Last night it was the Christmas edition of WWE Raw which was not telecasted in a live format. The show has already been taped, the previous week with a main-event featuring Rey Mysterio competing against Seth Rollins for the United States Championship. Also, a huge six-man tag team match was on the card of the show which aired from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.
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WWE Raw opened with the stage being decorated with Christmas trees and Christmas presents. Kevin Owens came out to compete against Mojo Rawley in a No Disqualification match.
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Mojo took Owens to the top for a superplex onto the 4 chairs set up next to each other. Owens came back with a Swanton Bomb. He followed up with a powerbomb through the table in the middle of the ring to get the win.
Once the match was over, Owens cut a promo and invited Seth Rollins and AOP to the ring. The trio came out as Rollins extended his hands only to get a Superkick. AOP immediately beat Owens down. Rollins finished the segment by beating Owens with a Stomp.
R-Truth was in Times Square in New York City where Akira Tozawa rolled him up to get the pinfall and become the new 24/7 Champion. Later Santa Clause stole the title and took it to the north pole.
Bobby Lashley defeated Cedric Alexander in a singles contest on WWE Raw. In the middle of the match, Lana started talking about her wedding with Bobby Lashley, next week. The crowd booed as Cedric mounted more offenses to the Dominator. However, Lashley came back spiking Cedric into the mat and hit a big spear on him to pick up the win.
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Drew McIntyre competed next against Zack Ryder on WWE Raw. He hit a Powerbomb followed by the pendant Claymore Kick to pick an easy win. After the match, Drew nailed the Futureshock DDT on Ryder and hit another Claymore on Curt Hawkins before declaring 2020 will be his year.
WWE RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch issued a challenge to WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Asuka for a singles match. Asuka accepted as she wants to become ‘Asuka 2 Belts’ now. She also wanted the Raw Women’s title to be on the line in a match that will be declared at a later date.
Aleister Black defeated a local enhancement talent hitting a Black Mass Immediately after the match, Buddy Murphy came out and defeated another enhancement talent hitting the Murphy’s Law as Black watched from ringside. Black vs. Murphy in a rematch was announced for next week’s WWE RAW.
Ricochet defeated Tony Nese hitting a Superkick followed by a Recoil on him.
Charlotte Flair was in action against WWE NXT Superstar Chelsea Green on WWE Raw. Green sent Flair face-first into a turnbuckle for a two count. She hit a Dropkick to keep Flair down for some time. Charlotte came back with a big boot and locked in her Figure-Eight submission to pick up the win.
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The OCs (AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson) competed in a six-man man tag team match against Randy Orton and WWE RAW Tag Team Champions The Viking Raiders. Orton went for the ring-draped DDT but Anderson blocked it.
Orton nailed him with an RKO to get distracted by Gallows. Styles springboarded in with the Phenomenal Forearm on Orton for the pin to win.
Erick Rowan squashed a local enhancement talent named Travis Horn with Iron Claw Chokeslams.
Rusev defeated No Way Jose with a Big Machka Kick on WWE Raw in just a few seconds. He also cut a promo on Lana and Bobby Lashley getting married and he seemed happy for them.
WWE United States Champion Rey Mysterio was able to retain his title against Seth Rollins in the main event of WWE Raw via disqualification as AOP interrupted the match.
They were about to put Rey through the commentary table but Samoa Joe did not want to move. So AOP started beating down Joe as per instructions from Rollins who hit a Stomp on Mysterio on the stage. AOP put Joe through the table to end the show.
