The guys all liked the promo segment between The Miz, Seth Rollins and Finn Balor. However, Hamin finds fault in Rollins’ and Balor’s in-ring work. He points out that the “double down” spot has been brutally butchered lately, with Balor no-selling a hard shot in order to hit his Pele Kick before falling to the mat. Another bad spot like this is Rollins or Owens buckle bombing Reigns into the corner, only for Reigns to no-sell it and jump back out into a Superman Punch. Hamin says that great workers don’t do this type of thing, and it’s 100% rotten.
Russo had an issue with the way RAW ended. He points out that Heyman cut a scathing promo when he knew Reigns was in the building, and then Reigns came out and did nothing. Reigns should have dropped Heyman on his head but WWE wants him to be a babyface, and dropping Heyman on his head would get Reigns some significant heat from “smark” fans.
Richards thought Reigns was going to take the Universal Title and walk away with it, making Lesnar furious and causing some significant interest in next week’s RAW. He points out that WWE could have copied a segment from the attitude era by having Reigns show up on the video screen standing on a bridge, where he’d throw Lesnar’s Title into the river like Austin did with The Rock’s Title many years ago.
