WWE Night of Champions is less than a week away. How did the Monday Night RAW go-home show prepare us for this weekend’s PLE? With no more tournament matches left, WWE needed to both promote NOC and start prepping for SummerSlam.
King of the Ring finalist Jey Uso and Queen of the Ring finalist IYO SKY were the first shown as Michael Cole stressed the importance of NOC.
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Here are the full results for Monday Night RAW:
- Scream Mode defeated Lyra Valkyria & Bayley via pinfall with the RamPaige to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.
- Ethan Page defeated Dragon Lee via pinfall with the Egoplex.
- LA Knight defeated Jimmy Uso via pinfall with the BFT.
- The Street Profits defeated The Vision via pinfall with the Annointment/From the Heavens to win the WWE Men’s World Tag Team Championship.
Jey Uso’s opponent, and the Ruler of WWE, Oba Femi, entered the arena first. The crowd gave him a standing ovation, which the multi-time NXT Champion was grateful for. Femi believed that destiny, as it had always been, was on his side. At Night of Champions, he would become King of the Ring.
The Bringer of War had the chance to meet the man he’d stand opposite at Night of Champions. Main Event Jey Uso cut off the big man’s promo. The crowd rocked with the former World Heavyweight Champion, and again when Jey started the repeat. Oba tried to stop it, but there was no stopping the YEETers.
Uso said he’d always been discredited and looked at as a never-will. He was doubted when he won the Rumble. He was doubted when he went on to win the World Heavyweight Title. He’s been doubted his whole career as a singles, but he’s a decorated star. Uso gave Oba the warning shot, but the Ruler shrugged it off. “If you shoot, don’t miss. If you do, I’ll destroy you. If you don’t…I’ll still destroy you.”
Femi stated that Jey Uso wasn’t the family member he was worried about, which got an “Ohhhhhhhh” from the fans. Main Event Jey wasn’t Oba Femi’s target. The WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Roman Reigns, was.
Backstage, LA Knight ran into WWE RAW GM Adam Pearce. Once again, the Megastar accused Pearce of being in the pocket of The Bloodline. Big Jim Uso popped up, wanting an explanation for last week. Pearce set up the match between the two tonight in London.
LA Knight had a…”better” idea. “How about LA Knight vs Jimmy Uso right here tonight, in London?” Jimmy and Pearce were frustrated with the antics, but the match was made official.
Ahead of our first match, tag title contenders Bayley and Lyra Valkyria said tonight was the night. It was all or nothing. Bayley commended Lyra on getting this match for them, and they were ready to win some gold this year.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship: Bayley & Lyra Valkyria vs Scream Mode (Brie Bella & Paige) (c)
Lyra Valkyria kick-started things with a dropkick to Paige the moment the bell rang. The champion was dragged to the challenger’s corner as ring veteran Bayley and her young partner tried to cut the ring in half. Paige immediately fought back when Bayley tagged in, losing the momentum Lyra had brought in.
Paige and Brie Bella had Bayley in a bad way, and when Lyra rushed in for the save, she was hit with Yes Kicks in the ropes. Bayley ate a few from Bella, but caught a leg and planted the WWE Hall of Famer with a back suplex. A rope-hung stunner and a Bayley-to-Belly would’ve put Bella away had Paige not saved her.
Back from the break, Paige and Lyra Valkyria tagged in. Paige was fired up, dumping both challengers with German and fisherman suplexes. Lyra ducked the Paige Turner, planting the champion with Nightwing!!
1-2-no! Bella broke up the pin and sent Bayley to the floor after a Bayley-to-Belly attempt. Valkyria took Brie down with a wrecking ball dropkick through the ropes, leaving her and Paige alone. A fisherman buster spiked Paige, but Paige countered a second attempt, planting Lyra with the RamPaige DDT!
Scream Mode defeated Lyra Valkyria & Bayley via pinfall with the RamPaige to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.
Grade: C. The match itself was good, but the commercials and entrances really ate up the time here.
After the match, Bayley embraced Lyra, only for Lyra to attack her partner!! Lyra launched Bayley throat-first into the ropes and hammered her on the mat. WWE officials Kenny Dykstra, Shawn Daivari, and referee Jessika Carr tried their best to pull them apart, but Lyra left Bayley lying after a running knee to the face.
Lyra Valkyria rushed right past Jackie Redmond, refusing an interview.
Chad Gable and his Hulk Hogan WCW rip-off song were out next. Awful song, doesn’t exactly get anybody pumped, but the crowd was chanting Gable regardless.
Gable said he lost himself as El Grande Americano. He lost some friends as well, and wanted to invite some of them out so he could properly apologize. He invited Alpha Academy to the ring, including Maxxine Dupri, who had been seen with Austin Theory in recent weeks.
