1/21 WWE Raw On-Site Report: What happened off-air that TV viewers didn’t see, Main Event tapings, attendance notes, crowd reactions to wrestler, hillbilly comment

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WWE RAW ON-SITE REPORT
JANUARY 22, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.
REPORT BY MARCUS PRINCE, PWTORCH CORRESPONDENT

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Attendance Note: There were three rows near ringside and a few more near the time keeper’s area that weren’t full at the start of Raw. They filled the ones near ringside shortly into Raw, but the ones but the time keeper’s area were left empty. Usually they get those pockets filled in before Raw goes live… They normally have the whole upper deck tarped off, and this time there was a section or two opposite the hard camera that was filled with fans. The rest was tarped off.

(2) Mojo Rawley beat No Way Jose. Mojo got some heel heat by the end of the match.

-The crowd wasn’t quite able to transition from the MLK video package at the start to the Brock Lesnar ring entrance.

-Vince McMahon got the biggest pop of the night. Seth Rollins, Ronda Rousey, and Finn Balor were next.

-When the word “hillbilly” was mentioned, we were like, “Oh, yeah, there’s a lot of those around here. We try to avoid them.” Fans were nodding, like, “he’s not wrong.”

-Baron Corbin got the most heel heat of the night. The vile hatred people had for him was fun to be a part of.

-During the Revival tag match with Curt Hawkins, it made me really happy to see the audience behind he enforcement of the rules and realizing there are rules in place and they should be followed.

-During commercial breaks they occupied fans with different “game ops” stuff like a contest with some kids doing a dance-off and then a trivia game.

-Fans sided more with Ronda Rousey than Sasha Banks, but not by a lot. It was almost half and half. People wanted to see more of Rousey in the tag match, but I got why they built to the tag. There were a couple of people yelling “We are Drowsy” during the match. After the show went off air, they took a couple swings at each other and then Sasha rolled out of ropes. Rousey and Natalya stood in the ring. Ronda’s music hit. She waved and walked out. That was it.

PWTorch correspondent Harlan Morgan also attended. These are his additional notes…

-Alexa Bliss got one of the biggest pops when she said she would be entering the Royal Rumble.