[intro music playing]
[Triple H] Then.
Now.
Forever.
Together.
[Tessitore] One of the most anticipated weeks of the WWE year begins now,
from Evansville, Indiana, where these passionate fans
know what's right around the corner.
Bad Blood.
And tonight, the Ford Center is the boiling hot cauldron
of the final heated hype
because the men who are putting their careers on the line are here.
CM Punk's going to join us live.
Now only five days from Hell in a Cell
where he has promised one thing
that he's going to make Drew McIntyre bleed.
The Scottish Warrior has made his way to the arena.
A week ago, he told the world
he's ending this feud with Punk once and for all.
What will we hear from them as reality now sets in?
Plus, the massive match-up, literally, the stage is set.
Braun Strowman's ready.
Been a constant attack with his fellow big-man brawling rival.
It's time to settle it among gargantuan.
"Big" Bronson Reed has been delivering tsunami upon tsunami
continuously over 710 combined pounds of Superstar.
It's the Last Monster Standing Match coming your way tonight.
["Greatness" playing]
Joe Tessitore alongside my partner, as always, Wade Barrett.
And I hope we've got a reinforced desk over there,
because this is a super-sized edition of our show.
Enjoy this arena while you can,
because once our monsters are done with it,
it will never look the same again.
But without further ado, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Monday Night Raw.
[crowd cheers]
A Monday Night Raw, and a WWE Universe
with still so much afterglow
with the title change we saw last week.
It was Jey Uso's crowning achievement.
It has been a long and arduous road to singles glory for Jey Uso,
and right now it's within sight.
But what stands opposite him is The Badass Bron Breakker.
Does that change tonight?
["Ten Thousand Hours" playing]
Too easy for me.
[Tessitore] Frankensteiner. A cover to retain.
Jey survives.
[Barrett] Breakker is about to put Jey Uso to the sword.
[Tessitore] Jey counters with a spear of his own.
Uso splash delivers.
-Could it be-- -[Barrett] Hell no.
This is not a fairy tale.
["Ten Thousand Hours" continues playing]
[Tessitore] You can see the spear coming.
Here it comes. Oh!
The superkick has laid out Breakker.
And now Jey, right through the barrier.
Could it be for the first time ever…
[bell rings]
[crowd cheers]
[Jeyce] Oh, my God, he did it.
[Tessitore] Jey, a veteran and after 14 years,
finally a singles champion.
They are celebrating.
Jey Uso is the Intercontinental Champion.
[crowd cheers]
-[crowd chants "yeet"] -In the building.
In the building.
[crowd chants "yeet"]
Hey hey.
Hey! New IC champ.
Hey, Uce.
Please, please hit my music.
Oh, yeah. Uh. Uh.
[both] Yeet!
["Main Event Ish" playing]
[Tessitore] With his son Jeyce by his side.
Dapping him up before sending out dad.
Now, the swell of support that has lasted for so long
and crashed down as a wave of emotions a week ago.
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's Jey, I line 'em all up And knock 'em down like this ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
[crowd cheers]
♪ Aye, yeah, aye, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ It's go time now, yeah, Uce, uh-uh ♪
♪ Okay, yeah, okay, yeah ♪
♪ Aye, let's get it, Uce Aye, yo, I'm… ♪
[Tessitore] Fourteen years of main-roster work.
And to let it all out and cry
with tears of joy and appreciation a week ago.
And this is what it's all about.
When he took that title from Bron Breakker,
it was Jey's natural reaction to do this.
To only go to one place to the fans.
"Champ is yeet," Wade.
-You know what? -He did it.
I'm going to let this one go, but even I'm touched by this.
The journey of Jey Uso breaking his singles-championship hoodoo,
shaking the monkey off his back
and in the process shaking up this entire industry
by grabbing one of the most historical championships he possibly could.
The Intercontinental Championship.
For once and once only
I'll give you a big yeet.
[Tessitore] Well deserved.
["Main Event Ish" continues playing]
♪ Uso! ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's Jey, I line 'em all up And knock 'em down like this ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, it's on me now, Uce ♪
♪ Aye, yeah, aye, yeah ♪
♪ It's go time now, Uce, uh-huh ♪
♪ Okay, yeah ♪
♪ Aye, let's get it, Uce ♪
♪ Aye, yo, I'm 'bout to get 'em, Uce ♪
♪ I'm 'bout to get 'em all ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Uso! ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's Jey, I line 'em all up And knock 'em down like this ♪
[crowd cheers]
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce… ♪
[Tessitore] A fitting celebration.
Finally, a singles championship for Jey Uso.
[Barrett] Emotional outpouring of relief and jubilation
for a man who has inspired audiences around the world.
Jey Uso, you did it.
[Tessitore] And a chance to properly address the world
as the Intercontinental Champion.
♪ Aye, aye Main Event Jey Uso Is now in your city! ♪
♪ Uso! ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's just me, Uce ♪
♪ Day one ish ♪
♪ It's Jey, I line 'em all up And knock 'em down like this, I did ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
[crowd cheers]
[crowd chants "yeet"]
Come on.
[crowd chants "you deserve it"]
[crowd continues chanting]
[crowd cheers]
[crowd chants "yeet"]
The Intercontinental Champion,
"Main Event" Jey Uso
is now in your city.
[crowd cheers]
Hey, my first singles championship.
I'm gonna fight every week for it and I'm gonna fight anyone who wants it.
Yeet.
[crowd] Yeet.
Yeet.
[Barrett] Uso a little overwhelmed with this emotion.
I appreciate y'all.
[crowd] Yeet.
I love y'all.
[crowd] Yeet.
Thanks for rocking with you, boy.
[crowd] Yeet.
Thanks for getting your voice back.
[crowd] Yeet.
Through all the years.
[crowd] Yeet.
I love you.
[crowd] Yeet.
[Jey] Yeet.
[crowd] Yeet.
[crowd cheers]
Very special for me, man.
I got to walk through the ring.
My first championship with my son Jeyce behind me.
[crowd cheers]
It was hard, man.
Long, hard road to get here, Uce.
Yeah, my own family made it hard for me.
[crowd] Yeet.
Roman made it hard for me.
[crowd] Yeet.
My whole life, I'm just a twin.
My wrestling career.
I'm just a twin.
They didn't know me.
They know me now, though.
[crowd] Yeet.
[crowd cheers]
[crowd chants "yeet"]
[mumbles]
My biggest fan, though.
Love you too.
My biggest fan, though.
Out of me and all my brothers is my mother.
[crowd cheers]
I spoke to my mom.
I spoke to my mother.
She said, go out there
and show 'em who you are.
[crowd] Yeet.
She said, go out there and get it.
[crowd] Yeet.
I got it.
And mama, we did it.
[crowd] Yeet.
[crowd cheers]
Yeet
["Break And Destroy" playing]
[Tessitore] And right at that thoughtful moment,
the Badass is interrupting, Wade?
[Barrett] The man Jey Uso defeated for that Intercontinental Championship.
None other than Bron Breakker.
[Tessitore] In the middle of such an introspective and beautiful,
emotion-laden talk by Jey Uso.
That's when he decides to come out and interrupt this moment.
[Barrett] Well, I hope the celebrations were fun, Jey, because the hunter
may well have just become the hunted.
[crowd boos]
[crowd barks, boos]
I'm not out here to spoil the fun
or crash the party
or whatever you want to call it.
I'm out here because of the respect that I have
for that championship, all right?
You know this. They know this.
The lineage of that championship goes back long ways, man.
After battling it out with you last week, bro.
I got the same amount of respect for you, too.
I told the world a couple weeks ago
how much that championship meant to me, that it was…
It was my family and that the right Superstar,
the one who deserved it, should walk out that night
with the championship on their shoulder.
The better man.
And on that night.
You were the better man.
[crowd cheers]
I'm not going to spear you.
I'm not going to attack you, all right?
I just… I felt like…
I don't know… It should be me,
the first one to come out here
as a competitor, as a colleague.
Congratulations.
[crowd boos]
[crowd cheers]
Hey, Bron.
[crowd chants "yeet"]
There's some dogs in Indiana, Uce.
[crowd barks]
[Tessitore] Well, it seemed like for a moment there,
we were going to get a possible encore edition of action
we saw a week ago, but not the case at all,
as all of a sudden, Wade, you see a more mature version of Bron Breakker.
The guy who thought he had done everything he needed
in order to to end Jey's championship bid,
unlike we saw when he had a failed effort against Sami Zayn a few months ago,
a more maturing Bron Breakker.
I'll be confounded. I was not expecting that reaction.
But make no mistake, the rise of Bron Breakker doesn't end here.
That guy is going to the top.
And that rise will continue unabated.
You know, recently we've been monitoring a situation with The New Day,
specifically the frustrations with Xavier Woods.
Like, last week, when the Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio
kindly apologized for what was a role he played
when they were going after a championship and Woods lost his cool with it.
Woods, I know you're upset, but come on, we didn't do it intentionally.
Come on, man.
I know you'll get through this.
You're The New Day.
-Yeah, yeah, we are The New Day. -We are.
And this is unsolicited advice that would probably be better used
if you went and gave it to your son, Dom.
[Wilde] Oh. But why…
You want to fight with me?
Finn can wait. Next week,
you got your fight.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] So, Wade, Rey Mysterio now finds himself in this spot unexpectedly,
going from trying to be helpful to Xavier Woods, to now challenging him.
[Barrett] Well, the legendary Hall of Famer
does not go looking for trouble.
He doesn't go looking for fights,
but he certainly does not back down from them.
["Booyaka 619" playing]
[bell rings]
[Irvin] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, representing the LWO,
from San Diego, California, weighing in at 175 pounds,
WWE Hall of Famer,
Rey Mysterio.
[Tessitore] It'll be the first time The Master of The 619
has ever had a one-on-one with Woods,
and it comes your way, next, on Monday Night Raw.
[crowd boos]
[indistinct conversation]
[giggles]
I love your car so much.
Hold on, this is Finn. I gotta take it.
-Hi -You guys seen Finn?
I can't find him anywhere.
He's actually in the middle of something right now,
-but Dominik's on the phone with him. -Okay. Everything good?
Yeah. You guys okay?
Yo, Finn. Are you good, fam?
[Bálor] Domski.
All good, mate.
Just having some travel issues. You'd know yourself.
Well, let Liv know that business we have,
it's all taken care of, mate.
I'll see all you guys soon, all right?
Okay. All right. We'll see you soon then.
-Do did you like him? -[indistinct chatter]
He said he was stuck. But we'll see him soon.
