WWE RAW 1st August 2016 - 5 points to note
The second Raw of the new era is here and it was kicked off by the woman who created waves by defeating Charlotte for the Women’s Championship last week. Sasha Banks kicked off the show to a crowd that welcomed her and just like that many new things happened.
Zayn faced Rollins in a fun match, Balor gave an interview, Reigns is gauging new territory and Rusev is awesome. Also, the main event ended in a blaze of glory, thanks to a person who is known to be the king OUTTA NOWHERE.
This was fun. Raw has really lived up to or rather exceeded expectations since the new era kicked off.
Here are the 5 points to note from this week’s show:
#1 OUTTA NOWHERE
This was set up brilliantly. The brand extension era is upon us. Raw and SmackDown are demarcated and separate. Brock Lesnar is back with Paul Heyman. Heyman begins his speech full of rhetoric about how great Lesnar is and how great he will be till the end of time and how Orton is going to be bruised and battered and tossed and splattered.
Until a legit RKO OUTTA NOWHERE shook the entire Phillips Arena.
This was awesome. This was great. This was like an invasion.
These two don’t have much history except when Brock dismantled a similarly young Orton during his initial days in the company.
They haven’t had an official match.
Summerslam seriously can’t come soon enough.