22/1/2019

Raw:

Braun Strowman returned to action, Heavy Machinery and Lacey Evans debuted and Revival wrestled a Tag title match, one week to the day after asking to be released from their contracts, on Raw last night.

Royal Rumble:

Alexa Bliss, Lacey Evans and Titus O'Neil have taken spots in the Rumble matches.

JBL and Beth Phoenix will return to call the Rumble matches.

Blackout:

WWE blacked the screen out for a few seconds during the main of Raw last night. It was not a technical issue, it was because Sasha Banks trunks came down during a segment with Natalya, exposing her backside briefly.

New recruits:

Trevor Lee, Sam Shaw, ACH, Rachel Ellering and others, will start their WWE careers, when they report to the PC in February.

Hollywood wins:

The Meltzer has claimed that John Cena is not hurt and has asked WWE to put the story out because his next film bosses have expressed concern about him working the Royal Rumble match. He is due in Vancouver for filming in the coming weeks, and seems to have chosen his acting career over his WWE one this time.

SD tease:

• Mr. McMahon to moderate "The New" Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles' face-to-face
• Rey Mysterio and Andrade to collide in 2-out-of-3 Falls Match
• The Miz and Cesaro to battle with their partners in their corners five nights before Royal Rumble
• Naomi and Mandy Rose to square off

WWE star moves show:

Aiden English is joining the 205 Live announce team.

Bella bereft:

Brie Bella says she fell into a deep depression after injuring Liv Morgan, and the social media backlash that followed...

"It's crazy how I've been wrestling for 12 years and one of my major mistakes in the ring I get judged so harshly on. We're not perfect, no one's perfect, you know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason I was like showcased in such a way of like, this evil person, and 'look what she's done' and I got bullied really bad. I wanted to run into a cave and you'll see. I don't think people have ever seen me break down as bad as they will during the whole Liv situation. I went into deep depression. I didn't know if I was going to be able to go back to work. All the horrible things people were saying about me, I felt a thousand times worse than the things they thought of me and I really had to sit down and think to myself, 'Brie, you're a mother' and if Birdie was in this situation would you want her to feel this bad or would you want her to stand up to it and be like, 'screw you guys'? I made a mistake and she's not badly injured and you know what, this is our business, this is what we all signed up for. Everyone's going to see backstage even how Liv and I were with each other. Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much, bad guy, good guy, don't talk to your competitors, but backstage you'll see that we're all really close and it affects us. We never want to go out there and hurt each other, so when it happens it's emotional. But people are going to hear my side of the story and my voice and how it's about damn time that trolls stopped going on the internet and bullying everyone."