WWE RAW

Randy Orton opens WWE RAW.

Randy Orton promises that at Hell in a Cell, no matter if he is on RAW or SmackDown, he will take the WWE Championship from him. 

Drew McIntyre comes out and says that Randy Orton made a mistake by not kicking him with a punt. 

McIntyre got up. He said that he promised that he would beat up Orton every time they were in the same building together. The two of them start to brawl in the ring.

The brawl spills outside the ring, where Drew continues to batter Randy Orton and hits him with a backdrop on the announce desk. 

Randy Orton manages to roll out of the ring and keeps going.  

Stephanie McMahon is out and in the first overall pick for the Draft for RAW:
1. RAW: Bray Wyatt "The Fiend"
2. SmackDown: SmackDown Women's WWE Champion Bayley
3. RAW: Randy Orton "The Legend Killer"
4. SmackDown: RAW Tag Team Champions, Street Profits
5. RAW: Charlotte Flair

 

Kevin Owens vs. Aleister Black in a No Disqualification Match 

Kevin Owens won 

Stephanie McMahon is out again for the next round of Drafts.
RAW: Braun Strowman
SmackDown: Daniel Bryan
RAW: Matt Riddle 
SmackDown: Kevin Owens
RAW: Jeff Hardy

 

The Miz and John Morrison are out now and they say that The Miz is now the face of The USA Network and make fun of Heavy Machinery splitting up.

The Miz and Morrison invite Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke out to the ring.

Natalya and Lana interrupt Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke. Natalya and Lana are thrown out of the ring by Brooke and Rose, asserting their dominance early on. 

The Miz and John Morrison may be done with their first guests, but they have another guest. The Miz introduces his friend John Morrison as the 'Mayor of Slam Town' and the next guest.

Before they can continue, Lars Sullivan comes out to the ring as he seems to focus on The Miz and John Morrison.

The Miz runs away, leaving John Morrison to deal with Lars Sullivan alone. 

John Morrison gets eradicated. The Miz tries to pull him out of the ring, but Sullivan grabs Morrison and throws him around, before hitting the Freak Accident, making a rather compelling statement. 

Stephanie McMahon is out again and it's time for the next round.
RAW: RETRIBUTION
SmackDown: 'The Freak' Lars Sullivan
RAW: 'Limitless' Keith Lee
SmackDown: King Corbin
RAW: Alexa Bliss

 

Seth Rollins is in the ring again as he bids farewell to WWE RAW. 

Seth Rollins says that there's no one here on RAW who can step up in his shoes. He says that Dominik and Rey have been drafted to SmackDown and he is sad about that. 

He is interrupted by Jeff Hardy, one of the newest draftees of RAW. 

AJ Styles vs. Seth Rollins vs. Jeff Hardy 

AJ Styles won

 

Stephanie is out again, and it's time for the next round:

RAW: Elias 
SmackDown: Sami Zayn
RAW: Lacey Evans
SmackDown: Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro
RAW: Sheamus

Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke vs Natalya and Lana

Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke won 

 

 

Angel Garza vs. Andrade 

Angel Garza won 

Suddenly everything goes black in the ring and then in the corner, Alexa Bliss is there in the classic Fiend pose. 

The Fiend is behind them.

The Fiend and Bliss hit dual Sister Abigails on Andrade and Zelina Vega. 

RAW: Nikki Cross
SmackDown: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode
RAW: R-Truth
SmackDown: Apollo Crews
RAW: Dabba-Kato

 

The New Day vs.Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler for the RAW Tag Team Titles 

 

The New Day won and retains the RAW Tag Team Titles

 

 

Ricochet vs. Cedric Alexander 

 

Ricochet won

 

 

 

 

Women’s Battle Royal

 

 

Lana won and will challenge Asuka for the RAW Women’s Championship.

Meanwhile, McIntyre and Orton brawl to the ring. 

Orton and Drew have to be pulled apart from each other as they continue to brawl. 

 

 

 

Rating: 70/70

 

Great show and matches 

WWE Payback

The Kickoff Hosts hype tonight’s match card.

