WWE Raw Review: Stranger Things, Raquel’s Vicious Streak & Judgment Day Crumbs (Jan 5, 2026)

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If this was the Stranger Things
edition of Monday Night Raw,

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then Judgement Day is the Upside
Down.

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Because Stranger Things have
happened on Raw.

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Literally.
Liv Morgan is back on TV, Raquel

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Rodriguez is channeling Big
Mommy Cool in the best way, and

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Michael Cole is dropping Bird
Comes about the Judgement Day

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that we need to sweep up right
now.

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So welcome, welcome.
My name is Ryder Maven.

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I am the host of the Wrestling
Received podcast.

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I cover all things Judgement
day.

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Tom Librikal, then JD, Roxanne
Por Carlito, most Americanos, El

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Grande Americano, and I guess I
cover AE W now too because I

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love chaos.
This Monday Night Raw is

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entitled Stranger Things Have
Happened.

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Now, as with the recent Monday
Night Raw episodes, we are still

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getting crumbs regarding the
Judgment Day storyline

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development.
Significant crumbs, mind you,

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but still crumbs.
Poor Finn Belore wasn't used at

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all tonight, which with Dom and
JD out injured, is to be

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expected.
But I would have loved to see

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the Prince pop up, maybe even
hint at the demon on this

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Stranger Things themed night.
But we got to move on.

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We did get to see Dimininto on
his Instagram stories though, so

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I think that's about as much as
close to the demon that we could

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get.
So let's get started, shall we?

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This is a merch check.
We have new merch.

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First off, we have Liv Morgan
having a new shirt.

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It has a mover movie poster vibe
that says Liv Morgan ribbons

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tour 2 point O.
Here's my question.

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Revenge against who?
People will say Raquel fan or

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Roxanne, but Raquel is just now
doing things against Liv.

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And honestly, it's been mutual.
Liv and Raquel have been going

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back and forth, you know,
they've been petty and catty

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towards each other.
So there's no revenge there.

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Then that might be some revenge.
But Dom and Finn have talked it

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out, hugged it out, and now
they're back to being stepdaddy

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and stepson.
And that hatchet is buried, at

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least for right now.
Roxanne.

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Liv has been petting her like a
puppy dog.

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Last year, the Liv Morgan
Revenge tour made sense because

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the object that Liv was
targeting was Ria Ripley.

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Ria Ripley who caused her pain.
Liv Ripley.

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Ria Ripley who caused her to be
injured and be out.

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The Ria Ripley who turned on her
without Liv doing anything to

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her.
That Liv Morgan Revenge tour

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made sense, but now this Revenge
tour 2 point I just feels like

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an aesthetic.
It's not a storyline.

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Where is the revenge?
We need an object here.

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So if she's going to be getting
revenge, the only object I could

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see would probably be Dom if and
if.

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Again, I'm not predicting this,
I'm just saying if Dom had

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cheated on her with her fan or
with anybody else, that's where

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I could see a Revenge Tour 2.0
happening.

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But as of right now, with the
current judgment day as it is,

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I'm not seeing any kind of
revenge.

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But anywho, that's my little
opinion on that.

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Like where's the revenge?
Like we need some more context

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here otherwise people are just
going to be asking like revenge

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against two.
On the flip side, Dominic

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Mysterio has a new Stranger
theme inspired merch.

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Now.
I don't watch the show and I'm

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probably not going to ever watch
the show because I don't really

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get into shows like this for
various reasons, but this shirt

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was sick.
It's basically Dom skeleton and

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with the Stranger Things vibe, I
love it.

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I probably might get this.
Like this might be the only

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Stranger Things inspired merch
that I get and that's because

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it's Dom and it's skeleton.
It's really cool, go check it

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out.
Both Liv and Doms merge on WWE

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shop.com.
Now here's something interesting

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before going before I went on
live, I was chatting with a

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friend who peeped me to this
little bit of information here

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and I had to go check it out
myself.

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On Dom's Instagram, he posted a
GIF with the song entitled

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Lonely by Akon.
Listen, the song by Akon is

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explicitly about neglecting your
girl and taking her for granted

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until she's gone one day and
that's why he's lonely.

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The double entendres are coming
back to play again.

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This could be about him being
lonely that Lib isn't there with

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him.
It could be him being lonely

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that Lib is getting up and
leaving him.

