WWE Raw Review – September 11, 2023
Kicking off this week’s Raw with Jey Uso says he is now in Norfolk then says it feels good to be out of The Bloodline and on his own on Raw & before he can continue Kevin Owens’ music hits and he makes his way down to the ring.
Owens says he thinks Jey meant to say that he’s on The Kevin Owens Show. He says he’s been in Jey’s situation and he knows what he’s going through because he’s done lots of bad things to good people. He says when he tried to make up for his wrongdoings it was hard and took a while for people to trust and respect him once again. He says there are plenty of people who don’t want Jey in the Raw locker room, but some like Cody Rhodes & Sami Zayn are willing to give him a 2nd chance. He says as far as he’s concerned Jey has a long way to go when it comes to regaining his trust and respect.
Judgment Day’s music hits and they appear. Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champion Finn Balor tells Owens no one speaks to Jey like he just did and questions why Jey needs to prove himself to Owens. He says that’s not the case for himself and the rest of Judgment Day and Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champion Mr Money In The Bank Damian Priest echoes that sentiment. He says Owens doesn’t speak for the locker room and tells Jey that Judgment Day’s door is always open for him. He cites NXT North American Champion Dominik Mysterio as an example and Mysterio vouches for what Priest just said. He adds that Judgment Day has been there through his ups and downs and Priest says the 3 of them came out there given that he thought they were facing Owens & Zayn. He asks Owens where Zayn is and Owens says Zayn isn’t there. He says that doesn’t matter because he’s here for a fight. Jey offers to be Owens’ partner as a means of earning back his respect and trust and Owens accepts his help.
Jey then superkicks Mysterio then they begin brawling with one another. Owens & Jey dump Judgment Day out of the ring.
Non Title Match
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions Judgement Day (Mr Money In The Bank Damian Priest & Finn Balor) vs. Kevin Owens & Jey Uso
Damian Priest & Jey Uso lock up then Finn Balor tags in and offers Jey his hand but Jey slaps it away and tags Kevin Owens in. Jey lands a back elbow before Owens lands a senton and fires off right hands.
Balor begins targeting Owens’ leg with a chop block and tags in Priest. Priest delivers a stomp to Owens’ knee then fires off kicks in the corner. Owens fires back with an enzuigiri and tags Jey back in.
Jey delivers a crossbody off the top rope but Priest fires back with a series of kicks before Jey then lands a right hand and a Samoan Drop.
Judgement Day are sent crashing to the outside and Jey levels him & Dominik Mysterio takes advantage and delivers a cheap shot to Owens on the apron as we go to a break.
After the break Priest levels Owens and tags in Balor & he delivers a stomp to Owens’ knee and follows it up with an elbow to his head then he lands a back elbow before Jey tags in and fires off right hands on him. He hits an enzuigiri and looks for a hip attack but Balor evades the maneuver and delivers a stomp to his chest.
Jey lands a pop up neckbreaker and a superkick, then ascends to the top rope and looks for Uso Splash but Balor gets his knees up and tags in Priest. Owens tags in and fires off right hands and stomps on Priest in the corner & looks for a cannonball but his knee gives out.
Priest then looks for South Of Heaven but Owens slips out of his grasp and delivers a Tornado DDT. He goes for a pin but Priest kicks out.
Owens ascends to the top rope but Priest catches him with a right hand. He joins him up there but Owens pushes him off. Balor becomes legal and looks for a superplex but Owens counters with an avalanche brainbuster.
Jey looks to superkick Priest but accidentally hits Owens then Priest & Jey then go tumbling to the outside before Balor lands Coup De Grace on Owens for the win.
Winners: Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions Judgement Day
After the match Owens heads to the back, and Jey slowly follows behind reflecting on what just happened.
We see Raquel Rodriguez is getting ready for her Women’s World Title match tonight and Natalya greets her.
After the break we head backstage and see Jey attempting to apologize to Owens but Owens is having none of it and tells Jey off.
We then head over to a video recapping the Intercontinental Title match last week.
We see Imperium pulling into the Norfolk Scope Arena.
The Miz vs. Akira Tozawa
The Miz looks for a boot right out of the gate but Akira Tozawa ducks out of the way and delivers a hurricanrana then follows it up with a dropkick then The Miz levels him and rains down right hands on his head before delivering a knee to the back of his neck and following it up with a series of kicks.
Tozawa fires back with a few chops but The Miz chucks him onto the apron then Tozawa delivers an enzuigiri but The Miz fires back with a Codebreaker through the ropes and 3 Skull Crushing Finales for the win.
Winner: The Miz
Byron Saxton interviews Raquel Rodriguez about her Women’s World Title match.
Shayna Baszler commends Zoey Stark for her effort last week in an interview with Jackie Redmond. Chelsea Green interrupts her and tries to Pawn off the other half of the Women’s Tag Team Title onto her but Baszler instead challenges her to a match then Piper Niven shows up and reveals that she’s medically cleared.
