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WWE Smackdown vs. Raw: Who won this week? April 9, 2019

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The Good

For Raw, there was a surprise appearance by the Undertaker during Elias’ segment and it was an exciting moment. After not seeing the Undertaker at Wrestlemania, there was speculation that he wasn’t going to be around WWE for a while again. But, he shocked the WWE universe by showing up on Raw and ended up standing tall in the ring after attacking Elias. You never know when the Deadman will show up, so it is always a positive experience when he does.

For Smackdown, we have new tag team champions! After the Usos won their fatal four way match at Wrestlemania, they ended up defending the championships again, but this time only against the Hardy Boyz. While this match in itself should’ve been at Wrestlemania, it was still a pleasure to finally see these two teams face off against each other. The Hardy Boyz ended up winning and becoming the new champions, which questions what is ahead for this division.

The Bad

For Raw, the main event was going to be a blockbuster type match between Kofi Kingston and Seth Rollins to unify both of their recently won championships. But, in the middle of the match, the Bar interfered and ruined the match. The main issue with all of this is, what was the motive of the Bar? They had no issues with either superstar recently. This event led to your standard tag match to close out the show and it overall just halted all the momentum that was going into the ending of the show.

For Smackdown, their main event wasn’t that very good as well. It was the Bar and Drew McIntyre versus the New Day and this felt similar to the Raw main event. It was just a standard tag match and in the closing moments of the match, Drew McIntyre and Xavier Woods were no where to be found. 

The Final Verdict

With both of these being the post Wrestlemania shows, there was a lot to process and a lot to learn as to what is next for WWE. They did announce that a superstar shake up was occurring in the next week so we will see new faces in new places. With that being said, Raw had the better show this week. A surprise Undertaker appearance, a world where Brock Lesnar is not the Universal Champion anymore, and the final goodbye to Dean Ambrose were some reasons why Raw was able to put on a better show. After the superstar shake up, the WWE universe will get a much better layout of what WWE has for the rest of 2019.

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Adam Cole Discusses Troubling Injury Recovery

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AEW superstar Adam Cole has opened up about what he calls a “scary” recovery from a second concussion that he suffered at AEW and NJPW’s ‘Forbidden Door’ event back in June 2022, with Cole set to make his return to the ring soon.

Cole specifically talked about memory loss as the most troubling aspect of his recovery:

”The memory stuff is the really, really scary part to me” Cole said, during an appearance on Wrestling Observer Radio (h/t CagesideSeats). “When you’re in the middle of a ring and there’s thousands of people around you and I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing. That was really scary. So, I knew pretty early on after my memory started going that something was wrong.”

Cole’s road to recovery as an especially long one.

“The crazy thing was that after even a month, it was like that’s when real serious side effects started happening” he said. “Everything I said in my return in-ring promo that I did all of that was true, and more. There was a lot of stuff that was happening very late into the healing process, or, what I thought was late, like a month-and-a-half, two months.”

Cole is gearing up for his return to AEW, with all signs pointing to him stepping back into the ring at Revolution next month.

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Donovan Dijak Suffers Injury at NXT Vengeance Day

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NXT Vengeance Day was a rousing success for WWE on Saturday which saw a number of headlines come out of the event that was well-received by fans, including an injury suffered by Donovan Dijak during his match with Wes Lee for the North American Championship.

Dijak suffered an apparent broken finger during the match, which was seen on camera and shared on social media.

Following the event NXT general manager Shawn Michaels provided an update on Dijak, stating he did not suffer a broken finger – “Yeah, everybody is good” Michaels said. “I announced it at gorilla, it’s got to be a miracle, It’s not broken.

“We got him x-ray, they said it’s not broken and so yeah, I guess what you do is you kind of numb it and put it back in place and that’s what’s happening now. But it is, again, a modern miracle because we all saw it, it was pretty gnarly looking. But, apparently, he’s going to be okay, which is obviously fantastic news for us and him.”

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Tony Khan Open to AEW/WWE Crossover

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AEW owner and booker Tony Khan is certainly open to the idea of AEW and WWE working together for a potential crossover supershow, despite Khan’s consistent blasting of WWE over the last few years.

“It’s something I would certainly be open to and I think it’s an interesting thing for the future” Khan said during an appearance on WTF with Marc Maron. “It’s not something that’s ever really been done. They’ve kind of existed in their own space. We are working with a lot of wrestling promotions.”

Khan’s AEW has already worked with a number of promotions such as Impact Wrestling and NJPW, and WWE has even warmed to the idea of working with other promotions, as they have with Impact Wrestling, NJPW, and NOAH recently.

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