-[Morgan] Huh. -He didn't say much.
Do you guys want to go inside? I'm sweating.
-It's hot as hell. -So hot.
-Nice car. -It's good, right?
["Booyaka 619" playing]
[Tessitore] Rare to see Rey Mysterio readying for an opponent
other than the despicable Judgment Day lately.
["New Day, New Way" playing]
[Tessitore] Long run on Raw this year
and he's been in with his disgruntled son, Dirty Dom.
Or tag action with the loathsome members of The Judgment Day.
But now here's Xavier Woods.
[Irvin] And his opponent representing The New Day.
From Atlanta, Georgia, weighing in at 215 pounds,
Xavier Woods.
[Barrett] Well, Joe, you just used the word "disgruntled"
to describe Dominik Mysterio.
Well, it's a perfect word for Xavier Woods
as his mindset in recent weeks, he's been irate
over how Kofi Kingston has been cutting him out
of the strategizing when it came to the plans for The New Day.
Combine that with the fact that he felt talked down to
by former World Champions such as Kingston
and even Rey Mysterio of late,
which is how he found himself in this position.
[Tessitore] Now, Woods has been showing uncharacteristic frustration lately.
I mean, how about that moment we saw where he was shoving
and arguing with Kofi Kingston?
Did you ever think you'd see…
These guys have their ten-year anniversary coming up, The New Day,
and you never saw any of that prior.
[Barrett] They've had about three-year anniversary
-of not winning any gold. -[Tessitore] That's true.
[Barrett] And that really is the reason--
[Tessitore] Right into the cover.
And of course, the Hall of Famer, quick to kick out.
[Barrett] Why the issues have come to the forefront?
I'll tell you this right now,
every time you're in a slump in this industry,
every perceived slight just gets put under a magnifying glass.
Everything feels that much worse.
The only way to fix it is start getting some wins.
And if Xavier Woods can pull out a victory against a Hall of Famer,
a former multiple-time World Champion like Rey Mysterio,
suddenly it may well be sunshine and rainbows once again.
[Tessitore] Rey ran into a big boot
and then able to counter against Xavier Woods.
Woods, big challenge of keeping the emotion in check
as Rey takes control early on.
[Barrett] But to the breadbasket there of Xavier Woods,
who is completely rocked in the early goings of this one.
[Tessitore] Oh, West Coast Pop.
Rey Mysterio off to a great start
against Xavier Woods, here on Monday Night Raw.
Here he comes, right into your living room, folks.
Joe and Wade, ringside with you here in Evansville, Indiana, the Ford Center.
It will be home to the Last Monster Standing Match
later tonight between Braun Strowman and "Big" Bronson Reed.
Right now, Xavier Woods and Rey Mysterio going at it.
[Barrett] Well, Woods had a horrible start to this match-up,
which is completely understandable
against someone of the caliber of Rey Mysterio,
but he has bounced back into it.
And this really is a back-and-forth brawl at this point.
And at that point, I'll back the bigger man. That's Woods.
[Tessitore] Rey trying to break free.
And he does.
The arm drags Woods out onto the floor.
[Barrett] Just caught Xavier Woods napping.
That is 30-plus years of experience at the very top from Rey Mysterio.
[Tessitore] Moonsault.
Rey Mysterio springboarding his way down onto Woods.
[Barrett] Xavier Woods finding out first-hand
that defeating a Hall-of-Fame level,
former World Champion like Rey Mysterio.
Easier said than done.
[Tessitore] Former WWE Champion and two-time World Heavyweight Champion.
Of course, Woods, for the tag glory,
but one of the points of emphasis he's been having
is where is his gold now?
[Barrett] Well, that inferiority complex of Xavier Woods
might be about to get even worse.
[Tessitore] Springboard into the cover,
crossbody and the kick out by Woods at two.
[Barrett] Well Woods is clinging on for dear life.
But there is a reason Rey Mysterio has had the kind of career he's had.
He can pull off moves like this deep into a match-up with ease.
There truly are levels to this game,
and if you can't step up, you're going to get stepped on.
[Tessitore] He's driving that shoulder into the gut of Woods.
It's been a good stretch of offensive success for Rey Mysterio.
[Barrett] Yeah, that window of opportunity for victory is closing rapidly for Woods.
Unless he can pull something out here.
[Tessitore] Opportunity he has.
Rey, looking to counter.
[crowd cheers]
And he's got him set up.
The Master of The 619. Here he goes.
[Barrett] Woods had it scouted.
Woods was lying in wait.
[Tessitore] Rey, looking to counter, Woods, trying to wrap around his head.
Oh, no!
Oh, my!
The mask of the Hall of Famer, and he rolls him up.
What is he doing?
-And that's how he gets the victory. -[bell rings]
["New Day, New Way" playing]
[Irvin] Here is your winner.
Xavier Woods.
[Barrett] Xavier Woods just beat one of the greatest to ever do it.
[Tessitore] But, Wade, Wade, hold on a second.
It's how he just did it.
How it occurred.
[Barrett] Completely inadvertently,
the mask of Rey Mysterio slipped off his head.
That wasn't Woods' fault.
Of course he's going to have to capitalize and score to win.
Good job, Woods.
[Tessitore] Accidentally, I don't…
I didn't mean to.
[Tessitore] That seems off.
Lyra Valkyria,
just the woman I was looking for. You know, I was thinking about you today.
You have a very big match tonight with Zoey Stark.
Tough match. Right, Shayna?
[Baszler clears throat]
It's just very unfortunate
that you're going to be out there all alone.
No Natalya and uh…
What's the other girl's name?
-Zelina. -Her.
[chuckles]
You're just going to be out there all alone.
But don't worry, I'm gonna be there.
And Shayna's gonna be there.
You don't have to worry about her.
She doesn't bite.
Unless I tell her to.
[Tessitore] Lyra Valkyria and Zoey Stark with Pure Fusion Collective nearby, next.
[foreboding music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
[man] The shadows prolong.
Prepare yourselves.
[thunder rumbling]
[sighs]
[crowd cheers]
[Kingston] Hey, man.
Hey. Hey. What's going on, man? Uh…
First off, I appreciate you letting me do that by myself.
Yeah. Hey, you know what?
No. Don't worry about it. Uh…
I got to ask you, man.
-What, did you do that on purpose? -No, no.
-With the mask? -No, I would never do that. I respect Rey.
He's the best man.
But I also figured you'd be congratulating me
on beating somebody who's got so many accolades,
that should make so many opportunities for me, you know?
I know, I know, congratulations. It's a big win.
He's a former World Heavyweight Champion. He's a legend Hall of Famer.
-Yeah. -But look man, like,
-speaking of opportunities… -Yeah.
I don't know if this is the right time to tell you,
but Jey Uso offered me an opportunity to face him
for the IC title next week on Raw, bro.
That's great, man.
I'll be by your side as you climb the mountain again.
-As always-- -No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You're not going to be by my side
because I told him that I think it should be you.
-And he agreed, man. -What?
Yeah. I know you're supposed to be the QB of the team and calling the plays.
I don't want to step out of line, but you've earned it, man.
Bro, this is… This is incredible.
I love Jey, but I can beat Jey.
-Yeah -I can be Intercontinental Champion, man.
-I know you can, bro. -Yes, yes.
-Come on, bro. -But tonight let's just refocus
-because you still got a match. -Right, right.
And American Made is going to be out there.
So you let me go by myself. But I would love to be out there
-to make sure everything is all good. -You're the QB, man.
I would love that, man. And we going two for two tonight.
And do you know why?
Because
New Day rocks.
It's a good night, bro. Let's go.
[chuckles]
[Barrett] What did I tell you, Joe?
One win in this game can turn it all around.
And it is sunshine and rainbows once again for The New Day.
[Tessitore] And now, one of the fastest rising stars
of the game is ready to take flight.
["Triumph" playing]
[bell rings]
[Irvin] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first from Dublin, Ireland,
Lyra Valkyria.
[Tessitore] Who most recently on Raw, has found herself
tangling with Pure Fusion Collective.
Remember that thriller in Calgary the night of Natalya's Sharpshooter
earned six-person tag victory?
Lyra Valkyria's making her WWE 2k franchise entrance
at a high-flying 80 rating.
Part of the Global Superstars Pack.
WWE 2k24 biggest DLC this year.
Hey, just a tad what we heard there backstage by the way.
I love the fact that Jey Uso is a fighting champion,
that Jey Uso says, "You know what?
Let me put it out there right away."
And you heard the reaction from Xavier Woods
when Kofi told him Intercontinental Championship Match
next week right away. Jey wants to defend.
[Barrett] That is massive.
Could be a short reign for Jey, but let's talk about Lyra Valkyria.
Recently she mentioned she's been mixing it up
-with Pure Fusion Collective. -["Run For The Hills" playing]
[Barrett] She has had backup, of course, in the form of Zelina Vega and Natalya,
neither of whom are here tonight.
They're away on promotional duties for WWE,
and now Lyra Valkyria stands all alone
with this trio staring her down.
[Irvin] And her opponent accompanied by Shayna Baszler,
Sonya Deville,
representing Pure Fusion Collective,
Zoey Stark.
[Tessitore] Zoey is as dangerous and capable
of a rival as you're going to see.
And of course, you know who she joined forces with.
Shayna and Sonya there.
It happened this summer, and we've had nonstop ambush attacks
and backstage violence, that has been the norm.
[Barrett] That's how you get to the top in a hurry in this game.
And I'll tell you this about Zoey Stark.
I've watched her career over the past four years.
I've watched her growth and her development.
She's hit a whole new level
since linking up with Sonya Deville and Shayna Baszler
and now Zoey Stark.
Despite the skill set she already had,
has now turned into that…
Almost like that kid who only has fun breaking the toys of other people.
But Zoey Stark has fun breaking the bodies
-of the other women in the locker room. -[bell rings]
[Tessitore] All right, let's get back to what you brought up, Wade, earlier.
And that is Natalya and Vega.
Not here to support Lyra.
[Barrett] Well, they're away on promotional duties.
It's part of the role of being a Superstar in WWE.
And that's why I called it at the time.
Lyra Valkyria sticking her nose in other people's business,
trying to protect others, it's great.
You get a pat on the back, for she's a jolly good fellow,
but now you're out here on your own
with a bull's eye on your back and no protection whatsoever.
[Tessitore] Saw Lyra, for a moment there grabbing at her left leg.
Into the cover, hooks the leg, but quickly Stark with the kick out.
But immediately you saw initially Lyra grabbing at her left leg
as the backbreaker applied by Zoey Stark.
