The former WWE Champion responded to that tweet with, “Legos>thumb tacks. The things #topguys do to get #over @DashWilderWWE @ScottDawsonWWE.”
Dawson commented on Orton’s post by writing, “We’re strugglin’ without ya #Help#FTRKO.”
Scott Dawson’s original tweet was referring to their loss to Heavy Machinery in a Street Fight on this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown in Brooklyn, NY at the Barclays Center on FOX.
Pitched Group
Back in November, it was reported that Orton approached WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon to personally pitch for a stable between himself and The Revival.
However, the WWE boss turned down the pitch. Not only that but he split them up and kept The Revival on SmackDown while Orton was sent to RAW.
Now, it’s being reported this week that The Revival will become a spoof of a famous 80s tag-team, The Fabulous Ones, on WWE programming.
On the flip side, Orton has entered into a feud with former WWE United States Champion AJ Styles on RAW. In fact, WWE has already confirmed that The OC (AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson) vs Randy Orton and The Viking Raiders will take place on Monday Night RAW this week.
This six-man tag team match was taped last Monday in Des Moines, IA at the Wells Fargo Arena.
Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson might be set to become more of a comedy duo than a serious tag-team. According to a recent report from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, plans are in place to have the Revival become a spoof of a famous 80s tag-team, with Wilder’s tripping during his entrance recently being part of this direction.
“The booking plan on Smackdown is to turn The Revival into comedy characters,” wrote Dave Meltzer. “There are mixed feelings on this for obvious reasons and it still may get shot down, but the deal where Wilder tripped and fell during the ring entrance was supposed to be the start of it.”
The report continues to state that the comedy routine would be a spoof on the Fabulous Ones.
Earlier this year, the Revival reportedly turned down 5-year contracts with WWE. It had also been reported back in January that they had requested their releases from the company. Their contracts with the company are believed to be up in the next few months, likely around WrestleMania.
It had also been reported recently that Randy Orton pitched ideas to management about a faction involving him and the tag team.
The Revival returned to WWE’s black-and-gold brand this week to take on Undisputed Era members Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish. After the match, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder caught up with WWE to reflect on their NXT homecoming.
“It felt great. Win, lose or draw, we went out there and we showed the world that we can still do exactly what we say we do, and that’s be the best tag team on the planet,” Wilder said.
“Maybe we didn’t win tonight, maybe we didn’t draw tonight, maybe we straight up lost tonight, but we got to come back here, where we started as a tag team five and a half years ago, and we got to show the world that this is what we love. This is what gives me goosebumps every night. It means a lot to us.”
“We Didn’t Lose Tonight”
Dawson then interjected, adding “We didn’t lose tonight. I don’t think we lost tonight. I think it was a victory. I think with my wife and my baby girl watching at home, I think they think it’s a victory. I might not have got the 1, 2, 3, but we came back to the house that we built brick by brick, and I don’t care who was on top when we were here, we were the ones that built this house. We were the foundation. I’m very proud to say that.”
He continued, “Undisputed Era, hey man, you got lucky. You’re a damn good tag team. But if there’s ever a time that you decide that, maybe, there needs to be a three-time NXT Tag Team Champions that go by the name of The Top Guys, FTR, The Revival…hey, give us that shot. Give us that opportunity, and we’ll prove it again. Because you are good, but you ain’t Revival good.”
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The Revival are now in the WWE history books as they earned the accomplishment with their latest title win.
Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson beat Big E and Xavier Woods to win the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Titles on the main card of the Clash of Champions pay-per-view event.
As a result, The Revival are the first tag team to brag that they have held the WWE NXT Tag Team Titles, the RAW Tag Team Titles, and the SmackDown Tag Team Titles.
As of this writing, there’s no word yet on when The New Day (Xavier Woods & Big E) will get their rematch for the titles but it could come as early as Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live.
Interesting Braun Strowman Stat
An interesting stat has surfaced involved Braun Strowman after he lost to WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins in the main event of the WWE Clash of Champions.