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So if you could take it many
different ways, it's something

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to look out for.
This is this is another strange

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song lyric coming from Dom that
gives some really interesting

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bribes here.
And like I said, it's a crumb

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and these crumbs are starting to
gather up into a full bread loaf

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if they keep going like this.
But it's something to be

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interested about.
And if you want to see that, you

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can go on the Instagram right
now and check out Don's reel and

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you can see that song lyrics and
then go look up the song lyrics

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yourself.
It's lonely by Akon.

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Some quick housekeeping.
Then Belore will be on Cody

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Rhodes podcast and Liv Morgan
will be on Stephanie McMahon's

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podcast.
Nothing more to add here.

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Just keep an ear out if you want
to listen to those podcasts.

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I know Cody Rhodes podcast and
Stephanie's podcast have been

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pretty good.
So if you want to know more

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about the demon known as Ben
Blore and Liv Morgan, go check

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out those podcasts.
Those are coming out this week.

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Let's get into raw, shall we?
Judge midday walk in.

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Nothing major here.
It was just Ben who didn't pop

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up later on and Roxanne and Liv
and Raquel walking in all

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together.
But I have to say, do y'all

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remember how Dom was was sad
when Liv was gone after she was

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injured here?
Liv doesn't have that.

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Just something to think about,
something that caught my

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interest because Dom and even
Raquel were sad at least for a

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minute when Liv, when Liv was
out.

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Now, I know Dom is probably not
going to be out that long

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because they're saying that he's
going to be back around Royal

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Rumble, but still, you know, you
know, where is the sadness here?

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It's just something that's
piquing my interest here.

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Next we get into Raquel
Rodriguez and Stephanie Mckier.

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Now, when prior to this, we saw
Stephanie in a soft boot on her

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foot and I'm like, oh boy, I'm
wondering if she's really

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injured.
So they told us earlier in the

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night that she was going to be
having an interview.

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So she was walking to on her way
to the ring.

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So Stephanie does this in ring
interview with Jackie Redmond

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claims, and she's claiming that
the inquiry won't hold her back.

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You know, she's gotten 4 titles,
you know, 22,025 was her year,

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yadda yadda yadda.
So after she finishes her

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interview and she poses here
come big mommy cool Raquel

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handing out the most vicious
beat down.

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She attacks Stephanie from
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She goes for the ankle.
She is branch in it, slamming

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Stephanie around.
She picks her up into a Tejano

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bomb and hits it, and then she
goes and goes to go for a chair

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and tries to do more damage to
the ankle, kind of like what

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Rhea did to live two years ago.
So she's going for the chair and

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she was going to put that on
Stephanie's ankle, but official

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scrap daddy out of Pierce and
referees stopped that and

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prevented that from happening.
And then so, you know, Stephanie

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Raquel gets, you know, chased
off by the officials and so she

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walks off.
And then we see during the

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commercial break, you hear
something interesting from

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Michael Cole.
Michael Cole says that Raquel

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has been distancing, distancing
herself from the judgment Day.

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Again, this is very interesting.
This is another Krub.

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She's been distinct.
She's been pulling away from the

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judgment Day after the break,
and Stephanie is being helped in

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the back by officials.
Here comes Raquel again and she

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starts throwing Stephanie around
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She stomps on her ankle.
She pulls her by the hair.

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She's talking rapid Spanish to
her.

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I couldn't get the translation
on that but she's just talking

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mad shit.
Steph scrap daddy how the Pierce

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comes up and he's getting in
Raquel space saying like I will

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find you until there is no more
money and then he's like get her

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out of the building.
So Raquel pretty much gets

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ejected from the building after
this, but she had done enough

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damage to Stephanie at this
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My notes on this, this was
amazing.

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This is what was needed for
Raquel.

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She was vicious, she was
violent.

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She took it to Stephanie
Raquire.

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I love it.
I knew this was probably going

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to happen.
I saw that Nikki Bella said that

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she wasn't there.
So I know Raquel was going to

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pop up and do something to
Stephanie Raquire.

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So, but I wasn't expecting this.
I wasn't expecting the injury to

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Stephanie, but I wasn't
expecting this massive attack.

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And like I said, it was needed.
Raquel needs to build herself

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up, and this builds her up to be
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I mean, yeah, right now it's a
heelish character, but this can

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easily transition to something
on a face side.

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And maybe at some point Raquel
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Judgment Day on her own instead
of being kicked out.

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And the one who might get kicked
out might be somebody else

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entirely.
And I'll get into that later,

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but Raquel needed this.
She looked great.

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I loved her, what she was
wearing.

