Hold the press; Dean Ambrose is back! After being sidelined by an injury for months, The Lunatic Fringe made his return on the latest Monday Night RAW episode, the last before World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) PPV SummerSlam on Sunday. His arrival saw the WWE fans went into a frenzy and welcomed him to a huge pop!
The show kicked-off with Ronda Rousey informing the fans that Natalya’s father Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart, had passed away, earlier today. Rousey talked about her match with RAW Women’s Championship with current champion Alexa Bliss, at SummerSlam. Rousey introduced Ember Moon, and soon after Bliss and Alicia Foxx came out to the ring.
Watch RAW Superstar Ronda Rousey Destroy Alexa Bliss' Security Guards at RAW:
The four women wrestlers shared an exciting segment and hyped their match at SummerSlam. However, in a match (between Bliss and Moon) that took place just after the segment saw Moon win by disqualification.
A short clip showed how RAW Constable, Baron Corbin, in compliance with RAW Commissioner Stephanie McMahon would be making matches in the night. Corbin announced a handicap match with Finn Balor on one side and Jinder Mahal and Kevin Owens.
However, Kurt Angle came out and announced that if he could not cancel this match, he can alter it for sure. The fans let out a huge cheer. Angle calls for Braun Strowman and evens the odds in the match. The tag-team match between Braun Strowman and Finn Balor vs. Jinder Mahal and Kevin Owens saw the former win the gruelling bout.
Many other matches took place on Monday Night RAW. The Triple Threat for the RAW Tag-Team Championship was quite a spectacle too. We take a look at the list of match that took place on WWE’s weekly show.
List of all matches at Monday Night RAW, on August 13, 2018:
Sr. No. | Matches | Stipulations | Winners |
1. | Alexa Bliss vs Ember Moon | Singles Match | (By DQ: Ember Moon) |
2. | Baron Corbin vs. Tyler Breeze | Singles Match | Baron Corbin |
3. | Finn Balor vs. Jinder Mahal and Kevin Owens | Handicap Match | Finn Balor and Braun Strowman |
4. | Finn Balor and Braun Strowman vs. Jinder Mahal and Kevin Owens | Tag-Team Match | |
5. | Bobby Lashley vs. Ricky Roberts | Singles Match | No Result |
6. | The Deleters of Worlds vs. The Revival vs. The B Team | Triple Threat Tag-Team Championship Match | The B Team |
7. | Bobby Roode, Apollo Crews and Titus O’Neil vs. The Authors of Pain and Mojo Rawley | Tag-Team Match | Titus Worldwide and Bobby Roode |
8. | Ruby Riott vs Sasha Banks | Singles Match | Ruby Riott |
There was an exciting segment which involved Paul Heyman and Roman Reigns, earlier and was later joined by Brock Lesnar. It began with visuals from last week, where snippets from Paul Heyman’s interview were shown.
Reigns ran down Lesnar and bragged about how he despised everything about him. After a lot of slurs, The Advocate entered and started flattering Reigns and submitted him a proposal to think about it and answer on Sunday, after his match with Lesnar at SummerSlam. Things went haywire when Reigns accepted it and…
Watch Brock Lesnar Beat Roman Reigns beat him after Paul Heyman cons him:
The main event of the night saw contract signing between Seth Rollins and Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler, who was out with his partner Drew McIntryre.
Rollins arrived late, and said that he was present there at the show, but intended to come out only after Ziggler signed the contract. The Architect mentioned a clause of having a partner at his ringside at SummerSlam and out came ‘DEAN AMBROSE’ to a huge pop. What happened next, is for you to see.
Watch Dean Ambrose’s return to WWE RAW, on August 13, 2018:
Colossal applause welcomed Ambrose from the crowd. Both Rollins and Ambrose do a Shield’s fist-bump in the middle of the ring as Monday Night RAW went off-air. The match-card at SummerSlam 2018, with his return, has become even more exciting for the WWE fans! Let us know in the comments section below about which match are you looking forward to, at SummerSlam, on Sunday, i.e. August 18!
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