Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Raw results for December 12, 2016. Monday’s episode was the go-home show for Sunday’s Roadblock pay-per-view, and featured a Triple Threat Match for the Raw Tag Team Championship.
Be back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of Raw column.
WWE Raw Results:
— The show opened with The New Day promising that they would join the immortals with their tag title defense tonight, which would ensure they will pass Demolition for the longest tag team championship reign.
1. WWE Raw Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (c) defeated Sheamus and Cesaro and The Club. Cesaro and Sheamus hit a Hart Attack-style Brogue Kick on Karl Anderson, but then Kofi Kingston hit Sheamus with the Trouble in Paradise and pinned him to retain.
2. Braun Strowman defeated Curtis Axel. Strowman won a short match via pinfall after a wheelbarrow slam.
— After the match, Strowman said no one can last two minutes with him. Backstage, Sami Zayn confronted Mick Foley and once again demanded a match against Strowman. Zayn said if Foley doesn’t want to give him the opportunities he deserves on Raw, maybe he shouldn’t be on Raw. Foley said that if that’s what he wants, he’ll call Daniel Bryan and work out a trade with Smackdown.
3. Lince Dorado defeated Ariya Daivari. Jack Gallagher came out in the middle of the match and announced his intention to interfere, because he is an extraordinary gentleman. He then got in a fight with Daivari, giving the disqualification victory to Dorado.
— Seth Rollins came out to host the first installment of The Rollins Report. He called out Triple H again and welcomed his guest, Kevin Owens. Owens opted to sit on a stool on the stage rather than go in the ring with Rollins. Owens said he’s only here because he has an announcement to make. He said that he and Chris Jericho will have each other’s backs at Roadblock, but what matters is that there will be another Raw Tag Team Championship match tonight, between The New Day and the team of Owens and Jericho. Jericho then came onto the stage and said Owens must be crazy if he thinks he’s teaming with him tonight, or ever again. Owens finally managed to talk him into attacking Rollins together. The beat down Rollins until Roman Reigns made the save.
4. The Brian Kendrick defeated TJ Perkins. Kendrick won by pinfall after Sliced Bread No. 2.
— Backstage, Mick Foley added Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns to the main event tag team title match.
5. Bayley defeated Alicia Fox. Bayley got the pinfall following a Bayley-to-Belly.
— Lana and Rusev were in the ring to talk about what happened last week after they beat up Enzo Amore. They said they were going to show footage of what happened behind closed doors, but it was a fake-out. They said the crowd is just as gullible as Enzo Amore, and they are pathetic Americans. Big Cass came out to stand up for Enzo, and he and Cass brawled all around ringside.
6. Sami Zayn defeated Jinder Mahal. Zayn hit the Helluva Kick and picked up the pinfall victory.
— Mick Foley came to the ring after the match to tell Zayn that he has been traded to Smackdown for a talent of equal value All he has to do is sign the paperwork. He asks Sami if this is sure it’s what he wants. Zayn asked for a match against Braun Strowman one more time, but Foley turned him down. Sami asked for the paperwork, but Foley said the talent of equal value is a straight-up trade for Eva Marie. Zayn said he’s worth a thousand Eva Maries and it blows Sami’s mind that Foley doesn’t understand his worth. He said he’s sick of paying for Foley’s mistakes and he demands his match with Strowman. Foley told him to remember this anger when he faces Braun Strowman on Sunday at Roadblock. He then revealed there was never a trade, and he wouldn’t trade Sami Zayn from Raw for anyone.
7. WWE Raw Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (c) defeated Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho and Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho started bickering, allowing Rollins to hit Jericho with a Pedigree. Big E pulled Rollins out of the ring and Xavier Woods pinned Jericho to retain the titles.
