WWE Monday Night Raw 7/28/2025

WWE Monday Night Raw 7/28/2025

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/wwe-monday-night-raw-7212025.html

Next week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/wwe-monday-night-raw-842025.html

We are in Detroit, MI. Michael Cole and Corey Graves are on commentary. This is the last Raw before Summerslam.

The roster is on the stage for Hulk Hogan. Nick Hogan, Eric Bischoff and others are there. We see a graphic for Hulk on the tron. Triple H says we lost one of the biggest and globally recognized icons in the world. He says he grew up watching Hulk and shared the ring with him. He says he captivated millions of people. He says we would not be standing here if it wasn't for Hulk. They then do a ten bell salute. We then get a Hulk Hogan video.

Jey Uso comes out. He's facing Bronson Reed tonight. Paul Heyman comes out before Jey Uso says anything. Jey says he didn't come out to be disrespectful even tough Jey is facing Reed. Paul says he wants to talk about family. Paul says he can't believe Jey accepted Roman's offer to team with him against Breakker and Reed.

Paul says family will always let you down and get you in trouble. Paul says Jey's mom lied to him about Santa. Paul then cuts a weird line about his Jewish tribe knowing better about Santa. He says Jey's dad lied to him too. Paul says Roman picked Solo over him for next in line for tribal chief. Paul says he loves Jey like family then says, "yeet". 

Jey says he's here due to family. He says he will push for his family every single time. Jey says he went on his own to see if he could pull up. He said he won the title to prove it to himself. Jey asks where is Paul's family at? Jey gets the crowd to yell "yeet" then calls for his entrance theme again to be played.

AJ Styles and The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) vs The Judgment Day (Dominik Mysterio, Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez)

Asuka and Raq go at it. Asuka side headlocks her and shotgun dropkicks her. Asuka spin kicks her and hits Kawada kicks. Asuka superkicks her. Sane axe kicks Raq and Raq takes a double basement dropkick.

Raq catches Sane's top rope crossbody. Sane takes snake eyes then Raq fallaway slams RP into Sane. RP bangs Sane's face off the mat. Sane headscissors RP using the ropes. Sane corner dropkicks RP. Dom pulls RP out of the way of a sliding forearm and Sane goes into the bottom buckle. Raq facekicks Sane outside. We go to break and return.

Raq lariats Sane then slingshot jackhammers her. RP double jump asai moonsaults Sane for 2. Sane hits forearms on RP. RP spin kicks her. Sane spears her. Raq and Dom prevent Sane from tagging out. Sane stunners RP off the casadora. Raq misses a corner spear and goes into the post. AJ is tagged in. He throws Dom in and hits strikes. AJ lariats him. AJ sliding forearms him. AJ ushigoroshi's him.

RP shields Dom. Dom tries to hit AJ and is hit with a pele kick. Asuka superkicks Raq from the apron. AJ pops up Sane to the outside onto Raq. AJ springboard forearms Dom and pins him.

Thoughts: I didn't like AJ pinning Dom here as the fun of this was Dom finally getting his. I would have kept them away from each other. I liked the match as there wasn't a lot of intergender moments here and Sane had one of her better nights since her return.

Sheamus is interviewed. He says last week's match was an old school banger. Grayson Waller and The New Day come up to him. GW says Sheamus cheated against him a few weeks ago and says The New Day have his back. Sheamus says anyone who touches him gets a bad dose of Walleritis. He asks if he wants to fight. Sheamus tells him to take a shot as he's calling for a banger beat down. Sheamus then does his banger lines. GW says they aren't scared and The New Day is gone when he looks for them. 

Sheamus vs Grayson Waller

GW is out here alone. GW hits knees to the face then is pushed off. Sheamus running double axe handles him and hits shots. GW rolls into a flatliner. Sheamus blocks an up and over then he hits a big slam.

Sheamus pulls on GW's mouth. GW baseball slides him then slides out into a Sheamus slap. Sheamus finlay rolls him on the floor. GW jumping knees him. Sheamus tornado ddt's him on the apron. Sheamus pumping knees him.

Sheamus hits chest clubs. Rusev comes out and Sheamus nails him. Sheamus pump kicks GW. Sheamus then pins him.

Thoughts: Sheamus won here as expected and GW got some offense in but didn't really pose a threat.

Rusev hits Sheamus with the shillelagh many times after. Rusev camel clutches him.

Naomi is interviewed in the back. She says Rhea isn't the only one who will bring brutality. She says Iyo is the genius of the sky but she flies high too. She says she's aggressive and we will see it in the 8-man tag tonight. She says it will be a cautionary tale. She says we've all been warned to proceed with caution.

They say WWE Unreal debuts tomorrow and we see clips from it.

We get a package on Hulk Hogan with wrestlers talking about him.

Paul Heyman talks to Bronson Reed in the back. He says he heard Jey Uso's family say they are a group without a leader. Bron Breakker walks in and says which we now have. Bron says Reed has this. He says he will destroy and tsunami Jey. He says they will have total power over WWE and it start tonight. Reed says he will hit tsunami's and Bron says he has a plan. 

