WWE announced that Roman Reigns will defend his WWE Intercontinental Championship Title on Monday’s episode of RAW. If Reigns gets disqualified, he will lose his title. Kurt Angle made the announcement on Twitter.

He wrote, “On the first #Raw of 2018 @WWERomanReigns will defend his #ICTitle against @SamoaJoe; if Roman is DQ’ed, he’ll lose the match AND his title”

On the first #Raw of 2018 @WWERomanReigns will defend his #ICTitle against @SamoaJoe; if Roman is DQ’ed, he’ll lose the match AND his title

— Kurt Angle (@RealKurtAngle) December 29, 2017

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As seen on last night’s Monday Night RAW, WWE Intercontinental Champion Roman Reigns retained his title over Samoa Joe via DQ Loss. Reigns mercilessly beat Joe up, completely ignoring the referee’s attempts to stop the brawl and instead shoved him away and continued the beat up.

The WWE released an official statement regarding Reigns’ actions and have “fined” him a penalty of $5000. Here’s the statement released by the WWE:

Roman Reigns receives $5,000 fine for shoving official on Raw

Intercontinental Champion Roman Reigns has been fined $5,000 for shoving referee John Cone during his title defense against Samoa Joe on Raw last night, WWE.com can confirm.

The incident occurred after Reigns backed Joe into the corner of the ring and continued to attack him past the official’s count. When Cone attempted to intercede, Reigns shoved him aside to continue his attack. The champion was subsequently disqualified, though he kept his title as a result of champion’s advantage.

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We reported over the weekend that Roman Reigns would not be working WWE Live Events and would be off this past Monday’s episode of RAW.

Dave Meltzer discussed Reigns’ status on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio and mentioned the reason Reigns was not at recent shows is because he asked for time off awhile back. Meltzer didn’t elaborate why exactly he needed the time off but he did ask for it.

Reigns is expected to return to RAW next week and continue his feud with Samoa Joe.

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Dave Meltzer reported on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that Roman Reigns will be off this weekend WWE Live Events. Braun Strowman vs. Samoa Joe and The Bar vs. Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins will headline those events.

While Meltzer couldn’t elaborate why Reigns is off this weekends WWE Live Events, he did point out that Reigns is also off Monday’s episode of RAW. We will keep you updated if there is anything more to Reigns taking days off.

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It looks like Brock Lesnar may not be appearing at February’s RAW-brand Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. The website for the T-Mobile Arena lists multiple stars from RAW but not Universal Champion Brock Lesnar.

“Fans will have the opportunity to see WWE Raw Superstars battle inside 10 tons of unforgiving steel. Head to the Las Vegas Strip to see Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe, The Miz and many more fan favorite WWE Superstars.”

With the pay-per-view event been several months away, he could still be added to the event. However, it seems very odd that he wouldn’t be listed, as his name would help push ticket sales.

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Everyone’s favorite Demon King isn’t doing a whole lot on Raw right now. After an amazing performance against AJ Styles at TLC, Finn Balor was chokeslammed into oblivion by the real Demon, the Demon Kane. Prior to that, he was stuck in a seemingly endless feud against Bray Wyatt, and it did nothing for either man  (except maybe reveal that Finn should not wear gray trunks). Just last Survivor Series, he was cannon fodder for Team Smackdown. Yowch.

Let’s face it, Balor’s not doing much. He could use a change in scenery. He could move to Smackdown.

Raw Doesn’t Need Him

At times, it seems like Raw is really just hogging all the big names. Sure, Smackdown has AJ Styles and Randy Orton, but Raw has all three members of the Shield, Samoa Joe, Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, and Finn Balor. To put things into perspective, Balor is billed at 5 ft 11. The average height of the rest of the name on there (excluding Finn) is around 6 ft 3. It seems almost everybody else literally stands head and shoulders above him. He is going to get lost in the land of giants.

Strowman just seemingly turned face and is unleashing all hell on anybody who dares to trifle with him. WWE clearly sees potential in him, so he’s at the forefront of Raw almost every Monday night. The Shield are WWE’s golden boys, so they get their fair share of time as well. Those guys are pretty much untouchable right now, so it’s Balor who is led to the slaughter most of the time, be it against Kane, Samoa Joe, or even Elias.

It almost seems that The Extraordinary Man Who Can Do Extraordinary Things  is expendable. This would be sort of okay if he was a midcarder who puts on competitive showings against top talents but ultimately loses. That’s not who Finn is. He’s the inaugural Universal Champion.

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Charlotte defeated Natalya on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live to capture the SmackDown Women’s Championship Title. Charlotte will now replace Natalya in her scheduled match against Alexa Bliss at Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series event. Here is the updated card:

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Kurt Angle (Captain), Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe & Triple H vs. Shane McMahon (Captain), Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode and John Cena

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Captain), Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, Asuka and Bayley vs. Becky Lynch (Captain), Carmella, Tamina Snuka, TBA and Naomi

Brock Lesnar vs. AJ Styles

The Miz vs. Baron Corbin

Alexa Bliss vs. Charlotte

Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Usos

The Shield vs. The New Day

Pre-show: Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore vs. Kalisto

Survivor Series will take place will take place on November 19, 2017, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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WWE has moved the Cruiserweight Championship Title between Enzo Amore and Kalisto from the main card to the Kickoff Pre-show at Sunday’s Survivor Series. Here is the updated card:

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Kurt Angle (Captain), Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe & Jason Jordan vs. Shane McMahon (Captain), Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode and John Cena

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Captain), Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, Asuka and Bayley vs. Becky Lynch (Captain), Carmella, Tamina Snuka, Charlotte Flair and Naomi

Brock Lesnar vs. AJ Styles

The Miz vs. Baron Corbin

Alexa Bliss vs. Natalya

Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Usos

The Shield vs. The New Day

Pre-show: Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore vs. Kalisto

Survivor Series will take place will take place on November 19, 2017, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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During today’s WWE Live Event in Dortmund, Germany, Samoa Joe stepping in as an honorary member of The Shield during the main event. The match was a three-way tag between Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose, The New Day, and The Bar. Joe assisted Rollins and Ambrose with a three-man powerbomb.

You can check out footage from the match embedded below:

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Here is the updated card for Survivor Series coming out of Monday’s episode of RAW:

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Kurt Angle (Captain), Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe & Jason Jordan vs. Shane McMahon (Captain), Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode and either AJ Styles or Rusev

Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Captain), Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, Asuka and TBA vs. Becky Lynch (Captain), Carmella, Tamina Snuka, Charlotte Flair and Naomi

Brock Lesnar vs. Jinder Mahal

The Miz vs. Baron Corbin

Alexa Bliss vs. Natalya

Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Usos

Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore vs. Kalisto

Survivor Series will take place will take place on November 19, 2017, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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