Fightful Stats For WWE Raw 1/7/19 And Smackdown 1/8/19
– Drew McIntyre and John Cena had a segment on Monday and have never actually had a singles match, but have now been in eight matches that the other has been in. Three of those are Royal Rumble matches, and the rest were tag team matches.
– Perhaps the most famous time the two sort of squared off is when Drew and Cody Rhodes lost their tag team titles to Cena and David Otunga back at WWE Bragging Rights 2010
– Monday night was the first time John Cena and Seth Rollins had teamed up since May 2014.
– Cena and Rollins have now had over 150 matches that featured them both.
– Ember Moon and Apollo Crews teamed up for the first time ever on Raw.
– Sasha Banks will have her first one-on-one Women’s Title match since WWE Raw on August 28, 2017 against Alexa Bliss.
– Monday night was Nia Jax and Sasha Banks’ ninth singles match, sixth on WWE TV. They’d worked in almost 160 tag team matches, battle royals and various other match types.
– WWE had two championship matches and three top contender matches on TV this week.
– Charlotte (32 years old), Becky Lynch (31), and Carmella (31) headlined Smackdown this week. By that age, AJ Lee, Beth Phoenix, Kaitlyn, Lita, Eve Torres, Trish Stratus, Candice Michelle, Maryse and The Bella Twins had already retired or left WWE.
– WWE Raw’s six-man tag featured all former WWE/TNA world champions. Together, they’ve held WWE, World Heavyweight, Universal, NXT, FCW, Evolve, ROH, PWG, CZW, ECW, and Impact World Championships.
– Every year since being called up to the main roster, Carmella has been in a title match or top contender match.
