{"id":202340,"date":"2025-08-05T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=202340"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:36:36","slug":"wwe-raw-hits-misses-8-4-seth-rollins-gloating-about-the-big-ruse-charlotte-alexa-exchange-rusev-vs-sheamus-penta-vs-waller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/08\/05\/wwe-raw-hits-misses-8-4-seth-rollins-gloating-about-the-big-ruse-charlotte-alexa-exchange-rusev-vs-sheamus-penta-vs-waller\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE RAW HITS &#038; MISSES (8\/4): Seth Rollins gloating about the Big Ruse, Charlotte-Alexa exchange, Rusev vs. Sheamus, Penta vs. Waller,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-353894717\" 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><b>Opening Segment &#8211; MISS:<\/b> I fail to see how faking an injury gave Seth Rollins a bigger advantage when it came to cashing in the Money in the Bank contract on C.M. Punk. Punk was exhausted after winning the World Championship from Gunther in Summerslam Saturday\u2019s main event. Rollins could have run to the ring, hit Punk in the head a bunch of times with the briefcase, cash in, and hit the stomp, and he would have won the title just like we\u2019ve seen so many other times with MITB. I was hoping that we\u2019d get at least some explanation or reason why the fake injury gave him a bigger advantage, but we didn\u2019t. It was fine otherwise, but not great in any particular way (other than Bronson Reed\u2019s new moniker of the Tribal Thief, which is great). L.A. Knight\u2019s interruption made sense and set up the main event hook, so it wasn\u2019t all bad.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rusev vs. Sheamus &#8211; HIT:<\/b> Yes, this match had a draw finish with the double countout, but in this case I didn\u2019t mind it. It came after several minutes of hard hitting physical action. We\u2019ve seen finishes in each of the first two matches between Sheamus and Rusev, so this didn\u2019t feel like a cop out to me. It played perfectly into the hatred that these two have for each other which has built over their first two matches. It also set up the fun gimmick of them continuing to brawl in the back which interrupted a few segments later in the show.<\/p>\n<p><b>Waller vs. Penta &#8211; HIT:<\/b> This was a good match to give Penta a strong win over Grayson Waller as he continues to try to join The New Day as Big G. The New Day are leaning too heavy into their goofiness which doesn\u2019t serve them well as heels, but I have to admit to laughing at Xavier Woods\u2019s ridiculously large hat, and Penta playing with it after the match.<\/p>\n<p><em>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Post-show covering the latest episode of Raw: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/wwe-raw-post-show-8-4-keller-wells-on-lesnar-s-return-controversy-seth-heyman-gloating-about-big-ruse-more--67254531\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cwade Keller\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWE RAW POST-SHOW (8\/4): Keller &amp; Wells on Lesnar's return controversy, Seth &amp; Heyman gloating about Big Ruse, more\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=67254531&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Charlotte &#8211; Bliss &#8211; MISS:<\/b> I do like this team of Charlotte Flair &amp; Alexa Bliss, and was fine with them wining the Tag Team Championship at Summerslam. I do believe it has been particularly good for Charlotte. I did chuckle when she pointed out that this was the first time she\u2019s ever gotten a \u201cYou deserve it!\u201d chant. But overall, this was a rough talking segment. They were too cute in dancing around the \u201cf\u201d word &#8211; friends. That led to even more all too cutesy moments where their saying the \u201ca word\u201d which was silly. It felt too PG Era on the night after Michael Cole yelled \u201cHoly shit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Charlotte &amp; Bliss vs. Perez &amp; Rodriguez &#8211; HIT:<\/b> Thankfully, the match that followed that was much better. I enjoyed their match at Summerslam, and this rematch was also good. These two teams have shown great chemistry together in the ring. I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing more of them in the ring, but not right away. Let Judgment Day\u2019s story continue away from the title picture for awhile and then come back to it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rollins vs. Knight &#8211; MISS:<\/b> Just have Seth Rollins beat L.A. Knight and then do the run in from C.M. Punk. Rollins just won the World Title. Knight hasn\u2019t been seen as a legitimate World Title contender. He can lose to Rollins. It is okay. The match was perfectly fine before that. I did appreciate that Knight was upset at Punk for causing the disqualification and costing him the match. I\u2019m guessing we\u2019ll get a triple threat match soon. The beating with The Vision coming out, followed by Roman Reigns worked well. Once again, Roman took a beating and lost his shoes to the Tribal Chief. It was good to see Bron Breakker moving around well after there was some concern that he might have injured his leg on Saturday. The big question coming out of this was where was Jey Uso? I hope that will be addressed next week. Perhaps we will find out that Breakker and Reed took him out beforehand. So, the very end of the show was Hit-worthy, but I can\u2019t give a World Title main event a Hit when it doesn\u2019t have an actual winner.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Jon Mezzera is PWTorch.com&#8217;s WWE Raw Hits &amp; Misses Specialist, providing his point of view for Raw each week. Email him at jmezz_torch@yahoo.com. Follow him on BlueSky @jonmezzera.bsky.social.)<\/em><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2152405701\" 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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wade Keller Post-show (8\/4) - WWE Raw w\/cohost Kelly Wells\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Um8eufd09Rk?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<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-536941386\"><div id=\"pwtor-2149065421\"><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>Opening Segment &#8211; MISS: I fail to see how faking an injury gave Seth Rollins a bigger advantage when it came to cashing in the Money in the Bank contract on C.M. Punk. Punk was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/08\/05\/wwe-raw-hits-misses-8-4-seth-rollins-gloating-about-the-big-ruse-charlotte-alexa-exchange-rusev-vs-sheamus-penta-vs-waller\/\" title=\"WWE RAW HITS &#038; MISSES (8\/4): Seth Rollins gloating about the Big Ruse, Charlotte-Alexa exchange, Rusev vs. Sheamus, Penta vs. Waller,\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-7.30.16-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202342,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340\/revisions\/202342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}