WWE Raw 2-3-25

 Rumble recap video starts things off. Jey starts things off with the fans and does it again. And again. Jey is like legit shook with all this too - wow. This is a moment. He is crying at how much this run means to him. Damn - dude has that natural conneciton with the fans. Gunther talks shit and tells him to explore his options because he'll massacre him again. Kaiser's quick elimination is shown and he's out to face PENTA. Corner gamenguri and headstand hardyac kick by Penta! Sacrifice and the Penta driver wins it. Dude is OVER! 

Dunne walks out and Kaiser jumps Penta. Charlotte's out and bombs on her promo with all the boos until Rhea talks shit and tells her to scamper to other brands. She'll be on NXT. New Day is out to face Rey and Lee and Logan Paul comes out and leads to an ad break with the heels using the distraction. Logan right hands Rey with the loaded fist and the trouble in paradise ends it. Rey vs. Logan is set for next week to go into the chamber.  Liv vs. Iyo is up and Liv gets 2 off a rana. Codebreaker counter off a crossbody gets 2 for Liv. Release German by Iyo and Rhea jumps Raquel AND HITS LIV AND LIV WINS BY DQ! Iyo is pissed and Seth's out.

Seth talks shit and Sami comes out and Seth stirs the pot between them and Punk's out. Lots of glitches throughout the show here. Headlock elbows and the corner bulldog is turned into the blue thunder for 2.5. Helluva misses and Punk wants the GTS and Sami cradles him for 2.9! CORNER EXPLODER! THE CROWD IS MOLTEN! HELLUVA MISSES AND THE GTS WINS IT. This was a fantastic TV match - one of Punk's best since returning. Punk and Sami hug and KO ATTACKS SAMI! PACKAGE PILEDRIVER TO KO! Wow - that would be a natural match for either the Chamber in Canada or Mania. 

WWE Royal Rumble 2025

 

Well thanks to a flu bug this week, I wasn't able to go out to see this live - but I can at least watch it on TV. America the Beautiful is sung and it's Rumble time! KO arrives in a KO golf cart and we see Punk arrive with coffee. BUT FIRST STEPH! WWE GROWS BECAUSE OF THE FANS! THANK YOU! Women's Rumble starts off as is tradition and Iyo is the first entrant alongside Liv at 2. Liv is a legit top 10 star in WWE and that is massive for her. They brawl for a bit before Roxanne comes out and works with Iyo for a bit until Lyra comes out and has issues with her hair or top or something. Chelsea is out at 5. She goes to throw everyone out, fails and they beat her up.

B-Fab is out and then Nile hits a double German. Zoey is out and she hits some knees and kicks. Lash Legend is out and slugs Iyo with a bull hammer. Lash gets Ivy into a powerbomb giant swing and swingers her into folks. Chelsea chucks out B-Fab and Bianca is 10 and hits a ton of corner punches on half the folks at one time back to back to back. Shayna is out and Zoey slips off a springboard lariat and thankfully saves it and hits it well on Lyra. Ivy tosses Lyra out and wants the belt. Bayley is out in some cool blue and orange gear. 

Sonya is out for PFC and now Maxine is out and the capture is getting really wonky. Maxine is chucked out and Ivy's gonna take her out. GLOW time at 15. PFC is now gone and Bayley took out Shayna. Jaida Parker is out and needs better music. Lordy - Generic Superstar 15 theme here. Not much until Jordynne comes out with her full TNA presentation  - excellent. Big pop for her DVDing Piper. Alexa is back and looks fantastic - has the little doll with her. Vaquer makes her Rumble debut and TRISH IS HERE. Okay that would've been cool to see in person. 

Trish double-sorta bulldogs Jordynne and Candice. Piper bowls Trish over. Raquel is out and an apron codebreaker ends Nattie's run. ANOTHER ONE ENDS ALEXA'S RUN! Charlotte is out at 27 and they just put her over as God herself on commentary. Wow. Charlotte and Jordynne go at it and she superkicks Michin out. Vaquer and JG go for a double suplex and she counters with a DDT to them. Charlotte sends Piper out. Giulia is here with her NXT title. Shockingly, no TNA involvement yet at all and it's late in the match. Giulia takes out JG and that seemingly sets up an NXT program. Nis is 29 and works with Trish. NIA TAKES OUT TRISH THANKS TO CANDICE! Nikki's the last one out. Everyone gangs up on Nia AND NIA ROAR SPOT! Nikki does pushupand Roxanne does her one better. Nia chucks out like six folks including the tag champs. No Jade in this. Roxanne works on Charlotte's bad knee. Charlotte chucks Nia and it's down to Charlotte and Roxanne and a big boot ends it for Roxanne. 

