The GOAT has left us in the real WWE, lets see how he leaves my WWE Universe… maybe…
Firstly, with us coming off the back of a dramatic Survivor Series, I think its about time we took a look at the latest rosters, and a few changes across both Raw and SmackDown…
‘Wyatt Sicks’ – Uncle Howdy, Nikki Cross, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, Dexter Lumis
World Heavyweight Champion: John Cena
Women’s World Champion: Rhea Ripley
Intercontinental Champion: Bron Breakker
Women’s Intercontinental Champion: Roxanne Perez
World Tag Team Champions: ‘The New Day’ – Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods
CM Punk, Seth Rollins, Gunther, Damian Priest, Mr Money In The Bank: Drew McIntyre
Nia Jax, Iyo Sky, ‘The Kabuki Warriors’ – Asuka & Kairi Sane, Becky Lynch, Stephanie Vaquer, Lyra Valkyria, Zoey Stark, ‘Judgment Day’s’ Liv Morgan (with Dominik Mysterio) & Raquel Rodriguez
PENTA, Ilja Dragunov, ‘LwO’s’ Rey Mysterio, Bronson Reed, ‘American Made’s’ Chad Gable
‘American Made’s’ ‘The Creed Brothers’ – Brutus Creed & Julius Creed (with Ivy Nile), ‘War Raiders’ – Erik & Ivar, ‘LwO’s’ – Cruz Del Toro & Joaquin Wilde (with Zelina Vega), ‘Judgment Day’s’ – Finn Balor & JD McDonaugh, ‘Alpha Academy’ – Otis & Akira Tozawa (with Maxxine Dupri)
Sheamus, ‘LwO’s’ Dragon Lee, R-Truth, Jordynne Grace, Ludwig Kaiser, Pete Dunne, The Miz, Natalya
THE ROCK
WWE Champion: Cody Rhodes
WWE Women’s Champion: Tiffany Stratton
United States Champion: Aleister Black
Women’s United States Champion: Chelsea Green
WWE Tag Team Champions: ‘Street Profits’ – Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins
‘The Bloodline’s’ Roman Reigns (with Paul Heyman) & Sami Zayn, ‘MFT’s’ Solo Sikoa & Jacob Fatu, Omos
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: Bayley & Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill, ‘The Secret Hervice’s’ Piper Niven & Alba Fyre, Bianca Belair & B-Fab, Lash Legend, Michin, Kiana James
LA Knight, Carmelo Hayes, Shinsuke Nakamura, LOGAN PAUL, ETHAN PAGE
Kevin Owens & Randy Orton, ‘The Bloodline’s’ – ‘The Usos’ (Jimmy & Jey), ‘DIY’ – Tomasso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano, ‘MFT’s’ Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa, ‘Pretty Deadly’ – Kit Wilson & Elton Prince
‘MCMG’ – Alex Shelly & Chris Sabin, Apollo Crews, GUILIA, Austin Theory, Grayson Waller, Shawn Spears, Candice LeRae
We are on our way to PAYBACK, that is in BOSTON, MASS by the way… and remember, John Cena (our World Heavyweight Champion), has said he will retire whenever the day comes that he loses that title… So… lets see how both Raw and SmackDown make it to our final PLE of the calendar year…
RAW – DECEMBER WEEK 1
John Cena comes out for an in-ring promo, soon Drew McIntyre interrupts, and he announces that he is to cash in his MITB, against Cena… for a title match at PAYBACK!
Iyo Sky beats Roxanne Perez to win the Women’s Intercontinental Championship
‘Wyatt Sicks vignette’ talking about family, and ‘gift giving at festive time’, and ‘togetherness’. The vignette is interspersed with clips of The Judgment Day bickering and shading one another…
‘American Made’ (Chad Gable) backstage interview “tonight, our ascension to the Tag Team Championship officially begins”
‘American Made’ (Creeds with Gable & Ivy Nile) beat ‘War Raiders’ – Gable cheats to help Creeds win
Rhea Ripley backstage interview (on the contender’s battle royal taking place later tonight)
PENTA – Bron Breakker vignette
Bron Breakker (C) defeated PENTA to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Gunther in-ring promo, Rey Mysterio comes out, and they go back and forth verbally…
‘The New Day’ backstage interview, Sheamus comes in, and they go back and forth verbally…
Sheamus beats Pete Dunne – Sheamus offers a handshake to Dunne, Dunne is unsure, but then New Day attack Sheamus, Dunne could help Sheamus, but he is unsure, but in that time… R-TRUTH runs out to make the save!