Lyra Valkyria comes out to talk wearing huge shoes. She says they are her "Becky Stompers". She messes up the Summerslam day and says she will be the 2x WWE Women's champ or she will fail and not be able to challenge for the title. She says Becky will have to beat her ot the group if she wants the title. She says they will try it her way as if there are no rules, you can't break them. She says Becky doesn't know what she's capable of and says neither does she.

Becky's music hits. Lyra finds her behind her and dropkicks her through the ropes. Lyra hits her with a kendo stick.Becky ends up retreating.

We see a taped interview with Sami Zayn and Corey Graves. Sami says he wants this to be over with. He says he doesn't know what he wants out of him. Sami says he's trying to become a champ and says he will put an end to it once and for all. 

Karrion Kross and Scarlett come in. Kross says he gets everyone to show their true colors, except for Sami. He says Sami will say "Kross told the truth" at Summerslam and then Sami can go be champ. He says Sami is no different than anyone else. Kross hands Sami a steel pipe.

Sami says if Kross beats him, he will say whatever he wants him to. He says maybe Kross is wrong about everything. He says he will beat Kross and wants him to say that he was wrong. 

Bayley is interviewed. Jackie talks about how she's not scheduled for Summerslam. Bay says she lost her opportunity at the IC Title, the tag titles, she missed Mania and now is missing Summerslam. She says she's at a loss for words.  

Naomi and The Secret Hervice (Chelsea Green, Piper Niven and Alba Fyre) vs Iyo Sky, Stephanie Vaquer, Nikki Bella and Rhea Ripley

SV = Stephanie Vaquer, RR = Rhea Ripley

Naomi ducks RR's shot and double mule kicks her. Naomi axe kicks her. RR hits short arm clotheslines and drops her face and chest first on the mat. Green is force tagged in.

Bella gets in and hits mounted shots on Green. Bella rolls Green up for 2 then spinebusters her. Bella fights off Green and Alba then Alba superkicks her. Piper nails Bella then elbow drops her off the bottom rope for 2. 

We go to break and return. Bella snapmares Naomi. Naomi knees Bella in the gut and bulldogs her into the 2nd buckle. Bella 2nd rope twisting enzugiri's her. Iyo gets in and hits shots on Alba. Iyo dropkicks Alba. Iyo rolls her into a double stomp.

Alba hits Iyo from behind. Iyo dropkicks Alba then Green dropkicks Iyo for 2. Piper boots Iyo in the corner then corner splashes her. Iyo boots Green out of the corner. Naomi drives Iyo's head into the mat over the 2nd rope. Naomi legdrops Iyo.

Green codebreakers Iyo and Piper sentons Iyo. Alba top rope swantons Iyo for 2. Naomi is high kicked by RR then Piper black hole slams RR. Naomi throws RR into the steps. Iyo rolls up Alba for 2. Alba superkicks Iyo. Iyo flapjacks Alba.

SV bangs Green's head off the buckles then springboard crossbodies her. SV slaps Green then codebreakers Piper. SV headbutt flurries Naomi. SV hits corner meteora's then dragon screws Naomi. SV backdrops Green then hits the devil's kiss.

Bella facebusters Alba. Naomi grabs her title and heads to the back while Bella's looking to fight her. Iyo grabs Naomi and throws her in. Iyo springboard dropkicks Naomi. Bella does Iyo's taunt with her then Piper lariats both and does Iyo's taunt.

RR and Piper stare down. RR headbutts her in the ribs then hits a riptide. Green slaps RR. SV hits an SVB on Green and pins her.

Thoughts: It was alright with most of the bigger women's stars doing battle here. It wasn't anything super memorable but we go to see the wrestlers signature moves and they did what they were supposed to here.

The Judgment Day talk in the back. Finn tells his crew to get up and chin up. He says everyone told them Judgment Day was done when Priest and Rhea left, but he says they are still here. Finn says they are stronger than ever. RP then gives Dom a game system to play 2K25. Raquel says Liv also likes to play that.

The women from the 8-man celebrate in the back. Rhea says let's go wash up. Iyo grabs Rhea. Rhea says they are friends now but she will finally have her number at Summerslam. Iyo says she never beat her and she never will. Rhea says we will see.

World Tag Titles - The Judgment Day (Finn Balor and JD McDonaugh) vs The LWO (Joaquin Wilde and Cruz del Toro)

Finn wristlocks Wilde then pulls him down by the hair. Wilde headflips and dropkicks Finn. Wilde corkscrew elbow drops Finn. Cruz top rope double axe handles Finn then chops him. Finn basement dropkciks Cruz in the face.

JD chops Cruz. Crus knees JD in the face. JD takes a double back elbow. Wilde is hiptossed into a splash on JD. Cruz asai moonsaults JD for 2.

