I wrote last week that I used to be an enormous fan of Judgment Day turning on Finn Balor and “The Prince” finally breaking freed from the stable, but tonight, there wasn’t much follow-up to that, perhaps on account of Dominik Mysterio’s latest injury. The one thing that did occur, nonetheless, was Liv Morgan attempting to re-write history via promo segment, and it didn’t quite land for me.
I assume if Mysterio is injured, that they had to do something tonight to proceed the story, or at the least acknowledge the large angle from last week. Morgan was already there to accompany Raquel Rodriguez to the ring for her match against Morgan’s WrestleMania 42 opponent, Stephanie Vaquer, so it looks as if WWE just threw her in front of a camera to chop a promo about all of it.
The contents of the promo principally tried to rewrite Judgment Day history, or at the least, relatively recent history. Morgan said that getting Balor out of the faction had been her plan for the reason that day she joined Judgment Day. That was really odd, as WWE accompanied that sentence with video of her actual goal, which was to destroy Rhea Ripley and take every part she had, including Ripley’s then-boyfriend, Mysterio. As she said it, the video from SummerSlam 2024 played when Mysterio sided along with her and left Ripley within the ring, and it just didn’t work.
Morgan then continued, telling Balor he had been on borrowed time and she or he only tolerated him because he was friends with Mysterio. Sure, the Judgment Day has had its issues, but none of them have really been focused around Morgan taking up the faction. There have been more issues between her and Roxanne Perez, before Morgan got injured, that were starting to be the concentrate on the stable’s storyline, and Morgan sometimes didn’t agree with Balor, but there was never a robust story about her taking up the group entirely, though she and Balor did butt heads at times.
The one thing Morgan mentioned that was correct was that Balor had gotten soft, which we had seen when he selected to do things himself, like go after World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk. But, that was really the one thing that made sense here. Morgan mentioned the opposite members of the stable, but no person else was there along with her.
It will have made more sense, and truly would have been more interesting, to listen to from JD McDonagh, who really turned his back on his friend last week and sided with Judgment Day as a substitute. This didn’t work, and it’s likely due to Mysterio’s injury, but to have such a hot angle last week not get a superb follow-up sort of stunk.
Written by Daisy Ruth