[Barrett] Well, the mission of the Pure Fusion Collective
is pretty obvious to me.
Take out every woman in the locker room, maim them,
injure them one by one till there's nobody left.
[exclaims]
Lyra Valkyria a little more difficult to take down than most.
She's in complete control against Zoey Stark. Can she continue?
[Tessitore] Monday Night Raw here in Evansville, Indiana.
We are just a couple hours away from the Last Monster Standing Match.
But right now, very entertaining match between Zoey Stark and Lyra Valkyria
[Barrett] Entertaining.
So long as you're not Lyra Valkyria
whose body is getting turned into mincemeat
by the uber-aggressive Zoey Stark.
But that fire inside Valkyria has not gone out yet.
[Tessitore] Fights her way out of the corner.
Crossbody!
As she rallies back against Stark.
[Barrett] Yeah. Now we're starting to see the skill set and the fire.
The desire inside Valkyria that took her all the way
to NXT Women's Championship gold.
[Tessitore] And beyond the recent drama of the exchanges they've had,
as she goes into the cover, hooks the leg and a kick out.
This match-up is rooted
in what happened all the way back
in The Queen of the Ring tournament,
when Zoey Stark was defeated by Lyra in the quarterfinals.
That was a great run that Lyra had then, Wade.
[Barrett] You ain't lying, Joe.
But the difference now is that Pure Fusion Collective
is on the outside lurking.
And calling plays over to Zoey Stark.
You literally hear Sonya Deville on the outside,
telling Zoey Stark when to attack, how--
[Tessitore] Oh! Missile dropkick off the top rope
springboarding into the cover.
[Barrett] And you just see that light inside Valkyria is starting to fade.
A bullseye pinpoint dropkick to the jaw of Valkyria.
It speaks volumes to the toughness of the Irish woman,
but tonight it may not be enough.
[Tessitore] Zoey Stark, who was on the losing side
the last time she was in the ring on Raw against Lyra Valkyria
when Lyra, Natalya and Zelina Vega they teamed up in Calgary--
[Barrett] Oh! The Z-360.
[Tessitore] PFC.
[Barrett] Zoey Stark attempting to put this one to bed,
but Lyra Valkyria a little too quick.
[Tessitore] What is Sonya doing now?
And now Shayna is engaged with the referee, and Zoey…
Well, it was Lyra.
[Barrett] It was always going to end at one versus three--
[Tessitore] The roll up. Where's the count?
[Barrett] This referee, understandably distracted by Pure Fusion Collective.
Knee to the jaw. Behind the referee's back.
[Tessitore] Sonya Deville comes up with the knee.
And the Z-360 is landed by Zoey.
-Into the cover. And the win. -[bell rings]
And what did you say about being absent of Natalya and Zelina?
[Irvin] Here is your winner, Zoey Stark.
[Barrett] It's very impressive when you stand up for your friends.
PFC!
[Barrett] But sometimes self-preservation is the smartest thing you can do
in this industry, and if you don't follow that,
you end up looking like Lyra Valkyria looks now.
[Tessitore] Well, if it wasn't for Sonya Deville
and then the beautiful Z-360…
And now look at Deville right in her face.
-Oh, look at this! -[Barrett] Oh!
[Tessitore] It's Kayden Carter and Katana Chance.
[Barrett] We haven't seen them for a couple of months.
They got taken out by Pure Fusion Collective.
Katana Chance wearing that mask on her face.
Got her nose smashed across it.
[Tessitore] Carter with a big kick right to Shayna.
[Barrett] These two women have an ax to grind against Pure Fusion Collective.
The former Women's Tag Champs here in WWE.
[Tessitore] Oh, they're going up for it.
They're thinking keg stand here, aren't they?
[Barrett] We might get some acrobatics.
[Tessitore] With a mask on because of the busted nose.
Katana Chance and Kayden Carter.
And there it is.
Delivering that keg stand.
A welcome return, Carter and Chance.
[Barrett] Well, Lyra Valkyria must be thanking her lucky stars
for the return of Carter and Chance. Not a moment too soon.
It was a victory tonight for Zoey Stark,
but they will be left ruing the return of Carter and Chance.
[Tessitore] On a night when we will have our Last Monster Standing main event,
and I feel like everything on Raw changed in early August,
when "Big" Bronson Reed decided he was going to tsunami everything in his path.
That was up until Braun Strowman started standing toe-to-toe with him.
-[air traffic controller] Abort. -[pilot] Sir, yes, sir.
[Tessitore] "Big" Bronson Reed.
[Reed] Pound for pound, I am one of the best in the world,
and the way to prove that is to take all of my competitors out.
[Cole] Braun Strowman, One Big SOB.
[Barrett] Braun Strowman has sent all the other monsters out to pasture.
[Reed] I'm going to finish the job with you, Braun.
And the story won't be about Braun Strowman The Monster,
the story will be about Braun Strowman, the victim.
[Strowman] It takes a monster to beat a monster.
[Barrett] You cannot keep them apart.
The Monster of All Monsters,
Braun Strowman versus "Big" Bronson Reed.
[siren blaring]
We will not control them, but we have to contain them.
I want the match in the ring, and I want it to stay there.
You cannot let it get outside the ring.
You cannot let them go crazy.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] We are closing in on Bad Blood.
And that man is closing in on Hell in a Cell.
We're going to hear from CM Punk next.
I'm here with Kayden and Katana fresh off of making a very--
-Jackie, let me praise them too. -Yeah.
Thank you guys so much!
Hey, so did you see what they did to my face?
-Look at it. -They broke my nose.
And they're going to get what's coming to them.
Because everyone around here might think that we're the nice guys,
but that ends now.
And once we're done with Pure Fusion Collective,
we're going to get back our Women's Tag Team titles
We're made for gold.
Aw, how sweet. [chuckles]
You've been gone for months.
What makes you think you can come in here and just cut the line?
Those tag titles belong to us, and you two better think twice--
Why don't you shut your mouth?
[clamoring]
[screaming] Let's do it! Come on!
-Come on! -[indistinct chatter]
[enthralling music playing]
Ladies and gentlemen,
part of my professional responsibilities that I take very seriously
is the delivery of our main events and our special attractions.
And on Saturday at Bad Blood,
I plan on delivering one hell of a special attraction.
[crowd cheers]
CM Punk and Drew McIntyre will go to war
inside the unforgiving steel structure you see surrounding this ring.
And I can assure you that after Hell in a Cell,
their war will be over.
Because it has to end.
But to get to Saturday, we have to make it through tonight.
And that means there will be no physical battle
between Punk and Drew McIntyre tonight in Evansville.
[crowd boos]
There can't be.
However, I have granted both competitors
the opportunity to fire off one last parting shot
in their very bitter war of words.
Please join me in welcoming our competitors
for Hell in a Cell this Saturday.
First, the best in the world,
CM Punk.
["Cult of Personality" playing]
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] I don't know how anybody can truly understand
what we're about to hear.
[Barrett] Well, this is what scares me about CM Punk right now.
It's a side of CM Punk we have not seen before,
this somber, almost depressed look about him
for what he's about to put his body through at Bad Blood,
and for what he's prepared to put his opponent's body through.
At Bad Blood, there is no joy,
there is no celebration.
Just a man with a mission that he must complete this Saturday.
Hell in a Cell against Drew McIntyre.
[Tessitore] Look at the way he's looking at the metal.
He's touching it.
He's feeling it.
He's grasping, literally grasping an understanding
of what he's doing and risking it all, his career,
or as he has stated even more
in that structure with The Scottish Warrior.
[Barrett] That cold steel of the Hell in a Cell structure
must feel like cold, hard reality to CM Punk
when he lays his hands on it.
He's been in that cell before.
He knows what it's about. He knows how painful it is.
But his opponent on this occasion
may be more deadly than anybody he's encountered in that cell previously.
[Tessitore] The massive amount of security in the ring inside the cell
as Adam Pearce very deliberate in saying
we cannot have them touch each other tonight
because of what is on the stage on Saturday.
But they can have their final battle in what has been a long-standing,
nearly year-long war of words.
And his opponent, inside Hell in a Cell,
The Scottish Warrior, Drew McIntyre.
["Gallantry" playing]
[Tessitore] Wade, we recently heard from Drew McIntyre.
He was reflective.
He was honest, discussing how he never thought things would go this far.
And how if he could go back and do things differently, he would.
But it is too late. It is too late to change now.
There is only one option, and it is entering that cell
that he is looking straight at.
[Barrett] Nobody ever wants to step inside Hell in a Cell, Joe.
It is a potentially, not only career-altering match-up,
but a life-changing match-up.
And this is a version of Drew McIntyre I personally do not recognize.
It scares me.
It terrifies me.
There is a cold look in his eye,
and I don't know the limits to which he's prepared to go
this Saturday, at Hell in a Cell,
as he stares down his ultimate nemesis,
CM Punk.
This rivalry, as you mentioned, Joe,
it hit boiling point almost a year ago
and somehow the temperature has just kept on rising
and it has to end this Saturday,
one way or another.
[crowd cheers, boos]
[Pearce] All right, gentlemen, I've given you the time
before we get to Hell in a Cell.
Any last words?
[McIntyre] I'll go first.
[crowd chants "CM Punk"]
You're perhaps wondering why I'm wearing the black.
Well, this is out of respect and not respect for you,
because I have literally less than zero respect for you.
[crowd boos]
It's out of respect for your wife.
After this Saturday, what I do to you.
She's going to have to feed you.
She's going to have to bathe you.
Hell, she's probably going to leave you.
You also might have noticed this is a tux,
because for the rest of the world,
it's going to be a celebration when you're gone
and you're not going to come back this time.
[crowd cheers]
You've been back less than a year.
You've been injured four months,
and you're going to be gone forever.
And it's all thanks to Drew McIntyre.
[crowd cheers, boos]
Oh you don't want to talk? I can talk all day.
I can talk to the people here.
You've been listening to me for ten months,
You've been watching what's been happening for ten months.
And even after all of the evidence that's presented to you,
you still chant his name.
[crowd chants "CM Punk"]
You know, Roxanne Perez, the NXT Champion,
worshiped this man, wanted to be like him,
got into wrestling because of him, and spent a few days with him
and realized what kind of person he truly is.
Eventually, you have to look yourself in the mirror
and realize who the idiots are around here.
[crowd boos]
I can see the hatred burning through you.
Maybe you've got nothing to say, but I'm glad.
Once upon a time, I wasn't even a blip on your radar.
And you hate me and I hate you.
You taught me how to hate.
