Raw is being broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland for the first time in its 23-year history. The show ended last week with Jericho and Owens beating the pulp out Roman Reigns before Seth Rollins came out for the save.
With just a couple of weeks to go till Survivor Series, we’ll also get a look at how the Survivor Series teams are shaping up ahead of the big show.
Stephanie announced the 5th member of team Raw
Stephanie comes out first to address the raucous Glasgow crowd. She says that she’s come out to address the battle that has encapsulated the WWE Universe – the battle between red vs blue - the battle between Raw and SmackDown.
She starts off by announcing the first four members of Raw’s Survivor Series team – Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman. Then Stephanie announced the 5th and final member of Team Raw – ‘the man’ Seth Rollins.
Rollins warns Owens and Jericho that after this was over, he would be coming after them. Jericho and Owens then warned the other 3 members that they were co-captains but their ensuing pep talk broke down into a melee as Rollins and Reigns went at it with Owens and Jericho. Owens and Reigns brawled outside the ring as Jericho and Rollins brawled inside. Strowman then got involved and took out both Rollins and Jericho before Stephanie came back out and announced that all 5 men would get the chance to settle their differences later in the night.
Brian Kendrick and Noam Dar vs Rich Swann and Sin Cara
Noam Dar received a huge ovation from his fellow Scots as he made his Monday Night Raw debut as he teamed up with Brian Kendrick to take on Rich Swann and Sin Cara.
Dar and Swann locked up to start off the match. Dar got the early advantage, hitting a sweet corner dropkick before Swann tagged in Sin Cara. Sin Cara dodged a clothesline before sending Dar to the outside with a huge clothesline of his own. Sin Cara rolled Dar back in before going to the top rope but Kendrick pushed him off while the referee wasn’t looking as we head into a break.
We come back to see Kendrick in control as he tagged Dar back in. Sin Cara delivered a huge deadlift powerbomb before both members made a tag. Swann came in with babyface fire hitting Kendrick with a double stop followed by a hurracanrana and a jumping splash as Sin Cara hit Noam Dar with a springboard Swanton Bomb on the outside.
Swann, meanwhile, hit Kendrick with a Body Scissors Roll-Up for the pinfall.
Rich Swann and Sin Cara def. Brian Kendrick and Noam Dar
Kendrick takes the mic after the match and indignantly blamed Noam Dar for the loss before hitting him with a cheapshot. Dar hit back with forearms followed by a running Savate Kick to end the segment with the hometown crowd behind their man.
This is followed by a hype video for the Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar match from Goldberg’s point of view. Goldberg spoke about his motivations to come back to the ring after so many years and spoke about the similarities between himself and Lesnar.
We then get a backstage segment with Stephanie on the phone inviting Shane McMahon to Raw next week. Sami then enters the fray and Stephanie talks down to Sami Zayn and tells Zayn that he would face Rusev later in the night with the winner facing Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship at Survivor Series.
The New Day address their Survivor Series teammates
Enzo and Cass come out next and address the WWE Universe. They sent out a warning to the teams on SmackDown’s Survivor Series team before they were joined by The Club, The Goldern Truth and Cesaro and Sheamus.
Sheamus takes a potshot at Scotland’s chances of qualifying for the Football World Cup before announcing that he wanted to make himself the Survivor Series tag-team before getting shut down by Enzo, Cass and Luke Gallows.
Cesaro hits back at Gallows saying that if he wanted to insult him, he should have said that he looked like the 3rd member of The Club. He also added that if The Club wanted to insult Sheamus, they should have just called him the Red Rooster.
All 4 teams were then joined by WWE Raw Tag-Team Champions The New Day who addressed their Survivor Series tag-team partners.
The New Day come out dressed in kilts with Xavier Wood’s carrying bagpipes which he calls Francesca’s Scottish cousin Angus. The New Day enter the ring to address their fellow teammates but The Club say that with captains like The New Day, they would lose. Big E channels Braveheart in a rousing speech to their future teammates.
