WWE Raw 5 Takeaways: Sasha Banks, Asuka provide exciting preview

Ruby Riott is one step closer to Liv Morgan

Last week on WWE Raw, a frustrated Liv Morgan was seen pleading with her former stablemate Ruby Riott backstage. Now that she’s back to being a babyface, though, Riott is starting to realize that she may need to take up Liv’s offer and reconcile with her (brief) rival.

Since returning from injury, Riott hasn’t won a single match on Raw, and she picked up another loss this week to Peyton Royce. Worse yet, Riott was the one who challenged Royce to the match after the IIconics tried to bully her backstage by calling her a loser, among other names. Even Lana tried to rub salt in the wound by talking about her new partnership with Natalya.

The numbers advantage really hurt Riott in this match, as Billie Kay provided several well-timed distractions for her life partner. It looks like even Riott has to acknowledge that she and Liv are much stronger together.

Randy Orton is still coming for the Big Show

The Big Show drew the ire of Andrade, Angel Garza, and, especially, Zelina Vega for disrespecting the trio with his childish insults and cutting ahead of them to call out Randy Orton. While Orton didn’t show up this week, Show did pick up a win over Andrade and Garza in a two-on-one match due to more dysfunction within the stable.

Orton is definitely coming for Show when he least expects it, so we’ll be seeing a MAJOR RKO out of nowhere soon. Ric Flair didn’t spring a trap for Show this week, but maybe when Show lets his guard down, The Viper will be ready to strike and cut down another larger-than-life legend.