WWE Raw – February 4, 2019 (Review)

What was your favourite moment from Raw?

Emma Heeley

In the space of seven days, Dean Ambrose has gone from being a guy who got lost in the shuffle after a horrendously botched heel turn, to a guy who (I think) got the second loudest pop of the night bar Becky Lynch. It’s amazing what handing in your notice can do.

He managed to turn another naff talk show segment into something really amusing that did make me laugh out loud. I do enjoy sassy Dean. On a side note: I do feel Nia Jax’s pain…  I too find it hard to control myself around Ambrose’s raw sexual magnetism.

Dylan Kapisky

Tag Team Revival? I’ll be honest, I struggled to pick the best part of Raw. Not because the show was bad – in fact, I enjoyed this episode – but because despite nothing being very bad, there was nothing that stood out as particularly great either.

The closest the show got to excellent was the four corners tag match. Heavy Machinery were given the chance to shine against the Lucha House Party, B Team, and eventual winners, The Revival. The action was fast, smooth, and entertaining. It was a bit let down by the result, because it feels like The Revival have had a billion chances at the titles, but that doesn’t take away from the match itself. It’s just one show, but maybe, just maybe, tag team wrestling will be taken seriously.

JP Wood

Alicia Fox and Nikki Cross vs. Bayley and Sasha Banks entertained me more than anything else on the show managed to do. I was impressed with the Franken-team of Cross and Fox. They made a weird kind of sense together and shared some real chemistry as a team.

The pre-intro beat-down was fantastic as well, as it gave Bayley a chance to shine in what really amounted to a 2-on-1 handicap match for the most part.

Kyle Payne

The entire opening segment between Becky Lynch and Stephanie McMahon was great. Becky being the babyface who refuses to see a doctor because she is hurt more than she is letting on and probably won’t be cleared, and Stephanie McMahon pretending to care about her was a great dynamic. Becky is over, her punch to the throat is over, and everyone knows that she actually is ‘The Man’. There is no one hotter in the company and if they continue to push her and stand behind her, she could lead them into another golden era for the company.

The highlight of this opening segment – I have to give credit where it’s due – has to go to Ronda Rousey, who told Becky Lynch that her injury only required ice and Advil.

Speaking of Rousey, her matches with Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan were fresh and the tease of her facing Riott is intriguing. I also loved the tag match, especially Heavy Machinery, though The Revival picking up the win was the right call all things considered. Now WWE just has to put the title match in a good spot on a PPV with plenty of time and, together with Chad Gable and Bobby Roode, they’ll potentially steal the show.

The interaction between Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins was great too. I loved how Ryder addressed his name being spelled wrong and how, together, they plan on pulling themselves out of obscurity to become winners again.

5 years ago by Nicholas Holicki

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