WWE Raw live results: Night of Champions fallout
Following Night of Champions, King of the Ring winner Oba Femi is set to kick off WWE Raw tonight and could reveal his SummerSlam decision.
Femi defeated Jey Uso on Saturday to win King of the Ring and earn a World title shot at SummerSlam. He hasn’t revealed which championship he’ll be challenging for, but WWE is teasing that we could find out his decision soon. World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns is in the building for a possible confrontation if Femi does decide to pick him.
We already know that Queen of the Ring winner IYO SKY is challenging Liv Morgan for the Women’s World Championship at SummerSlam. We’ll hear from SKY tonight.
Joe Hendry returned to Raw last week and helped The Street Profits win the World Tag Team titles from The Vision. Tonight, Hendry gives a musical performance.
Three matches are also set: LA Knight vs. Jimmy Uso, Rey Mysterio vs. Ethan Page, and Chad Gable vs. JD McDonagh.
Tonight’s show is taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey and has a special start time of 6 p.m. Eastern live on Netflix.
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Live from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Coming from Boardwalk Hall, the site of WrestleManias IV and V.
A recap of Night of Champions started the show.
King Oba Addresses the Crowd
Once again, the crowd was really into Oba Femi, who brought his crown with him to the ring. Destiny has not finished playing out for Femi, who was about to make his choice when Brock Lesnar made his entrance, along with Paul Heyman.
Lesnar took his time getting into the ring. Lesnar literally applauded the new King of the Ring. Lesnar buried the idea of watching Raw: “I don’t watch the show, everybody knows I don’t watch the show.” Lesnar is a former King of the Ring himself, and he’s here to advise Femi on the decision he has to make. Even though when Lesnar isn’t at the show, Heyman informs him of the things Femi has called Lesnar, like “b!tch.” Then Lesnar said, “Talk sh!t, get hit” and dropped Femi with a low blow. Then Lesnar dropped Femi with an F5 and walked away, leaving Femi laying in the ring.
Femi got up after Lesnar was about halfway down the aisle when Femi grabbed a mic and called Lesnar a “b!tch” to his face. Oba said they could play “cat and rats” forever, or they could settle it with a match with Lesnar at SummerSlam. Lesnar accepted, but with a stipulation: “Hell in the Cell.”
— In the back, Paul Heyman worked on getting Adam Pearce to book the match. Why is Pearce even hesitating to make this match? Hasn’t he seen the ticket sales? Austin Theory showed up and wanted to know why Heyman was here. Heyman was annoyed with Theory and left. Pearce then found Oba Femi and made sure that Femi understood what was happening. Femi said he can always go after a championship, but he needed to end things with Lesnar.
So it sounds like Femi is foregoing the title shot to get his hands on Lesnar.
Even though SummerSlam is two nights.
Ethan Page v. Rey Mysterio
Mysterio went to the top, but Page hung him up in the ropes and kicked away at the Hall of Famer. Page tried to rip off Rey’s mask, but Mysterio fought him off. Page hit a side suplex on Rey onto the top turnbuckle and he fell to the floor.
After a commercial, Page sent Mysterio into the turnbuckles head first, then dumped him with a side suplex to the mat for a near fall. Page charged at Rey, who low-bridged him to send him to the floor. Rey followed him out with a sliding splash.
Back in the ring, Mysterio hit a Bombs Away off the top, then sprang off the ropes with a crossbody for a near fall. Page dumped Rey with a face-first wheelbarrow suplex for another near fall. Mysterio caught Page with an enzuigiri, but Page came back with a big boot and a powerslam for another near fall.
Page picked Mysterio up in a fireman’s carry and walked up to the middle ropes. Rey countered whatever Page was thinking and took him down with an avalanche hurricanrana, then finally hit the 619. Mysterio then hit the frog splash to get the win.
Matt Result: Rey Mysterio pinned Ethan Page (10:43).
— JD McDonough and Dominik Mysterio found Danhausen’s lab and stole a gift the New York Knicks gave him before deciding to wreck the place.
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