WWE Raw 5th of June 2023

In-Ring Segment: World Heavyweight Champion Seth “Freakin” Rollins
Rollins welcomes the crowd to Monday Night Rollins. It’s been a wild first week as champion. It’s been two years since a world title has been defended on Raw. So he put out an open challenge on social media to defend the title tonight. Damian Priest accepted Rollins’ open challenge. Rollins quips that he is excited. No matter if you hate The Judgement Day, they are as good as it gets. He will show us all tonight that no matter how good they are, they just ain’t him. Damian Priest and Finn Bálor interrupt. Rollins jokes that he was just saying a bunch of nice stuff about them. Priest tells them to calm down.
Rollins notes that it’s just Bálor and Priest, so Dominik and Rhea Ripley should be sneaking up behind him. Priest retorts that Ripley and Dominik have their own business tonight. Rollins fakes vomits while asking if Ripley and Dominik are somewhere making out. Bálor makes fun of Rollins before proclaiming that Priest is taking the world title tonight. Priest puts Rollins over and says he doesn’t need the rest of The Judgement Day to beat Rollins tonight.
Rollins tells Priest he has no shot if he doesn’t bring the rest of The Judgement Day with him. Rollins challenges Priest to leave his team in the back tonight. Bálor says Rollins doesn’t get to dictate how this goes. Priest accepts. Priest says Rollins is going to have the shortest title reign. Rollins laughs and says his reign is already longer than Bálor’s was. Bálor is pissed. Rollins cackles and prances away.

Women’s Money in the Bank Qualifying Match: Becky Lynch vs. Sonya Deville w/Chelsea Green
Lync goes for an early Manhandle Slambut Deville avoids it. After a distraction from Green, Deville attacks Lynch from behind. Deville works over Lynch. Lynch fires up. Sitout reverse DDT by Lynch. Trish Stratus’ music hits. Stratus and Zoey Stark walk out on the stage. After the break, Deville superplexes Lynch. Lynch kicks out at two. Lynch fires up again and lands a flurry of strikes. Deville rolls out of the ring. Lynch catches her with a baseball slide.
While the referee is distracted, Green boots Lynch in the face. Green sends Lynch back into the ring. Deville immediately lands her patented running knee. Lynch kicks out. Enzuguri by Lynch. Deville back body drops Lynch out to the apron. Lynch lands on her feet. Green hops up on the apron and gets knocked off by Lynch. Lynch sends Green into the barricade over and over again.
Deville attacks from behind but gets launched into the barricade as well. Lynch tries a Mandhandle Slam, but Deville avoids it. Lynch tries the Disarmher. Deville turns it into a pin. Green puts her foot on Deville’s back to help her with the pin. Lynch kicks out. Deville dives off the second rope and gets Manhandle Slammed. Lynch pins Deville.
Winner- Becky Lynch

Backstage, IMPERIUM interrupts Owens and Zayn. Kaiser says The Bloodline may not be Owens and Zayn’s problem, but they are. Owens goes on a rant about IMPERIUM interrupting them without their name begin said. That’s not how this works. Gunther tells Owens he is going to teach him some respect. Owens yells there is a ring, and that’s what it’s for. Owens storms off towards the ring and screams for Gunther to meet him there.

