This week’s RAW started as the new WWE RAW Women’s Champion Nikki Cross came out to the arena. She welcomed everyone and she expressed her happiness of winning the RAW Women’s Championship.
Charlotte Flair interrupted. She said Nikki was a disgrace as a champion. She said that Nikki could never cash in on Charlotte but she could do it because of Rhea Ripley and at Summerslam, she would take back the title. She also blamed the fans for everything.
WWE RAW 26.07.2021 Results & Ratings
Rhea Ripley came out and said it should be her to challenge Nikki at Summerslam for the title because she could have beat Charlotte if Charlotte did not count herself out intentionally.
Sonya Deville and Adam Pearce came out next and announced a triple threat match for Summerslam which would include all three women in the ring. Charlotte said she did not like the decision and she challenged Nikki for the title tonight. Nikki accepted and the match became official.
Match 1 – Damian Priest defeated Sheamus
It was a non title match and it was indeed pretty good. This match was booked for eight minutes time and both individuals did really good. Damien Priest pinned Sheamus with a swinging face first.
Match 2 – WWE RAW Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Omos defeated the Viking Raiders to retain
Just like every other AJ Styles and Omos match nothing was different in this match. Opponents dominated AJ Styles and got dominated by Omos. AJ Styles at the end pinned Eric with the 450 Splash.
Drew McIntyre came out to the arena. Before he could say anything Jinder Mahal interfered. He showed him a lawyer and threatened him that if he was not apologized he would sue him. Drew refused to apologize and said he would kill him.
Match 3 – Drew McIntyre defeated Veer DQ
Veer was impressive on his main roster debut match. Credits to Drew too to make him look great. At the end, Veer was holding the chair and Drew hit him Claymore through the chair. Technically, Drew should have been disqualified since he hit Veer through chair but Drew was announced winner, this was a bit confusing. After the match, Drew knocked out the lawyer with the Claymore.
Match 4 – Natalya and Tamina defeated Eva Marie and Doudrop
This is where WWE getting foolish day by day. Champions themselves are remaining involved in the title contender’s match. Alexa Bliss and Lilly created distracted Eva as Tamina pinned her with a superkick. Natalya got hurt during the match.
Match 5 – Karrion Kross defeated Keith Lee by submission
So Keith Lee is officially a jobber now. He lost two back to back matches since returning. Karrion Kross made him submit with the Cross Jacket submission maneuver.
Match 6 – Mustafa Ali and Mansoor defeated Mace and T Bar
This face-heel combination between Mustafa Ali and Mansoor could be really interesting. So far it is fun. Mansoor picked up the win in this case.
WWE Champion Bobby Lashley came out along with MVP. MVP talked about last week’s incident as Goldberg returned last week. Cedric Alexander interfered and reminded what he did to him earlier this year. He demanded a match against Lashley. Shelton Benjamin came out and demanded the same. Lashley accepted to face both.
Match 7 – Bobby Lashley defeated Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin in a two on one handicap match
The match was completely dominated by Lashley. It was more of a squash. He pinned both Cedric and Shelton at the same time.
Match 8 – John Morrison defeated Matt Riddle
This was one of the better matches of the night and it was really fun to watch. AJ Styles and Omos came out during the match who costed Riddle the match. After the match, AJ beat down Riddle.
Match 9 – WWE 24/7 Championship – Reginald defeated R Truth
Reginald is really athletic we must say. And this was one of the most fun matches of the night. After Reginald beat Truth some of the jobbers came out to the get the title but Reginald left.
Match 10 – Charlotte Flair defeated Nikki ASH
This was a good competitive match but not a main event standard. Charlotte pinned Nikki after she reversed the cross body attempt of Nikki. After the match, Nikki and Charlotte argued as Nikki challenged her in a rematch next week. Charlotte accepted and beat down Nikki ASH. Charlotte stood stall as this week’s RAW went off air.
Overall it was a good week of Monday night RAW with a lot of things happening. They tried to book every single feud that is going on, the title ones and then on title ones. The show was indeed quite fun to watch. But some of the bookings where quite repetitive for example AJ styles and Omos’ match. We give it 3 stars out 5.
Sportzwiki Rating – 3/5