WWE Raw live results: Elimination Chamber fallout
Raw’s Elimination Chamber fallout takes place tonight at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Rhea Ripley and Randy Orton won their respective Chamber matches and are headed for title bouts at WrestleMania. Both will be facing SmackDown champions, with the Raw World title matches already in place.
CM Punk retained the World Heavyweight Championship over Finn Balor, and his Mania main event against Roman Reigns is set. Punk and Reigns will both appear live tonight.
Seth Rollins returned during the men’s Chamber match, attacking Logan Paul, leading to his elimination. Adam Pearce will address the Rollins situation tonight.
Dominik Mysterio will defend his Intercontinental Championship against Penta. Dom, who missed time with an injury, has not defended the title since regaining it with a win over John Cena at Survivor Series at the end of November.
Other action will see Gunther face Dragon Lee. After beating Becky Lynch for the Women’s Intercontinental Championship, AJ Lee appears live. Plus, we’ll hear from Liv Morgan as she addresses her WrestleMania opponent Stephanie Vaquer
Our live coverage begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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Show Recap —
There was a full recap video of all four matches at Elimination Chamber, plus the debut of Danhausen (no crowd reaction included, of course). In the past, when they were on PPV, they would only show still pictures, but they showed the full highlights here, including finishes.
CM Punk and AJ Lee, Judgment Day (minus Finn Bálor), and Gunther arrived at the arena.
They abruptly cut to Paul Heyman as he led Logan Paul and Austin Theory to the ring. Heyman wasn’t interested in starting the show the same way as always. So he gave us a talking segment. Heyman said, “I hate to piss on everyone’s parade, but excuse me while I whip this out. We are here to talk about Seth freakin’ Rollins.”
Heyman hated Rollins and his song. He said Rollins stole the credit for co-founding the Vision. He stole the credit for co-founding the Shield. He didn’t deserve that credit, but that wasn’t Heyman’s problem. Rollins stole the Elimination Chamber and the WrestleMania main event from Logan Paul.
Heyman said Rollins thieved oxygen from every human being on the planet that was worthy of living, and Mr. Lynch (Rollins) was not one of them. They planned on stomping Rollins’ ass the next time he stepped into a ring. That wasn’t a spoiler—that was a personal guarantee from the Vision.
Theory grabbed the mic to cut a useless promo. Fans drowned him out with “You suck” chants, and Theory responded, “Rollins ain’t in the ring right now, so you can’t chant that,” which is not a good comeback. Paul was pissed because he eliminated three people in the Chamber, and the last person who did that was Brock Lesnar.
Paul called out Rollins, but he got Adam Pearce, who was not interested in hearing them complain. Pearce also accused them of taking out Jey Uso last week. Heyman didn’t appreciate that. Heyman remarked about Rollins, but Pearce said he would deal with Rollins personally because Rollins wasn’t cleared to compete.
If you thought they were done with the masked men, you were wrong. Three different masked men appeared in the crowd, and they were chased away by the two idiots, Theory and Paul, as well as Pearce’s security.
That left Heyman alone in the ring. A fourth masked man appeared in the aisle, now abandoned by Pearce, who also fell for Rollins’ trick. Heyman pleaded with him as a fifth masked man appeared behind Heyman.
Rollins unmasked and hit Heyman in the back with a steel chair (like he did to Roman Reigns). Rollins curb stomped Heyman as the crowd went wild. Rollins left through the crowd as medical staff checked on Heyman.
Heyman was dragged away during a break, and his face was covered in fake blood. After the break, Theory and Paul ran to check on Heyman as he was being loaded into an ambulance. Paul left to get their car while Theory remained.
Theory wanted the ambulance to leave, but it didn’t. Theory checked on an SUV that pulled up, thinking it was Paul, but it was actually Jimmy Uso. Jimmy punched Theory and tossed him into some equipment boxes. Jimmy checked on the ambulance driver, who was LA Knight. Knight said he’d take great care of Heyman, and he drove off.
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Gunther vs. Dragon Lee
Dragon attacked Gunther from behind during his entrance. He blindsided Gunther a few weeks ago, got beaten up, and it happened again here. Gunther fought him off and gave him a back body drop into the timekeeper’s area.
The match started during a break, and Gunther dominated throughout the break, when they came back from break, and through a second break. (Dragon got a brief flash of offence, but Gunther blocked his dive attempt and cut him down with a chop.)
Dragon fired back in time from them to return from break. He hit an enziguri and a low dropkick, but Gunther cut him off with a powerslam and hit two consecutive powerbombs. Gunther covered Lee and had it won, but lifted him up at the two count.
Gunther rolled Lee outside the ring before powerbombing him into the edge of the ring and onto the announce table. Gunther could have taken a count-out win, but he left the ring to try another powerbomb, but Lee countered into a sunset flip. Lee followed with a suicide dive and Operation Dragon.
Lee almost won by count-out, but Gunther slipped back in at nine. Lee managed to drop Gunther with a clothesline (after trying unsuccessfully a few times earlier).
Lee fired up and went for Operation Dragon again, but Gunther caught him in a sleeper. As they started going down ot the mat, Gunther ripped Lee’s mask off (and you could see his face for a split second). Lee immediately tapped out as a result.
Match result: Gunther defeated Dragon Lee (14:19)
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