WWE Monday Night Raw Review – 6.01.26

The international tour continues, so Raw is on bright and early in the afternoon in the U.S. After the Clash in Italy, we have some acknowledgement ahead as well as the start of two more tournaments.

The last week in WWE: Raw / NXT / Evolve / SmackDown / Noche de los Grandes Night One / Clash in Italy

Then, Now, Forever, Together.

This is Turin, Italy and for the first time, it is hosting Raw at the Inalpi Arena. We’re live on Netflix and presented by DoorDash. Here’s a look at Clash in Paris!

Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns arrive and head right on out to the ring because Roman would like some acknowledgement. Perhaps even in a ceremonial form. As we’re in the same place as last night, we have a similar stage setup but without the pillars and with the addition of the King and Queen of the Ring crowns in display cases. We take a good five minutes to get through the intro, so here’s where I point you to our ring announcer tonight, the great Alicia Taylor.

Solid “OTC” chants for Roman followed by our first two fan songs of the night. At the twelve-minute mark of the show, Roman finally speaks. “Acknowledge me.” Jey grabs a mic and says Jacob is late already on his first day of the job. The fans give Jey some yeets and here comes Jacob Fatu. The fans sing for him as well. It’s going to be one of those nights, but it’s always good to have a crowd that is into the show. Roman says we aren’t dragging this out and Jey tells Jacob that he’s moving too slow. Jacob stares down Main Event Jey and snatches his mic. Roman yells at Jacob, “I’m over here.” Jacob tells Roman that he knew what he was getting himself into with Tribal Combat and he has been taking L’s his whole life. He knows his children are going to see him take a loss but be a man of his word. “Last night, I lost to my Tribal Chief, but I didn’t lose to YOUR punk ass, Jey. Roman, I acknowledge you.”

Jacob bows on one knee, acknowledging the OTC and extending his hand. Roman grabs it, pulls Jacob up and tells him that he loves him. Big Jim tells Jacob that he’s with them and this is a warning shot to the entire locker room as Jacob raises the finger of acknowledgement with the OTC and the Usos. Clearly, we have some problems ahead with Jacob and Jey and have many more chapters of Bloodline Saga ahead of us.

Michael Cole and Corey Graves greet us from ringside. Cole shouts out Graves and tells us that the Mask vs Mask match from Noche de los Grandes will have an encore presentation after Raw tonight on Netflix. I’m not going to review it because I don’t think I can possibly do a better job of perfectly describing the emotion of it all than Niz did in his review. We also have our Italian broadcast team tonight, Michele Posa and Luca Franchini.

Arrivals! Seth Rollins! The Vision! Sol Ruca!

Here’s a video package on the King and Queen of the King tournaments and many who have won, from Nia Jax to Cody Rhodes and Kurt Angle to King Booker. The first round begins tonight with fatal four-way matches because WWE can’t do tournaments without multi-person matches nowadays.

King of the Ring First Round Match: WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta vs Oba Femi vs Solo Sikoa (with Tama Tonga) vs Carmelo Hayes

Cole reminds us that fatal four ways include no DQ and no count outs. You’d think Tama would simply come into the ring with Solo with those rules, but he does not. Melo gets the commercial break entrance while Oba gets the big chants and a split-screen to show fans doing the strut in the crowd. Melo, Solo and Penta all try to attack Oba during his entrance, he knocks them aside and completes the entrance complete with lighting. The bell rings and the trio try to attack again, Oba tosses them all off and delivers running uppercuts to two of them and dodging a spike from Solo. Oba and Solo fight on the ramp to give the in-ring spotlight to Penta and Hayes for a bit. Oba returns to double chokeslam Hayes and Penta and send us to a Wingstop commercial.

After six additional commercials, Penta is chopping away at Hayes. Solo runs in to clothesline them both as we see Femi run in and clothesline him. Hayes hits the First 48 on Oba, Penta gets a kick, and they drive Oba into the ring post. Solo and Tama drive Femi into the ring post two more times and Tama boots him over the barricade. Penta leaps onto Solo on the outside, Hayes leaps mostly over Penta. Hayes ducks a Samoan Spike, Penta grabs Hayes for a Penta Driver that Solo breaks up. Oba rises from behind the barricade and smacks Tama, chops the hell out of Hayes and spinebusters Penta before running back outside and tossing Tonga over the announce table. Femi hits the Fall from Grace on Solo and that’s your pin.