There was a time where I had no time for hate in my life.
Only love.
Surround yourself with people you love.
Do what you love, but hate, you taught me, is a powerful weapon.
It is a powerful weapon if you use it correctly.
But it's dangerous if it stays with you long term.
And that's why it's lucky for me.
This Saturday, inside Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood,
that hate will die with you.
[crowd boos]
[crowd chants "CM Punk"]
Throughout my entire career, people have called me a lot of things.
Best in the world.
Second City Saint, The Voice of the Voiceless.
Tonight, I am Voiceless
because I have nothing to say to a piece of garbage like you.
[crowd cheers]
Except, I am filled with so much rage when I look at you,
I can't go home.
I've been living in a hotel for four weeks
because I will not subject my wife to the man
all of this has turned me into you. You!
You son of a bitch, you,
have turned me into the fictitious boogeyman
that my harshest critics accuse me of being.
And that's exactly who I need to be.
Inside Hell in the Cell, Saturday,
to send you home to Scotland in a box.
[crowd cheers]
I want you to remember and never forget
that you prayed for all of this
and it happened.
And Saturday, when you are locked inside the cell with me
and I have taken everything from you,
and your fear subsides
and you're gripped with nothing but panic
on your hands and your knees crawling, begging.
You will look up and I will wipe the blood from your eyes
so you see me.
And it's not a god you're praying to.
It's not the Devil you're praying to.
You will be praying to CM Punk!
[crowd cheers, boos]
I will see you in Hell.
[Tessitore] Wade, there is nowhere else to go here.
There is nowhere else to go.
Drew saying, "The hate within me dies with you Saturday."
Punk saying, "I'm sending you home to Scotland in a box."
The only place to go is to get in front of a screen.
It is Hell in a Cell.
Drew and Punk at that level of rage.
Here's Cathy Kelley.
["Cult of Personality" playing]
Guys, we are moments away from that Last Monster Standing Match
between "Big" Bronson Reed
and the Monster of All Monsters standing beside me, Braun Strowman.
Now, after the damage induced and endured over the last several weeks,
are you feeling trepidatious heading into this match.
I don't even know what trepidatious means.
But I know one thing, nervous, I am not.
I'm about to remind the entire world why they call me
the Monster of All Monsters when I'm the Last Monster Standing tonight.
Can you give us any insight into…
-Cathy, can you excuse us? -Sure.
What's up Miz?
You know, last week I had a match with Bronson Reed
and you interrupted us--
[R-Truth] What's up, guys?
[crowd cheers]
What's up?
Truth, I did not expect to see you here.
Why not?
You got hit with five tsunamis.
I don't remember that.
I don't know what to tell you.
Look, guys, I have a massive, massive match ahead of me.
No disrespect, Miz. We'll talk another time.
Whatever you want to talk about, I got to go.
I got problems to handle that you guys started.
I'm going to go finish this.
See you, Andre.
What are you doing here?
I work here.
Yeah, but why didn't you tell me you were coming?
I don't know.
But I do know, I've been watching the show.
I don't like the way Karrion Kross has been picking on you, dawg.
-He's not been picking on me. -He's been picking on you.
-He's not been picking on me. -Listen, I texted Adam Pearce.
I got us a little match.
-A match? -Yes.
It's us versus A-OP
A-OP? Who's A-OP?
A-OP. They got a wizard and a witch with them.
AOP?
-AOP? -Authors Of Pain.
Is that how you pronounce it? What books have they written?
They're a tag team, Truth.
Don't get scared now.
The Awesome Truth is back.
That's the truth.
[crowd cheers]
And it's awesome.
It's good to have you back, Truth.
[Barrett] Joe, you've got to laugh or you cry.
And I've got to be honest, I feel like Miz is quite close to crying.
[Tessitore] I think my man said A-OP, [chuckles]
we got a Six-Man tag match coming up right now.
["The Other Side" playing]
LWO is going to be taking on this group, The Judgment Day.
That's a must see Six-Man Tag Team Match.
[crowd cheers]
[bell rings]
[Irvin] The following is a Six-Man Tag Team Match
scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, accompanied by the Women's World Champion
Liv Morgan, the team of Carlito,
"Dirty" Dominik Mysterio
and one half of the World Tag Team Champions,
JD McDonagh,
The Judgment Day.
[Tessitore] I feel like so much of their focus recently, Wade,
has been on the Terror Twins,
so it will be interesting to see how they approach this with LWO.
[Barrett] Yeah, well, it's a massive week for the Judgment Day,
of course, culminating at Bad Blood,
but they have a huge opportunity to get things kicked off the right way.
Six-Man Tag Team Match, coming up, next.
Judgment Day versus the LWO.
I am here with Sami Zayn.
And Sami, after weeks of rejections from Gunther,
what do you think it's going to take to get yourself
a World Heavyweight Championship opportunity?
Uh, you know, it's not even the rejection
that's been bothering me lately.
It's the disrespect from Gunther.
And, you know, you think I'd be used to it
because, to be honest with you, my entire career,
from when I started, all the way to main eventing WrestleMania,
every step along the way, there have been doubters,
there have been people that have disrespected me or said,
I don't belong or I'm not good enough, whatever it is.
And, you know, you think I'd be used to it,
and it wouldn't bother me, but it does.
It does. And I think anybody who tells you it doesn't bother them at all,
I think they're, um…
They're either lying to you or they're lying to themselves.
And I'm not interested in doing either.
So this thing with Gunther, um,
saying that he won't give me this World Heavyweight Championship Match
because I'm not on his level.
It hits a bit of a sore spot for me, you know?
But I don't lose sleep over it either,
because at the end of the day, I know how good I am.
And I know I am more than good enough
to become the World Heavyweight Champion.
And Gunther, I truly hope you are watching this, buddy.
I really hope you are, because you can keep running your mouth
and you can keep running away.
You can keep ducking and dodging all my challenges.
But you need to know something, Gunther.
I don't go away that easy.
I am coming for you, and I will not stop
until I get my chance at the World Heavyweight Championship.
Thank you, Cathy.
Thank you so much.
Well, we've seen Sami Zayn relentless in his pursuits in the past,
and it sounds like we're going to see that Sami Zayn again, Joe, Wade.
[Tessitore] Thank you, Cathy.
I mean, Gunther running his mouth, he says one word. "No."
Hey, Wade, they're getting ready to take on LWO.
I don't know if you saw this.
Are you aware that you can buy toilet paper on wweshop.com
with "Dirty" Dom's face on it?
There are people paying 12.99 to desecrate--
-[Barrett] Desecrate the face… -[Tessitore] …on "Dirty" Dom's face.
[Barrett] …of "Dirty" Dom with their own filth and detritus.
But let's get back to business here.
[Tessitore] And the business is going to be coming your way at Bad Blood.
Finn Bálor. Damian Priest.
["The Other Side" playing]
[Barrett] Bálor, the man who cost Damian Priest
his World Heavyweight Championship.
But not only that, she took her boyfriend, her health
and her Women's World Championship,
Liv Morgan though she has to go it alone against Rhea Ripley at Bad Blood.
As poor "Dirty" Dom hangs above the ring
in a dehumanizing shark cage.
[Tessitore] Well, he's been interfering with every Championship Match
that the two of them had.
[Barrett] That's what true love is, to support your better half.
I respect "Dirty" Dom for doing that.
["Our World" playing]
[Tessitore] LWO, they've been finding themselves opposite Judgment Day.
[Irvin] And their opponent, Joaquin Wilde Cruz Del Toro and Dragon Lee,
the LWO.
[Tessitore] And probably far too many times
than they ever intended to.
They came to the aid of The New Day last week.
Dragon Lee defeating Carlito.
And now this.
[Barrett] Well, the LWO leader, Rey Mysterio
did not have a good night.
You know, some would say controversial loss
earlier this evening to Xavier Woods.
He's apparently pretty cut up about it.
He's already left the arena.
Well, it's up to this trio in the LWO to at least attempt
to put a smile back on the face of their leader, Rey Mysterio,
with a victory here against The Judgment Day.
[Tessitore] Back on August 26th on Raw…
-[bell rings] -[Tessitore] It was Finn, JD,
Dominik, Carlito who defeated Rey, Dragon Lee,
Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde.
Now we get six-man action.
Del Toro looking to take control early on against JD.
And an elbow drop that misses,
as Del Toro able to get out of the way.
[Barrett] Cunning and wily, JD McDonagh.
But this Cruz Del Toro aggression knows no bounds.
The greatest luchadores on the planet right now
want to make short work of JD McDonagh.
[Tessitore] Crossbody from up top.
[Barrett] A little taste of the aerial skills that the LWO possess.
What a spectacular unit this is.
[Tessitore] It's so smart of JD McDonagh
to drive Wilde back into that corner and then tag to Carlito.
[Barrett] The wily veteran Carlito, a man who has won multiple championships
on his first run in WWE, but how about the smart of Joaquin Wilde?
[Tessitore] Look at this as Wilde takes control.
Going straight for the face of the Monday night Romeo, Dominik Mysterio
Liv Morgan won't appreciate that.
[Tessitore] Dragon goes flying.
Del Toro goes flying.
And a 450 to cap it, into the cover, hooks the leg
and a kick out at the last possible moment.
You talk about a high-flying team. 450 coming at you.
Joe Tessitore, Wade Barrett back with you on Monday Night Raw
from Evansville, Indiana as we're working our way
towards our Last Monster Standing Match.
But right now, six-man tag action between LWO and Judgment Day.
[Barrett] Well, Joaquin Wilde has taken a ton of abuse over the past few minutes.
Needs out of there in the worst way.
And there it is, the spectacular Dragon Lee.
[Tessitore] Dragon Lee defeated Carlito a week ago.
Now getting the best of JD and a little something for Dom.
[Barrett] Dragon Lee, the man that Rey Mysterio himself
called the future of lucha libre.
Well, that future might be about to end, thanks to Carlito.
[Tessitore] No, Carlito looking to avenge things
bitter after what happened last week.
[Barrett] So fast and nimble is Dragon Lee
impossible to block that offense.
[Tessitore] He has just laid him out.
And ate a big elbow from JD, but then gives him that big push
and JD awkwardly hanging off that top rope.
[Barrett] Was tearing his ACL in the process.
So rapid is Dragon Lee talking about this fire of Dragon Lee
taking down the three men of The Judgment Day single handedly.
[Tessitore] Del Toro from the far corner.
My, oh, my!
[Barrett] Cruz Del Toro going skyward perhaps putting it to bed, Joe.
