earlier this year in june during the
performance center era of wwe
programming there was an outbreak of
kopit 19 with a reported 30-plus cases
within the company wrestlers were barred
from publicly revealing whether they'd
actually tested positive but
other on-screen personnel such as caleb
braxton renee young and adam pierced
all revealed they had it was an outbreak
that forced wwe to change their testing
methods from temperature checks in a
questionnaire to
actually testing for the virus itself
but despite this change it appears that
may not have been enough
to prevent another outbreak this time in
nxt unlike the main roster which has now
gone to the thunderdome nxt has
continued to tape
episode from full sail university and
it's now being reported by john
albert and corroborated by sean ross
sapp of fightful that an
outbreak in nxt did in fact take place
sometime
over the past couple of weeks the
outbreak reportedly forced wwe to change
creative plans and according to albus
some people within full sail have gotten
relaxed with mask wearing especially in
spots where some people congregate
and there was concern over that alba
went on to say the people have still
been testing positive as
recently as the weekend with the belief
being a coach
accidentally spread it it's not known
yet how many people have been affected
by this outbreak but it is a damning
indictment of continuing to take tv
during a pandemic even when you have
a full and proper testing regime as it
may not be enough
to prevent an outbreak speaking of the
thunderdome and this week saw the full
debut of the group known as retribution
and
oh boy we'll come on to that in a bit
and it looks like they're in for a big
main event push
pw insider is reporting that this year's
survivor series will be headlined by
retribution versus team wwe
a group of invaders from nxt taking on
team wwe in an elimination match
can't see that going wrong at all
interestingly there are five members of
the group with three lads and two lasses
so
could this be our first ever intergender
survivor series main event
what we need is someone to stop
retribution a big wwe return
someone who can come back and put a stop
to their dastardly ways
more you know him according to wrestle
votes robert rood who's been away for
months is expected to return to raw
within the next week or two
possibly even tonight well as he didn't
return on last night's episode of raw we
can expect him in the next couple of
weeks
probably on raw underground or something
rude has been out of action since
lockdown as he was stranded in canada
unable to travel to the united states
but
now he's able to i guess and speaking of
stuff that doesn't make any sense
here's a review of last night's raw in
about
five minutes
raw opened with the group known as
retribution showing how
dartly they can be by messing with wwe's
intro and putting vhs effects on a
digital file
their actions know no bounds and
apparently they have no bounds
officially as the commentators revealed
retribution
have wwe contracts and can do
whatever they want whenever they want
the group whose sole mission
is to destroy wwe have been
hired by wwe
cool this group through molotov
cocktails broke windows with cinder
blocks and tore up a ring with a
chainsaw
and wwe thought to themselves better
sign those guys to contracts and pay
them they also took off their mask to
reveal themselves as
bane casey jones the baddie from mad max
fury road and a couple of anti-mass
protesters who are super angry at
walmart's staff and post selfies online
to own the libs we also found out later
they've got new names and they're
just as lame as you think they can be
dominic dejakovic has been renamed to
t-bar d.o madden is now mace and shane
thorne is
slapjack this is doa
levels of lame i went to wwe.com to see
if mia yim and mercedes martinez have
got new names but
they're just still listed as themselves
which shows you how seriously wwe are
taking this angle i guess
her business came out for a fight and a
match was made later on
this was not a good debut for the group
like i know they've been around for
months but this is the first time we've
seen their faces
and them being booked in a match and it
all feels so
lame and try hard and the plot hole of
these guys getting wwe contracts
from wwe and are being paid by wwe
despite the fact they hate wwe
and hate the people who are paid by wwe
is simply
ludicrous speaking of storylines that
suck and andrade and angel gaza are now
back on the same page
why well at least they'll probably
implode in the tag match against seth
rollins and i'm not your buddy murphy
guy and dominic mysterio and alberto
korea for a shot at the street profits
because there is
no way wwe would book that magic up no
wait they won and will face the street
profits for the raw tag team
championships at clash of champions
again this is their eighth match
in various combinations in the last nine
weeks and gaza has been having matches
for the tag titles against the street
profits
since wrestlemania i am so
ready to move on to something new after
battling him for years
inside and outside of brutal matches
like hell on the cell and a ladder match
where one of them would be fired less
than a year ago kevin owens just
welcomed shane mcmahon onto the ko show
and said it was all water under the
bridge
kane was there to promote the raw
underground match between braun strowman
and yabba dabba kato
braun the train man came out for a war
of words and alistair black attacked
owens before the rematch
between drew mcintyre and keith lee it
was randy orton vs drew mcintyre in an
ambulance match for the wwe championship
at clash of champions but
if keith lee wins he'll get the shot but
only if orton can't compete but
if lee wins and orton can compete then
orton still gets the title shot and oh
no i've gone cross-eyed
doesn't matter anyway because the match
ended in a dq fun fact four out of six
keith lee matches on raw have either
ended in a dq
or no contest keith lee deserves better
orton cut a decent promo saying he was
always going to be a clash of champions
and he'll win the title mickie james
took on selena vega for a shot at oscar
at the pay-per-view with the
commentators basically
skipping over the botched finish of last
week vega won the short encounter which
is her first singles win in wwe since
the 7th of august 2018.