Intercontinental Champion Gunther w/IMPERIUM vs. Undisputed Tag Team Champion Kevin Owens w/Sami Zayn
Owens and Gunther lock up and get tied up in the corner. Gunther gives Owens a clean break. Headlock takeover by Gunther. Owens tries to fire Gunther off the ropes, but Gunther holds on. Owens tries again and manages a shoulder block. Gunther grabs an armbar. Owens gets to the ropes. Gunther doesn’t break the hold. Owens slaps Gunther in the face. Gunther tries a chop, but Owens ducks it and lands one of his own.
Owens hits the ropes and runs right into a big boot. Gunther immediately hits a German suplex. Owens rolls out of the ring. Gunther follows, and they trade strikes. Gunther slams Owens’ head into the barricade. Back suplex on the apron by Gunther. After the break, Gunther body slams Owens. Neck snap by Gunther. Owens rolls around in pain on the mat. Gunther continues his assault. Owens tries to fire up, but Gunther destroys him with pair of chops.
Gunther ducks a clothesline and hits another German suplex. Owens pops back up to his feet and hits a German suplex of his own. Both men are down. Owens and Gunther trade strikes. Owens manages to land a series of superkicks. Gunther falls into the corner. Cannonball by Owens. Gunther kicks out.
Owens goes down like a sack of bricks. Boston Crab by Gunther. Gunther transitions into a crossface. Owens gets to his feet and fights out of the hold. Owens lands a chop. Gunther lands one of his own. Owens, again, goes down like a sack of bricks. Owens tries a suplex, but he can’t get Gunther off his feet. Gunther blasts Owens with a lariat. Gunther pulls Owens back to his feet and lands another lariat. Owens fires back with a flurry of short-arm clotheslines of his own. Gunther tries a sleeper, but Owens fights it off.
Shotgun dropkick by Gunther. Owens fires back and hits a fisherman’s buster. Gunther kicks out! Owens goes up top. Gunther cuts him off and lands a superplex. Owens kicks out. Gunther tries a big splash, but Owens gets his knees up. Owens lands a swanton. Gunther kicks out! Vinci gets on the apron. Zayn attacks him. Kaiser joins in. Owens pulls Kaiser into the ring and drops him with a Stunner. Gunther surprises Owens with a schoolboy for the win!
Winner- Gunther

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler vs. Kayden Carter and Kitana Chance
Chance and Carter take Baszler down and land combo offense. Baszler rolls to the corner and tags in Rousey. Rousey boots Carter in the chest before trapping Chance in a rope-hanging armbar. Carter superkicks Rousey to break the hold. Carter uses Chance to help her land a dive off the top. Chance lands a dive on both Rousey and Baszler. As Chance gets back in the ring., Baszler jerks her arm on the top rope. Chance’s arm is in bad shape. Rousey holds Chance in place, and Baszler lands a running knee.
Baszler stomps on Chance’s arm. Chance manages to tag in Carter. Carter lands a flurry of strikes on Baszler. Carter lands the Heatseeker. Baszler kicks out. Chance and Carter hit the After Party on Rousey! Baszler manages to break up the pin. Chance lands a crossbody off the top. Rousey kicks out. Rousey traps Chance in an ankle lock. Chance sends Rousey into the corner. Baszler tags in. Baszler traps Carter in the Kirifuda Clutch. Carter taps out.
Winners- Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler

Backstage, Bronson Reed complains to Ricochet because Ricochet is in the MITB match, but he isn’t. Reed says he wiped the floor with Ricochet. Ricochet reminds Reed that Reed lost his qualifier match to Shinsuke Nakamura. Nakamura walks in and needles Reed for losing to him. Reed stomps off. Ricochet says he’s going to win MITB. Nakamura says he’ll meet Ricochet in the ring.

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Ricochet
Ricochet and Nakamura trade takedowns. Nakamura hits the ropes and gets dropkicked by Ricochet. Nakamura falls out of the ring. Ricochet tries a dive, but Nakamura cuts him off with a kick to the head. Nakamura eats a kick and falls off the apron. Ricochet flattens Nakamura with a Fosbury flop. After the break, Nakamura tries a reverse exploder suplex. Ricochet lands on his feet and hits a springboard back elbow. Springboard dropkick by Ricochet.
Ricochet gets a near fall after a standing shooting star press. Ricochet gets hung up in the ropes. Sliding German suplex by Nakamura. Ricochet counters the Kinshasa with a knee of his own. Recoil by Ricochet. Ricochet sets Nakamura up for a shooting star press. Nakamura cuts him off. Bronson Reed hits the ring and crushes Nakamura in the corner. The referee calls for the bell.
No contest
Ricochet hops on Reed’s back. Reed splashes Nakamura with Ricochet on his back. Ricochet runs into a body block by Reed. Reed crushes Ricochet with the Tsunami.