Big E asks fans questions segment. Godfather and Mickie are shouted out with Mickie as a WWE Legend - so she's in the fold and Kurt is here WITH HIS SHOOT GOLD MEDAL and his daughter is an amateur star. We see the Guns backstage and Shelley is in a zebra print jacket! Sabin plancha on DIY through Shelley. I love Johnny hammer throwing Sabin into a Ciampa lariat for 2. Ciampa hits a knee for the first fall. Shelley gets a cover for 2. APRON PKS BY SABIN and a double-jump crossbody! Skull and Bones get the second fall. Fairytale ending and project Ciampa get 2. Johnny accidentally superkicks Ciampa in the corner and they hit the facial! The Profits use a crutch and DIY retains with meet in the middle. Wow that was a weird one. Okay so the Profits attack DIY too - so they gave them the win to get the belts...well still weird.

Long recap of KO-Cody before their match which starts off with some crowd brawling. Stepladder usage and a ladder bridge. Backdrop to KO on the opened ladder! Cody eats a powerbomb into a corner ladder! Avalanche fisherman buster by KO through a ladder! Aldis comes out to ensure they're okay with EMTs and Sami is out! They're up - so that was a nice way to get Sami out there in-canon. Cody turns an announce table package piledriver into a ladder bridge-snapping Alabama slam! And that's it. Wow weird finish. 

Rey is no 1 for the men's Rumble. and then it's PENTA! Penta is the man with no fear and Cole is going to be the man with no voice by the end of this. They do a taunt-off for this lucha exchange and REY ELIMINATES PENTA MAYBE OH GOD WOW. Chad is 3 and the LUCHADOR EXPERT is here! Rey does a nestea plunge onto chad off of Penta's shoulders - okay that ruled. Melo is 4 and Santos hits a 619 on Rey PENTA GOES AT IT WITH KING CUERNO! Destroyer and 619! EVERYONE ATTACKS GABLE just like Chelsea in the women's Rumble. Otis is out and eats an ankle lock but gets Gable in a torture rack. 

Bron is out and spears and tosses out Melo. BREAKENSTEINER TO GABLE! BACKDROP TO OTIS! Tozawa is out and Melo beats him up first. Melo established as...maybe above the level of Tozawa. BOY HOWDY WHAT A GREAT MAIN ROSTER CALLUP! Tozawa is replaced by iShowSpeed. Ugh. Breaker and Speed take out Otis and he eats a spear and gets pressed into Otis who fallaways him onto the announce table to eliminate him. 

Sheamus is out and brogue knees Bron and Andrade is out. FATU IS HERE TO KILL DUDES! PENTA AND FATU CLUBBERING! Double stack Samoan drop to Penta and Rey! Rey and Gable are out at his hand. Ditto Andrade! BRAN VS FATU! Kaiser keeps the ROH Nude DVD cover tradition alive before Penta eliminates him. lucha Miz with Penta before Fatu gets him! Hendry is out and he hits the STANDING OVATION TO MIZ before Fatu takes him out in the corner. REIGNS IS HERE! Fatu rocks Jimmy and it's ROMAN AND FATU TIME!

Brawl and Drew is out. Balor is out and Nak knees Roman a few times. PENTA DESTROYER TO FATU! Penta is chucked out by Balor before MAIN EVENT JEY is here. He tosses out Nak - so maybe he's heading to SD. AJ IS BACK! It has now been NINE YEARS that he's been in WWE. Unreal. Bullet elbow by AJ to Drew! AJ gets a MASSIVE AJ chant. Wow. Braun is out and he's going right for Fatu. BRAUN ELMINATES HIM! Cena is out and he low-bridges Braun to take him out. AA TO FINN OFF THE APRON ONTO...amost Braun to take him out.