Oba Femi pins Solo Sikoa to advance in the King of the Ring tournament. A wild, fun match, and any worries that Oba’s aura would disappear after losing to Brock disappeared during his entrance. We’re really lucky to be seeing this crazy Oba run as it happens. Oba will face the winner of Dominik vs Bron vs Trick vs Damian. I’m imagining Dom Dom running from Oba.

Oba grabs a mic after the match. “Brock Lesnar, don’t you ever forget it is 1-1.I’ll see you down the line.”

We take a look at the saga of Rollins-Breakker. They’ll battle in the main event tonight.

Sol Ruca heads through the backstage area as we see Austin Theory and Maxxine Dupri having their weekly discussion.

The great unbiased journalist Cathy Kelley is in ring to introduce our new WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Sol Ruca. Sol gets a good reaction and they’ve added some sing-along “whoaing” to her theme which helps. Sol gets a “you deserve it” chant. Sol believed she could be a champion and so did the fans, so she thanks them. The hard cam is actually shaking from the fans stomping and cheering, which is one of the cooler things to see happen occasionally. Sol says she proved Becky Lynch wrong at Clash in Italy and it isn’t just her saying it. Her work is just getting started because the Intercontinental Championship deserves a fighting champion. Man, this crowd rocks.

Cole takes us to a clip from after last night’s show as Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns cross paths and exchange looks. We go live to Roman and the Usos backstage, Roman telling Jey to stay on Jacob’s ass and show him tough love. Roman looks at his title and tells Jey that he needs him to win King of the Ring and take the other World Championship. “I need you to level up.” Roman tells Big Jim to stay with him because Jey needs to do this on his own.

WWE Hall of Famer & AAA General Manager Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee vs Ethan Page and Rusev

Rey takes a position of power and wrestles more than ever. Rusev and Lee kick it off. After a few minutes, the hard cam shakes again as the crowd roars for the possibility of a Rey tag, something spoiled by Ethan pulling Rey off the apron.

After a break, Ethan is still working Dragon away from the possibility of tagging Rey. After several minutes, Rey finally gets that molten hot tag and leaps onto Page with a senton and a flying body press. Rey ranas Rusev to the outside and sets Ethan up for 619. Rusev grabs Rey’s leg so Dragon kicks him. Rey leaps onto Ego’s shoulders and Ethan swings him into a Boston Crab, Lee breaking it with a kick. Lee leaps onto Rusev on the outside and Rey sets up another 619, hitting this one and a Drop of the Dime for the three.

Rey Mysterio pins Ethan Page, Mysterio & Lee defeat Page & Rusev. A great match elevated by a hot, hot crowd. Well worth your time.

Raw General Manager Adam Pearce chats with Penta backstage. He tells Penta that he’s working on the Penta-Rey match. Penta leaves and L.A. Knight appears, asking why Pearce goes to Roman’s locker room but won’t ever come to Knight’s. He asks Pearce if he is feeling Ucey and threatens to buy him an Honorary Uce shirt. Pearce bows up at Knight and Knight promises to pull him out of retirement just to put him back in if he doesn’t cool his jets. Pearce points at Knight, Knight grabs his hand, raises it as if Pearce is doing the Roman finger. A good segment! I liked this fire.

We take a look at highlights from the AAA Mask vs Mask match, and I can’t tell you enough to go watch that match if you haven’t already.

Queen of the Ring First Round Match: Iyo Sky vs Giulia vs Roxanne Perez vs Lash Legend

This is Giulia’s first Raw match since May 2025 when she teamed with Perez in a losing effort against Sky & Rhea Ripley. As a fatal four-way, this is no DQ and no count out. They all go after Lash at first, trying for the formula of the opening contest tonight. Giulia hooks a guillotine onto Lash who powers out of it. Lash overpowers Iyo and Rox in the air, Giulia dropkicks them all and yanks Iyo down with a suplex to send us to a break.

Back from the break, Rox has found the advantage and is working over Iyo. That doesn’t last for long as Giulia comes in and Iyo dropkicks them both down. Iyo nails both women with the Bullet Train before Legend ragdolls her into a headlock. With all the women in the corner, Lash power bombs both Giulia and Rox and hits the Lash Extension on Rox. She hooks it on Giulia as well and covers, only for Iyo to leap off with a stomp to her spine. Iyo nails the Over the Moonsault on Giulia for the pin and to move on.

Iyo Sky pins Giulia to advance in the Queen of the Ring. Another good match, not quite as wild as the opener but still very good. Giulia looked great in her Raw spotlight, and I’d love to see her around more often, but it is also hard to bet against Iyo. Iyo faces the winner of Bayley vs Rodriguez vs Jayne vs James.

