WWE Monday Night Raw: The 10 for February 11, 2019

2. Becky Lynch, part one

Raw opened with Stephanie McMahon and Triple H briefly putting over Sunday’s Elimination Chamber event, before getting to the other important matter at hand: What to do about Becky Lynch. The women’s Royal Rumble winner is trying to remain steady on the road to WrestleMania 35, where she has a date with Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey, but a left knee injury (and the Authority’s reaction to it) has knocked her off course. Attacking Stephanie and Triple H last week has only further complicated things, and now the two are ready to dress down The Man.

First, the medical stuff: Last week, Lynch was handed a suspension for her refusal to seek medical attention about her injured knee. This week, it’s revealed that she has seen her doctors, lifting that particular suspension. The good news, of course, is that there is no structural damage and that, with a little rehab, she will be cleared for April’s showdown. The bad news, though, is that Lynch must apologize to Stephanie and Triple H and the ever-proud wrestler adamantly refuses, continuing to believe that she is in some way being trapped or manipulated by a family long (long, long) known to do so.

Lynch is given until the end of the night to decide whether she will apologize; doing so means she will face Rousey and not doing so means her WrestleMania dream will, in fact, be taken away. The dramatic tension of the evening is only rivaled by how it is released hours later.

In the interim, Lynch speaks with a series of her coworkers backstage, all of whom give her various sorts of advice (Finn Balor implores her to not let her pride get in the way, Rousey just wants to make a WrestleMania statement and Alexa Bliss tries and fails to manipulate Lynch into not apologizing, in hopes her spot in the show will be vacated):