WWE: Monday’s RAW Notes, Rhea Ripley on Losing Confidence in Wrestling, Updated SD Ratings

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Dec 1, 2020

Monday’s RAW Script Issues & Jeff Hardy Injury Scare Update

The script for Monday’s episode of WWE RAW reportedly was only finished around 25 minutes before the start of the show, according to Fightful Select (via PWMania.com).

Besides the usual issues with Vince McMahon rewriting scripts prior to shows, it was reported that WWE officials have made “some considerable changes” to their original plans for shows over the past several weeks with some due to issues “beyond their control.”

In regards to Jeff Hardy’s injury scare incident during his match against Elias on RAW, Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that Hardy was stated to be feel fine backstage following his match. Sapp also reported that it is currently not known if Elias was also feeling fine due to how rough the landing was by Hardy for the table spot. Hardy’s scary incident involved him performing a Swanton Bomb to a table on the outside and smacked the back of his head on the ring steps.

Yikes. Jeff’s head, man.#WWERaw pic.twitter.com/zARIAajKaf
— GIFSkull III (Backup) – #WWERaw (@SkullGIF) December 1, 2020

Rhea Ripley Comments on Losing Her Confidence in Wrestling Following WrestleMania 36

A recent episode of the Chasing Glory with Lillian Garcia podcast had Rhea Ripley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Ripley revealing that she started to lose confidence in her wrestling career following her match against Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 36 earlier this year.

“I’m not really too sure [what happened]. It did feel like that though. I definitely have gone through a stage where I did start losing the confidence in myself, because I just wasn’t portrayed the same way that I was. Like even now, I’m still slowly building myself back up from it. My confidence definitely was tainted a little bit, which sucks because I try and keep it up and do my best all the time. I don’t know if it was something inside my head that just wasn’t getting the picture but like, I don’t know. I got a little bit lost after that. But, right now I feel like I’m getting back on track, especially after doing all the things that I’ve done. Building myself back up has been really, really hard. I’m not gonna lie. It has been very difficult and I’ve been very lost at times but I’ve definitely found my track now and I’m getting back on it.”

Updated WWE Friday Night SmackDown Ratings

This past Friday’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown drew a final viewership of 2,141,000 on FOX, according to Showbuzz Daily. This was the up compared to the initial overnight number of 1,987,000 viewers on the network.