RAW

We see a recap of Randy Orton taking out Ric Flair as Drew McIntyre comes out to open the show on WWE RAW. 

Drew McIntyre says that what Randy Orton did last week was unforgivable. 

McIntyre calls Orton evil for doing what he did to Flair after all that Flair had done for him. He reminds Randy Orton that he is not facing Flair at SummerSlam, but he is facing McIntyre and he's going to hurt him. 

There are some glitches as Retribution possibly mess with stuff again. 

We see video from backstage with Retribution entering the production truck and breaking down the equipment while Drew McIntyre continues his promo.  We headed to commercial break.

Drew McIntyre meets with the rest of the RAW locker room backstage. He says that he does not know if they will get to SummerSlam at the moment with Retribution  doing what they have been doing. 

He is interrupted by Seth Rollins. He says he wants to be the one to lead the locker room and they don't need Drew McIntyre.

MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Shelton Benjamin are now out to make a statement. 

They say that The Hurt Business is officially open for business now. 

The Hurt Business are calling out Retribution  now and they are done with the faction terrorizing people in the shadows. 

According to MVP Ricochet, Mustafa, Ali, Apollo Crews, and Cedric Alexander are to blame for Retribution. 

Apollo Crews comes out.

Crews and MVP exchange words ahead of their SummerSlam match and now, Shelton Benjamin will face him in a match. 


Apollo Crews vs. Shelton Benjamin 

Apollo Crews won



Ivar vs. Angel Garza 

Angel Garza won




Mickie James vs. Natalya

Mickie James is dumped outside and Natalya wins the match, but the focus is not on them as Seth and Samoa Joe exchange words. 



Shayna Baszler and Asuka vs. Bayley and Sasha Banks 

Shayna Baszler and Asuka won


Shawn Michaels talked to Drew McIntyre backstage in WWE. He says that Drew was not letting anyone down, but had to win against Randy Orton and he said that McIntyre was the perfect person to take out Orton. 


Ruby Riott vs Peyton Royce

Peyton Royce won



We come back to RAW Underground as Erik of Viking Raiders is facing and takes out a fighter with a couple of knees. Dolph Ziggler rates Erik 4/10. 

Thumb in the eye from Ziggler and that's it. Ziggler wins but Ivar comes in and throws Ziggler out into the crowd.


Now, Rey Mysterio is back on RAW

Rey Mysterio says that what he has felt since Extreme Rules is pain, not only for what Seth did to his eye, but what he did to Dominik as well. He is not happy. 


MVP and Bobby Lashley vs. Apollo Crews, Ricochet, Mustafa Ali


MVP and Bobby Lashley won



Andrade vs. Montez Ford

Montez Ford won 



Shawn Michaels came out to confront Randy Orton

Shawn Michaels shows a recap of Ric Flair humbly talking to Randy Orton.

Shawn Michaels says that without Ric Flair, there would be no big stars in WWE unless he had done what he had done. Shawn says that Randy was not appreciative enough of what Ric Flair gave him. 

Shawn says that he does not know how it will happen, be it sweet chin music or a claymore, Randy Orton will pay for what he had done. Shawn goes to leave by Randy Orton hits the RKO on Michaels and then punts him immediately after that. Randy makes a run for it as Drew McIntyre comes in. 

McIntyre was almost blindsided by Randy, but he then took out Orton and sent him over the announce table. 

HBK is standing again.

Orton gets back in the ring and takes an RKO while Drew helps Shawn.



Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches.

RAW - Aug 10

RAW kicked off with the contract signing of Seth Rollins and Dominik Mysterio for the SummerSlam match. Samoa Joe was moderating and said that it was shameful that a Superstar like Rollins would force a newbie like Dominik to face him in a match.

Rollins played the victim and then mocked Dom before telling him that he can bring the Kendo Stick and any other weapon because he wouldn't last 10 seconds in the ring with Rollins. They both signed the contracts and Rollins told Dom to leave his ring before his match with Humberto Carrillo.

Seth Rollins vs. Humberto Carrillo

Seth Rollins won

After the match, Murphy and Rollins attacked Dominik. Dom tried to fight back but Rollins caught him with the Kendo stick and kept beating him with it in the ring. They tied him up on the ropes and hit him in the chest while Rollins mocked Rey and his son.

