Best and worst of RAW- 10th December, 2018

#2 Worst: Balor's absence

Finn Balor was the leader of the resistance against Corbin on last week's show

PWInsider just reported that Balor is out with an illness and not an injury. He is expected to make it back in time for the TLC match against Drew McIntyre on this weekend's show. But he missed the proceedings this week and it felt like a massive void to me.

If you remember last week's episode, Balor was responsible for much of the assault against Corbin's team. One wonders if Balor would have been in the main event against Corbin in a TLC match, had he been healthy. To be fair, Seth Rollins could have been a last minute replacement, all said and done.

Sasha Banks dorkily begging to get thrown by Apollo Crews to help Bayley was fantastic 😎

— Chris Carlen (@ChrisCarlen1) December 11, 2018

As for Crews, this could be just the break the man needs with Balor effectively stepping out of the Mixed Match Challenge. Based on the number of injuries, can we just call it the cursed match challenge?