WWE Raw takes place live this evening, Monday, January 6, 2025, at 8/7c on Netflix from the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA.
Scheduled for tonight’s show is Roman Reigns vs. Solo Sikoa in Tribal Combat, CM Punk vs. Seth “Freakin'” Rollins, Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley for the WWE Women’s World Championship, Drew McIntyre vs. “Main Event” Jey Uso, as well as appearances by The Rock, Logan Paul and the start of “The Last Time Is Now” farewell tour for WWE legend John Cena.
The following are complete WWE Raw results from Monday, January 6, 2025. The following report was written by PWMania.com reporter Matt Boone (@MattBoone0709) as the show aired on Netflix from 8-11pm EST.
WWE RAW RESULTS – JANUARY 6, 2025
Michael Cole welcomes us to the show. We see a shot of the special black carpet set up outside of the building. We then shoot inside the Intuit Dome where we see arrival shots of various Superstars scheduled for action tonight.
Paul “Triple H” Levesque Ushers In The ‘Netflix Era’
Inside the Intuit Dome we see the ring with a giant LED screen surrounding it. The elaborate “Story of WWE” cold open video that WWE released earlier today airs on those screens. We then fade into regular view to finish out the cold open package. It wraps up with a cool portrait and then a big pyro explosion.
The LED curtain screens drop, old-school PRIDE FC style, and then we see WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque standing in the middle of the ring with a spotlight shining down on him. Fans pop loud, with large parts of the building chanting “Triple H! Triple H!”
“17,000+ sold out! Los Angeles, let me hear you! In this moment, and this is the moment, all of you are being seen and heard by the entire globe. Show them who you are. Tell them that this is the WWE and we are louder than anything you have ever seen before! I already know the answer to this, but I’m gonna ask it anyways: Are … you … ready?! Then, welcome to Monday Night Raw! Welcome to the Netflix Era!”
“The Final Boss” Kicks Off WWE Raw On Netflix
Fireworks go off like crazy, rapid-fire style as the crowd pops louder. What is presumably the Raw theme, some hip-hop music, plays as the camera pans the packed Intuit Dome, giving fans a look at some of the signs held by fans in the house. The music cuts off. The lights go out.
An all white light comes on the big wrap-around LED screen above the ring. It goes back off. “IF YA SMELL ….” The crowd explodes as “The Final Boss” emerges to kick off the historic WWE Raw on Netflix debut.
The Rock stands in the entry way and poses for the crowd with the People’s Championship Belt. He gives the belt to his daughters who are sitting in the front row. The Rock gets on the mic and says years ago when The Rock was a pebble, he used to travel the roads with his dad.
Back then the only way to watch the WWE was to buy a ticket or watch it on Saturday morning, unlike now which is a different story. You can still buy a ticket but you can now watch it on Netflix whenever you want. The Rock rattles off his catchphrases and says he wants to give out a shout out to the Netflix guys who are in attendance and he gives a shout-out to Cody Rhodes for carrying the WWE for a year.
Rhodes is shown in the audience who thanks The Rock. He tells Rhodes to tell Mama Rhodes he says hello. He also acknowledges his cousin, Roman Reigns – and OTC chants scream through the arena. The Rock says Reigns is the Tribal Chief and the Original Tribal Chief. He says the world is watching so let’s get the show on the road.
Tribal Combat
Solo Sikoa vs. Roman Reigns
It’s time to find out who the real “Tribal Chief” of WWE is, as “Tribal Combat” kicks things off inside the squared circle with our first match of the evening. Solo Sikoa’s theme hits and out he comes for our opening contest.
He settles inside the squared circle and then the crowd erupts upon hearing the first note for the theme of “The Original Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns. “The OTC” emerges accompanied by “The Wise Man” Paul Heyman and heads to the ring.
Cole and Pat McAfee talk us into our first commercial break of the evening on commentary. When we return, the bell sounds and Tribal Combat gets officially off-and-running. They lock up and push-and-pull for a bit before crashing through the ropes and out to the floor.