The Riott Squad vs. The IIconics 

The Riott Squad won

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

Bobby Lashley won and is the New United States Champion

Big E vs. Sheamus 

Big E won

Matt Riddle vs. Baron Corbin 

Matt Riddle won

Bayley and Sasha Banks (c) vs. Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax for the Women Tag Team Titles

Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax won and become the NEW Women Tag Team Champion

Randy Orton vs. Keith Lee

Keith Lee won

Seth Rollins and Buddy Murphy vs. Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio 

Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio won

The Fiend Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Braun Strowman vs. Roman Reigns in an No Holds Barred Match for the Universal Championship 

The ring collapsed with only Strowman & The Fiend in it. Reigns finally came out with the signed contract.

Roman Reigns won and is the NEW Universal Champion

Rating: 70/70

Decent show and matches 

SmackDown

SmackDown opens with Vince McMahon introducing Thunderdome.

The Fiend comes out and taunts Vince McMahon.

The Universal Champion Braun Strowman Interrupts  The Fiend.

Retribution come out and around ringside. The Fiend leaves Braun Strowman alone to handle them.

they're stomping him out. Big E leads the SmackDown locker room to the ring. Initially there's too many members of the group to handle, but a second wave of SmackDown stars led by Baron Corbin.

John Morrison was a part of the second wave. We see The Miz run down the ramp a little while after Retribution leaves the ringside area. 

Braun Strowman, blinded by rage, takes out Drew Gulak and Jey Uso.

Sheamus vs. Big E

Big E won

Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Lucha House Party for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles

Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura won and retains the SmackDown Tag Team Titles 

Corey Graves gets in the ring to interview "Bayley Dos Straps" and "2 Banks Belts---er---2 Belts Banks" asking if they're splitting up. The Golden Role Models deny it. 

Graves asks questions regarding a lot of the decisions that Bayley and Banks have been making lately. While defending themselves, they're interrupted by Naomi. 

In an effort to see who will face Asuka first at SummerSlam, Bayley and Sasha will take on Naomi in a Beat the Clock Challenge. Naomi sends them both to the floor with a dropkick before the break. 

Sasha Banks vs. Naomi - Beat the Clock

Sasha Banks won with an clock at 3 something and now bayley has to beat Naomi quicker.

Naomi, out of nowhere, catches Bayley with the Rear View! 1-2-3, Naomi has not only defeated Bayley clean in the middle of the ring, but now Bayley must face Asuka first at SummerSlam. 

Asuka came out.

Asuka says that after SummerSlam, she's holding all the gold because nobody is ready for Asuka! The Empress of Tomorrow takes out both of the Golden Role Models as Bayley runs past Banks, out on the ramp. 

Sonya Deville comes out to confront Mandy Rose, stating that she knew Rose would second guess her own challenge. She asks what Rose really wants to do, because "nobody cares if I'm bald or not." 

At SummerSlam, it's a No DQ match, and the loser leaves WWE. 

AJ Styles (c) vs. Jeff Hardy for the ICTitle

Jeff Hardy won and is the NEW Intercontinental Champion

It's time for the Firefly Fun House!

He's interrupted by a phone call, picking up his "HURT" hand to speak to The Fiend.

We get some special Puppet theatre, with Rambling Rabbit as Alexa Bliss and Huskus the Pig Boy as Braun Strowman. 

Wyatt is not exactly thrilled with their performance, and demands they get lost. Back to the lesson at hand. It's important to be more like "Him." Fueled by anger and hate. 

Before Bray could continue, Braun Strowman blindsides him, knocking him out and dragging him off screen. 

When we return, cameras catch up to Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt battling one another backstage. 

Strowman tosses Wyatt out of a tunnel to the loading docks, dropping Wyatt on the concrete with a chokeslam. 

As Bray Wyatt is getting loaded into the ambulance, we get another replay of Strowman's nasty slam to the concrete. The garage door doesn't open when the ambulance tries to leave, and it begins backing up as the vehicle fills with smoke. 

The Fiend emerges from the ambulance, completely unscathed.

Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches.

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.