[Tessitore] Hooks the leg for the win.
JD kicks out at two and change.
[Barrett] Went coast to coast.
It is astounding that that was not enough.
It speaks volumes to the durability of JD McDonagh.
What the hell are the LWO cooking up here?
[Tessitore] Look at that.
And how about a double dip?
Extra suicide dive on top.
[Barrett] it is just like watching a blur when the LWO hit top gear.
[Tessitore] And now Liv Morgan is up on the apron.
Liv Morgan has got the referee's attention.
Wait a minute.
I thought he was on vacation with travel issues.
That's Finn Bálor.
[Barrett] He just made it in the nick of time.
[Tessitore] What in the world?
-Devil Inside from JD and the win. -[bell rings]
["The Other Side" playing]
Where did he come from?
[Irvin] Here are your winners,
The Judgment Day
[Tessitore] Finn Bálor in street clothes, out of nowhere.
JD McDonagh able to get the Devil Inside and the win.
And Liv Morgan again interfering with fair competition.
[Barrett] Well, that is the ultimate game from The Judgment Day in a nutshell.
But of the offense of the LWO, almost unstoppable.
You just have to use smart tactics against a unit like that.
[Tessitore] And by the way, I mean,
and here's how things went down at the end.
Finn Bálor, he was talking on the phone earlier tonight
saying he's got travel issues.
Next thing you know, McDonagh's got the Devil Inside.
But again, Judgment Day comes up the victors,
Judgment Day fresh off yet another instance
of Finn Bálor's unnecessary involvement coming up with a win.
-[Barrett] Unnecessary? -[Tessitore] Completely unnecessary.
[Barrett] The end justifies the means in this game, Joe.
But of all philosophy for you.
[Tessitore] A little Machiavellian subgroup that better shift their focus
to what's immediately ahead, though.
The amount of emotion, the level of opponent,
the truth of what Bad Blood will deliver
for Finn and for Liv and who they're facing on Saturday.
That's cranking up.
[crowd boos]
Damian, I heard what you said last week.
That you're going to rip out my heart.
Amigo, you, of all people should know.
[speaking Irish]
I don't have a heart.
And at Bad Blood,
I'm going to prove to the world
that it was you that needed us.
It was you that needed me
and that the Judgment Day never needed Damian Priest.
And I'm going to prove,
that I am a home-wrecking, man-stealing,
heartbreaking, title-taking greatest Women's Champion of all time.
[crowd boos]
And Rhea, at Bad Blood,
Daddy Dom is going to walk into that shark cage--
["Demon In Your Dreams" playing]
[crowd cheers]
[Barrett] Well, look who it is, Joe,
the ultimate bunny boiler
who cannot accept that she got dumped for a better woman
in the form of the lovely lady Liv.
Liv.
I was with Dom for a very long time,
so I know all about his dirty little secrets.
Fellas, if you could please bring the shark cage for some dramatic effect.
[Tessitore] Now that's what I'm talking about.
One of them secrets, Dom,
is that you are extremely…
And when I say extremely, I mean extremely
claustrophobic.
So at Bad Blood, when you're locked inside this shark cage,
crying, soiling yourself,
cleaning yourself up with your brand new merch,
you're gonna have the best seat in the house
to watch your little girlfriend realize
that when she is in there all alone,
that she is just not as good as me.
[crowd cheers]
And you're gonna watch as I win back the championship that I never lost.
But as for tonight, I think we're done talking.
[Tessitore] Oh, Damian Priest is in there.
Priest and Finn, face-to-face.
Little preview of what we're going to get on Saturday.
Bad Blood in Atlanta.
Here's a taste.
And Rhea is there, too.
[Barrett] It's a territory--
[Tessitore] Oh! Headbutt on Liv.
And now she's going after "Dirty" Dom.
[Barrett] How vindictive can you get, Joe?
[Tessitore] Look at this.
All the emotion that's been boiling up is now boiling over.
[Barrett] The Terror Twins getting their offense in
early ahead of Bad Blood.
[Tessitore] Oh, right to the shark cage.
She just smashed his head into the shark cage
that he's going to be in on Saturday.
I don't think Liv wants any piece of that right now.
[Barrett] Can you blame her, Joe?
Start running Liv, get the hell out of there.
Save yourself.
[Tessitore] The Women's World Champion
scared off from Rhea Ripley as she's brutalizing her former boyfriend,
blasting him into that shark cage that he's going to be locked into.
[Barrett] Come back, Liv.
Save Dom.
[Tessitore] Look at this. He's begging for mercy.
You just heard he's claustrophobic as she throws him in there.
[Barrett] He's getting flashbacks to the Folsom pen.
[Tessitore] Oh, no. Liv Morgan's back.
[Barrett] True love. I told you, Joe.
[Tessitore] What do you mean, true love?
[Barrett] Saving her man.
Putting her body on the line for this brute,
Rhea Ripley, who's completely lost the plot.
[Tessitore] They're going to be fighting
for the World Championship on Saturday in Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Damian Priest.
[Barrett] Priest, has done a hell of a job
of fighting off three members of The Judgment Day on his own.
[Tessitore] Oh. Slingshot.
As all of a sudden Finn Bálor in street clothes, he showed up.
Big dropkick, clothesline takes out Carlito.
[Barrett] Even after that sling blade, Priest refusing to stay down.
But that might do it.
[Tessitore] And now the numbers game,
as is typically the case with Judgment Day.
Three-on-one in the ring as "Dirty" Dom crawls back in himself.
[Barrett] Poor "Dirty" Dom
violently abused moments ago.
[Tessitore] I mean, this is what it takes.
It takes four-on-one. Are you kidding me, Wade?
[Barrett] Priest attacked them, Joe. What are you watching?
[Tessitore] These two are going to be fighting at Bad Blood
and a coup de grace.
They're days away from their battle in Atlanta.
And this is how you want to lead up to go?
Really?
[Barrett] Yeah, maybe you should have stayed at home, Damian Priest.
[Tessitore] And another coup de grace.
Just blasting through the torso of Damian Priest.
[Barrett] Well, it's the smartest thing
Finn Bálor and the Judgment Day could possibly do here.
[Tessitore] Softening him up for what will be their battle in Atlanta,
this Saturday.
[Barrett] Damian Priest's biggest problem
is he simply does not understand his own limits.
He's got that fiery temperament
and he's completely over kicked his coverage tonight.
[Tessitore] They'll be opposite each other again
in Atlanta this Saturday, October 5th.
For Bad Blood.
Dom's going to be in a shark cage, though, Wade.
You know, the only thing worse than getting cracked with a bat
is getting cracked with a bat by a man who used to call a brother.
A man who used to call a friend.
A man I basically created.
And a man I still call Butch.
Now, over the last couple of weeks, I thought I'd knock some sense
into the loser-weight but I can see he's lost.
He's gone too far
and he's about to find himself on the wrong side of a fight night.
So listen here, fella.
I've seen what you're capable of over the last couple of months.
You're vicious.
You're a dangerous little bastard.
But if you want to play rough, let's play rough, right?
One final banger.
So bring your bat, bring your shrug.
Bring whatever you want.
Because we're going to settle this like we would back home across the pond.
And something else I also created.
A Good Ol' Fashioned Donnybrook Match.
So, what do you say…
Butch?
[Tessitore] Well, last week it was Chad Gable's interference
that had his American Made Creed Brothers on top.
Had The New Day on the other side of another disappointing loss.
["American Made" playing]
[bell rings]
[Irvin] The following contest is scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, accompanied by Ivy Nile, Brutus and Julius Creed,
representing American Made,
Chad Gable.
[Tessitore] A match we described there,
Gable's group came up with a Brutus fall to cap it.
Xavier Woods frustration continued.
Now he gets the other side of The New Day.
[Barrett] You have to respect what the leader of American Made
has done in recent weeks,
scoring victories over Alpha Academy, over The New Day,
he's taking his crew back to the top.
While Kofi Kingston, you mentioned he feels he got screwed last week
cause of Chad Gable. Well, he gets a little chance at redemption.
Coming up next here on Raw, Kofi Kingston takes on Chad Gable.
[Tessitore] And before we get to that, on behalf of everybody at WWE,
we want to send our heartfelt condolences to the family
of baseball legend and WWE Hall of Famer Pete Rose.
Pete passed away today.
He was a fixture ringside for all combat sports,
whether it was a championship boxing match in Vegas or here at WWE,
he was a beloved part of the WWE family.
WrestleMania 14, was the guest ring announcer for Kane and Undertaker.
Played a major role in WrestleMania 15.
Pete Rose, WWE Hall of Famer, was 83.
Last week, we beat Unholy Union.
[speaking Japanese]
Bianca Belair said,.
next time she will be ready.
But neither she nor Jade Cargill
are ready for Damage CTRL.
Jade says they stand on business,
but we don't plan on letting them stand.
We plan on making them fall.
We are challenging you to a Women's Tag Team Titles Match
and Damage CTRL will take over WWE again.
Damage CTRL hasn't been the same since we lost those tag-team titles,
and the only way to transform Damage CTRL…
[speaking Japanese]
Damage CTRL is still the most dominant force
in the history of the women's division.
Bianca, I'm in your head already.
[speaking Japanese]
[Tessitore] How about Iyo saying she's in Bianca's head?
Hey, so much of Chad Gable's recent focus has been with Wyatt Sicks, right?
The unfulfilled promise to rid the WWE of them.
We saw what happened in the eight-person street fight,
but now an opportunity to get back to winning ways in singles action.
Here it is.
["New Day, New Way" playing]
[Irvin] And his opponent, accompanied by Xavier Woods
representing The New Day from Ghana, West Africa,
weighing in at 212 pounds,
Kofi Kingston.
[Tessitore] Wade, I feel like ever since they came up short a few weeks ago
for the tag titles, there's just been a completely different dynamic
with The New Day.
[Barrett] There has been, but that was up until earlier tonight
when Xavier Woods scored a massive singles victory
against the Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio.
That was the first time in a long time those dark clouds have parted.
[Tessitore] No, I disagree.
[Barrett] Sunbeams are raining down.
[Tessitore] Sunbeams?
[Barrett] On The New Day. You saw them earlier.
I like that from Kofi Kingston
throwing his jacket off Joe Tessitore's head.
I couldn't have done it better myself.
Thank you, Kofi Kingston
[Tessitore] Hold on.
[Barrett] He was aiming for me.
[Tessitore] Kofi had actually turned to his friend and asked him,
did he do what he did to Rey Mysterio, pulling the mask off on purpose?
And you're saying the dark clouds have gone away?
