WWE Raw live results: CM Punk, Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar appear
The build to WWE WrestleMania 42 continues live on tonight’s WWE Raw from TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk and Roman Reigns will both appear once again to build their WrestleMania 42 main event. Their latest in-ring confrontation last week ended with Punk shoving Reigns to the mat after Reigns called him old.
Reigns’ cousins Jimmy and Jey Uso will defend their WWE World Tag Team Championships against The Vision’s Logan Paul and Austin Theory.
After being laid out by Oba Femi last week, Brock Lesnar will return on this weeks’s show. He and Femi will will face off at WrestleMania 42.
Penta will defend his WWE Intercontinental title against the man he beat for the title, Dominik Mysterio. Penta already has one successful title defense under his belt over Dragon Lee while Mysterio has been out of action recently after taking a chair to the head from Vikingo at AAA Rey de Reyes.
Becky Lynch will also appear to address her attack on WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee last week. Lee beat Lynch for the title before defending it successfully against Bayley last week.
Plus, Bayley and Lyra Valkyria will face Asuka and Kairi Sane, while Je’Von Evans faces Grayson Waller.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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Show Recap —
Judgment Day, Bayley and Lyra Valkyria, The Usos, and Je’Von Evans (greeted by IShowSpeed) were shown arriving at TD Garden in Boston.
There was a very dramatic recap of Oba Femi laying out Brock Lesnar.
Brock Lesnar opens Monday Night Raw
Lesnar entered with Paul Heyman. (Lesnar wore a new “FAF5” shirt, a reference to Heyman’s promo last week. Heyman was well dressed and is no longer dishevelled.)
Lesnar was greeted with chants of “Oba.” Heyman ran down his resume, which just received more chants for Oba. Heyman said the fans were pissing off Lesnar. If we were being honest about last week, Lesnar beat up 20 masked men, got distracted by Seth Rollins, and only then did the overhyped Femi take advantage.
Heyman said we’ve heard this narrative many times. This new opponent of Lesnar would be the next big thing, the conqueror’s conqueror, etc. Lesnar conquered Undertaker’s streak, but Undertaker never got revenge. (Except that Undertaker did beat Lesnar that following SummerSlam.)
There was a line of guys who were supposed to beat the ‘one’ in ‘21-and-one’ after that: Goldberg, Braun Strowman, Dean Ambrose (whose name got a pop), Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles, and John Cena. None of them could do it. And Oba Femi wouldn’t either. Femi already had his moment when he put his foot on Lesnar and pointed at the sign. That would be the biggest moment of Femi’s career, because he would be victimized and conquered by Lesnar at WrestleMania.
The lights dimmed, and Femi entered. Heyman bailed before Femi faced off with Lesnar in the ring. Lesnar kicked Femi in the gut and went for an F5, but Femi slipped out and clotheslined Lesnar over the top and to the outside. Lesnar looked stunned, and the crowd chanted for Oba again.
Lesnar backed away as Femi stared him down. Lesnar yelled, “You ain’t that lucky, boy!” and he smiled as he backed up the aisle.
(This was a perfectly good follow-up to last week.)
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Dominik Mysterio cut a pre-taped promo on his IC title match tonight.
There were clips of Logan Paul at the recent flag football event. He “sacked” Jalen Hurts and got into it with Tom Brady.
World Tag Team Championship match: Jimmy & Jey Uso vs. Logan Paul & Austin Theory
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