Miz TV
Miz announces his guest tonight is Cody Rhodes. Rhodes joins Miz in the ring. Miz asks Rhodes about his challenge to Brock Lesnar to meet him in any city he’s in so they can fight. Miz quips that Lesnar broke Rhodes’ arm and beat him at Night of Champions, so challenging him was stupid. Rhodes calls Miz “Mike,” and Miz quickly corrects him. While he’s in the ring, his name is The Miz. Rhodes says people have said his challenge took balls, and Miz knows a little about balls.
Miz says he has a surprise guest, someone who knows the same pressure that Rhodes does as a second-generation talent. Dominik Mysterio! Rhodes looks on, confused, as Dominik and Rhea Ripley walk to the ring. The crowd showers Dominik with “you suck chants.” The Miz starts to speak, but Ripley tells Miz to shut up. Why? Because Dominik has something to say.
Ripley hands Dominik a mic, and the crowd lets him have it. Rhodes sheepishly asks the crowd not to boo Dominik. Of course, the boos get louder. Dominik starts to speak and is completely drowned out with boos. Dominik goes on a rant about Rhodes being a bad father for being here when he should be home with his daughter. He’s a deadbeat dad, just like Rey Mysterio. Rhodes says after Dominik’s 15 minutes in jail, he left with a jail tattoo worst than the one he has.
Dominik went to face his father at WrestleMania, but Rhodes wouldn’t call it a match. He’d call it a public spanking. Rhodes adds that he knows Rey Mysterio isn’t perfect. He knows Rey Mysterio has made mistakes, in fact, he’s looking at one right now. Dominik is seething. Dominik slaps Rhodes and hides behind Ripley. Ripley and Dominik slink out of the ring. Miz laughs. Rhodes clocks Miz with his cast.

Women’s Money in the Bank Qualifying Match: Zoey Stark w/Trish Stratus vs. Natalya
Stark drives Natalya into the corner. Instead of giving a clean break. Stark lays in a flurry of strikes. Natalya and Stark trade submission and pin attempts. Natalya does an up and over, but she tweaks her knee. Stark kicks Natalya in the face and works over her injured knee. Natalya surprises Stark with a German suplex. Natalya locks in the Sharpshooter. Stark screams as she tries to crawl to the ropes. Stark gets to the ropes and breaks the hold. After a distraction from Stratus, Stark hits the Z360 for the win.
Winner- Zoey Stark

Indus Sher w/Jinder Mahal vs. Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin
Before the bell rings Sanga and Veer attack Benjamin and Alexander. Veer and Sanga hit Demolition Decapitation on Alexander. The referee checks on Alexander and calls off the match. Veer and Sanga pick up Alexander and hit another Demolition Decapitation.
No Contest

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Seth “Freakin” Rollins vs. Damian Priest
Priest forces Rollins into the corner. Priest yaps at Rollins. Rollins avoids Priest charging into the corner. Rollins surprises him with a guillotine leg drop as Priest tries to go through the ropes. After the break. The fight spills outside. Priest tries to send Rollins into the ring post. Rollins escapes and sends Priest into the ring post. Priest back body drops Rollins into the timekeeper’s area. Rollins tries diving off the barricade, but Priest decks him in midair. Priest works over Rollins. Rollins surprises Priest with a head kick. Rollins lands a flurry of strikes.
Priest won’t go down. Rollins manages to drop Priest with a roaring lariat. Backbreaker by Rollins. Rollins goes up top. Priest avoids Rollins’ splash, but Rollins lands on his feet. Spin kick by Priest. Rollins tries a Pedigree. Priest escapes. Slingblade by Rollins. Priest falls out of the ring. Rollins tries a dive. Priest catches Rollins and hits a leaping complete shot on the announce desk. After the break, Priest knocks Rollins off the top. Rollins hops up top and hits a superplex.
Rollins tries to a falcon arrow. Priest almost counters with a suplex of his own, but Rollins deadlifts Priest up for the falcon arrow. Rollins lands a series of suicide dives. Rollins sends Priest back into the ring and gets a two count after a frog splash. After a bunch of counters, Priest lands Dirty Deeds #1. Rollins kicks out. Priest tries South of Heaven. Rollins backflips out of it. Rollins goes up top. Priest cuts him off and sends him flying with a top rope ranna.
Rollins kicks out. Priest and Rollins fight on the apron. Rollins hits a running powerbomb into the barricade. Priest is clutching at his shoulder. Bálor hops the barricade and eats a superkick from Rollins. Priest asks Bálor why he is here. Rollins rolls back in the ring and eventually lands the Stomp for the win.
Winner and STILL World Heavyweight Champion, Seth “Freakin” Rollins!
After the match, Bálor and Rollins have a staredown.

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