WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) are still champions.
In their latest title defense under the WWE, they beat Ricochet & Aleister Black and Chad Gable & Bobby Roode in a three-way match at the final stop before WrestleMania 35 on Sunday night, the WWE Fastlane pay-per-view event, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Revival has gone as far as teasing bringing 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.
The Revival beat Roode and Gable to win the straps back on the February 11th episode of Monday Night RAW.
Time will tell whether WWE continues this feud or goes into a different direction heading into WrestleMania 35 on Sunday, April 7, 2019 in East Rutherford, NJ at MetLife Stadium that will air on the WWE Network.
It’s possible that WWE adds another team to this program in order to make it a fatal four-way or just books The Revival vs. Black and Ricochet at the biggest event of the year for the company.
What are your thoughts on The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) retaining the title? Was this the right call by WWE officials? Sound off in the comment section.
A new match has been announced for the upcoming WWE Fastlane PPV.
WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival will defend their titles against Ricochet & Aleister Black and Chad Gable & Bobby Roode in a three-way match. The match was announced by Kayla Braxton in the video that you can watch below.
WWE presents the Fastlane pay-per-view event on March 10, 2019 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio 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 Fastlane Card
WWE Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Kevin Owens
The Shield (Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins) vs. Drew McIntyre, Bobby Lashley & Baron Corbin – Six-Man Tag Team Match
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos vs. Shane McMahon & The Miz
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Sasha Banks & Bayley vs. Nia Jax & Tamina
WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Asuka vs. Mandy Rose
Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch – Vacant RAW Women’s Title Match
WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Revival vs. Ricochet & Aleister Black vs. Chad Gable & Bobby Roode
What are your thoughts on this match being added to the card? Sound off in the comment section.
WWE Raw Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder), as well as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Sasha Banks and Bayley, are hoping that 2019 will be a big year for the tag team divisions for both men and women.
WWE sent out this video on their official Twitter account with the teams interacting and talking about being champions, which you can see here:
While Dawson and Wilder are reviving the RAW Tag Team division, Banks and Bayley are set on defending their titles not only on the main roster shows – Monday Night RAW and SmackDown Live – but also in NXT as well.
The Revival has gone as far as teasing bringing 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.
The Revival beat Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to win the straps back on the February 11th episode of Monday Night RAW. On the flip side, Bayley and Banks became the inaugural Women’s Tag Team Champions at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event.
Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder won the RAW tag-team championships on Monday by defeating Chad Gable & Bobby Roode. It was the team’s 4th attempt at winning the titles on WWE programming in recent weeks.
Since winning the titles, the Revival has taken to social media to lobby for the return of a classic-looking tag-team title belt design.
Last summer, the man responsible for designing the current WWE tag titles for RAW and Smackdown, Dave Millican, appeared on the Pancakes and PowerSlams podcast and spoke about the titles. According to Millican, he pleaded with WWE to not have to make the titles copper.
“The tag team titles, I begged them, please let me make them nickel,” said Millican. “Let me make them gold, let me make them silver and gold. Just don’t make me do copper and it just came down from the top that copper is what they wanted.”
“In particular, Stephanie McMahon really just wanted to do something different,” he continued. “They want to kind of reinvent the wheel every time, and something that is not used somewhere else, which is understandable. And so, when they bottom-lined it for me and said, ‘look, it’s gonna be copper,’ I was like okay, I can do copper.”
Here is Millican posting a pic of classic tag-team titles on Twitter:
Add Good Ol’ JR to the list of those congratulating The Revival on becoming Raw Tag Team Champions this week. On The Jim Ross Report, he praised the duo of Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder as potential saviors for what has been a long overlooked division in WWE.
“I was happy to see The Revival get a little bit of recognition, get their hands up, become the new tag team champions there on Raw.”
“These two cats got a chance to resurrect tag team wrestling in WWE,” Ross said.
Ross went on to draw parallels between what Ronda Rousey has done for women’s wrestling, and what he believes The Revival is capable of.
“I believe that as Ronda Rousey raised the awareness, along with her teammates… I think the same things can be done for tag team wrestling in WWE.”
“You can make it topical, you can make it timely, you create some stars.”
