After 3 really bad shows in a row, Monday Night Raw looks to bounce back with only two weeks left until wrestlemania backlash.
GOOD: Monday Night Raw started off with Sonya Deville, MVP and Adam Pearce. They’re trying to decide if Lashley would face Braun Strowman or Drew Mcintyre. Adam Pearce pulls out a coin to decide but before he was able to flip it MVP needed to check it first to see if it was not rigged. Drew Mcintyre walks in and asks MVP if Lashley is not concerned why would you be checking the coin. MVP then states that Lashley’s not concerned but it’s MVP’s job to be concerned for Lashley. Braun Strowman then walks in and Drew and Strowman get into an argument but Pearce defuses the situation and flips the coin and it’s Bobby Lashley vs Braun Strowman in the main event of this show.
GOOD: AJ Styles and Omos returned next and they talked about there recent victory at Wrestlemania against The New Day for the tag team titles. Styles then talks about the reason why Omos and him were off TV for 3 weeks and the reason was because they were off partying. AJ mentions that they had better things to do than throwing food. Styles mentioned that he’s a grandslam champion and it only took him 5 years to do it. New Day interrupted the tag team champions and Xavier Woods said that they did make an impact in the tag division. Kofi Kingston then talked about how they never take breaks unlike Styles and Omos. They said that there’s a reason why they’re 11 times champions. Omos interrupted The New Day and he said that they’re fools.
GOOD: AJ Styles and Omos retained the tag team championships against The New Day in a really good match.
RESULT- AJ Styles and Omos wins via pinfall
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 3.25 stars
GOOD: Monday Night Raw started off with Sonya Deville, MVP and Adam Pearce. They’re trying to decide if Lashley would face Braun Strowman or Drew Mcintyre. Adam Pearce pulls out a coin to decide but before he was able to flip it MVP needed to check it first to see if it was not rigged. Drew Mcintyre walks in and asks MVP if Lashley is not concerned why would you be checking the coin. MVP then states that Lashley’s not concerned but it’s MVP’s job to be concerned for Lashley. Braun Strowman then walks in and Drew and Strowman get into an argument but Pearce defuses the situation and flips the coin and it’s Bobby Lashley vs Braun Strowman in the main event of this show.
RESULT- AJ Styles and Omos wins via pinfall
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 3.25 stars
AVERAGE: Charlotte Flair defeats Dana Brooke in an average match nothing great.
RESULT- Charlotte Flair wins via Submission
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 2.25 stars
AVERAGE: After the match Mandy Rose knees Charlotte but then Sonya Deville comes out. After Raw came back from break Mandy and Dana was out of the ring and Charlotte was complaining that she isn’t in the RAW Women’s championship match. She kept telling Sonya Deville to add her into the match. Sonya Deville decides to add Charlotte Flair into the match and as soon as she did Rhea Ripley came out and she talked about how she already knows that she can beat Asuka but a triple threat is just unfair but then Asuka came out and she said that she knows she can beat both Charlotte and Rhea. Rhea gets in the face of Sonya Deville but Charlotte blindsided her and then Asuka takes Charlotte out. Asuka stood tall.
AVERAGE: Miz and Morrison came out next and Miz talked about the disrespect he and Morrison faced last week. Miz talked about his accomplishments and how he will be a future Hall of Famer. John Morrison keeps asking for The Miz to list his accomplishments but he never does but The Miz does say that John Morrison will beat the respect out of him and that’s when Damian Priest makes his entrance.
AVERAGE: Damian Priest defeats John Morrison in a decent match.
RESULT- Damian Preist wins via pinfall
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 2.75 Stars
AVERAGE:Lucha House Party took on Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin. LHP picked up the win after a short but entertaining match.
RESULT- Lucha House Party wins via pinfall
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings- 3 Stars
BAD: After the match Cedric Alexander grabbed a mic and said that Shelton Benjamin was the weak link of The Hurt Business and Shelton the reason why he got kicked out of The Hurt Business. Cedric than said that there team is over. The promo was okay but they shouldn’t break up.
GOOD SQUASH: Angel Garza took on Drew Gulak. Garza beat Gulak in only a couple of minutes but it made Garza look great.
RESULT- Angel Garza wins via pinfall
BAD: After the match Angel Garza decided to put the rose down Drew Gulak’s pants and kicked him in the bum. Unlike the match before it this wasn’t good.
GREAT: Riddle is backstage talking to the Viking Raiders. He asked him if they’re more of fans of The Raiders or The Vikings. Erik responded saying that he likes The Browns. Ivar says we don’t like just Viking’s or Raiders. Riddle sees Randy Orton and scooted over to him and says that they’re undefeated but Orton stated the obvious saying that they’ve only had one match together and he asks him if he’d like to have another one.
GREAT SQUASH: RKBro is taking on Ryker and Elias. This match was here just to get over RKBro and it’s working so well.
RESULT- RKBro wins via pinfall
AVERAGE: Sheamus came out next for the United States title match and his challenger was Mansoor. Sheamus wins by DQ after Humberto Carrillo came out to blindside him breaking Mansoor’s 49-0 streak
RESULT – Sheamus wins via DQ
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 2.25 stars
AVERAGE: Alexa Bliss’s playground was next and she was talking about Lily. She says that Lily’s favorite color was red. She then started singing a song about Lily and said that Lily made her do whatever she does.
BAD: Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler retained the Tag Team Championships against Naomi and Lana
RESULT- Shayna Baszler And Nia Jax wins via submission
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 1.25 stars
AVERAGE: Bobby Lashley is took on Braun Strowman in the main event. This was a short match that was really average. Wasn’t bad wasn’t great
RESULT: Bobby Lashley wins via pinfall
Aaron McKelvey WR star ratings – 3 stars
AVERAGE: After the match Drew Mcintyre claymore’d both the all mighty champion and Braun Strowman with the very end of the show it’s announced that Drew Mcintyre will be facing Bobby Lashley next week.
This was the best RAW since the RAW after mania and that is not a good. This was just a filler episode which didn’t really need which if you didn’t watch you wouldn’t be missing anything. The MVP’s of RAW is once again RKBro.
RATING: 6.6