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She's been clicking on all
cylinders.

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And it remains to be seen if she
did this on her own or if this

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was something brought up by Lib,
Roxanne and Raquel because they

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didn't really give us just the
day clubhouse segments today.

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So it remains to be seen.
Maybe next week, maybe we find

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out that Raquel did this on her
own, kind of like how she

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attacked Nikki to go challenge
Stephanie like a few weeks ago.

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Maybe it turns out that she this
is something that she did on her

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own without going through Liv
again, you know, clearing it

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with Liv, but we'll see.
But All in all, Raquel is

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gaining this confidence and I
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Next up.
Oh also, we might also be

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getting a Tiffany Stratton, Jay
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You remember how Jay Cargill
just pretty much took out

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Tiffany with her knee and it
just led to a match where Jay

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just pretty much folded up
Tiffany.

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It won the title.
It could be doing something like

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that.
They're just, they're probably

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repeating the storyline, but it
might have a little bit more

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meat to it where Stephanie might
try to fight back and then

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ultimately she can't overcome
Raquel.

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Like not straight up one-on-one
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the last time Stephanie won, it
was interference due to Nikki.

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We'll have to see if Stephanie
can beat Raquel without that

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interference now.
Next up is Liv Morgan versus

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Lyra Vicaria.
Liv Morgan made her television

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return against Lyra Vicaria.
Liv had been fighting Lyra on

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the holiday tour, so this was
her first television match

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herself.
Liv has some Dom and Spider gear

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on.
She looked great.

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She looked amazing.
You know you can't take it that

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away from Liv.
She looked amazing.

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Roxanne and Bailey were at
ringside in their respective

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corners.
The match was great as expected,

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but listen to the commentary.
Michael Cole again is saying

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that Liv wants to be the
Judgment Day leader.

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Corey Gray says that she wants
to bring Glory back to the to

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the faction.
I have a rant on this leader bit

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in a minute, but I'll get into
that later.

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The finish comes when Roxanne
pulls rope ropes down and Lyra

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tumbles out.
Bailey goes after Roxanne.

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Roxanne slaps her and then
tosses Bailey over the over the

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barricade into the timekeepers
area.

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This triggers Bailey again, she
starts snapping, she grabs

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Roxanne from behind, grabs a
chair, starts chasing Roxanne

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out of the arena.
Just chase her through the ring

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and up the ramp.
You know off, you know, out of

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the out of the match.
This just distracts Lyra, who

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live takes advantage of by
hitting her oblivion on a

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distracted Lyra and pins her
123.

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OK, now let's get back to this
leader bit.

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This is a personal rant here.
I'm, you know, this might go for

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the story, but this is a
personal rant for me as a Dom

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fan, as a rider dad rider die
Dom fan, I do not like Leap Dom

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getting leapfrogged for this
leadership stuff with regarding

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Judgment Day, because he's never
had it, or at least he's never

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had the time where he has the
ball.

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He's running with it before a
little bit.

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We got it for a little bit of a
second when Finn, JD and Dom

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made-up when they were going up
against John Cena because he had

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a moment there when he was
telling John that he wants his

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rematch where he looked like a
leader.

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Like seriously, he was telling
John he's going to get his ass

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beat.
And JD and the Finn were backing

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it up and he looked like a
leader.

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And I was really happy to see
that because we really get that

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kind of side from Dom.
So for the leadership

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conversation to leap from Finn
Belore to live, who isn't really

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even an OG member, I have a
problem with it.

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Again, this is a personal rant
that maybe I'm taking this a

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little bit too seriously, but
this is a personal rant

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regarding Dom because Rhea had a
chance to run as as leader.

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Damien had a chance to run as
leader, as was the leader thing,

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you know, was kind of like the
de facto leader and it should go

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to Dom.
But instead Don's getting

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leapfrogged and going to live,
who again, is not an OG Judgment

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Day leader.
So I'm having a gripe with that

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as leader.
Again, that's just me

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personally.
And even and with this whole

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leader thing, remember there are
no leaders in Judgment Day.

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Remember that Finn brought this
up himself last week.

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So maybe this is another thing
that indicates that it might be

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live that gets kicked from
Judgment Day because Finn said

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there's no leaders.
And remember what happened when

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people start trying to act like
a leader, they get kicked.

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Maybe Finn has learned the error
of his ways and realized that he

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was trying to act too much like
a leader and dialed it back.

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So now that he's buddies buddies
back with Dom now now Liz is

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stepping up trying to be leader.
And again, what happens to

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leaders in judgment day?
And like.

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And this could be just a
foreshadowing that is going to

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be Lil getting kicked, not
Raquel and Raquel she'll just

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probably leave on her own.
Also, was it just me or was Liz

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crowd reaction not as loud as I
thought it would be?

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Like compare hers to Rea.
Like nobody really gets those

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reactions.
I agree it does.

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But when you listen to Liv, it
was kind of, I won't say it

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wasn't muted, it's just not what
I expected.

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Just something to think about.
And now let's get into the rest

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of Raw.
I'm going to come back and talk

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about Liv and Raquel in a little
bit, but I'm going to talk about

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the rest of Raw and what what
went down.

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Ria Ripley and EO Skye capture
the women's tag team titles

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expected.
This is going to keep Ria tied

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up with tag titles for a while
and away from the world title

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scene, which she desperately
needed.

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So I'm happy for this.
Hopefully Kyrie can get her

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storyline back on track where
she goes up against Oscar and

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can give me a good babyface out
of this.

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Uncle AJ Styles finally should
have gone through by slapping

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him.
I was thankful for that.

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Making Lynch recapture the
women's inner kind of little

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championship from Maxine Dupree.
Very lame.

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I do not like that.
And why did you just toss the

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title to Maxine just to give her
like that little month run, kind

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of like Tatum Paxley, only to go
back to Becky now I know Becky

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is probably going to be fighting
AJ Lee or something like that,

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but it's lame.
I don't like when people just

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get a title run like that short,
just toward to go back to the

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person, like give him a deep
like a little to you could give

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her a 2 month run, then toss
that to somebody else.

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And then what's going on now?
Ivy was saying Ivy, Nile was

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saying that she didn't want to
go to the back of the line for

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the Intercontinental
Championship.

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So now that Becky has it, what
happens?

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Ivy Nile, Ivy Nile is a heel.
Becky is a heel.

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So was that little blurb back
there backstage for nothing?

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Probably Nile.
You see what I mean?

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The whole thing was just lame to
me.

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Also, the Usos are still using
Jay's solo theme.

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They need to fix it.
They have USO Penitentiary use

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that fucking theme.
Why would Jimmy want to come out

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to Jay's theme song where it's
just saying it's just me us.

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Like come on we have USO
penitentiary.

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The USO Penitentiary theme song
is way better than Jay's theme

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song right now.
Even Jimmy's solo theme is

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better than James theme song.
Use USO Penitentiary or if you

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have to use Jay's theme, play
Jimmy singular theme first.

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You know, do that, do that and
then you could go into just meet

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USO.
Everybody can eat and run it

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back all the time.
Rey Mysterio finally remembered

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he has another protege in Dragon
Lee.

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He was talking to him backstage
along with Penta.

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I'm going to need Greg and Lee
to turn on Bray as his tradition

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because it's like like now all
of a sudden Ray Ray Ray

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remembers Dragon Lee exists.
Like come on dude.

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I need Dragon Lee to turn on.
I need Dragon Lee to turn on Ray

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and then he can hook up with.
That's what I need to happen.

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CM Punk retained his title
against Wrong Breaker with the

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help from Ray Penta and Dragon
Leaf so the Latin American

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exchange can hit nudge nudge.
Bob fought back the vision from

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interference, so they fought off
Logan Paul, Bronson Reed and

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Austin Theory.
But at least with this, Dragon

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League isn't in catering right
now.

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So I'm happy about that.
And I was really hoping to see

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LA Knight, but he didn't pop up.
OK, now, now here comes some

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predictions.
Now here's where where these

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crumbs are starting to form a
picture.

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Raquel.
OK, let's let's let me dial it

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back a little bit.
Liv might be getting kicked out.

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There are no leaders in Judgment
Day.

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You've been said that next week
is been trying to Is Liv trying

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to lead?
Is he trying to bring glory to

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the Judgment Day?
That's usually grounds for

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exile. 2 Raquel might leave on
her own.

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He's gaining confidence.
She's acting independently.

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She's doing things on her own.
She might feel that the Judgment

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Day is holding her back, so she
could just up and leave Judgment

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Day without getting kicked.
We haven't.

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Roxanne might get those tag team
title shots, but it depends on

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how long this besties act lasts.
We have to see if the Kabuki

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Warriors get a rematch.
We have to see if Liv and

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Roxanne are really up next in
line and see if they'll just do

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a little knob or something else
happens.

