WWE Monday Night Raw Review – 6.15.26

After a few weeks overseas, we return to the United States for Monday Night Raw. Well, until next week when we have Raw is London and then head to Saudi for Night of Champions.

Before we jump in, let’s promote my new NXT 2.0 Rewind. Once upon a time, WWE decided to introduce Bron Breakker and Trick Williams in one show. It might go down as one of the more historic nights as time goes on. Besides that, we had a wedding!

The last week in WWE: Raw / NXT / Evolve / SmackDown / Lucha Libre AAA

Then, Now, Forever, Together.

Welcome to Baltimore, Maryland. This is CFG Bank Arena and this is Monday Night Raw, live on Netflix and presented on DoorDash. Here’s a look at the Bloodline drama from SmackDown with special guests L.A. Knight, Royce Keys and Finn Balor.

Arrivals! Roman Reigns, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso arrive in multiple vehicles and Roman is handed his belt. They’re on the way to the ring but come across Jacob Fatu, hand out only for his Tribal Chief.

The Bloodline (WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns, Main Event Jey Uso, Big Jim uso and Jacob Fatu) join us in the arena to start things off. After his extended entrance, two sets of pyro, an OTC chant, a crowd song and lots of fingers in the air, Roman commands acknowledgement at 8:10. The fans are happy to oblige. Roman says we have a lot to be grateful for like Jey advancing in King of the Ring, asking for acknowledgement of the Yeet Man as well. He also knows that without Big Jim, there wouldn’t be a right hand man, a Tribal Chief or a Bloodline. We acknowledge Big Jim. The fans chant “Fatu” and Jey says yeah, there’s one person that hasn’t been acknowledged and who doesn’t listen.

Roman thinks that perhaps we have a problem and steps face-to-face with Fatu. Fatu snatches his mic and says “hell nah,” he doesn’t listen to Jimmy and Jey. “The only person that I acknowledge is my OTC Roman Reigns.” He hands the mic back to Roman. Roman: “Good. We don’t need yes men around here.” He calls for a man to bring a box to the ring and pulls out a wooden Ula Fala. Roman says that the Bloodline has always been here and is forever. He tells us about the Wild Samoans, Yokozuna, Rikishi, Umaga, The Usos all being The Bloodline. Roman reminds Jacob that he’s on the inside and welcomes him to the family business. “Jacob, welcome to the Bloodline.” He places the Ula Fala on Jacob and salutes as the Usos look on. Jimmy eventually joins the salute and finally Jey joins as well.

Corey Graves and Joe Tessitore greet us from ringside. Celebrities! They love Raw! Eric Andre is at ringside to promote his new show, “Little Brother,” which costars John Cena. His “Street Fighter” costar Roman acknowledges him on the way out. Andre touches the Ula Fala and Fatu yanks him over the barrier and tosses him into the ring, headbutting the hell out of him. The squad of officials come out and try to get in between Jacob and the fallen Andre and Roman calls Jacob off. Then Roman reverses decision and Fatu heads up top, hitting the splash on Andre as Roman smirks at Raw General Manager Adam Pearce. They leave and then Roman declares one more time, with Jacob running in and splashing Andre a second time. Celebrities! They… might not come to Raw for a few weeks.

Queen of the Ring Semifinal Match: Iyo Sky vs Raquel Rodriguez

The winner of this will face the winner of Liv Morgan vs Charlotte Flair in the finals at Night of Champions. Iyo attacks and clubs Raquel in the corner before Raquel finally catches her and crossbodies her. Raquel follows Iyo to the outside and tosses Iyo onto the timekeeper’s area barricade and clears the lid off the announce table. Iyo fights back into the ring and hooks on a guillotine; Raquel fades and then turns it into a vertical suplex. Raquel tumbles to the floor and Iyo dives onto her, Raquel catching her and throwing her dart-style into the ting post to send us to a break.