It's nothing but sunshine and rainbows and unicorns.
-Are you out of your mind? -[Barrett] They were backstabbing.
They were happy. They were doing the whole "New Day rocks" thing
for the first time in a long time. Things are good again, Joe.
And I'll say this right now.
I feel there is some real pressure on Kofi Kingston in this match-up
because despite the fact that everything is friendly,
it feels like a perfect week for the individual members of The New Day.
Are you the weak link?
Are you the reason we keep losing?
Are you the reason we can't hold Gold?
I think Xavier Woods proved earlier tonight.
It's certainly not his fault.
[Tessitore] Seeing so much technical skill and ability between these two,
between Gable and Kofi and athleticism
with the drop kick from Kofi Kingston.
The 270th televised match for Chad Gable
since joining the main roster. And the kick out.
[Barrett] Cat-like reflexes of Kofi Kingston that I know all about.
So pretty with his movement, but man, those boots of his
can knock you silly in the blink of an eye.
[Tessitore] Here comes Kofi, ready to fly.
Oh, but he was met by a right hand from Gable.
[Barrett] Just took a beat too long. And that conditioning.
[Tessitore] Oh, and a German suplex, onto the floor.
[Barrett] Gable was the difference maker.
That's Olympic-level conditioning.
American Made's Chad Gable in control against Kingston.
[Tessitore] Chad Gable, off the top rope.
Smashing that head into Kofi Kingston, into the cover.
Hooks the leg and Kofi kicks out,
as we continue here with Monday Night Raw
from the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
You see Xavier Woods, who came up with a win
earlier today against Rey Mysterio,
it was an interesting circumstance there when all of a sudden,
on a counter move, Woods found the Hall of Famer's mask in his hand
and continued on and rolled him up for a victory,
a victory that Kofi Kingston questions, did it have to go that way?
Was that intentional or not?
And then you see New Day looking for their second win of the night here.
[Barrett] You're right. It was a shocking victory earlier.
But now Kofi Kingston, the onus is on you to maintain
-that momentum for The New Day. -[crowd chants "New Day rocks"]
The people, you can hear them.
They're back believing in The New Day.
Kofi, grabbing that leg,
making an offensive assault with the drop dropkick.
[Barrett] Doesn't seem to be hurting in a big way.
And that is understandable when you're in there
with an in-ring machine like Chad Gable.
Who has hit new heights in recent months
since linking up with the rest of American Made
a new cutthroat and hungry version of Chad Gable.
[Tessitore] Creed Brothers as well as…
Oh, is he looking for it?
[Barrett] He's trying.
-Kingston's-- -[Tessitore] He did it.
Instead, it's a counter and a rope for Kofi.
Back to it for Chad, and the kickout.
And look at the technical prowess that we're seeing between these two.
[Barrett] Unsurpassed technical skills from Gable.
But Kingston almost catching him cold.
[Tessitore] And back to it again.
Chad reverses.
The seesaw continues
and look at the power and the ability
and the bridging to get out of it
from Chad Gable
[Barrett] Neck and core strength
not only belongs to the Olympian Chad Gable.
[Tessitore] Turns him over, hooks the leg for the win.
And Kofi finds a way.
[Barrett] And for the first time in this match-up,
despite the amount of abuse he's thrown the way of Kofi Kingston,
there is a look of despair in the eyes of Chad Gable.
He thought this one should have been over by now, Joe.
[crowd chants "New Day rocks"]
[Tessitore] And you can hear the support from those here in Evansville.
[Barrett] Maybe you start to sense that this is a day
that New Day refuse to be denied.
A corner-turning moment.
[Tessitore] There's that ankle lock,
Chad Gable, the ankle lock on Kofi Kingston.
[Barrett] Simply outmaneuvering Kingston, but no again, the reverse
[Tessitore] And the roll up, kick out.
Trouble in Paradise denied.
[Barrett] And back on the ankle once again locked in,
dragged away from the ropes.
Tap out Kingston
[Tessitore] Sends him into the corner though.
Great body control and athleticism by Kofi Kingston.
[crowd] One, two.
[Tessitore] Oh, and he grabs ahold of the rope
and saves himself at the last possible second.
[Barrett] Just brilliant in-ring intelligence from Chad Gable.
The only way out of that predicament
was exactly what he chose.
To be mentally operating at this level,
this deep into a match, both competitors.
That is mind blowing stuff.
[Tessitore] From SOS to this.
Outside the ring, off the steel steps and takes out American Made
Creed Brothers are down, as is Gable.
[Barrett] Creed Brothers collateral damage
in that assault on Chad Gable, who is moving…
Oh, here we go.
It's breaking down at ringside.
[Tessitore] Xavier helps out, getting the best of Julius.
[Barrett] The New Day back on the same page.
It would seem American Made look like they're in a shambles
[Tessitore] Ivy Nile is now up on the apron.
[Barrett] Hey, whatever it takes.
[Tessitore] What in the world?
He was lining him up for Trouble in Paradise.
And Xavier Woods, grabbed his leg and Kofi couldn't land it.
Chaos theory, bridging pin.
-And that is how it ends. -[bell rings]
["American Made" playing]
[Irvin] Here is your winner,
Chad Gable.
[Tessitore] What was he thinking, Wade?
[Barrett] There was a blur of movement.
I didn't catch everything that just went down.
But what I did see was a superbly executed chaos theory suplex
and Kingston has lost after Xavier Woods won earlier tonight.
Let's take a look back at this.
Kingston lining up Trouble in Paradise,
Xavier Woods on the outside trying to assist Kofi Kingston.
It appeared perhaps it backfired, but if you want to talk about weak links
in The New Day, perhaps stop pointing your finger
at the former World Champion Kofi Kingston, who lost tonight.
Unlike Xavier Woods, it's a win and losing game in this industry.
That's an absolute head shake to the actions
of the Xavier Woods, two times now tonight.
All right. Our Last Monster Standing Match is still to come.
Three hundred eighty-five pounds of Braun Strowman,
Three hundred thirty pounds of "Big" Bronson Reed.
Last Monster Standing.
["Greatness" playing]
Last night it was great to see Seth Rollins.
NBC's Sunday Night Football from Baltimore.
The festivities there as the Ravens smash the Bills.
We had WWE competitors everywhere in football stadiums this weekend.
You see the former Heisman winner with Seth Rollins, Rodney Harrison,
one of the all-time great defensive backs.
And then how about Sheamus?
He was with Georgia Tech.
You know, for most of September, then in South Bend with Notre Dame,
fittingly with The Fighting Irish as they had the big win against Louisville.
And yesterday, Drew McIntyre and Liv Morgan, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indi.
The countdown to Royal Rumble there is underway.
Well, Seth Rollins looking one step closer to a WWE return
after he was injured by my guest at this time,
Bronson Reed.
Sir, does a potential Seth Rollins return
down the road, affect your attention in any way
heading into this highly-anticipated Last Monster Standing Match
in tonight's main event against Braun Strowman?
No.
In fact, congratulations to Seth Rollins.
I hope he's coming back.
Because I took months off of his career,
and next time,
I will take years off of his life.
And apologies to Braun Strowman for exposing you
for the man that you are.
Because I am the Last Monster Standing.
"Big" Bronson Reed.
And you don't know what's going to happen.
I've already got security there ready to keep them in the ring.
If something goes wrong, I need you guys on deck.
Please stay on…
Champ.
World Heavyweight Champion, The Ring General
Gunther joins us live, next.
[eerie music playing]
["Symphony No. 9 in E minor" playing]
[crowd cheers]
[Irvin] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
the World Heavyweight Champion,
The Ring General,
Gunther.
[Tessitore] Eight weeks ago, he became Heavyweight Champion.
We do have some unfortunate news to pass along.
Ilja Dragunov was injured during a match with Gunther this past weekend.
It is suspected that he has a torn ACL.
The prognosis of our medical team is that Dragunov
will be out of action for approximately six to nine months.
We wish him a speedy recovery on his return to the ring.
I just hate to see that for one of the great competitors
and rising stars of the game.
[Barrett] Undoubtedly. Get well soon, Ilja.
One of the most physical competitors I have ever seen.
Cannot wait to get you back.
[Tessitore] Eight weeks as Champion, we've said,
but as the three weeks lately have simply a no response that he's spoken
that's raised eyebrows.
[crowd boos]
You know, life as the World's Heavyweight Champion
has been fantastic.
I love every aspect of being the World Heavyweight Champion.
Being the top guy, the money, the luxuries, the amenities.
But there's one thing I really hate about my life right now,
and that is the insult that I have to deal
with Sami Zayn every single week.
I could not ask for anybody more annoying than Sami
that comes here week for week.
["Worlds Apart" playing]
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] I think Sami is going to state his case again and again.
Just keep trying to get that title shot.
[crowd cheers]
[spectator chants "Sami"]
You know, Gunther,
if you find it so annoying
dealing with me every single week,
you know,
there's a very, very easy way
to put an end to all of this once and for all.
[crowd cheers]
And all you've got to do
is give me what I keep asking for
and put your heavyweight championship on the line one-on-one.
[crowd cheers]
But you won't do it, will you?
You won't do it, and I know why.
And deep down, Gunther, I think you know why too.
So why don't you just tell me right here to my face?
Tell me in front of everyone.
Tell me right now why you won't do it.
Admit it.
I tried to tell you.
I tried to beat it into you.
You are just not on my level.
[crowd boos]
If I'm not on your level, then how come I'm the one
who beat you at WrestleMania?
[crowd cheers]
[Zayn] Huh?
You think you're so much better.
But I'm the one who did it.
And you beat everyone they put in front of you.
You beat future hall of famers.
You beat former world champions.
Everybody that stepped you got knocked down except me,
I pinned you.
[crowd cheers]
And you think you're so much better than me.
And that's why it drives you crazy, doesn't it?
And you know that if it was me versus you.
Sami Zayn versus Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship,
you are scared that it will happen again.
[crowd chants]
You know what, Sami?
You're right.
I'm afraid.
But I'm not afraid of you.
I'm afraid for my reputation.
[crowd boos]
Because after all those legendary things I did
with the Intercontinental Championship,
losing to the better man would have been no problem.
But losing to you has been the biggest embarrassment of my career.
[crowd boos]
You know, I was so busy embarrassing you
in front of your own family that eventually
that is what you did to me.
Because I was very confident that I will beat you at WrestleMania.
So I flew my family over as well.
I just didn't parade them around like you did to gain some sympathy.
But once it was all done, I went to the back
and I had to look my father in the eye and he asked me…
He said…
[speaking German]
Sami Zayn.
