The “WWE Raw” after the evolution of WWE did a perfect job to add even more to the global show of the Sunday evening event. Birmingham, in Alabama, was entitled to a spectacle centered mainly around the fallout from Ple, and everything was transparent. Despite this, there was still a bigger and essential question to approach WWE weekend – plus an important return.
Seth Rollins’ dilemma
While Paul Heyman spoke for the first time this evening, I developed the outline of the place to go after the lack of injury from Rollins.
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Heyman noted how early it is to know real updates on the Rollins calendar, stating that he has until June to take advantage. So that leads to believing that he stays with him – for the moment. I am not in love with the idea, because it means that there will be a first month gap in which we know it can’t be a surprise return. But what followed was the seed in a tangible direction.
Bron Breakker was excited by his “oracle” to become the next world heavyweight champion. Imagine this. Breakker wins him while Rollins is absent and ends up obtaining the collection by his recruiter. Vintage Rollins.
Well, the Gauntlet match of the main event “WWE RAW” resulted in a Punk CM victory. So you know what it means. Punk wins this title, and Rollins collects it instead.
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The matches in the match were Above all Quite good, but the reservation of this was excruciating, and you could feel the scrambled repercussions of the Rollins injury.
First and foremost, Gunther cut a promotion in advance which led him to watch the station wagon with Heyman making a match between them. It looked like everything the spoiler needed, but the flow was certainly a nice touch.
To start things, it was Breakker against Penta, which was essentially a copy and a paste of the last time they fought.
The Knight followed and he made a show with Breakker. It was really the best mini -match at the heart of that – then Knight has just lost a single spear, killing all the momentum he had built before the main WWE event on Saturday evening. It was practically a burial despite that it apparently built a big point with this Rollins match. Brutal things, and that’s all. He started from the show after taking the L.
Now here is the biggest problem with all of this. During Knight’s game, Michael Cole said on the comment that there was no disqualifications, which is news for this type of match. Anyway, it makes no sense when they are head-to-face. And if that were the case, WWE could at least have reserved Knight to lose using Bronson Reed – or bring it back after its defeat against Breakker. Instead, Reed helped prevent Jey Uso from beating Breakker. You know. To keep it a little “strong”.
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If it was not stupid enough, reed then just doesn’t Attack CM Punk as soon as Punk arrives to face Breakker. WHY NOT?!
The logic in non-decisions like this was so extinct with the “Sethriders” and their history beats. Reed finally arrived there at the end, and rather than Knight, it was USO who returned to help repel the great men and secure the victory of punk with a GTS.
There was still a surprise after that, while Breakker and Reed took over and set up a tsunami sandwich in Uso and Punk. No! It was still not Knight. Roman Reigns returned to the cleaning shop, helping his old stable comide and his Wrestlemania 41 rival.
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The return of Reigns certainly adds a massive wrinkle to the image of the title and is a bit of a Mary’s hail movement with Rollins Out. But hey, he certainly felt more than necessary now.
Cautious
“WWE RAW” started with the whole first epic game to immediately follow the incredible momentum of WWE Evolution 2025 last night. The brand new female world champion Naomi has prepared the field and received a huge ovation, as well as songs “you marvel it”. It was great to see, especially with Naomi remaining in the character and close it, but with playfulness.
The champion called everyone so as not to “feel the glow” and guess badly that she would take advantage of Tiffany Stratton. Bianca Belair then succeeded, because Naomi said that she had exceeded it, which maintains the roots planted for their possible massive confrontation.
Before his first interruption, Naomi fell …
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🤯 Line of the year
The woman said to all the “raggedy heffas” on “wwe raw” to be careful.
Brothers and sisters, I lost my marbles when she said that. Amazing. It is a shame that WWE did not let Naomi reach a character arc like this earlier.
Rusev delivered a good competitor later, saying he wanted “gold, not ginger” in Sheamus. What was in the water tonight?
Anyway, a Rhea Ripley with appropriate settlement made her way to face Naomi after spoiling her chance to win a victory over Iyo Sky. It also prompted the latter to emerge before Naomi said that they both go to the back of the line. The tensions began to thicken and the managing director of “WWE Raw”, Adam Pearce, was released to make a match at Triple threat for the head of the title at WWE Summerslam.
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So I love it from the point of view of the pure match, and it seems appropriate. Storywids, not so much, especially for Summerslam. The first defense for Naomi would have been better suited, oh, I don’t know, this episode of “WWE RAW”. Just a thought, hunter.
Presumably, Bianca Belair may not be ready to return it soon because a Naomi match would be an excellent starting point in this reign. However, you should expect it to end at WWE Summerslam because there is no way that Stephanie Vaquer does not challenge a Ripley champion in her TIR in Clash in Paris.
Remember the experience of 2 out of 3 falls?
Whenever there is a match of 2 falls out of 3, I will always think of this time that Vince McMahon wanted to change completely – and at random – all the formula of WWE matches. On this “WWE Raw”, it was Bayley against Lyra Valkyria.
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GOOD. This match was for a title against Becky Lynch at WWE Summerslam. I understand. We are supposed to go to the Valkyria trilogy match, but that does not make sense after having both lost WWE Evolution. In addition, it is now to the point where the scene of the intercontinental title has been limited exclusively to these three wrestlers. No one else has even mentioned or looked at the title since before Wrestlemania 41. And the last person who did it was Bayley! You must soon spread love, Triple H. seriously.
Realistically, I can’t be so crazy because it was easily …
👑 Non -crown gem of the night 👑
Valkyria and Bayley go together. This match started with Bayley working on Valkyria’s back before the tight roll-up for its only pin. Valkyria marked it first with a pretty counter pin.
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We saw tons of phenomenal spots like the Power-Ownwromb bomb in Valkyria, the sunset turns around and the finishing sequence when Bayley dropped the elbow on the back of Valkyria and took a near. He entered a crossface that Valkyria countered overnight. Bright. Just shiny. These three carry out some of the best global struggles at the moment. This two -day punch was crazy.
👍 Monday Night Money 👍
1 and 1 This “WWE RAW” started with three female games, also displaying that it can be done normally. There should not be a big show of women only to highlight all these great wrestlers. Anyway, it was refreshing to see and the route to take just after the evolution of WWE.
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2 Karrion Kross received a video promotion that continued to target Sami Zayn. I think everyone probably couldn’t worry about the Zayn aspect of this. It was simply wonderful to see a good promotional room for Kross which was not during a commercial break.
3 and 3 Rusev and Sheamus will make it go back at some point. Usually, I would be a little on the fence on this subject, but these guys just have that chemistry. Let them fight 80 times for everything I care about.
🤷 It happened 🤷
The day of the judgment (Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez) beat the Kabuki warriors when Perez wrapped Asuka. It was an OK match, and nothing more than a loss of slowdown in history, with Dominick Mysterio helping his faction winning the victory by distracting the referee. A typical day of judgment “Meh”.
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👎 Brute affair 👎
1 and 1 Nikki Bella defeated Chelsea Green. It was not good. The green loss is not great either. This seemed to set up a brief Bella team and go, when she made the safeguard after the match when Green and the secret Hervice attacked.
2 Pearce tells the new day when he does not simply put the title reviews – after having literally done it earlier in the night for Sky and Ripley.
It was a packed “WWE RAW” and the kind of show you hoped for after a big weekend. I give this show a score of the crown of: 7.5 / 10.👑
