WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (July 22, 2024) from the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming SummerSlam premium live event scheduled for this coming Saturday night in Cleveland.
Advertised for tonight: Seth Rollins will give his “referee instructions” to CM Punk and Drew McIntyre ahead of his role in their big showdown in Ohio. Elsewhere, GUNTHER preps for his big title match with a showdown against Finn Balor, Xavier Woods goes one-on-one with Karrion Kross, and Lyra Valkyria teams with Katana Chance & Kayden Carter to take on Sonya Deville & Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark. Plus, a whole lot more!
Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the Raw live blog will kick off once the show starts on USA Network SyFy. It will be below this line here. Reminder: GIFs and pics allowed, but no links to illegal streams, please.
WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR JULY 29
Nella tentazione, cercando la gloria. Il prezzo da pagare e’ la caduta dell’uomo, but for me? I just have to liveblog this here pro wrestling show for you, folks.
The show opens with the usual montage of talent arriving at the arena tonight.
Seth Rollins makes his entrance in a referee striped top with leg of mutton sleeves, black pleather pants with white piping, and zebra boots.
He gets on the mic and welcomes us to Monday Night Rollins before introducing his charges for SummerSlam, first CM Punk and then Drew McIntyre.
Seth says he can see there’s a lot of tension and tonight, directly from the office of Adam Pearce, the two of them are not to lay a finger on each other or the match for SummerSlam is off. One step further, if they lay a finger on Rollins, the match will also be off.
Hearing this CM Punk rolls out of the ring and heads over to chill out with Pat McAfee. Drew McIntyre tells him not to be a coward and to get back in the ring, and CM says he’s not scared of either of them, he’s afraid of what he might do so he’s taking himself out of the situation.
Rollins says Punk loves getting things his way but that’s not how this works and it’s not how SummerSlam is going to work, and he volunteered to be referee because they scared all the other refs away, so he could go back to Adam Pearce and say he doesn’t want to do it but he wants to see the two of them fight.
So he orders CM back to the ring, and Punk obliges. Drew talks about how he and Seth both want to be the best and want what’s best for the future of WWE, and Punk isn’t that. He’s a cancer, he’s poisoning minds in NXT and he’s going to screw it all up, so remember that on Saturday. Rollins says he’s right that nobody hates Punk as much as him, but he’s missing that Seth also hates McIntyre too.
So shut up for three seconds and he’ll get to the rules and regulations for this violent masterpiece at SummerSlam. He says there’s only one rule, only one regulation, and that’s that the two of them will listen to everything he has to say. He calls the shots, he’s the law. He counts to three, they tap when he says they tap, there will be countouts only if he wants there to be, and they may be to ten, or twenty, or a million.
Disqualifications? Eh, referee’s discretion. But if either of them get out of line or disagree with the way he calls his match, they can’t push him around, he’s a spiteful little bastard and he’ll put them in the dirt. Punk says Seth being a referee is a hat on a hat and he’s probably getting off on it based on how he’s dressed, but one thing he doesn’t want.
He doesn’t want his help, he’s never needed it. McIntyre interrupts and says he’s said what he wanted to say, he wasn’t even trying to take Punk out at the Royal Rumble and he’s screwed him again and again and what did he think was going to happen? When that bell rings he’s going to violently assault CM and break his jaw.
This isn’t a wrestling match and he’s not going to stop until Punk’s heart does. And the best part about it is this is in Cleveland in a stadium and he’s going to get paid SO much money to do something he’d do for free.
Punk says he was absent for ten years from this company and they chanted his name. They sing Seth’s song, they chant his name, Drew is the third wheel here. The one positive about PDS— Punk Derangement Syndrome, that they clearly both suffer from— they get to breathe in his air and he hopes they enjoy it.
The best thing that happened to Drew’s career is hurting CM Punk and it’s the worst thing, and for how big and tall and mean he is, he’s stupid and he keeps dumbing himself out of positions. He dumbed himself out of the world title and he’s going to do the same thing on Saturday when he steps in the ring with the Best in the World.
He’s not as tall or fast or strong as him, but he’s got heart, he’s got the people chanting his name. What does McIntyre have? Drew holds up the bracelet with AJ and Larry’s names on it and CM gets right in his face. Drew talks trash and tells him to take it
The Judgment Day are in their clubhouse, which someone has trashed. Dominik Mysterio acts dumb and Rhea Ripley says Liv Morgan obviously did it before asking why they keep letting Carlito hang out.
The erstwhile Alpha Academy make their entrance and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Damian Priest arrives at the clubhouse and tells Finn Balor he really thinks he should be in his corner tonight, but Finn tells him to focus on GUNTHER and cleaning up the clubhouse and he’ll take care of business tonight. Dom suggests letting Carlito handle Sami Zayn and he agrees and goes to find Adam Pearce right now.