Creating stars is much easier said than done, but many would say that WWE creative has done little to help in that regard. To that end, Ross offers a hint on how to get The Revival’s stardom rising.
“And the way you create stars is they win much more than they lose,” Ross said.
After trading wins with the Lucha House Party for several months, The Revival reportedly asked for their release from WWE. Now they hold championships in the company, perhaps signaling an end to their seesaw booking.
“And there ain’t no 50/50 booking,” Ross continued. “That don’t get nobody over.”
You can hear JR’s full comments, as well as his take on the rest of the WWE news of the week, on The Jim Ross Report. The full episode is below.
The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) has received praise by one top WWE star after earning their first set of WWE gold while on the main roster. Former WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins praised the former NXT Tag Team Champions for beating Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to win the WWE RAW Tag Team Titles.
Rollins took to his official Twitter account where he gave them the praise when he wrote, “Also big ups to The Revival. @ScottDawsonWWE & @DashWilderWWE have been hustling for a minute now and they’ve earned their moment. Work starts now boys!”
NXT Talent To Work Main Roster Shows
PWinsider.com is reporting that WWE officials have talked about having WWE NXT Superstar Candice LeRae work some upcoming SmackDown live events. As of this writing, there’s no word yet on if the company plans to call up Johnny Gargano’s wife to the main roster or keep her in NXT.
There’s always the chance that by allowing her to work main roster shows it would allow her to get used to the main roster style and schedule before making the jump full-time. If you recall, the WWE has done this in the past with the most notable name being Nikki Cross.
LeRae was seen working with main roster talents when she competed in the women’s Royal Rumble Match last month by entering the contest at #17 and later being eliminated by Ruby Riott. She is still active in the NXT women’s division after signing with WWE back in January 2018.
In case you missed it, WWE has new RAW tag team champions. Despite being surrounded with rumors regarding their status, The Revival, have come away from last night’s Monday Night RAW victorious. They bested the team of “Glorious” Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to claim their first tag team championships on the main roster.
After numerous weeks of speculation and whispers — extending to an attempt to ban Lucha House Rules — Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder can finally call themselves champions as WWE continues to try and reignite their tag team division.
Taking to Twitter, Chad Gable addressed their loss, taking it in his stead and congratulating The Revival. He did add a caveat, saying that this isn’t the end between the two rivals teams. He promised that “We’re coming…#Glorious”.
“Fair and square. Congratulations, Revival.
But there’s nothing I love more than a good chase.
Get your running boots on. We’re coming…#Glorious”
Fair and square. Congratulations, Revival.
But there’s nothing I love more than a good chase.
Despite putting in a great performance and winning the titles clean, it does beg the question over WWE’s stance towards disgruntled talent. With The Revival being given a run with the belts, does this usher in a new wave of unhappy talent getting an opportunity, or is this a case of WWE placating Superstars for the short term?
Perhaps this is simply the beginning of the revival for The Revival.
There are new WWE RAW Tag Team Champions and it’s The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder).
During Monday’s episode of RAW in Grand Rapids, MI at the Van Andel Arena, The Revival beat Bobby Roode and Chad Gable to win the straps. This was one of the best tag team matches featured on the flagship show of the company in recent memory.
This marks their first reign as champions on the main roster for the former NXT Tag Team Champions. It’s also interesting timing considering that it’s been reported that The Revival were unhappy about their position in the company and recently requested their releases.
Gable and Roode had been champions since the December 10th episode where they beat Authors of Pain and Drake Maverick to win the titles in a 3-on-2 handicap match.
It will be interesting to see when Gable and Roode get their rematch for the straps but it’s likely to come as soon as the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event that takes place on February 17, 2019 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas that will air on the WWE Network.
The Bullet Club has a ton of vacant positions to fill at the moment. Mostly due to The Elite’s decision to depart to other promotions, such as All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Cody, Adam Page, The Young Bucks, and more are already signed to the new promotion. However, Tama Tonga has some names in mind that he’d like to see join The Bullet Club in their absence.
