That’s two thus far in technicality-steeped conclusions in the young rivalry of Big Cass and Rusev, though admittedly their rematch from Roadblock: End of the Line Kickoff wasn’t anywhere near long enough to end in a count-out. Still fuming over The Super Athlete’s cowardly assault of Enzo Amore the previous night, Big Cass jumped Rusev the second the bell rang and began whaling away at him unrelentingly. With Rusev stuck on the wrong end of an unrelenting beating (excesivo "Cass"-tigo for you soccer fans), the ref called for the bell, handing The Bulgarian Brute a DQ win that he wasn’t remotely able to enjoy: Cass continued to pound on the Bulgarian until a last-ditch kick to the knee finally gave The Super Athlete an out to escape.

Once again, Charlotte Flair stunned Sasha Banks at a pay-per-view title defense of the Raw Women’s Championship, brutalizing The Boss’ knee to earn her fourth championship victory in an OT WWE Iron Man Match at Roadblock: End of the Line. With the bout’s no-rematch clause putting Banks out of contention for the time being, Sasha took to the ring on a crutch and attempted to summon Charlotte for a show of sportsmanship and respect. What she got instead was Nia Jax, who clearly saw the maimed Boss as easy pickings and treated her as such, bulldozing her about the ring before taking her leave.

To his credit, Cedric Alexander has mostly left Noam Dar to his own devices throughout The Scottish Supernova’s thirsty pursuit of Alexander’s gal pal, Alicia Fox. But no longer. Alexander and Dar finally squared off on Raw and Cedric quickly showed the smooth-talking Scot who was boss, powering through a punished knee and blasting Dar with the Lumbar Check to avenge his earlier 205 Live loss (evening their record in the process) and the honor of his girlfriend all at once. Of course, the thirst persisted, as Dar insisted after the match that Fox was the true prize in their rivalry, and even cribbed a line from “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Savage.

In case you haven’t heard, we have new Raw Tag Team Champions. (And new Raw Tag Team Championships — the titles are red now.) The New Day’s record-setting reign was snapped at Roadblock: End of the Line by Cesaro & Sheamus, who received new, red-hued titles as a result. And while the truce between the new and old champs is contentious at best — New Day applauded Cesaro but declared Sheamus to be booty — the rivals had to put that mess aside to join forces against two other prospective contenders for the titles.

That would be Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson as well as The Shining Stars, who displayed both some excellent knowledge of the in-ring science (Epico in particular) and some blunt-force brutality (Gallows in particular) in what was essentially their opening salvo in the new-look Tag Team division. Big E tagged in and seemed ready to rumble his way to the win, but Sheamus wouldn’t be upstaged so easily, tagging himself in, setting Epico up for the Brogue Kick. The Celtic Warrior’s impeding strike ignited a massive brawl, the end of which saw Epico tapping to the formidable Cesaro Swing-Sharpshooter combo.

Seems like Superstars are always getting into trouble on Raw Pre-Show. Case in point, an unexpected serving of beef between Sin Cara and Titus O’Neil that led to a match on Raw. Too bad they couldn’t even get through the match once Braun Strowman came a-callin’.

Fuming over his failure to defeat Sami Zayn within 10 minutes the previous night, The Gift of Destruction had commanded Mick Foley to give him Zayn “or else.” When Foley responded by sending Sami away and giving Strowman the night off, The Monster Among Men promised to follow through with “Or else.” In this case, that meant a full-scale annihilation of both O’Neil and Braun's old rival Sin Cara, whom Strowman threw through the Raw set’s Christmas decorations while Mick Foley looked on.

Sure, Rusev beat Enzo Amore up over that time he accidentally exposed himself to his co-workers (and Lana), but anyone who’s worked in corporate America knows it’d only a matter of time before a formal, HR-centric response would be handed down on Muscles Marinara. That arrived on Raw in the form of company-mandated sensitivity training, which landed the Certified G and Bona Fide Stud alongside Bo Dallas, Bob Backlund, Darren Young and Jinder Mahal in an extended session that lasted the length of Raw.

While Enzo and Jinder butted heads throughout the entirety of the session, Smacktalker Skywalker stopped himself from going rogue and managed to complete his training, making moves on the sensitivity trainer, Colleen, in the process. The stint in sensitivity training ultimately ended in disaster when Rusev crashed the circle of trust, teaming up with Mahal to stomp the smack-talk out of Enzo right at the conclusion of the session. Lana provided the exclamation point, slapping Enzo across the face before Rusev put him through the snack table.