{"id":87244,"date":"2019-10-07T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=87244"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:56:27","slug":"wwe-raw-primer-10-7-hell-in-a-cell-fallout-final-raw-before-draft-give-that-man-a-mic-last-woman-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/10\/07\/wwe-raw-primer-10-7-hell-in-a-cell-fallout-final-raw-before-draft-give-that-man-a-mic-last-woman-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE RAW PRIMER 10\/7: Hell in a Cell Fallout, Final Raw before Draft, Give That Man a Mic, Last Woman Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3017655116\" 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 \/>\nBAKERSFIELD, CALIF. AT THE RABOBANK ARENA<br \/>\nOCTOBER 7, 2019<br \/>\nAIRS ON USA NETWORK, 8 p.m. EDT<br \/>\nBY FRANK PETEANI (@FrankPeteani), PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Announcers: Vic Joseph, Jerry \u201cThe King\u201d Lawler, Dio Maddin<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Arena, Hell in a Cell Results, and Items Advertised by WWE<\/h3>\n<p>WWE returns to the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, CA. for the first time in over a year in a half when they ran Smackdown. Raw\u2019s last appearance in the building was in June of 2008. Tonight\u2019s episode will be the second of the new \u201cseason\u201d of Raw.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a crazy week with the season premiere and new-look Raw last week, the head-to-head on Wednesday between NXT and AEW Dynamite, the debut of Friday Night Smackdown on Fox, and last night\u2019s Hell in a Cell. Here are the results of that show:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kickoff Show:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natalya defeated Lacey Evans via submission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Main Show<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becky Lynch defeated Sasha Banks in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the Raw Women\u2019s Championship<br \/>\nRoman Reigns &amp; Daniel Bryan def. Erick Rowan &amp; Luke Harper in a tornado tag team match. They hugged it out afterwards. Dr. Shelby was smiling somewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Randy Orton defeated Ali<\/li>\n<li>The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka &amp; Kairi Sane) defeated Alexa Bliss &amp; Nikki Cross to win the WWE Women\u2019s Tag Team Championship.<\/li>\n<li>The Viking Raiders (Erik &amp; Ivar) &amp; \u201cMeat Castle\u201d Braun Strowman defeated The O.C. (Luke Gallows &amp; Karl Anderson and U.S. Champion A.J. Styles)<\/li>\n<li>Chad Gable defeated \u201cKing\u201d Baron Corbin<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Flair defeated Bayley to win the Smackdown Women\u2019s Championship<\/li>\n<li>Seth Rollins retained the Universal Championship over Bray Wyatt in a Hell in a Cell match. No official decision was announced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We now turn our attention in terms of PPVs to Crown Jewel which comes to us on Halloween this year from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We know of one match on the card already as Team Hogan (Seth Rollins, Rusev&#8230;) takes on Team Flair (Randy Orton, King Baron Corbin&#8230;). As of this writing, WWE does not have their official preview up, but their website advertises two items both of which we\u2019ve seen on TV. We\u2019ll talk about those as well as storylines we can expect to have follow-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WWE to offer Tyson Fury an open microphone<\/li>\n<li>Natalya to battle Lacey Evans in a last woman standing match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Matches &amp; Segments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Woman Standing Match: Natalya vs. Lacey Evans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Natalya and Lacey Evans have had quite the feud going all the way back to the Royal Rumble if you really want to get into it. They were numbers one and two respectively. They\u2019ve had a series of matches on Raw lately and last night where Natalya got Lacey to tap out to the sharpshooter. At the end of the match, Natalya gave Lacey a taste of her own medicine when she gave her a Woman\u2019s Right.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-38531565\" 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>Later on, it was announced that they would have a Last Woman Standing match on Raw tonight. Here\u2019s Lacey on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaceyEvansWWE\/status\/1181007075339431936?s=20<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: I wish this was the feud Lacey had when she first came up instead of working with Becky Lynch. That said, there has been improvement in her in-ring work. Natalya is the right opponent. I could see Lacey going over tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyson Fury Gets an Open Mic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This past Friday on Smackdown, Braun Strowman &amp; the Miz &amp; Heavy Machinery (Otis &amp; Tucker) defeated Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler &amp; Robert Roode, Randy Orton, and U.S. Champion A.J. Styles. Undefeated British boxer Tyson Fury was on hand for the debut episode on Fox. During the match, Strowman threw Ziggler in Fury\u2019s direction and then got into a stare down. After the win, Fury started charging the ring but was held back by security.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, Fury has had 30 fights in his career and won 20 by knockout and had one draw. Like Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson before him, he steps into a different world as WWE gives him an open mic tonight. Here\u2019s a tweet from Fury:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Catch me tomorrow night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wwe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/raw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#raw<\/a> open mice session. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/braunstrowman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#braunstrowman<\/a> @ Bakersfield, California <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/krZiMpNdDf\">https:\/\/t.co\/krZiMpNdDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tyson_Fury\/status\/1180990225327128576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2019<\/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: Multiple sources have a match happening between Strowman and Fury at Crown Jewel. They could also join forces against the O.C.? These special attractions are the types of matches you can expect at these shows, as we might get with Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez. It\u2019s also a good idea to do something gimmicky with Strowman.