Speaking on “The WINCLY” recently, Tonga admitted that there are several talents that he’d like to see in the group. More specifically, he said he’d like to see WWE tag team, The Revival, join the faction:
“There’s a lot of talent, especially ones making a splash,” Tonga said. “Guys are wanting to leave certain companies… The Revival – those guys have piqued an interest. Those guys are great workers and I always watch their stuff…
“There’s a lot of indie promotions we look at, especially in Australia and England. But that’s pretty much under wraps for now.”
It’s interesting that Tonga brings up The Revival. The former NXT Tag Team Champions are clearly frustrated with their position in WWE at the moment. They asked for their release from the company several weeks ago after a match of theirs on Monday Night RAW. However, given the current climate within the industry, WWE won’t be granting any releases anytime soon.
A report later surfaced that WWE is planning on vamping up its tag team division, with The Revival being promised to be made the face of it. It will be interesting to see if these promises are followed through with.
What WWE stars would you like to see in The Bullet Club?
Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson have been in the headlines quite a bit as of late. It has been reported that the tag-team asked for their release from the promotion recently. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, their contracts run until April next year.
“They have been wanting to give notice for a while,” Meltzer said on the show. “Everything is up in the air, they worked the house shows this weekend.”
Their match in San Antonio was evidently a show-stealer, which Sasha Banks referenced on Twitter.
“They haven’t been given their release,” Meltzer stated. “Their contract is up in April 2020 which is a long ways away.”
Pro Wrestling Sheet stated the team was unhappy with how tag-team wrestling in WWE is presented. This then led to them asking for their release.
“Sources tell us the tag team’s decision to ask for their releases was based on how little time and respect the division is given,” the report reads.
Dash Wilder also applied to trademark the term “#FTR” on New Year’s Day. This led to speculation the team was looking to leave the company.
It was also believed the Revival requested to work more on NXT. This was addressed by Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live recently.
“The only thing I can tell you about The Revival right now is I don’t know if they asked from a release from WWE, but I do know they have been asking about doing more matches down in NXT,” Alvarez said.
The Revival has been pretty vocal in the past few months on social media. Asking fans to not “give up” on them, starting an official petition to get Lucha House Rules banned, or teasing a matchup with All Elite’s Young Bucks — The Revival is harnessing social media in order to remind the WWE Universe they are still there. For now.
Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline.com recently commented on The Revival and their status within WWE.
“The only thing I can tell you about The Revival right now is I don’t know if they asked from a release from WWE, but I do know they have been asking about doing more matches down in NXT,” he revealed.
“I don’t know if that would mean going full-time back to NXT. Obviously, there are a lot of great tag teams in NXT. People love working house shows and people love working NXT shows. There are a lot of people — I’m not saying it’s The Revival — but they had more fun in NXT. Obviously, you can tell by watching the main roster, but it could have just been that they asked to do more NXT TV shows or they did ask for their full release. Maybe they’ll get it, maybe they won’t.”
Rumors have been circulating that Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson could be leaving, or intend to leave, WWE. It was only discovered yesterday that Mike and Maria Kanellis reportedly requested their formal WWE releases. Triple H also discussed his take on what WWE’s landscape could look like in the future, which would, in theory, allow The Revival to jump between brands if they so chose.
With so many options now available for squandered talent, returning to NXT, or leaving for new opportunities must seem more alluring than ever before.
Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder have each taken a shot at Matt Taven recently. Dawson had posted and then deleted a Tweet about Taven having allegedly stolen tanning lotion at a WWE tryout several years ago. Wilder then posted the following response to seeing a similar looking move performed by the Kingdom at Honor Reigns Supreme last night.
Taven’s former stablemate in the Kingdom, Maria Kanellis, responded to Dash’s comments.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes and had to pay dearly for them. I don’t know what you are trying to prove but I know from experience that our business is a very small world. Be careful who you step on on the way up the ladder b/c they will be the same people you pass on the way down. https://t.co/xOPiYCJo3b
Matt Taven, Mike Bennett/Kanellis, & Maria Kanellis
Matt Taven is a former IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion along with Mike Kanellis/Bennett. Along with Maria, the Kingdom won NJPW’s heavyweight tag titles during the course of a feud with Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows. Some say Anderson was not able to keep his mind on the match during this rivalry due to his infatuation with Maria.
