5 Botches, slip ups, and outrageous moments from WWE Raw (January 23rd, 2017)
With less than a week to go before WWE’s annual Royal Rumble event, Raw brought a fairly solid show that laid plenty of interesting seeds that should stir up the appeal to watch on Sunday. Sami Zayn was involved in the best match of the night against Seth Rollins and thanks to a Triple H musical distraction, he’s now in the Rumble.
The Zayn vs. Rollins match even got to go beyond 16 minutes, which is surprisingly rare for this three-hour show.
There were several negatives on tonight’s show even though that shouldn’t discourage anyone from still being excited about the Pay-Per-View weekend ahead. The following list features a Cruiserweight gutbuster that didn’t quite set up like hoped, a Roman Samoan drop that didn’t hit its mark, and a mysterious head wound to a former WCW Champion even though he was in no physical altercations on screen.
All this and more lie ahead.
Before we all become master sleuths to get to the bottom of this Goldberg head controversy, there’s no better time than now to review the five botchiest and most outrageous moments from this January 3rd edition of Raw...
#5 Botched Samoan Drop
Roman Reigns may have gotten an opportunity to earn back the United States Championship, but if he’s missing his own signature moves then he definitely won’t be successful. Roman sort of attempted a Samoan drop where he was not able to get Chris Jericho onto his shoulders, causing a brief struggle.
They brawled each other to the ground before Chris attempted a cover.
Kevin Owens was on commentary and at least tried to roll with this slip-up. He rooted for his best friend, cheering that he needed to “fight it off.” Jericho did fight it off here but when Roman tried the same move again moments later, there was no escaping.