Murphy took out a bunch of Kendo sticks and they started hitting him from both sides till Dom broke free and Rollins went for the stomp but decided to retreat instead.

We got a recap of Retribution's attacks on RAW and SmackDown last week before the show continued. 

Andrade, Vega, and Garza were out and Zelina Vega said that she was not involved in poisoning Montez Ford.

Angelo Dawkins vs. Andrade

Angelo Dawkins won

Zelina Vega vs. Bianca Belair

Bianca Belair won

After the match, Belair and Dawkins said Montez was recovering and would be ready to fight at SummerSlam.

MVP was out next on RAW and went on a rant about 'mysterious happenings' in the WWE, referring to the Retribution who apparently caused his loss last week by blinking the lights.

Apollo Crews came out and made fun of MVP for losing his title before threatening him and his crew. Apollo went on the attack and made MVP, Lashley, and Benjamin retreat from the ring.

 Apollo Crews vs. Shelton Benjamin

Shelton Benjamin won

After the match, Bobby Lashley went for a Full Nelson on Crews but MVP stopped him, in fear that he gets injured before SummerSlam. Apollo instead took out MVP and ran off.

The Retribution apparently threw a cinderblock through a glass door.

Mickey James was back on RAW and Lana and Natalya came out to make fun of her not having a TikTok. 

Viking Raiders, Ricochet & Cedric Alexander vs. Akira Tozawa & the Ninjas

Viking Raiders, Ricochet & Cedric Alexander won

As Tozawa was retreating on RAW, a Ninja attacked him and made the pin to win the 24/7 championship. As the treacherous ninja took off his mask, it turned out to be none other than R-Truth!

Backstage, Drew McIntyre said that Randy Orton will realize that Evolution has passed him by.

Peyton Royce vs. Liv Morgan

Peyton Royce won

We were back with RAW Underground in its second appearance on RAW. Riddick Moss was demolishing some random guy all around the arena before getting a knockout win in the no rules competition.

Asuka vs. Bayley

Asuka won and will face Sasha Banks at SummerSlam for the RAW Women’s Championship.

Back on RAW Underground, Arturo Ruas was pummeling a guy in the ring. He picked up the second Underground win on the show tonight.

Dabba Kato was back for a second night and destroyed a guy using questionable submission holds. Shayna Baszler was out to challenge someone and attacked a random person before all the women in the arena came out to fight her at the same time.

Shayna destroyed all of them before picking up the next win on RAW Underground.

Outside RAW's venue, Retribution flipped a car in the parking lot and ran away.

Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens 

Randy Orton won

After the match, Randy said he had to talk to Ric Flair before RAW headed for a break.  Randy was mad at Flair and called him a liability before talking about his health issues and that he was addicted to the spotlight.

Flair said he took it very personally and said he wanted Orton to beat his title record someday. Ric broke down and talked about him being in coma and waking up before Randy hugged him, only to hit a low blow as he turned around.

Randy was about to hit the punt but the lights went out just as he was doing it but it looked like he had hit it when they came back on. Drew McIntyre came out and chased Randy out before Flair was being checked up on. Drew vowed to hurt Randy at SummerSlam as RAW went off air.

Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches.

RAW

Apollo Crews (c) vs. MVP for the United States Championship 

Apollo Crews won and retains the United States Championship 

Kevin Owens says that there are a lot of interesting things happening tonight, including the return of Shane McMahon. However, that's not what he will be talking about.

Ruby Riott is his guest on RAW tonight. 

KO brings Liv Morgan out to the KO show as well. 

Kevin convinced Liv Morgan to hear Ruby Riott out.

Ruby Riott says that when she came back she saw Liv thriving and that made her jealous, especially when Liv beat her twice. She said that she was not ready to come back to RAW without Sarah Logan and not being needed, she said that she was wrong. She shares their debut date tattoo and how their life changed. 

She asks Liv for a chance for the Riott Squad to be stronger than before. 

The IIconics came out and interrupted.

Kevin Owens tell the IIconics to go away. They challenge Ruby and Liv to a match tonight. 

Peyton slaps Kevin Owens. Billie Kay does it as well. 

Kevin has enough and looks to Ruby and Liv for a 'little help' and they immediately launch into attack. 

Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan vs. The IIconics

The Riott Squad won

In a report from backstage, a large number of boxes fell over. It appears that some Superstars say that the box falling over was causing some problems and that they were deliberate. 

Apollo Crews accepts MVP challenge for the US Title at SummerSlam.

Drew McIntyre came out.

Drew McIntyre is not happy with the way he was attacked by Randy Orton last week. He says he's motivated to keep the title and Randy Orton was motivated to take it. He compares his own position in WWE to Randy Orton's. 

Drew McIntyre says that unlike Randy Orton, he had no one backstage standing up for him. He got fired for his mistakes. He said that he's back now and that Randy Orton should have been fired way more times than Drew was. 

Randy Orton says that he enjoys Drew's fighting spirit.

Randy asks Drew to come up with an original opinion on Randy Orton. McIntyre says that Orton is everything wrong with WWE. 

Drew McIntyre says that Randy has never helped anyone backstage. He had taken all the help, but had given nothing to the rest of the WWE locker room. 

Drew McIntyre promises that when he comes at Orton, Randy is going to see it coming. 

Nia Jax calls Pat Buck a scrawny undeserving runt who could not cut the mustard in his own career. She says she could not see Pat Buck, but she will not apologize to him.

Instead challenges him to a match right now. 

Pat Buck is not happy with the challenge. She throws the mic at him and says say what you have to say. 

Pat Buck says that after her actions against a WWE official, Nia Ja was indefinitely suspended without pay.

Shelton Benjamin (c) vs. R-Truth vs Akira Tozawa for the 24/7 Championship 

Akira Tozawa won

Shane McMahon is seen backstage. There are people apparently really fighting and says that at 10 PM EST, RAW will go Underground. 

Sasha Banks vs. Shayna Baszler 

Asuka attacks Bayley on the outside and takes her out. She also attacks Sasha and she tries to run away. 

Asuka talks about Kairi and says she will be okay, but she wants a rematch against Sasha Banks for the RAW Women's Championship at SummerSlam.

Shayna enters the ring and says that she is cheering for Asuka and she says that she will be cheering for Asuka the entire time. She will take the RAW Women's title off of Asuka once Asuka wins.

Sasha and Bayley come out and says that it's her RAW Women's title and not theirs. She says that she will give Asuka the match if she can beat Bayley next week. 

We see two people fighting backstage. Shane McMahon is seeing that a lot of interesting things are happening on RAW Underground and the announcement is coming next. 

Shane McMahon introduces everyone to RAW Underground. He introduces his next contest. 

A giant fighter of 7 feet tall, Dabba Kato. 
Dabba Kato immediately destroys his opponent, hitting him with fist after fist until the referee breaks it up.
The fight is done. Who is next? Another member comes in from the audience. Kato takes some kicks and hits the guy with an Anaconda Lock slam and pounds him with elbows.  Shane McMahon says he's the winner as the giant drags the fighter out of the ring. 

Angel Garza vs Angelo Dawkins

Angel Garza won because Dawkins got distracted with Montez fainting at ringside.

Montez Ford vs. Andrade

Ford gets in the ring again and promptly faints. A doctor is called, the match is stopped. 

RAW Underground is back and now Erik takes on another fighter. The Viking Raiders Superstar takes him down and then slams him before striking him again and again, kicking him off the stage. 

The guy is thrown back on the ring and Erik hits him knee after knee before taking him out.  

Angelo Dawkins reveals in a backstage interview that Montez Ford was poisoned before the match. Bianca Belair is having none of it and says that she is giving Zelina a chance to say what she did. When she denies it, Bianca attacks her and has to be held back by Dawkins. 

Security camera footage shows the masked superstars throw Molotov cocktails at an electric box outside WWE before the show. That explains the blackouts.

Seth Rollins comes out.

Seth Rollins says that Murphy and Seth Rollins have some housekeeping to tend to. Seth Rollin then addresses Tom Phillips to ask him some questions.
He asks if Phillips considers himself a professional unbiased journalist. 

He continues to ask what Tom Phillips was doing last week when Dominik Mysterio was attacking Seth Rollins last week. He says that Tom was cheering him on last week and that was not done. 

He said that the voice of Phillips matters. So he needs to do better and be a part of the Greater good

Seth says that Tom did a poor job and he had become a liability. He said that the time had come to find a new voice of Monday Night RAW. Murphy advances to take Tom Phillips, but Samoa Joe stands up for him and asks Murphy to go away, or he will beat down Murphy and slap Seth.  

