WWE Monday Night Raw is soon at hand. Reportedly, WWE has already filmed the next few weeks worth of TV leading up to WrestleMania, and filming for the Show of Shows itself will commence on Wednesday and Thursday next week. But with so few hands and zero audience members to watch, there’s basically nobody that would spoil any of it. Certainly if you tried, it’d be much easier than usual to find out it was you. So it should be interesting to see if they actually manage to keep everything under wraps here. I’ll be avoiding spoilers regardless myself.
With the show but ten minutes away at the time of writing, let’s get a quick preview of what we have to expect. There’s not a whole lot of specifics announced for this one, and at this time there isn’t a single match set.
Brock Lesnar and Drew McIntyre to appear
They’re being advertised separately but I don’t think it’s a crazy assumption to think they go hand-in-hand with each other. Thus far in the build for this WWE Championship match, they’ve been pretty careful to ensure that McIntyre looks as strong as possible. He’s stood tall in basically every interaction with Lesnar up to this point. They’re perhaps aware that after years of poor positioning on Raw and SmackDown – not counting the years in which he was released of course – Drew could really use all the help he could get in looking like a legit threat to someone like Brock Lesnar. But a WWE feud in which the heel never gets any heat is almost unfathomable. So let’s see what happens.
Randy Orton to answer Edge’s challenge
Last week we saw Edge open up the show and call out Randy Orton. He challenged him to a Last Man Standing match at WrestleMania, a pretty fitting stip for such an intense feud. The match almost needed to be No DQ seeing as the logical finish to this whole thing would be Edge hitting Orton with a Conchairto. Tonight it’s said that Orton will be appearing, and they ask whether or not he will accept the challenge. The answer will almost certainly be ‘yes’, unless he intends on challenging Edge to a yet more brutal stipulation. One rare positive out of current circumstances is that it seems to have gotten them to keep Edge and Orton separate, keeping them from touching any more ’til Mania. It’d be good if that held up.
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