WWE Monday Night Raw returns dancing into our lives this evening (Jan. 21, 2019) from the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, including the return home show to the forthcoming Royal Rumble pay-per-see booked for this Sunday night in Phoenix.
Brock Lesnar makes his passage, Paul Heyman next to him as usual.
Paul does his typical early on spiel before getting serious and saying that last week on Raw Finn Balor stuck John Cena. He ventured up and grabbed the occasion, to such an extent that Cena himself, the second-most noteworthy ever, took the mic in his grasp and said he puts stock in Balor. What's more, he should! To such an extent that the WWE Universe has now stood up as one and proclaimed that they all have faith in Balor.
Enter Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
He says Heyman's gone somewhat delicate and that is a little old-school advertiser of him to find some business by recommending that Balor can contend with Brock. He'd propose that the main way anybody could have faith in the match is on the off chance that they have faith in the narrative of David and Goliath, to which Paul says he's never perused the Bible. Vince discusses how David got high on mushrooms and Goliath beat the damnation out of him, which isn't the way I recollect the story.
Enter Braun Strowman.
He gets in the ring and Paul keeps running off yet Vince and Lesnar stand firm, McMahon asking what he's doing here. Strowman advances and Vince asks Brock to quit playing with him. Braun starts, saying last Monday was the most exceedingly bad day of his life, with Baron Corbin costing him $100K and his title coordinate, yet that was the most fortunate night of Lesnar's life, and in the event that regardless he has the title after Sunday, Strowman will pause and he'll tear him separated like one of McMahon's limousines. Vince requests that he relax -
Enter Finn Balor.
David remained in the shadow of a monster and they chuckled in his face, yet they didn't know david's identity and what he was made of, and Goliath fell face-down in the earth, blast. McMahon proposes a genuine David and Goliath today among Balor and Strowman!
Braun Strowman versus Finn Balor
The match started with vancement and Balor is on the back foot yet gets a jawbreaker and a dropkick for some detachment. Avoid the charge, enzuigiri from the cook's garment, Strowman diverted by Lesnar however Finn stands out enough to be noticed... what's more, gets dropped into the tangle. Lift him up, coast over, boots up in the corner, Sling Blade blocked and counntered with a clubbing blow!
Back inside, arbitrator Rod Zapata considers Braun gradually stumbles to his feet and back in. Evade the charge, flying lower arm, off the ropes with another, a third gets obstructed a goozle and for the pummel however Balor transforms it into a sleeper hold! Again into the ropes to break it however Finn locks it ideal back on! Strowman staggers to one foot however figures out how to pry Balor's hands separated.
Brock pulls him off the cover and hits the F-5, at long last driving official Rod Zapata to call it...
Finn Balor wins by disqualification.
Apollo Crews versus Bobby Lashley
The match is in advancement, Lashley gets a nearfall off an invert STO and sets him up best however Crews hits a missle dropkick and both folks are crestfallen. Donkey kick, front kick, duck a tether, jumping rope into a kip-up and Apollo is started up! Headed up best, arrives on his feet when Bob charges in, move through, student stick for two. Military press however his back gives out and the two men collide with the tangle!
Going for the press again and he hits the military press drop yet Lashley rolls from the standing moonsault. Venture up enzuigiri, Lio running impedance, Crews tosses him in yet he has insane avoidances until the point that he gets captured in the press, Bob thinks quick...
Bobby Lashley wins by pinfall with the lance.
Drew McIntyre versus Seth Rollins
The match is in advancement and Rollins clotheslines McIntyre to the floor before hitting a suicide jump! Back in, springboard clothesline, just a nearfall and Seth pursues with a hack. Whip turned around, front kick, back elbow, back body drop sends Drew over the ropes and to the floor! Rollins climbs, lands on the post... Also, MCINTYRE MOVES OUT OF THE AXEHANDLE, SENDING SETH CRASHING INTO THE BARRICADE!
Setting him up best, moving for position, gamengiri amazes Drew... Creepy crawly BELLY-TO-BELLY SUPERPLEX! Sit up on the charge, McIntyre started up however he runs directly into a superkick... NOT ENOUGH! Exchanging lower arms and cleaves amidst the ring, headbutt interfaces and the two men end up depressed! Fire fighter's convey, Drew moves up best and moves his position... Torrential slide AIR RAID CRASH GETS A TIGHT NEARFALL!
Specialist Bomb... STILL NO! Forward and backward, Rollins underwrites...
Seth Rollins wins by pinfall with a student stick.
