Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane, and former WWE Superstars, Stevie Richards and Bin Hamin.

Richards says he couldn’t understand Ronda Rousey’s debut at the Royal Rumble this past Sunday. Rousey shook Stephanie McMahon’s hand at ringside, but the last time they saw each other on WWE programming Rousey put McMahon in an arm bar. He mentions that some people are saying Rousey’s ready to be a full-time talent, but he thought she looked lost in the ring on Sunday, looking like she didn’t have a clue what to do.

Russo has a hard time believing that Asuka and Nakamura are the two performers that WWE wants to push as their top stars right now. He points out that neither of them can cut a promo, and he agrees with Lane in the sense that adding subtitles for their promos would be an improvement. He also suggests that a hot female translator would be a nice addition to Nakamura’s presentation, to accompany his rockstar gimmick.

Russo says he’d rather see Braun Strowman destroying things for 20 minutes to start RAW instead of a 20-minute match, but he’s also starting to get tired of Strowman flipping stuff over. He points out that turning over a desk is somewhat anticlimactic after Strowman flipped over an 18-wheeler just a couple of weeks ago.

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Coming out of this weekend’s Royal Rumble event, the matches below are currently being rumored to be taking place at this year’s WrestleMania 34 event.

WWE Universal Championship
Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns

WWE Championship
AJ Styles vs. Nakamura

RAW Women’s Championship
Alexa Bliss vs. Nia Jax

SmackDown Women’s Championship
Charlotte vs. Asuka

Jason Jordan vs. Seth Rollins

Triple H & Stephanie vs. Ronda Rousey & Male opponent (Rock or Braun Strowman)

The Miz vs. Finn Balor or The Miztourage vs. The Balor Club

Cruiserweight Champion to be determined

It’s worth noting that more matches are expected to be added and several plans for these matches can always change between now and WrestleMania. We will keep you updated if any other matches are rumored for the event or if plans change.

WrestleMania 34 will take place on April 8, 2018 at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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Ronda Rousey made her WWE debut at tonight’s Royal Rumble event. Rousey appeared after Asuka won the first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match. Ronda got into the ring and pointed at the WrestleMania sign. When she went to shake Asuka’s hand, she slapped it instead. Ronda pointed at the WrestleMania sign again. She then made her way to the announce booth and approached Stephanie McMahon and shook her hand.

It seems @RondaRousey ALSO wants to go to @WrestleMania…#RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/yha3PGBPL8

— WWE (@WWE) January 29, 2018

Everyone's eyes are on #WrestleMania 34…

…including @RondaRousey's!!! #RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/ynkps4gqx5

— WWE (@WWE) January 29, 2018

Ronda has been rumored for nearly a year now that she would be debuting with the company, and she finally did tonight. It’s obviously coming out of tonight’s show that she will be involved with either Asuka, Charlotte, Alexa Bliss or Stephanie at WrestleMania this year.

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Paddy Power has revealed the betting odds for the Women’s Royal Rumble match ahead of tonight’s event in Philadelphia. Asuka is still the odds on favorite to win the match, followed by Ronda Rousey. Rousey denied reports earlier this week that she would participate in the match.

Here are the top ten for the match:

Asuka: 11/8
Ronda Rousey: 6/4
Stephanie McMahon: 10/3
Becky Lynch: 6/1
Nia Jax: 6/1
Nikki Bella: 12/1
Sasha Banks: 12/1
Charlotte Flair: 14/1
Alexa Bliss: 16/1
Bayley: 16/1

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Dave Meltzer reported in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter the plan right now is to have The Miz defend the Intercontinental Championship title against Braun Strowman at WrestleMania 34 this year.

Other rumored matches for the event include:

WWE Universal Title
Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar

John Cena vs. The Undertaker

RAW Women’s Championship
Ronda Rousey vs. Asuka

We will keep you informed if we hear any other information regarding rumored matches for WrestleMania or if WWE has a change of plans for the above matches.

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Dave Meltzer mentioned on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that everyone involved in the women’s Royal Rumble match is wanting to know exactly what’s going on. Many “sense” that Ronda Rousey will be debuting in the match and possibly winning it.

Meltzer discussed the spot that saw Asuka dominating the other women on Monday’s RAW, and it seems to suggest that she won’t be winning The Rumble as WWE usually doesn’t telegraph their outcomes in that manner.

On scenario presented is that Rousey could appear in the match along with Asuka and be the last two competitors. Rousey would throw Asuka over to win and then in the weeks following, Asuka could be Alexa Bliss for the RAW Women’s Championship, setting up a title match against Rousey at WrestleMania 34.

