WWE Monday Night Raw 4/7/2025

WWE Monday Night Raw 4/7/2025

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/wwe-monday-night-raw-3312025.html

We are in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pat McAfee and Michael Cole are on fury.

We see various wrestlers arrive.

Adam Pearce is in the ring with the Women's Title. Iyo Sky and Bianca Belair come out. Rhea Ripley then comes out. Adam says he was wrong to have that match last week and says he was wrongto assume they could handle things as professionals. Adam announces that Mania will be a 3-way for the title.

Bianca says it would have made her mad 3 weeks ago. She says she doesn't care as Rhea isn't going anywhere and she's not scare of her. Bianca tells Rhea to sign the contract and says she wants her in the match. Iyo tries to break it up and is pushed aside. Iyo springboard dropkicks them into each other.

Thoughts: This whole thing is dumb as Rhea didn't win her way here while Bianca did yet she gets a title match too. Every wrestler who doesn't try to pull what Rhea did here moving forward is an idiot.

We go to The Judgment Day in the back. Finn is happy about the 3-way at Mania. Finn says the more the merrier. Liv says they have 2 members of Judgment Day fighting for the IC Title. She says they have double the chances to bring the IC Title back and says it doesn't matter who wins. Finn says everyone says Dom is a loser who doesn't believe in himself, but he believes in him. Carlito says he has Dom's back.

WWE Women's Intercontinental Title - Lyra Valkyria (c) vs Bayley

Lyra rolls her up. Bay trips her. Lyra takes her down by the arm. Bay side headlocks her. Bay rolls her up for 2. Bay then gets another 2 count. Bay knees her in the face. Bay botches a sunset bomb and Lyra gets a 2 count on her.

Lyra legsweeps her and basement dropkicks her. Lyra northern lights suplexes her for 2. Lyra does a rocking horse on her and gets a 2 count. Lyra misses a kick, Bay goes out then is dropkicked through the ropes.

Lyra top rope crossbodies her for 2. We go to break and return. Lyra boots her away. Lyra takes a stunner over the 2nd rope. Bay baseball slides her under the bottom rope. Bay misses a tope and dives on the floor. Bay catches her dropkick through the ropes and belly to belly suplexes her on the floor.

Lyra hits a doctor bomb for 2. Bay running knees her for 2. Bay sunset bombs her into the buckles. Lyra tornado ddt's her and fisherman suplexes her. Lyra is caught trying to do a dropkick off the buckles. Bay crabs her but lets go. Lyra then jack knifes her and pins her as Cole calls it an instant classic.

Thoughts: Bay still botched here and it had some sloppy moments but it was a better match than Bayley has been having. It's clear they are going with a losing streak gimmick for Bayley that is likely going to end up turning her heel.

Bay slaps Lyra's hand away then hugs her. Bay then holds her arm up. 

Some comedian named Bert Kreischer is interviewed. American Made comes up to him. Chad says he's not competing but The Creed's and Grande Americano will take down The LWO. Bert says he didn't come to see them then Otis and Alpha Academy come in. Otis and Bert then rip their shirts off.

AJ Styles is interviewed. He says he gets the opportunity to beat Logan Paul as you can't be experience. Karrion Kross walks in and asked how it helped him last week. Kross says he wants to help him and he wants the AJ that can get the job done. Kross says if AJ loses we all lose and we need it. AJ says he'll give him a taste of the other side of AJ next week on Raw in a match.

American Made (Julius and Brutus Creed) and El Grande Americano vs The LWO (Dragon Lee, Joaquin Wilde and Cruz del Toro)

BC = Brutus Creed, JC = Julius Creed, JW = Joaquin Wilde

BC double leg takedowns Cruz. Cruz snapmares him then BC shoulders him over. Cruz armdrags JC then JC takesa double back elbow. JW is hiptossed into the ropes into a splash on JC.

JW spinning reverse headscissors JC. JW does a flying armbar. The LWO hit triple corner attacks then corner dropkicks. The LWO then do triple tope con hilos. American Made then do 3 superplexes. We go to break and return. 

Lee boots JC out of the corner. JC get stuck in tree of woe and Lee top rope double stomps him. Cruz crossbodies and lariats BC. Cruz then flying headscissors him. JC is popped up and hurricanrana's JC. Cruz twisting suplexes BC.

Cruz top rope swantons BC then rolls into a tope on JC. Grande is put in the electric chair but hits a spanish fly kind of off of it. Cruz is knocked out. Lee htis a sit out powerbomb then JC top rope ssp's Lee. JW jumps off Cruz and JC's back then flip dives outside. Cruz walks up the buckles and tornillos JC.

Ivy Nile gives Grande a weapon. He loads his mask and Rey Mysterio calls him on it. Grande headbutts Rey with the loaded mask. Lee tries to pull off Grande's mask. Grande headbutts him and hits a flying headbutt to win.

Thoughts: It was good. I liked the loaded mask spot which we haven't seen for a long time. Cruz and JC looked like they took some hard bumps here and maybe got hurt. This was as good as it could be though with lots of lying. 

Gunther comes out to talk but Jey Uso comes out before he can anything. Jey comes through the crowd and isn't yeeting. Jey slaps the mic out of Gun's hand. Jey says Gun has a mom. He asks if he talks to her and what they talk about. Jey says he had to tell his mom her oldest sign is in the hospital and has stitches. Jey says, "Why didn't your protect him Joshua?". He says he told her he was afraid of Gun.

