Hi and welcome back to the blog, it's a little different
this week because instead of releasing three separate blogs, I thought it would
be best to merge all three. Let's begin by recapping RAW. Here we go!
The Undertaker started off the show by cutting a promo about AJ
Styles ahead of their match at WrestleMania.
The RAW Women's Champion "The Man" Becky Lynch, stood at the top of the stage and looked back to her win in the main event of
WrestleMania last year against Ronda Rousey & Charlotte Flair. They showed
the whole of that match. After the match, Lynch cut a promo about Shayna
Baszler. Baszler took Lynch out with the Clutch, hit her head against the
announce table and looked at the champion to end the segment.
Aleister Black defeated Jason Cade in a quick match.
The second match of this show saw Kevin Owens & The
Street Profits take on Seth Rollins, Angel Garza & Andrade. However, Zelina
Vega announced that Andrade was injured and Austin Theory from NXT was named as
the replacement. The winner of this match were Kevin Owens & Street
Profits. Rollins stomped Owens after this match.
After the commercial, Kevin Owens cut a promo on Seth
Rollins before they face each other on Saturday at WrestleMania. Speaking of
promos, Edge responded to what Randy Orton said last week. I liked this because
there weren't any crowd cutaways and "What" chants etc. That's the
positive to having no crowd in attendance.
Asuka defeated Kayden Carter from NXT.
They showed footage of Rhea Ripley being attacked by Charlotte outside of the
PC I think it was. Also the match between Brock Lesnar & Rey Mysterio for the WWE
Championship from last years Survivor Series.
In the final segment, Brock Lesnar was joined by Paul
Heyman. Heyman ran through a list of names Lesnar has faced and defeated over
the years before talking about Drew McIntyre, he called the Scot Brocks b*tch
as RAW went off the air.
Let's move on to NXT.
NXT was taped at Full Sail. We started off with a match.
Velveteen Dream vs. Bobby Fish from The Undisputed Era. The winner of this
match was Velveteen Dream. It looks like only a matter of time till Dream faces
Adam Cole for the NXT Championship.
Dexter Lumis defeated Jake Atlas. Lumis's theme music was played after the
match and it sounded similar to the Stranger Things theme. Listen to it and see
for yourself.
After commercial, they showed a vignette for Killer Kross.
They recapped the fight between Gargano and Ciampa that took place at the PC
three weeks ago. They will face each other next week.
The winner of the second chance gauntlet match for the
number one contenders ladder match for the NXT Women's Championship was Dakota
Kai. I believe the ladder match will be next week.
Kushida defeated Jaoquin Wilde.
In the main event. Keith Lee successfully defended his NXT
North American Championship in a triple threat match against Dominik Dijakovik
& Damian Priest.
And finally! The Ro....I mean SmackDown was back again at
the PC. The Usos started off the show by hijacking Miz TV. They were followed by
New Day and Miz and Morrison. All three teams got into a brawl shortly after.
The triple threat match for the SmackDown tag titles is still advertised to
take place at WrestleMania but the card is subject to change.
Up next was a triple threat match. Naomi vs. Lacey Evans vs.
Tamina.
Bayley and Sasha Banks were on commentary for this one.The winner of the match was Tamina. After the match, Tamina
superkicked Bayley and gave Sasha the Samoan Drop.
The showed Ric Flair's last match from WrestleMania 24
against Shawn Michaels. After this they recapped what happened between Elias
and Corbin last week on SmackDown. This match is still advertised to go ahead this weekend.
It was also announced/advertised that Goldberg will now
defend his Universal Championship vs. Braun Strowman at 'Mania.
Tucker defeated Dolph Ziggler by DQ, after Ziggler gave
Tucker the Zig Zag on the steel steps. A cryptic message saying "The truth
will be heard" was shown and a masked man (I'm guessing Ali) played some
footage where It was revealed that Sonya Deville sent Otis the text messages
all those weeks ago prior to his date with Mandy Rose.
Daniel Bryan defeated Shinsuke Nakamura by DQ after Cesaro
interrupted the match. Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro took out Drew
Gulak and Daniel Bryan. Message sent from Zayn to Bryan ahead of their Intercontinental
Championship match at WrestleMania.
In the main event segment of this show. John Cena accepted
Bray Wyatt's challenge to a Firefly Fun House match. The puppets from the
Funhouse appeared in the stands, followed by an appearance from "The
Fiend" and then Bray snuck up behind Cena and said "Let me in"
before SmackDown went off the air. That is it for the recaps. Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading.