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Except Charlotte's not undefeated at PPVs. If WWE had been so concerned about her undefeated streak from the get-go, they sure as hell wouldn't have had her lose in a meaningless tag match at Battleground and booked her to then take another loss to Sasha at SummerSlam before the injury concern raised its head.

I thought the story they told with Jericho and KO was really good tonight. In the first segments, we see KO being angry at the very insinuation that he needs Jericho to win and blows up their friendship because he is just such an arrogant ass. However, the moment KO then loses that match to Reigns and his title

The Cesaro/Sheamus bar fight was corny in an utterly enjoyable way while finally setting the two on the same page. With the addition of New Day constantly finding new desperation moves to retain their championship and march towards the Demolition record, I am honestly intrigued what will happen with the Raw tag team

That women's match was just insane in best way possible with a really unexpected outcome. While those two could honestly do that forever, but at the same time I do really want them to go to other feuds. So I am hoping they sidestep that rematch clause next week, especially since there are so few ways from them to

The approach this show takes with stakes and continuous storytelling just feels absurd at times.

At the moment it feels almost inevitable that we are going to see Lex on this show, which makes me really nervous. Lex is one of those really big bads who I think should be really limited in who defeats them, just like I don't want to see Ollie punching out the Joker on Arrow. However, the Lena story almost needs that

J'Onn: No, Kara. I may be transforming in to a horrible White Martian and I would apparently literally die than be a genetically evil being, also remember that racism is bad, but I will face my destiny as I don't want to cause any kind of distraction to the crucial work Eliza is doing in solving this great threat to

I continue to be amazed how big of an asset JBL continues to be for this show as his reactions and explanations just make things a lot better. Especially the moment after the Becky/Bliss/Dean segment from backstage when they cut to the announcement team with JBL looking over to the other guys and breathlessly going

I will be honest, that JeriKO swerve was one of the greatest moments in recent wrestling history for me. I was completely buying in to them splitting up before they brought up the true reason for the loss, who of course was Roman Reigns.

That women's promo segment was really weird, if highly entertaining due to Charlotte's heeling, as the first half of it seemed to be an almost carbon copy of the Charlotte/Sasha segment on the Monday after CoC where Sasha challenged Charlotte for the title. Fortunately the inclusion of Nia to it changed the dynamics a

What I really liked about the New Day breaking record is that it actually feels that they did learn something from year ago when Nikki broke the record by just not defending the title for two months while they were supposed to have this massive change in status quo.

That match was so many levels of greatness. When Rollins climbed to the railing, I felt my love for Rollins increase so very, very much.

Something I utterly loved in this Raw was that they had a hot PPV last night and had all this momentum going for here and instead of trying to go for the fireworks, even if that main even was all levels of awesome, they instead focused on creating bases for their stories going forward and making certain there was

As a die-hard Batman fan, I felt mortally offended when the show compared James as Guardian to Batman in any way. Also, the fact that they confirmed Batman exists in this verse raises really interesting questions for the Arrowverse.

In comics or on TV, the White Martian storyline always makes me really uncomfortable. We get all these messages how wrong it is to judge people by their nation, religion or skin color, but then the fact that there might be one White Martian that it isn't utterly evil is treated as a huge revelation.

There was a small detail in Corbin's attack during the Cruiserweight match that I didn't catch first, but which was just brilliant.

I thought the women's match was fun, even if somewhat unmemorable and showing of the vast difference in skill among the current women, but I was slightly frustrated how easily Becky went down at the end. Partially because I think Becky really needs to be shown as someone strong as Smackdown has been really weird with

While the tag team elimination match was a bit messy, that final stretch with Sheamus/Cesaro was pure awesomeness as I didn't know I needed that match as much as I did. And the aftermatch interaction when Cesaro thought Sheamus finally on board with him was just heartwarming.

I really enjoyed the PPV and that men's elimination tag match was just fantastic, it might be, for me, the best I've seen. It's even better than the Ziggler comeback as they had so many chaotic storyline elements managing to run there and pay off. Of course the exception is that spot where Shane got injured, but even

What I absolutely love is that Maryse has been instrumental in Miz's IC title victories, but they keep coming up with these new, creative ways for her to interfere on his behalf. It isn't just distracting the referee, it is seeing an opportunity no one else could think of.