You want to know what that means?
I had to look my father in the eye and he asked me,
"Son, I flew all the way from Vienna to Philadelphia
just to see you lose against that bum Sami Zayn."
[crowd boos]
It's okay, Sami,
I don't expect you to understand
because your family is used to see you fail.
Your family doesn't expect anything from you.
My family expects everything from me.
Because I am the golden goose of my family,
I am Gunther, I am special,
and I am something
that you will never be.
And that is the World Heavyweight Champion.
[crowd cheers, boos]
Well, you're right about something, Gunther.
You're right.
My family has watched me lose.
They've watched me get knocked many, many times.
But what do I do when I fail in front of my family?
I pick myself back up and I keep moving forward.
[crowd cheers]
Now, what did you do when you came up short in front of your family, huh?
You crumbled.
After I beat you did you ever ask me for a rematch? No.
Did you ever ask Adam Pearce for a rematch? No.
You tucked your tail between your legs.
You ran off and you hid.
You disappeared off WWE TV for months.
You didn't show your face here
because you couldn't show your face here.
[crowd cheers]
And all because your dad made you feel like a loser.
[crowd cheers, boos]
Well, now you're showing your dad that his son is also a coward.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] Oh! A step too far with that line for Gunther.
[Barrett] You simply don't speak to The Ring General like that
and get away with it.
[crowd boos]
[Barrett] Sami Zayn just won't take no for an answer.
[Tessitore] He's heard "no" for weeks upon weeks
every time he is asked for a title shot.
And now Gunther has just snapped.
Tried to come in with the big right hand.
Sami blocks it and fights his way out of the corner.
[Barrett] Sami Zayn, a man who's never beaten, it seems.
[Tessitore] Trying to get the exploder on Gunther.
[Barrett] Gunther blocked it twice.
Somehow Zayn pulls it off.
[Tessitore] Lining him up for a Helluva Kick, but no Gunther…
[Barrett] Sleeper locked up.
Sami Zayn fading.
[Tessitore] And a vicious powerbomb.
Did you hear that thud?
[Barrett] Did you see Sami Zayn's head bounce off the canvas?
And if you didn't, just take a look at those glassy eyes of Zayn.
[Tessitore] The sound of that impact.
You want this so bad, Sami, huh?
You got your match.
[Tessitore] Wow.
So he had to take a brutal beating
to get across the finish line of what he desires,
but Gunther says "yes."
[Barrett] You have pushed enough buttons,
and now The Ring General is going to wipe out
the one stain on his record.
The one man who could beat him for the Intercontinental Championship.
Will lightning strike twice when Zayn challenges Gunther
for the World Heavyweight Championship?
[Tessitore] Wow. He said, "I got you."
But boy did he take some punishment.
What a crowd we've got here. I'm all about that.
[Barrett] Whoa! It's a Wade…
-[Tessitore] Hey, I'm here-- -[Barrett] Go back.
[Tessitore] I'm here for Wade Barrett too.
[Barrett] That was three seconds. That wasn't enough.
[Tessitore] Well, what are you looking for?
[Barrett] We had a Wade Barrett sign, and that was okay. We see these ones.
Rey Mysterio 20.
[Tessitore] "Dom my biceps are bigger"?
-[Barrett] Okay. -[indistinct chatter]
[Barrett] The "Wade Barrett" sign won.
["The Awesome Truth" playing]
[The Miz] It's about that time.
Truth, tell 'em what are we going to do.
[R-Truth] Here we go.
♪ People over there, what's up? ♪
♪ You feel me? ♪
♪ Stand up and say what's up? ♪
[both] ♪ What's up? What's up? ♪
[crowd yells "what's up"]
[R-Truth] ♪ Miz tell them who we is ♪
[The Miz] ♪ We're the Awesome Truth ♪
[both] ♪ You can get with this Or you can get with that ♪
[R-Truth] ♪ Evansville This is where it's that ♪
[both] ♪ What's up? ♪
[crowd yells "what's up"]
-[both] ♪ What's up? ♪ -[crowd yells "what's up"]
-♪ Miz them them who we is ♪ -♪ The Awesome Truth ♪
♪ We be skipping and jumping Leaving the competition ♪
♪ Make them disappear Like your favorite magician ♪
[Tessitore] Akam and Rezar,
back in contention going up against Awesome Truth.
["The End Is Near" playing]
[Barrett] Demonic group here.
The Final Testament.
Inspired by the diabolic… Diabolical menace
that is Paul Ellering.
These two big bruisers A-OP
as R-Truth likes to call them,
or AOP to the rest of us.
[Tessitore] R-Truth back in action.
Remember, he took the brunt of some pain
from one of the two monsters we're going to see a little later on.
He tries to shoulder block Rezar,
Braun Strowman, "Big" Bronson Reed coming up a little later.
Five tsunamis, Bronson Reed landed on R-Truth a month ago
as he's off to a good start in his return.
[crowd chants "you can't see me"]
[Tessitore] Of course honoring the legend.
[Barrett] He's not honoring.
He thinks he is the legend. John Cena
R-Truth exists on a plane different to the rest of us.
[Tessitore] That's a tough AA coming his way, trying to lift up Rezar,
the big 6'4", 330 pounder
who has R-Truth up top now and slams him down.
[yelling]
[Barrett] Only R-Truth would think he could outmuscle Rezar.
The big, powerful Albanian menace.
[Tessitore] As he stomps on R-Truth back.
Akam Rezar came close to grabbing Gold back on June 10th.
Former champs themselves haven't held Gold since 2018.
[Barrett] Awesome Truth get back to their highs
of winning championship gold, too.
What a statement it would be if they can put away AOP.
[Tessitore] Akam now,
as he tags right away.
Holding him up for a big knee from Rezar,
First, Awesome Truth had the tag titles
and WrestleMania right through when Judgment Day unseated them on June 24th.
[Barrett] So difficult to find any form of weakness in AOP.
Big hitters. Heavy hands.
Technically skilled.
I can't find a single weakness in there.
[Tessitore] R-Truth… Oh, pulls down that top rope.
And then a big kick up top.
[Barrett] Or perhaps overconfidence might be the answer
to my previous question.
And now The Miz desperate to get this tag.
[The Miz] Come on.
[Barrett] Braver than me.
[Tessitore] And here he is, The Miz.
Lining up Akam.
Whoa! What in the world was that?
[crowd boos]
What just happened?
[crowd continues booing]
And Karrion Kross,
the man with the silver tongue
is laughing right in his face.
[Barrett] Silver tongue?
I guess the poisoned tongue of Karrion Kross,
perhaps has finally got through to The Miz.
[Tessitore] And The Miz is just walking off, leaving his partner behind.
[Barrett] The Miz has been disrespected in many ways
over the past couple of months.
Not intentionally by R-Truth, it has to be said.
[Tessitore] And now R-Truth has to deal with this.
Oh, my, what a rush.
[bell rings]
The Miz
I mean, you could see at times
him shaking his head over R-Truth, but that…
[Irvin] Here are your winners.
Authors of Pain
[Tessitore] The Authors of Pain
left to do as they please with a damaged R-Truth
as his partner, The Miz. I cannot believe what we just saw.
[Barrett] Yeah, well, the unlikely alliance WWE Champ, Cody Rhodes
teams with his career nemesis, the former Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns,
against the savage Bloodline duo
of the new Tribal Chief, Solo Sikoa and this lunatic Jacob Fatu.
[Tessitore] Bayley came up with a big win on SmackDown,
and with that, she earns a shot at the WWE Women's Championship
against Nia Jax on Saturday.
[Barrett] How about this?
Dirty Dom will be dangling above the ring in a shark cage match.
[Tessitore] As he should be.
[Barrett] As his girlfriend, the Women's World Champ, Liv Morgan
defends against his former girlfriend,
and the former Women's World Champ, Rhea bloody Ripley.
[Tessitore] And, Wade, you saw what Finn Bálor did earlier tonight,
softening up Damian Priest, Bad Blood. That sums it up on Saturday.
[Barrett] Yes, indeed.
Brutality personified.
But how's about this one?
A full year of bile and vitriol while it ends,
one way or another, as the most heated rivalry in years
culminates at Bad Blood.
McIntyre Punk Hell in a Cell.
[Tessitore] Are you ready for the colossal clash?
Are you ready for the monsters?
The tale of the tape for The Last Monster Standing Match.
Seven hundred fifteen pounds of humanity combined.
The referee must count to ten.
Who will be the Last Monster Standing?
This is going to be unbelievable coming your way, next.
Welcome back to Monday Night Raw.
I'm standing by with World Heavyweight Champion Gunther
and his comrade Ludwig Kaiser.
Now, Gunther, it sounded like Sami Zayn got under your skin tonight.
And what he said allowed him
to have you grant him
that World Heavyweight Championship opportunity.
That match happens next week.
How are you feeling?
Under my skin?
[speaking German]
[crowd barks]
I'm sorry.
I just wanted to see it for myself.
He really is a badass.
That's right.
You'll see sooner than you think.
[both speaking German]
[Barrett] Well, get in line, Bron Breakker.
Because Sami Zayn is a pest that will not go away.
Finally, he's got what he wanted.
A "yes" from the World Heavyweight Champ, Gunther
the title on the line next week live on Raw.
[Tessitore] Oh, you know what else we got next week, is my kind of match.
A Good 'Ol Fashioned Donnybrook
with Sheamus and Pete Dunne.
I'm thinking shillelaghs and barrels and bar stools
and anything you can get from an Irish pub? No DQ.
-[Barrett] How about a cricket bat? -[Tessitore] I love it.
[Barrett] It's England versus Ireland but the new Intercontinental Champ Jey Uso.
He's staying busy.
He defends against the resurging Xavier Woods.
Next week here on Raw.
[Tessitore] And now the moment we've been waiting for tonight, Wade
["Battle Tested" playing]
[Tessitore] Last Monster Standing Match.
[bell rings]
[Irvin] The following is a Last Monster Standing Match.
Introducing first from Black Forest, South Australia.
Weighing in at 330 pounds.
"Big" Bronson Reed.
[Tessitore] It was early August when "Big" Bronson Reed
decided he was going to take matters into his own hands
when it came to his career trajectory.
And since then, he's been tearing through everything,
everybody that came in front of him.
And for weeks now, he's become a human wrecking ball of destruction.
He's one of the few big men to stand up to him who he's about to see.
[Barrett] Promised Adam Pearce he was going to put himself
in the spotlight months ago, Joe.
