{"id":84568,"date":"2021-02-08T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=84568"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:37:33","slug":"preview-wwe-monday-night-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/08\/preview-wwe-monday-night-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE \u2013 Monday Night RAW (02\/08\/2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday Night RAW<\/strong> returns once more.\u00a0 As the weeks continue to pass at near-lightning speed, we can continue to count on WWE<\/strong>‘s flagship show to continue to provide us with plenty of talking points.\u00a0 In typical WWE fashion, only one match has been announced for tonight’s show.\u00a0 As usual, expect a preview of the solely-announced match and plenty of speculation as to what else may occur.\u00a0 It just so happens that tonight’s match is a 2020 throwback.\u00a0 That’s right.\u00a0 If you thought 2020 was gone forever, you are mistaken.\u00a0 Let us dive right in!<\/p>\n

Charlotte Flair and Lacey Evans Meet Face-to-Face on RAW<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In what has been a strange, new addition to WWE’s growing collection of strange, new rivalries is Charlotte Flair<\/strong> and Lacey Evans<\/strong>.\u00a0 In recent weeks, Lacey Evans has been courting the attention of that dashing, young lothario, Ric Flair<\/strong>.\u00a0 The dashing, young lothario is also seventy-one<\/em> years of age.\u00a0 Additionally, Lacey Evans is married and as early as last year, was focused on being a role model to her children.\u00a0 Of course, none of this storyline appears to make sense.\u00a0 However, Lacey Evans is being a good heel in this feud and is clearly playing mind-games with Charlotte in an attempt to derail her comeback.\u00a0 It is a fun, if not mindless feud but at least it is something new.\u00a0 Will this all backfire on Lacey in the long run? You bet.<\/p>\n

Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The aforementioned match inspired by last year’s lengthy rivalry is none other than Randy Orton<\/strong> versus WWE Champion, Drew McIntyre<\/strong>.\u00a0 You may remember that Orton actually overcame McIntyre at last year’s Hell in a Cell<\/strong><\/em> pay-per-view. and was briefly WWE Champion as a result.\u00a0 This proved pointless, however, and led to Drew recapturing the championship for his second (and current) reign on the November 16th edition of Monday Night RAW.\u00a0 Not long after, Randy’s feud with The Fiend<\/strong> would begin.\u00a0 A few bizarre promos, some burns and a human sacrifice later led us back to here.\u00a0 Drew, meanwhile, has entered into a feud with his (now former) friend and drinking buddy, Sheamus<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is the feud the WWE have been building for months now and should be one of WWE’s top priorities heading into WrestleMania<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Randy Orton is, presumably, still in a feud with Bray Wyatt<\/strong> and therefore it doesn’t make too much sense for him to go over here.\u00a0 Expect Drew to win.\u00a0 However, don’t be too shocked if Sheamus costs Drew the match.\u00a0 Stranger things have happened in the WWE in recent times, like human sacrifices and the gouging of eyes.\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n

Not Announced But Expected For Tonight’s RAW<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Maybe a Keith Lee<\/strong> return?<\/p>\n

– Alexa Bliss<\/strong> continues to play mind-games with The Viper.\u00a0 So what’s next?<\/p>\n

– Bobby Lashley<\/strong> and Riddle<\/strong> will no doubt continue their feud.\u00a0 Will Riddle get revenge for last week?<\/p>\n

– Damian Priest<\/strong> and Bad Bunny<\/strong> have become unlikely allies in Bad Bunny’s rivalry with The<\/strong> Miz<\/strong> and John Morrison<\/strong>.\u00a0 Will we get more this week?<\/p>\n

– Is Asuka<\/strong> even going to have an opponent at WrestleMania<\/em>? If not Bianca Belair<\/strong>, then who?<\/p>\n

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Monday Night RAW returns once more.\u00a0 As the weeks continue to pass at near-lightning speed, we can continue to count on WWE‘s flagship show to continue to provide us with plenty of talking points.\u00a0 In typical WWE fashion, only one match has been announced for tonight’s show.\u00a0 As usual, expect a preview of the solely-announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":84570,"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":[168,229,3015,1445,183,224,403,6558,686,270,740,7443,58,51,469,6984,7444],"class_list":["post-84568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-alexa-bliss","tag-asuka","tag-bad-bunny","tag-bianca-belair","tag-bobby-lashley","tag-bray-wyatt","tag-charlotte-flair","tag-damian-priest","tag-drew-mcintyre","tag-keith-lee","tag-lacey-evans","tag-miz-and-morrison","tag-randy-orton","tag-raw","tag-ric-flair","tag-riddle","tag-wwe-preview"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84568","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=84568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}