Gable congratulated Maxxine on becoming a singles champion and said he was embarrassed by the way he treated her. Akira Tozawa was next, saying he had the heart of a lion and didn’t deserve the words said by Gable. The no-longer Americano called Otis the most loyal friend he’d ever had. They were friends for two decades, and he missed that connection.
Gable threw it all away because he wanted the WWE Men’s Intercontinental Championship, and he regretted it. They owed him nothing, but he owed them an apology, which he gave. The London crowd encouraged Alpha Academy to hug it out. Before Otis could accept Chad’s handshake, Maxxine Dupri stepped in.
The former Women’s IC Champion said Otis and Tozawa had the biggest hearts, but she didn’t want to give Gable another chance. She reminded him of when she had to get on her knees and beg him not to hurt Tozawa or whip Otis. He left them behind to go under the mask. The apology wasn’t for the Alpha Academy. It was for Gable.
Dupri and Tozawa left the ring. Otis hesitated, but ultimately joined the rest of his stable.
Ethan Page vs Dragon Lee
Dragon Lee sent Ethan Page to the floor immediately, dropping onto All Ego with a tope con hilo. Page avoided another dive in the ring, turning the luchador inside out with a lariat. Page’s ego, shocker, got the better of him as he mocked the crowd and even the referee. Lee caught him in the corner with a nasty shotgun dropkick for a nearfall.
As Lee went for a hurricanrana off the top, Page turned his mask around, blinding him and booting him out of the ring.
Back from the break, Lee spiked Page with a springboard tornado DDT, and a nasty one at that! Page responded with a nasty kick that could’ve sent teeth flying. Both men fought to the top, where Page was trapped for Lee’s diving double stomp. Page was launched into the announcer’s desk with a diving hurricanrana, and Lee followed with another blindingly fast dive, nearly missing Page.
Back in the ring, a Hidden Blade left Page in a daze. Ethan Page was faking it, it seemed, as he caught Lee with an “accidental” low blow with the back of his head when Lee went for the Styles Clash. Egoplex!!
Ethan Page defeated Dragon Lee via pinfall with the Egoplex.
Grade: B-. Page and Lee gave us a good one. This midcard for WWE RAW isn’t too shabby.
After a video package hyping up the WWE Men’s World Tag Title match tonight, Jackie Redmond was backstage with The Vision. Austin Theory said the Street Profits didn’t know about sacrifice. Logan Paul gave up his arm to keep the titles around the waists of The Vision.
Paul told Redmond and fans to put their money on the Vision tonight and Bron Breakker at WWE Night of Champions. Breakker will serve as Theory’s partner in the title bout tonight and face Seth Rollins in a steel cage on Saturday.
Queen of the Ring Finalist and multi-time WWE Women’s Champion, IYO SKY, was out next. The Genius of the Sky defeated Raquel Rodriguez in a great semifinals match on WWE RAW last week. Liv Morgan advanced to the finals as well, picking up a W over Charlotte Flair on SmackDown.
The current WWE Women’s World Champion will face one of her longtime rivals, IYO SKY, at Night of Champions this Saturday. But if she won, would SKY go for the rematch at SummerSlam? Or would she face her best friend, Rhea Ripley, for the WWE Women’s Championship?
SKY was interrupted by Miss Trouble herself, the WWE Women’s World Champion, Liv Morgan. SKY covered her ears as Morgan did her own introduction. Morgan knew she was better than SKY, and she knew the crowd knew it. She’s the face of WWE’s women’s division, and was only missing the crown to confirm it.
SKY shrugged off her words and began speaking in Japanese, prompting a punch from Liv. The champion ended up on her butt on the floor after SKY sent her packing with a shotgun dropkick.
Backstage, Jacob Fatu popped up as Jimmy Uso prepared for his match. The Usos continued to try to get the Samoan Werewolf to toe the line, but that wasn’t happening. What would happen if Solo Sikoa showed up tonight? Fatu said he wouldn’t like what he found if he crossed that line.
Last week, JD McDonagh and Dirty Dominik Mysterio paid off Danhausen (not on RAW) to curse Oba Femi. He refused, but took their money. Tonight, the Judgment Day went back for their cash. Instead, Danhausen cursed JD McDonagh, who, just like The Miz and Kit Wilson, electrocuted himself moments after.
LA Knight vs Jimmy Uso
The Megastar and Big Jim started with fists flying. This, obviously, wasn’t going to be a technical masterpiece. Still, the boys went right for the brawl, right to ringside. Jimmy told Knight, “I’m the only one on your team,” as he bounced Knight’s face off the table. Knight reversed and dribbled Jim’s head like a basketball on the desk.
Michael Cole pondered if LA Knight should try to join the Bloodline instead. Not sure why he’d think that would work. Then again, Sami Zayn was there for a while.
Uso took Knight down with a diving senton for a two-count. The former WWE Men’s US Champion was whipped into the barricade, with Jimmy Uso holding the momentum heading into commercial.
