WWE Raw live results: SummerSlam contract signing

WWE Raw comes to Dallas, Texas tonight on the road to SummerSlam.

World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns and his SummerSlam challenger Seth Rollins will both be in the building to make their title match official. The two will put pen to paper as they meet for a contract signing.

Along with that, Brock Lesnar is slated for an appearance. We’ll see how WWE builds to his upcoming Hell in a Cell match against Oba Femi at the August 1-2 SummerSlam event.

Penta is scheduled to defend his Intercontinental title at the PLE, and he’ll find out his opponent tonight when Dominik Mysterio, Chad Gable, Rusev, Ethan Page, Dragon Lee, Je’Von Evans, and Joe Hendry face off in a gauntlet match.

In singles action, IYO SKY clashes with Judgment Day member Roxanne Perez. SKY is challenging Perez’s stablemate Liv Morgan for the Women’s World Championship at SummerSlam.

Plus, partners-turned-rivals Bayley and Lyra Valkyria meet face-to-face.

Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

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Live! From Dallas, Texas. 

Michael Cole and Corey Graves were on commentary. 

Brock Lesnar Opened The Show

Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman come out, with Heyman bringing a half-dozen police officers to stand in the entranceway to I guess keep Oba Femi from interrupting. Lesnar has a new “Talk Sh*t Get Hit” t-shirt. 

When Brock’s music stopped, the fans started chanting for Oba, but sang along with Paul Heyman’s schtick. Heyman’s mic doesn’t sound great. Heyman pointed out the police, and the police got booed. Heyman described Femi as an obsessed stalker because he gave up a guaranteed title shot to get at Brock Lesnar. He also called him a “big Nigerian dummy” and a “psycho ex-girlfriend” for being obsessed with Brock. 

But it’s not just that Femi is obsessed with Brock; Brock is obsessed with Oba Femi. Heyman called Lesnar on a hunting trip and in training camp, but all Brock wants to talk about is Oba Femi. Knowing how explosive this is, Heyman decided he needed to protect his investment in the match. He asked for a no-touch clause, but couldn’t get that done. So Heyman went to a judge in Dallas and got duel restraining orders for Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi, to keep them away from each other until Summerslam. 

This brought out Oba Femi. 

 As Oba walked to the ring, the police got in the ring to keep Femi from Lesnar . Heyman asked the police to arrest Brock for violating the restraining order, but Oba destroyed the six cops. Heyman and Lesnar ran, and Femi cut a promo on Brock for being a coward. Femi also pointed out that if he had taken his title shot, Brock would have interfered in the match anyway. This kind of backward justification would have been better two weeks ago. Femi said that Brock wouldn’t be able to run at SummerSlam. 

— Michael Cole hyped up a “multi-week” series on the history of the Shield to build up the Rollins/Reigns title match at SummerSlam. The first segment on the formation of the Shield aired. It was so short I thought it was just a preview of what was coming.

Roman Reigns will also be at Saturday Night’s Main Event this Saturday from Madison Square Garden. 

Iyo Sky v. Roxanne Perez (w/ Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez)

On commentary, Cole was talking up dissension in the Judgment Day around Perez. Sky sent Perez to the floor with a shotgun dropkick. Sky went for a sliding dropkick, but Perez caught her with a forearm. Perez tried for a suplex on the apron, but Sky escaped and slammed Perez on the apron. 

Sky hit an Asai Moonsault. Sky tossed Perez into the ring. Liv Morgan distracted Sky as she tried to get back into the ring, and Perez sucker punched her heading into a break.

Perez set Sky up for a back superplex, but Sky sent her crashing down with a forearm. Sky set up a moonsault, but Perez tripped up Sky and hung her in the turnbuckles. Perez went for a Lionsault, but Sky got her knees up and both women were down. 

Sky hit Perez with a double-underhook into a backbreaker for a near fall. But Sky delivered the move with her injured knee, so she came up selling. Sky caught Perez with a kick, then came off the top with a dropkick and her knee was magically heeled. 

Sky went for a meteora in the corner, but Perez got out of the way. Now Sky’s knee was hurting again. Perez then went right for the bad knee and stretched it. Sky escaped and got Perez in a crossfire. Perez escaped the crossface but ate a knee. Sky went to the top for a moonsault. Morgan and Perez interfered to keep Sky from attempting the moonsault. Perez rolled up Sky, but Sky reversed it and bridged back to get the pinfall. 

Match Result: Iyo Sky pinned Roxanne Perez (10:29). 

After the match, Perez and Morgan attacked Sky. Sol Ruca ran in to make the save. She went for a dive on Rodriguez, but Rodriguez caught her, slung her into the ring barricade and powerbombed her into the ringpost. Back in the ring, Morgan hit Oblivion on Sky, then Perez and Rodriguez held Sky open for Morant o wallop her with the women’s world title belt. 

