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 up with an recap of the eye for an eye match.

Seth Rollins kicks off WWE RAW.

Seth Rollins says that he knew going into the match what the stipulation entailed, but what happened scarred him. 

Seth says that the moment made him sick to his stomach, but when he thinks of it, he can't help but be sad. 

He claims that it is the fans who made him do this and asks if they regret what they made him do. 

Seth says that they cannot afford to duel in the past. Obviously. He says that now Rey Mysterio is out sight and RAW can do all that it needs to do. No one left to stand in his way anymore. We’ll except Aleister Black who heads the the ring. 

Seth Rollins vs. Aleister Black 

Sett Rollins won

Shelton Benjamin. S. R-Truth to become the new 24/7 Champion

Shelton Benjamin won

Mustafa Ali, Ricochet, and Cedric Alexander vs MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Shelton Benjamin

Mustafa Ali, Ricochet, and Cedric Alexander won

Randy Orton in a backstage promo talks about how he took out Edge the day after Royal Rumble and how he pictures it every day.

Orton says that he was friends with all of the Superstars he has been feuding with and promises to punt kick Big Show. 

Christian talks about Randy Orton and how Ric Flair turned on him during that moment. 

He says that he will never be the same. 

Talking about The Big Show facing Randy Orton, he said that he does not feel good at all healthwise at the moment and that he was in a lot of pain. But Big Show was ready for Randy Orton and that he would knock out Randy Orton completely. 

Peyton Royce vs. Ruby Riott 

Ruby Riott won

The Street Profits vs. Andrade and Angel Garza 

The Street Profits won

Sasha Banks and Bayley are out now, with Sasha Banks pretending she is the RAW Women's Champion. 

Sasha says that Asuka spitting the Green mist in the referee's face left him unable to officiate and Bayley as the role model and had to do the right thing and make the count.

The actual RAW Women's Champion Asuka and Kairi is out now. She says she was not ready for thieves like Sasha. She says it's her title. she and Kairi come down to the ring.

Stephanie McMahon appears on the screen. She says that Sasha and Bayley are the Women’s Tag Team Champions and Bayley is the SmackDown Women’s Champion. But, Sasha did not win the RAW Women’s Championship last night.

She does add that Asuka is not the Champion either. Next week, Sasha Banks vs Asuka. If Bayley gets involved then Sasha Banks will lose. 

Bayley vs. Kairi Sane

Kairi Sane won 

Drew McIntyre is here after surviving Dolph Ziggler at Extreme Rules to address the future of McIntyre. 

McIntyre compliments Ziggler for the choice of stipulation, but it was another 'almost'. Now he is ready for WWE SummerSlam. He wants a worthy opponent. Dolph Ziggler comes out. 

Ziggler says he almost got his moment and he wants another match. McIntyre tells Ziggler to 'bugger off'. He beat him 24 hours ago. 

McIntyre says he's had enough and turns to leave. Ziggler grabs him and McIntyre hits him with the Glasgow Kiss. Ziggler is down. McIntyre leaves. 

Ziggler says to not walk away. Ziggler says he does not care but he wants a match. He will take any stipulation. 

Drew McIntyre says that he has heard Ziggler and he has changed his mind. He says that he picks the stipulation and so he accepts. 

Ziggler asks what the stipulation is. McIntyre says that he will do to Ziggler what Ziggler did to him. He will tell Ziggler the stipulation just before the bell rings. 

Big Show vs. Randy Orton in a Unsanctioned Match

Randy Orton won

Rating: 60/60 

It was an decent show and matches.

RAW - July 13

MVP kicked off WWE RAW with the VIP Lounge and the guest for tonight is Dolph Ziggler. MVP stressed the fact that Ziggler 'made' Drew McIntyre’s career and Dolph was confident that for that reason alone, he would beat Drew on Sunday at Extreme Rules.

Drew McIntyre came out after MVP thanked Ziggler on his behalf and said that Dolph uses people. Drew said that on Sunday, he was going to torture Dolph and that he couldn't wait for then before knocking him out in the RAW ring with a right hand.