Back from the break, Knight was dropped on the apron with a suplex, but it seemed to take more out of Jimmy. After minutes of playing defense, Uso powered up with a big Samoan drop. A second was avoided, but Knight fell right into an enziguri. Knight avoided the corner splash, dropping his “friend” with a powerslam. Big LA Knight (YEAHHHH) elbow drop for a two-count.
As they moved up top, Solo Sikoa arrived on the scene. The ref was distracted by a seemingly injured Knight. Solo…struck his own brother with the Samoan Spike! Knight, confused, picked up the pieces with the BFT!
LA Knight defeated Jimmy Uso via pinfall with the BFT.
Grade: D. This was slow. The crowd was incredibly dead aside from Knight’s introduction.
Jackie Redmond found Bayley backstage, but she didn’t feel like talking.
Judgment Day was in shambles, save for Liv Morgan, who was too focused on her WWE Queen of the Ring finals match to notice what was happening. Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez tried to help her realize this, while also teasing the Rodriguez/Morgan match.
Morgan told Raquel her next goal was the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Title. What about Roxanne? Uhhhhh, they needed to rush JD McDonagh to a doctor, so we didn’t find out.
We got a sit-down interview between Corey Graves and Seth Rollins. The Visionary was one big win away from putting The Vision down. He credited Montez Ford for checking him when he needed it, and Angelo Dawkins for giving him the grace nobody else could afford.
Rollins was expecting to see Bron Breakker without a title at Night of Champions because The Street Profits would win the WWE Men’s World Tag Championship tonight. As for Seth? After Breakker, he wanted to set his sights back on the WWE Men’s World Heavyweight Title.
Before the main event, Dirty Dominik Mysterio belittled Chad Gable backstage and claimed he was owed an apology as well. Instead, as long as the clearly not okay JD McDonagh could compete, he would face Gable next week.
WWE Men’s World Tag Team Championship: The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) vs The Vision (Austin Theory & Bron Breakker) (c) w/Logan Paul
The champions rushed the Street Profits before the bell rang, looking for an early advantage. Austin Theory quickly lost it and was planted by Dawkins for a standing moonsault from Montez Ford. Breakker took control again once he tagged in, bouncing around the ring at blinding speed to turn Tez inside out with a clothesline.
Breakker dropped on top of Ford with his own standing moonsault while commentary hyped up the return of Bronson Reed. The Vision kept the heat on Ford, though it was mostly Breakker. Tez escaped Theory’s grip, stunned Breakker momentarily on the apron, and finally met Dawkins.
The big man of the Street Profits fired up. Leaping strikes, big slams, and more left the champions in a bad way. The Silencer stunned Theory, and the Street Profits hit the Doomsday Blockbuster!!
1-2-no!! Logan Paul rushed over and pulled Theory’s foot onto the bottom rope. The ref caught it, though, and…tossed Logan out instead of DQing the champion. Sure.
Dawkins rolled in for another Blockbuster, only for Bron Breakker to knock Tez back to the floor below. Breakker tagged in and hit the table-clearing clothesline, hitting Dawkins over the desk as we cut to the final commercial break.
The Vision kept up the pressure on Dawkins’ legs and midsection, keeping the big guy of his feet and winded. Breakker encouraged Dawkins to fire up on him, leading to a double running clothesline that left both men dazed on the mat.
Dawkins shoved Breakker into Theory for the tag, then got to Montez Ford. With that, Ford was as fresh as he’d been all match, lighting Theory up with repeated corner clotheslines and backflipping out of a blocked kick into a superkick to Theory. Back suplex and standing moonsault combination!
Theory kicked out and tagged to Breakker, setting up a rolling lariat/German suplex combination for a two-count. Ford blocked the spear, but was caught with a powerslam by the former Intercontinental Champion. Steinerizer connected, but it wasn’t enough.
Logan Paul returned just as Dawkins sent Breakker face-first into the steel post, and was chased off…but not before leaving the brass knuckles. Who sent him packing? Joe Hendry!! Weeks after smashing Hendry’s head between the post and chair, the former WWE NXT Champion got his revenge!
Seth Rollins’ music rang out, with Breakker awaiting him at the ramp. But Rollins came through the crowd, rocking Theory with the knuckles! Breakker chased Rollins, leaving Theory for Dawkins’ Annointment! Ford From the Heavens!!
The Street Profits defeated The Vision via pinfall with the Annointment/From the Heavens to win the WWE Men’s World Tag Team Championship.
Grade: A-. Really good main event. Joe Hendry’s back. Rollins FINALLY got one over on The Vision in a way that mattered.
The Profits celebrated on the ramp as Theory and Breakker sulked.
Overall Grade: C. The main event and Lyra’s heel turn saved this from being a terrible show, but aside from those moments, I’m not sure there was much worth investing 2.5 hours in.
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Edited by Greg Bush