Back to it, Iyo is tossing a spinning back elbow and rolls Raquel into the stomp. Iyo calls for and lands the Bullet Train. She heads up to the second rope, missile dropkicks Raquel, and the fans are all in on her as she makes crown motions. Raquel ducks a second Bullet Train and catches Iyo, lifting her into the air, Iyo fighting out of it. Iyo tries to sunset flip Raquel on the outside and Raquel stomps her way out of it, scooping up Iyo and being shoved right into that announce table. With Raquel over the table, Iyo jumps from the barricade and Raquel sweeps her onto the table. Rodriguez yanks Iyo back into the ring and Iyo smacks her into the ring post, then hits a sunset power bomb on Raquel. Iyo heads up for the Over the Moonsault and nails it, getting the pin.

Iyo Sky pins Raquel Rodriguez. Great match. The fans adore Iyo and she continues to be one of the best wrestlers on the planet. Raquel continues to be a really good opponent. This was good. Iyo heads to Night of Champions and has twelve days to go shopping for a bodysuit that covers everything.

Liv Morgan and Roxanne Perez are strolling backstage. Liv heads into… Danhausen’s laboratory??? He greets “Olivia” and sings a bit of “Trouble.” She pulls her jacket off and reveals her Danhausen shirt. She’s trying to flirt but he’s oblivious, celebrating finding his jar of human teeth. She asks him to curse Oba Femi. He agrees in exchange for human monies, magazine covers, his own song and being in her music videos. She sighs and leaves. “See ya, Olivia!” Danhausen is a delight. I appreciate that he travels with a full lab.

We come back from break to a new documentary video on Danhausen (produced by Danhausen) and his journey with the New York Knicks. He curses the ESPN guy, uncurses the Knicks, and the Knicks win it all. Danhausen goes to a game, has official NBA merchandise, and meets Cardi B and Tina Fey. What a story. And as Danhausen noted on Twitter, he’s only been in WWE for just over a hundred days.

Here’s a vignette with Seth Rollins. He has some words for Bron Breakker and will see him in a steel cage at Night of Champions.

Pearce chats with Lyra Valkyria, telling her that her title shot is finally going to happen. She leaves and L.A. Knight appears. Knight is mad about SmackDown and continues to accuse Pearce of being biased towards the Bloodline.

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Jackie Redmond is backstage with Chad Gable. When he’s done with Rusev, he has some others to apologize to tonight. He walks by and sees Maxxine Dupri talking to WWE World Tag Team Champion Austin Theory and heads on to the ring with his new theme song which is not great. Def Rebel has to be stopped.

Chad Gable vs Rusev (with Ethan Page)

We last saw Gable as Gable on Raw in June 2025 in a losing effort to AJ Styles. Gable and Rusev have an odd last three matches together with the 2026 Rumble match, teaming together as part of Team Hogan at Crown Jewel 2019 and both losing the 51-man battle royal at Super Showdown 2019. They have two televised singles matches on SmackDown in 2017.

Rusev suplexes Gable, Gable counters with a few of his own. Gable gets a big belly-to-belly suplex and tries for the ankle lock, Rusev ducking outside to break it. Gable follows out and is shoved into the steel steps. Rusev suplexes Gable onto the floor and hammers Gable into the announce table. Gable snatches up Rusev and drops him onto the table and tosses him into the ring, Page distracting him long enoug for Rusev to shove him back into the desk. Rusev runs out and throws Gable across the table with a fallaway slam and we go to a DoorDash commercial.

After about eight of those commercials, the men are trading blows. Gable grabs ahold of Rusev and hits a German suplex. Rusev climbs up top and Gable drops him to the mat, pulling down the straps. Gable hooks the ankle lock, Rusev squirms into an Accolade and Gable dodges the kick to hook his lock again. Rusev grabs for Page’s hand, Gable drags him away so Page runs in and gets clotheslined out. This gives Rusev a chance to nail the kick and try for a pin, Gable kicking out at two. Rusev hooks the Accolade again. Gable breaks free and is able to get the Angle Slam, hooking the ankle again and this time getting the tap.

Chad Gable defeats Rusev by submission. This was a good showcase for Gable and he won the crowd over. Hopefully they’ll keep it going.

