This week’s RAW started as footage from last week’s Smackdown was shown where The Usos defeated RK-Bro to unify the Tag Team Championships. And they also showed how the Bloodline beat down RK-Bro at the end of the show.
Riddle came out to the arena. He expressed his disappointment of losing the Tag Team championships to the Usos last week on Friday Night Smackdown. He also praised Randy Orton for everything. He said that he did not have anything against the Usos but the way they won the championships was unacceptable for him.
WWE RAW 23.05.2022 Results & Ratings
Match 1 – The Street Profits and Riddle defeated Sami Zayn and The Usos
This was a 6 man tag team match and it was booked for around 10 minutes. It was a good way to open the show. But honestly, there was not enough spark in this match. At the end of the match, The Usos abandoned their partner Sami Zayn in this match and Riddle pinned him with the RKO.
Bobby Lashley came out to the arena. He talked about his upcoming match with Omos at Hell in a Cell. Omos and MVP interrupted him where MVP blamed that he would have lost the steel cage match only if the equipment was not faulty. Lashley proposed a match between himself and MVP where the winner will get to pick the stipulation for his match against Omos at Hell in a Cell.
The Judgement Day came out to the arena and cut a really long promo. It was a really cool heel promo. Surely there will be more members to the Judgement Day. Edge named a number of possible members for the stable where there was the name of Tommaso Ciampa, Drew McIntyre, Alexa Bliss, and many more. Who is it going to be?
Match 1 – The Judgment Day (Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley) defeated Liv Morgan and AJ Styles
The match was booked for over 8 minutes and it was a good mixed tag team match. It was a fun and well paced match and at the end, Rhea Ripley pinned Liv Morgan with an outside assist from Edge. After the match, Judgment Day beat down AJ Styles and Liv Morgan.
Jerry Lawler welcomed Veer Mahaan into his King’s Court talkshow and Veer cut a short promo on The Mysterios. We all know that Veer can talk and his promo was not bad. He will learn more. At the end, the Mysterios attacked him and Veer escaped. The fight did not look very well reharsed.
Match 3 – Alexa Bliss defeated Nikki ASH
It was a short 3 minutes long match where Nikki jobbed as usual. Quute obviously there building Alexa from the beginning as a top star once again. She will squash some opponents back to back before asking for the title shot. Alexa pinned Nikki with the Twisted Bliss.
Match 4 – Cody Rhodes defeated The Miz by DQ
It was a good match and after going on for 6 minutes Seth Rollins interfered and attack Cody Rhodes. Seth and Miz teamed up to beat down Cody. It was a good build up for their match at Hell in a Cell.
Match 5 – Ezekiel defeated Chad Gable
This match was booked for 5 minutes an entertaining match. Kevin Owens and Otis kept on trying to help Chad Gable throughout the match but at the end, Ezekiel pinned Chad with a roll up. After the match, Kevin Owens challenged Ezekiel at Hell in a Cell.
Match 6 – MVP defeated Bobby Lashley by countout
The match was stipulated as the winner of it will get to choose the stipulation for the match between Bobby Lashley and Omos at Hell in a Cell. MVP kept on avoiding the fight at first. But once he made the hands of Bobby Lashley he was beaten down. But prevented Lashley from getting inside the ring and MVP won the match via count out.
Match 7 – Becky Lynch defeated Asuka
A stipulation was given in this match where if Becky gets to win the WWE RAW Women’s Championship match at Hell in a Cell will become triple threat. Asuka dominated the most part of the match. But at the end, Asuka mistakenly kicked RAW Women’s Champion Bianca Belair in the head who was sitting outside of the ring throughout the match and Becky pinned Asuka with a roll up. The pin was quite botched. Becky Lynch celebrated as this week’s RAW went of air.
Overall it was not a bad show but in some parts It looked quite rushed. In the first two hours there was only two matches and mostly promos, and in the final hour they are were five matches. No presence of Austin Theory who is the United States champion is a big drawback. And without a World championship segment there is almost nothing to watch. Without the title segments the show is meaningless. We give it 1 star out of 5.
Sportzwiki Ratings – 1/5