The stat comes from the WrestleVotes Twitter account as it was noted that this loss for Strowman marked the sixth time over a span of two years that he failed to win the WWE Universal Title on PPV presented by the company.
Those matches came at SummerSlam 17, No Mercy 17, Rumble 18, HIAC 18, Crown Jewel & Clash 19.”
Last night was the SIXTH time in a span of 2 years Braun Strowman has been unsuccessful in winning the Universal Title on PPV.
With Rollins moving on to a feud with Bray Wyatt at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event next month, it will be interesting to see who Strowman feuds with next.
The New Day are no longer staying on top of the SmackDown Tag Team Division as The Revival has dethroned.
Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson beat Big E and Xavier Woods at the latest WWE show, Clash of Champions pay-per-view event, in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Spectrum Center on the WWE Network.
The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) beat Daniel Bryan and Erick Rowan beat Heavy Machinery to win the titles at the WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view event. This show took place in Philadelphia, PA at the Wells Fargo Center.
This match was set up when The Revival issued a challenge to the champions on SmackDown earlier this month.
At the time of the challenge, The Revival was technically RAW stars but have been making frequent appearances on SmackDown Live as part of their alliance with Randy Orton to feud with Big E, Woods, and WWE Champion.
The New Day will likely get a rematch heading into the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event on Sunday, October 6, 2019 in Sacramento, California at the Golden 1 Center.
What are your thoughts on The Revival winning the SmackDown Tag Team Titles? Was this the right call by WWE officials? Sound off in the comment section.
Now, The Revival’s Scott Dawson has shared some harsh words aimed directly at their Clash of Champions opponents. As far as he is concerned, the New Day is to blame for turning WWE’s entire tag team division into an “embarrassment.”
Dawson shared his opinion on the current SmackDown Tag Team Champions via Twitter, writing:
“I blame New Day for the embarrassment this whole tag division has turned into. I blame you guys for cheering them on. We make our money in the division they’ve cheapened. It’s time to make a 7 figure dent in my bank account. #TopGuys #FTRKO”
His tag partner, Dash Wilder, also added his two cents, “Good luck, New Day. Break a leg. #FTRKO”
The pair have aligned themselves with “The Viper” Randy Orton on SmackDown Live, creating a formidable new partnership. While The Revival attempt to claim the SmackDown Tag Team Championships, Orton will be facing off against New Day member Kofi Kingston. They will compete for Kingston’s WWE Championship.
Clash of Champions takes place on September 15th from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) have been known to it public that they think they’re the best tag team in the world.
Thus, when Pentagon Jr. of the Lucha Bros claimed that they’re the best tag team in the world in a photo shared on Twitter, both Wilder and Dawson had to respond.
The former WWE RAW Tag Team Champions weren’t the only ones to chime in as Nick Jackson and one half of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Billie Kay gave emoji reactions.
Wilder stated in one of his responses that to make such a bold claim that the team actually has to make tags in a tag team match. Lucha Bros are known for having some wild matches with a quick pace while The Revival is seen as more of a throwback team.
Wilder thought the Lucha Bros are more of a “movez team” rather than a tag team. You can see the reactions here:
There is some history between the teams in WWE and AEW. Just last month, Dawson tweeted out a clip from earlier this year where The Revival talked about their accolades in the business.
Dawson would bring up how they’re better than several tag teams including The Young Bucks, Guerrillas of Destiny, and more.
The Revival still the champions of the tag team division on the WWE RAW roster.
In their latest title defense, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder successfully retained the RAW Tag Team Titles over The Usos (Jimmy & Jey) at the WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view event in Philadelphia, PA. WWE announced the match last Tuesday as this is a feud that has been going on for several weeks now.
During the June 10th episode of RAW, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder beat The Usos and former champions Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins in a Triple Threat Match to win the RAW Tag Team Championships. This marked their second reign as champions.
The Revival beat Roode and Gable to win the straps back on the February 11th episode of Monday Night RAW to win the titles for the first time.
The old school tag team held the titles until they dropped them to Hawkins and Ryder at WrestleMania 35.
