Major Title Match Set For This Week’s Monday Night Raw

You can never announce a match too far in advance. We’re in an interesting time in the annual WWE calendar, as you we’re running out of time before WrestleMania 35 The show is in about two months and that means WWE needs to start cranking things to a higher gear to drum up some excitement for the biggest show of the year. That can take place on Monday Night Raw, which is what’s taking place now.

According to the official Monday Night Raw preview for this coming week, Finn Balor will face Intercontinental Champion Bobby Lashley. While the preview isn’t clear on whether or not the title will be on the line, a new video featuring Lashley and his hype man Lio Rush confirms that the match will indeed be for the title. Lashley attacked Balor last week after Balor was injured in his Universal Title match against Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble.

.@itsLioRush and @fightbobby suggest to @FinnBalor that he should back out of their match on #RAW this Monday for The Intercontinental Championship #WWERegina pic.twitter.com/HUvPPitZsh

— WWE (@WWE) February 3, 2019

This is how you hype things up. Check out the official announcement with some harsh words from the champ:

Opinion: You had to know this was coming but it’s nice to see them just getting to the title match instead of waiting until the pay per view for a change. Sometimes you don’t need to wait until the pay per view later in the month when the story is already there. WWE seems interesting in pushing Balor rather hard at the moments and it makes sense to give him a title match, even if it doesn’t mean a title change.

Do you think Balor should win the title? Who will end Lashley’s title reign? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 1997 Monday Night Raw Reviews.

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