• Andrade "Cien" Almas defeated Sin Cara on the Pre-Show. Biggest thing that came out of this match was Sin Cara missed a top rope Hurricanrana and Almas bumped anyway.
  
• Sanity defeated The New Day in a Tables Match on the Pre-Show, with Eric Young hitting the Elbow Drop off the Top Rope to put Kofi through the table.
  
• The B Team of Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas defeated The Deleters of Worlds (Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt) to win the Raw Tag Team Championships. The B Team celebrated wildly afterwards (and through the night).
  
• Kurt Angle was interviewed and claimed Brock Lesnar's refusal to show up had gone too far, and if he didn't show up to Raw tomorrow then he would be stripped of the Universal Title.
  
• Finn Balor defeated Baron Corbin with a roll-up after a short match.
  
• The Bludgeon Brothers assaulted Team Hell No backstage and injured Kane's knee, putting his place in the Tag Title match later in doubt.
  
• Carmella retained her Smackdown Women's Title against Asuka after Asuka was distracted by Ellsworth dangling lose from the shark cage he was supposed to be suspended over. They lowered the cage to try and get him out and Asuka kicked the poo poo out of him, so Carmella slammed her into the cage and pinned her. Ellsworth took an rear end whooping but that is yet ANOTHER clean win for Carmella over Asuka.
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura won the US Title from Jeff Hardy by kicking him right on the dick before the match could start, then immediately hitting the Kinshasa to get the pin. Randy Orton returned but instead of attacking Nakamura, he kicked Jeff on the dick as well. Shinsuke seemed confused.
  
• Kevin Owens defeated BRAUN clean in a cage match by being hurled off the top of the cage through a table (thankfully it apparently had a visible airbag beneath it). The spot looked incredible but also terrifyingly dangerous considering the feud so far. BRAUN gleefully mocked the idea of Owens being the "winner".
  
• Daniel Bryan fought The Bludgeon Brothers by himself for a long time before Kane finally made his return. Kane evened the odds briefly but then, bizarrely, Bryan tagged back in and was almost immediately pinned instead of his injured and mostly retired partner.
  
• Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashley beat the poo poo out of each other in a match to get the respect each felt they were owed by the other. Roman declared this was HIS YARD but his final attempted Finisher was blocked by Lashley's own Spear, and Bobby got a completely clean and undisputed pinfall over Roman.
  
• Alexa Bliss retained her Raw Women's Title against Nia Jax in a chaotic Extreme Rules match. Nattie and Mickie James were at ringside and the suspended Ronda Rousey was in the front row. Mickie's constant interference drove Ronda to distraction and she chased her out to a big pop. Alexa, using every weapon she could, eventually put down Nia with a DDT onto the chair, then cheesed it when Ronda came after her.
  
• AJ Styles and Rusev had a very good match full of nearfalls and peppered with interference by Aiden English. Finally AJ was able to take out Aiden, then hit the Phenomenal Forearm on Rusev to get the pin and retain his WWE Championship.
  
• Dolph Ziggler defended his Intercontinental Title in the main event of the show against Seth Rollins in a 30 minute Iron Man match. Seth took an early and dominating lead, to the point he was openly mocking Ziggler. This caused Drew to attack him and get Ziggler another DQ loss to add to the tally, but he did enough damage that Dolph was able to get back even. Drew was sent to the back by the referee.
  
• The crowd was determined to have their way as the match continued, using the 30 minute countdown to mimic the Royal Rumble countdown complete with buzzer. WWE actually took the clock off the screen to boos, but had to return it (to cheers) as Seth and Dolph needed to keep track of how much time they had. Finally Seth looked like he had Dolph beat but couldn't make it to pin him before time ran out and Dolph was declared the winner by default.
  
• Kurt Angle came out in his hometown to a pop that got bigger when he declared the match was going to sudden-death overtime. Everybody got real excited and happy.
  
• Drew came back, beat up Seth and then Dolph pinned him like 30 seconds later and was declared the winner and the show ended.
  