Becky Lynch backstage interview, before…
Nia Jax won a battle Royal against Becky Lynch, Raquel Rodriguez, Asuka, Stephani Vaquer, Lyra Valkyria, Zoey Stark, Natalya, Liv Morgan & Jordynne Grace to become number one contender for the Women’s World Championship
CM Punk in-ring promo, calls out Seth Rollins, he then comes out, they go back and forth verbally (VERY passionately), and then get into a huge brawl to close the show!
SMACKDOWN – DECEMBER WEEK 1
Solo Sikoa (and the rest of The MFTs) comes out to the ring, he cuts a fiery in-ring promo, Street Profits then come out, and they set up the tag title match for the main event later in the night…
(Tiffany Stratton comes out to join commentary) for… Jade Cargill beats Lash Legend & Bianca Belair in a triple threat match to become number one contender for the WWE Women’s Championship
Bayley & Charlotte backstage, Chelsea Green interrupts them, they argue back and forth, B-Fab comes in and she also has it out verbally with Green, and they set up a match for later in the night…
LA Knight in-ring promo, LOGAN PAUL interrupts! They go back and forth verbally, then get into a match, but that ends in a no contest, as ETHAN PAGE attacks LA Knight
Kevin Owens & Randy Orton backstage, they see ‘Street Profits’, and they go back and forth verbally
Cody Rhodes comes out to the ring for an in-ring promo, Solo Sikoa interrupts, and then Jacob Fatu attacks Cody from behind
Shawn Spears defeated Apollo Crews
After an ad break, a battered Cody Rhodes is backstage, when he bumps into Shawn Spears… Spears smirks at Rhodes, and raises an eyebrow (in the fashion of The Rock…), and then walks off…
Chelsea Green (C) beats B-Fab to retain the Women’s United States Championship
Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa backstage (with the rest of the MFTs), before…
In a match where Solo & Jacob came out, before Owens & Orton come out to see them off, Cody Rhodes comes out looking for revenge on Fatu, before OMOS comes out to attack Cody Rhodes, the end result is… Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa beat ‘Street Profits’ to win the WWE Tag Team Championship
RAW – DECEMBER WEEK 2
Nia Jax in-ring promo, Rhea Ripley interrupts, back and forth…
Rey Mysterio beats Ludwig Kaiser – Gunther attacks Rey after the match, until the rest of the LwO run out to make the save, Gunther and Kaiser leave the ring before the LwO run in.
Drew McIntyre backstage, R-Truth runs in to him, and the two talk back and forth, Truth challenges Drew to a match later tonight!
Asuka & Kairi Sane (with Iyo Sky) beat Becky Lynch & Lyra Valkyria – for the win, Asuka uses the mist on Becky, Iyo is in shock, this cements both of The Kabuki Warriors ‘heel turn’.
Bron Breakker backstage interview – Bronson Reed stares him down after/interrupts with
CM Punk in-ring promo (on Seth Rollins)
Ilja Dragunov defeated Pete Dunne
The New Day attack Sheamus backstage! R-Truth runs in to make the save, but New Day flee before…
The Judgment Day cut an in-ring promo, they call out the Wyatt Sicks for a match at Payback! The Wyatt Sicks respond on the titantron with a promo, accepting their challenge!
Drew McIntyre defeated R-Truth – Drew tries to beat down Truth after, but JOHN CENA runs out to make the save!
Nia Jax beats Rhea Ripley in a Backstage Brawl! – Jax pulverises Ripley!
SMACKDOWN – DECEMBER WEEK 2
Roman Reigns (with Paul Heyman) in-ring promo, THE ROCK comes in and they go back and forth on the mic!
