{"id":115603,"date":"2021-03-22T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=115603"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:53:27","slug":"wwe-monday-night-raw-primer-3-22-fastlane-fallout-wrestlemania-build-raw-is-her-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/03\/22\/wwe-monday-night-raw-primer-3-22-fastlane-fallout-wrestlemania-build-raw-is-her-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW PRIMER 3\/22:  Fastlane Fallout, WrestleMania Build, Raw is Her Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1890057401\" 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><h3>WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW PRIMER<br \/>\nMARCH 22, 2021<br \/>\nTAMPA, FL. AT THUNDERDOME IN TROPICANA FIELD<br \/>\nAIRS ON USA NETWORK, 8:00 p.m. EDT<br \/>\nBY FRANK PETEANI (@FrankPeteani), PWTORCH.COM CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Announcers: Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton, and Samoa Joe<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Match Results from Last Week<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Drew McIntyre defeated the Miz (w\/John Morrison).<\/li>\n<li>Dana Brooke &amp; Mandy Rose defeated Lana &amp; Naomi.<\/li>\n<li>New Day (Kofi Kingston &amp; Xavier Woods) defeated Shelton Benjamin &amp; Cedric Alexander of the Hurt Business to regain the Raw Tag Team Championship. A.J. Styles &amp; Omos came out afterwards to challenge them to a match for the titles at WrestleMania. Here\u2019s New Day in an exclusive talking about their title win:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The New Day celebrate their 11th Tag Team Championship win: WWE Network Exclusive, Mar. 15, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IC4wMvkurtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damian Priest (w\/Bad Bunny) defeated Jaxson Ryker (w\/Elias).<\/li>\n<li>Braun Strowman and Shane McMahon wrestled to a no-contest or I should say reenacted the show Double Dare from Nickelodeon when he poured green slime over Braun (such good sh*t, right Vince?).<\/li>\n<li>Raw Women\u2019s Champion Asuka defeated Shayna Baszler in a non-title match. Asuka attacked Shayna after the match, and here she is in an exclusive:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asuka explains her motivation for attacking Shayna Baszler: WWE Network Exclusive, Mar. 15, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X0WGf9iTRlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Riddle defeated Mustafa Ali of Retribution to retain the U.S. Championship.<\/li>\n<li>WWE Champion Bobby Lashley defeated Sheamus in a non-title match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fastlane Results Pertinent to Raw<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Riddle defeated Mustafa Ali on the kickoff show to retain the U.S. Championship. After the match Mace and T-Bar choke slammed Ali, signifying the end of Retribution.<\/li>\n<li>Nia Jax &amp; Shayna Baszler defeated Smackdown Women\u2019s Champion Sasha Banks &amp; Bianca Belair to retain the WWE Women\u2019s Championship. Here\u2019s Shayna &amp; Nia in an exclusive:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shayna Baszler &amp; Nia Jax put Women\u2019s Division on notice: Fastlane Exclusive, March 21, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JyumQLFgK9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Braun Strowman defeated Elias. Here\u2019s Braun in an exclusive:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Braun Strowman hunts Shane McMahon: Fastlane Exclusive, March 21, 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QnUqqUyx9bM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drew McIntyre defeated Sheamus in a no DQ match.<\/li>\n<li>Alexa Bliss defeated Randy Orton with the help of a returning \u201cFiend\u201d Bray Wyatt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Items Advertised by WWE<\/h4>\n<p>Fastlane is behind us and we can now concentrate on WrestleMania, which comes to us in less than three weeks and will begin with night one taking place on Saturday April 10 and concluding the following night. New Japan Pro Wrestling has done this with Wrestle Kingdom for the past two years as did WWE last year with WrestleMania. It was moved from Raymond James Stadium to the WWE Performance Center, but this year it has found its way back to Raymond James and will have up to 25,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Only Rhea Ripley making her Monday Night Raw debut is advertised tonight, as well as speculation on the fallout from Fastlane.<\/p>\n<h4>Rhea Ripley Debuts<\/h4>\n<p>For the past several weeks, vignettes have aired advertising that Rhea Ripley is coming to Raw. That actually comes to fruition tonight as Rhea, whom they are calling \u201cThe Nightmare,\u201d makes her Raw debut.