• Seriously.
  

• A memorial graphic was displayed for the recently deceased Masa Saito.
  
• General Manager Kurt Angle came out and noted that Brock Lesnar had not answered his ultimatum, and therefore he had no choice but to strip him of the Universal Title.
  
• Paul Heyman returned, and after back and forth (which the crowd loved) he finally agreed Brock would defend the title at Summerslam. The question was: Against who?
  
• Bobby Lashley was the first to come out, followed quickly by Drew McIntyre (without Dolph, Drew claimed this was "phase II" of his return to WWE) then Seth Rollins, then Elias, then Finn Balor and then of all people, Roman Reigns!
  
• Roman said he was making no excuses, he just wanted a fight. Angle agreed, and made two triple threat matches (Elias/Seth/Bobby and Balor/Drew/Roman) with the winners to face each other next week to become Number One Contender.
  
• Backstage, Corbin demanded to know if Angle had authorization from Stephanie to make the triple threats, and why HE wasn't in them especially if Balor was. Angle pointed out that Balor beat Corbin at the PPV.
  
• Roman Reigns pinned Finn Balor to win their Triple Threat. The match was good and ended after Finn looked to have Roman beat but got pulled out of the ring by Drew. Roman dodged a Claymore Kick from Drew which hit Finn instead, then Roman spearing Drew and pinning Finn. Poor Finn.
  
• Kurt met with Bayley backstage and she told him the Friendship Counselling didn't go well. She said she and Sasha both tried but it didn't work. Kurt said he needed them to get along and put them in a tag match, and said if they couldn't make it work, one of them would be traded to Smackdown.
  
• Dolph Ziggler came out to taunt everybody about winning the Iron Man match against Seth Rollins last night. Bobby Roode came out to challenge him for the title, Ziggler offered him a match and then revealed it was JUST a match, the title wasn't on the line.
  
• Ziggler defeated Bobby Roode. The commentators sold the idea that Roode had tweaked his knee and Ziggler had taken advantage.
  
• Bobby Lashley did a backstage promo insisting he would beat Brock and become the new Universal Champion.
  
• Mojo Rawley defeated Tyler Breeze in a singles match.
  
• Alicia Fox and Dana Brooke defeated Bayley and Sasha in their tag match. Bayley was taking a beating from Alicia and Dana when Sasha attacked them both and continued to fight them outside until the referee ended the match. Sasha walked out leaving a confused Bayley behind.
  
• Bayley confronted Sasha backstage and Sasha said she wouldn't let anybody else beat her up. Bayley noted this meant she cared and Sasha erupted that of course she did and always had, she loved what a good and open person she was, hell she loved her. She stormed out and Bayley looked happy.
  
• A recap of BRAUN hurling Owens off the top of the cage last night. BRAUN was interviewed and mocked again the fact that Owens "won". He said he didn't throw his name in the hat to take on Brock because he had the MITB briefcase and could cash it in anytime he wanted.
  
• New Tag Champs The B Team defeated The Ascension to retain their titles. The Deleters of Worlds appeared on the Titantron, Matt looking uncharacteristically furious, and announced they would rematch for the titles next week. Matt did the DELETE chant which the crowd did NOT pick up on at all.
  
• Alexa proclaimed that outsmarting and beating Nia Jax at the PPV wasn't even that hard and she could beat anybody in the lockerroom and Ronda doesn't count because she is suspended.
  
• Ronda came down through the crowd and cut Alexa and Mickie off at the top of the ramp then chased them down. She caught Mickie and murdered her, though Alexa and several refs were able to haul her to safety when Ronda prepared to armbar her. Ronda then charged through the refs and over Alexa. She took Alexa back to the ring and prepared to armbar her too, but Kurt ran out and told her to go home and wait out her suspension.
  
