{"id":79011,"date":"2020-11-15T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=79011"},"modified":"2020-11-15T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:13:35","slug":"preview-wwe-monday-night-raw-11-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/11\/15\/preview-wwe-monday-night-raw-11-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE \u2013 Monday Night RAW (11\/16\/2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday Night RAW<\/strong> is back once again.\u00a0 This coming RAW is the go-home show for the upcoming <em><strong>Survivor Series<\/strong><\/em> PPV and features a main event with strong implications for the cross-brand show.\u00a0 <strong>Randy Orton<\/strong> faces <strong>Drew McIntyre<\/strong> in a rematch from<em><strong> Hell in a Cell<\/strong><\/em>; with the winner claiming the <strong>WWE<\/strong> Championship and going on to face <strong>SmackDown<\/strong>&#8216;s Universal Champion, <strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong>.\u00a0 It has been a theme in recent years that a last-minute title changed has happened just before Survivor Series.\u00a0 This led to <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong> and<strong> Daniel Bryan<\/strong> facing <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> (replacing <strong>Jinder Mahal<\/strong> and Styles himself).\u00a0 Can Drew McIntyre pull off something similar? We shall see.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s begin the preview!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The New Day vs The Hurt Business<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/New-Day-vs-Hurt-Business.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/New-Day-vs-Hurt-Business.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/New-Day-vs-Hurt-Business-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two biggest factions in the WWE today face off once again. Last week,<strong>\u00a0Shelton Benjamin<\/strong> and <strong>Cedric Alexander<\/strong> earned an opportunity to take <strong>Kofi Kingston<\/strong> and <strong>Xavier Woods<\/strong>&#8216; RAW Tag Team championships away.\u00a0 Since moving to RAW in the recent draft, the <strong>Hurt Business<\/strong> made it their mission to establish dominance over the <strong>New Day<\/strong>.\u00a0 Without <strong>Big E<\/strong>, who remained on SmackDown, this task has become a whole lot more difficult for the New Day.\u00a0 The<strong> Hurt Business<\/strong> are on fire and look primed to take the titles away to <em>Survivor Series<\/em>, where they would face the<strong> Street Profits<\/strong> (<strong>Angelo Dawkins<\/strong> and <strong>Montez Ford<\/strong>).\u00a0 This is sure to be a fun match and is certainly one not to miss.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RAW Main Event: Randy Orton (c) vs Drew McIntyre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79012 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/Randy-Orton-vs-Drew-McIntyre.jpg\" alt=\"RAW\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/Randy-Orton-vs-Drew-McIntyre.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/Randy-Orton-vs-Drew-McIntyre-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drew McIntyre has become something resembling the Face of the WWE in 2020.\u00a0 He has the look, he has the talent, and this year, he has proven he has the charisma to be the main guy.\u00a0 With Roman Reigns now a certified heel on SmackDown, the role is Drew&#8217;s for the taking.\u00a0 Randy Orton has been around the WWE since 2002; no one in the company today has been as consistently dominant as he has.\u00a0 The top heel for much of the<strong> John Cena<\/strong> era, Randy very much still has a lot of gas left in the tank.\u00a0 However, is Randy really going to be the guy to face Roman Reigns at Survivor Series? Given Drew&#8217;s appearance on SmackDown, it certainly doesn&#8217;t look like it.\u00a0 Whereas nothing is certain, be prepared for a big title change here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0WWE fan? You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Night RAW is back once again.\u00a0 This coming RAW is the go-home show for the upcoming Survivor Series PPV and features a main event with strong implications for the cross-brand show.\u00a0 Randy Orton faces Drew McIntyre in a rematch from Hell in a Cell; with the winner claiming the WWE Championship and going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":79012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2192,25,3],"tags":[1170,69,686,165,553,1169,58,51,77,1838,325,6726,223,5452,47,551],"class_list":["post-79011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-angelo-dawkins","tag-cedric-alexander","tag-drew-mcintyre","tag-john-cena","tag-kofi-kingston","tag-montez-ford","tag-randy-orton","tag-raw","tag-roman-reigns","tag-shelton-benjamin","tag-survivor-series","tag-the-hurt-business","tag-the-new-day","tag-the-street-profits","tag-wwe","tag-xavier-woods"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}