Currently, Matt Taven is the leader of a new version of the Kingdom in ROH. TK O’Ryan and Vinnie Marseglia make up the other members of the trio.
#FTR
The Revival seem frustrated these days. In recent months, they’ve had to deal with “Lucha House Rules” and several instances of suspect officiating. Last week, the Revival lost a championship match even though Dawson’s foot was on the rope during the pin.
Dash Wilder applied to trademark “#FTR” on New Year’s day. The team has been wearing the term on the back of their trunks recently.
Wrestling fans might be familiar with the term “FTR” as it relates to WWE tag team The Revival. Whether that stands for “Forever The Revival” or something else entirely, they are taking steps to protect and monetize the phrase.
According to the US Patent and Trademark office, a Daniel Wheeler of Winter Park, Florida (Dash Wilder) registered an application to claim the phrase #FTR back on January 1st for “Entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests; Entertainment services, namely, wrestling exhibits and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer.”
Many fans noticed that on Monday’s Raw, Dash and Dawson had #FTR on their trunks during their lumberjack match against Raw Tag Team Champions Bobby Roode and Chad Gable.
The Revival has had a friendly rivalry with The Elite going back to 2017. The Revival and The Young Bucks have taken some jabs at each other, which was the genesis of #FTR (“F” The Revival). The Elite even sells an #FTR shirt at Pro Wrestling Tees, which might become a collectors item sooner or later based on the trademark filing.
As for what they declared the hashtag stood for, TR=the Revival but there has been some debate over what the F stands for.
It has just been announced that next week’s episode of Monday Night RAW will now feature a stipulation match for the RAW Tag Team Championships. Chad Gable and Bobby Roode will now be defending their straps against The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) in a Lumberjack match. Also, Elias will meet Baron Corbin in a singles match on the card as well:
The first Monday Night RAW of 2019 already includes the return of WWE Hall Of Famer Hulk Hogan. “The Hulkster” will be honoring the recently departed “Mean” Gene Okerlund, who passed away in Florida earlier this week. John Cena is also expected to be making his return to RAW. Cena has been doing a lot of work for his film career as of late. He spent several months in China filming his upcoming “Project X” movie with Jackie Chan. Cena also has been promoting his new “Bumblebee” movie quite a bit as well.
WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is also set to make an appearance. Alexa Bliss will be debuting her “Moment of Bliss” talk show. She’ll have RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey on as her first guest.
What do you think about the current lineup for RAW next week?
During the opening segment of last night’s Monday Night Raw, WWE Intercontinental Champion, Seth Rollins, blasted Baron Corbin. Rollins would proceed to cut down the General Manager-elect, telling him that Raw has “sucked” ever since he was put into a position of power.
“The Architect” also mentioned a Raw tag team that many consider squandered on the red brand, the team included.
That duo is The Revival.
Seth pointed out that Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder should be competing for the Raw tag team titles. Instead, they are feuding with the Lucha House Party under “Lucha House Rules” — a matchup Rollins struggled to comprehend.
His words weren’t lost on The Revival, with each member taking to Twitter to share their thoughts.
Dash Wilder called Seth a “Good guy” whilst Scott Dawson wrote that “Seth Rollins knows his professional wrestling.”
In recent weeks, The Revival have decried wrestling under Lucha House Rules, claiming the ruleset to be unbalanced and unfair in favor of their opponents. They have even gone so far as to start an online petition, lobbying for WWE to suspend Lucha House Rules going forward.
What do you think? Could this be the start of an overdue resurgence for The Revival?
Recent weeks have seen The Revival go up against WWE’s resident luchadores, The Lucha House Party, in a string of losing efforts. This can be attributed to the warped ruleset undertaken under ‘Lucha House Rules,’ which creates a 3-on-2 handicap situation, much to the Revival’s chagrin. Despite this consistent unfairness, somehow the Revival remain the supposed heels in this feud.
Now The Revival is taking matters into their own hands, by starting an online petition.
Describing themselves as the “Absolute Best Tag Team on this Planet, [the] Mercedes Benz of the Tag Team Division,” Dawson highlights the unfairness of their situation, decrying the “3-on-2 matches. Even 3-on-1 matches!” in the hope to get people to sign their name to suspend ‘Lucha House Rules’ going forward.
