While discussing the RAW 25th Anniversary show on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez revealed that this Monday’s event is supposed to be bigger than the RAW after WrestleMania.

“I’ve been told that at least in terms of production and individuals being brought in and ideas and pitches RAW 25 will be bigger than the traditional night after WrestleMania RAW,” Alvarez explained.

“Will you like it better? I don’t know, that’s up to you. But the way they’re putting it together it is a bigger event and higher priority than the post-Mania RAW.”

Check back here on Monday at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the RAW 25th Anniversary show.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

On one of his radio shows last week Bryan Alvarez from Wrestling Observer was adamant in thinking that the current angle with Kenny Omega is going to make Chris Jericho a bigger star than anything he could have done in WWE. Jericho apparently said this himself as an explanation for why he did this match.

Russo points out that Jericho and Alvarez are right in this case because nobody is watching Monday Night RAW. In Russo’s opinion, this was Jericho’s way of saying “Nobody’s watching WWE” without getting in trouble with Vince McMahon and other WWE officials.

At another point this week Alvarez tweeted out that Sami Zayn is an incredible heel. Russo says that Alvarez clearly hasn’t seen a good heel before because Jake Roberts was an incredible heel. Contrarily, Zayn is a cab driver look-alike that comes off like Woody Allen. Russo says that Alvarez needs to get his head out of his ass.

Russo says that incredible heels should give kids nightmares and they should always be a credible threat to win matches. In Russo’s opinion, Zayn can’t accomplish either of those things right now.

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As previously noted, WWE is planning on celebrating 25 years of RAW on the January 22nd, 2018 episode of the show.

Bryan Alvarez discussed the celebration on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live and mentioned that the event will be an “all hands on deck” episode. Alvarez speculated that the company will bring several WWE Superstars of the past to make an appearance on that show.

The event will take place at the held in Brooklyn, NY at the Barclays Center and WWE has plans to release a DVD in celebration of the 25 years.

We will keep you updated if the company announces any of names for the event.

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Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline indicated on Twitter that WWE is working on major creative changes for Monday’s episode of RAW next week.

Creative also working on big changes for RAW with Roman out.

— Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) October 20, 2017

Avlarez also noted that Finn Balor and AJ Styles are expected to be given a lot of time for their match at Sunday’s WWE TLC PPV.

As of now, Finn and AJ are getting a good amount of time Sunday

— Bryan Alvarez (@bryanalvarez) October 20, 2017

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It was reported last month that WWE was planning on a Team Shane McMahon vs. Team Kevin Owens match for the upcoming Survivor Series event.

Bryan Alvarez indicated on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that those plans still appear to be in place. Sami Zayn will be on Owens’ team, while AJ Styles will be on Shane’s team. Alvarez was unable to confirm, but it’s possible each team will have either four or five Superstars. Alvarez didn’t elaborate if the match would be elimination style or not.

Finn Balor vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship is also being rumored for the match. At one point there were plans for a WWE Four Horsewomen vs. UFC Four Horsewomen match, but those plans may have been nixed.

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It was reported on Monday that Paige was at the WWE Performance Center training for her comeback.

Bryan Alvarez discussed Paige’s status on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live and provided further details on her return. Alvarez said that Paige was evaluated at the Performance Center and her neck checked out just fine. She is expected to return at any time now.

In regards to which brand Paige will be on, it’s very possible now that she is brought to the SmackDown Live brand instead of RAW because Asuka is headed to RAW.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

To open today’s show, Lane plays a clip of Bryan Alvarez who says that if Enzo Amore defeats Neville for the Cruiserweight Championship, that’ll be the final nail in the coffin for the Cruiserweight division. Russo would like to hear Alvarez’s logic in this case, because he doesn’t understand how someone booking Amore to win a fake Title would be the final nail in any coffin. Lane also points out that the Cruiserweight division is already pretty much dead anyways, and Russo agrees.

This past week Dave Meltzer tweeted that a Japanese wrestler from decades ago was on such a high level in terms of popularity, that you can’t even compare someone like Muhammad Ali to him. Russo hadn’t even heard of this Japanese wrestler before, so he thinks it’s silly that Meltzer claims this guy is more of a pop culture icon than someone like Ali.

Secondly, Russo has no idea where Meltzer is even getting the footage of this wrestler because this guy wrestled in the 1940’s, and Russo points out that broadcasting was very limited back then. Russo suggests that Meltzer might have only ‘heard’ about this performer’s greatness, and now he’s playing it off as if he knows everything about this competitor’s popularity.

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It was noted in the recent installment of Wrestling Observer Live that Enzo Amore may be the babyface Superstar ever to be suspended above the ring in a shark cage.

Bryan Alvarez discussed how it was odd for WWE to book the match that way and speculated that it might be possible for Enzo Amore to drop some sort of weapon from the cage during match but it ends up with Cass instead of The Big Show. This could possibly lead to an eventual Enzo heel turn or a flat out turn and reunification with Cass.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out at SummerSlam.

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We noted earlier that the reason Dolph Ziggler has been off WWE programming lately is because the company doesn’t really have anything for him. This is the reason why other Superstars aren’t being used as well.

In an update, Bryan Alvarez mentioned on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Live that Ziggler will likely be re-packaged when he is brought back to WWE television. There is currently no word on what the re-package could involve but we will keep you updated.

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It was speculated that John Cena would be taking time off to take part in the filming for the upcoming Bumblebee Transformers movie, however that’s not the case.

Even though filming for the movie has already started production and Cena has one of the lead roles in the film, he will not be taking time off yet. Bryan Alvarez confirmed on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that Cena is scheduled for WWE events through September.

With Cena being scheduled for the RAW-brand No Mercy pay-per-view event, there is talk that he may be working the RAW brand after this month’s SummerSlam event. Cena is also scheduled for every RAW television taping through September except for the September 18th event because he will be touring in China the day before with the SmackDown Live brand.

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