Tonight’s WWE Monday Night Raw is live from the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas. Kevin Patrick welcomes us to and he’s joined at ringside by Corey Graves.
Here The WWE Monday Night Raw Full Results
– Tonight’s WWE Raw opened with Rhea Ripley making her way to the ring with Dominik Mysterio. Adam Pearce is in the ring with something to reveal. Ripley hits the ring and Pearce presents her with the new WWE Women’s World Title. A “Mami!” chant breaks out. Ripley raises the title up to a pop. Dominik Mysterio runs down to celebrate with Ripley and the cheers turn to boos.
Ripley calls on Dominik to tell everyone how amazing she is but he’s drowned with boos. Dominik says this is disrespectful. The music interrupts and here comes Cody Rhodes to a big pop. Cody praises Ripley and says he has all the respect in the world for her. Cody shows us how Dominik slapped him last week.
Cody brings up Brock Lesnar and says he doesn’t have the balls to face him, but what about Dominik… at Money In the Bank? Dominik says he’s not afraid of anyone in the world and he embarrassed Cody in this ring just like he would anyone else. Fans boo and chant “you suck!” now. Cody gets fans to repeat the chant.
Ripley goes to brag about Dom but The Miz tries for a sneak attack from behind but Cody rocks him. Cody kicks Miz out of the ring but Dominik hits him with a cheap shop. Dominik and Rhea laugh as they back up the ramp, and Ripley seemingly accepts Cody’s challenge. Miz and Cody stare each other down with Miz on the floor.
– Cody Rhodes defeated The Miz via pinfall. After the match, the music hits as Cody celebrates with fans.
– Becky Lynch is walking at backstage. She stops and has a brief chat with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, then sees Chad Gable and Otis teaching moves to Maxxine Dupri.
– Becky Lynch makes her way to the ring. She looks up at the Money In the Bank briefcases as we see how she qualified by defeating Sonya Deville last week. Lynch takes the mic and talks about how she’s never won Money In the Bank, but she feels good about this year. She says the most powerful person isn’t the champion, it’s the one who has power to scare the champion, and who better than the Money In the Bank winner? She goes on about liking power and then she brings up WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus and how she needed help from Zoey Stark.
The music interrupts and out comes Stark to the stage. Stark says Lynch will never beat her or Trish, and she can add that to her list of failures. Lynch says she learns from her failures, and that’s what makes her great. They have words and Lynch knows Stark has in-ring skills but she has no personality. Stark asks if Lynch owns a mirror because she has no personality. Stark goes on about how Lynch got famous by having her face broken, and she’s desperately holding on to that fame.
Stark promises to make Lynch famous at Money In the Bank, but Lynch says they can fight tonight. The music interrupts and out comes Chelsea Green with Sonya Deville. Stark goes to leave but they want her to come to ringside while they make excuses for last week’s qualifier loss by Deville. Lynch ends up calling Green to the ring for a fight, then she tells Stark to take a seat to watch and find out why Lynch is famous.
– Becky Lynch defeated Chelsea Green via submission. After the match, Lynch stands tall to celebrate and points up at the MITB briefcases while taunting Stark.
– We see how WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins retained over Damian Priest in last week’s main event, then faced off with Finn Balor.
– The Judgment Day is walking backstage. Finn Balor seems bothered or distant as the others chat, mainly about Dominik Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes at Money In the Bank. WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley asks Balor if he’s OK. Balor says he has a lot on his mind. Damian Priest says he will make sure he qualifies for Money In the Bank when he beats Matt Riddle tonight. Priest says he wants to go out alone tonight.
– Damian Priest defeated Riddle via pinfall and qualified to the Men’s Money In The Bank Ladder match. After the match, Priest stands tall. The music hits and out comes Ludwig Kaiser and WWE Intercontinental Champion GUNTHER. Priest walks past Imperium and tells them to pick Riddle’s bones. Riddle is double teamed and destroyed now. Kaiser stands over Riddle talking trash while GUNTHER poses with the title over Riddle.
– We see what happened earlier with Cody Rhodes and Dominik Mysterio. Cody is at backstage with Cathy Kelley now, and she asks what he thinks about the match with Dominik being official now. He says he doesn’t think Dominik would have accepted the match on his own, and The Judgment Day is just setting up Dominik to get hurt. Cody goes on about how Brock Lesnar won’t show up and Dominik won’t go away, and how everyone has their eyes on him after his loss to Roman Reigns. Cody is focused on finishing the story, and won’t let Dominik or Brock knock him off his path. He wishes good luck to Dominik.
– We get a video on WWE and the Special Olympics.
– Byron Saxton at backstage with Natalya now, asking about recent changes in her. Natalya says never being the same is a good thing as being her has gotten her nowhere. Natalya says maybe she doesn’t know how to be herself. She walks off a bit emotional.