Akira Tozawa & Otis Dozovic vs. Creed Brothers (Brutus & Julius Creed)
Julius and Otis to start, Creeds overwhelm him in the corner and beat him down with quick tags! Tozawa gets in, missile dropkick sends Brutus to the floor, off the ropes, Akira meets him with a suicide dive and takes him back inside! Creed with a lariat, fired up and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Otis tags in, lariats ahoy, Chad Gable runs interference, Creeds get under Otis in the turnbuckles, double back superplex...
Creed Brothers win by pinfall with a double back superplex on Otis Dozovic.
Post-match, they work Otis over but Maxxine Dupri jumps Gable from behind to try and save him! Chad jaws at her and she slaps the taste out of his mouth and puts her dukes up!
Before he can attack, the lights start going down stepwise.
The Wyatts apear at ringside, and Nikki Cross takes Chad Gable out with a crossbody! Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis take the Creeds down for Erick Rowan to freight train crossbody them! Chad makes his way up the entry but runs into Uncle Howdy and turns tail and runs out the wings as we go to break!
Back from commercial we get a recap of what we just saw, because Raw is three hours long. (Three hours long.)
Back in the Judgment Day clubhouse, Carlito returns and says good news, he got Dominik Mysterio a match against Sami Zayn. Dom is upset because Carlito was supposed to get a match for himself and they task him with getting a match for himself against Jey Uso, a match that he’ll fight alone.
“Big” Bronson Reed vs. Sheamus
Trading punches, whip reversed, sleeper from Sheamus, backed into the corner to break. Reed with an elbow, chops in the corner, action to the floor, Celtic Warrior with a battering ram clothesline to the floor! Bronson Samoan drops him over the announce desk and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Sheamus gets a nearfall with the pump knee, off the top, nobody home, Reed with a Death Valley Driver... NOPE! Up in the turnbuckles, Celtic Warrior cuts him off, right hands, White Noise for two! Beats of the Bodhran, Pete Dunne runs in and cracks Sheamus with a shillelagh as Reed gets checked on in the ropes!
Bronson heads up top...
Bronson Reed wins by pinfall with the 747 Splash.
Damian Priest cuts a promo at GUNTHER where he says if he’s street trash, GUNTHER is just an asshole and he’s going to rob him of the idea that he can win the title.
Jey Uso makes his entrance and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Bron Breakker cuts a promo on Sami Zayn about how he doesn’t even dislike him and he admits he didn’t take him seriously but this time he’s going to win.
Carlito vs. “Main Event” Jey Uso
Uso with an early dive, taking Carlito back inside, right hands into the corner, Colon turns the tide, dragon whip neck screw and we go to break!
Back from commercial, we get a little more back and forth but Carlito gets got as he goes to spit his apple...
Jey Uso wins by pinfall with a spear.
Zelina Vega is interviewed backstage, her hair the Polish flag.
She says Team Forehead had to stack the deck against her last week but she needed that because it reminded her of who she is.
Speak of the devil, Sonya Deville, Shayna Baszler, and Zoey Stark roll up to talk trash and hand out a beatdown. Stark holds Vega’s arm in posiion and Baszler kicks her elbow in to send us to break!
Back from commercial we again get a recap of what we just saw.
We see Zelina Vega getting looked at in the trainer’s room.
The Miz is interviewed in the loading bay.
He says he’s going to host SummerSlam since it’s in his house of Cleveland and whatnot.
R-Truth rolls up to be excited they brought In Your House back and they do a whole “Who’s on first” routine about it that ends in both Truth and Cathy Kelley saying they definitely want hors d’ouevres at SummerSlam.
Karrion Kross gets on the mic before the match.
He says he was just notified that Kofi Kingston reinjured his shoulder in Japan and that’s why he’s not here, but he doesn’t believe it. He says Kofi can’t handle that Xavier is in the spotlight and he wants him to join the Final Testament and admit that the power of positivity is a lie and also to tell Kofi that he should have retired after he lost the WWE Championship in six seconds.
Karrion Kross vs. Xavier Woods
Woods unloads on him at the bell, wrecking ball dropkick through the ropes, he’s fired up and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Woods clubbing away, Kross meets him with a knee, whip to the corner, suplex follows and Karrion poses for the crowd before covering him for a two count! Jawing at Xavier, calling him trash, Woods gets fired up and lays chops in! Duck a backhand, slide under, big elbow connects! Elbow into the corner, fireman’s carry, slip out, O’Connor roll for two!
Akam with a cheap shot, pumphandle, Xavier slips out, superkick connects! Suicide dive on Akam, pass Rezar into the post, gamengiri on Karrion, off the top, nobody home on Limit Breaker! Spinning him out...
Karrion Kross wins by pinfall with Final Prayer.
We get footage of Jesse “the Body” Ventura meeting with Triple H earlier today.
Sami Zayn is interviewed backstage.
He says he thinks it’s funny that Bron Breakker thinks he’s too focused on comedy when he did a show the night before Money in the Bank and beat him then, too.
