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This week's episode of Monday Night RAW followed on from the Red brand's impressive overall victory at WWE Survivor Series. Even though Bobby Lashley was the only Champion who walked out with a win for RAW, the brand won the battle for brand dominance in the main matches.
There were several mistakes and awkward moments throughout Survivor Series and it appears that this flowed over onto RAW. Last night's episode began the build-up to the final pay-per-view of the year which takes place on December 20th, but there were plenty of botches from the tired WWE stars following a lengthy pay-per-view week.
Here are just five botches and mistakes from last night's episode of RAW.
#5. Riddle wants to be a Championship, rather than a WWE Champion?
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This week's episode of RAW kicked off with the five men who were able to complete the clean sweep over SmackDown at Survivor Series. Adam Pearce was looking to name a new No. 1 contender for Drew McIntyre's WWE Championship and every man wanted to stake their claim.
AJ Styles, Keith Lee, Sheamus, Braun Strowman, and Riddle were the stars in the ring with Pearce but when it came down to Riddle stating his claim he made quite the blunder. Rather than stating that he wanted to become WWE Champion, Riddle claimed that he wanted to become a Championship.
Unlike many other stars, Riddle didn't jump back and correct himself, instead, he continued his thought track and acted as though it didn't happen, which actually drew less attention to the interesting botch.
Later in the night, Riddle was able to defeat Sheamus, which means that he is now one step closer to becoming the Championship that he desires.
#4. The WWE official declares the match a double count-out
Despite already defeating The Hurt Business a week ago on RAW, The New Day agreed to their challenge this week and took on Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin one more time for the WWE Tag Team Championships.
It was a scrappy match that got interesting when Kofi Kingston was pulled from the top rope by Alexander and couldn't get back into the ring in time to meet the count. The referee had no choice but to count him out, but the ring announcer then stated that the match ended via double count-out.
The referee then had to loudly inform him that this was wrong and the match actually ended via count-out with The Hurt Business being victorious. The match was restarted and The New Day picked up the victory, which left The Hurt Business without Championships once again.
It's unclear if this was by design and WWE planned for the match to be restarted after a count-out or if this was ad-libbed because it was a mistake. Either way, it seemed like a strange way for the company to kick-off the in-ring action on RAW.
#3. Did Adam Pearce just call WWE Champion Drew McIn-fart?
Adam Pearce was under a lot of pressure last night since there were six different men who all wanted a shot at Drew McIntyre's WWE Championship. After being attacked by Braun Strowman, Pearce was sporting quite the bruise on his head and definitely looked worse for wear.
In two backstage interviews he was interrupted by Bobby Lashley and Randy Orton who wanted to stake their claim for the Championship, but it was the WWE producer who had the final say.
When Charly Caruso asked Pearce what decision he has made regarding the Championship he noted that there would be three singles matches this week and the winners would face off next week in a triple threat match.
Pearce went on to claim that the winner of next week's triple threat would go on to face Drew McIntyre but he tripped over the words and actually called him Drew McIn-fart. It's unknown if this is a common nickname for McIntyre and he got confused, but he quickly corrected himself and continued with the interview, whilst many WWE fans on Twitter were highly amused by the blunder.
#2. WWE star Bobby Lashley injures himself on a ring post
Bobby Lashley is already the United States Champion but he was happy to step into a match against Keith Lee in order to challenge Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. Lashley and Keith Lee had never faced off before and Lashley struggled to lock in the Hurt Lock on Lee which meant that he had to turn to a much more vicious approach in the match.
At one point the two men were battling on the outside when Lashley picked Lee up and it was obvious that he was struggling with WWE's Limitless One on his shoulders. Lee was carried over to the ring post and Lashley then jumped down onto his knees and tried to throw Lee into the post but didn't get the momentum he needed.
Instead, Lashley collided with the post head first and for the rest of the match, he was bleeding from the side of his head. Lee was able to make the move look as though it hit, but it was obvious that Lashley came off much worse than his opponent.
#1. The cameraman allows the WWE Universe to see The Fiend
Randy Orton was looking for a rematch against Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship last night on RAW, but the former Champion had to get past AJ Styles. The two men were putting on a fantastic show until Orton once again became the target of The Fiend.
The Fiend arrived toward the end of the match and was over the other side of the barricade when he came face to face with The Viper for the first time. This distraction wasn't enough to cost Orton the match against Styles, so The Fiend would show up on the ring apron a few minutes later.
Much like The Undertaker, The Fiend has a habit of being able to move around in the dark, but last night on RAW the cameraman panned out at the wrong time and the WWE Universe was able to see The Fiend climbing over the barricade.
Many fans pulled this up on Twitter and were then prepared with The Fiend showed up on the ring apron a few seconds later. Orton went on to lost the match following a Phenomenal Forearm from Styles.
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