The announcers rundown the announced card for the two nights of WrestleMania.
Charly Caruso is in the darkened ring with Shayna Baszler and they’re just awkwardly staring at each other. Caruso says Baszler might be the most intimidating woman ever in WWE, and asks how she plans on conducting herself as Champion. Baszler doesn’t respond. Charly says Shayna allows her actions to speak for herself but could she possibly answer. Baszler says Charly looks nervous, then jokes that she might bite. Caruso asks if Becky can expect that kind of brutality at WrestleMania, and Baszler says Becky can expect to lose.
Baszler yells at Charly and says she should just ask the quesion she wants to: why do you care about the title when all you care about is destroying? Well she cares because winning the title will destroy Becky Lynch. As Charly is asking her next question, we hear a crack and Shayna falls off her chair. The lights come up and we see Becky Lynch standing with a chair. She hits Baszler in the back with the chair again, then walks off.
Aleister Black will be in action, next!
*Commercial Break*
Aleister Black Vs. Leon Ruff
The bell rings and Black doesn’t move, while Ruff looks terrified. Black meets him in the centre of the ring and sits down. Ruff asks him to get up but he just stares. Ruff swings a kick but Black ducks it and kips-up. Black catches a kick from Ruff and hits Black Mass for the win.
Winner: Aleister Black
Aleister Black will face Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania next weekend.
*Commercial Break*
Kevin Owens is in the ring as we return. He addresses Seth Rollins and says he was here last week but Seth was nowhere to be found. He knows Seth is here tonight, so he’s all ears.
Rollins answers the call and comes out alone. Seth walks to the ring slowly and says he can’t understand how Owens thinks the PC gives him a home advantage. He says he might not have trained here, where Owens did and made friends, but Seth says KO doesn’t even know how he got the opportunity. Seth says this building didn’t exist when he was training.
The Performance Centre was built on his blood, sweat, and tears. His first day, he walked into a rundown warehouse and told his entire life’s work was meaningless. That he had to suffer and start at the beginning all over again. He had to perservere and succeed so that the likes of Owens could train somewhere like the PC. He rebuilt the system, and that’s what he’s tryng to do on RAW but Owens refuses to follow in line.
He says none of this would exist without him, including NXT. There is no Gargano, Ciampa, Undisputed Era, or Women’s Revolution without Seth Rollins. And more importantly, there is no Kevin Owens without Seth Rollins. Owens makes to interrupt but Seth asks if he can finish and Owens agrees. Seth asks why Owens asked for the fight at WrestleMania? His track record there is spotless: he won the Intercontinental Championship, he beat Triple H, he cashed-in his Money In The Bank, and he beat Brock Lesnar.
Owens’ WrestleMania record? Non-existent. And last year, Owens didn’t even get on the show. Seth says Owens couldn’t beat him on his worst day, and WresleMania is his best day, because under pressure he becomes a God. He says Owens doesn’t stand a chance and walks off.
They show the entirety of Charlotte Flair Vs. Asuka at WrestleMania 35.
Still to come, Randy Orton will respond to Edge’s challenge to a Last Man Standing match at WrestleMania.
*Commercial Break*
Charlotte Flair is interviewed following the replay of her beating Asuka’s undefeated streak. She says she retired the Diva’s Championship and became the first Women’s Champion, and last year she was one of the first women to main event the show. So if Rhea Ripley wants, she can watch some of her matches at the show of shows to learn a little something.
After the break Randy Orton will answer Edge’s WrestleMania challenge.
*Commercial Break*
The Viper, Randy Orton, comes to the stage. Orton says he has done some things and said some things that have been misunderstood over the past month or so. What he did came from a place of love but it has been taken as an act of violence.
Orton addresses Edge and says he has something he needs to say. He needs to apologise. Because a few weeks ago he lied to Beth Phoenix when he said Edge was a junkie for the roar of the crowd. Adam Copeland is a junkie for ego, a junkie for Edge. And last week something Edge said was true: he was handed an opportunity because of who he is. But an opportunity does not guarantee a Hall of Fame career.
One year after getting called up, he had won the Intercontintal Championship and became the youngest WWE Champion ever. Edge said Mick Foley made both of their careers, but that isn’t true. He handed Edge the torch, but he threw Orton in thumbtacks. Orton says he spat in Foley’s face, beat him to a pulp, and took the torch.
He says Edge says he has grit but grit isn’t sitting around at home, looking up at the sky asking yourself “what if?” Orton says grit is longevity. He says he is the one constance in that locker room. He looked around and nobody has the accomplishments that he does, and nobody has as much grit as him. But Edge calls him an entitled brat? But isn’t he the ultimate opportunist? Wouldn’t he have done the same things, joined Evolution along with Triple H? Everything he has done is because he loves Edge, and he loves his children, Lyric and Ruby. And that’s why he sent their father back home. But now Edge wants him in a Last Man Standing match at WrestleMania. Edge might be writing the story, but he’s going to write the last chapter. “I accept.”
And that’s it for WWE RAW. Let us know what you thought of the show, and come back tomorrow for all your wrestling news. Until then, good health.