Ludwig Kaiser demands the gratitude of the WWE Universe and introduces Intercontienetal Champion Gunther & his music hits and he makes his way down to the ring.
Gunther says that he has rewritten history to the surprise of no one. He says he is officially the longest Intercontinental Champion of all time then thanks all the Intercontienetal Champions that came before him for contributing nothing. He says he elevated the Intercontienetal Title and it feels as though he’s competing against himself.
Alpha Academy’s music hits and Chad Gable appears. He says their match last week was a main event for the ages and he woke up earlier today still feeling the ramifications of their bout. He congratulates Gunther on his historic accomplishment then says he saw the look in Gunther’s eyes after their match. He says no one pushed him to his limit like he did and says he saw the tears in his daughter’s eyes that Gunther caused. He says he wouldn’t expect Gunther to know what it’s like to watch your children cry in front of you but he managed to light a fire in him and puts him on notice. He tells Gunther that he can beat him again when he gets another shot at Gunther’s Intercontienetal Title and vows to take it from him so he can put a smile on his daughter’s face.
Gunther asks Gable what he wants another opportunity for then asks if what he wants is to have his family watch him get beat again. He says while Gable is a fantastic athlete he is a terrible father.
Gable has heard enough and rains down right hands on him. Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci join in and Imperium beats him down. Otis runs down to the ring and dumps Kaiser & Vinci out of the ring. Gable tries beating Gunther down but Gunther levels him with a chop. Kaiser & Vinci then get back in the ring to help Gunther out but Tommaso Ciampa runs down with a chair in hand to even the odds as Imperium retreats.
Backstage Ciampa says he was looking to seize the moment then Otis say he wants a 6 Man Tag Team Match. Gable agrees and Ciampa walks off.
We get footage from earlier today of Xavier Woods & Drew McIntyre getting into a confrontation. Xavier says McIntyre is jealous of Kofi Kingston because McIntyre won the WWE Title in front of nobody.
Drew McIntyre vs. Xavier Woods
Xavier Woods lands a chop but Drew McIntyre whips him into the corner but Woods fires back with a dropkick and rains down right hands then he delivers a knee to his head but McIntyre lands a headbutt and tosses Woods across the ring.
Woods delivers a rolling elbow but McIntyre flattens him and charges at him then Woods sends him crashing to the outside and delivers a kick & as he looks to go flying over the top rope but McIntyre tosses him over the announce table as we go to a break.
After the break McIntyre & Woods teeter on the middle rope then McIntyre gets Woods up on his shoulders for White Noise but Woods escapes and executes a sunset flip then ascends to the top rope and lands a leg drop then goes for a pin but McIntyre kicks out.
Woods tries getting McIntyre up on his shoulders but McIntyre escapes and lands a belly 2 belly suplex then follows it up with a neckbreaker and looks for Claymore but Woods catches him with a thrust kick.
McIntyre delivers a chop that flattens Woods then looks for an Alabama Slam but Woods counters into a roll up but McIntyre kicks out.
Woods then lands a senton and a sliding knee before they go back & forth exchanging strikes before McIntyre hits Claymore for the win.
Winner: Drew McIntyre
Rhodes asks Norfolk what they want to talk about then says they could talk about Jey Uso.
Dominik Mysterio’s music hits and he appears alongside JD McDonagh & he says he’s happy Rhodes brought Jey to Raw because it will be amazing once he’s in Judgment Day. He says Rhodes won’t be able to do anything about it.
McDonagh & Mysterio then attack Rhodes but Rhodes dumps McDonagh out of the ring and hits Mysterio with a Cody Cutter and a pair of Cross Rhodes.
We then head backstage to Drew McIntyre & Jey Uso. McIntyre tells Jey he can’t trust him and says Judgment Day must be looking good now. Jey challenges McIntyre to a match and McIntyre accepts.
Women’s Tag Team Champion Chelsea Green vs. Shayna Baszler
Shayna Baszler delivers a back suplex to Chelsea Green then she stomps on her elbow and gets in Piper Niven’s face then looks to lock in an armbar but Niven helps Green slide out of the ring and Baszler follows her out there.
She gets in Niven’s face and gets back inside the ring then Green rolls her up but Baszler kicks out. Green looks for Unprettier but Baszler delivers The Exterminatus for the win.
Winner: Shayna Baszler
After the match Niven & Baszler begin to brawl. Zoey Stark runs down to provide a helping hand to Baszler and they force Niven to roll out of the ring.
Shinsuke Nakamura vignette airs of him questioning World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins’ honor.
World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins welcomes fans to Monday Night Rollins then introduces himself and says that he is all of the things Shinsuke Nakamura says he is. He says he is also a father, a fighter and the World Heavyweight Champion. He says for a long time he didn’t know who he was then reflects on all the different people he’s been in WWE. He says once he eventually figured out that fans just wanted him to be himself and he can look in the mirror and his daughter in her eyes being at peace with his past and proud of his future.
