WWE 5 Best Segments This Week: Ronda Rousey Destroys Everyone

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What were the best segments on WWE Television this week?

It was a pretty good week in WWE this week. Such a good week, that I couldn’t even find enough segments for my 5 worst segments list, so there won’t be one of those for this week. This week though, we had some very good segments on TV, including the best Ronda Rousey segment yet,\ and a fantastic gaunlet match to close SmackDown. So, let’s get into it. Here are your 5 Best Segments on WWE TV This Week.

Braun Strowman & Finn Balor vs. Baron Corbin & Kevin Owens

I have to say, I may have been wrong about Baron Corbin. When he first announced himself as the “constable” I was convinced it was going to be one of the worst things on TV. While I still don’t care for the segments he does with Kurt Angle, I quite enjoyed him wrestling with this gimmick. I’m not sure how everyone else feels about it, but I like the wrestling in a suit gimmick.

This match was set up by two segments earlier in the night, one being Kevin Owens attempting to congratulate Braun Strowman and offer to be in Braun Strowman’s corner. Braun of course saw right through this and attempted a power slam on KO, but Owens managed to escape. Owens continued selling of fear for Braun Strowman is great, and this segment was very good.

The segment later wasn’t as good. After Kurt Angle announced that there’d be a multi-man match at Extreme Rules to determine Brock Lesnar’s next challenger, Finn came up to Angle backstage to lobby himself to be in the match. Baron Corbin came in, said he didn’t deserve it. Owens came in, and Balor said something like “you don’t even realize when danger is right behind you.” Owens then turned around to see Braun Strowman standing behind him. This felt like part of a sitcom or something. I was expecting to hear a laugh track played when Ownes turned around to see Strowman.

The other part of this I didn’t like is Braun saying that Finn is his “buddy” and that he’d have his back in a tag match against Owens and Corbin. In the weeks of build to Money in the Bank, Strowman and Balor have had plenty of matches against each other, including the fatal four way match where Finn was one of the three people teaming up against Strowman to take him out of the match and possibly injure him going into Money in the Bank. They’re buddies now though, so cool I guess.

Getting to the match, per usual, this was such a great performance by Kevin Owens. He did an excellent job selling his injuries from last night’s ladder match, where he was thrown off a 15 foot ladder by Braun Strowman. Every move or action Owens did in this match was followed by him expressing how much pain he was still in.

As I said earlier, I liked Corbin a lot in this match. I thought it was one of his best performances in recent memory. One of the highlights of this was Corbin leaping off the apron and colliding with Bruan Strowman. It looked like a car crash. I liked that Corbin didn’t back down from Strowman and actually got a good amount of offense in against him as well.

The team of Balor and Strowman also did pretty well I thought. I mean, they are buddies after all. This match ended with a clean win with Baron Corbin pinning Finn Balor, which did take me by surprise. I figured this match would end with Braun pinning Owens to keep his momentum going after winning the Money in the Bank briefcase, but with how good Corbin looked in this match, I didn’t mind him picking up the win at all.