This week’s RAW started as Bobby Lashley was seen standing inside the ring and he was a demanding Brock Lesnar to come out to the ring. Brock Lesnar showed up and Bobby Lashley exited the ring to attack him. The duo broke into a fight and Lashley came out stronger as he put him through the barricade and through the announce table.
Match 1 – The OC defeated The Alpha Academy
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This was the first tag team match for the OC since his return. And the opponents just had to be the Alpha Academy, the serial jobbers. If a single man has to be promoted they use Chad Gable for it, and for a tag team it is Alpha Academy. The match was booked for 5 minutes and Luke Gallows pinned Chad Gable for the win.
The Judgement Day interfered the celebration of the OC. Finn Balor challenge the OC in a six tag team match at Crown Jewel which AJ Styles accepted. AJ and Dominik Mysterio exchanged some words after that and AJ challenged Dominik in a match tonight which Dominik accepted.
The new WWE United States champion seth Rollins came out to the arena. He talked about his victory last week over Bobby Lashley. He was then interrupted by Mustafa Ali who asked for a title shot since he was about to face Bobby Lashley for the title last week. The discussion turned violent at the end as Seth came out the stronger of the two.
Match 2 – The Damage CTRL defeated Candice LeRae and Bianca Belair
This was a tag team match and it was booked for nine minutes. It might have been a long match but it was quite slow. At the end of the match, Bianca got involved in a fight with Bayley who was outside of the ring. Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky took the advantage of the situation by hitting Candice with a double team move and pinned her.
JBL came out to the arena. It was really nostalgic to hear his music after such a long time. He cut a solid heel promo, for something he was best at. Then he introduced Baron Corbin in a new avatar, his new outfit looked really bad, to be honest. JBL addressed him as the Modern Day Wrestling God. He then asked for a former world champion as his opponent. Dolph Ziggler came out to the arena to challenge Corbin.
Match 3 – Baron Corbin defeated Dolph Ziggler
The match was book for over 10 minutes and it was one of the best matches of the night. Both performers were really great on their games tonight. It looked really unpredictable during the match because of their excellent performances and back to back near falls. Corbin pinned Ziggler with the End of Days.
Match 4 – Dominik Mysterio defeated AJ Styles
This was probably the biggest victory of Dominik’s young career. The match was book for over 10 minutes and it was a good match. It is good to see Dominik is improving day after day. At the end of the match, Rhea Ripley created a distraction from outside as Dominik pinned him with a roll up.
Dexter Lumis and The Miz where finally scheduled to meet each other tonight in a match where the stipulation was if Dexter good when he would get a contract in WWE, but if he lost, he would be banned forever. As Dexter was making his entrance, Miz attacked him from behind with a steel chair and beat him down. The match could not take place, therefore we have to swallow this long and boring feud for some more weeks.
Elias was seen standing inside the ring with some musical instruments. He wanted to address the city of Oklahoma with a song. Matt Riddle came out and he also wanted to join the party. As they together attempted to start the song they were interrupted by the WWE United States champion Seth Rollins and the celebration never took place.
Match 5 – WWE United States Championship – Seth Rollins defeated Matt Riddle to retain
It was certainly the best match of the night and it was booked for eleven and a half minute. It was a very competitive match with evenly balanced. Elias at the end created an unwanted distraction for Riddle and Rollins pinned Riddle with the Stomp.
After the match Rollins attempted to beat down Riddle more but he got attacked by Mustafa Ali and the duo broke into a fight. It is really good to see Mustafa Ali getting main events spots. Seth Rollins escaped the arena through the crowd and Mustafa Ali followed him as this week’s RAW went off air.
Overall it was a totally average show of Monday Night RAW. They wasted too much time with the Pre taped footages. No mention of the World Championship, neither any Tag Team Championship feud had been the weakest part of this night. There is no and to the boring Miz – Lumis storyline either. Matches were totally predictable and they could not offer anything new tonight. We give this week’s RAW 1.5 out of 5.
Sportzwiki Ratings – 1.5/5