BRON SPEAR! Roman and Cena staredown before Punk. And they just do NOTHING until Seth. Dom hits a frog splash to CENA AND THREE AMIGOS TO ROMAN but nah. SAMOAN DROP TO DOM! Sami is out and now Priest. Priest chokeslam to Dom and he's out! LA Knight is 29 and hits the double jump elbow to Cena. Yeah/Yeet off and SAMI IS GONE. Well that was a waste of him across the board tonight. Logan Paul is 30 - okay, had it been Rock, I'd have regretted not being there live. Priest eliminates Drew and Paul eliminates AJ. Logan takes out Punk after he takes out Roman and Seth! Seth turns heel by stomping Punk on the floor and Roman on the steps!

It's down to Cena, Paul, and Jey and maybe Cena will win this one. Double AA teased but Jey hops off and Cena lariats Paul over the top! FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE BY CENA! Cena thinks he's won it and it's low-bridge time on the apron! AA OFF THE APRON BUT JEY THROWS HIM DOWN AND JEY USO WINS THE RUMBLE! Okay didn't see that one coming - I guess he's winning the World Title at Mania.  Cena hugs him and Cole says GODDAMN RIGHT HE DID! 

AEW Dynamite 1-29-25 Ospreay vs. Cage

 

Ospreay starts the show off and highlights a fan in his getup before Cage jumps him after Kenny is shown out in the back. Callis cheapshots Ospreay on the floor and hurts his hand - fantastic! SASUKE SPECIAL BY OSPREAY! Hook kick is met with a ripcord forearm, discus lariat and Spinning Ligerbomb for 2 by Cage! STYLES CLASH WINS IT FOR OSPREAY! Archer jumped Ospreay, but Kenny saved with a chair. Ospreay and Omega eat tombstones! Ospreay covers Kenny up - I love this! 

Backstage, Hangman comes out of Swerve's locker room and tells Renee he's not there and MJF puts over Claudio taking out Jeff Jarrett tonight. Claudio vs. Jarrett is up and we get uppercuts and European uppercuts aplenty! Giant swing into the sharpshooter but Jeff fights back. Yuta gets involves, Mox spikes him with the shift and Jeff is near the rope! NEUTRALIZER HITS! TW OF THEM AND CLAUDIO WINS IT! So Jeff seemingly wins the Owen this year. 

Ricochet is out to face AR Fox in another Lucha Underground rematch. Fox lands a corkscrew brainbuster and a 450. Spirit gun and the vertigo finishes it. Ricochet goes at him with scissors until Swerve chains him out! DADDY MAGIC'S MERCH MADNESS is the craziest DW-ish thing we've seen in eons. Yuta vs. Jay White is on tap and a perfectplex gets 2 for Yuta. Yuta got spiked on the uranage  Bladerunner ends it and the Death Riders attack before Rated FTR saves. Dax says it DENNIS CONDREY'S NAME IT'LL BE FTR AGAINST THE DEATH RIDERS IN A MID-SOUTH STREET FIGHT! 

Mariah pitches changing the name of Huntsville to something with a C to start. Yikes. Mariah says that Toni should play the version of herself that was bleeding in her hands. ASS BOYS HYPE VIDEO! Recap of big moments on the show before a Vendetta promo airs and they challenge Harley. FOUR BELTS MONE is out! MAGICAL GIRL DROPKICK BY YUKA! Magical girl splash meets knees and the mone maker ends it. 

WWE Raw 1-27-25 - Rumble go-home show

 

Cole starts us off with some Cody hype and is very echoey. Drew vs. Sami is up on this card. Seth comes out looking like a goober and talking in an annoying manner. He says he might have to win the Rumble to face Cody and beat him for the title he helped him win. GUNTHER comes out presumably annoyed that he wasn't mentioned. He's annoyed by Seth as is everyone and Logan Paul is out and gets nuclear heat.

Punk chats and Sami interrupts and wants clarity because one of them is a WM main eventer - and it's not Punk. Kross stirs the pot with Sami and Punk and the boot. War Raiders face Dom and JD next. JESUS CHRIST JD just smashed his head on the announce table on that Asai moonsault! Ivar hits a double handsrping elbow and JD avoids a wheebarrow double team. Carlito spits an apple and a Dom frog splash gets 2. The faces hit War Machine and win it. This overdelivered - Dom has become a low-key fantastic worker.