Bayley & Charlotte Flair (C) beat ‘The Secret Hervice’ to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship
Aleister Black vignette
Carmelo Hayes backstage interview – LOGAN PAUL interrupts and the two go back and forth (they set up a match for later)
ETHAN PAGE beats Shinsuke Nakamura
Cody Rhodes comes out for an in-ring promo, he says he has been told that his WWE title match for Payback will be revealed tonight, so he’s out here to find out what that is… and then one by one out come Solo Sikoa… then Jacob Fatu… then OMOS! Solo then tells Cody that he will be defending the WWE Title at Payback in a 4-way “by orders of the Final Boss” …
Jade Cargill beat Michin
Tiffany Stratton backstage interview
Roman Reigns is backstage with Paul Heyman, Roman tells Heyman that they need to come up with a plan, and then they look over to The Usos and Sami Zayn…
Carmelo Hayes beats Logan Paul – Hayes then calls out Aleister Black for the US title
The Usos and Sami come out to the ring, and they call out the Tongans for the tag titles, The MFTs all come out and they go back and forth, Kevin Owens and Randy Orton appear on the ramp and look to confront The MFTs, and with The MFTs stuck between a ROCK and a hard place, they flee… and then we see…
THE ROCK beats Roman Reigns in a Backstage Brawl
RAW – DECEMBER WEEK 3
Sheamus & R-Truth beat ‘American Made’ to become number one contenders for the World Tag Team Championship
Drew McIntyre backstage interview (leaves arena after as he’s not happy)…
The Judgment Day backstage – Finn, Dom and JD look ahead to their match at Payback with the Wyatt Sicks, and their need to find a 4th partner for the match… Liv and Raquel talk about dealing with Nikki Cross, and also going after the Women’s Tag titles…)
Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez beat The Kabuki Warriors to advance to the final of the Women’s Tag Titles contenders tournament – Iyo Sky comes out mid-match to confront Asuka & Kairi, Kabuki Warriors are both distracted by this and that leads to the finish (Iyo argues with Kairi, Asuka pushes Iyo away, Iyo pushes her back and they get into it, the ref is distracted at the time so doesn’t see this). After the match we have a Wyatt Sicks vignette, with Nikki Cross laughing
Ilja Dragunov beat Bronson Reed
Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser backstage interview , we also see the LwO hyping eachother up backstage elsewhere
Nia Jax in-ring promo
Gunther & Ludwig Kaiser beat ‘LwO’ (Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee with Zelina Vega)
Seth Rollins 1-1 sit-down interview (on CM Punk and their upcoming match)
John Cena comes out for an in-ring promo, he calls out Drew McIntyre, but he doesn’t come out… so Cena leaves the ring and makes his way to the back… but… Drew McIntyre beats John Cena in a Backstage Brawl
SMACKDOWN – DECEMBER WEEK 3
THE ROCK comes out for an in-ring promo. He makes official himself vs Roman Reigns for next week’s ‘New Year’s Revolution’ show, with the winner of the match also claiming the number 30 spot in the Men’s Royal Rumble. Cody Rhodes then comes out, and he and The Rock go back and forth on the mic. ‘The Final Boss’ reveals that Cody will have a match later in the night in the show’s main event, and that he ‘better be ready for anything!’…
Kevin Owens & Randy Orton beat The Usos (with Sami Zayn) to become the number one contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship
B-Fab & Bianca Belair are backstage with the Street Profits…
ETHAN PAGE beats Apollo Crews – LA Knight runs out after the match, and brawls with Ethan Page
Aleister Black backstage interview (on the US Title number one contenders match next week)
B-Fab & Bianca Belair beat ‘The Secret Hervice’ to advance to the final of the WWE Women’s tag titles contenders tournament
Cody Rhodes backstage interview
Jade Cargill comes out to join commentary – Tiffany Stratton beats Lash Legend , Jade stares down Stratton after the match…
Cody Rhodes backstage goes to walk to the ring for his match, he bumps into The Usos and Sami Zayn (who are down after losing their contenders match earlier in the night). But The Usos and Sami tell Cody that ‘we got you tonight, if you need it’, and they all dap up, and out Cody goes for his match…
Cody Rhodes beats… Shawn Spears – Jacob Fatu runs out to attack Cody after, as does Solo and then OMOS too, but then The Usos and Sami Zayn all run out to make the save!