Samoa Joe reminds Seth that he was laughing harder than anyone else at the table. Samoa Joe takes off his headset and it appears that he is ready to take on both men. He rolls up his sleeves and gets in the ring. 

Samoa Joe enters the ring as Rollins and Murphy with steel chairs intimidate him.

Before he can enter, Dominik attacks them both from the back and takes out Rollins and Murphy with Kendo Sticks, he takes out Murphy out of the ring and hits Seth Rollins with a 619 and a dive from the top to take them both out. 

Seth Rollins accepts Dominik’s challenge.

Dolph Ziggler is shown dominating another wrestler in the ring at RAW Underground.

Hurt Business show up there. Lashley gets in the ring. MVP says that RAW Underground is under new business with Hurt Business controlling it. 

Bobby Lashley challenges anyone, and a guy gets in the ring to be knocked out in seconds. 

Shelton Benjamin gets in next and someone insulted Shelton's 'mama'. He took out the Superstar and dominated him. They took out everyone in RAW Underground and stood tall. 

MVP announces they are the Hurt Business and business is booming. RAW Underground will be back next week. 

Rating: 70/70

It was an interesting show tonight and had some decent matches.

RAW

RAW opens with Randy Orton coming out to kick off the show.

Randy Orton has been unstoppable recently as we see a flashback through the destruction he has wrought on WWE RAW. 

He has the mic in his hand and says that in the 20 years that he has been in the company, he has had several different names. He lists his impressive accolades in the company. 

Randy Orton has said that he has done everything that he has wanted to do, but he wants to be the WWE Champion again. He brings up Drew McIntyre. Randy Orton reminds how Drew McIntyre was fired from the company but did fight back.

Randy Orton wants the WWE Championship now and that is what he is going to get at SummerSlam,

Randy warns that Drew McIntyre will never see it coming when he RKOs him. 

Nia Jax comes out.

Nia Jax says that she did not get her rightful title rematch.

She is interrupted by Shayna Baszler. Shayna says no one cares what Nia has to say and she attacks Baszler. 

The two have to be separated. 

The Viking Raiders vs Cedric Alexander and Ricochet vs Andrade and Angel Garza

Andrade and Angel Garza won

Nia Jax vs. Shayna Baszler 

Ended in double countout

Dominik Confronts Seth Rollins 

Seth Rollins comes out. Rollins pointed out that everyone who steps in his way has ended up hurt, including Kevin Owens, Rey Mysterio and Aleister Black. Rollins said he didn't want there to be violence with Dominick Mysterio in the building and asked Dominick to come to the ring for a face-to-face, man-to-man confrontation. Dominick walked to the ring, where Murphy held the ropes open for him. 

Rollins invited him to try to articulate his frustrations leading Dominick to double-leg Rollins and throw punches before Murphy jumped in and the numbers game took over. Murphy and Rollins put a beating on Dominick outside the ring as Rollins screamed, "What is wrong with you and your whole family." Black eventually ran in to try to make the save, but Rollins attacked Black's injured arm. 

Rollins eventually laid out Black with a stomp and told Murphy, "You know what you have to do. Are you in this for real?" while looking at the ring steps. Murphy, after a slap from Rollins, dragged Black to the ring steps and shoved Black's eye into the corner, just as Rollins had done to Rey Mysterio. Before any further damage could be done, Dominick ran back chasing off Rollins and Murphy with a few shots from a kendo stick. 

Mustafa Ali vs Bobby Lashley

Bobby Lashley won

Asuka vs. Sasha Banks for the RAW Women’s Championship 

We shall on the titantron that Bayley was attacking Kairi Sane backstage which meant Asuka got distracted and went to save her friend.

Sasha Banks won via count out. And, is the New RAW Women’s Champion.

Buddy Murphy vs. Humberto Carrillo 

Buddy Murphy won

Drew McIntyre vs. Dolph Ziggler in an Extreme Rules Match

Drew McIntyre won 

Drew McIntyre stands tall with the Championship, but Randy Orton appears out of nowhere with the RKO. He poses next to McIntyre with the title. 

Rating: 70/70 

Great show and matches