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So where are we heading now as
we get onto the Road to

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WrestleMania and heading into
the Royal Rumble?

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Here are my current predictions
right now with Ria, EO, and

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Becky having titles, the path is
clear for Judgment Day to focus

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on the Women's World title.
I predict Raquel will capture

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the women's title first.
I think there's now an easier

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pathway to this, especially with
Raquel beating down Stephanie.

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It will be easier for Raquel to
capture that women's world title

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now and I do think this happens.
At Royal, the Royal Rumble, like

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during the event itself.
So while everybody else is doing

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the Royal Rumble, like Liv is in
the Royal Rumble, Raquel is

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fighting Raquel, Raquel is
finding Stephanie and that's

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when she captures the women's
title.

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And then after this, this is
where I live, When's the Royal

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Rumble?
And when Liv, when the when's

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the Royal Rumble, she selects
Raquel as the person she wants

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to fight for the women's title.
And this could be where Raquel

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either gets kicks or leave or
Liv thinks that Raquel is just

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going to lay down for her.
And that's not going to be the

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case because remember, Raquel is
going through this

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transformation.
And she's like, that doesn't

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work for me, brother.
And she and Raquel and Liv

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really start feuding.
Wild card in this is Roxanne

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Perez.
I'm not sure what she's going to

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do.
I would think she would be going

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for the Intercontinental
Championship if Maxine Dupree

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had retained against Becky.
But since it's gone to Becky

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that title, Roxanne is kind of
in limbo right now.

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She can still be around as Liz,
little proto giant protege,

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little doggy, and she might
still want to stay around

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because she wants to stay on the
good side and wants to be close

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to Dom.
She could do a number of things.

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She could be while Liv is
fighting Raquel and wants her

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world title, maybe Roxanne is
doing some things in the

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background with Dom.
That's always the possibility.

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Maybe this is what distracts Liv
in the future where she wants

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this revenge tour 2.0 You see
what I mean?

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She could have it where live is
all about.

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It could be something like live
is all about.

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The title ignores Dom and he
gets lonely and he starts having

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the wandering eye like Eddie
does and starts looking at

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Roxanne as a viable option.
Or they've already had something

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established and then they just
keep sneaking around under these

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lips, nose.
Or they could have it where Lib

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is just worried about Dom and
Roxanne because Roxanne, you

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know, she's also focused about
this world title, that she's

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pretty much leaving Roxanne to
do whatever she wants.

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Or we still have that obsession
angle, but Roxanne, that

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obsession angle, Allah, AJ Lee
can still happen.

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So there's many possibilities on
where this can go.

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This is why I don't say this is
not just a straight up cheating

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situation with Donald Roxanne.
It can go a lot of different

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ways.
I kind of want, I kind of wanted

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Dom and Lib.
Me personally, I kind of wanted

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Dom and Lib to use Roxanne and
it makes Roxanne crazy and then

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she's becomes obsessive and then
that just starts all kinds of

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shit.
That's where I kind of wanted it

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to go.
But now, I mean, you can go a

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lot of different ways and we
will have to see on this Road to

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WrestleMania on where they take
it, especially if you take the

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dirt sheets.
And remember, I always say with

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the huge grain of salt, they say
they want to put Lib as a

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centerpiece for the WrestleMania
season and as single contention.

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And Dom was not mentioned in
that report.

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So it will be interesting to see
what goes down during

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WrestleMania.
And Finn Blore, my poor beloved

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stepdaddy and demented demon,
needs something to do.

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I need him to step up and start
challenging.

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Either see him Punk, he needs to
go.

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He needs to go do something.
I'm not sure what.

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I know Dom and JD are out
injured, but he can be doing

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something right now.
Something, I don't know what,

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but something and that was raw.
We will see how things turn out.

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Hopefully we get some more
advancement.

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I do think we need more major
moments.

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We're getting a lot of bear
crumbs and the bed crumbs are

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being really, really significant
and that's cool, but we need

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major substance.
Like we've had this brick Chrome

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for a long time.
It's been a year.

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We need major moments to start
happening now.

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Like it's just start rapidly
building up with the judgement

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day and we're not getting it and
it's getting really slow and

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it's really frustrating.
So I really get it when it comes

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to Judgement Day, when people
just get tired of it because

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it's just really, really slow
and you have to have to be

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really dedicated to it.
So, and even I get to the point

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of like, OK, let's wrap it up,
let's get to another point,

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let's get to another plot point.
But that was wrong.