Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Raw results for January 4, 2016. The show was headlined by a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between the champion, Roman Reigns, and the challenger, Sheamus, with Mr. McMahon as the special guest referee.
Be back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of Raw column.
WWE Raw Results
1. Kevin Owens defeated Neville. Dean Ambrose was on color commentary. Owens won by pinfall with a pop-up powerbomb. After the match, Owens tried to attack Ambrose, but Ambrose got the best of him and put him through the announce table with a flying elbow.
2. Titus O’Neil defeated Stardust. Titus won with the Clash of the Titus.
– Brock Lesnar returns to Raw next week.
3. Becky Lynch defeated Divas Champion Charlotte. Ric Flair tried to interfere by grabbing Lynch’s leg. Charlotte capitalized with a roll-up, but Lynch reversed it into a roll-up of her own and got the pin on the champion with a handful of tights. After the match, Charlotte attacked her.
4. Ryback vs. Big Show was a No Contest. Or, possibly a DQ win for Ryback when the Wyatt Family interfered. After they were done with Ryback, the Wyatts attacked Show as well.
5. League of Nations (Rusev and Alberto Del Rio) defeated The Usos. Del Rio pinned Jimmy Uso after a tree of woe double-stomp.
6. Heath Slater defeated Dolph Ziggler. Yes, you read that correctly. Slater is now part of a team called “Social Outcasts,” alongside Adam Rose, Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel. They helped distract Ziggler during the match, and Slater got the win with a rollup.
– A New Day promo was interrupted by a returning Chris Jericho, who entered himself in the Royal Rumble.
7. The New Day defeated The Dudley Boyz and Kalisto. New Day won the match after a Midnight Hour on D-Von Dudley.
8. WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match: Roman Reigns (c) defeated Sheamus. McMahon predictably counted quickly for Sheamus, but counted super slow (or refused to count at all) for Reigns. Reigns Superman Punched him, knocking him out. Reigns had the match won with a spear, but there was now no referee. He continued to attack Sheamus and McMahon until Stephanie McMahon ran down to stop him. Reigns knocked Stephanie into the ring and sent her scurrying away. He set up for a spear on McMahon, but Sheamus hit two Brogue Kicks to stop him. Referee Scott Armstrong ran down to make the count, but Reigns kicked out at two. Reigns hit a Superman Punch on Sheamus, a Superman Punch on Armstrong, another spear on Sheamus and finally won the match when a third referee made the count.
After the match, McMahon announced that at the Royal Rumble, Roman Reigns will be in Rumble match and the winner will be WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