– Saxton stops Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at backstage now, and asks about Owens’ loss to GUNTHER last week. Owens says he came close to beating the seemingly unbeatable. They mention payback. GUNTHER and Ludwig Kaiser walk up. Kaiser taunts Owens and says payback is what happened to Matt Riddle last week. Sami wonders where “baldy” is and says it took three of you to beat Owens last week. The back & forth continues until Kaiser challenges them to defend the titles tonight if they’re so confident.
Adam Pearce walks up. Owens snaps a bit and starts ranting, and the champs seemingly agree to defend. Owens storms off and Sami follows after taunting Imperium. GUNTHER tells Pearce to make it a title match and Pearce says he will have to think about it. Imperium walks off.
– We get a new vignette from Indus Sher. Jinder Mahal mentions how Veer and Sanga beat Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander, saying they were done before the match started. Jinder says the job is not done because they are still walking. Jinder offers them a proper match and proper chance of survival. He says all of your fears will be justified.
– Bronson Reed defeated Ricochet via disqualification after Shinsuke Nakamura attacking Reed. After the bell, Nakamura ends up arguing with the referee before Reed runs over Ricochet and Nakamura. Reed goes up top for a Tsunami and Ricochet cuts him off but is knocked back. Nakamura climbs up for a superplex now. Ricochet joins him and they hit a double superplex. Ricochet and Nakamura face off now.
– Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens are at backstage. Sami asks Kevin why is he blowing up so much lately. Owens says he’s not at a level 10, just 6 or 6.5 as he goes on about stressful months and The Bloodline, and how they now have to deal with tall guys who speak European, among others. Zayn asks Owens if he’s good, and Owens asks if Sami wants anything as he goes for a water.
– We see Finn Balor walking at backstage.
– Adam Pearce is on the phone with someone about the main event. Ricochet walks up and demands another match with Reed for next week. Pearce gets it but someone is already facing Reed next week. But who? Shinsuke Nakamura walks up and it’s him. Ricochet says this is his fight, and he didn’t ask for help, and he doesn’t need it. Nakamura says he will succeed where Ricochet failed, and Ricochet can have Reed when he’s done. Ricochet warns that if Nakamura does anything like this again, they can take it to the ring and see who the last man standing is.
– Finn Balor makes his way to the ring. He calls out WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins so they can talk. No jokes, no sing-alongs, just the facts. The music hits and out comes Rollins to a big pop as fans begin singing his song. This goes on for a few minutes as Rollins just watches. Balor asks if Rollins is done because he’s been waiting 7 years to say this and won’t wait any longer.
Finn Balor says 7 years ago he was the #1 Draft pick, he beat Roman Reigns on his first night, and beat Rollins 3 weeks later to become the first WWE Universal Champion. The loud singing continues and Balor is not amused. The singing goes on and on. Balor says this isn’t funny, this is serious. Rollins finally speaks and plays to the crowd. Balor rants but Rollins goes quiet again as the singing continues.
Balor brings up what happened 7 years ago again. The singing gets low but picks back up when Balor calls fans idiots. Balor goes on now about how Rollins took everything from him, his momentum, his title, and a year off his career, but now it’s Balor’s turn to do it and he’s going to do it at Money In the Bank. Rollins just laughs and says Kansas is too kind. He says he’s laughing because this is the Balor he wanted to see. He recalls their SummerSlam match years ago and says one of them got bitter, one got better.
Rollins says he’s done some bad things in the 7 years but he’s made memories and moments for the fans, and now he’s the best version of himself. Rollins says he got better every day and the proof is the WWE World Heavyweight Title. He says Balor is on if he wants a shot at Money In the Bank.
Rollins wonders which version of Balor he will get in London – the bitter, shell of a former champion who don’t stand a chance or the Balor who beat him to become the first Universal Champion, who stands a chance. Rollins asks if that Balor will show up, or the one who’s been acting like a little bitch for the past 7 years. Rollins exits the ring with a laugh as fans sing along.
– Shayna Baszler defeated Raquel Rodriguez via pinfall after Ronda Rousey interference. After the match, Rousey and Baszler stand tall with their titles.
– We get a tribute video for WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik, who passed away at the age of 81 last week. Fans chant “Sheik!”.
– Chad Gable defeated Erik via pinfall. After the match, Alpha Academy celebrates.
– We get a hype video for Rhea Ripley.
– Finn Balor at backstage talking strategy with JD McDonagh when Damian Priest walks up. JD leaves. Finn congratulates him on qualifying for Money In the Bank. Priest says Balor seems to be in a better mood now that he has his title shot. Balor asks if Priest would cash in on him. Priest says of course not. Priest blames any tension in The Judgment Day on Rollins. Priest tells Balor to make it worth it and end this at Money In the Bank.
– Cathy Kelley at backstage with Seth Rollins. They talk about being prepared for a bitter Finn Balor at Money In the Bank. Rollins says Balor will lose their match but it looks like he may also lose Damian Priest. Rollins laughs some more and announces another Open Challenge for next Monday.
– Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn defeated GUNTHER and Ludwig Kaiser via pinfall and successfully retained their Undisputed WWE Tag Team Titles. After the match, Owens and Zayn stand tall and continue their celebration as Monday Night Raw goes off the air.
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