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-Raw opened with Seth "Freakin'" Rollins coming out for a promo. Finn Balor attacked the champ from behind. They fought until referees came out and then separated them. The Miz appeared and said he was going to be the once who was going to accept an open challenge for Rollins' title. He issued another open challenge, and it was a returning Tommaso Ciampa, who pinned his former tag team partner with a Fairytale Ending. The Judgment Day appeared and did a promo Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn appeared backstage. Sonya Deville and Chelsea Green then faced Kayden Carter and Katana Chance. The main event newcomers won in about three minutes. Indus Sher squashed Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin for the second time in three weeks. Alexander and Benjamin deserve better. Logan Paul returned and declared himself as a entrant in the men's Money in the Bank ladder match. The other participants then showed up. Butch punched Paul, and that led to a brawl. Paul climbed the ladder. Matt Riddle then went mano-a-mano with Ludwig Kaiser. After Riddle won, Gunther and Giovanni Vinci attacked The Bro. The Viking Raiders then went at it with the Alpha Academy. Maxxine Dupri and Valhalla fought, and in the end Erik won with a knee to the back. Rhea Ripley was supposed to face Natalya, but Ripley attacked her before the belt. Raquel Rodriguez then faced Trish Stratus. The Hall of Famer won by DQ when Becky Lynch attacked Zoey Stark. In the next match, Shinsuke Nakamura battled Bronson Reed. Reed won with a Tsunami off the top rope after Ricochet showed up. The main event was Cody Rhodes, Owens and Zayn facing Balor, Damien Priest and Dominik Mysterio in six-man tag team. The Judgment Day had challenged "The American Nightmare" to find two tag team partners, and KO and Zayn accepted. Rhodes won with a Cross Rhodes on Priest. In the ratings, Raw averaged 1.82 million viewers.
- Night one of NXT Gold Rush opened with Wes Lee defending the North American title against Tyler Bate. Mustafa Ali was guest referee. Ali involved himself in the match many times, but in the end Lee hit the Cardiac Kick on Bate to retain. Tiffany Stratton held a pep rally, but Thea Hail put her in a Kimura Lock, making the Chase U student tap out. In a triple threat match to determine the number one challengers to the NXT men's tag team titles, Malik Blade and Edris Enofe defeated Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs and Hank Walker and Tank Ledger after Blade frogsplashed Ledger. Cora Jade made Dana Brooke by referee stoppage. Brooke appeared to have suffered a legit injury when she hurt her leg and the medics took her out on a stretcher, but she continued the match. Baron Corbin and Carmelo Hayes confronted each other prior to this Tuesday night's match for the NXT title. A new team of Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson faced Valentina Feroz and Yulisa Leon. Legend booted Feroz for the win. In the main event, Rollins put up his World heavyweight title against Bron Breakker. "The Architect" stomped Breakker twice to retain. Balor showed up and attacked Rollins. In the ratings, the title match led to a big increase in the ratings, drawing 773,000 viewers.
- It has been a while, but here is a WWE stock update: It has hit the $100 mark. It closed the week at $100.81. It has been at $110.

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