RAW – DECEMBER WEEK 4
Drew McIntyre comes out for an in-ring promo, John Cena comes out after and the two go back and forth, The New Day come out, Sheamus & R-Truth come out, and the end result is they set up a 6 man tag match for later in the show
Iyo Sky (C) beats Natalya to retain the Women’s IC Title – after Iyo cuts a promo on The Kabuki Warriors
Wyatt Sicks vignette
The Judgment Day backstage segment, they reveal their partner for the Payback match is… KARRION KROSS!
Bron Breakker backstage interview, Ilja Dragunov challenges him during it, to a match later tonight!
Gunther backstage promo
Rey Mysterio beats Gunther
Nia Jax beats Jordynne Grace – Nia cuts a promo on Rhea Ripley after
The Kabuki Warriors are in the locker room, and they are NOT happy!
Bron Breakker (C) beats Ilja Dragunov to retain the IC Title
Seth Rollins – CM Punk in-ring segment/summit
John Cena & Sheamus & R-Truth beat Drew McIntyre & ‘The New Day’ (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston)
SMACKDOWN – DECEMBER WEEK 4 – ‘NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTION’
THE ROCK vs Roman Reigns vignette
Tiffany Stratton (C) defeated Jade Cargill to retain the WWE Women’s Championship
LA Knight backstage interview, Ethan Page interrupts, and the two go back and forth
Payback WWE Championship match vignette
Cody Rhodes backstage interview
LA Knight defeated Carmelo Hayes & Ethan Page in a triple threat match to become number one contender for the United States Championship
Solo Sikoa (with the rest of The MFTs) backstage interview / we see a shot of ‘The Bloodline’ locker room door
Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez defeated Bianca Belair & B-Fab to become number one contender’s for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship – After the match, Bayley & Charlotte Flair confront their next challengers, and opponents for Payback
Randy Orton & Kevin Owens backstage interview
‘Chelsea Green’s Women’s United States Championship Open Challenge’ is answered by… GIULIA!…
Guilia defeated Chelsea Green (C) (with ‘The Secret Hervice’) to win the Women’s United States Championship
THE ROCK backstage interview
THE ROCK defeated Roman Reigns in a Bloodline Rules match to earn the Number 30 spot in the Men’s Royal Rumble match
So after tonnes of interference from The MFTs, The Usos, Sami Zayn, even Omos and Cody Rhodes would get involved, in the end it was THE FINAL BOSS who gets the win over The Tribal Chief! And now he’s got his spot in the Rumble, and it’s THE spot! But anyway, now it’s time to get to our next PLE, and it’s time for some PAYBACK!
PAYBACK – DECEMBER SATURDAY WEEK 4, BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
5 matches, 4 huge championship matches and 1 all out EXTREME brawl!
And with Cena’s homecoming to come in the main event, we START the show with the WWE Championship match!
An unbelievable challenge, but once more Cody Rhodes rises to the occasion, and STILL!
As if our opening match wasn’t enough of a war, get ready for this one…!
Two huge groups colliding, but in the end, once more, it was the WYATT SICKS who won the war!
Next up, now they’re fully on the same page once more, can Randy Orton and Kevin Owens add tag team gold to their amazing resumes?
Well, in fact… YES they can!!!
And from one set of Tag Team titles to another…
And just like with the men before them, we have NEW WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions!
And finally, it’s time for our MAIN EVENT… A reminder that John Cena has stated that he will call an end to his WWE in-ring career whenever he loses the World Heavyweight Championship… and so, in his home state of Massachusetts, could the last time indeed be NOW?!
And so, one career ends, but another may have just had its best night yet; retiring the GOAT and becoming the NEW World Heavyweight Champion! The ‘Broken Dreams’ all came true for DREW MCINTYRE!
Thank You Cena!
Josh.