WWE Monday Night Raw Results (Jan 25th, 2021) – Drew McIntyre Returns, Randy Orton Hits RKO To Alexa Bliss, Edge Injury Update
Tonight’s Monday Night Raw is live from WWE ThunderDome at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. WWE announced face-to-face segment with GoldBerg and Drew McIntyre, Asuka set to defend her Raw Women’s Title against Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair to face Shayna Baszler in singles match and Riddle to have Hurt Business Gauntlet for US Title opportunity.
Here The Monday Night Raw Full Matches And Results With Short Review:
– WWE Champion Drew McIntyre returns to Raw after recovering from Covid-19 positive and thanked everyone for their well wishes. He says he’s back at 100% for his match against GoldBerg at Royal Rumble 2021. Drew McIntyre talks about Goldberg’s impressive steak for years but at Sunday he will remain as WWE Champion. The Miz and John Morrison interrupts him.
Miz and John Morrison taunts McIntyre and says after their match at Royal Rumble one of them will be injured. Then, Miz and John Morrison hits the ring and beat the hell out the standalone WWE Champion and will cash-in his MITB briefcase to become the new champion. Then, GoldBerg interrupts them.
GoldBerg says Drew McIntyre next and Miz & Morrison runs their mouth standing near apron, then, GoldBerg & McIntyre stares at them. GoldBerg grabs Morrison and Drew McIntyre grabs Miz. GoldBerg hits Spear to Miz and McIntyre hits Claymore to Morrison and stares at eachother.
– Charlotte Flair with Charly Caruso at Backstage. Flair says she knows how to perform well under pressure, about her match with Shayna Baszler. And also talks about defending her Raw Women’s Tag Team Titles with Asuka against Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler at Royal Rumble pay-per-view. Caruso also asks about her father Ric Flair and Lacey Evans, then, Charlotte says she isn’t worried about Evans tonight.
– Charlotte Flair defeated Shayna Baszler via disqualification. At the end of match, Flair tries for figure eight but Nia Jax attacks Charlotte for disqualification. After the match, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler continued attacking Flair, then, Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke came out to save. Then, Lacey Evans came out and attacked Flair and 6-Women brawl continued in the ring.
– Charlotte Flair, Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke defeated Lacey Evans, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler via Count Out. After the match, Lacey Evans argues with referee about count out. Adam Pearce came out and says referee to restart the match.
– Nia Jax, Shayna Baszler and Lacey Evans defeated Dana Brooke, Mandy Rose and Charlotte Flair via Pinfall.
– WWE aired the Mustafa Ali interview before the show, he sends ‘Get Well Soon’ wishes to Kofi Kingston. WWE alos aired the Twitter video of Ali taunting Kofi Kingston how he stole his WrestleMania 35 moment.
– Xavier Woods defeated Slapjack via Pinfall. After the match, RETRIBUTION attacked Woods and Ali yells at Woods. Mustafa Ali says it was sad that Kofi Kingston is unable to make upto Royal Rumble but he found the better replacement for his spot and he’s name is – Mustafa Ali.
– Riddle at backstage stops near 24/7 Champion R-Truth. Truth says he heard that Hurt Business is throwing a surprise party at VIP Lounge, even though, he’s birthday is last week. Truth says Riddle to keep this as secret and walks off.
– Hurt Business came out for the special edition of VIP Lounge. MVP talks about Royal Rumble Match and also about Riddle’s Gauntlet match. Bobby Lashley talks about how they all good with gold and says it’s just beginning. Shelton Benjamin about to talk but Cedric interrupts and talks about how MVP helped in his career.
They all presented MVP with gold chain that had ‘THB’ on it with diamonds and Lashley says he can be draped with gold like others of RETRIBUTION. Cedric takes the credit of Gold chain design and working with designer but Shelton says he isn’t worked with Gold.
R-Truth interrupts them and says it’s weird to perform at his own surprise party but MVP says he is not in the list. Truth thinks this all about his birthday but Cedric says it’s all about MVP. Lashley says if he want surprise then he should step into the ring to get. But Drew Gulak, Tucker, Humberto Carrillo, and Akira Tozawa came out to chase R-Truth. Tucker tries to pin R-Truth but it was broken by Carrillo and Hurt Business attacked everyone at ringside and MVP was left alone in the ring. Then, Riddle attacked MVP from behind and escapes then, all the Hurt Business came up to check on MVP.
– R-Truth at Backstage hiding from Hurt Business and Adam Pearce approaches him. Truth says he wants to prove himself for Money in the Bank Match. AJ Styles and Omos shows up. AJ says Truth says he wants the spot in Royal Rumble Match and he will help him to prove his worthy. Preace tells Truth to fight AJ Styles and he will consider it.
– Sheamus defeated John Morrison via Pinfall. After the match, Miz takes the mic and says if Sheamus wants to prepare for Royal Rumble Match then he needs to fight in a Handicap Match. Sheamus accepts the challenge.
– The Miz and John Morrison defeated Sheamus in 2-on-1 handicap match via Pinfall.
– WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair and Lacey Evans at Backstage and Ric Flair showing se moves to Evans. Charlotte Flair watches it and seems not happy. Charlotte orders Evans to leave and Ric Flair isn’t happy with his daughter. Both father and daughter had some war of words, Lacey Evans from behind attacks Charlotte Flair with Right hand. Ric Flair tries to check on her daughter but Lacey pulls him and Ric Flair tells Evans how to ‘Woo’ in hallway.
– AJ Styles defeated R-Truth via Pinfall.
– Alexa Bliss Backstage segment aired and she spoke about Randy Orton. She also talked about Asuka’s segment last week and winning a match against her. She also mentions that she can’t wait to see The Fiend again. Bliss further says that tonight she had chance of getting new shiny toy and segments ends with ‘Let Me In’ words with The Fiend voice.
– Riddle defeated Hurt Business (MVP, Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander) in Gauntlet Match and earned United States Title opportunity but didn’t mention when it will take place. After the match, Riddle celebrated near the entrance and Bobby Lashley suddenly attacked Riddle from behind.
– WWE aired the pre-recorded message of The Edge. He talks about his injury and come back to WWE after 9 years. He also mentions Randy Orton again injuring him at Backlash 2020 and annouces that he will be entering into Royal Rumble Match.
– Raw Women’s Championship match between Asuka and Alexa Bliss ended with Randy Orton interference. At the end of match, Bliss used Mandible Claw on Asuka but suddenly Randy Orton appears behind of Bliss and hits RKO to her and Raw goes off air.