Our WWE Raw results for tonight include IYO SKY battling Roxanne Perez, Brock Lesnar returning, a number one contender’s gauntlet match for the Intercontinental Championship featuring Dragon Lee taking on Chad Gable, Joe Hendry, Je’Von Evans, Dominik Mysterio, Ethan Page, and Rusev, and Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins SummerSlam World Heavyweight Championship match contract signing. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from The American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
WWE Raw Card:
- World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins’ SummerSlam contract signing
- Brock Lesnar returns
- #1 Contender’s Gauntlet match for the Intercontinental Championship | Dragon Lee vs. Chad Gable vs. Joe Hendry vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Dominik Mysterio vs. Ethan Page vs. Rusev
- IYO SKY vs. Roxanne Perez
WWE Raw Results:
THE BEAST
The Beast, Brock Lesnar, and Paul Heyman make their way to the ring. Heyman notes they have cops around the ring because of Oba Femi. The crowd boos. Heyman calls Femi obsessed. Femi gave up a title shot to fight for the World Championship. He’s the equivalent of a psycho ex-girlfriend. Heyman adds that Lesnar is obsessed with Femi. This scares Heyman. To protect his money, Heyman had a no-touch clause added to the contract for the match, and he got a restraining order against Femi. Heyman also got a restraining order on Lesnar. Lesnar doesn’t seem pleased. Heyman asks Lesnar to adhere to this because he knows Lesnar is a law-abiding Beast.
Oba Femi inturupts. The cops slide in the ring and stand in front of Lesnar. Femi says he came here for a fight tonight. Heyman tells Femi he’s in violation of a restraining order and tells the cop to do their job. Heyman and Lesnar exit the ring. Femi totally obliterates the police officers. Femi wants to know what these games are. He wants to know where the Beast is. Lesnar used to run this place; now he just runs away. Femi knows that if he took the title shot, Lesnar would have cost Femi the match. At SummerSlam, Lesnar can’t run from the bringer of war, Oba FEMI!
Grade: B
Great opener. That had to address the why behind Femi not taking his title shot now.
IYO SKY vs. Roxanne Perez
SKY is in control early. After hitting an Asai moonsault, SKY gets tripped on the apron by Liv Morgan. After the break, Perez is working over SKY’s injured knee. SKY fires up, but misses a bullet train attack. Perez traps SKY in a crossface. SKY counters. SKY takes out Morgan and Rodriguez as they try to interfere. Perex tries a sneaky roll up. SKY counters into a roll up of her own and gets the three count.
Winner- IYO SKY
After the match, The Judgment Day attacks SKY. Sol Ruca tries to make the save, but gets powerbombed into the ring post by Rodrigez. Morgan drops SKY with Oblivion.
Grade: C+
Solid TV match. The heat after the match was quite well done.
The Vision
Logan Paul introduces Austin Theory and Bron Breakker as the new tag champions. Paul says they couldn’t do it without the newest member of The Vision, The Vision Queen, Maxxine! Akira Tozawa and Otis walk to the ring. Tozawa asks Maxxine if they can talk. Maxxine asks he knew team to leave the ring so she can talk to Alpha Academy. Tozwa gives a teary-eyed speech about knowing Maxxine’s heart, and that Theory is no good for her. Maxxine says she still loves Tozawa and Otis. The crowd is all over Maxxine. Maxxine notes that Otis and Tozawa gave her an ultimatum. She couldn’t be with Theory and still be with the Academy. Otis cuts in and says he told Maxxine that Theory was bad news.
Otis says he has something to say to Maxxine. Austin Theory and the rest are laughing from outside the ring. Theory asks Otis if he is confessing that he has feelings for Maxxine. Theory runs Otis down for looking the way he does and acting the way he is. People like Otis don’t end up with people like Maxxine. Theory yells that MAxxine is with him now, and to keep his fat, disgusting… and Otis has heard enough. Otis pulls Theory in the ring and beats him up in the corner. Breakker rushes in, and Tozawa hops on his back.
In the end
Breakker tosses Tozawa over the commentary desk. Breakker and Theory beat up Otis. Otis tosses them all away and crushes both men in the corner. Breakker gets dumped over the top. Otis walks Theory down. Maxxine steps in front of Otis. Maxxin tries to talk to Otis. Maxxine acts as if she is going to kiss Otis. Theory low blows Otis! Maxxine laughs at Otis and says it could never be them. Tozawa gets cut in half by a Spear from Breakker. Maxxine hands Theory the brass knuckles, and he lays Otis out with them.
Grade: B
This was an amazingly effective segment. Maxxine is going to get booed out of every building WWE goes to. Otis and Tozawa hold a weird special place in the hearts of the WWE Universe. This new Vision thing could actually work.
Royce Keys vs. Jimmy Uso
(This match started during the break. Jimmy ran into Keys, which led to a brawl, which then led to Raw GM Adam Pearce booking a match between the two). Keys and Jimmy trade shots. Backstage, Jacob Fatu arrives and heads straight to the ring. Fatu immediately attacks Keys, causing a disqualification.
Winner- Royce Keys
Fatu grabs a chair and yells at Keys, saying he didn’t want to do this to him, but that he brought it on himself. Fatu hits Keys in the gut with the chair and wraps the chair around Keys’ head. Before Fatu can attack, Solo Sikoa appears from the crowd and tells Fatu to leave Keys alone. Sikoa tells Fatu he was lost, but now he’s found. Sikoa is coming home to the family. Solo Sikoa puts up the one. Jimmy and Fatu join in.
Sikoa drops Jimmy with a Samoan Spike. Everyone brawls. Fatu puts Sikoa in the Tongan Death Grip. Jimmy superkicks Keys. LA Knight hits the ring with a chair. Jimmy is dumped over the top. Knight hits Fatu with the chair, but it has no effect. Two more chair shots get the job done. Knight grabs a mic and says he wants Jimmy, Fatu, and Jey in the ring. LA Knight realizes he doesn’t have to do it by himself. Knight wants Keys and Sikoa with him against the Bloodline at SummerSlam.
Grade: B-
The match didn’t mean anything; it was just a vehicle to set up the tag match at SummerSlam. It took long enough to get to the Knight/Keys/Sikoa partnership. This could be fun.
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