They shove each other into the barricade, the ring apron and the ring post. Sikoa slams Reigns’ head against the announce desk and throws him back in the ring. Sikoa takes down Reigns with a clothesline and nails Reigns with a few headbutts. Reigns fires back with a clothesline and a flying elbow sending Sikoa to the corner.
Reigns punches out Sikoa in the corner. Sikoa nails Reigns with a punch and Reigns boots Sikoa out of the ring. Reigns goes out to beat on Sikoa, but Sikoa hits a Spinning Solo onto the announce desk. Sikoa hits Reigns with a monitor sending Reigns to the ground. Sikoa takes apart the steel steps and slams the first set of steps into Reigns’ face. Reigns gets assaulted outside the ring, Sikoa slams his head repeatedly into the barricade.
Reigns fights back with punches and slams Sikoa into the barricade. Sikoa fires back slamming Reigns into the ring post and tells him Reigns he looks stupid. Reigns is thrown back into the ring. Reigns is able to punch Sikoa after he gets in the ring, and Sikoa drops Reigns in the middle of the ring with an elbow. Sikoa gets a couple of chairs out from under the ring and hits Reigns in the midsection and slams the chair over Reigns’ back.
He continues to beat Reigns in the middle of the ring with the chair. Sikoa sets up Reigns in the corner and delivers some right hands to Reigns. Sikoa sets up the chair over Reigns’ neck in the corner and runs at him. Reigns moves out of the way and Sikoa crashes into the turnbuckle. Reigns picks up the chair and starts beating Sikoa with the chair. Reigns now slams Sikoa’s head into the chair and as Sikoa lays on one chair, Reigns picks up the second chair and tries to slam it onto Sikoa.
Sikoa low blows Reigns and hits a Spinning Solo onto the chairs and covers for a near fall. Sikoa slams Reigns’ head against the mat and picks up the second chair. Instead of using it he throws it down and heads outside the ring and pulls a table out from under the ring. Reigns comes out of nowhere and drop kicks Sikoa outside the ring. Reigns throws the table into the ring and sets it up in the middle of the ring. Reigns goes to pull Sikoa into the ring, and Sikoa nails Reigns in the head with a kendo stick. Sikoa wails on Reigns with the kendo stick.
Sikoa chokes out Reigns in the corner with the kendo stick and Reigns powers out and powerbombs Sikoa through the table and covers Sikoa and before the ref can count to three, Tama Tonga pulls the ref out of the ring breaking the pin. Jacob Fatu enters the ring and smokes Reigns in the face and slams him into the mat. Fatu hits his moonsault on Reigns and Sikoa then hits his Samoan Spike and covers Reigns and Reigns kicks out at two. Sikoa, Fatu and Tonga corner the ref and Sikoa spikes the ref.
Sami Zayn, and Jimmy Uso come out and fight off Fatu and Tonga. They get in the ring, and Jimmy superkicks Sikoa and Zayn delivers a Helluva kick and Reigns spears Sikoa. There is no ref to count the pin and by the time a ref gets there, Sikoa kicks out of the pin. Uso and Zayn suicide dive onto Tonga and Fatu, and Kevin Owens runs in and spears Reigns and Sikoa covers Reigns and Reigns kicks out. Owens sets Reigns up for the cradle piledriver but Cody Rhodes comes down to neutralize Owens.
Rhodes hits The Cody Cutter on Owens and they fight into the crowd. Back in the ring, Reigns dodges a spike and spears Sikoa. Sikoa makes his way to his feet and is hit with another spear. Reigns covers Sikoa for the win. Cole calls Reigns “The OTC” — The ONLY Tribal Chief. The Rock comes out afterwards and puts the ola fala on Reigns. Fans chant “OTC! OTC!” Rock takes his sunglasses off and extends his hand. They shake hands and hug. Reigns’ theme plays again as Rock backs into the corner. Reigns throws up the 1.
