad: "Gunther better win the match is all I'll say.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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2) Women’s WarGames: Bianca Apprehensive To Recruit Bailey For WarGames Due To Past History, Despite Team Needing Partner After Jade’s Injury… Despite All That, Having Had Issues With Nia Jax Herself, Bailey Takes It Upon Herself To Help Bianca Beat Nia Jax and Gain Advantage For Babyfaces At WarGames

FIVE SEGMENTS (16:35)

-Replay: Jade attacked by unknown assailant this past Friday on Smackdown

-Backstage Segment: Bianca, Naomi... enter Io Sky... enter Rhea Ripley

-Backstage Segment in Judgement Day's Hangout: Liv, Dom, Raquel, JD, Carlito, Finn

-Backstage Segment: Liv, Raquel, Candice, Tiffany... enter Nia Jax

-Match: Bianca Belair vs Nia Jax (WarGames Advantage Match)... enter Bailey... interference by Bailey... winner: Bianca by pinfall

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I will say I’m ashamed to say that I don’t know all the deep history between Bianca & Bailey. But there are a couple alliances here that don’t completely make sense with all the history but they gotta cram all these women in this match somehow. Wish the booking was a little tighter. For that, and the slightly boring backstage segments for this angle on this night, no thumbs ups from me today.👊”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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3) Chad Gable Interference Costs LWO Against the Creed Brothers as American Made Pick Up Victory in Tornado Tag Match

ONE SEGMENT (10:26)

-Match: LWO (Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee) vs The Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus) (Tornado Tag Match)... enter Chad Gable... interference by Gable... winner: Creed Brothers by pinfall... Julius pinned Rey

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I’ll give credit to the spot where Gable interferes and just goes straight for Rey’s mask. And then the over the top festive celebration. At first I wanted American Made to be the serious version of the Alpha Academy but man, they are too damn funny.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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4) Men’s WarGames: Bloodline Interview Reveals Sami Zayn’s Concerns Over CM Punk’s Trustability, Although General Upbeat Vibes Pervade For the OG Bloodline… Jey Pumped Up for Advantage Match Against Jacob Fatu on Friday’s Smackdown… Solo Sikoa Also Cuts Promo

THREE SEGMENTS (8:12)

-Video Package: Paul Heyman returned & introduced CM Punk as 5th member for Bloodline in WarGames

-Video Package: Review of events from this past Friday's Smackdown

-Backstage Kathy Interview: Jimmy, Jey, Sami

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Not too much on this show but it doesn’t always need to be. Just a perfect little amount of story to get us to Friday’s Smackdown. Nice little tease for Roman meeting with Punk on Friday. Not bad… Also I’ll give credit to planting some seeds with Sami saying that maybe Punk may not be completely trustable. I don’t think Punk will swerve Roman but the possibilities are there if WWE wanna do something wild like that.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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5) R-Truth Hiding Out From Pete Dunne… Pete Dunne Looking For R-Truth

TWO SEGMENTS (0:52)

-Backstage Segment in Judgement Day's Hangout: Liv, Dom, Raquel, JD, Carlito, Finn... enter R-Truth

-Backstage Segment: Kross, Miz, Akum, Rezar... enter Pete Dunne... 

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I’m down for this silly stuff. I like It!”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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6) Finn & JD Use Help From Judgement Day To Defeat War Raiders and Retain World Tag Titles

THREE SEGMENTS (12:54)

-Backstage Segment in Judgement Day's Hangout: Liv, Dom, Raquel, JD, Carlito, Finn... enter R-Truth

-Replay: War Raiders defeating Judgement Day's Dom & Carlito last Monday on Raw

-Match: Judgement Day (Finn & JD) vs War Raiders (Erik & Ivar) (WWE Tag Team Championship Match)... enter Dom, Carlito... interference by Dom... winners: Judgement Day by pinfall... JD pinned Ivar

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I didn’t see anything from this that stood out as special. Very basic interference spots. Finn & JD don’t seem super over as heels. So I don’t think they get heat escaping with the belts. The audience just accepts what happens and moves on instead of being really mad. So there’s something about this that’s not working. I had a hard time caring about this match.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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7) Sheamus Out For Blood: Sheamus Retaliates On Kaiser For Last Week’s Attack, Ruining Kaiser vs Breakker… Melee Ensues Culminating with Adam Pierce Making Triple Threat IC Title Match For Survivor Series

FOUR SEGMENTS (10:22)

-Replay: Kaiser ruining Sheamus vs Bron Breakker last Monday on Raw

-Match: Bron Breakker vs Ludwig Kaiser... enter Sheamus... winner: Kaiser by DQ

-Post Match: Security attempt to break up brawl between Sheamus & Breakker

-Back from Commercials: ...melee continues... enter Adam Pierce

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Sheamus coming out looking for revenge on Kaiser, no questions asked. Perfect booking. If he didn’t I would have asked why he didn’t try to get Kaiser back… Love when Adam Pierce gets frustrated and and makes matches. ‘TRIPLE THREAT!!’ Mic drop!👨‍🦲”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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8) Xavier & Kofi Air It Out Nasty One Week Ahead of New Day's 10-Year Anniversary… Argument Over Who Was To Blame For Loss To Alpha Academy Spirals Into Deeply Personal Verbal Altercation

FOUR SEGMENTS (9:14)

-Video Package: New Day 10-Year Anniversary next Monday

-Backstage Segment: Kofi, Xavier

-Match: New Day (Kofi & Xavier) vs Alpha Academy (Otis & Tazawa) (w/Maxine)... winners: Alpha Academy by pinfall... Tazawa pinned Xavier

-Post Match: Xavier, Kofi argue

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 🔥

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This was amazing. The long ass build up to this was so worth it for this. No matter what happens next week. This was epic. This was so human. When people hold stuff in, it’s all gonna come out just like this. (Kayhan philosophy)… Loved the crowd ooohing and ahhhing.”

⭐️Vlad: "This was pretty good finally. they better break up next week.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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9) Final Testament Leave Scarlett in the back For Her Protection Following Wyatt Sicks Threats, Athough Plan Backfires As Nikki Cross Gets To Scarlett Causing Unknown Mental Damage

TWO SEGMENTS (1:48)

-Backstage Segment: Kross, Akum, Rezar, Scarlett... enter Miz... enter Nikki Kross

-Backstage Segment: Kross, Miz, Akum, Rezar... enter Pete Dunne... enter Scarlett

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I’m very into the idea of Miz and Karrion Kross hanging out and Kross always being on the edge of going off on Miz. This is a good odd couple booking. So I’m giving this some credit just for that. But the idea of Scarlett going crazy because of something Nikki Cross did is pretty farfetched.”

⭐️Vlad: "Scarlett's acting.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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10) Adam Pierce Introduces New Women’s Intercontinental Championship To Be Competed For on Raw Brand

ONE SEGMENTS (1:40)

-In Ring Segment recorded earlier in the night before the show: Adam Pierce promo

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👎👎

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “All right well I was a little upset with the Women’s United States Title announcement. In general I think more titles cheapens all of them. But upon further reflection, considering the number of women who are gonna come up from nxt soon, I’m starting to think it’s better to have midcard matches that mean something rather than be for nothing. How many grudge feuds can you possibly have? I guess it’ll be good to have solid matches fill out the card. And it could be a launching pad for feuds to take off. Plus, I have confidence in the new regime to use the title consistently and not forget about it. So I’m fine with it now. 

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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