What are your thoughts on Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder retaining the RAW Tag Team Titles? Was this the right call by WWE officials? Sound off in the comment section.
A new match has been announced for the upcoming WWE Extreme Rules PPV. WWE Raw Tag Team Champions The Revival will make their next title defense against The Usos, which is a feud that has been going on for several weeks now.
WWE presents the Extreme Rules pay-per-view event on Sunday, July 14th, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA at the Wells Fargo Center that will air on the WWE Network. WWE will be announcing more matches for this show in the coming days. Here is the updated card:
Updated WWE Extreme Rules Card
Becky Lynch & Seth Rollins vs. Lacey Evans & Baron Corbin – Mixed Tag Team Winners Take All Extreme Rules Match
Roman Reigns & The Undertaker vs. Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre – No Holds Barred Match
WWE Champion Kofi Kingston vs. Samoa Joe
WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross – Handicap Match
WWE Cruiserweight Champion Drew Gulak vs. Tony Nese
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions Daniel Bryan & Erick Rowan vs. Big E & Xavier Woods vs. Heavy Machinery – Three-Way Match
WWE United States Champion Ricochet vs. AJ Styles
Braun Strowman vs. Bobby Lashley – Last Man Standing Match
WWE Raw Tag Team Champions The Revival vs. The Usos
What are your thoughts on this match being added to the card? Sound off in the comment section.
Tama Tonga and his brother, Tanga Loa—collectively, The Guerrillas Of Destiny (GOD)—made an interesting challenge during their post-Dominion match interview.
The pair would throw out a couple of key WWE team names, taunt them as they demanded “fresh blood” to challenge for their titles.
It appears as though those WWE teams heard GOD as The Usos and The Revival have responded to the request via Twitter.
The Usos wrote “DAMN. EVERYBODY WANT DIS WORK HUH??” whilst The Revival took a more direct approach, telling GOD “You know where we are. #FTR”
Guerillas Of Destiny made the demands crystal clear during their backstage interview, with Tanga Loa saying, “Here’s what we want: some new f****** blood.”
It was at this point that Tama Tonga would call out their rival company’s teams.
“When we said this is an open invite, open challenge, an open invitation to anybody and everybody […] It’s open. You want some of us? Come. Usos? Come. FTR? Come get some. Don’t let the fences over there block you in. Come out to the open and play, boys. Come out to the open.”
GOD successfully defended their IWGP Tag Team titles against their Los Ingobernables de Japon opponents, EVIL and Sanada, during NJPW’s recent Dominion event.
They are also the current Ring Of Honor tag team champions. The brothers won both sets of belts during the ROH/NJPW co-promoted G1 Supercard on April 6th.
The Revival are once again the champions of the tag team division on the WWE RAW roster.
During Monday’s episode of RAW, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder beat The Usos and former champions Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins in a Triple Threat Match to win the RAW Tag Team Championships.
Hawkins and Ryder beat The Revival to win the titles at WrestleMania 35. This marked their second reign as champions as they last won the titles at the 2008 Great American Bash pay-per-view event that saw them hold the gold for 63 days.
The Revival beat Roode and Gable to win the straps back on the February 11th episode of Monday Night RAW. This marked their first reign as champions.
WWE presents the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view event on Sunday, June 23 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA that will air on the WWE Network. As of this writing, there’s no word yet on when Hawkins and Ryder will get their rematch for the titles but it could come at this event.
The Revival is committed to proving that they are the best tag team on WWE’s roster.
Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder were able to pick up a victory over RAW newcomers, The Usos, this past Monday.
In a backstage interview with Cathy Kelley, the pair discussed their rivalry with The Usos, calling them immature and childish, before declaring their ambitions to prove themselves as the absolute best.
“What momentum exactly are you talking about? Taking videos of us shaving each other’s backs or putting Uce-Hot in our trunks, or basically trying to make a mockery out of The Revival? We had nothing but respect for The Usos coming into this, nothing but respect, but they want to do that, they want to play childish games. That’s what they want to do, that’s how they want to handle this? I don’t see the momentum,” Wilder said.