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Storyline Follow-Up<\/h3>\n<p>The draft takes place starting on Smackdown this Friday night and will continue on next week\u2019s Raw. That puts things in a virtual holding pattern. The next PPV is over three weeks from today. We only know of the Team Hogan vs. Team Flair for that event, and thus we may expect more wrestlers to be added to each team. Otherwise we\u2019ll probably get follow-up on what we saw last night and last week, if we even want to see that. Let\u2019s look at some of the stories:<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2006770611\" 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<p><strong>Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last night at Hell in a Cell, Seth Rollins retained the Universal Championship over \u201cThe Fiend\u201d Bray Wyatt when the referee stopped the match. Seth hit Bray with a sledgehammer while he was on the ground and also had a chair, a toolbox, a ladder, and two pipes from one of the bathrooms (alright I made that one up, but you get what I\u2019m saying). This followed hitting about 20 stomps and Bray getting up. While the paramedics were coming out to help Bray, he sat up and gave him a mandible claw. He then gave him two Sister Abigails while the crowd chanted \u201cAEW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: This was problematic from the get-go, as putting Bray in a title match much less a Hell in a Cell for the first match between these two was risky. You knew they weren\u2019t going to put the title on Bray, so they needed to get out of doing a decisive finish. I was trying to figure out what the crowd was rejecting, and I think it was the totality of the situation. Seth to me is not necessarily over as a babyface champion, he was ridiculous looking scared the past few weeks, and people dig the Fiend character let\u2019s be honest. It\u2019s like loving the Freddy Kreuger or Jason. I think people just crapped on the way the match unfolded and didn\u2019t like what they saw. The problem is, what do you do now with either of these two?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Up for Raw Women\u2019s Champion Becky Lynch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a better note, Becky Lynch retained the Raw Women\u2019s Championship over Sasha Banks to open festivities in a Hell in a Cell match. It was Sasha\u2019s second trip inside that structure while it was Becky\u2019s first, although she\u2019s worked steel cage matches before. After the match, Sasha was visibly disappointed as was Bayley who later on lost the Smackdown title to Charlotte Flair. Charlotte and Becky are the respective champions for the first time since Becky\u2019s \u201crun\u201d which started at SummerSlam last year (unless you count the 15 minutes Charlotte was champion when she beat Becky at Money in the Bank for the Smackdown title before Bayley cashed in). Here\u2019s Becky on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeckyLynchWWE\/status\/1181010503025516544?s=20<\/p>\n<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: I was a little surprised Sasha didn\u2019t win here. It makes pushing her a big heel a little weird if they weren\u2019t going to pay it off with a title win over Becky, who\u2019s had it for a while now. It\u2019s hard to say, but I wonder if she gets drafted to Smackdown to feud with Charlotte to feud over that title. It would be hard to see Sasha as the heel in that, but it\u2019s WWE and they\u2019ll do what they want! They could also figure out a way to keep the feud going with Sasha and Becky if they wanted. Who knows, but again I emphasize tonight\u2019s episode finds WWE in a holding pattern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Kiss Scene \u2018Round the World&#8230; and by Rusev for Quite Some Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rey Mysterio was to have challenged Seth Rollins for the WWE Universal Championship last week on Raw. After Brock Lesnar took out Rey and his son Dominick, a recently returning Rusev was slotted into the match. Rollins and Rusev went at it with Randy Orton and \u201cKing\u201d Baron Corbin looking on seeing as they are on Team Flair while Rusev and Rollins are on Team Hogan for that match in Saudi Arabia. As the match unfolded Bobby Lashley\u2019s music played. We hadn\u2019t seen Lashley since Extreme Rules when he lost a last man standing match to Braun Strowman. Nonetheless, Lana followed with her music playing and the two of them played tonsil hockey for about two minutes. Rusev looked on and did nothing. He had been hinting of \u201cproblems at home\u201d with Lana but wasn\u2019t specific. Bray Wyatt came out and attacked Rollins in advance of their match last night.<\/p>\n<p>If you care, here\u2019s a WWE exclusive of unseen reactions to Lashley and Lana kissing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unseen reactions to Lana and Lashley\u2019s kiss\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MNRlsVC0tA?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<p><em>Frank\u2019s Analysis: This is stupid. If you\u2019re going to do something like this, at least build it over time so that when it happens, you\u2019re more shocked and upset. Even that might not have worked because everybody knows Lana and Rusev are married in real life, so it\u2019s dumb to show them apart on screen. I don\u2019t think this will help Lashley, Lana, or Rusev. This is more annoying than anything else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Match Results and Notable Segments from Last Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sasha Banks defeated Alexa Bliss<\/li>\n<li>Robert Roode &amp; Dolph Ziggler defeated Heavy Machinery (Otis &amp; Tucker) to retain the Raw Tag Team Championship<\/li>\n<li>The Viking Raiders defeated Karl Anderson &amp; Luke Gallows<\/li>\n<li>Ricochet defeated Cesaro<\/li>\n<li>A.J. Styles defeated Cedric Alexander to retain the U.S. Championship<\/li>\n<li>Lacey Evans defeated Natalya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Follow Frank on Twitter @FrankPeteani. Questions and discussion are welcome! Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-887167923\"><div id=\"pwtor-1415412584\"><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 BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. 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