We began the show with "The Man Becky Lynch talking about her Royal Rumble win, same as Seth Rollins on Raw the previous night. It's standard wrestling logic that says when a face starts a promo it's "natural " that he or she is interrupted and vice versa, an example being Charlotte here, interrupting Lynch and taking credit for her success. (No this isn't a review of RAW again) ending with a brawl. I think there will be another match in one of the two pay-per-views.
Up next was Shinsuke Nakamura defending his newly won US championship against R-Truth who was rewarded a shot of the title after missing out on the Rumble match, the referee botched the three count and Truth was announced as the winner, I was waiting for an "authority figure" (because there's not a lot of those around in wrestling these days) to restart the match, that wasn't the case, Rusev appeared and wanted a match for the title, the champion said no. Rusev and Shinsuke beat up Truth.
Becky is seen limping whilst walking, claiming she is not injured, interesting to see where this storyline is headed.
Rey Mysterio v Samoa Joe never happened after Andrade attacked Rey, laying him out with a hammerlock DDT. Looks like this one is perhaps headed to Wrestlemania, the two always have entertaining matches, so it's all good.
Miz and Shane held a tag title celebration, we saw Miz's dad in this segment, later Shane announced a four corner tag match: Usos v New Day v Bar v Heavy Machinery. Which was won by the Usos. The brothers will face the champions at Elimination Chamber. Could there be new tag team champions crowned? Maybe....
Daniel Bryan started off the "main event" promo by introducing Rowan, he then threw the WWE Championship in the bin, thus unveiling of a new look championship, I believe it's a hemp type belt but at first glance it looks like another women's championship. Skipping ahead a little here, Triple H announced that Bryan will defend the title at the Elimination Chamber against AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy and Mustafa Ali. A brawl between the five guys in the ring ended the show.
I'm happy I've decided to write about Raw and Smackdown after an event has taken place on a Sunday, I sense that we will see repetitive matches and segments in the coming weeks where if you missed a week or two of these shows, you won't really miss much. It's been like this for a very long time and it won't change.
I'll be back for the next pay-per-view event with predictions. Thanks for reading.