Dunne chats with Kaiser and New Day gets cut off by them too. Woods is out and his family isn't there. Zelina is out of the LWO after tonight as she'll be on SD - alongside I would presume her husband Malakai Black.  Rey gets spiked on his head but is fine and hits a big kick and he hits the seated senton and rana. SUNSET BOMB BY REY! Code Red gets 2! His family shows up with NEW DAY SUCKS shirts! 619 and the dime drop ends it. 

Sami chats with Seth who I'm just sick of. MAIN EVENT JEY IS UP IN YA CITY! Jey says he's winning the Rumble. Lyra cuts a promo backstage and then Ivy wants her title. Racquel and Liv are out to face Naomi and Bianca. Not much here beyond Liv eating a boot hard. Naomi eats a loss to presumably set up a title change. Heyman is out to announce Roman for the Rumble and Roman is the 2K25 cover star. Drew talks about slaying THE BEAST at WM and Brock sent him out before Roman saved him. Drew tells him to run and he's coming for Punk and Reigns.

Sami gets his nose busted up and is bleeding all over the floor before Drew misses the claymore on the announce table. Mid-ring helluva is met with a spinebuster and a cradle for 2. Sami crucifix gets 2 and a corner exploder hits for Sami. Helluva missed and Drew schoolboyed him with the ropes to win. Drew beats him up and Cody saves. AND SAMI ACCIDENTALLY BOOTS CODY! 

Cody chats about the title and Punk's distracting hairline says he lost friends over that title. They ramble on for a while and on and on and on and on and Punk says he's going to stab him in the front. Cody says the best in the world isn't the Best anymore. Okay this rambling nonsense was draining.

AEW Dynamite 1-22-25 - Omega and Ospreay Face-Off

 

We start off with Kenny and Ospreay facing off and have Swerve vs. Fox later on. Ospreay clues in Kenny to the shitstorm and the Family keeps holding him back from the World title. Kenny says it took him almost dying for folks to know that Will even existed. Kenny gets jumped by the Family and Will is reluctant before a brawl around the arena between everyone AND THEY GO FOR DUELING MOONSAULTS OFF HIGH THINGS and they miss Omega's. Kenny wants the family at Grand Slam Australia.

PAC vs COPE hype vid. Hurt Syndicate is out to beat Private Party and the win the tag gold. Quen gets a headlock on Lashley before getting thrown off. Zay eats an announce table chokeslam by Lashley and they stalk Quen nicely afterwards. Spears and WE HURT PEOPLE GOT 'EM! Toni and Harley chat it up and are goobers together and are so silly that my capture software goes wonky. Toni and Mariah meet face to face on Collision Homecoming. JJ talks about getting his ass kicked when he started and Lawler told him WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OUT THERE!? He got in the gutter with MJF and now he remembers who he is. He's 57 and he wants the world title and Mox - IT'S TIME TO TALK! Claudio jumps him and says you have to go through him to get to Moxley. If JJ beats Claudio, he gets Mox.

Swerve beats Fox and Ricochet has his scissors against Nana's neck and leaves. MJF tells Jeff that wrestling doesn't love him anymore and he's going to find out that you're better off making a deal with the devil than defying him. Hangman wins a quick squash. Daniels is out and says he didn't want to fight him and he messed up their friendship - he poured gasoline on a fire. That last buckshot along with all the damage to his neck and he's been told to never wrestle again - okay now that works given the story they told and didn't tell on Saturday. Hanger won the last match he'll ever wrestle and he hopes he can be happy now. 

Mone' chats to Renee and HARLEY WANTS TO RIDE THE MONE' TRAIN IN AUSTRALIA! Julia Hart vs. Hayter II is up and we get a bit of brawling to start before an ad break. German series on the neck and bad shoulder by Hayter before a half crab and Julia escapes for a flying octopus. HAYTERADE wins it. Hayter calls her a tough bitch and she's down for the rubber match whenever. Hobbs vs. Bill is made for Collision in maybe a parking lot brawl. Swerve gets revenge on Ricochet in 2 weeks in Atlanta. Brody King, Julia and Buddy say they have no leaders or masters now - just the violence! THEY BARK TOGETHER! Okay good Hounds of Hell hype. COPE VS. PAC IS UP! 