Boy, oh, boy, has Bronson Reed done exactly that.
But there are consequences when you start making ripples here on Raw.
["Monster of All Monsters" playing]
[Tessitore] And as rare as a challenge like this is in the industry,
a Last Monster Standing Match, Braun Strowman has some familiarity.
[Irvin] And his opponent, weighing in at 385 pounds,
Braun Strowman.
[Tessitore] This is the fifth such Last Man Standing Match for Strowman.
He has 4-0 record in these matches.
Over the top rope and right to it.
-[bell rings] -Why waste any time?
[Barrett] Referee calling straight for the bell.
Knows full well he's got zero chance of separating these two.
They can only separate themselves.
This is like Megatron versus Optimus Prime.
Two of the biggest monsters we've ever seen in here.
-And I'm getting scared already, Joe. -[Tessitore] There's no doubt.
We got 715 combined pounds as the stairs just went flying.
Remember a fight until one of these men is knocked out,
is unable to continue until the referee reaches a count of ten.
And they're already until the steel steps. They're into the steps are ready.
Right into the head of "Big" Bronson Reed.
[Barrett] Judging by the amount of--
[Tessitore] Oh, man! Oh, they're…
[Barrett] Judging by the amount of abuse we've seen these two throw at each other
over the past couple of weeks, it is going to take some very special--
[Tessitore] No, not our desk.
Oh my!
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] The whole thing just blasted.
We've got monitors that are smashed to bits.
The desk is destroyed.
"Big" Bronson Reed is laid out.
And that One Big SOB is grinning right over his fallen body.
[crowd chants "holy shit"]
[Tessitore] A five count.
And he gets up at a count of six.
Last Monster Standing.
[indistinct yelling]
[Tessitore] "Big" Bronson Reed with Braun Strowman
all 385 pounds of him up and then slamming down
here in the midst of this Last Monster Standing Match.
Referee Chad Patton must reach a count of ten.
Who will be the Last Monster Standing?
[Barrett] Already Strowman stirring unbelievably,
Bronson Reed already popped through our announce table.
Got up at the count of six.
That leaves guys out for weeks.
Somehow Bronson Reed already up fighting and apparently in control again.
[Tessitore] Here goes that One Big SOB
with a forearm that sends "Big" Bronson Reed
through the chairs out on the floor.
[Barrett] Scene of carnage here at ringside.
Already both Superstars racked with pain.
Braun Strowman barely able to keep himself up, but right now,
the jeopardy lies on the shoulders of Bronson Reed.
[crowd] Three…
[crowd] Four…
[Tessitore] Count of four.
"Big" Bronson Reed must climb to his feet.
And he does.
[Barrett] Slower and slower is that climb back to a vertical base
as he is stalked by the Big SOB.
[Tessitore] Well, we've seen this time and again with these two
going anywhere in the arena, including backstage.
We've seen them out in a parking lot, smashing the top of cars,
and now right into the video wall.
[Barrett] This match is not about a traditional sporting contest.
It is about maximum carnage.
Massacre your opponent until he can't move.
[Tessitore] "Big" Bronson Reed picking up that metal chair.
Walking back to his colossal rival.
Oh, but Strowman, able to land a right hand to the body
and the chair to the back.
[Barrett] Bronson Reed falling on his own sword.
[Reed exclaims in pain]
[Barrett] That chair a lethal weapon in the hands of anybody.
Even more so when he's 370-plus pounds of Strowman.
[Tessitore] He's got him up in that technical area
on top of the crates as they climb up high.
You got to be kidding me.
You got 715-combined pounds between these two monsters.
Last Monster Standing.
Who can knock out the other?
No way!
[Barrett] Gonna go right to the eyeballs.
[Tessitore] Up on his shoulders and rolling slam
through the table onto the floor.
[Barrett] Death Valley driver connecting from Braun Strowman
may have taken as much out of himself as he did.
Excuse me.
Bronson Reed as he did out of Braun Strowman.
[Tessitore] That fireman's carry slam,
the death drop driver from "Big" Bronson Reed
and now the count being administered by Chad Patton.
[Barrett] Bronson thinks he's got this one.
Well, Bronson hopes he's got this one won.
Wishful thinking, it may seem.
[Tessitore] And Strowman able to get up and continue on.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] Sends him back over inside the barrier.
[crowd cheers]
[Barrett] Braun Strowman has been the monster here
in WWE for the past ten years.
[Tessitore] And now "Big" Bronson Reed has to beat the count himself.
[crowd] Four…
[crowd] Five…
[Tessitore] Braun Strowman rallying back here.
It's the Last Monster Standing Match on Monday Night Raw.
[Strowman grunts]
[Tessitore] "Big" Bronson Reed has been getting the best of Braun Strowman.
Oh, and he goes right through timekeeper barrier.
All 330 pounds, full force taking out that One Big SOB.
And now it's up to Braun Strowman to beat the count of ten.
[Patton] Three…
[Tessitore] Announce desk has been blown away.
He's sent him through the PRIME bottles.
And now the drama of can he rise up?
[Patton] Six…
Seven…
[Tessitore] And we continue on
[Barrett] Count of seven. Almost at eight.
You have to say Braun Strowman is right for the-
[Tessitore] No, no, no, no, no, no!
He just took out the front row of fans.
[Barrett] Smashed yet another security a barrier.
[Tessitore] Oh, man.
This is getting very dangerous ringside here.
These two monsters are caving in everything.
And now both men are down.
[Barrett] Well, bodies are strewn around our front two rows.
But the two bodies in the match-up struggling to get to their feet.
[Tessitore] And now WWE officials and security
are coming to check out ringside.
The fans in the front row as the barrier collapsed.
As these monsters now… And security is coming in
to try to handle the situation.
[Barrett] A little too late, lads
[Tessitore] And now "Big" Bronson Reed sent Strowman back into the ring.
[Barrett] While they're handling this mess,
colossal combat continues
on Bronson Reed smells victory.
Keep your eye on--
[Tessitore] No, no, no, Wade.
[Barrett] It is the meeting of beauty and disaster.
Tsunami.
[Tessitore] Oh, my.
[Barrett] The referee preoccupied.
Bronson Reed has this one won.
[Tessitore] He's saying, get in here and count to ten.
I'm winning this thing.
[Barrett] Chad, get in the ring.
[Tessitore] Referee Chad Patton is dealing with the fact
that the front row was blown apart.
We've got security and officials down here trying to manage that situation.
Meanwhile, Braun Strowman, he's been down for a ten count
and Bronson Reed is climbing back up, Wade.
[Tessitore] Going to get another.
It has worked in the past for Reed.
Let's get a take two tsunami!
[Tessitore] This has been going on since early August.
Tsunami after tsunami.
After tsunami.
And again, "Big" Bronson Reed is begging for a ten count
from referee Chad Patton.
[Barrett] Well, understandably,
Bronson Reed is losing his mind because this--
[Tessitore] Oh, no! What is he doing?
[Barrett] Well, now security is getting flattened in the process.
Poor Bronson Reed has just been fighting for the past 20 minutes.
[Tessitore] Now we have three security officials
who are in the ring, and he's grabbing the referee and tossing him too.
[Barrett] Because the referee wasn't doing it.
[Tessitore] Look at general manager Adam Pearce
saying you don't touch the ref like that.
No, not Pearce.
Not Pearce.
[Barrett] Bronson, you'll get fired for that.
[Tessitore] And a swarm of security trying to break them up.
[Tessitore] No, no.
[clamoring]
Braun Strowman on the top rope.
[Barrett] What the hell are you doing?
[Tessitore] Oh, the humanity!
How in the world?
Three hundred and eighty-five pounds through the air.
Just wiped out everyone.
[Barrett] Take a look at this.
A body that was never designed to go airborne.
Gravity won the battle.
And every security guard and Bronson Reed lost it.
[Tessitore] This is a jumbo jet
coming in hard for a landing.
Look at the carnage, ringside.
[Barrett] And finally, the referee is starting to stir.
He needs to start counting.
[Tessitore] Both men are down.
The referee reaches a count of ten and a man is down.
It's over. And now Bronson Reed is up.
So this comes down to Braun Strowman.
Can he beat this count?
[Patton] Four…
[Patton] Five…
[Tessitore] A count of five.
The One Big SOB who just went through the air
and took out everybody ringside has to rise by ten.
And he does.
[Barrett] Two tsunamis.
[Tessitore] This is incredible.
[Barrett] Braun Strowman was like a man possessed.
[Tessitore] A culmination of weeks of total destruction of everything.
And Strowman says, hey Chad Patton referee,
you get in there too.
[Barrett] Well, this match would have been over
if Chad Patton had been in the ring earlier on
after not one but two tsunamis.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] Wade, he's not going up top again?
[Barrett] Braun Strowman has got big ideas how to finish the job.
Braun Strowman not a man who is known for going to the top rope.
Or maybe now physical exhaustion that is wracking the body
of both of them.
[Tessitore] He just tossed a metal chair right at his head.
[Barrett] Well, it took too long for Strowman to get himself up there,
and now Bronson Reed, who is so woozy,
is looking to capitalize with something
that may well be described as disgusting if he pulls this off.
[Tessitore] Climbing up there to meet him.
Last Monster Standing.
Who will it be?
[Reed grunting]
[Tessitore] These two colossals clashing here.
[Barrett] Oh, man.
[Tessitore] Oh, superplex to the big man.
The whole ring just collapsed.
The ring just collapsed!
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] The ropes are gone.
The ring is gone down.
And both men are laid out.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] What is there left to destroy now?
[Barrett] Take another look at this.
Rings were never designed to take that kind of abuse.
And when you give them that kind of abuse,
this is how it looks.
[Tessitore] Seven hundred and fifteen combined pounds just destroyed the ring.
And now the count will be administered.
[crowd] Two…
[crowd] Three…
[Tessitore] Whoever is still down at ten
-loses this thing. -[crowd] Four…
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] No, that's The Visionary.
Seth Rollins. Stomp.
[crowd cheers]
[Tessitore] He's back!
Seth "Freakin" Rollins
just stomped
"Big" Bronson Reed.
[bell rings]
[Barrett] We haven't seen Rollins in two--
[Tessitore] And Strowman got up.
Strowman beat the count!
-[Irvin] Here is your winner… -[Tessitore] Strowman beat the count!
Braun Strowman.
[Tessitore] Braun Strowman's the Last Monster Standing.
Thanks to Seth "Freakin" Rollins with an out-of-nowhere stomp.
Welcome back, Seth. kin" Rollins with an out-of-nowhere stomp.