He concludes his plea by asking fans to “Please take a second out of your day and sign this petition. For a betterment of tomorrow’s Sports Entertainment. For the betterment of tomorrow’s Tag Team Wrestling. For the betterment of tomorrow’s youth. Thank you.”
Hard to argue with that.
“One Day”
A few months ago, Dawson reached out via Twitter asking fans to not “[…] give up on us yet. There’s a reason we’re called ‘The Revival’.” Even more recently, they became embroiled in a back-and-forth with The Young Bucks, who promised that the two teams would wrestle each other “one day.”
The Revival and the Young Bucks have been linked together the last couple of years, despite not being signed to the same promotion. They exchanged the following Tweets last night after Raw:
“One day we’ll wrestle The Young Bucks & everyone will rejoice. Remember this tweet.”
The Young Bucks vs The Revival
This isn’t the first time the two teams have teased facing each other either. In 2017, the Young Bucks were constantly pushing #FTR, which is an acronym of an insult to the Revival. The Revival then said on social media they wanted to wrestle the Young Bucks.
One thing the Revival might appreciate about facing the Young Bucks is that there are only 2 of them. For the last few weeks on Raw, the Revival have been booked against the team of cruiserweights. Unfortunately for Dash and Dawson, however, the Lucha House Party trio appear to have their own set of rules.
The luchadors have been allowed to wrestle 3-on-2 against the conventional tag-team. Then last night on Raw, the Lucha House Party was allowed to face Scott Dawson 3-on-1. It’s still not clear if the Revival will ever get a fair match against their current rivals.
Sadly, it’s almost hard to believe that The Revival (comprised of Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) were tearing up the Raw tag team division at one point, with the team primed for title contention after consecutive wins against Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashley. They were also NXT’s first ever two-time tag team champions, back when they were owning the division on the yellow and black brand.
Since then, however, The Revival appear to have all but disappeared from WWE programming.
This isn’t lost on the duo, with Scott Dawson taking to Twitter in order to ask fans not to “give up on us [The Revival] yet.”
The reason for this is because of a matchup that takes place on this week’s WWE Main Event. The Revival take on the relatively fresh team of Chad Gable and Bobby Roode in a confrontation that Dawson promises is a “great match that exemplifies what tag team wrestling is all about.”
Here is what Scott Dawson said, in full:
“This week on Main Event, it’s Bobby Roode & Chad Gable vs Dash & myself. (As long as it’s not heavily edited) It’s a great match that exemplifies what tag team wrestling is all about. Don’t give up on us yet. There’s a reason we’re called ‘The Revival’.”
It’s a shame for a team as talented as The Revival to have been missing from WWE’s main product for so long. Hopefully, they’ll be able to showcase their skills and get their opportunity on Raw soon, working their way back into the tag team championship scene in the process.
What do you think? Do you feel The Revival are being underutilized, if not wasted completely? Who would you have them feud with to get them back into title contention?
The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) picked up the biggest win thus far as members of the WWE main roster on this week’s episode of Monday Night RAW in San Diego, CA at the Valley View Casino Center on the USA Network.
The former NXT Tag Team champions beat Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashley in a tag team match. Following the show, Wilder took to his official Instagram account to brag about the big win by writing the following:
Speaking of this week’s edition of the flagship show of the sports entertainment company, Natalya defeated WWE RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss in a non-title match.
This was a way to continue the ongoing storyline between Bliss and Ronda Rousey while the former UFC Women’s Champion is off of television while she serves her “suspension.” Following the match, Natalya posted the following on Twitter:
The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) had to deal with some backlash from WWE fans.
The tag team is back on TV but that doesn’t take away the fact that both Dawson and Wilder have dealt with some hurdles along the way since being called up from NXT where they were a dominant tag team to the main roster. They are known for their incredibly physical style.
The former NXT Tag Team Champions have suffered injuries since being called up but it appears that is in the past. Make no mistake about it though, most fans are rooting for them to make it big.
However, there were some fans who decided to troll the former tag champs on Twitter by criticizing them for working recent NXT live events.
Keep in mind that Tyler Breeze also made a surprise appearance at an NXT event last weekend and the majority of fans loved these surprises.