Winner and now undisputed Tribal Chief: Roman Reigns
Celebrities & Guests In The House Tonight Include …
Backstage, we see CM Punk stretching backstage for his upcoming match. He is wearing his XXX jacket, the same one he wore during his infamous backstage fight with “The Scapegoat” Jack Perry at AEW ALL IN: London, which led to his departure from AEW and ultimate long-awaited return to WWE.
Jackie Redmond catches up with The New Day. Woods gets on the mic but gives it Kingston after getting boo’d. Kingston asks everyone to quiet down and says they were supposed to have a match tonight but they told Triple H that Los Angeles doesn’t deserve to see them wrestle. Woods says they have bad tastes and talks trash about Kendrick Lamar and says Drake won the beef and it’s 2025 and the truth gets boo’d. Woods says they’re blessed to have The New Day talk to them and Jackie Redmond takes the mic away from them.
When we return, Cole and McAfee run down some of the celebrities and special guests in the house. We see a bunch of SmackDown stars in the crowd. Also shown are comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, actor Ashton Kutcher, SNL cast member and Weekend Update personality Michael Che and hip-hop star Wale.
Rey Mysterio is shown in the front row. He stands up and takes his jacket off and turns around. He shows off his “Latino Heat” Eddie Guerrero shirt. Fans loudly pop and chant “Eddie! Eddie!” We then see tag-team champs The War Raiders sitting by his side, as well as LA Knight.
John Cena Kicks Off “The Last Time Is Now” Farewell Tour
We hear the iconic sounds of John Cena’s theme music as we return inside the Intuit Dome. “The Greatest of All-Time” emerges in his new WWE merchandise and tells the camera, “It’s time to go to work!” He sprints down to the ring in trademark fashion and slides into the ring.
Cena gets on the mic and begins talking. Fans chant his name. He tells them to let themselves be heard. He stops mid-sentence and says, “Damn there’s people everywhere in here,” as he looks around the state-of-the-art Intuit Dome. He says he couldn’t think of a better place than L.A. to start off his retirement tour.
By the end of the segment, Cena talks about how he’ll never win a 17th world title and break the record for most by competitor. He then changes his tune and says the only time you see “Never” in WWE is when you say “Never give up!” He declares himself for the 2025 Royal Rumble.
WWE Women’s World Championship
Liv Morgan (c) vs. Rhea Ripley
A promo for Logan Paul is shown where he says he’s committing to being a 100% WWE Superstar and it’s the Logan Paul era. We then return inside the Intuit Dome where Liv Morgan’s theme hits. The WWE Women’s World Champion makes her way to the ring accompanied by Raquel Rodriguez and Dominik Mysterio.
We head to a quick pre-match commercial break on that note. When we return, we see Seth Green, McCauly Culkin, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Danielle Fishel are the latest celebrity cameos that are shown in the front row. We also see women’s tag champs Bianca Belair and Naomi, WWE Hall of Fame legend Sean “X-Pac” Waltman, and WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura sitting in the front row.
The familiar sounds of Rhea Ripley’s entrance tune hits and out she comes for our lone advertised championship contest of the evening. The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this one. After some initial basic early action, we see things spill out to the floor.
Ripley powerbombs Morgan onto the barricade as we head into a mid-match commercial break as the match continues. When we return, we see the action continue to evolve, with the reigning champion Morgan settling into a prolonged offensive lead. Fans try and rally behind Ripley with “Let’s go Rhea!” chants.
They work, temporarily anyways, as “Mami” comes to life out of nowhere and connects with her Rip-Tide finisher on Morgan. She follows up with an immediate cover, but only gets two. Ripley backs in a corner in shock and covers her mouth as her jaw is dropped in disbelief. Dom and Rodriguez get involved with a distraction, leading to Morgan hitting an ObLIVion on a chair for a close two-count.
Morgan does the Three Amigos to taunt the crowd. She does the shimmy-upper body shake ala Eddie Guerrero as well while heading to the top-rope. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned for her from there. Ripley takes back over and blocks another ObLIVion attempt, countering with a Rip-Tide.