The camera follows him out for his entrance and we go to break.
Back from commercial we get a vignette of Liv Morgan burning a bunch of Dominik Mysterio’s merch and calling Rhea Ripley’s little bitch and promising to make their life a living hell.
Dominik Mysterio vs. Sami Zayn
Mysterio with a wristlock, reversed, Sami with right hands but Dominik rolls to the floor for a time-out and we go to break shortly after!
Back from commercial, Zayn rallying, axhandle off the second, Dom cuts him off and goes up top, nobody home, he rolls through but Sami hits the exploder in the corner! Back and forth, Blue Thunder Driver connects but Carlito and JD McDonagh attack...
Sami Zayn wins by disqualification.
Post-match, they put boots to Sami until Jey Uso makes the save! Once Judgment Day are cleared off, Bron Breakker attacks but Zayn manages to send him packing!
We get another Wyatts VHS tape, this one is focused on Dexter Lumis and his shiny new dreadlocks, Uncle Howdy asking what should be done when the buzzards start circling.
Chad Gable goes to Adam Pearce with the identities of the remaining Wyatts but Pearce says he knows who they are they’re under contract. Gable demands a six-man tag against those “freaks” and Adam tells them to consider it official.
Lyra Valkyria, Katana Chance, and Kayden Carter make their entrance to send us to break.
Back from commercial, Rhea Ripley cuts a promo on Liv Morgan, telling her she so badly wants to be the victim in her little fantasy but that’s all it is, a fantasy. The reality is that at SummerSlam her tour comes to an end.
Katana Chance, Kayden Carter, & Lyra Valkyria vs. Shayna Baszler, Sonya Deville, & Zoey Stark
Deville and Valkyria to start, mat grappling, side headlock, shot off, slide under, thrust to the midsection, Sonya decides to just cut her off with an elbow! Baszler and Stark with quick tags, tide well-turned, Lyra slips out, kneeling armbar applied. Tag to Chance, tag to Carter, working Zoey over in the corner as we go to break!
Back from commercial, Kayden with a nearfall off a leg drop, sidestep the charge, Baszler cracks a knee across her and tags Zoey in! Powerbomb countered into a Frankensteiner, Shayna sent packing, superkick to Carter, but she tags out to Chance! Tag to Lyra, assisted Codebreaker sets up a Doctor Bomb... BASZLER BREAKS IT UP!
Match breaks down, everybody fighting, Stark kicks out and hits it...
Shayna Baszler, Sonya Deville, & Zoey Stark win by pinfall with Z360 from Stark on Katana Chance.
Post-match, Damage CTRL make their triumphant return and stand tall in the ring.
GUNTHER cuts a promo and says he used to look up to Finn Balor but ever since he decided to surround himself with Judgment Day weirdos he became street trash just like they are, and so we go to break.
Back from commercial, Damage CTRL are interviewed and say the only reason Sonya Deville and company have been running things is that they’re gone, and Dakota Kai calls Sonya out for next week.
Commentary hypes up the card for SummerSlam.
In the Judgment Day clubhouse, they all agree that after SummerSlam they need to work together to extricate themselves from the situation they’re in. Rhea reminds Finn that if he needs any help tonight he only needs ask, but Balor says he’s stepping up and going it alone tonight, unless they don’t think he’s good enough.
Damian says he’s worried about GUNTHER doing something stupid, but as his brother, he knows Finn can take care of him.
Finn Balor vs. GUNTHER
Balor with a side headlock, GUNTHER backs him into the corner, he ducks a chop, fires one back, thinking about a powerbomb but Finn reverses! Rolled through, basem*nt dropkick, Penalty Kick, slingshot stomps in the ropes! The Ring General turns the tide and we go to break!
Back from commercial, GUNTHER in control, clubbing blow to the back, setting Balor up top, crossbody counters the back superplex! Back and forth, Finn follows it up with a DDT, off the ropes, big lariat staggers the Ring General but he keeps his wits about him and drops Balor with a lariat!
Off the ropes, Sling Blade connects, Finn’s feeling himself, but GUNTHER catches him into the Gojira Clutch! Balor rolls through, double stomp, double leg into the double stomp! Blood blisters raising on Finn’s chest, shotgun dropkick connects, he goes up top, victory in sight... NOBODY HOME!
GUNTHER gets the Gojira Clutch, shift to a Tenryu Powerbomb for two, back to the Gojira Clutch! Balor fading, slipping, the Ring General falls to the mat with the hooks in...
GUNTHER wins by referee stoppage with the Gojira Clutch.
Post-match, GUNTHER reapplies the Gojira Clutch as referee Chad Patton tries to pry his arms apart!
Damian Priest makes the save for his buddy and he lays GUNTHER out with a right hook as the brawl goes to the floor! Wild haymakers against the apron, over the barricade and into the crowd and we’re outta time!
That’s the show, folks.
