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Welcome to the card. We are less than two weeks away from Survivor Series and that is a tricky card for WWE to run. You can only get so far with so many wrestlers being used in the traditional Survivor Series matches, meaning WWE has a limited choice of options for the rest of the show. There are some matches you can count on though and now we have a few of them officially set.
WWE has confirmed two more matches for the upcoming Survivor Series card, both of which will feature champions squaring off. First up, WWE Champion Big E. will face Universal Champion Roman Reigns. Second, Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch will be facing SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. Both of the matches will be non-title matches.
These could both be great matches. Check out the four champions in action:
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Welcome back. There are a lot of people on the WWE roster these days, which can make things a little bit complicated at times. If someone does not appear very often, it is easy to forget that they are around. That can make a return feel that much more important, which was the case this week as several people made their returns to television after some lengthy absences.
Three people made their returns during this week’s edition of Monday Night Raw. First up, AJ Styles made his return after missing since Crown Jewel. Styles, who had been missing due to a non-injury medical issue, was on the winning team in an eight man tag. Later in the night, Bobby Lashley made his return, with the also returning MVP in his corner, to defeat Dominik Mysterio. Lashley had not been seen since his loss to Goldberg at Crown Jewel, while MVP had been missing since being attacked by Randy Orton on September 13.
It was a busy night. Check out how the returns went:
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I hope it was erasable ink. We are less than two weeks away from Survivor Series on November 21. That means it is time to start getting the show put together, as there are several spots that are going to have to be filled. WWE has already made a lot of those selections, but they are already making changes, including one wrestler being swapped out for another.
Over the weekend, WWE announced the men’s and women’s Survivor Series teams. This week on Monday Night Raw, WWE official Adam Pearce announced that Dominik Mysterio had to defeat Bobby Lashley to keep his spot on the team. Lashley went on to defeat Mysterio, meaning Lashley is now on the Raw men’s team at Survivor Series. There is no word on if there will be additional changes to the lineups.
These matches have been good before. Check out some men’s Raw vs. SmackDown Survivor Series matches:
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Join the club. There is an odd level of success between wrestlers and politics. For some reason, a few wrestlers have had quite the positive introduction into the political arena, with names such as Jesse Ventura and Kane moving into a rather high office. It is something that has worked in a couple of surprise moments, and now something similar seems to have happened again.
According to the Journal de Quebec, former WWE star Raymond Rougeau has been elected Mayor of Rawdon, Quebec, Canada. Rougeau was elected the Mayor of the city of just over 10,000 people, with about 61% of the vote after several years of being active in local politics. Rougeau, 66 years old, began wrestling in 1971 and retired from full time competition in 1990, with his final match taking place in 2003. Since retirement, he has served on and off as a French commentator for WWE.
Rougeau was quite the hand in the ring. Check out some of his work between the ropes:
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Monday Night Raw
Date: November 8, 2021
Location: KFC Yum Center, Louisville, Kentucky
Commentators: Jimmy Smith, Corey Graves, Byron Saxton
We’re less than two weeks away from Survivor Series and now we have the men’s and women’s Survivor Series teams set up. That means we don’t get a month of qualifying matches, but we are likely to get two weeks of I AM THE CAPTAIN and arguing about their love of a brand they have been on for less than a month. Let’s get to it.
We open with a recap of last week’s issues with Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens and Big E., as Big E. isn’t sure he can trust Owens.
Big E. and Kevin Owens are in the back, with Owens talking about how he cares about what Big E. thinks of him and wants people to know he turned over a new leaf. Big E. doesn’t really care though and has a match tonight. Owens says he cares what Big E. thinks.
Here is Seth Rollins, in some weird red and blue number, to welcome us to Monday Night Rollins. He is the face of Monday Night Raw and ther..

That’s a worthy cause. With wrestling being so prevalent today, you can always find something to watch. It makes for some great viewing, but it also lets wrestling companies get a message out there rather easily. That can also be the case with individual wrestlers, and now one of them is doing something special as a wrestler is using his platform to help other people.
SmackDown’s Top Dolla has sent out a tweet, announcing that he is holding his fifth annual canned food drive for Sarah’s House children’s homeless shelter. The drive is being held in Fort Meade, Maryland on November 19-21. Top Dolla’s tweet asked for dirt sheet sites that report on everything he said and try to make money off of his name with clickbait articles every week.
Asking all Dirt Sheet websites that report on everything I say every week & try to make clickbait headlines to get publicity off my name to report that I’ll be having my 5th Annual Canned Food Drive for Sarah’s House children’s homeless shelter in For..