The Vision Celebration

The Vision came to the ring to celebrate winning the World Tag Team title. Maxxine Dupri joined The Vision last week and now makes kissy-face with Austin Theory to try and get him heat. Logan Paul started out, but soon handed the microphone to let Dupri address the crowd. Before she could, Tozawa and Otis interrupted. Tozawa wanted to talk with Maxxine, and she sent the rest of The Vision to the floor. 

Tozawa and Otis looked so sad and forlorn. Tozawa told Maxxine she was a wonderful human being, and said that Austin Theory was wrong for her. The crowd chanted “you sold out” and we were subject to Dupri’s “acting.” Dupri said that Tozawa and Otis didn’t even know Austin Theory, and they made her choose between Theory and them. 

Just get to the beatdown already.  

Otis took the mic and stuttered that he had something to get off his chest. Austin Theory fake-laughed about how bad this segment was. Theory asked if he was going to confess “his feelings” for Maxxine. Theory told Otis that “people like [Otis] don’t end up with people like [Maxxine].” 

Otis went after Theory. Tozawa jumped on Breakker’s back. Tozawa actually got one over Breakker by side stepping him to send him over the top. Tozawa went for a dive on Breakker, who failed to catch him, but still managed to suplex him over the announcer’s desk. 

Theory and Breakker went to double-team Otis, and Otis actually got over on Bron Breakker and dumped him to the floor. Otis backed Theory into the corner, but Maxxine lured him away, setting him up for a low-blow from Theory. Durpi laughed in Otis’s face. Breakker hit Tozawa with a spear, and then Theory leveled Otis with the brass knuckles. Theory then held Otis up for one more superspear from Breakker. 

Theory and Dupri stood over Otis to end the segment.

Breakker was playing second-fiddle to Austin Theory and Maxxine Dupri. That’s ridiculous.

Jimmy Uso v. Royce Keyes 

They started fighting during a commercial, and Adam Pearce came out to make the match official.

Uso caught Keyes with an enziguri. The fight went to the floor, and Uso Samoan-dropped Keyes into the commentators’ table. Then two minutes into the impromptu match, they went to another commercial.

After the break, Keyes caught Uso with a powerslam. While Keyes was firing up, Jacob Fatu was pulling into the parking garage, and beeline to the ring. 

Keyes got a near fall on Uso, and Fatu jumped Keyes in the ring to draw the disqualification. 

Match Result: Royce Keyes by disqualification (6:44 aired, minus 3 minutes of commercials). 

Fatu set up Keyes for a hip attack in the corner with the steel chair. But before he could execute it, Solo Sikoa came out of the crowd to talk him out of it. Sikoa announced that blood is thicker than water, and he’s “coming home to the family.” Sikoa then held up the 1s with Fatu and Jimmy Uso. But this was a swerve~! Sikoa turned on Jimmy and attacked. Fatu went after Sikoa. Royce Keyes tried to help but soon Uso and Fatu had the upper hand. 

LA Knight ran in with a chair. Knight backdropped Jimmy to the floor, then attacked Fatu with the steel chair to send the Bloodline b-team packing. Knight called out the Usos and Jacob Fatu. Knight challenged the Usos and Fatu to a a six man tag at SummerSlam with Royce Keyes and Solo Sikoa as his tag partners. That definitely feels like pre-show match.

— Paul Heyman congratulated the Vision on that awful segment from earlier in the show. In fact, Heyman thought that Maxxine Dupri was so good, “what the hell do you need me for?” 

Paul Heyman is apparently done with the Vision. 

— Adam Pearce confirmed the police in the opening segment were fake. Um, storyline fake. Heyman hired them. Also there’s no restraining orders. This proves to Oba Femi that Heyman and Brock are scared. 

Bayley Confronts Lyra Valkyria

Oh good, more talking.

Bayley called out Valkyria, who hasn’t washed her sweater or hair in what looks like 6-8 months. Bayley shoved a microphone in Valkyria’s chest and demanded an explanation. Bayley wanted an apology, but Valkyria wanted an apology for holding her back an entire year. Valkyria has been stabbed in the back too, but she doesn’t make it her entire personality. 

Valkyria told Bayley that she wasn’t a locker room leader, her face doesn’t belong on the posters, she’s a doormat and she’s the worst of the Four Horsewomen. That last part got “ooos!” from the crowd. Bayley came back with her résumé promo: she’s the first grand slam champion, half of the fist women’s tag team champions. And Bayley will add beating Valkyria in Madison Square Garden to that list of accomplishments on Saturday Night’s Main Event. 

Valkyria tried to jump Bayley as she tried to leave, but Bayley fought back. Valkyria caught Bayley with a clothesline, then stomped Bayley’s head in. Valkyria then gave Bayley a belly-to-belly suplex to end the segment. 

— Another segment on the Shield. The first one was so short I didn’t realize it was actually part of the retrospective. The was “Part 2 — The Breakup” and it was clips from 2014 of Seth hitting Roman with the chair, Seth winning the briefcase, and Roman winning the Royal Rumble in 2015. 