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WWE announced the Mixed Match Challenge brackets for the upcoming Facebook Watch series. Here is what they sent out:

“WWE Mixed Match Challenge will premiere this Tuesday night at 10 ET/7 PT, exclusively on Facebook Watch. As first revealed by Cathy Kelley on Facebook, the full bracket has now been established.

All six first-round matches will feature a Raw team taking on a SmackDown LIVE team. On the Jan. 16 premiere, Finn Bálor & Sasha Banks will go head-to-head against Shinsuke Nakamura & Natalya.

In the ensuing weeks, the remaining first-round matches will be carried out as follows:

Week 2: The Miz & Asuka vs. Big E & Carmella

Week 3: Braun Strowman & Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. Sami Zayn & Becky Lynch

Week 4: Goldust & Alicia Fox vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champion Jimmy Uso and Naomi

Week 5: Elias & Bayley vs. Rusev & Lana

Week 6: Apollo Crews & Nia Jax vs. Bobby Roode & SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair

The semi-finals will include a special “second chance fan vote” in which the WWE Universe will have the ability to give an eliminated team a second chance in the tournament.

Don’t miss a moment of the ground-breaking tournament when it premieres this Tuesday, Jan. 16, exclusively on Facebook Watch at 10 ET/7 PT. Follow the official WWE Mixed Match Challenge Facebook page for all updates.”

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Coming out of this week’s RAW & SmackDown episodes, the following is confirmed for the January 28th Royal Rumble event from Philadelphia:

WWE Universal Title Triple Threat Match
Brock Lesnar vs. Kane vs. Braun Strowman

WWE Title Match
AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn

WWE US Title Tournament Finals
Jinder Mahal or Xavier Woods vs. Bobby Roode or Zack Ryder or Mojo Rawley

Men’s Royal Rumble Match
Participants: Elias, Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, John Cena, Finn Balor, Baron Corbin, 24 other wrestlers TBA.

Women’s Royal Rumble Match
Participants: Asuka, Naomi, Ruby Riott, Natalya, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Paige, Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville, Carmella, Tamina Snuka, Lana, Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan, 16 other wrestlers TBA. (The only women who have not yet officially declared who are on Raw or Smackdown are: Nia Jax and Dana Brooke)

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Taz opens today’s show by saying that he thinks WWE is mishandling Nakamura right now. Nakamura and Asuka are special in Taz’s opinion and while Asuka is being treated the right way by WWE, Nakamura is not. He knows that the laugauge barrier probably a problem for Vince McMahon, but with some creative writing that wouldn’t be an issue.

Taz points out that Nakamura had a good run when he first debuted on the main roster, but now he’s losing clean on Smackdown Live to Kevin Owens and being booked in tag matches on PPVs. He adds that there’s no shame in losing to Owens or tagging with Randy Orton for that matter, but sometime losing clean on television can hurt you, and this is one of those times in Taz’s opinion.

He liked the A.J. Styles/Singh Brothers segment last night, even though some of the lines in the Singh Brother’s promo came off lame and corny. Taz was happy that WWE at least handled their Champion well here, having Styles get the better of the Singh Brothers before standing tall to end the segment.

Taz mentions that Colin Delaney made his return to Smackdown after a decade’s absence last night, losing a tag team match to the Bludgeon Brothers. Taz says that Delaney is a nice kid and it was cool to see him back on Smackdown all these years later, even if it was just for a one-off appearance like Mike Johnson of PWInsider reported.

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It’s that time of week again, welcome to our coverage of Monday Night Raw for December 11 2017!

Tonight’s show is to be headlined by a monstrous showdown between Kane and Braun Strowman. These two behemoths will finally have a proper match, with the winner moving on to face Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble in January. This match should be fairly short but inevitably hectic and fun, even though a Strowman win seems inevitable.

The Bar and The Shield are set to collide many times in the following weeks, but tonight, each member of the two teams will face-off in singles competition. Tonight, Roman Reigns will face Cesaro, Dean Ambrose will tackle Samoa Joe, and Rollins will take-on Sheamus. Those are three huge matches, each of which will hopefully receive ample time to breathe and play out. This comes a week after The Shield failed to recapture the Tag Titles, largely thanks to Samoa Joe, who has it out for Reigns!

Elsewhere on tonight’s Raw, Matt Hardy has been WOKEN and he will again collide with Bray Wyatt, meanwhile Absolution will continue their wreaking of havoc, but will they again leave Asuka alone? All that and more on tonight’s show, so get ready and enjoy!

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