Lots of matwork to start and Cope moves great for a guy at his age and with a recovered broken leg. Pac runs wild with a kick and knee combo after a chinlock and Cope recovers with an Impaler! Cope catches Pac in the corner in an AA before getting locked into the Brutalizer out of it! Cope escapes but he can't escape the ring and PAC LOCKS IT ON AGAIN! COPE LIFTS HIM INTO AN AIR RAID CRASH! SPEARAURUS REX BY SPEAR! TKO BY COPE WINS IT! 

Backstage, the DEATH RIDERS HIT A CONCHAIRTO ON RICKY MORTON! Cash and Dax are taped up! SWITCHBLADE MAKES A SAVE but he gets taken out by Yutes. 

WWE Raw on Netflix 1-20-25

Seth vs. Drew is on tap and PENTA faces Pete Dunne. We see Nia jump Rhea earlier today to further their program. Main Event Jey is out and this dude is so over and he cut a brief promo before Gunther came out. They yammer and brawl and it sure feels like Gunther's retaining at SNME. New Day chats with JBL about the campaign against them and they give him $2. Rey is out to face Kofi, who gets Dom-level heat and they take their money back from JBL.

 A powerbomb gets messed up and Rey does the flip before the move is done and Kofi blames JBL. Kofi splashes the back for 2. Rey wins it off a 619 and an SOS cradle is countered so Xavier jumps him. The LWO saves and we get a PENTA debut recap. Barrett is shown winning NXT season 1 and Sami is out and KO asks for Sami to have his back against Cody - YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND and my brother! Sheamus chats about his career and winning the WWE Title to start - but never having the IC Title because it drew him to WWE as a kid. He faces Breakker on SNME. Bron slaps him and walks away. Bron's BADASS shirt using his dad's DOGFACE GREMLIN typeface works.

Nia vs. Bayley is up and Nia trucks her for 2. Bayley dives on Nia and argues with Roxanne - so that sure feels like a Mania match. Lots of sloppy offense including a sunset flip into the post by Bayley and a sunset bomb before the banzai drop win by Nia and a post-match brawl with Rhea. Judgment Day and American Made chat. We see Lyra win the Women's IC. Penta's out with a cool new jacket that needs a replica ASAP against Dunne. 

Dunne works the fingers and locks on a triangle, but Penta turns it into a powerbomb backbreaker and The Sacrifice and the Penta Driver wins it. Dude is a fucking star! War Raiders face Dom and JD next week and Cody is on Raw next week. Punk comes out in the crowd and chats about the Rumble - it's history and he makes it. PFC vs. Damage CTRL is up and Iyo wins it. Seth vs. Drew is up and Drew's Batman gauntlets are a big upgrade from the giant sword. Basebal slide for an ad break and a springboard swanton gest 2 for Seth. Drew hits a falcon arrow for 2. Running claymore misses but a spinebuster and jackknife gets 2. Seth gets 2 off a falcon arrow too. Massive lariat from Drew gets 2 and Seth fights for a crossface. Seth gets a jackknife for the win.

Seth eats a post-match claymore before Sami saves Seth, but he boots him accidentally when Drew moved. 

 

AEW Collision 1-18-25 - Collision Maximum Carnage - The Fallen Angel's Final Ballad

 

The Hangman vs. Daniels rivalry will seemingly conclude the in-ring career of Christopher Daniels, someone who has been unselfish for 25 years and been rewarded handsomely for it with the respect of several generations of peers and fans alike. Babyface side of the 12-man tag has the OUTRUNNERS IN THE SNME PROMO SLOT! Okada cuts a promo on Ishii and HE WAS HIS FRIEND - BUT TONIGHT, I'LL PUT YOU DOWN! Daniels explains that Hangman knows violence and he'll show him that tonight. 

Daniels vs. Hangman opens the show with Daniels coming out in his full Fallen Angel garb one last time. Slugfest and forearms to start before a corner boot from Hanger leads to mounted punches. Daniels gets sliced up heavily and Hanger gets a barb wire table and CD avoids a Dead Eye off the top! AVALANCHE URANAGE FROM CD! 

