Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Raw results for December 17, 2018. The “new era of Raw” featured an appearance by Vince McMahon, a gauntlet match to name a new number one contender to Ronda Rousey’s Raw Women’s Championship, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of Raw column.
WWE Raw Results:
– The show opened with Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Triple H, and Shane McMahon announcing that they’ve “done a bad job lately,” and will now be running WWE themselves (?). They said they’d be listening to the fans more, and declared the fans as the new “authority.” Baron Corbin showed up to beg for his job back, so they put him in a no disqualification handicap match against half a dozen people. It’s a new Raw!
1. Kurt Angle (with Apollo Crews, Bobby Roode, and Chad Gable) (and Heath Slater as the guest referee) defeated Baron Corbin. Everyone attacked Corbin with chairs again, hit a bunch of signature moves on him, and Angle pinned him after an Angle Slam. Corbin is now no longer an authority figure.
2. Finn Bálor vs. Dolph Ziggler was a no contest when Drew McIntyre interfered and attacked both men.
3. Intercontinental Championship Match: Dean Ambrose (c) defeated Tyler Breeze. This was an open challenge. Ambrose won with Dirty Deeds. After the match, Seth Rollins (dressed as one of Ambrose’s gas mask entrance henchmen) attacked Ambrose.
– A video package announced a new group of NXT stars coming “to WWE,” including EC3, Lars Sullivan, Heavy Machinery, Nikki Cross, and Lacey Evans.
– Lio Rush and Bobby Lashley cut a promo making fun of Elias and doing poses. Elias showed up and attacked them with a guitar.
4. Number One Contender Fatal Four-Way Tag Team Match: The Revival defeated AOP, The B-Team, and Lucha House Party. Lucha House Party rules are gone, thank God. The Revival won with a Shatter Machine on Bo Dallas. They’ll get a future Raw Tag Team Championship match against Bobby Roode and Chad Gable.
– Ronda Rousey cut a promo about how champions should defend their championships the night after pay-per-views no matter what condition they’re in. Too many women wanted to answer her open challenge, so Stephanie McMahon put them all into a gauntlet match.
5. Natalya won a Number One Contender Gauntlet Match. Bayley eliminated Alicia Fox by countering a pinfall attempt into a crucifix, then eliminated Dana Brooke with a Belly-to-Bayley. Mickie James eliminated Bayley with a DDT. Ember Moon eliminated Mickie James with an Eclipse. Natalya pinned Moon and Ruby Riott with a roll-ups. Natalya was then able to submit Sasha Banks with a Sharpshooter to win the match.
– Natalya will face Ronda Rousey for the Raw Women’s Championship on next week’s Christmas Eve Raw. Rousey and Natalya shook hands and hugged.
