Hi and welcome back to the blog for another recap. Without
any further ado, let's begin with RAW.
MVP hosted the VIP Lounge, his guests were three of the
participants for the Women's Money in the Bank match. Asuka, Shayna Baszler
& Nia Jax. Nothing of note happened here to be honest.
AJ Styles won the "Last Chance" Gauntlet match to
qualify for the Men's Money in the Bank match.
Cedric Alexander & Ricochet lost to Shane Thorne & Brendan Vink.
The Viking Raiders defeated RAW Tag Team Champions. The Street
Profits. The story of the SP never winning against the Raiders continues.
Drew McIntyre defeated Murphy. Rollins gave McIntyre a
superkick but McIntyre recovered before the Stomp, Rollins avoided the Claymore
and RAW went off the air.
There wasn't much to write home about for this episode of RAW as you can see.
Let's switch gears to NXT.
Johnny Gargano defeated Dominik Dijakovic. This was a very
good match to open the show. Gargano only just turned heel so he was never
losing this one.
The interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship Tournament
resumed with a match from Group B where Akira Tozawa defeated Jack Gallagher.
Chelsea Green defeated Xia Li after Aliyah distracted Li
towards the end of the match.
Karrion Kross and Scarlett made their NXT TV debut, Kross
defeated Leon Ruff. It's only a matter of time till Kross competes for NXT
gold. TICK TOCK!
Matt Riddle & Timothy Thatcher accepted Imperium's
challenge for the NXT Tag Team Championships.
The NXT Women's Championship match between Charlotte and Io
Shirai ended in a DQ win for Shirai after she was hit by a Kendo Stick. Rhea
Ripley returned to make the save. Could a triple threat match for the Women's
Championship be on the horizon?
Kushida defeated Jake Atlas in Group A of the interim NXT
Cruiserweight Championship Tournament.
Cameron Grimes defeated Denzel Dejournette. Grimes had some
choice words for Finn Balor. Balor walked out and approached Grimes. Balor then
had some words for the person that attacked him two weeks or so ago.
Adam Cole successfully defended the NXT Championship against
Velveteen Dream. It's dream over for the challenger for now and that's
Undisputed....BOOM!
I was looking forward to watching this episode of NXT and it
did not disappoint. Time now to see what SmackDown bought to the table.
Sonya Deville defeated Mandy Rose in the opening match of
the show.
Lucha House Party & SmackDown Tag Team Champions New Day
lost to The Forgotten Sons & The Miz & John Morrison. Admittedly I'm
not a fan of multi person tag team matches but this was a very entertaining
contest to watch.
Jeff Hardy returned to WWE TV for an in ring interview with
Renee Young. Sheamus was backstage watching Jeff speak, The Celtic Warrior's
music hit and he talked about Jeff's past which led to a fight, predictably, The
"Charismatic Enigma" had the last laugh here.
There was a pre match confrontation between Universal
Champion Braun Strowman & the challenger Bray Wyatt ahead of their match at
Money in the Bank. Wyatt attempted to play mind games with Strowman but that
failed.
Tamina & Lacey Evans defeated Bayley & Sasha Banks.
There was another cryptic message from the "hacker" with some Matrix-like graphics, there were clips of Tamina defeating Sasha to get a shot at Bayley's title, followed by the words "Are you watching?" Big E defeating Miz to win the SmackDown Tag Titles, followed by the words, "Are you listening?" footage is shown of Carmella and Dana Brooke talking about focusing on their previous tag title opportunity with the words "Because I am" the "hacker" went on to state "the thing about anger is you hear it before you see it" there was a audio clip saying "payback is coming and its coming real soon" followed by the words "The truth will be heard" shown on screen. They've done a great job with the "hacker" gimmick, hopefully they will continue that by using the revealed person on tv correctly.
There was another cryptic message from the "hacker" with some Matrix-like graphics, there were clips of Tamina defeating Sasha to get a shot at Bayley's title, followed by the words "Are you watching?" Big E defeating Miz to win the SmackDown Tag Titles, followed by the words, "Are you listening?" footage is shown of Carmella and Dana Brooke talking about focusing on their previous tag title opportunity with the words "Because I am" the "hacker" went on to state "the thing about anger is you hear it before you see it" there was a audio clip saying "payback is coming and its coming real soon" followed by the words "The truth will be heard" shown on screen. They've done a great job with the "hacker" gimmick, hopefully they will continue that by using the revealed person on tv correctly.
In the main event, Baron Corbin, Cesaro & Shinsuke Nakamura
defeated Daniel Bryan, Drew Gulak & Otis. This completes the sixth edition of the RAW NXT & SmackDown recap. NXT was by far the standout show out of the three, as it had TakeOver quality matches. Money the Bank predictions will be out shortly, if you're reading this at a later time, then the MITB blog posts are available for you to read. I hope you enjoyed reading this recap, until next time, thanks for reading.