Clothesline over the ramp by Page and a ramp Angel's Wings is turned into a backdrop before a buckshot is turned into a Koji clutch! ANGEL'S WINGS HITS AND A BME! And he puts a barb wire board on him AND HE HITS A BME WITH IT! Daniels GOT HIM DOWN FOR 9! TOMBSTONE ON THE CHAIR BY HANGMAN! They play up the left arm being useless and a DEADEYE ON THE CHAIR  and a buckshot to the neck ENDS IT! This ruled! ANGEL'S WINGS AFTER THE MATCH! Tremendous! Nigel - HE'S THE ANGEL OF DEATH! Tony Schiavone gives him a nice sendoff if that's it - and it likely is.

Tony introduced TONI STORM! She'll introduce herself to Mariah May at Daily's Place! Trios tag with the Hurt Syndicate getting hyped up and MVP says that the win makes them the top contenders and in TN, they're getting the gold! KOR, Strong and Cole are out to face Shane Taylor Promotions of Lee Moriarty and the Infantry. Carlie avoids the sunrise, but eats a thrust kick and a brainbuster on the knee for 2. KOR and Strong high/low ended it - fun stuff. Shane Taylor attacks and DADDY MAGIC and Daniel Garcia save.

Omega-Cage recap and the Murder Machines are out to kill Top Flight. Powrbomb chokeslam ends it. Yikes! Andretti comes out in a red wacky jacket and Lio JUMPS THEM! The Learning Tree is great with Lexy and Bill rules anyway. Jericho says that he and Mox are the first two AEW World Champions and Jericho tried to take his eye and Mox left a scar above his eye!  Ange returns to the ring with Daddy Magic and DG next week against the Undisputed Kingdom. Caster is mid-ring and Caster's ego pisses off Bowens. Bowens calls him an edgelord piece of shit and he isn't the best wrestler alive - the fans think he sucks AS HE PARADES HIS TRADEMARK APPLICATION! PAPA BUTTOCKS IS HERE!

Caster says that every team Billy has been in broke up INCLUDING THE ONE WITH HIS SONS and Bowens has to pick between Billy or him. Bowens flips him off and joins Billy. THE SCISSORING CONTINUES WITH BOWENS AND BILLY! Intense promo from Swerve swearing vengeance and ISHII VS. OKADA IS UP! Forearms and headbutts before a GIANT SUPERPLEX BY ISHII! Dropkick to the neck, low blow and a rainmaker end it. 

Deadpool Dustin is out with his double gold! Double-Belt Dustin faces Adam Priest and Dustin runs wild and gives the youngster a chance to shine. SNAP POWERSLAM HITS! Stephn Smith prevents shattered dreams and Priest jumps him but a Cross Rhodes hits and the Final Reckoning ends it!

Hounds of Hell hyped up and Julia Hart is out to FEEL THE WRATH of Harley Cameron! Harley gets an enzuiguri for 2. Harley gets locked in an octopus off a DVD attempt. Fulcrum schoolgirl by Harley gets 2! Jula trips her for Hartless but Harley gets the ropes right away. Sole Food hits for Harley and a rabbit lariat sets up the Hartless win. Hobbs is shown taken out by the Learning Tree. 

The Rated R FTRunners are here to face the Death Riders and Leaning Tree with the Tree eating a ton of offense to start. Runners hit the SONOFABITCH elbow and we get Mox eating a fistful of fury from Cope. SHATTER MACHINE TO BILL! Impaler DDT on the ramp! PAC JUMPS COPE! They put a black bag over Cope's face and Cash saves him. Hobbs comes in and TURBO TAGS HIM! MEAT DIVISION MAYHEM WITH BILL AND HOBBS! 

TOTAL RECALL ON JERICHO! Hobbs takes out Keith and spinebusters him to win it. Okay so maybe Hobbs gets the ROH Title.

AEW Dynamite 1-15-25 - Powerhouse vs. Mox for the Title

 

We get some early stuff on Max before they cut it off for the usual blue screen. Dammit - I loved Taz saying he's gonna suplex a baby. MACHINE VS. BEST BOUT MACHINE starts us off! Kenny starts off with the Fire Pro junior heavyweight hop - he's feeling it! FUCK DON CALLIS chant before Cage hoists Omega up. Cage presses him onto the announce table before Callis gets in cheapshots. POWERPLLEX by Cage for 2.

