Here's your Fight Size wrestling Update for the August 5th edition of Monday Night RAW.
- Those who were present backstage for RAW in Pittsburgh came out on the stage to honor those who lost their lives in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend.
- Trish Stratus did not tag into her match in-which she teamed with Natalya against Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch.
- RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch and her SummerSlam opponent, Natalya exchanged promos ahead of their match this Sunday:
- NXT referee Jessika Carr refereed the 24/7 Title segment.
- Seth Rollins was beat down by the Universal Champion Brock Lesnar once again. Following the beat down, Rollins grabbed a microphone and stated that he will beat Lesnar at SummerSlam.
- The Street Profits wanted Kurt Angle to take a drink of milk with them and Angle jokingly told Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford that he told his wife that he was not going to engage in any "crazy" activities while at RAW.
- WWE put together a tribute video for the late NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race.
- "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt choked out Kurt Angle with the "Mandible Claw".
No one is safe from THE FIEND...not even Pittsburgh's own @RealKurtAngle.#RAW @WWEBrayWyatt pic.twitter.com/X6YASJ0CwD
— WWE (@WWE) August 6, 2019
- Current RAW Tag Team Champion Luke Gallows sported his signature face-paint.
#TheOC is in the building. #Raw @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE@AJStylesOrg pic.twitter.com/F9qQcppSTr
— WWE (@WWE) August 6, 2019
- Ricochet teamed with New Day (Xavier Woods and Big E) against The O.C. (Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson and AJ Styles).
- Samoa Joe confronted Roman Reigns in the parking lot of the arena and was about to brawl with Reigns until a car rammed into the backseat section of Roman's truck. Joe then became attentive to Roman in a positive way and urged Reigns not to move until help came. Triple H also appeared during the segment to check on Reigns.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! Is @WWERomanReigns OK? #RAW pic.twitter.com/2prif9TlmE
— WWE (@WWE) August 6, 2019
- Josiah Williams proposed the idea of making a theme song for Kairi Sane and Asuka.
- Michael Cole accidentally referred to Mandy Rose as "Naomi" during the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles match.
- WWE accidentally listed Io Shirai's Twitter handle as Kairi Sane's Twitter handle during the Kabuki Warriors' entrance:
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— 紫雷イオ、Io Shirai (@shirai_io) August 6, 2019
#間違い探し pic.twitter.com/RpSfXwlZLG
- Shawn Michaels Superkicked Dolph Ziggler to close RAW as Ziggler ran away from his SummerSlam opponent, Goldberg.