WWE Raw live results: Royal Rumble fallout
The fallout from Saturday’s Royal Rumble is set for tonight’s WWE Raw from the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as both Rumble match winners will appear.
Liv Morgan won the women’s Rumble and will get to choose her WrestleMania opponent: either current Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer or Women’s Champion Jade Cargill.
However. Vaquer will first defend her title against Raquel Rodriguez in a Philly street fight. In an added wrinkle, Morgan eliminated her Judgment Day partner on her way to winning the Rumble.
Roman Reigns won the men’s Rumble match and will take his time to determine his WrestleMania opponent: either World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk or WWE Champion Drew McIntyre.
What’s next for Bron Breakker and The Vision will also likely be revealed after Breakker was taken out by a masked man Saturday as he was about to enter the Rumble, presumably Seth Rollins.
Bronson Reed will go head-to-head with Penta while Je’Von Evans meets El Grande Americano in another singles match.
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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Show Recap —
Instead of the usual start, Raw kicked off immediately with a shot of Bron Breakker marching around ringside. He tore up the announce table and confronted the announcers, who begged off. Breakker tossed the announce table over and demanded a mic.
Breakker entered the ring as his Vision teammates frantically made their way down. Breakker called out Adam Pearce as the Vision and Paul Heyman urged him to calm down. Breakker accused Pearce of ruining his Rumble appearance, and he threatened to ruin Raw.
Heyman took the mic as the Vision continued to talk down Breakker. Heyman said this was all Pearce’s fault. Pearce has to approve every Visa for the trip, so he had to know who the masked man was. He also accused Pearce again of making Bron the number two entrant.
Breakker grabbed the mic and demanded that Pearce come out. Pearce entered and was guarded by security. Pearce was in no mood for this. Pearce reminded them that the Rumble drawing was random. He said he would give Breakker a gift and let him keep his job after that piss-poor performance last night.
Breakker snapped and scrambled out of the ring (tripping over in the process because he was so upset), but he was stopped by Bronson Reed before he could try to get through security. Pearce bailed.
LA Knight’s music hit. He appeared from the crowd and blindsided Austin Theory and Logan Paul with a steel chair. Reed chased him off. An upset Breakker went to the back.
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There was a Royal Rumble recap video. Liv Morgan, Stephanie Vaquer, and Gunther were shown at the arena earlier today.
They let us know Je’Von Evans lasted the longest in the men’s Rumble match with a time of 40:58.
Je’Von Evans vs. El Grande Americano (w/ Bravo & Rayo Americano)
Evans’ shoulder and ribs were taped up. He was off to a good start until he missed a Stinger splash. El Grande took over, and there was a modest, “We want Gable” chant. Evans came right back and hit a crazy leaping dive to the outside, almost flying right over El Grande.
Evans was distracted by Rayo, so El Grande nailed a dropkick on the apron and lawn-darted him into the ring post. El Grande had control through a break, and it was really dull. (Perhaps they need to be reminded that much of the world can see what they’re doing, or not doing, during commercials.)
Evans fought back with chops, forearms, kicks, and a satellite DDT. Evans fought out of a submission hold, and with El Grande lying on the other side of the ring, Evans went to the top and hit a senton leg drop all the way to the other side. It was a long way to go, so he didn’t quite nail it.
Rayo distracted the referee, allowing Bravo to trip Evans off the top rope. Rayo handed El Grande the metal plate while the ref dealt with Bravo. The original El Grande Americano (Chad Gable) entered to his music and posed in the aisle.
The distraction allowed Evans to hit a running knee strike and OG Cutter for the pinfall win.
Match result: Je’Von Evans defeated El Grande Americano (Ludwig Kaiser) (12:30)
This match was ok. It was a bit more deliberately paced than I expected, with a lot of striking. The crowd liked Evans, but they were pretty quiet during the bulk of the match.
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Michael Cole announced an attendance of 13,746.
There was a Rumble video package, this time highlighting some of the newer faces from NXT, recent callups, and Royce Keys (Powerhouse Hobbs).
Jimmy and Jey entered during a break. Jimmy’s back after being gone for a few weeks as the company was out of the country. They issued a warning shot to Alpha Academy, who they would be defending their tag titles against next week. They shouted out Roman Reigns for winning the Royal Rumble, and that was that.
They congratulated Bad Bunny and Jelly Roll on their success at the Grammy Awards.
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Gunther segment
WWE Raw and PLE recapper/reviewer. Contributed to WrestlingObserver.com as the SmackDown reviewer in the 2000s before turning to WONF4W in 2015.