WWE Raw heads towards SummerSlam 2021 as the path got interesting over the past week. A number of returns amped things up, big-time on the way to the PPV. This week, WWE Champion will address a laid-down challenge on him while the Women’s Champion will kick-off her reign with a celebration. These and more will be in-store on this week’s show scheduled from the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
Last week’s WWE RAW witnessed Bobby Lashley issuing an Open Challenge, just a night after dominating Kofi Kingston at Money in the Bank. Keith Lee answered that challenge and came out to a home state pop. But he was simply squashed by the dominating champion in front of the live fans in the audience.
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After the match, Lashley was standing tall with a celebration until the music hit and Goldberg made his WWE Raw return. The legendary superstar marched to the ring and got in Lashley’s face. He simply laughed and declared that he is next for the title. The champion wanted to fight, but MVP held him back.
Bobby Lashley dismissed the challenge earlier this week on Twitter, but it has announced that he will appear on WWE RAW to give his official response to Goldberg. At present, Goldberg isn’t booked to make his appearance, this week but he is scheduled to face Lashley at SummerSlam.
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WWE has also announced that Monday’s show will feature new WWE RAW Women’s Champion Nikki Cross A.S.H. celebrating her title win. Last week, Charlotte Flair retained her title against Rhea Ripley via DQ as the duo got involved in a brawl. Flair was dropped by a Riptide from Ripley after which Cross ran out with the Money In The Bank briefcase.
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She successfully cashed in the title match contract to win the gold from Charlotte Flair. While WWE is promoting that Nikki will throw a title win celebration, they have also been teasing that we will find out what’s next for the WWE RAW Women’s Title storyline, this week. It’s very likely that the new champion will go through her first title defense at SummerSlam.
In an interesting announcement, two of the current rivals will be forced to team up on WWE Raw, this week. Per the information from Sonya Deville, Ali and Mansoor will team up in tag team action, this week against unknown opponents. A few weeks ago, Ali was the one who cunningly picked up a win over Mansoor to escalate the feud. Now, they will try to patch things up.
WWE RAW Tag Team Championships will be on the line when AJ Styles and Omos defend those belts against The Viking Raiders – Erik and Ivar. This feud between the two teams has been going on for quite some time. The titles were actually on the line at Money in the Bank 2021 where the champions successfully retained as Omos pinned Erik with a one-armed Chokeslam move. Can he do it again? We’ll find out on the second episode back with fans.