She follows up with a second one and covers Liv for the win. Rhea Ripley is once again the WWE Women’s World Champion. After the match, Ripley rejects a hug offer from Dom and low-blows him. “The American Bad Ass” Undertaker then comes out on his motorcycle and the two pose together in a special moment.
Winner and NEW WWE Women’s World Champion: Rhea Ripley
“The Final Boss” Will Appear On WWE NXT On The CW This Week
A special video is shown of “The Final Boss” The Rock moments after his opening promo segment earlier tonight. We see him pass through the curtain to Gorilla position for a quick word with Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
We also see him leaving the building and talking briefly with Cody Rhodes. In his vehicle as he was pulling out, he spoke directly into the camera and announced that he will be appearing at tomorrow night’s episode of WWE NXT.
“Main Event” Jey Uso vs. Drew McIntyre
Back inside the Intuit Dome, we hear the familiar sounds of the entrance music for “Main Event” Jey Uso. For the first time in a long while, Michael Cole gets to geek out with Pat McAfee about “YEETING all over the place” and doing the wave with the crowd while standing on the commentary desk.
“Just me Uce” himself settles inside the squared circle for our next bout of the evening as the show heads into another quick pre-match commercial break. When we return, Cole and McAfee plug NXT New Year’s Evil with The Rock appearing tomorrow night.
Pyro explodes and we hear the sounds of Drew McIntyre’s theme. “The Scottish Psychopath” makes his way to the ring slowly for this scheduled one-on-one showdown. As he nears the ringside area, Uso runs and slides through the ropes with a dropkick to kick things off with a bang.
McIntyre chops Uso and rolls him back in the ring. The bell now rings and Uso dodges a Claymore and starts to beat on McIntyre in the corner. Uso gets kicked in the gut by McIntyre and McIntyre punches Uso in the face. McIntyre and Uso trade punches and chops and McIntyre punches Uso in the corner.
McIntyre climbs the ropes and punches Uso and Uso comes out of the corner and slams down McIntyre with a sitout powerbomb. Uso punches and kicks McIntyre in the center of the ring and then slams into him in the corner. Uso hits a high cross body and covers McIntyre for a two count. McIntyre hits a neck-breaker on Uso and sets up for The Claymore but runs into a superkick. Uso covers for a near fall.
Uso gets on the top rope for the Uso Splash but McIntyre gets his knees up and hits a spine-buster on Uso and covers for two. McIntyre hits a sit out powerbomb and covers for a near fall. McIntyre punches Uso in the middle of the ring and Uso comes back with punches of his own. McIntyre hits The Futureshock DDT and covers Uso for a two count. McIntyre goes for The Claymore and runs into a spear by Uso who covers for a two count.
Uso connects with two kicks to McIntyre’s face and McIntyre kicks him back. McIntyre smokes Uso with a Claymore kick and McIntyre covers for a two count. McIntyre mounts Uso and punches him out and slams his head into the mat. McIntyre chops Uso in the corner and pummels Uso with the Glasgow Kiss.
McIntyre tries for another Claymore and Uso collapses in the ring. McIntyre taunts the crowd and crouches in the corner waiting for Uso to get up. McIntyre goes for The Claymore and Uso dodges it and rolls up McIntyre for the win out of noewhere.
Winner: “Main Event” Jey Uso
Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Hart Appear Live
Jackie Redmond catches up with Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest. Ripley says Morgan took everything from her and she continued to take more from Ripley. Ripley says the one time Morgan didn’t have help, Mami won. Priest talks about his match against Balor next week. He says next week this beef comes to an end in a street fight next week on RAW.
We shoot to a GUNTHER vignette and afterwards, to Cathy Kelley backstage with Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. As he’s talking, The New Day approach him insulting him and complaining that they haven’t been allowed to explain their side of what happened with Big E. yet.
After that, we see Paul Heyman kissing Roman Reigns’ butt as they walk backstage. He asks him a question about when he can do something, and Reigns responds with January 27. They enter a room and close the door, where we see a WWE 2K25 logo. We head to another commercial break.
