3 things the WWE Universe learned from this week's RAW and SmackDown Live (19-25 November 2018)

This week's Raw was pretty decent as the show was more focus on Strowman's elbow injury and his upcoming match with Baron Corbin at TLC.

They were some other angles involving Rollins and Ambrose, which was really fun. We saw some amazing promos in Smackdown from Charlotte Flair and the "New" Daniel Bryan, which reminded me that why WWE is the best wrestling promotion in the world because it focuses on the overall story and not just the wrestling part.

Each week, we get to know about the next steps in the different storylines, and this week WWE didn't disappoint in that regard as feuds were building-up for the TLC pay-per-view. This week, we will focus on Survivor Series, Raw (November 19) and Smackdown (November 20)

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#3 Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre are in for a big push

Orton is at his best at the moment

Drew McIntyre returned to the main roster in April 2018 and has been an integral part of the main event storyline ever since.

Instead of just pushing him directly to the title picture, writers took time with him by involving him in the tag team with Dolph Ziggler.

From there, he slowly started having a feud with the Shield and then with Braun Strowman and Finn Balor.

He may not be in the Universal Title picture at least till Royal Rumble 2019 as Strowman may face Brock Lesnar there.

But, it is a blessing in disguise for him as he can then have a feud with someone else to establish his character and give time to the fans to get used to seeing him as a big match commodity.

Same goes for Randy Orton as well. Like Drew, WWE is slowly building him up. Even though he has some experience of being the face of the company in the past, WWE is establishing him as a sadistic heel before giving him a title run and has already left a scar on big wrestlers like Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio.

It is refreshing to see that the writers are not booking either of them like a coward, which WWE likes to do with their heels. They are instead portrayed as fearless beasts. A big push is just around the corner for both of them.

#2 Two wrestlers get along automatically when both are either face or heel

Nia Jax turned heel on her ongoing feud with Ronda Rousey and suddenly Bliss and Jax have started getting along nicely

This one was already an established fact before, but WWE made it quite visible this week on Raw.

During Wrestlemania 34, Nia Jax and Alexa Bliss were involved in a huge feud over bullying and body-shaming and could barely stand each other's presence in the ring.

This feud even got an extended run in Extreme Rules. But things quickly changed after a couple of months.

Nia Jax turned heel on her ongoing feud with Ronda Rousey and suddenly Bliss and Jax have started getting along nicely.

Bliss even picked Nia in Raw's team for Survivor Series without any qualifying match. Alexa Bliss even mentioned when she was part of the commentary team this week that there is no unresolved issued left between them.

Even though it is all part of kayfabe, it looks ridiculous to see two wrestlers who would literally kill each other a couple of weeks ago, were acting like close friends now just because both are playing heel characters.

The same thing happened with Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles last month when Bryan was still a babyface.

Since both were playing good guys, they teamed up a couple of times to take on the Usos, even though they were about to face each other in a couple of weeks times for WWE Championship.

#1 Performance in the whole year does not matter in Survivor Series

SmackDown Live deserved the victory in the Survivor Series as I feel they justified this with their steady execution throughout the year

Many will agree with me that Smackdown was the better show of the two this year. Storylines and the matches were much more gripping and entertaining in Smackdown.

RAW, on the other hand, were struggling with their consistently low ratings and dull storylines.

SmackDown Live deserved the victory in the Survivor Series as I feel they justified this with their steady execution throughout the year.

Even though Survivor Series is about which show is better from the wrestling point of view and has nothing to do with the entertainment value or TV ratings, this victory would have felt sweet for them, considering the amount of success they got this year, with Becky Lynch at the helm.

But, we saw Raw defeating Smackdown 6-0 (according to WWE), and reminding everyone that they are the A-show.

This somehow reminds me of Roman Reign's push, WWE will only do what they want to show, not what the fans want to see. If this pay-per-view is an annual thing, then Smackdown clearly did not deserve to lose in such an embarrassing fashion.

I don't think that this is going to tie in some storyline as both shows are moving forward for upcoming pay-per-view and they were barely any mentions about it in the Smackdown this week.