WWE Raw Results, Live Blog (March 7, 2022): Edge explains attack on AJ
WWE Monday night gross returns to our lives tonight (March 7, 2022) from Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, featuring all the latest releases from the upcoming Wrestle Mania 38 two-night show in early April in Arlington, Texas.
Announced for tonight: Edge will explain why he broke AJ Styles last Monday, and Logan Paul will join The Miz for a celebration of their shared northeast Ohio roots. Alpha Academy defends its Raw Tag Team Championship against RK-Bro and Seth Rollins & Kevin Owens, while Jerry Lawler is here for some reason. Raw Women’s Becky Lynch will be on hand, and while WWE Champion Brock Lesnar won’t be announced, we should get a follow-up to his successful defense against Madison Square Garden’s Austin Theory – and the brutal beating that Roman Reigns gave him after that. All this and more!
Come back here at 8 p.m. ET when the Raw the live blog will begin once the show begins on SyFy. It will be below this line here.
WWE BELIEVED RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR MAR. 7
The door swung open, I turn with the tide looking through his eyes as I live blog this pro wrestling show here for you folks.
The show opens with a recap of Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns brawling in Madison Square Garden over the weekend.
Kevin Owens enters, joined shortly after by Kevin Owens.
They take the mic, Seth talks about winning the tag titles, and Kev explains how difficult their road to WrestleMania was. They talk about it at length, knocking down their opponents and Owens also adds a bit of anti-Texas sentiment to the mix.
Enter Alpha Academy.
Gable makes his catchphrase and says they retain the titles thanks to WrestleMania.
RK-BRO is interviewed in Gorilla and Randy Orton gives Matt Riddle a pep talk to motivate him to win back the tag titles.
We’re going to take the break before the title match.
Alpha Academy (Chad Gable & Otis Dozovic) (c) vs. Kevin Owens & Seth Rollins vs. RK-BRO (Matt Riddle & Randy Orton) (WWE Raw Tag Team Championship)
Riddle and Rollins to start, trade strikes, go down, jump, dodge a lariat, Sling Blade… NO! Tag to Owens, big senton, he breaks a DDT which gets a two count. Back and forth, Rollins with a springboard sling that eliminates Riddle and Gable, KO hits a cannonball, kicks Chad, knocking him to the ground.
Seth with a suicide dive, sending Gable back in, Kev off the top, senton atomico… NO! And so we’re going to take a break.
Back from commercial, Alphas in charge and working extensively on Riddle. Orton with the hot tag, lariats and snap scoop powerslams, hitting DDT on Gable and Rollins at the same time! The match goes down, Randy with the back suplex in the bid table for Owens, for Gable and for Otis!
And back to the break, here we go.
Back from the commercial, Riddle hits the moonsault but Owens breaks it up! The match breaks down, the six men in the ring and a fight breaks out and we go back to break up again.
Back from the commercial, Rollins with a tree of doom double stomp, Matt returns a flying triangle, Gable smashes it with a headbutt! Chad German suplexes Orton, Chaos Theory on Seth! One on Riddle too! Top gear, moonsault… ORTON COUNTS WITH AN RKO! Seth with the Loop Bomb, Kev hits the Stunner, off the ropes…BLACKOUT BUT RIDDLE STEALS THE PIN!
RK-BRO wins via pinfall with a side press to win the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
Seth Rollins walks away with a thousand yard stare as Kevin Owens has a breakdown sitting on the ground against the steel steps.
We get a recap of league activity 24/7.
Dana Brooke enters flanked by Reggie to send us to the break.
Back from the commercial, we get a recap of the tag title match, as Raw is three hours long. (Duration of three hours.)
We see a distraught Kevin Owens backstage, feeling feelings.
Dana and Reggie receive an inset promo in which Brooke asks for and receives a lucky kiss.
We get an equal and opposite video of Akira Tozawa trying to offer a good luck kiss and Tamina pushing him against the wall and kissing him hard, the lucky duck.
Dana Brooke (c) vs. Tamina (WWE 24/7 Championship)
Tamina on the attack, punches up, knocking Brooke down with a lariat! Snuka catches a Boston Crab in the middle of the ring, bending Dana in half. Brooke backtracks…
Dana Brooke wins via pinfall with a victory roll to retain the WWE 24/7 Championship.
After the match, Akira Tozawa accuses Dana of cheating and announces Tamina both the winner of the match and the love of his life, and opens his arms and closes his eyes, looking for a big hug and a kiss. Snuka lowers her arms and goes to let him hang before thinking twice and blowing him a kiss.
Seth Rollins is interviewed backstage, but he is catatonic and refuses to speak, only shaking with inner fury.
The Miz enters and we go to the break.
Back from the commercial, the Miz takes the mic and welcomes us to MizTV in front of his hometown audience.
He enjoys the respect and throws out a video of him and Logan Paul brawling with the Mysterios before introducing Paul.
Logan says he’s honored to team up with Miz at WrestleMania and to be back home in Cleveland. He talks about his amateur credentials as fifth at Ohio State and Miz explains how they’re both self-made men, compared to Dominik Mysterio, whose father got him his contract.
Miz introduces Jerry “the King” Lawler.
He takes the mic and talks about his own connection to Ohio and talks about having WrestleMania in Cleveland, to which Miz scoffs that Cleveland isn’t exactly a WrestleMania town, and he gets mad at the crowd for booing him about it. He launches into a tirade about how winners leave Cleveland and walks off.
We get a recap of Dirty Dawgz’ appearance on NXT 2.0 last week.
Tommaso Ciampa and Bron Breakker are interviewed backstage.
Bron says he takes it all in and is thrilled to be on Raw. He isn’t worried about the Dawgz having home-court advantage and says he’s proud to represent NXT and get his hands on Dolph Ziggler and his goon, Bobby Roode. Ciampa says they’ve already beaten them and they’ll do it again.
The Dirty Dawgz come in and we go for a break.
Back from the pub, Street Profits is interviewed backstage.
They want to remind everyone that they beat RK-BRO last week and tell Alpha Academy to go to the back of the line.
We get a Bron Breaker hype reel.
Bron Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa vs. Dirty Dawgz (Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode)
Roode and Breakker to start, Robert with a side headlock, shot, drop, jump, delayed vertical suplex and Bron walks him around the ring before dropping him! Tag to Ciampa, he applies a reverse chinlock but Roo backs him into the corner and after a bit of a struggle hits the spinning spinebuster!
Ziggler walks in, Breakker pulls his buddy out of the fire and we’re gonna smash.
Back from the commercial, Ziggler gets a near fall on a dropkick, tag to Roode, Ciampa with a big knee, both guys down and out. Tags done, Hot Breaker with shoulder blocks, front kick, air belly-to-belly suplex! A knee staggers him but he’s still able to knock Dolph down with a lariat right after!
Military press, ditching Ziggler to fight Roode, schoolboy for two. Step aside, Bron rushes hard into the post, Dolph catches him with the Zig Zag… TOM BREAKS IT UP! Breaker with a military press…
Bron Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa win by pinfall with Breakker’s Military Press Powerslam over Dolph Ziggler.
After the match, Dolph tells Bron that the second he turns his back, he will strike and win the NXT Championship tomorrow night, and the whole world of Breakker will crumble around him.
We get a hype reel for Omos.
He is interviewed from an extremely low angle in Gorilla.
Omos asks how many kills he needs to top to get a WrestleMania moment, and he’s not waiting for it, he’s going to reach out and take it.
Omos enters to send us to the break.
