{"id":108204,"date":"2020-11-17T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=108204"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:43:40","slug":"11-16-wwe-raw-talk-review-caruso-and-truth-talks-with-sheamus-new-day-and-asuka-to-talk-about-happenings-on-raw-headed-into-survivor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/11\/17\/11-16-wwe-raw-talk-review-caruso-and-truth-talks-with-sheamus-new-day-and-asuka-to-talk-about-happenings-on-raw-headed-into-survivor-series\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/16 WWE RAW TALK REVIEW: Caruso and Truth talks with Sheamus, New Day, and Asuka to talk about happenings on Raw headed into Survivor Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3535578433\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>WWE NETWORK REVIEW: RAW TALK<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>NOVEMBER 16, 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>REVIEW BY NICK MORGAN, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hosts: <\/em><em>Charly Caruso and R Truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This week\u2019s guests: Sheamus, Asuka, and The New Day (Kofi Kingston &amp; Xavier Woods)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; R Truth started off the voice over as Charly was having some microphone issues.\u00a0 As things settled down Charly took over promoting the upcoming Survivor Series on Sunday.\u00a0 Truth and Charly shared some banter and sold the championship match between Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton while clips of the match played on the split screen.\u00a0 They sold the rest of the card at Survivor Series going through each match and clearly favoring \u201cTeam Red\u201d, oh brother, please stop this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; While discussing the dissention on the Raw men\u2019s Survivor Series team, Sheamus\u2019 music played, and he came out as the first case.\u00a0 Before anything, he praised Drew\u2019s victory, keeping alive the angle of his friendship with Drew, which has been interesting over the last few weeks.\u00a0 Charly redirected the conversation back to the Survivor Series and the dissention on the team.\u00a0 Sheamus went off on A.J. as the supposed captain, and that he should be captain and that he could bring everything together and bring the victory to the Raw team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charly brought up why there should be so much competition between the members of the team and that there should not be any captain and they should just all get along.\u00a0 Of course, Sheamus took it wrong and said she was right, but he needs to be the captain to bring everyone together.\u00a0 Perfect delusional heel.\u00a0 After this Sheamus went through the Smackdown team and sold all of them, very good to build up the opponents!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; With that Charly said good night and they moved on to the next guest: Asuka, who came on and started dancing with R Truth.\u00a0 The segment was pretty short as Asuka still struggles with English, but with the help of Charly and R Truth, Asuka was able to do her promo without resorting to the yelling in Japanese.\u00a0 I was happy to see that they made the effort to have Asuka speak in English and make her points.\u00a0 Good job here by everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; With a final, \u201cNobody is ready for Asuka\u201d, they moved onto the New Day, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods.\u00a0 Always great talkers, Kingston and Woods just took control of the segment, selling their win over the Hurt Business on Raw and their upcoming Survivor Series match versus the Street Profits.\u00a0 Very good bit: Kofi said you can not trust people with two first names and they beat two of them tonight: Cedric Alexander and Sheldon Benjamin.\u00a0 R Truth went nuts.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2849734211\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; The New Day said that while they respect the Street Profits, but the New Day has been doing this a long time and they are not ready to give up the top spot just yet.\u00a0 Charly turned the conversation to their missing member, Big E.\u00a0 Asking them how they feel about not having Big E around.\u00a0 Both Kofi and Xavier said that they see things as the New Day covering both brands and that is only good.\u00a0 Charly brought up the possibility the Big E could be the final member of Team Smackdown (foreshadowing?????) and how that would make them feel.\u00a0 Kofi and Xavier both said that would be great for Big E, and there are no problems there as their New Day brotherhood-ness far surpasses any team red\/team blue stuff.\u00a0 (Again, some possible foreshadowing given Big E\u2019s interaction with the Street Profits on Smackdown in recent weeks.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Xavier ended the segment with a nice straight into the camera promo, building up the Street Profits, but stating clearly and without doubt that your boys, The New Day!, will win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; With that Charly wrapped up, again going through all the Survivor Series matches and telling everyone to be sure to watch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL THOUGHTS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just want to take a quick moment here to commend WWE\u2019s use of the split screen here showing events from Raw that inform the conversation during the show.\u00a0 It is a great use of the split screen and reminds the viewer of some big spot or moment in a match that adds to the discussions going on.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, I have been down a bit on R Truth and his over-the-top act, but this week Truth came through with flying colors.\u00a0 He added some levity, but mostly stayed out of Charly\u2019s way as she moved the show along and added to the show by just adding his personality without overdoing it.\u00a0 Big kudos to R Truth this week!<\/p>\n<p>The show was strong this week with all the guests giving good performances and doing a good job in not just promoting Survivor Series but throwing out some breadcrumbs on possible storylines going forward.\u00a0 Sheamus was engaging and despite being a heel was enjoyable to watch, I might even say that I \u201cliked\u201d him.\u00a0 This fits with the angle with Drew and I am interested to see where this goes.\u00a0 Asuka came off great and rather than just ranting and raving actually engaged with he hosts and provided information and built on her likability and babyface-ness.\u00a0 Finally, The New Day did their things.\u00a0 At times their act can get a bit old, but tonight, while they were clearly the same team, they added a bit of an edge that kept me engaged as they travelled down a well-worn path.<\/p>\n<p>At 26-plus minutes the show is an easy watch and generally fun.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is it for now, see you all next week.\u00a0 Until then, take care and stay safe.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1002573672\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/11\/15\/11-14-wwe-talking-smack-review-sasha-banks-otis-mysterio-family-and-murphy-join-heyman-and-braxton-to-react-to-smackdown\/\">11\/14 WWE TALKING SMACK REVIEW: Sasha Banks, Otis, Mysterio Family and Murphy join Heyman and Braxton to react to Smackdown<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4068334463\"><div id=\"pwtor-1050210461\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE NETWORK REVIEW: RAW TALK NOVEMBER 16, 2020 REVIEW BY NICK MORGAN, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR Hosts: Charly Caruso and R Truth This week\u2019s guests: Sheamus, Asuka, and The New Day (Kofi Kingston &amp; 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