Flair stands tall at ringside as we go back to commercial.īack from the break and Flair is dominating Baszler in the corner. Flair launches herself over the top rope, taking Baszler down on the floor. Baszler drops her on the apron and goes for a baseball slide but Flair avoids it. Baszler whips her into the corner and she goes to the apron. She knows Jax cannot beat Flair, but she can beat… Jax just wants to just get on the same page. They argued over what happened last week, and Baszler says she did what Jax has done to her. We see footage from earlier today where Nia Jax confronted Baszler backstage, calling her a traitor. The announcers hype Flair’s title defense against Alexa Bliss at WWE Extreme Rules. Flair poses on the entrance way as the pyro goes off. We go back to the ring and out first comes RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair for this non-title match. Flair walks off.Ĭhampionship Contender’s Match: RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. She goes on about teaching a lesson to Baszler as she did with Jax last week, and declares she is the very best to do this, and the ring is her throne and she will be champion forever. Flair says Baszler and Jax are both great competitors but Baszler won’t get to her level if she continues to be dragged down by dead weight. Flair is backstage with Sarah Schreiber now, asking about Baszler’s confidence that she can beat her. – Back from the break and we see how Shayna Baszler caused Nia Jax to lose a title match against RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair last week. She will face Shayna Baszler in a Championship Contender’s match. – We see RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair backstage getting ready.
Big E watches from the corner, focused, as MVP tends to Lashley. Orton taunts Lashley and exits the ring as his music hits. Orton runs around the ring as fans go wild. Orton ends up dropping Lashley with the RKO for a huge pop. Lashley has strong threats for both Orton and Big E.īig E taunts Lashley by putting the briefcase in his face. Lashley says Orton made the biggest mistake of his life challenging for his title. Big E gets a pop for saying he will cash in on Orton. MVP goes on and Orton interrupts, saying MVP is wasting his breath on MVP because the fight is right here and he’s proved it takes just one RKO to bring Lashley to his knees and that’s what he will do to become the new WWE Champion. MVP takes shots at The New Day and says maybe Big E came to RAW because he’s scared to cash in on WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns or maybe scared of Brock Lesnar. Orton brags about having strings pulled to get the change. Orton says it’s been 14 long years since they battled in this ring so he thought why wait until Extreme Rules? Orton says maybe he was looking for a way to throw Lashley off his game by getting the match changed. MVP goes on about how he usually joins everyone else in laughing at Big E’s stupid dancing around, but tonight he and Lashley are not in the mood to laugh because somehow Orton and Riddle politicked their way into changing the WWE Title match from Extreme Rules to tonight, when they were supposed to challenge for the RAW Tag Team Titles. MVP says Big E chose the wrong night to show up on RAW. MVP says Big E won’t be cashing in on Randy because Randy isn’t winning the WWE Title tonight. Riddle says it’s good to have Big E back on RAW, but please don’t cash in on Randy because that’s my bro. He takes the mic and reminds them of his plans to cash in tonight. Big E stands in between them but to the side. Lashley enters the ring and stares Orton down, raising the title in the air. Before they can make it into the ring, the music interrupts and out comes WWE Champion Bobby Lashley with MVP. They’re also introduced as Riddle rides his scooter to the ring. He’s interrupted by the RAW Tag Team Champions – Randy Orton and Riddle. Big E goes out and stands on the announce table to play to the crowd. He rushes the ring with the Money In the Bank briefcase as fans cheer him on and Mike Rome does the introduction. – We go right to the ring and out comes SmackDown Superstar Big E to a big pop. They hype tonight’s main event for the WWE Title. He’s joined at ringside by Corey Graves and Byron Saxton. – Tonight’s WWE RAW opens live on the USA Network as Jimmy Smith welcomes us to the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Tonight’s show comes from the TD Garden in Boston, MA. Welcome to our Live WWE RAW Viewing Party.