Jey says Gun knows how he feels about his family. He says he never felt so angry, disrespected and scared when Gun violated his brother. Jey said a lightbulb went off. He said he realized he's not afraid of him no more. Jey tells Gun to tell his family he loves him and he says he pray for forgiveness for the man he is becoming. He says he will get him and take the title.

Thoughts: It was a good promo and one of Jey's best promos yet. I don't know if it's enough though.

Adam Pearce, Natalya and Maxxine Duprii talk in the back. Nat is concerned about teaming with her in a gauntlet match but Adam tells them to go for it. Rey Mysterio walks in. Adam says he will give him a match with Chad Gable. Rey says he wants the man who is making a mockery of lucha and it's El Grande Americano. He wants to expose him for the fraud he is. He asks if he can pick where he wants to face him and it's Wrestlemania.

World Tag Titles - The War Raiders (Erik and Ivar) vs The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)

Tony Hinchcliffe is on commentary for this. He's a comedian.

Kofi leapfrogs Ivar. Ivar shoulders him over. Kofi slides out to stall. Woods hits Erik from behind and stomps on him. Erik hits a double lariat. Ivar side slams Kofi then low crossbodies him. Kofi goes up and over Erik then Erik slams him. Erik slams Woods and Ivar slams Kofi. Ivar is then slammed onto Kofi. Woods is thrown over the top. 

Woods grabs a chair but Erik punches him. Ivar crossbodies Woods against the rails. We go to break and return. Ivar butt drops Woods in the corner. Erik overhead suplexes Kofi. He tilt-a-whirl gutbusters Woods. Erik uranages Kofi. Kofi takes war machine for 2. Woods brings a chair in, Ivar grapples for it then hits him with it. Ivar is then DQ'd.

Thoughts: It was short. What we got was okay but the finish was lame and it wasn't as good as it should have been. Tony was not good on commentary.

Kofi chairs Ivar after. Erik pounds on Kofi. Erik is sent into a chair between the ropes. Ivar is sent over the rail. 

Security and officials then stop Erik from maybe getting stomped into a chair.  

Penta vs Dominik Mysterio

Dom is backed up in the corner and pushes Penta. They trade waistlocks and chops. Dom hits mounted forearms. Dom hits a corner splash. Dom clubs on Penta then hits shots and spears to the gut. Penta flying headscissors Dom. Penta tilt-a-whirl backbreakers him then slingblade bulldogs him. Penta dives off the top onto Dom and Carlito outside.

We go to break and return. Penta is kicked coming off the buckles. Dom hits three amigos for 2. Dom dropkicks him in the knee then is superkicked. Penta enzugiri's him in the corner. Penta handstand pendulum double boots him for 2. Dom hits a canadian destroyer then dropkicks Penta out. Dom 619's Penta. Dom goes for a top rope splash but Penta gets his knees up. Penta arm cranks Dom then hits  made in Japan for the win.

Thoughts: They had some sloppy moments here and didn't hit a lot of stuff clean. This really wasn't anything too special and didn't get a lot of time.

Carlito attacks Penta after then backcrackers him. Penta is stomped on then Bron Breakker comes out. Bron takes Carlito out. Bron then hits a big spear on Dom. Bron then spears Penta.

Bron holds his title up and Finn hits a final cut on him from behind. Finn holds the title up but then avoids a spear.

Paul Heyman comes out to talk. He says he will always be loyal to Roman Reigns and Punk. He says it doesn't mean he will disloyal to either though.

Seth Rollins comes down to the ring. He introduces himself. He says it's not about him though, it's about Paul Heyman. Seth asks Paul whose side he is on? Seth says Roman doesn't give a d@mn about Paul. He says Roman uses him to order his food and shine his shoes. He says Roman doesn't respect Paul. He says Roman disappeared after losing his title and didn't take Roman with him but left him with Solo Sikoa.

Seth asks if Roman rescued him and Paul shakes his head "no". Seth said Roman let Paul get massacred in his hometown in front of his kids. He says Punk didn't rescue Paul either. Seth says Punk walked out on Paul 10 years ago too.  

Seth says he was the first choice for Team Roman on Wargames, not Punk. He says Punk only joined to get a favor out of Paul. Seth says he feels bad for Paul as he's in a difficult position. He says the easiest solution is for Paul to stay out of it but he can't and won't. Seth says he could remove him from the situation for his own good, right now.

Seth offers to curbstomp him and says no one is here to save him. Seth pokes and slaps Paul and asks how much he is worth. He grabs him and Paul says not to put his hands on him again. Seth backs him up in the corner. CM Punk comes out.

Punk fights Seth. Seth is sent over the commentary table and they knock down the Prime Hydration Station. Seth is sent into the steps. Punk then is curbstomped in the ring. Seth goes to curbstomp Paul but doesn't. He then says he owes him a favor.

Overall thoughts: It was fine but not one of my favorite Raw's. Penta/Dom wasn't that good. Lyra/Bayley was good at times but had issues. New Day/War Raiders was shorter. The trios match was good. I liked the Jey/Gunther segment. The Rhea/Iyo/Bianca segment wasn't good. I'd give it a 6 out of 10 overall but it was not a star studded show and I thought they could have done better with this.