Page and Rusev attack after the match, WWE Hall of Famer & AAA General Manager Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee come for the save. They show him the respect of lucha after the match.

Roman is directing a text to his assistant backstage when the Usos interrupt, asking why things that happened an hour ago happened. Roman says he called an audible and wonders why nobody has handled L.A. Knight. Perhaps he should send a Werewolf. Jimmy says he’s going to go talk to Knight.

Our WWE Hometown Hero is Lance Corporal Jheyco Borda, seated at ringside..

Celebrities! They love Raw! Zuffa boxer Jalil Hackett is here. Nasheed Smith is here. Celebrities!

Bron Breakker has a vignette of his own and his own thoughts about Seth Rollins.

L.A. Knight is joining us in the arena for some thoughts, introduced by the great Alicia Taylor. He takes a seat on top of the Slim Jim logo and talks about losing on SmackDown and how he had to get to Baltimore. He might’ve lost in the King of the Ring tournament but he doesn’t give up because he always fights the numbers. He didn’t have a famous dad or a Tribal Chief. Jimmy Uso interrupts and says he knows Knight has legit beef with his family but it is different now. Solo doesn’t run with his crew. That brings us Main Event Jey Uso for some thoughts of his own. He agrees with Jimmy and says they’ve told Knight over and over that Solo is on his own. Jey tells Knight that he’s here to tell him that he’s better than him and he needs Knight to acknowledge HIM. Knight didn’t expect this coming but it is a compelling offer.

He acknowledges with a finger in the air. “I acknowledge you… can kiss my ass.” Knight pounds at Jey, Jimmy superkicks to break it up. Jimmy is yelling at Knight that he was trying to tell him while Jey runs out to grab a chair. Knight gets ahold of it and chairs both men before Fatu runs out and hooks the Tongan Death Grip on Knight, taking him down to the mat. Fatu looks over at the Usos and leaves, Jey storming after him. I enjoy Knight and I’m fine with the story but man we’re doing a lot of Bloodline talking tonight. Remember wrestling? We used to have that here.

Backstage, the Usos argue. Jacob says he did it the OTC way.

NXT Origins: Alexa Bliss. We look back at Alexa’s transformations in NXT and her rise through WWE.

Charlotte Flair (with Alexa Bliss) vs Roxanne Perez (with WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan)

With Charlotte and Liv coming to battle in the days ahead, I’m not expecting things to end cleanly here. This is the first singles meeting between these two. Charlotte tries for a chop, Rox grabs her arm and tosses it into the ring post and we play up the hand damage to send us to even more DoorDash commercials.

After those commercials, Charlotte has chopped back control but her hand is in pain. Rox chops at Charlotte in the corner and Flair stares right at her, trying for a choke. Charlotte climbs to thee top and Liv runs Bliss into the ring post as Charlotte lands a fallaway slam on Rox. Charlotte chops with the uninjured left hand. Charlotte gets the walkover clothesline and a boot on Rox for a two, smirking at the kickout. Charlotte climbs the ropes, Liv gets on the apron to distract and it works as Rox pulls Charlotte to the mat. Rox lands a springboard moonsault for a two and this crowd is just not into this match. Rox runs into a boot and Charlotte and Rox do a convoluted series of rollups involving their partners. Charlotte bridges the Figure-8 and Rox has no choice but to tape.

Charlotte Flair defeats Roxanne Perez by disqualification. This happened. It wasn’t particularly bad, but the crowd did not care and I think everyone saw that the interference was coming.

Je’Von Evans is walking. We’ll hear from him next.

An ad for CM Punk at Fanatics Fest airs. But the internet told me…

Je’Von Evans joins us in the arena for some words with Jackie Redmond. He tells Jey Uso through the camera that he’s putting a belt to his ass and yeeting him out of the competition. He’s interrupted by The Vision (Logan Paul and WWE World Tag Team Champion Austin Theory) in a surprise appearance. Paul tells Je’Von that he is a generational talent and has untapped potential. Theory’s tan is wild. Logan reaches an arm out to invite Je’Von into the Vision. “Hell nah,” replies Je’Von. He’s seen the injury curse. Logan says it wasn’t an invitation, it was a mandate. “Je’Von Evans, YOU’RE IN THE VISION.” Je’Von tells him to back up before he leaves with no arms as Theory echoes that he join the Vision. Evans pulls of his pants and calls for a ref and here’s a ref.

