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WWE Raw Brings New Announce Team, Inconsistent Results

WWE’s announcer shuffle continued on this week’s RAW, with Michael Cole once again filling in for Tom Phillips on last night’s episode; Cole only noted that Phillips “had the week off.” It’s the same thing Cole said last week.  Even more so this week, Samoa Joe was off the RAW commentary team as well; Byron Saxton and Dolph Ziggler filled in on the show. This has been a recurring shift for WWE. Cole has been the one constant, but in the last year RAW belonged to Phillips, then it went to Vic Joseph when Paul Heyman had creative control over the red brand, and after…
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WWE Raw Results: Ric Flair Gets Emotional, Punted by Randy Orton

Last month, I wrote how the renewed push — and quite frankly, the reinvention — of Randy Orton’s character could be a force that helps stem the tide of WWE’s faltering ratings and viewership numbers. That’s proven to not be the case, as RAW and SmackDown seem to hit dangerous new lows on a weekly basis.  But that doesn’t mean Orton’s push has been a total failure. Last night we saw another chapter in the return of “the legend killer.” After a victory over Kevin Owens in RAW’s main event, Orton and Ric Flair, who had been serving as his…
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