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- Raw opened with Seth "Freakin'" Rollins and Riddle brawling from backstage to the crowd. Trish Stratus appeared before Bayley, IYO SKY and Dakota Kai came out. Then Bianca Belair, Asuka and Alexa Bliss appeared, and it turned into a tag team match between Asuka and Bliss vs. SKY and Kai in a match in the tournament for the Raw Women's tag titles. The heels won to advance. Finn Balor and Dolph Ziggler had an altercation that led to a match between the pair. Balor won with a Coup de Grace when Rhea Ripley gave a cheap shot to "The Showoff." Chad Gable issued an open challenge, and it turned out to be Kevin Owens. KO won with a powebomb, but he was attacked by Otis. Bayley beat Aliyah to make it 2-0 for her and her Clash at the Castle teammates. Bobby Lashley and AJ Styles faced The Miz and Ciampa. Dexter Lumis came out to drag Miz, and the match ended in a no-contest despite Lashley and Styles delivering their finishers on Ciampa. Johnny Gargano made a triumphant return after several months off, and the only remaining member of the Undisputed Era cut a promo to an enthusiastic crowd. The main event saw Damien Priest take on Edge in the latter's hometown of Toronto. Edge gave his former Judgment Day teammate a Canadian Destroyer and a spear for the win. In the ratings, Raw drew 2.01 million viewers.
- NXT 2.0 continued a NXT UK invasion. But first, NXT champion Bron Breakker came out to cut a promo. He called out NXT UK champion Tyler Bate. They agreed to a title unification match at NXT Worlds Collide. Lash Legend and Fallon Henley fight, and that led to Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs taking on the UK's Gallus, who won by countout. Charlie Dempsey (WIlliam Regal's son) appeared in a vignette for CHase U. Apollo Crews was the guest on the debut edition of the Grayson Waller Effect. Crews KOd Waller. Cameron Grimes beat Javier Bernal in the latter's debut match with a Cave In. Blair Davenport made her 2.0 debut, defeating Indi Hartwell. Mandy Rose showed up, and NXT UK Women's champion Meiko Satamura appeared. A Triple Threat match between Davenport, Satamura and Rose will take place at Worlds Collide. Dexter Lumis then appeared, and hugged and kissed Hartwell as In-Dex reunited. The Dyad (Rip Fowler and Jagger Reid) beat the D'Angelo Family (Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro) when the Dyad hit their finisher, and Fowler pinned Wilde. Bate beat Von Wagner in his first NXT 2.0 match. The Creed Brothers agreed to face Brooks and Jensen in a tag team unification match at Worlds Collide. In the main event, Wendy Choo faced Tiffany Stratton in a Lights Out match. In this unsanctioned match, a number of weapons came into play. Choo delivered a Super Vader Splash off the top rope for the pin. In the ratings, NXT drew 678,000 viewers, down over six percent from Heatwave.

- VInce McMahon turned 77 over this week. In his first public sighting since he announced his retirement, he met with John Cena at the Waverly Inn in New York CIty.

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