Jinder Mahal and the Singh Brothers (Samir and Sunil Singh) versus Lucha House Party (Gran Metalik, Kalisto, and Lince Dorado)
Dorado and Mahal to begin, Jinder with a twofold leg in the corner, Lince with a leg kick however he keeps running into a hammer and an invert chinlock presently. Tag to Samir, he gets dropkicked to hellfire and labels Sunil in. Back body drop, tag to Kalisto, scoop and a pummel, off the ropes, spring up falling sprinkle into the running falling sprinkle for one! Knucklelock, slaps to the cheswt, twofold hop flipping lucha arm drag, a plain arm haul into an armbar yet Singh tosses him through the ropes and to the floor.
Tag to Mahal, back inside for the cover, no way. Switch chinlock connected, tag back to Sunil and he snatches a side headlock. Tag denied, Kalisto whiffs a kick and Singh knocks in any case, the way is clear... label made! Jumping crossbody from Metalik, triangle dropkick, handspring into a tilt-a-spin backbreaker, Samir can't get in so as to split it up...
Lucha House Party win by pinfall with a tilt-a-spin backbreaker from Gran Metalik on Sunil Singh.
Baron Corbin versus Elias
Over from business, the match is in advancement and Elias completes a rope-walk arm drag! Off the ropes, dropkick through the ropes, however on the floor Baron turns the tide and clobbers the stray with punches on his arrival. Charging shoulders, slingshot, the Drifter with a knee, moving shaper... Probably not! Kicks to the gut, whip endeavor, hack, Baron gets him...
Noble Corbin wins by pinfall with End of Days.
Corbin celebrates at ringside.
Once more from business, Alexa Bliss makes her passage for another release of A Moment of Bliss.
She presents her visitor, Nia Jax. Euphoria needs to know who Nia would test on the off chance that she won the Royal Rumble, yet Ember Moon intrudes. She yanks the mic out of Jax's hands and says she's worn out on sitting in the locker room hanging tight for a welcome that was never coming, so she's creation her case - this Sunday, she's triumphant the Royal Rumble.
Enter Alicia Fox, who yanks the mic out of Moon's hand and says she's the chief of the division, so she's setting the course for WrestleMania, and that is going to begin by experiencing every one of them on Sunday.
Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic and Tucker Knight) versus the Ascension (Konnor and Viktor)
Dozovic and Viktor to begin, neckline and elbow, Otis backs Ascension into the corner and they end up exchanging cleaves. Viktor crushes him into the corner, Dozer builds up, disregards a waistlock, scoop, turn, and a hammer, tag to Knight. Off the ropes, stereo headbutts! Tucky started up, dashes into a boot, Vik with slashes, whip, springboard crossbody, tag back to Dozovic.
Bushwhacker walk, off the ropes, stereo body torrential slides, they thump Konnor down when he comes in, Otis with a little move into an elbow drop, back elbow for Viktor, started up, Dozer slapping his biceps... HE'S DOING THE WORM INTO AN ELBOW DROP, IT'S THE CATERPILLAR! Tag to Knight, World's Strongest Slam grip...
Heavy Machinery win by pinfall with the Compactor on Viktor.
Bobby Roode and Chad Gable (c) versus the Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson (WWE Raw Tag Team Championship)
More out of control and Gable to begin, Dash gets a wristlock and wrenches it in. Move through getaway, drop foothold into an armbr and a tag to Roode yet unique visitor official Curt Hawkins calls attention to he wasn't holding the label rope! Dawson labels in, passing Chad into the turnbuckles, tailing it with cleaves that send the Olympian to the floor. Chad tossing lower arms, into the ropes, Scott drops him with an uppercut and clears the cook's garment!
Plunging crossbody, move through, bunch of tights and Curt cancels the stick once more! Kick to the gut, dump to the cover, again contending with Hawkins and Gable gets a shoulder push into a springboard dusk flip. More out of control attempts to square it...
Bobby Roode and Chad Gable win by pinfall with a dusk flip from Gable on Scott Dawson to hold the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
The Revival quibble with Hawkins and end up thrashing him! ZACK RYDER MAKES THE SAVE! Significant BROTHERS FOREVER! Ryder dumps Wilder and Dawson thus and stands tall with his old accomplice!
Analysis shills for the WWE Network some more.
Boss and Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks) versus Natalya and Ronda Rousey
Banks and Natalya to begin, Sasha with a dirty move on Rousey and she brings Nattie directly down into a hold. Move to a wristlock, tag to Bayley, short twofold whip into the corner and a twofold suplex for one. Tossing Neidhart into the corner, twofold stir into a twofold hip hurl, sliding elbow and a knee and Ronda comes in and brings Bayley down! Judo toss on Banks, they stand tall and jaw as we go to break.
Neidhart with a snap suplex back inside, running step to the back of the head, storm cellar dropkick, pick the legs, the Sharpshooter is on however Bayley splits it up! Clear the cover, Natalya with a disk tether, she returns to Sasha, powerbomb countered, knee strike, lungblower...
Boss and Hug Connection win by accommodation with the Bank Statement from Sasha Banks on Natalya.