RAW came to us from Liverpool last night, devoting itself almost entirely to team building for Survivor Series. Which is old hat if you're someone who's watched wrestling for a long long long time. If Rusev joined one side, then Sheamus was going to join the other. If Mark Henry was Team Authority, then Big Show would be Team Cena.

Kind of boring stuff. Until the end when Luke Harper appeared and joined up with The Authority.Which, going by the way the individual feuds are breaking down, might put him in line for an IC Title shot against Ziggler. And Harper as IC Champ would be awesome. I'm just not sure what, outside of the fact that all three of them are now solo wrestlers, the new gimmicks are necessarily for the former members of the Wyatt clan. Rowan's looking for some girl (Abigail?) - which I'm okay with considering how I thought, for a brief horrible second, that he was somehow joining up with the Exotic Express. Bray's doing his usual Bray thing. And now Harper's gone corpo. If he dons a suit then it'll be weird to see him fight side by side with C-Kane given their backstory.There are just a lot of elements to this Team vs. Team match (which is being billed shamelessly as the biggest thing to practically ever exist) that easily crumble when examined closely. Cena's teaming with just about everyone he's ever feuded with. Who would have no real reason to be on his side other than the fact that their current enemy is fighting on the opposing one.Plus, they tried to pull the old "we were really going to run a Survivor Series main event with Ryder and Swagger had it not been for the Authority taking them out" deal. As if either of those two were a fit.By the way, Ryder is out for six months due to a torn rotator cuff. Unfortunately, he appears on TV so infrequently that we probably wouldn't have even noticed his pending absence had Cena not mentioned it.Then, finally, the heels are still running the whole "There really doesn't need to be a match at a major PPV at all" shtick. As in, "Cena won't be able to find a team so there won't really be a competitive contest that anyone will even care about and we're totally cool with that." So we were supposed to briefly buy that both Cena and The Authority thought that a five-on-one match headlining one of the "Big Four" WWE events was something that not only could happen, but that both sides were also somehow cool with.So last night's show was pretty hard to take in. Boring in most parts. Some awkward matches. And - AND - I thought we all agreed that Ryback blows? Was this not something we all decided? That his instant push to main event status in 2013 bombed big time? Forcing him down the ranks and into the mid-card. I get that the WWE needs babyfaces now so they've brought him back in for another big hero push, but why are the crowds now so super into the "Feed Me More!" chant? They weren't like this two years ago. How is he now being embraced? How did absence make hearts grow fonder here? Is he just filling that meathead Roman Reigns spot and people are just more or less okay with a big dummy who only wants to squash people? I need to know what's going on because this is making the kind of sense that's...not.The biggest pop last night seemed to be for Paige, who beat Alicia. Meanwhile no one seemed to care about AJ vs. Brie. Or much of anything toward the end of hour three. The Brits can be a fun crowd, but RAWs over there are usually kind of a drag. The "Where's Our Network?!" chant they had going at the top of the episode was pretty fun though and there'd been reports of loud jeers being hurled at Vince's apology videos all throughout this U.K. (and Ireland) tour. Especially the one that aired at the house show in Dublin since an apology meant for the U.K. had nothing to do with them.I also got a few reports that "WWE Network" themed signs were being confiscated at the door. Which isn't surprising. What is surprising is that Wrap Uppers Carl, Nat and Adam got this awesome "GDYC" signage on RAW. With all these pretty lights and what not.By the way, nice bunny ears over Nat's head, Carl or Adam. Classic move.In the race to see which duo would split first, Adam Rose and the Bunny won the "sidekick is way more over than you" contest, beating out Miz and Mizdow. So on Smackdown (which also featured a really fun cage match between Ziggler and Kane), Rose attacked the Bunny for twerking on the apron. Which really wasn't twerking at all but anytime someone's hips move two inches in either direction in the WWE, JBL launches into a transfixed, shrieking "HE'S TWERKING!" spiral that few men can yank him out of. He becomes unreachable in his mission to shout loudly at anyone or anything he believes might be, even mildly, in the midst of something resembling a solitary twerk.Anyhow, Rose's decent into smeared man-scara madness continued on RAW as he realized the Bunny had grown too tall, too fast. Time to cut the weeds and level the lawn. It's all dumb, but it's also the most interesting Rose has ever been. I wonder what they can do with the "dark soul" partier. The guy who can never come down. The guy who never wants to come down. He'd always been a heel. A guy who parades in front of arenas filled with blue collar workers claiming that life's one big party and that no one should ever have responsibilities? That was never going to fly. And his lollipops all but mocked the fans' diabetes.So now he's like the sleazy rave club owner with the human sex trade ring going on down in the basement. Capturing runaways and forcing them into a life of hell. Their skin all painfully seared with a branding iron - the shape of a rosebud. Letting them know they belong to him.

Ambrose gets some backstory, plus Lucha Underground on Page 2...