bianca bellaire showed how strong she is
in a video package and
our truth did some comedy with the 24 7
title that
i think ended with a kirito sour being
eaten by a shark
if you can't tell i was not that into
this episode of raw
and it didn't get much better
[Music]
we did get a decent match between apollo
crews and cedric alexander
the former of which will be challenging
bobby lashley for the united states
championship this sunday
cedric distracted himself by looking at
ricochet and cruz pinned him her
business attacked the good guys after
the match so
their heels here but faces against
retribution i think
dolph ziggler beat arturo luas in a raw
underground match at least i think he
did it was shot so poorly and then
seth rollins came out for a promo in a
segment of two halves the first half was
exceptionally terrible with rollins
revealing to the mysterio
family that dominic mysterio isn't in
fact rey's son because rollins did a dna
test like he's jeremy kyle oh no wait
sorry i appear to be reading my raw
notes from
15 years ago when eddie guerrero and ray
did this exact same storyline amazingly
though i'm not kidding
they tried to re-run this story but then
they
didn't instead rollin said the dna test
was
wrong and that aaliyah isn't rey's
daughter because she showed compassion
for murphy last week ray cut
a promo for alir who got upset and
walked off and rollins apologized as he
didn't mean to break up this family
even though he clearly did look all the
ray isn't dominic's father stuff was
nonsense
but the earlier stuff and rollins
reaction was actually pretty
good and elia's acting later on in the
show when all the mysterio family
standing in a row was really nice as was
her reaction to murphy apologizing to
her again later in the show i'm
kind of into this storyline nia jax and
shayna basler quickly beat natalia and
lana then put lana through a table
riddick must be eric of the viking
raiders in raw underground
and selena vega caused a dq between
ascor and paige royce to build their
match this
sunday the big roar underground match
this week was braun the trainman vs
yabba dabba kato
man they've done a lot to build this
cato kid they've clearly got some big
plans for up no wait braun just won and
that's that i guess i hate raw
underground as much as tim quick hates
rick thunder
and tim quick really hates rick thunder
and in the main event
retribution of t-bar mason slapjack
took on the business hey guess what wwe
don't want to beat retribution in their
first match
and they don't want the hurt business to
lose but they booked the match anyway
so you know what they did dequeue
this was our third dq of the night
and was probably the lamest one when dio
madden i think he's mace
punched bobby lashley when he wasn't the
legal man
that that is lay a brawl broke out
between retribution and the raw locker
room at least i think he did it was shot
so poorly and orton laid out drew with
an rko
to end the show that was not a good
episode of raw it wasn't just the
lameness of retribution it wasn't just
garda and andrade continuing to feud
with the street profits
it wasn't just the first half of the
rollins and dominic mysterio stuff
it wasn't just lee losing by dq again
it wasn't just raw underground it wasn't
just
three lame dq finishes it was a
combination of all
of those things there was so little good
on this show and it was a
horrible build to the pay-per-view this
weekend it wasn't a
terrible show but it was really
frustrating
this week's raw is a low two out of five
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