WWE World Tag Team Champion Austin Theory vs Je’Von Evans

After a break, we join the match in progress. Evans leaps over Theory and hits a rana before leaping on the outside onto Theory. The fireflies are out and the fans are singing to Logan. Theory dodges an in-ring dive and we get an extended Theory beat-down. Theory hits Evans to the outside and we go to another commercial. It’s 10:10 and we still have Oba/Dom to go.

We enter our third segment of Austin Theory when we return from break. Je’Von argues with Logan outside, Theory attacks. Evans clotheslines Theory into the timekeeper’s area and runs around the ring before leaping into Theory and the barricade. Evans tosses Theory back into the ring and hits the Red Dot goes up for the OG Cutter, WWE World Tag Team Champion Bron Breakker appearing to spear him and end the match.

Je’Von Evans defeats Austin Theory by disqualification. This was long. The pacing for this show hit a wall when the second Bloodline segment happened.

The Vision attack, the Street Profits (Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins) come out for the slow save. I’m sure we have a tag title match incoming.

We go back to the OTC’s locker room. Jacob tells Roman that he handled the problem. Roman tells Jacob that the Usos don’t understand Jacob but he does. “As long as you understand me, there’s no stopping us.”

Next week, we go to London. We’ll have a 2 p.m. ET start time which means I won’t be along with a review until about five hours later. We’ll see the Vision vs Profits for the World Tag Team Titles. We’ll have Lyra Valkyria getting a tag title shot with Bayley against Paige and Brie Bella.

King of the Ring Semifinal Match: Oba Femi vs AAA Mega Champion Dominik Mysterio (with JD McDonough)

Even Corey on commentary is saying that Dom has no chance here. Oba starts making his entrance at 10:27, so you know there can’t be much to this one. Dom is giving us fear on the outside which is very fair. The bell rings and Dom immediately ducks outside and covers his ears for the Oba chanting. Dom comes in and bails again. On our third try, Dom ducks into the corner and then shoves Oba before running. Oba chases and Dom hits a dropkick. Oba catches Dom with a body shot and tossing him over the announce table. Well. JD sneaks up from behind and streaks into the crowd while Dom grabs the bell hammer. Oba yanks Dom back into the ring and JD returns to take a huge fist. Dom low blows Oba and hits the 619 with the hammer in his boot, hitting the frog splash and being thrown off at a one count.

Oba grabs both Judgment Day men for a double chokeslam and smashes both with running uppercuts. Dom stumbles into being pizza tossed across the ring and lands the Fall From Grace for the easy pin.

Oba Femi pins Dominik Mysterio. Exactly what it needed to be. Oba moves on and Dom was a weasel. Femi will face the winner of SmackDown’s Uso/Evans match.

Post-match, Oba has a mic. “One. One match away and then the Ruler will have his crown. We finish it, we tie up all the lose ends, we beat who we need to beat.” He’s surprised Brock didn’t show his face tonight. He questions if Brock is even a man at all. “So what’s your legacy going to be?” He is the mountain Brock can’t climb and the future King. “I will be king and you will just be the man who ran from Oba Femi.” The credits roll and we end our night with the fans chanting for Oba.

A tale of two halves tonight. The show was rolling strong up until we hit our second in-ring Bloodline segment of the night. From there, the pacing just died. We had the Charlotte/Rox match that didn’t really hit, we ran into a string of talking, and then for some reason we had Austin Theory stretched across three segments. Oba/Dom was what it needed to be and brought the crowd back into things, but I felt every second of the hour before. Check out Iyo/Raquel and Gable/Rusev, hit the FF button and catch the end. I promise the Knight/Bloodline stuff will be in replays next week.

Next week, London! See you then!