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Ups & Downs - WWE RAW Review (Dec 22nd)

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

So it does seem as if John Evans and Trick Williams have been called up, which is good timing, because, you know, Smackdown's about to go to three hours.

0:06.3

Although, when we saw Javon Evans walking backstage at Raw, Evan was like, oh my gosh, he's a free agent now. And later on, Adam Pearce was trying to get him to sign a deal too. But I still think he should go to Friday nights

0:16.9

Because again, if you're going to add an extra hour,

0:19.4

throw trick on there, throw Javon there,

0:21.3

and my gosh, throw Oberfemio on there,

0:23.6

and probably two or three other people. I don't know why I started the show this way, but I have, what you're going to do? Also, like my friends, a row of ups and downs, the only rest of you show you need, and of course, it's the last ups and downs we will do before Christmas Day, so I hope you have a great Christmas. I hope you have a good holiday season. And I hope you have an even better new year. A couple of housekeeping things as well. There will be no ups and downs for AEW or Smackdown this week. Just because I'm going to be in the air and I checked, I asked some doctors and stuff. They were like, no, if you are literally in a plane, you're not going to be able to upload videos for YouTube, but don't worry, because we will get back to it for the AW pay-per-view.

0:57.7

It's the first time I've ever missed a show over the Christmas period, so I'm very disappointed in myself. But you know, my mum and dad are disappointed me every single day, so I finally caught up. Let's up those doubts. Also, given that everybody is away at the moment, I shall be anything

1:10.9

today's video, that's why it looks like this, as if a 12-year-old did it, and we started with the vision, because Bronson Reed and Brom Breaker were like, listen to us, Paul Heyman, what's to deal with Austin Theory, we don't want him in the group at all, and nobody mentioned the fact that Logan Paul wasn't there. Maybe he fell into a well. Now, Paul Heyman did admit

1:28.2

listen to was nothing to do with me. I'm as surprised as you, but I am going to sort it out. And thankfully, Austin Theory was right there, so they went and sorted out. It does mean he's basically been a renegade. And when Paul was talking to him, I don't know what happened to Austin Theory here, but he turned into a bit of a robot. He was all like, I needed to show you

1:44.5

what I did before I revealed my face, and now I'd like to be in the vision. And Paul was all like,

1:49.3

really, really? This was like a conversation where a bunch of people had taken drugs. Now, of course,

1:54.1

Austin has a new look, but I still think the character he is portraying right now is not genuine.

1:58.9

That's the one thing that he lacks. That's the way to be a baby face, different story for a different day. However, there is a part two to all of this. Given that he is now winning matches with the stomp and how he was dressed, I think he may actually be working for Seth Rollins. I've just made that up. There wasn't actually a massive clue, but I've said it now and I ain't going back on it. We then just had the most bizarre segment with Ria Rip being Eoske as well, because Eoske got

2:20.5

being up last week. I think Ria has decided that Eio is her child because she was like, you cannot come to the ring with me. I say, I'm going to take on Oscar, because even though I know Kyrie Say will get involved. I can't protect you. I was like, it's Eoske. You can argue

2:33.9

she's had one of the best

2:34.9

years in WWE. Out of every single person, it's most definitely been her best year. I think she can take care of herself, but apparently not. Off she went. Put a while on the big board as well, because of course Kari Seine was doing this. I bet she was like, ha ha, it is Christmas for me, because now I can get away with whatever I want.

2:51.2

Before, of course, Eio Sky did run to the ring. After Rear Ripley had been thrown into the ring apron, was it the other way around? The point is people were being thrown into ring apron, which is the hardest part of the ring. And Kaira is like, well, that sounds like a great idea. So what does she do? She threw Eo Sky into the ring apron. as a EO, of all the things you've done in 2025,

3:09.3

it was a terrible idea.

3:10.3

There was also this also reversal at one point when Ria did have the submission, and Oscar turned her into a German suplex? And can we all just celebrate the fact that Oscar's only been back, what, four months? And she very well could be a wrestler of the year because she'd been so damn good. and because Eoske had been killed on the outside, Rear ripped him was like, no, mate, I told you this was going to happen

3:27.4

when Oscar was like, great. And she hit the most devastating move. In all the sports, it's Brice roll-up and she got the one, two, three. So she just beat Rea Ripley. Now, I'm not going to lie, a small part of me was disappointed because Michael Cole even on commentary, Oscar is like zero and eight when taking on Ripley. So I would have done a big feud in 2006 and done a big song and dance about it, but we can still do it because these two just jail, mostly, because Oscar is brilliant, and Rio Ripley is brilliant. And when you get brilliant, you get brilliant squared. I don't know what I'm talking about, but it is getting an up.

3:58.0

Well, I don't know how it affects the tag title scene, because I think we're ever up in EO Sky, what's this, are getting a title shot in a couple of weeks. But now Jackson and Ash Legend literally beat the Kabuki Warriors on Smackdown, so maybe we're going to have a three-way. But isn't it great? We get to talk about the women's tag team division like this. Sometimes

4:14.0

WW forgets it exists. Not now. Bronson Reed and Bronwyn break will then worrying about Austin theory again, which means Paul Heyman hadn't told them about the chat at the start of the show because they all like, man, listen to us, Paul, we don't trust it. Paul did promise them that he knows best though because again he has the vision when he came up with a great idea.

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