Light My Fire: Finn Balor Steps Up, Liv Morgan Takes Control (Raw 1/12/26)

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Your girl Ryder Maven called it.
If you've been watching my

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videos or were in my recent
gaming live stream then you

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already know I called Pimbalore,
stepping up to see him punk.

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I called Bailey and Lyra
confronting Bria and EO

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alongside Liv and Roxanne.
I called Liv and Roxanne winning

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the number one contendership
match.

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Yes, I said Raquel could costume
and I still could very much

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happen in the future.
I called Raquel continuing her

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issue with Stephanie Bacur, and
I absolutely called Roxanne

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choosing Liv's side over fins.
People want to act surprised

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now, but the clues were always
there.

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So yes, I'm taking a victory
lap.

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I said I was going to be only
patting myself on the back on

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Saturday, but now I'm taking a
full on victory lap because

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reading the story correctly
matters and it matters in the

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way that it makes me very
confident about where the

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storyline will be headed next.
So welcome, welcome.

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My name is writer maven.
I am the host of the bristle

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Embassies podcast.
I cover all things judgment day,

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Dom Libra, kill, then Roxanne,
por Carlito, El Grande,

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Americano, Los Americanos and
yes, even AEW.

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Tonight's Monday Night Raw is
entitled Write My Flower or No

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More waiting Around or just
scoreboard.

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The Judgment Day finally came
out ahead of Raw and things are

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finally moving forward.
My only question is, what took

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them so long?
And while Liv, Raquel, and Alfin

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have set paths, I'm a little bit
concerned about Roxanne.

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Why?
We'll see you in a bit.

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Now let's get into Monday Night
Raw, shall we?

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First up we have the women's tag
team Chaos Rio and EO Rio kicked

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off Raw, but they get
interrupted by Liv and Roxanne.

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Liv is on the might.
She claims that she never lost

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her titles and is 1/2 of the
greatest tag team temps of all

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time.
She tells Rio that they can give

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the titles back the easy way or
the hard way.

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Now enter Bailey and Lyra.
Bailey gets serenaded by the

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crowd, then goes in on Roxanne,
reminding Liv that Roxanne was

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the one who lost the belts, not
Liv.

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Bailey says she and Lyra deserve
a shot.

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Ria says Rio's is open for
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Arguments turn into a brawl
until the Kabuki Warriors pull

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Rio out and attack everyone.
Rio eventually cleans house, and

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then we see later on that a #1
Contenders match is set for

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later on in the night.
My notes Scoreboard prediction

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confirmed.
Liv and Bailey's gear looks

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amazing, especially Liz.
Like she's been eating in these

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gears.
She's been really putting her

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foot in it.
Bailey of course looks great and

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I like that she's matching with
Lyra.

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Liv saying my titles is very,
very interesting choice of

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words, leaving Roxanne
completely out of the equation.

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She's starting to sound a little
bit like we're Ripley, isn't

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she?
When Bailey pointed out Roxanne

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lost the titles, Liv comforted
her and Lyra dancing two Baileys

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Serenade was silly and fun, and
regarding the Kabuki warriors, I

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completely forgot about them.
The WWE plays fast and loose

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with the rematch clauses but
they added chaos and they took

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the pin as we see later on.
Next up, judgement day,

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clubhouse.
We finally have a clubhouse

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scene live and Roxanne enter and
they're hyped.

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Then is playing WWE2K25 playing
himself versus Cody Rhodes.

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Liv asks Finn if they if he saw
what they did.

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Finn is dismissing like see what
Liv is on to him.

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What happened to you one in
gold.

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She says the judgment day don't
sit away on waiting.

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Raquel didn't wait and she and
Roxanne didn't wait and then Liv

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drops this it's time to stop
playing games and walks off.

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Now the further sticking that
diagram to Finn.

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Roxanne walks up to Finn and
says Liz has a point and leaves

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him and then by the end of this
segment then is saying just you

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watch girls.
And then during this time we see

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Finn Belore being pinned by Cody
Rose in WWE2K25.

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My notes on this scoreboard #2
and 3.

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Because Finn and Roxanne are
officially not aligned anymore.