Maybe not? Over the last year plus, Roman Reigns has dominated the SmackDown landscape as the Universal Champion. There has been almost no one capable of giving him a serious run for his money and the question became who could actually challenge him for the title. Over that time, there was one name who fans had wanted to see face Reigns, but that might not be the case at the moment.
The Rock has long since been rumored to be the eventual WrestleMania challenger for Reigns, likely at WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles. During a new interview with Andrew Freund, the Rock said there are currently no plans for a match with Reigns. Rock said that he was very proud of what Reigns and the Usos were doing at the moment, but there is nothing to the idea of the match at the moment. There is however a chance of it down the road.
This could have been something. Check out the interview and some of Rock and Reigns together in WWE:
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His opinion matters. The wrestling world has changed since the rise of AEW and there is nothing to suggest that those changes are going to stop anytime soon. The company has offered the wrestling world a new place to go and that is certainly a good thing. Above all else, it means that leaving WWE is not the end of a wrestler’s mainstream career, which seems to be the case again.
In a new interview with Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling Torch, AEW President Tony Khan spoke about the recent WWE releases. Khan talked about how sad it was to see so many wrestlers being let go from a company and losing their jobs. He also mentioned that in every wave of WWE releases, there are always a few that he is interested in bringing in to AEW. This is the case again with the latest batch of releases, though Khan did not say who he was interested in. Assuming the released wrestlers do not attempt to get out of their no compete clauses, they will be allowed to appear in AEW in 30 or 90 days, depending on t..

Is that a popular opinion? We are on the way to Survivor Series, with less than two weeks to go before this year’s edition. The show will again be focused on a battle between Monday Night Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy, which has been the case for the last several years. That means there are a few things that need to be covered, but WWE has skipped a few of them. One wrestler does not seem thrilled.
Over the weekend, WWE announced the lineups for the men’s and women’s Survivor Series match. This includes ten men and ten women between the two shows, with nothing leading up to the announcement. SmackDown’s Ricochet responded on Twitter, asking what happened to qualifying matches with a sad emoji. There is no word on if WWE will be holding any qualifying matches for any unannounced matches.
What happened to qualifying matches ?
— Ricochet (@KingRicochet) November 7, 2021
There have been some good ones before. Check out some of the better Survivor Series matches:
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That could have been a lot worse. There have been all kinds of changes to the WWE in recent years and NXT has taken a large share of hits of its own. This has included several wrestlers being released from the company and there is nothing to suggest that those releases are over. It seems that there were almost several more releases than just the ones we saw last week.
Last week, WWE released eighteen wrestlers, with nine of them being from NXT. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, there were ten more NXT wrestlers on the bubble of being released who stuck around. This included wrestlers who are not being used regularly, including Danny Burch and Timothy Thatcher. There is no word on if more releases are coming, or if the wrestlers who stayed are safe at the moment.
There were some very talented wrestlers let go from NXT. Check out some of the people who were released:
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It’s another career. Wrestlers have had hit and miss success with acting. Every now and then you see someone become a star, but those are few and far between. What you might see more of is a wrestler having some minor success while still wrestling at the same time. That seemed to be the case with a current star, but then things took quite the turn for both sides.
Eva Marie was one of the 18 wrestlers released from WWE earlier this week. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, this was partially due to her taking time off to do an acting project not long after she returned. Marie’s age (37 years old), lack of in-ring abilities and lack of getting over with the audience combined with her hiatus led to WWE releasing her. This was Marie’s second run with WWE, after she worked for the company from 2013-2016.
Marie certainly tried when she came back. Check out some of her time in the ring:
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It’s a new way to go. There have been a lot of wrestling stories to pop up over the last few years, but nothing is going to top the rise of AEW. The company has gone from almost nothing to one of the biggest promotions in the world. You almost never see something like this take place and AEW has made some amazing strides in a pretty short time. Now they have done something pretty cool in another sport.
The Buffalo Bills’ Stefon Diggs wore special AEW cleats during the pregame warmups of the Bills’ game vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon. The cleats were gold with the AEW logo appearing on the side. AEW President Tony Khan is also the Chief Football Strategy Office for the Jaguars and Jaguars cheerleaders have appeared on Dynamite before. It is not clear where Diggs got the cleats or if he had them specially made.
With the @BuffaloBills in Jacksonville today what more fitting pair for my man @stefondiggs to rock for pregame than some @AEW cleats? pic.twitter.com/nknKhSpe..