WWE Monday Night Raw Thread: The Champ Kills A King Edition

Before we get on to tonight's show preview... you should've heard by now that as soon as Smackdown faded to black on Friday night, Drew Gulak's WWE contract was over and he is now free to go wherever he'd like in the wrestling world.

Gulak's contract expiring seems weird b/c he's still involved in a key storyline currently ongoing on TV, and even had a very good match during Friday night's episode in the quarterfinals of the Intercontinental Championship Tournament against his "pupil" Daniel Bryan (another story there involving his personal life)... 1 that would not qualify as a "squash match" in the least which goes against WWE's M.O. for someone planning to leave the company as tE would make sure that person would have no momentum left upon their departure (see: Revival, The; Ambrose, Dean; & Hardy, Matt)

From this oddity, I would imagine that WWE & Gulak's agent will continue to talk and try to get him back in WWE's good graces sooner rather than later, but until that point Gulak is free to do as he pleases professionally

Monday Night Raw is not live tonight but is from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla.

B/c WWE is having a giant ratings problem during the Steve Corino crisis... Raw is bringing in the ratings ringer... Baron Corbin?

Corbin... who lost in the Intercontinantal Championship Tournament quarterfinals on Friday night now gets a chance to face WWE Champion Drew McIntyre... maybe Drew will Claymore Kick Corbin's stupid crown in half

The very prestigious WWE Women's Tag Team Championship will be on the line as Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross defend against The IIconics... will Mustafa Ali's new GTV play a role in this match at all?

But as long as Pey-Ro is on my screen... I'm a happy person

After last week's basketball exhibition went off the rails... WWE's gonna try it again... only this time in a Viking Raider special as War Machine & the Promo Profits battle in an Ax Throwing Competition

As you may have seen earlier today... Brie Bella & Daniel Bryan are apparently not in a good place in their marriage at the moment... so with that in mind... here's a pic of a pre-child Brie