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Luke.
Roxanne completely took Liv's

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side and I was telling people we
saw the signs earlier on.

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Liv was pulling Roxanne to her
side and Roxanne and Finn had

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not been associated for months
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It pretty much stopped after
Summer Slam.

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People didn't want to believe me
then, but this pretty much

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submits the deal that Finn and
Roxanne are not on the same

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page.
Live with the match with Finn

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and we see why later on.
But let's not pretend this

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couldn't have happened while she
was injured.

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The storyline is just now going
to be compressed, and I'll get

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into that in a little bit.
And yes, Cody, Rose, Penn Finn,

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even in the game, even virtual
Finn can't escape being called

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Penn Velour.
But on the upswing, Finn

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actually has a story now.
And then up next again we have

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CM Punk and Finn Velour's promo.
CM Punk comes out, gives Germany

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crowd their cheap pop and says
the roads.

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WrestleMania goes through him.
He talks about surviving Brown

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Breaker and is waiting to see
who steps up.

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And guess who shows up Then
Velour.

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He comes out circling.
Punk then says he's not waiting

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for the Royal Rumble or the
Elimination Chamber, and he's

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not here asking for handouts.
Punk named him as someone he

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wanted to face, so here he is.
Punk says yeah, I said that I

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wanted to face you, but that was
two months ago.

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He's like, where's Finn's
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He's too busy playing video
games, worrying about Dom,

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helping JD, and some weeks it
looks like he's shining Lil

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Morgan's shoes.
Ouchie.

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Punk asked if Finn wants the
title and is it going to be Finn

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Velour showing up or Finn Velour
with Judgment Day.

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Finn says there's time for
everything and but the line

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starts here and he drops it.
He wants his next match, his

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title match in Belfast, Ireland
and then says it'll be Punk

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versus the Prince and there will
be a new Irish World Champion.

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Punk accepts and promises that
he will still be champion after

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he puts Ben into the GTS again
with the Notes store board.

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Again, Finn had to call his
shot.

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He had to.
This was overdue.

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And like I called it on
Saturday, I said Finn needed to

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go challenge Punk and he did.
I do not understand people

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saying that Finn is going to
stay healed.

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This was a babyface pivot in the
best way because we'll get into

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what I think is going to happen
next week on Raw, but this was a

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babyface pivot.
He's already still teasing his

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original entrance.
And if you're going to have the

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hometown crowd for Belfast and
that is the perfect way to get

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into a complete face turn.
And finally, Finn has a

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storyline direction.
He's not waiting around for Dom

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and JD, and he's no longer being
the demented demon, at least not

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yet.
Next up, women's tag team one

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number one contenders match.
We have the Kabuki Warriors and

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Oscar and Kyrie versus Bailey
and Lyra versus Liv and Roxanne.

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This match slapped high energy
big spots, Chaos don't.

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We had the Tower of Dune spot,
Oscar's double suplex on Lyra

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and Bailey, Lyra catching Kyrie
mid air and Bailey hitting a

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elbow on her.
Afterwards we had Roxanne

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hitting the Pop Rocks, her
trademark windmill strikes.

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Everybody showed out British
came when Liv sneaks attack on

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Roxanne and then hits the
Oblivion out of nowhere when

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Kyrie was concerned with getting
Roxanne out of the ring and she

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pins Kyrie 123.
And now Liv Morgan and Roxanne

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Perez are your #1 contenders and
they will face Rhea and EO at

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Saturday night main event and I
believe in one or two weeks.

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Yeah, and again, scoreboard
again.

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Interest.
Introducing the team during the

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commercial is lame though.
We saw Liv and Roxanne come out

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during the commercial and then
Bailey and Lyra.

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I really don't like it when they
introduce people during the

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commercial.
We have all this time use it.

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Roxanne covering Liv's ears
during Bailey's serenade was

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hilarious.
Maybe Roxanne were loud during

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the match that their Kurt's work
work is on point.

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I did notice on social people
being upset about Lib being in A

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tag division but didn't they
have no problems with Raquel and

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Roxanne being in A tag division?
Like come on now.