JD seated moonsaults Cruz. Cruz springboard dropkicks JD then dropkicks Finn. Wilde top rope plancha's his opponents outside. We go to break and return. Wilde hits punches on JD. Finn knees Wilde in the back from behind. JD is catapulted into Finn, knocking him off the apron. Cruz top rope crossbodies JD then dropkicks him. Cruz flying headscissors JD.

JD is in tree of woe and Cruz hits a coast to coast dropkick on him for 2. Wilde springboards and is kicked by Finn. Finn and JD get suplexed together. The LWO then hit stereo topes. Wilde asai moonsaults Finn. Cruz phoenix splashes FInn for 2.

JD lariats Wilde over the top. El Grande American comes out on the apron. Dragon Lee then fights off Grande. They fight to the back. Finn cradles Cruz for 2. Wilde flip dives onto JD outside. Cruz is crotched up top by someone else in a mask. Finn top rope double stomps Cruz and pins him.

Thoughts: It was what you would want with lots do dives near the end. We had 2 masked people interfere in this and we don't know who the one is. I liked it but it wasn't the best possible match. Judgment Day won as expected here.

Gunther comes out to talk. He says last week was a clean victory for him. He says he went toe to toe with the best talker in the world on the mic. He said he left Punk speechless. He said he made him understand he's not the best in the world and he's not champ. He said he made him shut up.

CM Punk comes out. Punk says Gunther left him dumbfounded. He said it dawned on him that he doesn't want to be champ, he needs to be champ. He says he needs it like he needs air in his lungs. He says wrestling is an addiction and he wants to raise the title above his head as a thank you to the fans. He says it may not mean anything to Gunther but it means a lot to him.

He says he doesn't deserve to be the best in the world, he earned the right to do that and be arrogant about it. Punk says he left a trail of bodies of hall of famers and superstars that Gun could only dream to face. Gun tries to tell him to shut up and Punk covers his mic. He says there's levels to this and Gun will find out he's not on his level.

Punk says he leave champ on Saturday and he will get to find out what it's like to be in the world with the one and only CM Punk.

We see a clips of a Jackie Redmond interview with Jelly Roll. Jelly says f*ck Logan Paul.

Jey Uso vs Bronson Reed

Jey hits punches to start. Bron misses a corner charge and Jey hits more mounted punches. Reed is tripped into the buckles and Jey running hip attacks him for 2. Jey lariats him and Reed back elbows him.

Reed splashes him. Reed headbutts him down. Reed chokes Jey on the ropes then stands on him. Reed clubs Jey. Jey is sent into the buckles Jey double boots him out of the corner. Reed catches Jey's crossbody and hits a world's strongest slam.

We go to break and return. Jey is outside on the floor. Reed chokes him. Reed chinlocks him.

Jey hits shots to the gut then Reed throws him backwards. Reed elbow drops him. Reed misses a senton. Jey hits punches then superkicks him. Jey topes him. Bron Breakker then comes out and spears Jey to cause the DQ.

Thoughts: It wasn't much of note. Jey didn't do much but punches here and Reed didn't get a lot in but some splashes and sentons. The finish was a bit lazy.

Bron hits mounted shots on Jey then Reed gets some in. Roman Reigns' music hits and he comes out. Bron stomps Jey. Roman pulls Reed's throat over the top then he lariats Bron over the top. Reed misses a corner charge into the post. Roman helps Jey up. Jey superkicks Bron and Roman superman punches Reed.

Roman gets speared by Bron outside and Reed bodyblocks Jey hard outside. Bron hits a spear on Jey inside. Reed hits a top rope splash on Jey. Reed flying lariats Roman from the apron over the commentary table. Roman is thrown back in the ring. Reed top rope splashes Roman. Bron talks trash and throws Roman out. Bron spears Roman and Jey together through the timekeepers rail and poses. Reed says this is ours now. Reed then takes Roman's shoes and poses with them. Roman, Reed and Paul pose in the ring to end the show.

Overall thoughts: It's the last Raw before Summerslam so we weren't getting anything too crazy. The opener was alright but I would have had AJ and Dom avoid each other instead of being involved in the finish. Sheamus/Waller was the one sided match you would expect. The women's 8-man tag was alright with lots of the bigger women's stars in it but nothing too great. I liked the tag title match but they didn't get to go all out. Jey/Bronson was pretty basic and not much of note. Roman came out after, lost the fight and ended up getting his shoes taken from him. I'd give this one a 6 out of 10 overall and thoughts it about average. It made sense and it did what it was supposed to, but there was nothing must see here.  

I also wanted to add that I can't say WWE did a great job building up to Summerslam this year. Everything on the show makes sense and was built up to, but there is nothing I'm really excited for other than TLC. I'm sure the 2 shows will be fine, but WWE had a lot of shows recently and with their general lack of starpower, a 2 night Mania and a 2 night Summerslam was a bit too ambitious. There's no doubt Seth Rollins' injury played a role in that. There were also not a lot of legends to bring back (who could freshen things up) due to AEW having signed so many ex-WWE guys, due to WWE's lack of building new stars from 2000-2015 and due to almost all of the 90's and early 2000's stars being retired.