Tuesday, March 29, 2022

WWE RAW Before WrestleMania | Review-ish

Monday Night RAW was LIVE from Pittsburgh. Let's take a look at some of the key moments during the three hour broadcast. 

WWE Champion Brock Lesnar began the show by cutting an in-ring promo, ahead of his title unification match with Roman Reigns.

Rey Mysterio vs. Miz was the first match of the night, Miz introduced Logan Paul to the ring before the start of the contest, who walked out wearing Mysterio's mask in order to get some heat from the crowd, Rey's son Dominik was ejected from ringside, however, this did not prevent his dad from picking up the win, Dom returned to the ring, he and Rey gained some revenge from last week.

Dominik & Rey will face Miz & Logan Paul on Saturday.

Veer will debut on RAW next week, we then saw footage of Seth Rollins going to Vince McMahon's office in order to find out who he will face at WrestleMania. McMahon said Rollins opponent will be revealed when he is in the ring, the anticipation continues to build for a certain return, unless they have another name in mind.

Omos defeated SmackDown's Viking Raiders by countout and was interrupted by Bobby Lashley, the two got into a fight, it looked as though the two would be having a match during the weekend, it was made official later on.

The Universal Champion Roman Reigns was accompanied to the ring by Paul Heyman and his cousins, The Usos, to further hype up the main event on Sunday, this bought back memories of Rock vs. Austin from nineteen years ago.

Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, Sasha Banks & Naomi defeated Carmella, Zelina Vega, Shayna Baszler & Natalya.

We saw a montage of Stone Cold Steve Austin's career, followed by a fantastic promo by Kevin Owens, according to some reports, the KO Show could be the main event on Night One, subject to change of course.

Austin Theory defeated Intercontinental Champion, Ricochet, this may lead to a future title shot for the winner of this contest. Bianca Belair returned to RAW after missing last week, she was interrupted by Becky Lynch, they proceeded to fight each other and while Bianca was on the mat, Becky attempted to cut the EST's hair, who narrowly escaped and hit two KOD's and cut the champion's hair. Becky showed anger and was met with chants of "You deserve it" from the crowd.

The commentators ran through some of the match line up for WrestleMania. Stay tuned to the blog for predictions, which will be available hours before the event.

Drew McIntyre defeated Happy Corbin & Madcap Moss in a match we have seen many times before, Corbin attacked McIntyre after and left the ring with the Scot's sword.

Backstage, Edge talked about recent events leading to his match against AJ Styles on Sunday, who responded with a backstage promo of his own. 

Rick Boogs & Shinsuke Nakamura were ringside for the tag team match main event, ending in no contest due to interference from the Street Profits. Orton and Riddle hit RKO's and celebrated with the thousands in attendance as the show went off the air.

This show had a RAW vs. SmackDown vibe to it, be sure to check back here for the SmackDown review-ish on Saturday. 

Thanks for reading.