Rollins says Virginia didn’t come to see him talk and he didn’t come there to do that either. He says he came to fight and despite management telling him to slow down he wasn’t built that way and says he thinks his match with Nakamura at Payback took more out of him than he’s willing to admit then calls Nakamura out to the ring once again and offers him a shot at the World Heavyweight Title.
Nakamura’s music hits but he doesn’t appear on the ramp. He instead appears on the Titan Tron attacking Ricochet backstage and tells Rollins he has bad timing. He says he would fight but he thought Rollins wasn’t medically cleared so he decided to fight anyway. He says he will take Rollins’ World Heavyweight Title but just not tonight.
We then head backstage to Jey Uso & Finn Balor. Balor says himself & Jey are both professionals and what happened in the ring earlier tonight stays there. He brings up Drew McIntyre and says although he is not a fan, himself and the rest of Judgment Day are fans of his. He says the door is still open for him to join Judgment Day.
6 Man Tag Team Match
Imperium (Intercontienetal Champion Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci) vs. Alpha Academy (Chad Gable & Otis) & Tommaso Ciampa
Giovanni Vinci & Tommaso Ciampa lock up to get this match started then they go back & forth with submission holds before Ciampa rains down right hands and lands a chop. Chad Gable & Ludwig Kaiser tag in and Kaiser wears Gable down with a series of holds.
Gable executes a drop toe hold and wears Kaiser down with a series of submissions of his own then tags Vinci back in. Gable goes tumbling out of the ring where Gunther takes a cheap shot.
Gable gets back in the ring and Vinci lands an uppercut then Kaiser tags in and continues to wear down Gable as we go to a break.
After the break Gunther is wearing down Gable then Ciampa & Vinci tag in and Ciampa fires off right hands then he delivers a clothesline in the corner and plants Vinci. Kaiser tags in and keeps Ciampa from making the tag. Ciampa fights him off and tags in Otis & he delivers a spinning back elbow and a bodyslam.
He delivers The Caterpillar and gets Kaiser up on his shoulders but Kaiser slips out and sends Otis crashing into the ring post shoulder first then Gunther & Gable tag in and Gable wastes no time firing off right hands then he looks for a German suplex but can’t get Gunther up and over.
Gunther delivers one of his own to Gable but Gable manages to cinch in an Ankle Lock then Vinci tags in and delivers a crossbody off the top rope. He gets caught in an Ankle Lock but escapes.
Gable then hits Chaos Theory and goes for a pin but Gunther breaks the fall then Gable manages to cinch in the Ankle Lock once more on Vinci after chaos ensues on the outside.
Gunther looks to break the hold but Ciampa catches him in a Sicilian Stretch as Vinci taps out to the ankle lock.
Winners By Submission: Alpha Academy & Tommaso Ciampa
Rhea Ripley promises Judgment Day she’ll handle business.
After the break we head backstage to Adam Pearce’s office where he looks to get Becky Lynch & NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton to sign a contract for their NXT Women’s Title tomorrow night but not before they get into a heated exchange of words with one another.
Women’s World Title Match
Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Raquel Rodriguez
Raquel Rodriguez lands a clothesline then she looks for a powerbomb but Rhea Ripley escapes. Rodriguez hits a 2nd clothesline and sends Ripley crashing into the corner spine first then chucks her across the ring and locks in a Bear Hug.
Ripley breaks free with a series of headbutts and ascends to the top before delivering a dropkick. The action spills to the outside and Ripley delivers a cannonball off the ring steps.
She gets Rodriguez back inside the ring and delivers a sliding knee to her face then fires off right hands on her head and follows it up with another dropkick before Rodriguez dumps Ripley out of the ring and delivers a big boot to her face as we go to a break.
After the break Ripley cinches in a Figure 4 but Rodriguez escapes and Ripley sends her crashing into the top turnbuckle face first. She fires off forearms before they level one another with big boots.
They then go back & forth exchanging right hands but Ripley eventually gains the upper hand with a boot to Rodriguez’s midsection and a suplex then she sets up for Riptide but Rodriguez fights her way out and sends Ripley into the top turnbuckle face first.
She follows it up with a back body drop and a big boot then looks for a corkscrew elbow but Ripley puts a stop to her momentum and ascends to the top rope & hits a Frog Splash and goes for a pin but Rodriguez kicks out.
Ripley delivers a baseball dropkick under the bottom rope and looks for a cannonball off the apron. Rodriguez catches her and sends her crashing into the announce table shoulder first. She powerbombs her onto the apron and gets her back inside the ring.
Out of nowhere Nia Jax appears and delivers a Samoan Drop to Rodriguez on the outside then Ripley catches Rodriguez with a knee as she gets back inside the ring and follows it up with Riptide for the win.
Winner & Still Women’s World Champion: Rhea Ripley (STILL CHAMPION!!!!)
After the match Jax headbutts Ripley in the center of the ring and delivers a leg drop to her neck. She then hits a Banzai Drop then slaps her again to close out this week’s Raw.