• Baron Corbin came out and told Kurt to show more authority, so Kurt added another week to her suspension. Corbin was furious and said he was going to call Stephanie, but couldn't find his phone. He went to find it and Angle revealed he had stolen it. He told Rousey she would get another match against Alexa Bliss but ONLY if she restrained herself from attacking. If she could do that, she would get a title match at Summerslam.
  
• The Authors of Pain defeated Titus Worldwide in a tag match.
  
• Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan bumped into No Way Jose's conga line backstage as they master-blastered their way towards the ring.
  
• Sarah Logan defeated Ember Moon, marking her first singles victory on Raw so far.
  
• Elias opened the Triple Threat match against Seth and Bobby with a concert. As he sang, the commentators did their patented snickering/fake laugh thing. It was weird.
  
• Bobby Lashley pinned Elias to win the Triple Threat Main Event. Seth was about to hit the Curb Stomp on Bobby but was pulled out of the ring by Elias. Elias got into the ring to attack Bobby, but got speared and pinned.
  
• Next week Bobby Lashley and Roman Reigns will have a rematch of the match they JUST had at Extreme Rules to decide who faces Brock Lesnar at Summerslam.
  

• Jeff Hardy opened the show to say he felt incomplete without the US Title, so he was having his rematch against Nakamura later in the show. Shinsuke was interviewed backstage where he gleefully mocked crying and claimed Jeff was a sad clown and the US Title was now HIS title. He ended with,"God Bless America"
  
• AJ Styles defeated Andrade "Cien" Almas by Submission, after a lengthy match where Almas largely dominated and looked to be completely in control until AJ was able to transition beautifully into a Calf Crusher and make Almas tap.
  
• Aiden English found Lana backstage and apologized for his involvement at Extreme Rules which he felt cost Rusev the title. Lana said this wasn't about him, but Rusev, and he said that all he wanted was a second chance.
  
• Becky Lynch defeated Mandy Rose in a singles match, continuing her streak against Mandy and Sonya. Becky did a cool promo post-match calling out Carmella and demanding a title match. The crowd was into this, as they should be, because Becky rules.
  
• Backstage, Paige was impressed by the crowd reaction and told Carmella that she would face Becky next week in a non-title match. If Becky wins, then Carmella must defend the title at Summerslam against Becky.
  
• R-Truth tried to motivate Tye Dillinger for his match against Samoa Joe, but Tye seemed grumpy and upset.
  
• Tye attacked Joe at the start of the match and tried to overwhelm him, but Joe quickly overpowered and choked him out.
  
• The Miz held a eulogy for Team Hell No, that started with him humble-bragging about his new reality show and winning MVP at a recent charity baseball game. He then kicked things into high gear with a rant about how Daniel Bryan is a gloryhound who isn't as good as he thinks he is.
  
• Bryan's music hit and the pallbearers were revealed to be hired goons ready to jump Bryan, except he came in from the back and took out Miz, trashed the MizTV set and suplexed the hell out of a hired goon. Miz was left fuming on the entrance ramp.
  
• New Day got themselves fired up backstage for Kofi Kingston's match against Sanity's Eric Young.
  
• Eric Young defeated Kofi Kingston. It was a competitive match but Kofi was dominating towards the end, causing Sanity to try and distract him. BIG E and Xavier took them out, but Killian Dain tossed Woods into Kofi as he was running the ropes, and Eric Young was able to take advantage and get the win.
  
• Next week, Paige will announce AJ Styles' opponent for Summerslam.
  
• Shinsuke Nakamura and Jeff Hardy had a long match that was largely even, with Hardy finally getting the upper hand and setting up for the Swanton Bomb. He hit it, but as he went to pin Shinsuke, he was hauled out of the ring by Randy Orton who had appeared from nowhere. The ref called for the DQ.
  
• Orton beat the poo poo out of Hardy at ringside, Hardy had a momentary comeback but Orton raked the eyes, then stomped on his head against the steps. Then he JAMMED HIS FINGER THROUGH HARDY'S EAR GAUGE
  
• Orton threw him onto the announce table, ran through officials to get back to Jeff and hit him with the draping DDT.
  

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