“Yeah, no momentum,” Dawson added. “They’re immature. We had our perception of The Usos, and our perception was completely crushed. We were looking forward to this because we wanted to prove to The Usos, to each other, to the WWE Universe, and to the man, the big man in the office, that we are the absolute best tag team he’s got on this roster.”
Given their victory, the team would claim that they got the last laugh over the Usos before Wilder signed off, saying “So I guess, Usos, the joke’s on you now. Top guys out.”
Prior to this, The Revival would play victim to several pranks at the hands of Jimmy and Jey Uso as the two debuted on Monday Night RAW after the Superstar Shake-Up.
It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the Revival in recent weeks. The RAW tag team, comprised of Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder, have gone from allegedly requesting their releases, to winning the tag team championships, to losing them to the team of Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins. Most recently, they were featured on RAW as the victims of a prank that saw the Usos sneak “Ucey Hot” into their tights.
Speaking with The Sun, Dash and Wilder reflected on their journey in WWE and how they try to use these situations to “fuel” them going forward.
“We work great with chips on our shoulders. We work great being a-holes,” Wilder confessed. “That’s just something we’ve always used to fuel us and help us get where we wanted to go. We’re on the right trajectory.”
“We Had Some Unfortunate Incidents — Life Happens”
His partner, Dawson, added that “The experience in WWE has been exactly what you’ve watched – it’s been up and down. Going into our main roster debut, we were on a personal and creative high. But we had some unfortunate incidents – life happens. It’s what happens in this and any sport,” he said. “When we came in and beat The New Day, with that kind of reaction, maybe that boosted our ego a little too much. It was like someone said, ‘Settle down, let’s put that chip back on your shoulder.’”
They would end the interview discussing the quality of their actual matches.
“There’s good wrestling and there’s bad wrestling. What we do every night of the week is good wrestling – great wrestling if you ask me,” said Scott Dawson. ““Every night I lace up my boots up and I every night I take a breath and say, ‘It’s going to be a good match.’ With as much humility as I can muster up, there aren’t too many people who are as good as we are.”
Here’s hoping that the Revival can leverage their match quality with consistent character growth. Given the segments they have been appearing in recently, thanks to WWE Creative, we may be waiting a while.
Scott Dawson got fans talking over a recent post that he shared on his official Twitter account.
During Monday’s episode of RAW in Cincinnati, OH at the US Bank Arena, WWE did a segment where The Revival (Dawson and Dash Wilder) accidentally put on a product like ICY HOT that was supposed to be embarrassing for the former WWE RAW Tag Team Champions.
This was after last week where WWE did an angle that saw The Usos catch Wilder and Dawson shaving each other’s back. Dawson took to Twitter where he wrote the following:
While some fans speculated and rightfully so that this tweet was aimed at WWE officials for doing these types of segments, it was likely done in storyline towards The Usos.
It should be noted that these embarrassing moments to The Revival started after reports surfaced that the former RAW Tag Team Champions were offered five-year, $500,000 per year deals to stay with WWE, but haven’t accepted. The Revival turned down the contract offers.
Back in January, it was reported that The Revival were unhappy about their position in the company and requested their releases but was declined. Their current contracts are rumored to expire in 2020.
John Cena was trolled by Randy Orton through the power of social media. The former WWE Champion sends out messages that are inspirational to followers on his official Twitter account. He did so yet again on Monday morning, which got the attention of Orton. You can see the exchange here:
Beware those who think you owe them happiness at the expense of your own well being.
Cena is currently off of WWE television as he continues to pursue a career in Hollywood. On the flip side, Orton has his next big match lined up as he’ll compete against Braun Strowman, Ricochet, Drew McIntyre, Baron Corbin, Andrade, Finn Balor, and Mustafa Ali in the en’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match.
This contest takes place at the Money In The Bank pay-per-view event on Sunday, May 19, 2019 in Hartford, CT at the XL Center.
