On last night’s WWE RAW, The O.C. gained a new member in a familiar face.
As The O.C. faced off against The Judgement Day, AJ Styles said they didn’t find a solution to their Rhea Ripley problem, it found them, a masked figure came in and attacked Rhea Ripley. It was revealed to be the returning Mia Yim.
Yim was previously released from WWE in November of 2021 and had been working the independent scene ever since. She also had a run with Impact Wrestling that ended last month.
Tonight’s WWE Raw will air live on the USA Network, and will emanate from the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Raw will feature the fallout from last Saturday’s Crown Jewel and will be the start of the build to Survivor Series, which will take place on November 26.
As of this writing, no matches have been advertised for tonight’s show.
There isn’t a lot of time to book the WarGames matches, so it shouldn’t be long before we know more about the participants.
The O.C. is expected to debut their new equalizer for Rhea Ripley on tonight’s RAW, but this has yet to be confirmed. This past weekend, The Judgment Day defeated The O.C. at Crown Jewel.
The storylines involving Johnny Gargano, Dexter Lumis, and The Miz are also expected to continue, with Kevin Owens possibly returning to action as well.
Gargano, Owens, Lashley, RAW Women’s Champion Bianca Belair, WWE United States Champion Seth Rollins, Matt Riddle, Bayley, and Austin Theory are all advertised for the show on the WWE Events and arena websites.
With Triple H, Sean Waltman, Shawn Michaels, and Road Dogg reuniting to close the October 10th edition of WWE Raw, D-Generation X celebrated their 25th anniversary.
Billy Gunn of AEW was noticeably absent from the reunion. According to reports, WWE considered bringing Gunn back for the reunion, but that did not happen.
Gunn’s longtime tag team partner, Road Dogg, stated on his podcast that Gunn wanted to appear and that it broke both of their hearts that it didn’t happen. He also stated that Triple H, Michaels, and Waltman were upset that Gunn didn’t appear.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter’s Dave Meltzer reported that WWE and AEW were in “meaningful talks” about having Gunn appear on the show. Money was not a factor because neither WWE nor AEW President Tony Khan offered or requested money.
According to Meltzer, “Khan agreed to let him do to the show, but on the air, they would have to mention he’s from AEW, or that AEW allowed him to appear or some wording, but there had to be one mention that in some form he works for AEW, just as WWE already did when they got Mickie James for the Royal Rumble this past year.”
According to the report, WWE stalled when responding to Khan and would not agree to the terms at the last minute.
JBL along with Baron Corbin made their return to WWE Television last night on RAW.
On Monday night’s episode of RAW, Corbin was introduced by the returning JBL. The WWE Hall of Famer called Corbin a “wrestling god.” JBL announced Corbin coming over to RAW from SmackDown was a trade for Rey Mysterio who became part of SmackDown this past Friday on SmackDown. Corbin then proceeded to pick up a win over Dolph Ziggler.
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, known together as the Good Brothers, made their return to the WWE last night.
A lot of familiar faces have been finding their way back to the WWE within the last few months. Some of these names include Johnny Gargano, Sarah Logan, Dexter Lumis, Candice LeRae, and, most recently, Bray Wyatt.
Finn Balor’s Judgment Day stable stood in the ring to cut a promo. Balor called out AJ Styles and told him to come to the ring; for the past few weeks, Balor had been recruiting Styles to Judgment Day with no success. Styles came to the ring and pretended to accept Finn’s offer. In reality, though, he was reintroducing his good friends and teammates, Gallows and Anderson.
They were among the crowd released due to “budget cuts” in 2020.
During their time away from WWE, Gallows and Anderson competed in AEW, IMPACT, and New Japan Pro Wrestling. They won the IMPACT Tag Team Championships. In NJPW, Karl Anderson won the NEVER Openweight Championship and is technically still billed as champion. He was supposed to defend at Battle Autumn on November 5.
NJPW updated the Battle Autumn card following The Good Brothers’ WWE re-debut, but not because Anderson needed to be removed from it. The Never Openweight title defense against Hikuleo remains, and according to Wrestling Observer, it will go ahead as planned. The show takes place in Osaka, Japan on the same day as WWE’s Crown Jewel, so don’t expect to see The Good Brothers on the first Saudi show without Vince McMahon in charge.
This clearly wasn’t a case of Gallows and Anderson showing up in WWE without permission, nor the pair finding a loophole or keeping a title in their possession after their contracts lapsed. NJPW has retweeted WWE’s clip showing the pair as they rushed to the ring to flank Styles. A deal must have been struck, but the finer details of that deal currently remain unclear.
Gallows and Anderson returning and confirming WWE has some sort of working relationship comes just days after Tony Khan revealed details about a conversation he had with CEO Nick Khan. The AEW owner spoke with Nick in 2021 following reports WWE had spoken to NJPW about working together. Tony called Nick a con man live on Dynamite after being assured by NJPW that no such deal was in place.