Our WWE Raw results for tonight include Nattie battling Maxxine Dupri, Brock Lesnar returning to Raw, a special tribute to AJ Styles, 2026 Women’s Royal Rumble winner Liv Morgan announcing her WrestleMania opponet, and the men’s and women’s Elimination Chamber qualifying matches continue when Raquel Rodriguez takes on IYO SKY and Kairi Sane, and Bronson Reed clashing with Jey Uso, and “Original” El Grande Americano. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
WWE Raw Card:
- Women’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match|Raquel Rodriguez vs. IYO SKY vs. Kairi Sane
- Men’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match|Bronson Reed vs. Jey Uso vs. “Original” El Grande Americano
- A tribute to AJ Styles
- Brock Lesnar Returns
- Liv Morgan to decide her WrestleMania opponet
- Nattie vs. Maxxine Dupri
WWE Raw Results:
As the show kicks off, Michael Cole and Corey Graves are in the ring. Graves attempts to kick off the announced tribute for AJ Styles, but they are quickly interrupted by Gunther. Gunther tells Cole and Graves to leave the ring and sit behind the desk because their intro didn’t cut it. They can tell the audience at home how awesome Gunther is. The crowd boos Gunther mercilessly. Gunther thinks it’s disgusting that there is going to be a celebration for a loser. The people like losers like Bill Goldberg, John Cena, and AJ Styles.
What do they all have in common? Gunther killed all of their careers. A better use of everyone’s time would be to celebrate him. Raw GM Adam Pearce stomps to the ring with security. Pearce knew Gunther would try this, so he’s going to have Gunther thrown out of the building. Gunther says he’s going to leave, but not because of Pearce; he’s leaving out of disgust over what is going to happen here tonight. As Gunther is walking up the ramp, Dragon Lee attacks Gunther from behind. Cody Rhodes walks up in the aftermath, stares Gunther down, and walks to the ring.
Grade: A
ZERO NOTES. Gunther is the biggest heel in WWE.
He’s a Nightmare
Cody Rhodes says he knows what the crowd wants to talk about. Bronson Reed, Austin Theory, Logan Paul, and Paul Heyman interrupt. Reed is going to win his qualifier match tonight. Rhodes says there is one man who may have something to say about that. Jey Uso‘s music hits.
Grade: C+
This was dangerously close to overstaying its welcome; the show started off with a promo segment going directly into another right after is a great way to kill all the momentum you built with the first segment. Thankfully, this segment ended quickly and led right into a match.
Men’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match|Bronson Reed vs. Jey Uso w/Jimmy Uso vs. “Original” El Grande Americano
Jey takes an early advantage, but gets destroyed by an elbow from Reed. OG Americano lands a moonsault off the top to the floor that wipes out Jey and Reed. OG Americano and Jey send Reed “big @$$” (Jey’s words, not this writer’s) into the ring post. After the break, Reed Samoan drops Jey and OG Americano at the same time. OG Americano tries a diving headbutt, but Jey is too far away.
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Gable.. err… OG Americano face plants and still tries to cover Jey. Jey kicks out. OG Americano struggle German suplexes Reed for a nearfall. Reed seems to have hurt his arm while breaking up a pin. Jey tries his splash. OG Americano gets his knees up and locks in the ankle lock. Jey escapes, hits a superkick, and lands the Uso Splash for the win.
Winner- Jey Uso
Grade: B-
Fun TV match. Nothing to note here other than another potential injury for the Vision. Reed going down is terrible. Hopefully, it isn’t as bad as it looked. Jey was always winning this match; the only difference here was that they most likely nixed the Masked Man being the one to cost Reed the match.
Watch Her…
AAA Mega and WWE IC Champion Dominik Mysterio is in the ring with the 2026 Women’s Royal Rumble winner, Liv Morgan, to make her official WrestleMania decision. Dominik puts himself over and Morgan over. The crowd weirdly let Dominik cut his promo without spending 10 minutes booing him out of the building. Dominik introduces Women’s World Champion and recent Def Rebel victim, Stephanie Vaquer, and WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill.
Morgan has some stuff to get off her chest before she makes her decision. Morgan says she thought about what Vaquer said last week. Surprisingly, Morgan tells Vaquer she was right. Morgan weirdly puts Vaquer over and asks as if she’s going to select Cargill, but she turns around and bops Vaquer with the mic. Morgan beats down Vaquer.
Grade: B-
The crowd has been so weird tonight. Dominik didn’t get much of a reaction. Morgan started getting boring chants. Neither of the champions got a pop. All of this was good. Not sure why this crowd sucks so hard, but they are killing the show. Everyone did well here.
Nattie vs. Maxxine Dupri
Nattie charges at Dupri and is in control early. Durpi sends Nattie out of the ring. Nattie gets launched into the barricade. Nattie kicks Dupri into the ring pos. Dupri is out cold. The referee tries to check on Dupri, but Nattie keeps pounding Dupri’s face in. The referee calls for the bell.