Enzo and Cass, The Golden Truth and Sheamus and Cesaro agree to join The New Day at Survivor Series. The Club, also agreed reluctantly, but they threatened to stab every team in the back after they were done with SmackDown. They proceed to call The New Day a joke which led to a tag-team match between The New Day and The Club.
The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) vs The Club
The New Day take on The Club in their ‘highlander’ gear. The match starts with Big E starting off against Karl Anderson. New Day start strong with Big E and Kofi rotating the tag before Gallows booted Big E on the face while the referee was distracted so that Anderson could take advantage. Anderson hit a running knee to the face followed low dropkick before tagging in Gallows.
Gallows came in strong and hit a few elbow drops before Big E managed to finally tag Kofi. Kofi came in and took out Anderson before Big E and Kofi went for a Midnight Hour. Gallows then came in at the last moment and booted Big E in the face. The Club then delivered a Magic Killer to Kofi Kingston to pick up the win.
The Club def. The New Day
We get a Golden Truth segment backstage after this with R-Truth revealing that he’d traded their spot in the Survivor Series match to the Shining Stars for a time-share in Puerto Rico.
We then get another hype video for Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series. Lesnar may not talk a lot but his promo in this video was absolutely brilliant.
This was followed by a backstage segment with Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens trying to convince Braun Strowman to align with them. Jericho kept losing his cool and Owens did his best to reel in the situation but the segment ended with Strowman walking away and declaring that he was on Team Braun.
The Golden Truth vs The Shining Stars
With the Shining Stars tricking R-truth into giving over the Golden Truth’s Survivor Series spot earlier in the night, the winner of this match will decide which team will be in the match at Survivor Series.
Primo and Epico worked over R-Truth at the start of the match and isolated him and worked him over with some great teamwork and double teams. The Shining Stars slowed down the pack and focused on Truth till he finally made the tag to Goldust who took the fight to Primo and Epico, planting Primo with a sweet Spinebuster.
Epico then showed Goldust a brochure for their timeshare but Goldust tore it up before R-Truth sent Epico over the top rope with a clothesline. Primo took advantage of the distraction to roll-up Goldust and pick up the win, with a little help from the bottom rope.
The Shining Stars def. The Golden Truth
The 4th and 5th members of Raw’s Women’s Survivor Series team get announced
Michael Cole was in the ring next, as he announced the members of the Raw women’s Survivor Series tag-team match. He first called out Raw Women’s Champion Charlotte. Charlotte comes out and sends a warning to the SmackDown team, calling them peasants. The second member of the team, Nia Jax, came out next. She told Charlotte that Charlotte might be the captain but she didn’t take orders from anyone.
The next member announced turns out to be Alicia Fox who comes out to barely a response from the crowd. Fox is followed out by Bayley and the crowd pops massive for ‘their girl’ Bayley. The crowd serenaded Bayley as she told the rest of the women that they have to work together.
Charlotte then goes to announce the fifth member of the team but the crowd still continued to sing. Charlotte announced Dana Brooke as the fifth member of the team but as Dana entered the ring, Michael Cole refuted the fact that Dana was the fifth member. He announced the real fifth member of the team as the one and only Sasha Banks.
Charlotte told Sasha that she didn’t know if Sasha would be in a state to compete at Survivor Series after the hellacious beating she took at Hell In A Cell, which is why she picked Dana as an alternate. Sasha replied that she was ‘The Boss’ and didn’t need an alternate.
This led to a 6-woman tag-team match.
Sasha Banks, Bayley and Alicia Fox vs Charlotte, Nia Jax and Dana Brooke
Bayley and Nia Jax start of the match with Bayley having to make the tag quickly after being thrown around by Nia. Alicia Fox got tagged in and she got isolated in the corner by Nia who tagged in Charlotte. Charlotte went to work on Foxy who hit a sweet Northern Lights Suplex before tagging in Sasha Banks as they double teamed Charlotte. Charlotte then tagged in Dana Brooke as Sasha went to work on Charlotte’s protégé as the crowd continued to sing,
Dana eventually got the tag to Nia Jax who came in and flattened Sasha as we went into a commercial break.
