Arena: AT&T Center
City: San Antonio, TX
Raw opens with Brock Lesnar!
Lesnar says Roman Reigns is living higher than a hog and he slaughters hogs on his farm every day. Paul Heyman comes out and says Reigns is almost 700 days as Universal Champion and that is one streak Brock will not break.
Theory comes out and says SummerSlam is going to be one of the greatest nights in WWE history he is going to take back his United States championship and then is going to kick back and watch the carnage of this match then he is going to walk down and cash in his money in the bank briefcase to become the youngest WWE Unified Universal Champion.
Brock asks Theory to come to the ring right now. Theory then shows the footage of Brock F5’ing him off the pod at the Elimination Chamber earlier in the year.
Alpha Academy shows up at ringside and Lesnar said, “Look Lesnar comes to town and all the cockroaches come out!” Gable attacks Lesnar, Gable gets a suplex and rolls out of the ring then Otis gets clotheslined out. Lesnar then picked the ring steps up and hit both of them a few times. Then he got a chair and again beat both of them with it. Lesnar then F5’s Otis through the announce table.
Heyman is shown standing on the stage with his eyes closed with a defeated look on his face.
Rey Mysterio VS. Finn Balor
Prior to the match The Judgement Day tried to convince Dominik to join the Judgement Day and called Rey washed up. They then showed what they did to Edge, and Balor said we did that because he was a bad leader and say Rey is not only a bad leader, but a bad father. Rey then hit Balor and Rey and Dominik clear the Judgement Day out of the ring.
Back from break the match has started, Rey goes to the top rope, Balor catches him by hitting his left knee, Rey gets hung up on the ropes briefly as he falls.
Rey is able to do a hurricanrana off the top rope, but Balor kicks out after 2. Rey hits the 619 but due to the knee pain misses the splash but hooks Balor in a crucifix but again Balor out at 2.
Balor slams Rey and hits the Coup de Grace and gets the win.
Winner: Finn Balor
As Dominik checks on Rey, both Balor and Priest talk to Dominik again trying to recruit him.
Bianca Belair VS. Carmella for the Raw Women’s Championship
Becky sits at ringside. As the action spills outside, Bianca throws Carmella back in the ring but Becky gets Bianca’s attention and as Bianca slides back in the ring the referee counted to 10.
Winner by Count Out: Carmella
After the match, Carmella held the championship up and yelled at Bianca I won, and you lost, and Bianca hit her and gave her the KOD and took her title back.
The Miz’ special guest on MizTV this week is Ciampa. Ciampa says he wants an opportunity and Miz says he handed Logan Paul all that on a Silver platter and then shows a clip of Paul saying he wants nothing to do with the Miz and is coming for him at SummerSlam and he is coming to Monday Night Raw next week.
Miz says he knows what he is doing stirring up things, because they are the best at doing it. And he needs to take his offer, or he will find someone else, and he doesn’t have to look very far and looks at Ciampa.
AJ Styles comes out and tells the Miz to shut up. He says he is being attacked every time his back is turned either by the Miz or Ciampa and he is tired of it and it sounds like the Miz is just having someone do his dirty work. Ss the crowd chants “Tiny Balls” to both the Miz and Ciampa, AJ slides into the ring and grabs the Miz set chair and almost hits the Miz with it. He then grabs the other one and throws it out toward Ciampa.
Ezekiel comes out and says he is very sorry to interrupt but he never got a chance to introduce himself to AJ Styles and says Elias used to say how Phenomenal AJ always was in and out of the ring. So, he talked to Adam Pearce and said instead of it being a 2 on 1 match it would be great if it would be a tag team match if AJ will be his partner and AJ shook his hand.
The Miz & Ciampa VS. AJ Styles & Ezekiel
Ezekiel gets knocked out at ringside and as AJ hooks the calf crusher on The Miz, Ciampa comes in and attacks AJ causing the referee to call for a disqualification.
Winners By DQ: AJ Styles & Ezekiel
After the match, The Miz and Ciampa stand at ringside and AJ jumps over and as he comes down, Miz jumps out of the way and AJ hits Ciampa with the Phenomenal Forearm as The Miz runs toward the back.
Bobby Lashley and Riddle are shown in the back and Riddle was trying to get Lashley to go watch something with him, but Lashley just walks away.
Alexa Bliss & Asuka VS. Nikki A.S.H. & Doudrop
Doudrop pulls Asuka out after tagging in Bliss, Doudrop goes for her backsplash but Asuka moves and Doudrop falls on the floor. In the ring, Nikki rolls Bliss up but only gets a 2 count, Bliss hits the DDT and gets the win.
Winners: Alexa Bliss & Asuka
Jimmy Uso VS. Angelo Dawkins
Before the match, R-Truth comes out and says he is a certified tag team counselor and said can’t we all just get along. The Usos told him he needs to get out of this ring unless he has a referee shirt under his shirt. Truth pulled out another certification that he was a certified referee and had a referee shirt on. He then started auditioning to be their referee at SummerSlam and the Usos told him to take the shirt off and take his “Clown Ass” back to the locker room. Truth gets mad and asked if they want to fight then says he will fight both of them with his partners the Street Profits.
Omos comes out, MVP says how about making Omos a part of this match tonight and they all start fighting. Omos lays out Truth and throws the Street Profits into superkicks from the Usos.
Winner: Match never started
The Usos & Omos VS. The Street Profits & R-Truth
Just when The Street Profits thought they had things going their way a blind tag was made from Omos and Omos gets into the ring and double arm chokeslams Dawkins for the win.
Winners: Omos & The Usos
Seth Rollins is interviewed in the back and he was asked how he felt after Riddle hit him with the RKO and Seth said he feels great and said about the identity of Ezekiel and he doesn’t care but he wants to know who Riddle thinks he is. Theory comes up and ask for advice from Seth about the cash in. And Seth says he has come to the right place and to walk with him.
Bobby Lashley & Riddle VS. Seth Rollins & Theory
Dolph Ziggler is at ringside for the match
As Riddle is closing in on an RKO on Theory, Seth pulls Theory out of the ring. Lashley comes flying around the ring on outside and spears Rollins through the barricade into the timekeeper’s area. Theory with a shocked look on his face is struggling to get to his feet right below Riddle who is standing in the ring as well.
Riddle pulls him up but gets dropped over the ropes and Theory goes for A-Town Down, but Riddle gets free and goes for an RKO but Theory blocks and rolls up riddle and tries to put his feet on the ropes for leverage. His feet are knocked off the ropes by Dolph Ziggler. Theory is furious yelling at Ziggler what are you doing?
Riddle gets up behind Theory and hits the RKO for the pin.
Winners: Riddle & Bobby Lashley
As Lashley and Riddle walk back to ramp, Riddle was chopping at Lashley in excitement and Lashley chopped him back but his knocked Riddle down. Lashley laughed and quickly helped up his partner and they continued to celebrate their win.
In the ring as Theory gets up, he is met with a superkick from Dolph Ziggler who stands in the ring with his arm raised as the show ends.