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Raquel didn't interfere in this
match, but she can absolutely

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interfere in the title mats.
Later coming up on Saturday

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night in the event rolling
through for the final Judgment

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Day segment of the night, we
have Raquel interview with

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Michael Cole.
Michael Cole says he's known

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Raquel for a long time and it
was surprised she attacked

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Stephanie Baquier.
Raquel says she says she

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remembers the girl who smiled
and waited patiently, but people

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change.
She tells Cole he had a foot row

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seat seeing her being cheated
out of the tattle week after

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week, month after month.
Raquel then calls herself Big

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60.
Sound familiar?

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And declares she won't stop
until she is the women's world

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champion.
Stephanie then comes out with

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the officials trying to hold her
back.

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And then Stephanie after Raquel
is like intimating that she's

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going in the back and thinking,
you know, acting like she's

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having a bum leg.
Stephanie's addressing the

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camera saying, you know, come
get some pretty much when Raquel

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attacks her again attacking
injured ankle and then she takes

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Stephanie's title belt and hits
Stephanie's ankle with the belt

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so hard it broke, as we found
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And again, one more final
scoreboard of the night.

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Raquel is getting some real heat
now.

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I've always said that she can go
face and she can, but this is

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and she's getting heat now.
But this is international crowd

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and that's kind of to be
expected and they can always go

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face later on.
But even if she does stay

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healed, she can steal exit
judgment with a either way, so

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she just doesn't have to align
with Lib as it is.

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By the way, the tell peep that
Raquel said Cole had a front row

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seat to Raquel being cheated out
of the title.

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So if this is the case, was she
only talking about her being

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cheated out of the title with
Stephanie or was she talking

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about how she was taught was
cheated out of the title when

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she was facing Bria and Dom was
around?

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Because remember, Dom did cost
Raquel the title.

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Is she talking about him?
There's something to think

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about.
And now we're going to get into

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some broad hits.
Javon Evans defeated Bravo

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Americano and it looks like he's
going to have a little feud with

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El Grande Americano and most
Americanos, the Lucha Bro, Lucha

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Bros or Lucha Bros 2 Point O and
Pinta and Jagan Lee beat the

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vision by the cue.
Brown Breaker is suspended

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indefinitely because he came out
and just pretty much obliterated

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Dragon Lee and was causing all
kinds of chaos, but he's

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suspended because he put his
hands on Adam Pierce.

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But Adam Pierce might be in
trouble because Adam Pierce

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touched Brown Breaker first.
Gunther beat AJ Styles Gunther

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top though and I am so bored.
But Gunther round breaker is way

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way, way more interesting than
Gunther.

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And I keep saying like Gunther
is not the most interesting man

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on the on brawl right now.
This is the man who retired John

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Cena and he is not interesting.
You know, there was a lot more

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other people that could have
used this rub.

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Like we could have gave that to
Dog to have something to gloat

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about.
He could go to about being the

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last person to win a title.
I've seen it, but it ain't the

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same.
And then you could even gave

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that to a bra breaker.
You could have gave that to the

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open FIBI.
You could have gave that to

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Bronson Reed like any of these
other young and up and comers

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that could have used the rub and
could probably use it like

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Gunther.
It's just it's just like it's

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wasted and the man still tapped
out again.

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Like what is this obsession with
people with triple H1 and

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Gunther to tap out so people can
just keep chanting it at him

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like I'm I'm over Gunther, Like
he is not interesting in the

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least to me.
But here are my closing thoughts

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and what I expect.
I'm still gonna be taking my

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victory lap all of all of this
week.

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I am going to be scoreboarding
all over the place because I

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called it like I could not have
like a more perfect raw where a

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like 95% of what I've been
saying comes true.

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This role was necessary for the
Judgment Day development.

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So I'm really, really happy that
they finally put some effort

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into Judgment Day, then actually
has direction out.

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And that's what I said on
Saturday, that he needs

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something to do and he finally
gets something to do.

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And this is probably lead to a
nice babyface turn for him.

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This raw finally moved the story
forward, like I said.

