Welcome to Fightful.com's live coverage & discussion for Monday Night RAW (7/11/22)!
We will be bringing you full results of tonight's episode of Monday Night Raw as WWE continues down the road to SummerSlam. On tonight's episode, Brock Lesnar makes his first appearance on the Monday night show since WrestleMania 38. Bobby Lashley will be defending his United States Championship in an open challenge, and Matt Riddle will be in action.
Preview
- Brock Lesnar is set to appear
- Bobby Lashley & Riddle vs. Seth Rollins & Theory
- WWE Raw Women's Title: Carmella vs. Bianca Belair
- Finn Balor vs. Rey Mysterio
- Brock Lesnar opens the show he says that Roman Reigns is living high on the hog and he is going to slaughter the hog at SummerSlam just like he does to hogs regularly on his farm. Out comes Paul Heyman who says that Roman Reigns' time as WWE Universal Champion is one streak that Brock Lesnar will not break. Theory comes out to remind Brock Lesnar that he plans on cashing in the Money in the Bank briefcase at SummerSlam. Theory then sends Alpha Academy to attack Brock Lesnar. Brock Lesnar rips them to shreds and puts Otis through the announce table with an F-5.
- Rey Mysterio and Judgment Day come out for their match. Judgement Day tells Dominik Mysterio that he needs to make the right decision and join them and stop falling beside his father. Finn Balor tells Rey Mysterio he's a bad father. Rey Mysterio attacks him. They will fight next.
Rey Mysterio vs. Finn Balor
Rey Mysterio hits the 619 but misses a Frog Splash attempt and gets rolled up for a count of 2. Mysterio gets caught by Balor and hit with a slam for another 2. Balor hits his the Inverted DDT and hits the Coup De Grace for the pin.
Winner: Finn Balor by pinfall.
- Becky Lynch arrives and declares that she wants a Raw Women's Championship match at SummerSlam. Bianca Belair will defend against Carmella next.
WWE Raw Women's Championship: Bianca Belair (c) vs. Carmella
- Carmella was able to counter the KOD for the count of 2. The action goes to the floor, Becky Lynch was able to distract Bianco long enough for her to be counted out, thus losing the match but not the championship. After the match, Bianca lays out Mella with the KOD.
Winner: Carmella by count-out.
- Another mystery vignette airs.
- The Miz hosts Miz TV with Ciampa. Tommaso Ciampa says he wants to be on WrestleMania and SummerSlam and that's why he joined The Miz. The Miz talks about Logan Paul and once again tries to get him to renege on his challenge for a singles match at SummerSlam. AJ Styles comes out thinking they're going to have a handicap match and Ezekiel comes out to announce that it's been made a tag team match.
The Miz & Ciampa vs. AJ Styles & Ezekiel
The Miz gets caught in the Calf Crusher by AJ Styles and Ciampa breaks it up, which results in a disqualification for some reason. After the match, AJ Styles hit the Phenomenal Forearm on Ciampa, who took the blow while The Miz scurried off.
Winners: AJ Styles & Ezekiel
- Riddle is shown backstage with Bobby Lashley. They prepare for their tag team match tonight against Seth Rollins and Austin Theory. Riddle tries to get Bobby Lashley to watch stranger things with him because he's scared of Vecna. Lashley is already seen Stranger Things so he's off to go train for the match. Riddle wants him to Remember the Alamo.
Alexa Bliss & Asuka vs. Doudrop & Nikki ASH
Doudrop and Nikki ASH had the advantage early on due to their prior experience as a team. Toward the end, Doudrop missed a Senton Splash attempt on Asuka on the floor while Alexa Bliss had a DDT in the ring on her former tag team partner, Nikki, for the victory.
Winners: Alexa Bliss & Asuka
- The Usos come out and hype their Tag Team Championship match at SummerSlam. they say they will win regardless of the special guest referee. The street profits come out and say that they will win. R-Truth interrupts and says he is a certified referee and he wants to be the referee at SummerSlam. MVP comes out and says Omos should be the referee at SummerSlam just for the pure spectacle of it. They set up a six-man tag team match.
The Usos & Omos vs. The Street Profits & R-Truth
Omos denied R-Truth from hitting the 5 Knuckle Shuffle and tag himself in to hit a Powerbomb on Angelo Dawkins and get the win.
Winners: The Usos & Omos by pinfall
- Another mystery vignette aired. This one had references to John Cena and Mick Foley.
- Seth Rollins and Theory had a brief promo backstage where Theory asked Seth Rollins for advice about cashing in the Money in the Bank contract.
Bobby Lashley & Riddle vs. Seth Rollins & Theory
Midway through, Dolph Ziggler came to ringside. Theory tries to pin Riddle with his feet on the ropes but Ziggler pushes Theory’s feet off the ropes. Theory is taken aback by Ziggler and turns right into an RKO by Riddle, who scores the pin. After The match, Dolph Ziggler hits a Superkick on Theory.
Winners: Bobby Lashley & Riddle by pinfall