OUTSIDE IN POWERBOMB BY CAGE thanks to the ramp! Sunset bomb by Kenny and a V trigger gets 2. One Winged Angel using the ropes to bring him up and he wins it! This was a ton of fun. Archer and Fletcher attack! OSPREAY saves! This will be a great tag match. TAKESHITA BRAWLS WITH OMEGA! Private Party and Mark Briscoe face the Hurt Syndicate with MVP debuting in-ring tonight. Jericho hypes up the 12-man tag on Collision and Big Bill rules.

"EVERYONE SHOW SOME LOVE FOR RICOCHET!" Okay so we were promised MVP here but okay. Ricochet shows himself stabbing Swerve before SWERVE COMES OUT after Nana jumps him with a chair and dances! Mercedes Mone TV show hype and shopping spree. Finally it's trios time and MVP looks good with Mark. MVP eats a lariat over the top before Shetlon eats his own complete shot from Quen! Lashley launches Mark on the floor and he launches Quen with the spinebuster. Hurt Fall wins it - just belt the Syndicate already.

Cope vs. Pac for Dynamite next week! Swerve vs. AHABITCH Ricochet is happening on 2/5 on Dynamite. JJ is out and MJF interrupts. MJF cuts promos on skanks - boy vintage Bully Ray there. And he wants to screw Karen too. JJ thanks the fans for awakening a passion in him in the Owen. JJ says that Max's mother was a whore and his father was an ambulance chaser. He says that MJF's mother made his dad pay for that shit and Alicia was going through a train when MJF had his iron man match. "YOU NEED ME BECAUSE YOU'RE DROWNING IN YOUR OWN SHIT - BUT AT YOUR CORE, YOU'RE A SCARED LITTLE BOY!" 

MJF takes credit for record ratings, ticket sales and ALL IN and he was the best in the world. He says no one has ever given a shit about Jeff and he's nothing but a carny leach riding the coattails of his deceased friend! They hype up Daniels vs. Page and I think they ran long because they didn't even have a recap of it but we get one for Okada-Ishii!? Weird - feels like they're rushed for time.

CAGE VS HOOK IS UP and Hook jumps him before Christian bails and hugs Mama Wayne. Christian trips him on the steps and gets 2 off a splash off the top. SPEAR GETS 1! Fisherman suplex gets 2 for Hook. Christian drops Shibata with the falling inverted DDT on the floor after posting Hook. The goons
attack for a DQ and Taz says THIS AIN'T HAPPENING AND JOE RETURNS! Casino gauntlet is up. Dustin and Jeff meet and I guess we'll get Dustin and MJF soon. "OUTLAWS NEVER DIE!"

Mariah May is out for commentary and Kris is the first person out and then Hayter is out too. Mariah is great on commentary as Kris and Hayter just go through a starting sequence when everything should be a finish. MEGAN BAYNE IS HERE! Falcon arrow to Stat gets 2. DDT counter to a suplex by Hayter and then Julia Hart is out. Suplex on the floor to Julia by Hayter! Willow boots Bayne before Willow and Stat chop and Willow pounces! IT'S TONI TIME! SNAPMARE TACKLES FOR EVERYONE! EVERYONE PREPARES TO FEEL THE WRATH OF HARLEY CAMERON! Hayte breaker to Harley! Harley feels the mist and a rabbit lariat hits for Julia! TONI CRADLES HER TO WIN AND TONI WINS IT AND WILL GO ON TO GRAND SLAM AUSTRALIA! Timeless Toni's grey hair is back...

Hobbs gets a killer presentation and the goons surround the ring for the title match. Taz hypes up his ex-Team Taz guys being in big roles tonight and Mox chops away. They hype up Hobbs HAVING A BULLET IN HIS BODY still and he blew his knew out with Mox last year. Hobbs bites the earring out of Mox's ear and a Most Dangerous Slam gets 2.9. Mox gets a cross armbar and Hobbs stacks him but a rope break ends the hold. BUSAIKU KNEE BY WHEELER! SPINEBUSTER BY HOBBS! Torture rack turned into an RNC and Marina case shots Hobbs and it gets 2! Paradigm Shift gets 2.9! BULLDOG CHOKE IS ON! And that's it. Okay well that kinda hurt both guys at least in theory. Post-match, the goons attack. 