Pearce talks with Maxxine, Otis and Akira Tozawa. Maxxine is upset she wasn’t in the QOTR bracket despite only winning one match since the Rumble, a Main Event victory over Nikkita Lyons. Otis finally mentions she’s been hanging around Theory and she tells them to trust her.

Hey, here’s a segment about Danhausen and the New York Knicks. What a sentence I am delighted to type and also never expected to type.

Cathy has found Bayley and Lyra Valkyria. Cathy wonders what happens if they cross paths in the QOTR tournament. Bayley thinks they’ll answer that if it happens. Lyra sees Sol Ruca passing by and runs off to congratulate her and remembers that she can challenge again now that Becky doesn’t have it.

Next week on Raw, the tournaments continue until morale improves. On the women’s side we have Becky vs Liv vs Chelsea vs Alexa while on the men’s side it is Je’Von vs Seth vs Ricky vs Talla.

Roxanne Perez is ranting in the Judgment Day clubhouse to WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan, AAA Mega Champion Dominik Mysterio, Raquel Rodriguez and JD McDonough. Liv reminds Rox that she is still family and they take opportunity, with herself and Dom becoming new King and Queen of the Ring. JD and Raquel take offense to this as they are in the tournaments as well.

Seth Rollins vs WWE World Tag Team Champion Bron Breakker (with WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman)

You may recall that Bron has become a World Tag Team Champion by The Vision following Freebirds/New Day rules with Logan Paul’s injury. They brawl to the outside with Rollins leaping onto Bron but being driven over the barricade and four fans who definitely are not also wrestlers.

After another round of commercials, Bron flies into Seth with an elbow on the outside. Bron pounds Seth into the Italian announce table and strips the covering off, clearing the table for chaos. He does the same to the American table just to not show favoritism. Rollins scoops Bron up, Bron slides out and sends Rollins back in the ring. Seth springboards onto Bron and, with the hard cam again shaking, is knocked off the ropes. Bron heads up after him and nails the Frankensteiner for a near fall. As the fans chant about the match being awesome, the battle returns to the outside with Bron leaping from the apron and right into a clothesline for another commercial break.

Seth powerbombs Bron into a two count. Back outside again, Seth drags the ring steps near the announce table and marches up onto them with Bron on his shoulders. Bron escapes again to drive Rollins into the post and back into the ring, this time Seth leaping up for a superplex and rolling through into a Falcon Arrow for a two count. Seth tries for a stomp, Bron hits a spear from a stationary position. Seth rolls out and Bron follows, the fans singing as Bron tosses Seth onto the American announce table. Bron climbs the Italian table and leaps with a spear, falling right into a Pedigree through the table by Rollins. Rollins rolls Bron in and hits another Pedigree, covering for a 2.9 count by referee Chad Patton.

Seth sets up another stomp but here’s Austin Theory, who Rollins clotheslines out. Bron misses a spear, Rollins stomps as Paul Heyman distracts Patton. Theory nails Seth with the World Tag Team Title and Montez Ford comes out in dress pants to fly into Theory and take a nasty spear from Bron. Bron runs into the ring to spear Rollins and again can’t get a three count. The camera shakes again from the fans and they are hot for this just like everything else they’ve seen tonight. Rollins catches Bron with a kick and a stomp but Heyman puts Bron’s foot on the ropes, our favorite thing to do this weekend in WWE booking.

Seth stares a hole through Heyman and heads outside after him. We see a speeding Bron suddenly and Seth dodges, Bron spearing Heyman through the barricade and Cole calling for a coroner. Bron spears Seth but we notice Rollins has the tag championship belt around his waist as he does, taking a page from the Bret Hart handbook. With Bron being out of it, Seth nails another stomp and this time gets the pin.

Seth Rollins pins Bron Breakker. “What a win, what a match, what a show,” Cole calls very correctly. Hell of a TV match, one of the best of the year. Go watch this one.

Post-match, Rollins points towards Ford in appreciation and we roll credits on the fans singing for Seth and a downed Paul Heyman.

We end our Raw broadcast to head into the El Grande Americano vs Original El Grande Americano Mask vs Mask match. They hyped the hell out of the match and this match airing all show and for good reason, it is arguably the best match of the year and if not the last few years. Watch it here and read Niz’s great review of it here.

Hell, go watch this entire episode of Raw. The Italian crowd was HOT and added so much to it, but there wasn’t a bad match on the show. The main event was stellar, the KOTR opener was very good, the women’s match was good as was the tag team match. And after you get done watching the episode, stick around for the Americanos match that is attached to the broadcast.

Next week, we’re in Paris for another early international Raw. I’ll see you then!