When we return, the iconic sounds of “Real American” hits and out comes pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan with Jimmy Hart. Michael Cole mentions his Real American Beer company have entered a multi-year partnership with WWE. Hogan cuts a promo about how the fans have always stuck with him, literally as they are booing the crap out of him.
Dakota Kai vs. Lyra Valkyria in the finals of the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament finals for next week. Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser is also announced for next week’s Raw. Chad Gable with also square off against a mystery luchador. Penta El Zero Miedo appears to be the man for this spot. Finally, Finn Balor vs. Damian Priest will take place in a Street Fight.
CM Punk vs. Seth “Freakin'” Rollins
It’s main event time!
After matches for next week’s WWE Raw on Netflix are announced, we see a shot of one final celebrity in the crowd. It is none other than Stephanie McMahon-Levesque. After her quick cameo appearance wraps up, we hear “BURN IT DOWN!” and out comes Seth “Freakin'” Rollins for the final advertised match of the evening.
As Rollins settles inside the squared circle, we head to a quick pre-match commercial break. When we return, Cult of Personality plays and out comes “The Best in the World” to roars of “CM Punk! CM Punk!” Fans also loudly do the “It’s clobbering time!” routine with him as he begins his walk to the ring.
The final formal ring introductions are out of the way. The bell sounds. We’re officially off-and-running with this highly-anticipated tilt. Cole tells the story on commentary at the start of the contest of a young Seth Rollins traveling from Iowa to train with CM Punk, but not being able to afford it.
Following a moment where the two soak up the crowd atmosphere from opposing corners of the ring, they charge at each other and the fight is on with a bang. Punk and Rollins charge each other and start punching each other out. Punk clotheslines Rollins out of the ring and tries to jump out on him but Rollins runs into the ring and suicide dives onto Punk.
Rollins takes apart of the announce table and slams Punk into the barricade. Punk flips Rollins over the barricade and jumps on to him and both men now trade punches in the crowd. Back at ringside, Rollins comes off the barricade but Punk punches him in the gut. Rollins is thrown back in the ring and goes for the GTS but Rollins fights out of it. Rollins punches out Punk on the mat and the ref breaks it up.
Rollins boots Punk in the corner. After some more back-and-forth action, Rollins bounces his head off the mat in a big high spot. Fans chant “Holy sh*t! Holy sh*t!” as Cole talks us into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues. When we return, we see the match still in progress.
After some more back-and-forth action, Rollins settles back into a comfortable offensive lead. So much so, that “The Visionary” and “The Revolutionary” of WWE blasts “The Best in the World” and “The Second City Saint” with his own GTS finisher. Rollins yells at Punk that he hits him with his move and fans still sing his song.
He rolls Punk back into the ring, and rolls in after Punk, only for Punk to pop up and blast Rollins with his own Stomp finisher for a super close two-count out of nowhere. Fans rally behind Punk with loud “CM Punk! CM Punk!” chants. Punk goes for a GTS, but Rollins counters and hits another one for a close two-count.
Rollins sees Punk roll out to the floor and verbally taunts him for trying to run away like he always does. He tells Punk he’s got nowhere to run and hide tonight. He hoists Punk up onto the top of the commentary desk and hits a Pedigree on it on Punk. He seems to hurt his own knee in the process, but still quickly brings Punk into the ring for a second Pedigree. He goes for an immediate cover but only gets two.
The two trade slaps and punches from their knees back to a standing position. They mix in chops and kicks. Rollins hits a vintage buckle bomb and then a Stomp. He goes for the cover, but Punk gets his foot on the ropes before the count of three. Rollins hits a superplex off the top, but Punk rolls through and hits a GTS. He hits a second one and collapses on Rollins as the referee counts to three. Punk wins in an excellent main event.
Punk is badly favoring his leg after the match, so much so that the referee has to help him up as his theme is playing. He falls back down and stays seated as the show goes off the air. Rollins was also cut and bleeding hardway. That’s how this week’s historic WWE Raw on Netflix debut goes off the air. Thanks for joining us!
Winner: CM Punk