The Revival Receive Hitman Approval
It turns out that WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart is a big fan of The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder).
In a recent post on his Instagram account, Dawson, who is a fan of the legendary pro wrestler, mentioned in a recent post that the former RAW Tag Team Champions have been “Hitman Approved.”
The closing segment of Monday’s WWE Raw from Lexington, KY saw the Money in the Bank contract signing between Universal Champion Seth Rollins and AJ Styles.
Believe it or not, the contract signing did not go as planned. Styles ended up putting Rollins through a table to end the segment.
After Raw went off the air, The Revival came out. The ‘top guys’ delivered a beatdown to Rollins, who was already in bad shape from the Styles attack.
Being the fighting champion that he is, Rollins eventually fought back and got the upper hand on Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson. Rollins hit a double Curb Stomp on The Revival to end the segment. You can see footage of the confrontation below.
Our live correspondent also noted the upper deck of the arena was tarped off due to renovations. She estimated the building was approximately 2/3 full.
Watch: Seth Rollins Takes Out The Revival After Raw
The Revival has been offered big money deals by WWE in order to secure them under contract for years to come.
According to Fightful, both Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder have been offered five-year, $500,000 per year deals to stay with WWE, but haven’t accepted. F4WOnline followed up with a report stating The Revival turned down the contract offers.
The tag team was set for a meeting with the company on Monday afternoon while backstage at the RAW TV event in Lexington, KY at the Rupp Arena. It was added that it didn’t look like Revival had plans to accept the deal. Their current contracts are rumored to expire in 2020.
The Revival wants out?
Back in January, it was reported that The Revival were unhappy about their position in the company and requested their releases. Shortly thereafter, they beat Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to win the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships.
After a few months with the straps, they dropped the titles to Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder at WrestleMania 35. As of late, there have been several WWE stars such as Luke Harper, Tye Dillinger, Mike Kanellis & Maria, Sasha Banks, Dean Ambrose, and Hideo Itami who have expressed their frustration with the company.
WWE has granted and also declined these stars when they asked for their releases. In the case of Ambrose, he just worked out the remainder of his deal and is now a free agent.
Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder recently commented to Fox Sports Australia that they believe tag team wrestling has become more than just a “lost art”. The RAW tag team champions also said they blame WWE for this.
“It’s not a ‘bit’ of a lost art. It’s become Atlantis,” Wilder said.
“This is going to sound terrible, but I kind of blame our company for that,” Dawson added. “Because the individual stars made so much money, so people had that goal in mind to be an individual star here. And for us we knew that to make the most money, we needed to be a tag team, we needed to be a unit. Collectively we’re individuals but mentally we’re one.”
Dawson continued to say that tag wrestling was big in the 80s, saw a resurgence in the 90s with Edge & Christian, the Hardyz etc. but then saw a sharp decline.
“In the 80s obviously tag team wrestling was huge, then it kind of died off a little bit, then you had Edge and Christian and the Hardys and the Dudleys, even Too Cool and the APA bringing back tag team wrestling, and then it just got lost.”
It appears that, despite becoming the RAW tag team champions, The Revival may still be unhappy within WWE. The team, comprised of Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, haven’t been shy of hiding their frustrations.
After having teased a matchup with The Young Bucks via social media, and amongst the influx of talent requesting releases and also vocalising their frustrations, the team would go on to become tag champions.
In what could add further speculation to their happiness and position within WWE, The Revival posed recently posed with a fan at a WWE Live Event. The fan just so happened to be wearing an All Elite Wrestling (AEW) t-shirt. The fan posted these photos and quoted that he was told: “I’ll see you in May.” This is an obvious reference to their friendship with AEW members as well as AEW’s upcoming event, Double Or Nothing, which takes place in May.
It’s an interesting comment to make considering The Revival’s contracts with WWE expire in 2020.
Adding to this speculation over their current job satisfaction, Dash Wilder would respond to a fan’s tweet. The tweet showcased the fan’s nephews showing off a pair of RAW tag team championship belts, which they got for their birthday. Wilder’s response was somewhat telling:
“Please don’t wish being Raw tag team champs on them. For their sake.”
