Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I'm Oli Davis.
Women's Revolution The main event of last night's Raw saw Alexa
Bliss take on Sasha Banks for the Women's Championship.
The story going into the match was that Banks always loses her title defences - which would
usually set up the babyface triumphantly overcoming their past faults and finally retaining.
Instead, Bliss won by beating Banks clean.
Bewildered?
You're not the only one, with Sasha's best friend forever Bayley tweeting:
"I'm so confused" But that wasn't the only befuddling part
of last night's show.
Real Reason Behind John Cena Vs Roman Reigns Feud
The Dirty Sheets reported yesterday that WWE were planning for John Cena to face Samoa
Joe at the Raw-exclusive show No Mercy, and Roman Reigns would be feuding with The Miz.
Reigns would eventually beat Miz for the Intercontinental title, becoming a modern day Grand Slam champion
in WWE.
But while the Grand Slam plans for Reigns might still be in place, it won't be happening
at No Mercy - because Reigns and Cena signed a contract on last night's Raw to wrestle
at the September show.
So what happened to the previously reported plans, and why is No Mercy - a traditionally
B-level pay-per-view - now stacked with Wrestlemania calibre matches Cena vs Reigns and Brock Lesnar
vs Braun Strowman?
The Dirty Sheets are now reporting the plan going into Monday was for Reigns and Cena
to face off on Raw, but they'd get interrupted by Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson - which
still happened on the episode.
But upon beating them, Kurt Angle would then make The Golden Shovels the No. 1 contenders
to Oooh Kingslayer Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose's tag team championships.
Cena and Reigns would win the tag titles at No Mercy, drop them at TLC, and face off against
each other in a singles match at Survivor Series.
This all changed on Monday morning, though, when Cena apparently told WWE officials he
would no longer be available past No Mercy because of the shooting schedule for his Transformers
spin-off movie Bumblebee.
The article notes that ever since the botched reverse exploder suplex from Shinsuke Nakamura
onto John's neck, executive producer and Hasbo CEO Brian Goldner "is strongly opposed
to Cena competing during filming".
What complicates the situation even further is that, after No Mercy, Brock Lesnar isn't
scheduled to appear for WWE until the Royal Rumble build next year.
In the Beast's absence, WWE were relying on the Cena vs Reigns storyline to carry Raw
through TLC and Survivor Series.
Cena vs Reigns at No Mercy was apparently only confirmed at 4pm on Monday, just several
hours before Raw went live, and John was reportedly very involved in writing the worked shoot
promos for the episode.
The timeline checks out, as earlier in the day, PWInsider reported that along with the
Battle Royal to decide the Intercontinental Title No. 1 contender - which did take place
- Cena would be facing Samoa Joe in their first ever singles match in WWE.
But then at 4.15pm, WWE's official Twitter account announced the Cena and Reigns No Mercy
contract signing, but made no mention of the Samoa Joe fight.
Sadly, another reason is behind the match being scrapped.
Samoa Joe Injured Both PWInsider and F4WOnline are reporting
Samoa Joe suffered a knee injury at Saturday's house show in Arkansas, causing him to miss
the following night's live event in Mississippi.
He will reportedly be out of action from between four to six weeks, which is why Joe didn't
appear on Raw.
Did John Cena bury Roman Reigns on Raw?
And was their promo segment better than CM Punk's infamous Pipebomb?
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