WWE RAW Results and Highlights 05th April 2021: McIntyre wins, Rhea Ripley, Miz and more. This Sunday is WrestleMania! On the program of this last episode of Monday Night RAW before WrestleMania 37. We close the card, we raise the tension to its paroxysm and we hype very much all the rivalries for this weekend. Well, that’s what they should have done.
BARON CORBIN, BOBBY LASHLEY’S LAST RESORT?
Drew McIntyre opens this episode. He looks back on the previous edition of WrestleMania, evokes certain similarities in his journey and that of Bobby Lashley and his sense of sacrifice, and even of his ailing mother whom he could not see because she was at the other end. of the ocean. He says he is ready to sacrifice anything and it is not Baron Corbin who will stop him.
Bobby Lashley and MVP interrupt. The WWE Champion agrees on one point: It took them both a long time to get to the top, but in the end there can only be one person left. He also knows that everyone is afraid of McIntyre, but he thinks McIntyre is afraid of him.
The two wrestlers argue, threaten and challenge each other but MVP interrupts them to tell them that the match is Saturday. Unless McIntyre doesn’t make it to WrestleMania, because he’s up against… Baron Corbin. MVP believes in any case possible that Baron Corbin could put McIntyre out of action.
Riddle crosses paths with the New Days in the Gorilla Position and rarely have we heard so many weed jokes in such a short time as during this exchange. In short: New Days are super confident, they will party after their victory. Xavier Woods knocks down AJ Styles in the first game of the night.
Xavier Woods beat AJ Styles by fall with a roll up, after Kofi Kingston caused a distraction by mocking Omos chasing him and distracting AJ Styles taking a roll up. All this after not even two minutes of the game. It is shameful as René would say.
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Bad Bunny and Damian Priest arrive backstage with their Bugatti Chiron. We know what happens when such a beautiful car appears on RAW. We all know it.
BRAUN STROWMAN WILL AVENGE THE “STUPID”
Braun Strowman comes in for a promo for his match against Shane McMahon. Now we can see a cage around the ring before the big match. Strowman makes us the classic “they made fun of me when I was little. They didn’t know what I was capable of, and Shane McMahon doesn’t know what mess he got into”.
Shane McMahon interrupts and admits that the idea of the cage match is far from stupid. But he’s a McMahon and he believes he’s going to win this weekend and Strowman won’t be able to look at himself in a mirror without thinking he’s stupid. It’s when we see this kind of promo that we say to ourselves that the day the public comes back it will be very funny to Vince McMahon, he is not ready
Braun Strowman defeated Elias and Jaxson Ryker in a pinfall handicap with a double-powerslam. It is so bad.
Behind the scenes The Miz and John Morrison saw Bad Bunny’s car and found red paint to give it a little personalized decoration. Bad Bunny will discover the work of his two rivals a little later and by surprise, they attack him before we come to stop them.
Rhea Ripley and Asuka face off in the next match. We wonder if they can “co-exist” but is this what we expect from two rivals who will compete for a championship? Obviously not. That they put on the face.
Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax beat Asuka and Rhea Ripley with a knee from Baszler on Asuka, but mostly taking advantage of the rousing that Ripley had just put on the RAW champion because she also understood that “co-exist With her rival, it was not too much in her plans. At least it makes sense. Not so good: the champion and her challenger did not emerge at all strong from this match, one was beaten up and the other took the pin. Funny way to hyper a championship game.
In the meantime, we believed in it until the last moment, but it seems that Charlotte Flair is absent from WrestleMania this weekend, and that’s not trivial.
SHELTON BENJAMIN AND CEDRIC ALEXANDER OVERCONFIDENT
Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander grab MVP by the colback. The end of the Hurt Business still hasn’t been digested, and Alexander threatens to hurt Bobby Lashley a lot. We like Cedric Alexander a lot but it’s like Baron Corbin, don’t take us for six-week-old Bad Bunnies.
Interviewed then, MVP says he is disappointed with Benjamin and Alexander and recalls that without him they would never have become team champions and as interesting as they are today. Lashley then arrives and promises to hurt Cedric Alexander a lot. There, he, we believe him when he says that.
Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler are interviewed about defending the women’s tag team titles at WrestleMania. Suddenly, out of nowhere, appear Lana & Naomi, Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke, Natalya & Tamina, Ruby Riott & Liv Morgan and Billie Kay all alone who all end up arguing.
Bobby Lashley defeated Cedric Alexander by submission with his Hurt Lock. Alexander will have a little bit of his own in the game which will lead to a count of one, the rest is Lashley dominating. Shelton Benjamin will attempt an attack after the game, but no need to draw you a picture of the result.
TWO AGAINST TWO IS BETTER
Damian Priest and Bad Bunny are in the ring. Priest speaks first, and explains that Miz and Morrison have gone too far with the car. He proposes that the match between Miz and Bunny become a tag team match, with him and Morrison adding to the equation. The rapper nods.
Bad Bunny is then entitled to a long promo. Very long. The last before the match story of laying the foundations in which he explains that he came to realize his dreams, tells that he is a fan of wrestling since childhood, but that he remains perplexed after what he lived until then in WWE. He says he was among other fans of Miz, but regrets that he never respected him, and for no reason. Just like what happened afterwards like the guitar hit and with the car tonight.
At WrestleMania, he’s going to gain respect. “I’m going to shut you up and kick your ass,” he told her.
Miz and Morrison appear on the giant screen entering a limo. The Miz explains that Bad Bunny doesn’t deserve to be there, and accepts the change to a tag team match before leaving. It was very long, not sure that it would have lasted long with an audience that either.
Mustafa Ali faces Riddle in the next match. He runs into Sheamus who wanted to give him some advice for the match but Ali didn’t want to hear anything and simply explains that Riddle was the kind of thing he wanted to change in WWE. Sheamus will be commenting on the game.
Riddle beat Mustafa Ali by falling with his Bro Derek. No intervention from Sheamus, he will wait until this weekend.
SOFT MAIN EVENT
Drew McIntyre therefore faces Baron Corbin in the main event and obviously has no fear about the outcome of this match as he explains in an interview. He says he knows Corbin is dangerous (anyway) but the Claymore will work anyway.
Before the end of the match, while McIntyre was knocked out in the ring, MVP went to explain to Corbin that it was not about beating McIntyre but putting him out of action so he wouldn’t go up to WrestleMania. But it was phoned like never before, McIntyre suddenly reappeared to end the match.
Drew McIntyre beat Baron Corbin by pinfall with his Claymore Kick. Almost twenty minutes of the game. Twenty minutes of a Baron Corbin match, is that really how we hyped WrestleMania? Let’s go.
Bobby Lashley came in after the game for one last little confrontation, from afar. Nothing more. Not even a little brawl? Frankly it’s WrestleMania, it was allowed there.
That’s how this episode of Monday Night RAW ends, which doesn’t really seem like WrestleMania’s go-home. But then not at all. Usually an episode like this is used to raise the tension, we are down to the ground, and we leave everyone breathless while waiting for this weekend’s event. There, nothing at all. It is terrible.