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But let's be honest, some of
this stuff should have happened

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months ago.
And This is why I'm kind of

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griping about it now.
Like, yeah, Liv's lit fires

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under fan and all that, but this
should have happened months ago

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while she was gone.
We could have had Finn

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challenging CM Punk.
We could have had Raquel being

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this vicious type character.
We could have Roxanne in the IC

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title range.
And Speaking of Roxanne, see if

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I can get back to it.
Roxanne is now my little

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concern.
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Because Liv has multiple paths
and storylines where Kale has

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her youth and has direction.
Roxanne is currently there.

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Now with Roxanne, if she's kind
of tied into what Dom is going

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to be doing, it is it's kind too
expective, but I still want her

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to do a little bit more.
This is where I would think

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background moments should be
happening.

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Like she should be doing some
little sneaky things here and

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there, like just things that
kind of keeps some interest in

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her.
But it's like on the on the

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underbelly, the undercurrent of
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So we have all these high
storylines going on with Liv,

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with Raquel or Finn, but Raquel,
but Brazil storyline should be

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like the undercurrent.
It should be like underneath all

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that, like we can see what she's
doing, but it doesn't really

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come out till it needs to come
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And that's where is my concern
is like, but I still feel she

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should be in the
Intercontinental championship

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picture.
But if she's not there, she

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needs to be doing something with
Dom and maybe when he gets back

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they'll that get started again.
Umm, also hypocrisy.

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Ross Watch.
Actually Lil was being a little

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bit bossy.
Yeah, she you know, little fire

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in the fan, like I said, but
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Where have we seen this before?
I'll give you a hint.

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Starts with the letter R Looking
ahead to next week, we're going

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to be in Belfast, Ireland.
We're going to have Finn versus

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Punk for the world title.
People are expecting Dom to cost

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Finn, but I am not seeing that.
There's no reason for Dom to

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cost Finn.
Like they haven't been beefing.

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This is where if Dom was there
and they had been beeping, yeah,

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I could kind of see Finn, Dom
costing Finn, but Dom hasn't

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been there.
And when Dom was there, Finn and

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Dom were getting along and
playing video games.

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So I don't really expect on the
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If Finn gets costed in any way,
I think it's going to be

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division sand Braun Breaker,
like Braun Breaker, like the

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division will come out.
Maybe 'cause the DQ, maybe

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'cause it where Finn is gets
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And then this can actually usher
in a babyface turn for Finn

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because maybe he helps see him
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You see what I mean, 'cause he
he'll have Belfast Ireland

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behind them.
So the vision come in, they

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start attacking, maybe they make
it a no contest so Finn doesn't

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lose or get pinned and then Finn
decides to stick up for CM Punk

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instead of like leaving them
behind like he would as a heel.

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Speaking of Dom, Dom looks like
he's going to be on the AAA

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show.
I'm not sure if he's going to be

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on brawl.
He might be just going down to

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Mexico because that's an easier
trip.

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Like you know, if he's living,
he lives in Las Vegas, I

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believe.
So that's a little bit easier

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trip for him to go from Vegas to
Mexico, especially with his

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injury, then just going all the
way around the world to Ireland.

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So he might be able to do that
Mexico trip and then he might

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still just stay stateside until
the Royal Rumble at the end of

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the month.
That team build, we will

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probably see Rio and Liv and
Roxanne build like next week on

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RAW.
Like maybe we'll have some

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promos, maybe an attack,
something like that.

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I expect that.
And we do need some clubhouse

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scenes between Liv and Raquel.
Now.

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Liv did kind of stick up for
Raquel here, but we still need

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like a clubhouse scene to show
exactly where Liv is thinking

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about regarding Raquel and what
Raquel is thinking about

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regarding Liv and the rest of
the judgement day.

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And like I said, Roxanne needs
more narrative.

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This is one of those things
where I always say like she

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needs a little bit something to
do, and I think she needs a

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little bit something more to do.
Like she could be doing

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something in the background like
sneak that call doll or sneak

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some kind of text to call.
You know, like you can do a

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little bit a little little bit
of things like if she's involved

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with them, there are things that
she can do where she, you know,

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where it Dom doesn't have to be
present in like in the promo.

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You can you can do some stuff
here.

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And that's kind of what I'm
hoping what happens with Roxanne

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like that needs to kind of get
going.

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I mean, maybe they'll start up
around Moral Rumble and after,

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but right now they can do a
little bit of hands here or

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there.
And that was raw.