<\/p>\n<p>She has previously appeared on Raw. Last year she showed up and roped Charlotte Flair, winner of the 2020 Royal Rumble, into challenging her for the NXT Championship. Charlotte surprisingly defeated Rhea for the title and eventually lost it to Io Shirai in triple threat match involving those three women at NXT Takeover: In Your House last year. Rhea went on to be in mostly personal feuds thereafter culminating in one with Raquel Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>WWE on Fox tweeted speculation on whom should challenge Asuka for the Raw Women\u2019s Championship at WrestleMania. Rhea retweeted it:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who&#39;s ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEAsuka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWEAsuka<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestleMania?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WrestleMania<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OcmegAYYaw\">pic.twitter.com\/OcmegAYYaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEonFOX\/status\/1373303322967298056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: I really don\u2019t need Tom Phillips saying something like \u201cIt\u2019s Raw\u2019s Nightmare\u201d or some other catch phrase every time she comes out, but I can\u2019t guarantee that won\u2019t happen. That said I\u2019m excited as a fan of Rhea\u2019s, but I\u2019m concerned. She\u2019s not a woman Vince particularly goes for with the gothic look and short hair, and I\u2019m worried that can all work against her. They had a ready-made star in Shayna Baszler and they smashed her to little bits. Maybe I\u2019m being panicky for no reason and everything will be fine, but I don\u2019t think my concern is without merit. We\u2019ll see. A lot of people have been tweeting about a triple threat match at WrestleMania with Rhea, Asuka, and Charlotte for the Raw title. Personally, I\u2019d prefer a one-one-one. There\u2019s not enough time to have issues between all three women to warrant a triple threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Other Expectations<\/h4>\n<p>I\u2019m interested to see what\u2019s next for the Retribution group. I don\u2019t have many hopes for Slapjack (former Shane Thorn) and Mace (former Dio Maddin). Reckoning (Mia Yim) and T-Bar (Dominick Dijakovic) could certainly inject some life into their respective divisions. My guess is a repackaging is in order, and a re-debut after WrestleMania. They\u2019ll likely pretend their Retribution personas never existed. That\u2019s probably a good idea, although I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever get those stupid names and masks out of my head. I\u2019d speculate on Ali, but they\u2019re so start and stop with him it\u2019s not worth thinking about to be perfectly honest.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2063180090\" 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>With the Drew McIntyre-Sheamus feud seemingly behind us, the focus will shift to the build for Drew vs. Bobby Lashley for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania. I\u2019m hoping they keep things simple and not have any goofy tag matches or ineffective interplay. Have them just win matches on their own and seem like big deals heading into seemingly the Raw main event.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiend is back. A match with Randy Orton at WrestleMania is likely a thing. House of Horrors Part II? Hey, the Godfather sequel was very well regarded. I think Rocky II is in this category. Why not this?<\/p>\n<p>I expect a build to some kind of multi-team match for the Women\u2019s Tag Team Championship. Even though Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke beat Lana &amp; Naomi it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019ll likely both be in it along with Tamina &amp; Natalya just to get them all on the card.<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t you glad they released Andrade? It\u2019s not as if the same people wrestle each other week in and week out in different iterations. There are ALWAYS fresh matches on a weekly three hour Raw that one could never be bored, right? When was the last time Angel Garza wrestled? Humberto Carrillo? Drew Gulak? Akira Tozawa? Oh, right they\u2019re the 24\/7 cavalry. What happened to Keith Lee? Dabbo Kato?<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frank on Twitter @FrankPeteani. Thank you for reading!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-69103959\"><div id=\"pwtor-3037505170\"><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 MONDAY NIGHT RAW PRIMER MARCH 22, 2021 TAMPA, FL. 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