They Pillmanize the leg with Claudio stomping and Rated FTR finally saving. 

WWE Raw 1-13-25 - Penta debuts!

 

WWE tweeted out about Penta merch and they put some on WWEshop - so hopefully they just open the show with him. Or not - we get the drone arena shot and a recap video of the Raw Netflix debut. Punk shows up in an SUV and does the Hogan earcup before coming out and being wacky on the announce table and hitting up the barricade too. Punk shouts out the firefighters in LA and he hypes up being in San Jose. 

Punk says Seth is in his rear-view and he's in the Rumble before Seth comes out. They bitch and moan and then Drew comes out to bitch and moan about Punk and he isn't here to talk about PHIL and the world doesn't revolve around him. And also Drew is in the rumble - so we have Drew, Seth, Punk, Cena, Roman, Jey Uso, LA Knight in it so far. Gable is out at 8:20 - so somehow that segment didn't go on for 20 years.

Penta is over huge and really doesn't have much recostuming - a little bit more red, but it looks like a Pentagon/LA Park hybrid gear. Cole hypes up Penta being a multi-time AAA tag champ, TNA World Champ and 2-time LUCHA UNDERGROUND CHAMPION! Penta...sorta hits a bottom rope springboard legdrop for 2. HANDSTOP HARDYAC ARREST KICK! APRON GERMAN TO PENTA!

Gable diving headbutt misses and a Penta superkick doesn't. Kneeling overhand chop exchange before a flip dive. Up and over backstabber out of the corner gets 2 for Penta. BUZZSAW KICK! High stack German gets 2.5! DRAPING ARMBAR BY GABLE! DESTROYER! AND IT GETS 2! Dragon screw into an ankle lock and the arm snapper is now The Sacrifice! Penta driver wins it!

Penta gets a post-match interview and he thanks San Jose and Liv gets roses from Dom. And she says she's not mad - so he's dead. Sheamus vs. Kaiser round 299393 is up! The usual 2 minutes of not much until an ad break and Kaiser dominates by being a cocky shit. KNEELING KICK TO THE NECK OF SHEAMO! Avalanche white noise before a brogue knee is met with a gamenguri by Kaiser! Sheamo wins it and argues with Bron Breakker and Seth chats about meeting Pearce and he'll face Drew on Raw. 

Karrion talks to Miz about the Wyatts being moved to SD - so boy that sure made all these MONTHS OF ANGLES SEEM WORTH IT. Sami talks about wanting Miz tonight. Gunther wants a roster that can fulfill high expectations - so is Kaiser his buddy still or what? Jey's out in his San Jose Sharks YEET shirt and he says it's ALL ME NOW and he wants Gunther at SNME! Gunther says that to Jey, main event is a nickname and to him, it's where he belongs and he should stay out of championship business. He's on for SNME. Gunther is basically telling him "look motherfucker, you'd better take ME seriously or I WILL maim you!" And Jey cuts a killer fucking promo about stepping up and he wakes up and BETS ON HIMSELF AND HE'S TRYING TO EARN HIS RESPECT! 

Women's IC Title hype builds both up nicely. Lyra dominates to start with a grounded surfboard after an apron suplex. Night Wing ends it. Well that was a match. Ditto Miz vs. Sami that ends with a helluva kick and blue thunder bomb. MAMI is here and NIA JAX is over huge as a heel. Nia talks shit to Bayley in the crowd and brawls with Rhea. Priest and Balor have every WWE weapons match in history. Priest's remix theme is solid tho. Nice overhead camera for a crowd brawl though - far better than the usual one for a broken arrow off the platform!

Judgment Day attacks Priest, but it only gets 2 and the WAR RAIDERS SAVE! Slingblade by Balor and he chairshots him a bunch. South of Heaven off a chairshot attempt! Dasher board spear by Priest. Razor's Edge through a table on the floor by Priest. South of Heaven ends it. This was fine - tough spot given that the show was so lean on matches, but I'm sure it would be fun live in the arena.