RAW Preview: Dominik's next surprising move possibly revealed, popular star returns after reportedly testing positive for COVID-19 (3rd August 2020)

Welcome to this week's edition of RAW Preview! It was an intense episode last week that was stacked from start to finish. With Drew McIntyre having a WWE title challenger for SummerSlam, Andrade, and Angel Garza securing a RAW Tag Team title match at the Biggest Party of the Summer, and more, RAW was an important show to watch last week.

The build to WWE SummerSlam continues on RAW and it's likely to start and end with a bang. Here's what you need to look forward to.

#5. The aftermath of the Dominik attack on RAW

Seth Rollins has been going on for more than half a year now about people by his side being on the "right side of history". While Murphy, Austin Theory, and previously AoP have been on the so-called "right side", Seth Rollins has had a lot more people against him these past six to seven months on RAW.

Rey Mysterio is one of them and after Seth Rollins gouged out his eye at Extreme Rules 2020, Dominik was the first person to confront The Monday Night Messiah. It was certainly a scary ordeal, but he looked like a major star and was nearly about to suffer the same fate as his father.

While Aleister Black has seemingly gotten his eye injured as well, Dominik took matters in his own hands via the help of a kendo stick. He was quick enough to chase away Rollins and Murphy, standing tall.

But the big question is as to whether Dominik is going to be satisfied with just a small measure of revenge. Don't be surprised to see him begin to pull off ambushes and various traps to assault both Rollins and Murphy.

Whatever it is, Dominik is must-watch television.

#4. Apollo Crews returns to RAW to defend the United States Championship

United States Champion Apollo Crews has been on a roll since moving to Monday Night RAW. He seems to have found that spark in him that we've been waiting to see and it culminated quickly for him as he won the United States Championship from Andrade.

He was scheduled to defend the title against MVP, who had introduced a new US title design on RAW a couple of weeks before the Extreme Rules PPV. Apollo Crews was quietly removed from Extreme Rules and while WWE seemed to try and cover it up, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

While there were some contradictory rumors as well, the fact that he's back on RAW 15 days after Extreme Rules is quite telling - since a two-week quarantine is what's normally enough to recover from COVID-19.

Either way, we're not sure if we're going to see a title change. MVP has the advantage with Shelton Benjamin and Bobby Lashley by his side, but Cedric Alexander and Ricochet could still make their presence known.

#3. Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler to cross paths again on RAW?

This is a feud that might fly under the radar, but it's certainly an interesting one. Since Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler seem like they would be on the same side, we rarely get feuds like this on RAW or SmackDown.

Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler crossed paths on RAW and they first had to be separated. After that, their match ended in a no contest. Why this mini-feud is important is that it could very well determine the next RAW Women's title challenger - similar to how Naomi vs Lacey Evans could determine the next SmackDown Women's title challenger.

Make no mistake about it - this is a feud with serious SummerSlam implications. Even if they don't face off this week, we expect them to cross paths again and set up another bout in the coming week or so.

If they do face-off, it'll be an interesting match-up stylistically. However, Asuka is still in the RAW Women's title picture. Speaking of Asuka, let's get to what happened at the end of RAW last week.

#2. Asuka's retribution on RAW

We've seen RAW star Asuka have various changes in personality since her time in NXT. From being the silent assassin who was undefeated, she became a woman of few words before revealing a more light-hearted side to herself when aligning with Kairi Sane and forming The Kabuki Warriors.

Last week's main event saw Sasha Banks challenge Asuka for the RAW Women's Championship once again. Stephanie McMahon stated that the stipulation would include a title change in case of a count-out or DQ.

Bayley was first chased off by Kairi Sane but later in the match, she was seen assaulting the Japanese star viciously, forcing Asuka to go check on her tag team partner and friend.

As a result, Sasha Banks won by count-out and is now the official RAW Women's Champion. But even so, it's a victory of a paper Champion and that also marked the end of Kairi Sane's run in WWE. Asuka will be out for full retribution this week on RAW and we wouldn't be surprised to see this pour on to a trilogy for SummerSlam.

#1. What will happen when Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton meet on RAW?

This was the feud we wanted for RAW's main SummerSlam match and this is the feud we got! Randy Orton opened RAW last week to announce his next victim and just as we hoped - he called out WWE Champion Drew McIntyre.

Right now, there isn't even a need to have a #1 contender's match on RAW. Randy Orton is the biggest star on the show apart from Drew McIntyre and he's also the most qualified.

We mustn't forget that it was only last year at SummerSlam when he challenged Kofi Kingston for the WWE title. However, this year, he's been on a mean streak similar to his peak as the legend killer and it was his rivalry with Edge that seemingly triggered that.

Before his match against Dolph Ziggler on RAW, Drew McIntyre accepted the WWE title challenge from Randy Orton at SummerSlam. It's now official and Orton made his mark with a brilliant RKO out of nowhere post-match. What's going to happen when the two titans face off?