Tonight’s episode of Raw live from Knoxville, the women’s tag team champions will address their future challengers in the judgement day’s Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez, Iyo Sky takes on Sol Ruca, an Oba Femi open challenge, and the Roman Reign’s acknowledgement ceremony.
Segments
The Vision accompanied by Paul Hayman opened the show after a vingette showed Adam Pierce talking to Roman Reigns who was just arriving to tonight’s show. The Vision were met in the ring by the Street Profits and then serenaded by Joe Hendry with his “Can We Fire Logan Paul” song. This led to a trios match and some “help” from Seth Rollins.
Next segment shows us the Original El Grande Americano and Bruto and Julio (the hermanos americanos) speaking to Adam Pierce who were interrupted by Dirty Dom and Liv Morgan. The AAA mega campionship was announced to be on the line tonight against the Original El Grande Americano, which is the first time this title would be defended on Raw.
Penta makes his appearance and after a commercial break calls out All Ego Ethan Page stating that he is not afraid to defense his intercontential championship. Ethan Page states that he isn’t wanting to have that shot tonight but to have it in two weeks at Saturday Night Main Event. Penta looks like he is ready to accept, however, they were both interrupted by Rusev and Je’von Evans, who came out “whoaing” like it was an episode of South Park. The segment ends with a fight and both Evans and Penta doing Penta’s signature walk in the middle of the ring and a match against Rusev.
Next, we see Iyo Sky warming up when she is met by Asuka, who grabs her in a deep embrace. Asuka tells her that she is glad it was her that won the match and how proud she is of her. Iyo tells her goodbye to which Asuka says “see you later” as they hug again. The segment ends with Asuka leaving the building with her luggage.
Brie Bella and Paige enter the arena dressed in street clothes. The announcers say that they have competitors coming at them from everywhere and will address the locker room in this segment. They say that they were called to come to Raw by Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez. Roxanne Perez remarks how she loved watching them as a kid when they were “young and relevant.” She also states how mad she is at Brie for setting the bar so low for her. Raquel verbally goes after Paige, which leads to a brawl. Liv Morgan joins her judgement day stablemates in decimating Brie and Paige.
The next segment, we see the Street Profits about to be interviewed when they were joined by Seth Rollins. Ford reminds Seth that it is said that he cannot be trusted. He leaves as the words sink in with Dawkins and Seth seems to take in what was said.
Iyo is then seen congratulating Sol Ruca on a good match. She states that she is the future and that they will fight again. Then enters Becky Lynch who mocks Sol for her loss.
Oba Femi comes to the ring for his open challenge. Adam Pierce states that there is no challenger that wanted to take his open challenge. He then goes backstage and takes Humberto and Angel Garza to the ring, involuntarily to make this open challenge also a handicapped match.
Dirty Dom starts to make his way to the ring through the backstage with JD McDonough. Finn Balor comes out of nowhere to take out JD and Drity Dom is forced to go to the ring without his backup.
Jacky stops The Vision for an interview. Logan Paul threatens to vincent van goughing himself by stabbing himself in the ears if Joe Hendry sings his song again. They were asked how they would going to prepare for their title defense against the Street Profits in two weeks and Austin Theory offers Jacky a ride to speak about it. She refuses and they leave in their car.
Lastly, the segment most have probably been waiting for…the Roman Reigns acknowledgement ceremony. Roman enters flanked by his cousin, Jimmy Uso. Jey is then seen backstage with Jacob Fatu. He says that his cousin Jacob needs to be smart. This leads to Jey being laid out by Jacob prior to him stating he is not going not acknowledge Roman and that the acknowledgement needs to be beaten out of him. He lays out Jimmy on the way to the ring and stares Roman in the eyes from the apron before the two start to fight. Fatu uses the Tonga Death Grip a few times including using it to put the OTC through the announce desk. The show ends with Fatu licking the championship belt and holding it high in the center of the ring and then spearing Roman as he tries to get up from the announce desk. Will this leave Jacob Fatu out of a job? Time will tell.
Results from tonight’s Raw matches:
- The Street Profits and Joe Hendry def The Vision via pinfall on Austin Theory
- Je’von Evans def Rusev via pinfall
- Iyo Sky def Sol Ruca via cruxifix pinfall reversal of the Soul Snatcher (match of the night!)
- Oba Femi Open Challenge: Oba Femi def Los Garza (Humberto and Angel Garza) via pinfall
- Dirty Domnik Mysterio def The Original Grande Americano via pinfall
What did everyone think of this episode of Raw?
