Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Raw results for June 17, 2019. The show featured a fatal five-way match to name a new contender for Samoa Joe’s United States Championship, the first 2-out-3 falls six man tag team match i can remember seeing in WWE, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of Raw column.
WWE Raw Results:
– The show opened with Elias asking Baron Corbin to let him be the special guest referee for the Universal Championship match at Stomping Grounds. Seth Rollins attacked him with a chair, and said anyone else who aligns with Corbin will get chaired.
1. Five-Way Elimination Match: Ricochet defeated The Miz, Braun Strowman, Bobby Lashley, and Cesaro. Strowman eliminated Cesaro after powerslamming Lashley onto him, then eliminated Lashley. Lashely and Cesaro attacked Strowman and hit their finishers on him, allowing Ricochet to hit a 630 senton and pin him. Ricochet then pinned Miz with a 630 to win the match and earn a United States Championship match against Samoa Joe. Joe attacked Ricochet after the match, but Ric fought him off.
– Lacey Evans and Becky Lynch argued with each other in the ring. Lynch jumped Evans and suplexed her.
– Seth Rollins attacked Baron Corbin with a chair while he was doing an interview about having to pick a new special guest referee.
– Daniel Bryan (with Rowan) cut a short promo about how Raw and Los Angeles suck. Viking Raiders interrupted and stared them down.
2. Viking Raiders defeated Russ and Randy Taylor. The Taylors are jobbers, obviously. After the match, R-Truth and Carmella were revealed in disguises at ringside, causing the 24/7 Championship division to chase them around.
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– The Revival and Drew McIntyre attended a catered get-together by Shane McMahon. Heath Slater interrupted, asking for a raise. McMahon turned him down and told him to leave. McIntyre followed Slater out into the hall, pretended to offer him money, and then beat him up until McMahon and the Revival stopped him.
– Baron Corbin was a guest on The Sami And Kevin Show to introduce his special guest referee, EC3. Seth Rollins immediately beat EC3 down with a steel chair. New Day interrupted, then used EC3’s unconscious body, Weekend at Bernie’s style, to “sanction” and “announce” the match.
– AJ Styles ran into The Good Brothers backstage and gave them some tough love about not being any good anymore.
3. New Day defeated Baron Corbin, Kevin Owens, and Sami Zayn. Xavier Woods pinned Zayn quickly with a rollup to win the first fall. Corbin accidentally clotheslined Zayn in the second fall, causing he and Owens to get into a shoving match. Owens superkicked Corbin, allowing Kingston to hit Trouble in Paradise and win the match.
– Paul Heyman cut a promo about how nobody knows if Brock Lesnar is in the building or not, or when he’ll appear again.
– Baron Corbin tried to get Eric Young to referee the match at Stomping Grounds. Young said he’d “think about it,” so Rollins beat him down with a chair.
4. The Usos defeated Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. The Usos won with a double superkick. AJ Styles was shown backstage, upset at the result.
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– Roman Reigns challenged Shane McMahon to face him in the ring. McMahon answered on the TitanTron, telling him no. Drew McIntyre began threatening Reigns and his family, so Reigns marched toward McMahon’s VIP suite. Reigns took out the Revival, slammed McIntyre through a catering table, and chased McMahon back to the ring. He laid out Shane with a Superman Punch and a spear, then told him to crawl to the back and tell Drew McIntyre Roman’s going to “whoop his ass on Sunday.”
5. Women’s Tag Team Championship Match: The IIconics (c) defeated Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross. Bayley was at ringside, watching the match. Cross got pinned with a roll-up while Bayley was busy tripping up and shoving Bliss.
– The latest edition of Firefly Funhouse informed us that the Earth isn’t round and dinosaurs aren’t extinct. Bray Wyatt is asking us to, “follow the leader.”
6. Seth Rollins defeated Daniel Bryan by disqualification in about 30 seconds when Rowan attacked Rollins. This turned into a brawl that included New Day, the Usos, the Revival, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, and Rowan. After the fighting died down, the match was restarted as one-on-one with no one allowed at ringside.
– Seth Rollins defeated Daniel Bryan. Rollins pinned Bryan after a Stomp. After the match, Baron Corbin attacked Rollins from behind with a chair, laid him out with the End of Days, and posed over him with the Universal Champion. No special guest referee was announced.
