Raw Tag Team Championship
(C) The Viking Raiders Vs. The O.C. Vs. Street Profits
Back from the break and this title match gets underway with Karl Anderson and Erik. The Viking forces Anderson to the ropes, then delivers a headbutt and slams him down on his shoulder. Ivar tags in and drops Karl with a knee to the mid-section. Ivar puts Anderson in the corner and tags Erik, who delivers a forearm before tagging Ivar again. Anderson counters Ivar, while Angelo Dawkins blind-tags in off Ivar.
Dawkins takes a headlock but gets shot off and delivers a dropkick. Montez Ford tags in and hits a big dropkick to Anderson. Anderson tags Ivar into the match. Ford takes a headlock on Ivar, gets shot off, then looks for an arm-drag but Ivar doesn’t budge. Ford dodges Ivar and performs a few flips, then Ivar does the same until they’re at a stalemate. The O.C. run in and attack Ford and Ivar.
Gallows tags in off Ivar and beats on Ford in the corner. He tags Anderson and they use quick tags to isolate Ford in their corner. Gallows hits a butterfly suplex to Ford and takes a headlock. Anderson is tagged in and hits a double-team back suplex/neckbreaker with Gallows. Anderson knocks Dawkins from the apron, but turns into an enziguiri from Ford. Gallows tags in and Ford tags Erik.
Erik comes in hot against Gallows, punching him and hitting a T-bone suplex. Dawkins runs in and he eats a T-bone as well. Anderson returns and he gets knee’d in the face. Erik tags Ivar and they squash Anderson with some double team moves, then Erik tosses Ivar into Gallows in the corner. Ford tags in and gets hit with The Viking Experience but The O.C. break it up. Erik and Ivar clear the ring, then hit suicide dive, but Erik gets caught by Gallows and thrown over the barricade!
*Commercial Break*
Back live and Gallows is beating Erik against the ropes. Anderson tags in and takes a headlock. Erik fights to his feet and knocks Gallows from the apron, rolls under Anderson, and tags Ivar.
The big man comes in like a steamroller. He hits a sidewalk slam and a splash, followed by a seated senton and a clothesline to the incoming Gallows. Ivar runs for a bronco buster but nobody’s home. Erik and Dawkins tag in, with the latter dropping the former, then belly-to-belly suplexing Ivar.
Dawkins bulldogs Erik, then tags Ford. Dawkins hits a spinebuster to Erik, then Ford hits a frog splash but Karl Anderson blind-tagged in. He throws Ford and Dawkins from the ring and pins Erik but Ivar breaks it up. Actions erupts all over the match, with Ford diving over the ropes onto everyone but the Raiders and Anderson. Erik hits a powerbomb to Anderson and tags Ivar, who hits a top rope splash for the win!
Winners: The Viking Raiders
Charly Caruso interviews Samoa Joe backstage and asks him who his third partner is for tonight. Joe says he’s sure she, the fans, and Seth Rollins are desperate to know who it is but…Kevin Owens approaches and says he too would like to know. Joe asks if it would be enough to show him, and KO says yes. They walk off and Charly follows them.
*Commercial Break*
We return to see Joe, Owens, and Charly walking backstage. Joe tells Owens to go into the room to see who it is, but prevents Caruso. Owens looks inside, then comes out laughing. He says they’re definitely good, but Seth and AOP are not.
The Raw Women’s Champion, Becky Lynch, comes to the ring looking an awful lot like The Bride. The fans chant her name and Becky says it’s so good to hear that. She stutters and says she has been wondering for months now what kind of Champion she is. Becky says she let the doubters get to her and she forced the powers-that-be to let her challenge Asuka at the Royal Rumble.
Truth be told though, she says she’s doubting that wisdom. Becky says she hasn’t had a chance to breathe the past year, but she did just that over the holiday’s. She took a minute to think things over and she wonders if she should do as everyone says and just take the easy ride, accept the fame and fortune and avoid the woman she can’t beat. We see a replay of when Lynch was beat by Asuka at the Royal Rumble last year, then again on Raw a few weeks ago, and at TLC last month.
Lynch says that, what she figured out in all of this is…but she’s interrupted by the Empress of Tomorrow. Asuka comes to the ring, speaking in Japanese. Asuka gets in the ring and starts to talk but Becky decks her and walks off.
*Commercial Break*
Erick Rowan is walking backstage with his bird cage when Mojo Rawley approaches him. Mojo asks if he can take a quick peek inside the cage and he says yes. Mojo lifts the tarp and looks inside…then screams and falls backwards. He runs off shouting “what’s wrong with you man?”
Andrade is interviewed backstage and he holds Rey’s mask up. Rey suddenly attacks Andrade and takes the mask back. He beats him until officials pull Mysterio off.
Erick Rowan Vs. Unnamed local talent
Before the match even begins, Rowan grabs hold of the jobber and throws him from the ring. He drags him over the bird cage and asks if he wants a look but the kid runs off and into the ring.
The kid taunts Rowan to get into the ring, and he does for the match to official begin. Rowan connects with a spinning heel kick, splash in the corner, and an Iron Claw Chokeslam for the win.
Winner: Erick Rowan
After the match, Rowan drags the kid out of the ring and forces him to look in the cage. The kid screams like crazy and runs to the back holding his face.
*Commercial Break*
AJ Styles makes his way to the ring for a match. We see a replay of last week when Randy Orton feigned an injury to attack Styles. They will go face-to-face next week.
AJ Styles Vs. Akira Tozawa
The match gets underway and Styles gets put on the apron early. He knocks Tozawa back and connects with the Phenomenal Forearm. AJ goes for the pin but stops it himself. AJ lifts Tozawa and thinks about the Styles Clash but stops himself and, instead, hits Randy Orton’s draping DDT. Styles then drops to the mat and pounds it like The Viper, and hits an RKO for the win.
Winner: AJ Styles
*Commercial Break*
