Tonight was the final WWE Raw before Crown Jewel, which is coming up this Saturday in Riyadh,

and it was a much better show than the one they put on last week.

At no point during tonight's show did I feel as if I was about to pass out and fall asleep.

So that's a good sign, so a definite improvement from last week,

and they did a very good job, I thought, of really pushing the key raw matches that are on the

show at Crown Jewel. In the main event tonight, we had Sami Zayn and Damien Priest,

which ended at a very lame disqualification finish, a terrible finish to the main event. But

Cody Rhodes came out, and Cody Rhodes got on the mic, and he cut a fiery promo on Damien Priest,

calling him a walk behinder, trying to create some more friction between the members of the

Judgment Day and talking about how his story runs through Damien Priest this Saturday at Crown

Jewel. No mention of the briefcase being on the line, so I thought maybe they would add it,

no money in the bank contract on the line. But what I enjoyed the most was the build to the

World Heavyweight Championship match between Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre. And Drew McIntyre was

not on the show, but they had a very, very good video package that really drove home,

he'll characterise what it is that has really stuck in this man's crawl now for the last

three years, going back to when he won the championship in 2020 in front of no fans at WrestleMania.

His story arc goes all the way back there, and it laid out all of his frustrations. It mentioned

the fact that his first title defense coming out of that first reign was against Seth Rollins,

and now he was going to take the World Heavyweight title away from Seth. I thought it was very well done,

Seth had an equally excellent rebuttal in his promo live on the show tonight, so that's really

what impressed me the most was the build to the World Heavyweight Championship match, which honestly,

is one of the matches I am most looking forward to on Saturday. And the Drew McIntyre character

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