Despite having claimed the RAW tag team championships, the duo would go on to suffer a string of loses, stymying any momentum they may have been hoping to build for themselves and the RAW tag team division.
WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) were back at it again by teasing to bring back the old design of the WWE Tag Team Titles, which has fans talking.
This is just one of the many examples of how these two WWE stars want to bring back tag team wrestling to its glory days on the red brand. This photo was taken and shared before they successfully retained the gold over Bobby Roode and Chad Gable at a live event on Sunday night in Amherst, MA at the Mullins Center.
WWE Amherst, MA Results
Drew McIntyre defeated Dean Ambrose with the Claymore Kick.
No Way Jose defeated EC3.
Apollo Crews defeated Luke Harper.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Sasha Banks & Bayley defeated The Riott Squad’s Sarah Logan & Ruby Riott.
Mojo Rawley & The Ascension defeated Titus O’Neil & Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder.
RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival defeated Bobby Roode & Chad Gable to retain the titles
Braun Strowman defeated Baron Corbin with a powerslam – No DQ match.
WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) posed with a fan who was wearing an AEW (All Elite Wrestling) t-shirt at a recent house show.
On Saturday night at a WWE live event Utica, NY at the Adirondack Bank Center, the champions successfully retained the titles over Bobby Roode & Chad Gable. After the match, they took the photo, which was shared by Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet on his official Twitter account that you can see here:
The Revival posing with a fan wearing an AEW shirt at a WWE live event tonight. #FTR
There were reports in January that they had asked for their release from the company over creative frustrations but this request was declined by WWE management. The Revival beat Roode and Gable to win the straps back on the February 11th episode of Monday Night RAW.
WWE Utica, NY Results
Drew McIntyre defeated Dean Ambrose with the Claymore Kick
Last month, The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) defeated Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to become the WWE RAW Tag Team Champions. At Fastlane this past weekend, the pair successfully defended their titles against Roode and Gable, and Aleister Black and Ricochet. Now, it remains to be seen who the duo will defend their titles against at WrestleMania 35.
Speaking to Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, Wilder was asked about his dream match for The Revival at this year’s WrestleMania. Wilder responded by naming a two-out-of-three falls match against Roode and Gable for the RAW Tag Team Titles:
“Personally this year – I don’t know it’s possible or within reach but we’re going to do everything in our power make it – would be a match with Roode and Gable, two-out-of-three falls, for the tag team titles.
“I feel like those guys have so much to offer as a tag team and they’ve only scratched the surface – especially on TV – compared to what they can do. I know what each guy is capable of individually and what they’re capable of as a team because we’ve wrestled them on live events all across the world at this point.
“We’ve had 40-minute matches, two-out-of-three falls matches, straight-up matches and I can’t say enough how much more they have to offer to this division and how great both guys are – as much as I love that we’ve beaten them [laughs]. I’d love to have a two-out-of-three falls match with them because the four of us will go out there, work harder than anybody else is going to work and we’ll give fans something to remember.
“That’s something we’re going to pitch for until the day is over. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, what’s going to go on but up until WrestleMania goes off the air we’ll be pitching that!”
WrestleMania 35 goes down from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on April 7, 2019. Only a few matches have been confirmed for the card thus far. None of them include WWE’s plans for The Revival and their RAW Tag Team Titles. Check out the updated WrestleMania card here:
WWE Universal Championship: (C) Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins
Triple Threat Match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship: (C) Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch
WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Buddy Murphy vs. (Tournament Winner TBD)
No Holds Barred: Triple H vs. Batista
Kurt Angle vs. TBD
Shane McMahon vs. The Miz
Who would you like to see The Revival face at WrestleMania 35?
The current one-half of the Raw Tag Team Champions, Dash Wilder of The Revival moved to the main roster with his partner Scott Dawson in April of 2017.
The Revival answered an open challenge by The New Day on Raw and defeated them. This would start their journey on the main roster which was full of ups and downs, mainly due to injuries.
