It was Monday Night Raw featuring a WWE Tag Team Title match and a whole lot more.
This week’s Raw took place at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California with Michael Cole and Wade Barrett on commentary.
Cody Rhodes did a promo talking about Jey Uso being moved to Raw. Cody said there may be other reasons why he wanted Jey on Raw while mentioning somebody will be moving to Smackdown. It made it seem like Cody wanted to go to Smackdown to go after Roman Reigns again. The Judgment Day’s Finn Balor, Damian Priest & Dominik Mysterio (no Rhea Ripley) interrupted. JD McDonagh showed up on The Judgment Day side too. Cody had backup from Jey Uso, Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens so they cleaned house.
Match #1: Bronson Reed defeated Otis by pinfall. Reed won with the Tsunami splash.
Match #2: Tommaso Ciampa defeated Ludwig Kaiser by pinfall with a knee. After the match, Ciampa looked into the camera and told Gunther he wanted an Intercontinental Title match.
Match #3: Tegan Nox beat Natalya by pinfall with the World’s Shiniest Wizard knee. It was under three minutes. Becky Lynch was on commentary.
Damian Priest yelled at JD McDonagh about what happened earlier and said JD would never be in The Judgment Day.
Seth “Freakin” Rollins did an in-ring promo with the World Heavyweight Title. Shinsuke Nakamura appeared in a pre-tape interview challenging Rollins to a Last Man Standing Match at Fastlane for the World Heavyweight Title. Rollins accepted.
It was noted by Seth Rollins on Twitter/X that it was his first ever Last Man Standing Match.
First ever LMS. Gonna scorch the earth. https://t.co/VlRZB2yMpH
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) September 26, 2023
Match #4: Dominik Mysterio defeated Dragon Lee to retain the NXT North American Title. Dominik crotched Lee across the top rope and then Dominik hit a Frog Splash for the pinfall win.
Nia Jax was interviewed in the ring and was interrupted by Zoey Stark. That led to a match.
It’s official for WWE Fastlane: John Cena vs. Jimmy Uso & Solo Sikoa. It could lead to Cena getting a partner.
Match #5: Nia Jax defeated Zoey Stark. Stark tried a lifting move, but Jax fell on top of her. Jax hit her Annihilator splash to win.
Drew McIntyre was a guest on Miz TV. While The Miz tried to push buttons as usual, Drew also took shots at Cody Rhodes by calling him a hypcorite after The New Day interrupted. Drew reminded New Day that The Bloodline with Jey did a lot to them too. Miz was annoying, so Drew headbutted him and called for Kofi to have a match.
Match #6: Drew McIntyre defeated Kofi Kingston with a Claymore Kick. Ivar of the Viking Raiders took out Xavier Woods at ringside. Kofi was looking at that, so Drew took advantage to win.
Post match, Ivar beat up Kofi after the match with a moonsault, while Drew made no attempt to make the save.
Match #7:Finn Balor & Damian Priest defeated Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn to retain the WWE Tag Team Titles. there was a lot of chaos at ringside with Dominik & McDonagh at ringside, so Cody & Jey Uso were there too. The referee was busy with all the choas, which led to McDonagh hitting Zayn with a title belt and Priest covered Zayn for the win.
There was a post match brawl between the eight guys as Owens, Zayn, Rhodes & Jey fought The Judgment Day’s Priest, Balor, Dominik and their friend McDonagh. They brawled all around ringside. The faces stood tall to end the show.
Next week on WWE Raw
* Tegan Nox will face either Becky Lynch or Tiffany Stratton for the NXT Women’s Title.
* There will be a GUNTHER/Tommaso Ciampa contract signing to set up an Intercontinental Title match.
That was all for this week’s Raw.