As soon as I walk out, I want people looking at me like they look at that evil cannibal back in the day.

But evil cannibal came out, everyone was like, this is about to be crazy.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to After the Bell. I am still Corey Graves. The holidays are rapidly approaching and things continue to get even more red hot than they already are within W.A.R.

It's a big night on Friday night Smackdown. The championships on the line Rick Ishe will join us here on ATB in a matter of moments.

We've got so much to get to, so little time. He is tucked away nicely in his podcasting studio candles and all.

It looks a bit more like something you would see in a cheap massage parlor, but he is my cat, my co-captain from Monday Night Raw and here on ATB Kevin Patrick K.P.

How you feeling this morning?

A wonderful thanks, but it's great to see you through the Zoom chat here and great to be on with you guys again and you're right. For anyone watching visually, I do have my candle lit set in the tone here in Atlanta, Georgia and all as well.

We wrapped up a wild Monday Night Raw yet again this past week and buzzing for Smackdown. We've got some major matches coming up here, whether it's Friday Night Smackdown and the Undisputed Tag Team Championships, the Usos, they've been busy of late.

And then next Monday, we've got a couple of Championship Contenders matches to come on Monday Night Raw.

No doubt about it, no rest for the weary, the Usos always putting in the work, living up to the claim that we the ones with good reason, the Usos will do battle with Sheamus and Butch tonight of the Brawl and Brutes in my hometown, the Steel City, the most amazing city in all of our 50 States, my completely unbiased opinion.

And also Ricochet has earned the opportunity to challenge the dominant Gunther for the Intercontinental title. It was Ricochet who Gunther defeated to begin with if I recollect properly.

I want to start with what kicked off Monday Night Raw, the first of two triple threads where we saw Bailey, Rhea Ripley and the Empress of Tomorrow, Oscar throw down.

Before the Bell rang, we had a few fireworks KP, we saw at War Games the return of the man Becky Lynch leading her side of War Games to victory.

The little interactions we saw at the top of the night between Bailey and Becky Lynch and Becky Lynch and Rhea Ripley had people buzzing before there was a punch thrown or a drop kick landed that really set the tone for the night.

It really did. It had people guessing where things might go with the man Becky Lynch who interrupts Bailey from the crowd yet again.

The man of the people Bob wasn't there this week. Becky Lynch is friend Bob, who's doing the rounds on the internet.

Now he said, the fact that you remembered and I remember the name Becky Lynch obviously making an impact on all of us.

So I went to Bob's Twitter handle. Bob said by far away, this was the greatest day of his life. Think about that for a second.

Bob is, you know, no offense. I don't know your age, Bob. I'm guessing mid-30s. He said, this is the greatest day of my life. The fact that recognized by the man, buddies with the man Becky tweets about him, fair play Becky.

Anyway, comes through the crowd again, interrupts Bailey. And in that passing moment, she mentioned the fact that they've been passing each other over the past few years.

And that kind of wet the appetite here a little bit, wondering, will we see something between Bailey and Becky Lynch?

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