A lot of fans have trouble understanding their favorites from NXT underperforming in the main roster. Wilder addressed this difference seen in their performances and tried to look at the potential causes for it while speaking to talkSPORT.
“Oh man, I wish I understood! There’s just so much that goes into the Raw side of it, the SmackDown side of it and NXT side. In NXT, you have a little bit more time to get things situated and to build stuff and get everything flowing in the right direction whereas Mondays and Tuesdays, everything is very hectic and can change in an instant. So it’s always kind of flowing and moving. I thought around that time period [NXT TakeOver: Orlando/WrestleMania 33] we were at our most popular and it worked out really well for us with the debut against New Day and everything. The fans were really good for it.”
Wilder fractured his jaw shortly after his Raw match with The New Day which kept him out of action for eight weeks. Bad news followed the duo as Dawson tore his right bicep a month after Wilder’s injury. Dawson was out of action for five months. Wilder says these injuries really killed their momentum and the reason why the casual crowd took a longer time to get behind them.
“I feel like the injuries back-to-back – one to me, one to Dawson – that obviously put a big bump in the road for us and took away a lot of the momentum, but at the same time, the crowds are a little bit different. NXT, for the most part, their crowds are a little more die-hard and a little more ‘in the know’ I guess? Whereas Monday’s and Tuesday’s, they reach out to a broader audience, a more casual audience. They still come out and have fun and enjoy it, but they don’t know as much about NXT or TakeOver: Orlando as they do about the Royal Rumble or WrestleMania. So it’s just getting those guys established and things going the right way.”
“And then Dawson tore his bicep a month after I came back. So within three months, we had two pretty significant injuries and that really hurt. The first one, we were still around, we were still on TV. The second one was a little bit longer, more rehab for Dawson and that one hurt a lot because we were going to work The Hardyz at SummerSlam and get that opportunity the NXT guys are getting now and there’s nothing you can do about it – it’s out of your hands.”
Wilder also talks about the idea they pitched for WrestleMania 35, what he wants to see in WWE’s tag team division and more. You can read the entire interview by clicking here.
Dash Wilder is currently 1/2 of the RAW tag team champions. The Revival retained their titles Sunday at Fastlane in a triple threat match against Bobby Roode & Chad Gable and Ricochet & Aleister Black.
There have been reports in recent months that the Revival requested their release from WWE. Dash Wilder recently commented on those reports in an interview with the Mirror.
“Hmm, I won’t touch on it too much,” Wilder began. “What I will say is that it was lost in translation. There were some things that got out there that I don’t think people knew the full story about.”
Wilder continued to talk about if the online reports caused any frustration for him or his partner.
“I don’t think it aggravated us,” he continued. “It kind of gave us… again, we like to be angry. We like to be mad at things and have something to fight for. So that gave us more fuel for the fire and we were like… ‘we’ll have fun with the internet over that, as they don’t know what’s what, so we’re not going to tell them otherwise’.”
Dash Wilder Interview Highlights
Wilder also spoke about how he and Dawson aren’t flashy like some of the other NXT call-ups.
“We’re not something that’s immediately going to jump out at you like an Aleister Black, who has this grand entrance, with the candles and the smoke and the mirrors. That’s really cool, and he’s gonna do great, but that’s not us.”
While speaking to Mirror, Bayley revealed how The Revival helped them transition from a singles wrestler to a tag team: “It’s so hard. It’s so so different. It’s a whole different psychology and it’s been a struggle to learn, but it’s been very fun.”
Bayley also expanded on how The Revival helped them understand the psychology of tag-team wrestling and why it is necessary to stay in sync with your partner.
“Sasha and I are so lucky to have The Revival on Raw with us and we’re so lucky to be such good friends with them because they help us so much in understanding the why in so many things. They teach us the psychology of actually being a tag team – people don’t understand that.”
“Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder will sit with us and watch matches with us and show us matches that we all learn from and I can’t say enough good things about them, because they’ve helped us so much. I’m just excited to get better.”