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. 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.
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