Winner- Nattie
Grade: B
Is it wrong that this entire thing was highly entertaining to me? Also, is Nattie’s gimmick that she’s Shayna Baszler?
The Beast
Paul Heyman ushers Brock Lesnar to the ring. Heyman gives Lesnar a classic Heyman introduction. Heyman gives the crowd a history lesson. Traditionally, WrestleMania had two main events: The title match and the Undertaker’s streak. Lesnar conquered the streak, so that spot is now his. Who will challenge Lesnar at WrestleMania? Heyman doesn’t have a spoiler; no man is crazy enough to take Lesnar on. Heyman puts Lesnar’s dates between now and WrestleMania. If any man is willing to walk the aisle to face Lesnar, they can accept the challenge whenever Lesnar shows up.
Grade: B-
Interesting choice. Unless my ears deceived me, the crowd was chanting for Oba Femi this entire segment. That’s where this needs to go, but it won’t. Femi is the choice, but he would have to win, and the only way that’s happening is if Lesnar wants it to.
Je’Von Evans w/Offset vs. Kofi Kingston w/Xavier Woods and Grayson Waller
Evans fires up early and dumps Kingston to the floor. Kingston literally runs away to avoid a dive from Evans. After a distraction from Woods, Kingston charges into the ring and eats a Busaku knee. Kingston begs off and tosses Evans out of the ring. After another distraction, Kingston lands a sick PK on the apron. After the break, Je’von catches Kingston with a springboard corckscrew scorpion kick. Evans tries a moonsault.
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Kingston rolls out, Evans lands on his feet, injuring what appears to be his ankle. A hobbled Evans floors Kingston with the red dot kick. Superman tope by Evans. Waller decks Evans behind the referee’s back. Evans kicks out of Kingston’s Famouser. Offset gets in Waller’s face. Offset tosses Waller over the commentary desk. In the confusion, Evans catches Kingston with an OG Cutter for the win!
Winner- Je’von Evans
Grade: B
This match was a ton of fun, but this writer is terrified Evans may actually be hurt. For the love of all that is holy, let’s pray he isn’t hurt.
Frankie Kazarian and ABYSS ARE HERE to join the AJ Styles celebration later tonight. The way this writer popped seeing them both, I forgot TNA works with WWE now. Something, something forbidden doors, something something.
The Cult of Personality
The World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk puts over AJ Styles. Punk talks about all of the what-ifs that led them to this point, including Finn Bálor ruining what was Punk’s last match EVER with AJ Styles. No, Punk doesn’t like dealing in what-ifs. For example, what if Roman Reigns were here tonight? See, Reigns isn’t here. The crowd boos. Punk says you can’t boo him; he’s here, with boots on the ground. Reigns will be on Raw next week. What if Punk doesn’t wait till WrestleMania and he punches Reigns in the face next week? Punk doesn’t deal in what-ifs. He’s the best in the world, and he is the World Heavyweight Champion.
Grade: C+
This promo wasn’t necessary on any level. Bálor should have been featured in this spot heading into a match he has no chance of winning. Also, this crowd is awful. Have I mentioned that so far tonight?
Women’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match|Raquel Rodriguez vs. IYO SKY vs. Kairi Sane
Rodriguez boots Sane’s head off and trades shots with SKY. SKY and Sane double-team Rodriguez, sending her out of the ring. Sane attacks SKY from behind. Double fallaway slam by Rodriguez. Rodriguez gets sent to the floor again. Sane dives off the apron, but gets caught by Rodriguez.
SKY takes everyone out with an Asai Moonsault. SKY flattens Sane with the Over the Moonsault. Rodriguez breaks up the pin. Diving DDT by SKY. SKY goes up for the moonsault. Sane pushes SKY off the top. Rodriguez gets her knees up. Rodriguez hits her powerbomb on Sane for the win.
Winner- Raquel Rodriguez
Grade: C
This… why… why couldn’t these three just fight? Why did they need 57663 silly way to turn this into a singles match? This was the worst of what a triple threat match can be, despite the solid work from the three women. The pacing of this was just off.
Thank you, AJ!
AS the show ends, The Undertaker rides to the ring and tells Styles he’s being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame!
Grade: A
What? This writer isn’t critiguing retirement segment. #ThankYouAJ
WWE Raw Review:
Go-home shows before PLEs are historically bad, but woof, this show was all over the place. Gunther being an @$$ and the Evans vs. Kingston match were the highlights. The segment of the night was the AJ Styles celebration. Heck of a moment, and the announcement by the Undertaker at the end was the perfect way to close the show. If Taker is the avatar for people being inducted into the Hall, he’s going to have to start dressing up in disguises to surprise people going forward. That could be its own show on the WWE Network… if that was still a thing. We still have SmackDown this week to hopefully resurrect the vibes heading into the Chamber. History tells us SmackDown will be a bunch of multi-person tag matches, in-ring promos, and video packages to complete the usual cycle of “go-home show hell.”
Rating: C
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