Tonight’s Monday Night Raw is the final show prior to Money in the Bank, WWE’s upcoming pay-per-view which airs on June 19. Read ahead for our live coverage, followed by a preview of the full show published earlier this afternoon.
8:00 – New Day enters to discuss their role in Money in the Bank. About a full minute is spent discussing Kofi Kingston’s shoes. Enzo Amore & Big Cass enter and talk about fighting New Day at the upcoming pay-per-view. Big Cass also makes fun of Kofi’s shoes and cracks a dildo joke. Enzo reveals he used Francesca, Woods says “I’m the only one that blows my girl.” What is happening?
The Vaudevillains enter, shortly followed by Gallows and Anderson. Enzo declares them SAWFT. Tag team match coming up next!
8:18 – Enzo & Big Cass and New Day vs. The Vaudevillains and Gallows & Anderson. The The Vaudevillains and Anderson & Gallows win.
8:40 – Shane and Stephanie McMahon argue over the future of Raw and SmackDown. Kane enters and offers to run SmackDown. He hands over a resume, letter of recommendation and everything!
8:42 – Match between Sheamus and Zack Ryder is teased for later this evening.
8:48 – Titus O’Neil enters, only to suddenly be blindsided by Rusev. The fight takes place entirely outside the ring. Rusev defeats Titus.
8:57 – The Ambrose Asylum returns! Ambrose calls Seth Rollins “the scum of the Earth.” Rollins says his knee is 100% ready to go. The group slowly begins to reminisce about good times…until Rollins said the best time he had in a ring was taking a chair to Reigns’ back. Trash talk between Rollins and Reigns begins as Ambrose loses control of the show a bit. Segment ends as Ambrose teases he might win Money in the Bank and use his cash-in to steal the title away from both of them. A full-on brawl between all three of them begins. Ambrose stands victorious.
9:20 – A match between Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho is announced for later tonight.
9:21 – Paige defeats Charlotte.
9:26 – A match between Cesaro and Sami Zayn is teased.
9:33 – Sheamus defeats Zack Ryder. Apollo Crews suddenly appears to brawl with Sheamus.
9:53 – Sami Zayn defeats Cesaro.
9:59 – John Cena and A.J. Styles contract signing begins. There are two contracts: one is A.J. Styles vs. John Cena, the other is John Cena vs. The Club. With the later option, A.J. is permitted to have Anderson and Gallows at ringside, which would, as Cena puts it, make him look like a bitch. A.J. chooses to fight John Cena one-on-one.
10:19 – Alberto Del Rio & Kevin Owens defeat the Lucha Dragons.
10:42 – Stephanie and Shane tell Kane he isn’t getting the SmackDown job because they need someone with more stability. Corporate Kane is now Sad Kane. Shane says he will run SmackDown, not Stephanie.
10:49 – Dean Ambrose defeats Chris Jericho. Cesaro, Alberto Del Rio, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, and Dean Ambrose all start brawling after the match ends, leaving Chris Jericho in the ring.
Perhaps the most interesting development in store is the Shield reunion. Dean Ambrose’s talk show, “The Ambrose Asylum,” will return with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins both appearing as guests. Needless to say, some conflicts between the former teammates will likely arise.
There should be some twists on the tag-team front as well. In last week’s episode, John Cena and New Day teamed up against The Club. Tonight, The New Day is scheduled to go up against Enzo Amore and Big Cass, The Vaudevillains, and Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. WWE’s official preview reads, “Something tells us that the three challenging tandems — all of whom emerged on the main roster recently — are preparing to make their mark on The New Era, and make The New Day old news.”
We’re also still in full Bray-Wyatt-watch mode. Wyatt has been posting cryptic tweets for weeks that hint towards a potential return; could that finally go down this evening, setting up a role for him in Money in the Bank?