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Steve Notes RAW 8/30/21

Priest comes out, says he’s gonna carry on the tradition of the US title like Rey, Jeff Hardy and Cena. He calls for the open challenge. Sheamus comes out, says his Brogue kick is gonna get that title back. Drew comes out, says he’s had all the other titles, but not the US, so HE wants to answer the open challenge. Bobby Lashley comes out, MVP says maybe Bobby wants to be double champ. RKBRO come out, Randy says everything MVP said SUCKED. Orton calls Lashley greedy, he wants something he can’t have, a second championship. Lashley says hey, I do want a second title, maybe I should take yr tag titles. Riddle says him and Orton should have an open challenge against MVP and Lashley, Orton says that’s not how open challenges work, MVP says wait, yeah, let’s do it- talks break down, Sonya and Pearce come out, they make the matches. Drew vs. Priest vs. Sheamus for the US title, HB vs RKBRO for the tag titles.

Rhea vs. Shayna Baszler

Rhea has Nikki in her corner

Nia gets on the mic, says something like by the end of this match, she’ll splatter both Rhea and Nikki all over the mat and around the ring, and is gonna do the same with Nia

Wow, Shayna kicked out of a rollup

Shayna kinda dominates Rhea, til Rhea catches a kick, Rhea hits a bunch of rainmakers, Shayna almost gets an armbar, Rhea gets to the rope, Shayna goes for KClutch, Rhea counters into almost a Ripetide, but gets distracted by Nia laying out Nikki, Rhea gets rolled up by Shayna, but she reverses it into a rollup of her own for the win

**½

Right after, Nia attacks Rhea, but Shayna is pissed

War Raiders talk about being Vikings raid raid raid

War Raiders vs. Jinder & Veer

Raiders pin Jinder with Viking Experience

**½

Drew vs. Sheamus vs. Priest

This is wild fun, they do that great bit where Drew is in the tree of woe and curls up to hit a german on sheamus, but he has priest in a suplex position so they all go

Priest wants Reckoning on Drew, Sheamus hits BK, sending him out, Drew hits FS DDT on Sheamus, loads up Claymore on Sheamus, Sheamus counters with knee strike for 2

Sheamus hits white noise from the top, Priest breaks it up

Priest wants Reckoning on Sheamus, Drew comes in with Claymore as Priest moves so it hits Sheamus, Drew hits Glasgow kiss, Priest maneuvers for Reckoning on Drew for 3

****¼

HELLUVA Match

After the match, Drew shakes Priest’s hand. That dude is hella going to Smackdown.

Goldberg/Lashley video package

Goldberg interview digital exclusive, says he doesn’t want the WWE title, he just wants Lashley’s soul and he’s gonna rip it from his chest

Reggie in the park again, he talks about his boyhood dream being travelling the world. Truth and Tozawa are dressed like a blond kid and a dog

Reggie gets away again

Eva Marie vs. Doudrop

Doudrop destroys Eva Marie before the bell even rings, she counts her own three, the ref calls the match off, then DD goes down and gets a mic, says the winner of this match, doudrop!

Charlotte interview on the way to the ring, long live the queen

Karrion Kross vs. Humberto Carillo

Carillo gets some shit in, Kross’s straps stay on this time, he taps out Carillo with kross Jacket

Nia interview, she’s gonna crush anyone that gets in her way

RKBRO backstage, Riddle asks how he’s supposed to list everything he’s good at on a resume, Orton says lets just stay on the same page. This was funny stuff.

Nia vs Charlotte

Nia uses her power to dominate early after Char was playing coy

Nia showboats, Char able to get a headlock and hold on to it, til Nia hits a shoulder block

Nia hits a nasty spinebuster, tries to pin, Char rolls out to the outside

Char launches a funsplash over the top rope

Nia hits a samoan drop, misses a legdrop, Char slaps her, Nia slaps her back

JESUS Nia hits a NASTY one arm power bomb

Riddle/Orton Recap

Morrison says Miz backed out of his match, but he wanted to prove he was the bigger man, so he asked for a match against the biggest man he knows, OMOS, and he’s telling this to Omos.

Omos says sucks to be you.

Omos vs. Morrison

Omos pretty much dominates this, screams THIS IS MY HOUSE to Morrison before hitting his finish

AJ Styles vs. Xavier Woods

This is a banger match, AJ works the knee of Xavier and gets him in the calf crusher, Xavier gets SO close to the ropes, but can’t get there

***½

After the match, Riddle and Orton come out for their match

Orton/Riddle vs. Lashley/MVP

MVP gets isolated and destroyed for thefirst half of this match, with Randy stickin it to Lashley whenever he can, hits a draping DDT allowing MVP to come to and get the upper hand and tag lashley in

Riddle tags in, hits floating bro on lashley, MVP comes in and stomps Riddle’s foot

Lashley tries to post Orton, he counters by posting Lashley, Omos grabs Orton by the throat, Riddle dropkicks him off, AJ attacks Orton, but he gets dumped on the table, Riddle hits Floating Bro on MVP for the win

After the match, Lashley spears Riddle, but then gets RKO’d by Orton

SOLID MATCH

***¾

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