The former NXT Tag Team Champions tweeted the following about the negative feedback from fans:
At yesterday’s NXT House show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Undisputed Era issued an open challenge to anyone in the locker room. While NXT tag team champions, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong may have expected a team currently on the NXT roster, they got a team from Raw instead.
Former NXT tag-team champions, Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson answered the open challenge. It was the first time the team has wrestled in NXT since April of 2017. They were defeated by Strong and O’Reilly, however.
The Revival wrestled in NXT from 2014 to 2017. The team was previously known as the Mechanics as well. They are 2x NXT tag team champions and won the NXT Tag Team of the Year award in 2016.
So far, the Revival’s first year on the main roster has not gone as many hoped. Injuries hampered their initial debut and the team hasn’t seemed to have gained much momentum since returning.
Their most recent match on television came this week on Raw. Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy defeated the Revival in a match which went under 5 minutes. They have managed to score victories over Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows (Raw April 9th, 2018) as well as victories over Breezeango and Heath Slater & Rhyno on episodes of Main Event, however.
– WWE posted the following video of Seth Rollins cutting a great backstage promo to hype this weekend’s Elimination Chamber match. Rollins talked about originally not having a match for the pay-per-view (PPV) event, but now being a part of the biggest Elimination Chamber match of all time. He vowed to win the match, go on to WrestleMania 34, and slay “The Beast” – again – to win the Universal Title. Check it out:
– WWE has been teasing an upcoming feud between RAW Tag Team Champions The Bar (Sheamus and Cesaro) against The Revival, perhaps for a title match at Elimination Chamber. WWE posted a backstage video of Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson calling out The Revival, calling them a pair of “NERDS!” Could this lead to a title eliminator match between the two teams?
– Alexa Bliss took to Twitter to react to getting her own Mattel doll. Bliss recalled telling her former teacher she wanted to grow up to be a Barbie Doll:
When I was 5 I said when I grew up I wanted to be a Barbie Doll … here’s to my teacher who said I couldn’t ???? pic.twitter.com/Jugt1JKciU
– WWE Hall Of Famers Sting and Hulk Hogan are set to appear at the Ace Universe Comic Con on Monday, January 15th in Glendale, Arizona for a photo-op. Both Sting and Hogan took to Twitter to cut promos in order to promote the upcoming appearance; with Hogan referencing his 1997 loss to Sting at Starrcade, while Sting did his best impression of “The Hulkster.” Check it out:
– The Revival’s Dash Wilder took to Twitter to ask RAW General Manager Kurt Angle for a shot at the RAW Tag Team Titles against Seth Rollins and Jason Jordan. Wilder reminded Angle that he and Scott Dawson are undefeated as a tag team since making their main roster debut:
Former NXT tag team champions The Revival are expected back in action in time for the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 34 season.
Scott Dawson has been out of action since August when he suffered a right bicep injury. Early estimates had him missing about 5-6 months. Assuming his physical rehabilitation progressed at a normal pace, he could be back in the ring within 4-6 weeks.
Dawson’s partner Dash Wilder has been off RAW since The Revival’s last TV match on July 24th. Since then, he’s competed in some singles matches, losing 6 straight matches on Main Event in September and October. He competed at last month’s special Starrcade live event from North Carolina, losing to Dustin Rhodes.
The Revival will be a welcomed addition to freshen up RAW’s tag team division when they return in early 2018.
If you were watching Monday Night RAW last night (Mon. August 7, 2017), you may have noticed that The Hardy Boyz, Matt and Jeff, were missing from the show. That’s because the team they’re currently feuding with, The Revival, is now down a man after Scott Dawson suffered a bicep injury that bars him from participating in any physical activity. In past weeks, it seemed as though The Hardys and The Revival were building up a program that would lead to a match-up between the two teams at SummerSlam.
Per a report from WrestleZone, that is exactly the case as WWE had plans to have Matt and Jeff take on Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson at “The Biggest Party Of The Summer.” Now due to Dawson’s injury, The Hardys’ SummerSlam plans are now up in the air which is why they were not brought in for last night’s RAW.
Discussion: What should be done with The Hardys as we head into SummerSlam?
