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Still to come
- Raquel Rodriguez vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice (Money in the Bank Qualifier)
- Chad Gable vs. Dragon Lee (WWE Intercontinental Championship)
- Roman Reigns vs. Penta (WWE World Heavyweight Championship)
Results
- El Grande Americano & Stephanie Vaquer def. Liv Morgan & Dominik Mysterio (DQ) (13:23)
- Je’Von Evans def. Austin Theory & Big Cass (Money in the Bank Qualifier Triple Threat) (9:43)
New champs Vaquer, Americano agree to team up for impromptu mixed tag opener
This week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, a high-profile lineup from the Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico, opened with a video package hyping tonight’s world title showdown between Penta and Roman Reigns. Penta had to work his way through an eight-man luchador tournament and now gets the big title opportunity in his home country.
We then went into the arena, where wrestling legend Rey Mysterio opened the show. This red-hot crowd gave Mysterio quite the warm welcome. Mexico has been loud for AAA and WWE events all weekend, and this was no exception.
Wearing a neck brace due to the brutal attack he suffered from Omos at TripleMania Night 1, AAA booker Mysterio told General Manager Adam Pearce that tonight would be historic. Mysterio brought our attention to the big screen, where a clip from Saturday night’s house show in Chile played.
Chile’s own Stephanie Vaquer captured the WWE Women’s World Championship at the event, dethroning Liv Morgan. The broadcast noted that Club WWE members can watch the full match. The clips we saw showed that it was quite the atmosphere, with the crowd going nuts for their countrywoman.
Mysterio then brought out the new champ, Vaquer. While Chilean, Vaquer spent a large chunk of her career in Mexico and, thus, was unsurprisingly given a loud reception. After a quick promo from an elated Vaquer, this was interrupted by former titleholder Liv Morgan and partner Dominik Mysterio. Once both champs, Mysterio and Morgan walked to the ring with no gold around their waists.
Morgan said that she was screwed on Saturday, saying guest referee Becky Lynch was the only reason she dropped the title. Dom, who generated some nuclear heat from the crowd, called Rey & Vaquer “a deadbeat and a cheater.” To rub Dom’s title loss from TripleMania, Rey played a clip of the result on the big screen.
An upset Dom threw out the idea of these four facing off in a mixed tag match tonight. Raw GM Pearce said that’s definitely not happening due to Rey’s injury. So, who came in as a replacement, new AAA Mega Champion El Grande Americano, who beat Dom just last night! The crowd was off the charts by this point, with many top stars in the same segment. Pearce wasted little time to match this match official!
Judgment Day stands tall following DQ loss
We came back from commercials with El Grande Americano & Stephanie Vaquer vs. Dominik Mysterio and Liv Morgan already underway. Americano got a hot tag, getting a two-count after coming out of the corner with a blockbuster. After a slight distraction from Morgan, Mysterio got Americano caught up in the ropes and dropkicked him out of the ring as the show went to another break.
Vaquer got back into the match and had a hot tag run against Morgan as the show returned. The champ connected with a dragonscrew then transitioned into her Devil’s Kiss move. Vaquer hit a meteora in the corner, but had her momentum paused after noticing Mysterio getting into the ring.
Americano rolled into the ring and helped line up both Morgan and Mysterio against the ropes for a 619 from Vaquer. Just as the babyface team were looking for dual moonsaults, the rest of Judgment Day arrived at ringside and attacked them. Interference from the group caused a disqualification finish to this one in 13 minutes.
A huge brawl involving everyone in the match plus JD McDonagh, Roxanne Perez, Raquel Rodriguez and Rey Mysterio took place. Americano dropped Dom and was trying for a move, but instead ran into a huge flying headbutt from McDonagh. A beatdown from the faction ended with Dom giving his father a top-rope frogsplash.
This match was some fun fanfare involving many of the biggest names for WWE’s Mexico market. Considering Judgment Day were coming off two huge losses over the weekend, having them stand tall here was the right move.
The latest – 9:01 p.m. ET: Je’Von Evans earns spot in MITB match
The second week of qualifying matches for this year’s Money in the Bank PLE got started next, with Je’Von Evans, Big Cass, and Austin Theory facing off in a three-way.
Evans tried for a dive over a barricade at ringside early on, a move he has done many times before. He was instead caught by rival Cass, who chokeslammed him into Theory, who was in the timekeeper’s area. This didn’t look as cool as they had hoped, I think.
In an impressive feat of strength, Theory lifted Cass up for a Blue Thunder Bomb as the show came back from a break. Evans followed up with a huge frogsplash onto Theory. Theory rolled to ringside, where Evans met him with a huge dive over the top – the airtime he can get with his high-flying moves is unreal.
Evans rolled back into the ring but walked into a huge Black Hole Slam from Cass. A distraction from Maxxine Dupri nearly allowed Evans to give Cass an OG-Cutter, but Cass prevented the move. After a roll-up attempt, a second OG-Cutter from Evans to Cass was countered mid-air with a punch.
Cass dropped Evans with a big boot to the head. Theory threw Cass out of the ring and tried to steal his pinfall win from him, but Cass pulled him out of the ring to stop that from happening. The fight went to ringside, where a dive from Evans was seemingly botched, as the Young OG had quite the painful-looking fall.
Back in the ring, Evans gave Theory a cutter onto a downed Cass. A third OG-Cutter was dodged by Cass, but a fourth attempt finally landed on him for the pinfall victory in just under 10 minutes. I was pleasantly surprised to see Evans get the win here. More interestingly, I’m kinda shocked that Cass, who they have been trying to build up since returning, took the pinfall loss clean here. Evans is an underrated name on the midcard who could steal the show in a ladder match, so this is a fun move. We’ll see him in New Orleans next month.
