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After officially securing a pair of wins over Becky Lynch in a matter of days, first taking her Women's World Championship and then potentially taking the final win of her WWE career as “The Man” approaches a contractual impasse, Liv Morgan opened up RAW like only she knows how to do, celebrating her revenge tour while flaunting how her actions have further rubbed salt in Rhea Ripley's wound.
“Welcome to the Liv Morgan revenge tour! They say that revenge is never as sweet as you think it's going to be when you finally get it, but not for me,” Liv Morgan told the crowd in Hershey, Pennsylvania on RAW. “First, I did what no other woman in this division can do, and that is take out Rhea Ripley. But then I became your new Women's World Champion. But that's not all because then, I put Becky Lynch into early retirement. Do you want to know what the cherry on top of it all was though? Kissing Dominik Mysterio. You guys know what I'm talking about? Last week you all saw the video, over 40 million views.”
“It's true, while fans at home didn't see the moment on RAW, as the USA Network cut away from the show before the audience could see Morgan's “Dirty” deed, millions and millions of fans have caught it later on social media, with reactions all over the place from IWC. Was Mysterio in cahoots with Morgan all along? Or was this an act of nonconsensual kissing, with Mysterio needing to call the police shortly after his Mami? Fortunately, Mysterio was in Hershey too, and he was able to explain himself.
“Liv… Liv, I don't… I don't know what kind of… let me say my peace!” Dominik Mysterio demanded of the crowd. “I don't know what kind of game you think you're playing, but Mami isn't playing the same game, and when she comes back, she's going to kill you.”
Convinced? Morgan certainly wasn't, as her pursuit of Mysterio appears to be very legitimate, even if her motivations aren't completely sincere.
“Well, maybe, but she's probably going to kill you too. But do you know what though? I promise I'll make it all worth it. Dom, how long are you going to keep lying to yourself? You didn't come out to the ring last week to help Becky, you came out so you could be closer to me, and that's okay, because I meant what I said when I said I wanted to take everything away from Rhea Ripley, and that includes you.”
As Morgan went in for another kiss, Finn Balor emerged from the back for the assist, saving Mysterio and maybe the entirety of Judgment Day moving forward.
“Hey, back off! This has been enough!” Finn Balor demanded. “He doesn't want that, he doesn't want anything to do with you, in fact none of the Judgment Day do.”
Luckily for Mysterio, Morgan agreed to leave, but it would not be the final time she would interact with the faction on RAW, as just when it looked like Judgment Day may be taken out for good by a charged-up Braun Strowman, Morgan came out for the save and turned the tables on the “Monster Among Men,” forcing him back into the ring about allowing JD McDonagh to hit him with a chair about a dozen times on the knee. Could Morgan actually get into Balor and company's good graces? I mean, probably not, but hey, you never know. In this new WWE Universe, anything is on the table.
Eric Bischoff doesn't believe Liv Morgan as a heel.
Speaking of the 40 million fans who watched Liv Morgan steal a smooch from “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio on RAW, one person who wasn't completely sold on the idea was Eric Bischoff, the former WCW SVP who WCW and WWE Hall of Famer.
Discussing the segment and larger angle on his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff noted that he doesn't yet believe Morgan as a heel, but hopes that Mysterio's addition to the storyline could help to heat things up for the Women's World Champion.
“Dom brings a level of heat that's hard to find to an equation that perhaps lacks heat, meaning Liv. She's a heel, she is portraying a heel character, but that something [that's] missing is an organic, authentic heel character. I almost get the feeling like she's still trying to be a heel as opposed to having become a heel,” Eric Bischoff explained on EWrestling News via 411 Mania.
“And I think with Dom, perhaps that missing element that I referred to, is exactly the solution that will help her begin to feel the difference between an effort to be a heel and becoming a natural heel, if that makes sense.”
Is Morgan really being reacted to like a heel in WWE right now? No, not really, but stealing the man of one of the promotion's most popular performers is a pretty good way to turn a crowd, and based on how things have been shaking out as of late, it would appear Paul “Triple H” Levesque and company are taking things in that direction.
