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WWE Raw Results, Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights From Nov. 17

War Games Face to Face

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Before the main event segment, Rhea Ripley approached AJ Lee backstage and asked to speak with her for a moment, teasing the latter’s involvement in War Games.

Back in the arena, Paul Heyman introduced four of the men who will make up The Vision’s War Games team: Logan Paul, Drew McIntyre, Bron Breakker, and Bronson Reed.

CM Punk interrupted, stalking to the ring and never taking his eyes off the heels inside of it. The Usos soon joined him to a thunderous ovation, making their way through the crowd to the ringside area. Cody Rhodes rounded out the babyface side of things, and the two teams, eight Superstars, brawled in and around the ringside area.

Brock Lesnar arrived on the scene and hit the ring, clearly Heyman’s secret weapon and the fifth member of the heel team for Survivor Series. Punk went after him, showing no fear, and endured consecutive suplexes. Rhodes came face-to-face with The Beast and quickly found himself sent flying in the same fashion as Punk.

Just as credits rolled, Roman Reigns made his return, taking his time as he hit the ring, staring a hole through Lesnar along the way. The two longtime rivals came face to face, Lesnar’s dominance halted with a single Superman Punch.

Security momentarily distracted Reigns, allowing Reed to get the jump on The Tribal Chief. He teased a Tsunami but Reigns delivered another Superman Punch, this one knocking Auszilla off the top rope.

Chaos ensued and the show went off the air with Reigns delivering a spear that sent Reed and NYPD through the timekeeper barricade.

Top Moments and Takeaways

  • If you don’t have a hot story to tell, but you have as many main event stars as the Survivor Series main event is fixing to have, this is how you create anticipation. This was red-hot, had the crowd living and breathing on the introductions of the stars, and resulted in a fun, wild brawl to close things out.
  • Ideally, War Games is not utilized just for the sake of utilizing it each November, but the star power involved in the men’s match should be enough to hold some of the deserved criticism at bay because if nothing else, the main event of the November 29 premium live event is fixing to be hellishly fun.
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