Viking Raiders vs. Andrade & Angel Garza - Elimination Match



Andrade & Angel Garza won





Ruby Riott & Bianca Belair vs. The IIconics



Ruby Riott and Bianca Belair won





R-Truth and Akira Tozawa were out for the 24/7 Title match on RAW, but Shayna Baszler interrupted before they could start, making her unexpected return to RAW. Tozawa sent his Ninjas after her who were swiftly taken out by the former cage fighter. Tozawa ducked out before Baszler turned to Truth who made a hasty exit as well. Shayna mentioned that she had been watching the women's division play stupid games from the sidelines and she was now back to set things straight.



Rollins came out and talked about what an 'Eye for an Eye' meant and he realized that Mysterio meant it literally before trying to figure out why everyone hates him and his vision for RAW. He said that Mysterio forced his hand to completely blind him at Extreme Rules before Kevin Owens came out. Owens said that even he didn't see it coming that a nice guy like Rey could be so mad.

Owens pulled out an eye patch as a gift for Rollins before Seth flipped out and called out Murphy. Aleister Black came out after Murphy and they started brawling before RAW headed for commercials.





Aleister Black vs. Murphy



Aleister Black won via DQ





Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins



Kevin Owens won





Randy Orton vs. R-Truth



Randy Orton won 



After the match, Ric Flair was trying to get Randy to stand down but Orton was going for the Punt Kick. The Big Show showed up to stop Randy from taking out one more veteran Superstar. Randy challenged Show to an unsanctioned match for next Monday on RAW and Big Show agreed before chasing Randy away.





Bobby Lashley vs. Ricochet



Bobby Lashley won





Sasha Banks & Bayley (c) vs. Kabuki Warriors for the Women’s Tag Titles

Sasha Banks and Bayley won and retains the Women’s Tag Titles







Rating: 70/70



Decent show and matches.

SmackDown

The opens up with MizTv. Miz and Morrison introduces their guest of Jeff Hardy.

Miz and Morrison ask about the clip Jeff wants to show. Jeff says he has no clip. There is no clip. They apparently don’t have any clips but Miz has a clip.

The clip is a video package of the Hardy/Sheamus feud.

Jeff Hardy hates all of this clearly. Miz tries to smooth things over, revealing that Jeff is actually his daughter's favorite WWE Superstar. 

Jeff says that the words that Sheamus has said have hurt him, and the loss at Backlash didn't help either. Still, he's ready to take the Celtic Warrior down and move past all of this. He'll be the beacon of light for those suffering through addiction. 

Miz & Morrison were excited about Hardy's speech, and want to see him get his revenge on Sheamus. And, this time they will be  in an a bar fight match..

Hardy lays out a challenge for Miz and/or Morrison, saying that they can't expect to bring him on their show to talk trash and not get a punch in the face. Miz responds, claiming that's exactly what they expected to do. Sadly, Jeff let some folks down again, as he took both of them out and dumped them to the floor. 

The Miz vs. Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy won

Nikki Cross and Alexa Cross vs. Bayley and Sasha Banks 

Bayley and Sasha Banks won

We see an recap of Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt for the Universal Championship at MITB 2020

Karaoke Showdown hosted by Jey Uso

Noami vs. Lacey Evans vs. Dana Brooke vs. Tamina

Naomi won

Lacey attacked Naomi after the contest.

Naomi vs. Lacey Evans

Ends in a No Contest

AJ Styles says that he embarrassed Drew Gulak last week, and there's nobody worthy of facing him for the belt. The interviewer revealed that he would be defending the Intercontinental Championship against Matt Riddle next week. 

The New Day (c) vs. Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles

Big E was left on the floor, forcing Kofi to fight off both Cesaro and Nakamura in a two-on-one situation. Big E eventually makes it in the ring, and with the ref unable to keep control, he calls for the double DQ. 

Ends in double DQ.

Cesaro brings in a table, and they lay the big man on top. Nakamura hands Kofi to Cesaro for a powerbomb from the top, driving him through Big E and the table. 

Rating: 60/60

Decent show and matches.