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News on Ali/Theory botched spot, Raw producers, backstage news

Added 2022-12-06 23:06:16 +0000 UTC

WWE Raw producers for December 5.

- Usos vs. Matt Riddle & Keivn Owens: Jason Jordan

- Becky Lynch/Bayley promo: Petey Williams

- Women's Contender Tournament: Asuka vs. Bayley vs. Rhea Ripley: Petey Williams

- Seth Rollins/Lashley brawl: Jason Jordan

- US Title: Mustafa Ali vs. Austin Theory: Adam Pearce

- OC vs. Alpha Academy & Baron Corbin: Abyss

- Akira Tozawa vs. Dominik Mysterio: Kenny Dykstra

- Women's Contender Tournament: Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Nikki Cross: TJ Wilson

Backstage news

Indie wrestler B3cca served as one of the dealers backstage in the poker game at WWE Raw. She also wrestled Athena on Dark.

- Trick Williams and Katana Chance both got looks on WWE Main Event. This is not indicative of a call-up.

- Trick faced Cedric Alexander, produced by Adam Pearce, and Katana Chance faced Tamina, produced by Kenny Doane.

- For those asking, despite taking a spear, we haven't heard of any plans for Petey Williams to return to the ring. However, Jamie Noble is slated to wrestle at a live event this weekend.

- Elias wrestled at both weekend live events this past weekend.

- Elias and Riddle now have more matches canceled or delayed than they've actually teamed together.

- There was over 72 minutes of in-ring action on Monday's WWE Raw

- The shortest match was Dominik Mysterio over Akira.

- Dolph Ziggler's return was not telegraphed internally.

- Regarding the top rope frankensteiner botch, we're told that it happened because Theory didn't hold on to Ali. The idea was for Theory to block the move and lift Ali up into a powerbomb. From there Ali was supposed to counter that move back into the rana. It was Ali that called for the ref to check on Theory and Ali called the audible for the satellite DDT. Theory was also very apologetic backstage for the slip up. But there was no heat between the two.