— “What happens when the whole world calls you can’t miss? What happens when they’re wrong?” This was the tagline for a teaser for the return of Big Cass. 

Gauntlet Match for an Intercontinental Title Match at Summerslam.

First Fall: Dominik Mysterio (w/ JD McDonagh) v. Joe Hendry

Mysterio got the advantage by whipping Hendry into the ring steps while they were fighting on the floor. Back in the ring, Mysterio stomped Hendry, then floored him with a forearm. Hendry and Mysterio fought over a suplex. Mysterio tried a tornado DDT, but Hendry blocked the move and countered with a suplex. 

Hendry sped up the pace and hit a back elbow. Hendry caught Mysterio and dumped him with a fallaway slam. McDonagh distracted Hendry, while allowed Mysterio to hit a 619 and frogsplash to get the pinfall. 

Result: Mysterio pinned Hendry

Second Fall: Je’Von Evans v. Dominik Mysterio 

This match started during the commercial break, and we came back to Mysterio in control. Evans dumped Mysterio to the floor, then hit him with a dive. Back in the ring, Evans hit a flying enziguri for a near fall. McDonough tried to interfere again, but the ref caught him. Evans knocked McDonagh to the floor. Dominik caught Evans with a 619. 

Mysterio went to the top, but Danhausen came out to curse Mysterio. McDonagh tried to to chase off Danhausen, and in the confusion, Evans hit a OG Cutter to get the pinfall. 

Result: Evans pinned Mysterio.

Third Fall: Dragon Lee v. Je’Von Evans 

Lee hit a dive to the floor about 30 seconds in before the show went into another commercial. 

After the break, Lee hit Eans with a hard chop that sent him to the floor. Lee charged at Evans, who hiptoosed Lee over the barricade into the timekeeper’s area. Evans than ran around the ring and dove over the barricade and into Lee, going over the other barricade in the process. 

Back in the ring, Evans dove into a superkick from Lee for a near fall. Lee then hit a rana to send Evans to the floor. Lee hit a tornado DDT for another near fall. 

Lee snapped off a release Germn Suplex. Evans caught Lee with a flash cradle and got the pinfall. 

Fourth Fall: Je’Von Evans v. Rusev 

Rusev jumped Evans from behind. Time for another commercial break. 

Rusev dominated Evans during the break. Evans caught Rusev with kick. Evans sent Rusev to the floor, then caught him with a dive. Back in the ring, Evans hit a flying enziguri for a near fall. 

Evans dove into a uranage from Rusev. Rusev then got the Accolade, but Evans made it to the ropes. Rosev locked it in a second time, but Evans fought up to his feet and dropped back to break the hold. 

Rusev charged at Evans, who ducked. Evans went for the OG Cutter, but Rusev caught him with a forearm. Rusev put Evans in the Accolade for the third time, and this time Evans passed out. 

Result: Rusev over Evans by ref stoppage. 

Fifth Fall: Rusev v. Chad Gable. 

Gable came out fast with German suplexes and an overhead throw. Gabe came off the top, but Rusev caught him with an uranage. Sure, time for another commercial. 

Rusev set up a superplex, but Gable fought out of it with headbutts. Gable flew off the top with a flying clothesline. Rusev and Gable exchanged “Boo!/Yay!” punches. Gable tried for the Angle Slam, but Rusev escaped and locked in the Accolade. Gable fought out of it, then German suplexed Rusev into the turnbuckles. Gable then caught Rusev with a victory roll to get the pinfall. 

Result: Gable pinned Rusev. 

Final Fall: Chad Gable v. Ethan Page

Rusev attacked Gable after the fall and locked him in the Accolade while Page made his way to the ring. Page laid the badmouth on Gable and hit a clothesline. 

Gable went to the top and went for the moonsault. Page tried to get his foot up, so Gable turned that into anklelock. Page hit the “Confidence Breaker” (which looked like a Code Breaker) for another near fall. 

Gable escaped the Ego Plex and hit an Angle Slam for a near fall. The crowd chanted for Gable. Gable went to the top, but Page caught him. Page tried for an avalanche powerslam, but Gable slid out of it and got the ankle lock. Page tried to escape, but Gable rolled through and kept the hold on. Page was forced to tap out. 

Result: Gable pinned Page. 

Match Result: Chad Gable survived the gauntlet, last eliminating Ethan Page (total time to come). 

Chad Gable now goes to his home state of Minnesota to challenge Penta for the WWF Intercontinental title. If he wins, it will be Gable’s first singles title in WWE. The crowd was into Gable at the finish; the match, not so much. 

As a television match, the gauntlet didn’t feel like a coherent match; between the commercial breaks and guys just going for spot after spot, it felt like highlights of different matches.

— QB1 meets QB1 when Tom Brady is a guest on Cody Rhodes podcast. 

—Roman Reigns gets his championship belt from a stagehand. Nothing says “this is just a prop in a TV show” more than a stagehand handing Roman his title belt as he gets out of his car to walk to the ring.

Main Event Contract Signing