We came back from commercial to see Dana Brooke all over Sasha Banks who was still recuperating from what Nia Jax did to her. Jax then got tagged in again but she tagged in Charlotte after just a flew blows. Charlotte dug her knees into Sasha’s back before slamming her to the mat. She then continued driving her knee into Sasha’s spine.
Charlotte did everything she could but Sasha eventually tagged in Bayley who was all over Charlotte as things broke down. Nia came in and took out Alicia Fox before an errant Big Boot from Charlotte took Nia out. Charlotte then threw Sasha out of the ring before Bayley hit her with the Bayley-To-Bayley to pin Charlotte for the pinfall.
Sasha Banks, Bayley and Alicia Fox def. Charlotte, Nia Jax and Dana Brooke
Sami Zayn vs Rusev
Sami Zayn was the overwhelming crowd favourite for this match. They sung his theme song as he made his way into the ring and once again, it was clear that Sami is a star waiting to be made.
Rusev started the match by stomping on Sami relentlessly before sending him spine first into the turnbuckle. It looked like Rusev wasn’t pulling any punches as he mercilessly went to work on Sami and guillotined him against the bottom rope. Rusev then went to throw Sami out of the ring but Sami held on to the top rope and countered Rusev’s shoulder barge and threw him out of the ring as we headed to commercial.
We came back from commercial to see Sami in a headlock desperately trying to hit back. Rusev then drove his shoulders into Sami’s abdomen in the corner. Sami fought out and then tried to connect with a Helluva kick but failed as Rusev managed to land yet another kick to Sami's head. He went for the cover but only got a nearfall.
Rusev then went to the top rope to finish Sami off but was met with the Helluva kick and Rusev tumbled to the mat. Sami then covered Rusev for the pinfall to face Dolph Ziggler at Survivor Series.
Sami Zayn def. Rusev
Kevin Owens vs Chris Jericho vs Seth Rollins vs Roman Reigns vs Braun Strowman
Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens immediately went to attack Seth Rollins and took him outside the ring while Roman Reigns faced off with Braun Strowman. Jericho and KO came back in a tried to goad Strowman into attacking Reigns but Strowman elbowed Jericho as KO rolled out of the ring. Strowman then took out Reigns with a clothesline before setting his attention to Seth Rollins.
Rollins attacked Strowman viciously with a kendo stick before taking out a table. Strowman hit back as Rollins was setting up the table as we headed to a commercial break.
We came back from the commercial to see Strowman trying to send Rollins through the table but Rollins escaped into the ring but Strowman followed him in and clotheslined his head off. He followed it off with a reverse chokeslam to Roman Reigns followed by a boot to Jericho. All 4 of Strowman’s opponents then attacked Strowman together but it took a Superkick, repeated punches, a springboard knee and a Superman Punch to get Strowman off his feet.
Rollins and Reigns were the only two met left in the ring after tgus with Owens and Jericho laid out on the floor. Strowman was trying to climb back into the ring after this but Roman hit him with a Superman Punch followed by a Suicide Dive from Rollins as the former Shield brothers went to send Strowman through the table. As they were about to Powerbomb Strowman through the table, Jericho and Owens attacked them from behind. Owens and Jericho followed it up by sending Roman crashing into the steel ring steps.
Owens followed it up with a cannonball outside the ring as he and Jericho laid waste to their opponents and turned their attention to Seth Rollins. Owens went for a Cannonball but Rollins sent him face first into the barricade before Powerbombing Jericho into Strowman who was laid out on the table, sending both men through it.
Rollins followed it up with a Superkick to Kevin Owens for the nearfall. Rollins tried to follow it up with a frog splash but missed. Owens went for a Pop-Up Powerbomb but Rollins reversed it into a Pedigree and covered Owens only for Jericho to pull the referee out of the ring. Rollins then hit Jericho with a suicide dive before giving him Pedigree. With Jericho laid out, Owens superkicked Rollins in the face before Reigns gave Owens a Superman Punch which caused Owens to fall on top of an unconscious Jericho, inadvertently pinning him.
Kevin Owens def. Chris Jericho, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman
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