The final WWE Raw before Clash in Paris airs live from Birmingham on August 25 as part of the UK tour.
Continuing the European tapings and live events that will culminate at the end of the week with the Clash in Paris PLE, Raw returns to the UK with a show in the Midlands. Due to the Netflix media rights agreement, the show will be broadcast live around the world at 8 pm local time.
Some of the segments announced ahead of time include Roman Reigns kicking off the show, Nikki Bella calling out Becky Lynch, and Rhea Ripley facing Roxanne Perez.
While not announced, it is expected that the future of the Women’s World Championship will be addressed given that Naomi vacated the title the previous week after announcing that she was pregnant.
Michael Cole and Corey Graves are on commentary.
WWE Raw Results Birmingham August 25:
- A video package aired to kick off the show, recapping the extreme rules match the previous week between Bron Breakker and Jey Uso, which saw interference throughout.
- LA Knight, Rhea Ripley and Nikki Bella were all seen arriving before Roman Reigns made his entrance, which took a long while as always! The UK fans are loud as always with the “Roman, Roman Reigns” chants ringing through the arena. More chants followed before Reigns began his promo. Reigns pronounced Birmingham correctly and asked the fans to acknowledge him, which they did. Reigns admitted that he needed to acknowledge that it’s not old times anymore and he is not the same man he used to be. Reigns referenced Cody Rhodes and The Vision, both of which got boos from the UK fans. Reigns put over Jey Uso and his place in the World Title 4-way and tried to talk about Bronson Reed before being interrupted by Paul Heyman and Bronson Reed. Heyman brought up that it has been 5 years since he and Reigns first aligned and spoke about their history. Heyman stated that he came out to disrespect Reigns, and the fan chants started again. Heyman tried to get a Bronson Reed chant going, but the Birmingham fans were having none of it! Following more back and forth between the 2, Reed promised to win in Paris. A brawl then ensued on the ramp and made its way to ringside before security intervened. Reed tried to take Reigns’ shoes again and hit a Tsunami, but Reigns fought it off.
- The Judgment Day were seen walking backstage and saw Dominik Mysterio speaking with El Grande Americano.
- Technical issues took place between Dragon Lee and JD McDonagh. There was no sound for the majority of the match and a glitchy picture. Dragon Lee won the match via pinfall and AJ Styles chased away Dominik Mysterio.
- LA Knight was interviewed backstage. Knight promised to win his match with Bron Breakker and that he would win the 4-way at Clash in Paris.
- A video package aired hyping up the Rusev and Sheamus match at Clash in Paris.
- Kofi Kingston defeated Penta thanks to a distraction from Grayson Waller.
- IYO SKY spoke with Rhea Ripley backstage, and told Ripley that they need to spend time apart as Asuka and Kairi Sane were unhappy about the alliance.
- A video package aired recapping Naomi’s announcement from last week, which led to a meeting between Stephanie Vaquer and Adam Pearce. The Raw GM stated that next week he would have a solution, but the match in Paris is off.
- Becky Lynch appeared live and ran down the city of Birmingham, including insulting Aston Villa FC. Nikki Bella interrupted and the 2 exchanged insults once again. Lynch stated that she wanted to replace Bella and not look up to her, with Bella retorting that Lynch used to live in Charlotte Flair’s shadow. A match was then made official between Lynch and Bella for Clash in Paris. Lynch attempted the cheap shot, but Bella was the one who stood tall.
- Another video package aired hyping up the Rusev and Sheamus match at Clash in Paris.
- Rhea Ripley defeated Roxanne Perez after hitting the Riptide. Raquel Rodriguez and Perez attacked Ripley after the match. Despite their conversation earlier, IYO SKY made the save.
- AJ Styles defeated Finn Balor via pinfall after hitting the Styles Clash.
- The latest Bayley split personality video aired.
- Bronson Reed and Roman Reigns resumed their brawl backstage, which was once again broken up by security.
- LA Knight and Bron Breakker began their brawl backstage before making their way out into the fans. The bell finally rang and the match got underway following a lengthy brawl. Seth Rollins interrupted the closing moments where it appeared that Knight was about to win. Breakker speared Knight on the outside and pinned Knight to win the match. A post-match brawl saw Jey Uso and later CM Punk join. Punk and Rollins brawled and Rollins fled. Uso hit a superkick onto Punk and Knight to stand tall and close out the show.
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