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Monday Night Raw (01/28/2019): Recap & Results

Ringside Intel brings you a recap and results for tonight’s WWE Monday Night Raw (01/28/2019) broadcast. Pre-show starts at 7:50 pm EST and the main show at 8 pm EST. Women’s Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber qualifying matches begin. Tweet and follow @RingsideIntel on Twitter.

Monday Night Raw: 8 pm EST

Show opens up and Royal Rumble winner Seth Rollins comes out to the ring. Rollins is trying to decide which champion he wants to face at WrestleMania. When he mentions Universal Champion Brock Lesnar, the crowd chants “Take his belt!” Rollins says he’ll have to give it some thought. Then Triple H’s music hits and he comes out to the ring. The crowd chants “NXT!” Triple H tells Rollins he has to decide which champion he wants to face before the end of the night. Then Dean Ambrose comes out to interrupt and a match between them is made.

Singles Match: Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins

Seth Rollins gets the 3-count after a superkick and a big Stomp.

Winner: Seth Rollins

After the match, Dean Ambrose tries to cut a promo but Nia Jax’s music interrupts and she comes out and ends up tossing him out of the ring…

Elimination Chamber Qualifying Tag Team Match: Nia Jax & Tamina vs. Alexa Bliss & Mickie James

Jax hits Bliss & Mickie with a double-Samoan Drop for the victory. Jax & Tamina qualify for the Tag Team Championship Chamber match.

Winners: Nia Jax & Tamina

***

Kurt Angle cuts a promo about how it took him a while to get over his humiliation at the hands of Drew McIntyre, but it’s taken him even longer to get his 1-on-1 match with Baron Corbin. Angle says Corbin better be worried.

Singles Match: Baron Corbin vs. Kurt Angle

Corbin defeats Angle with an End Of Days.

Winner: Baron Corbin

***

Finn Balor comes out to talk about his loss to Universal Champion Brock Lesnar last night. He says he’d never seen speed or power combined in one man like that and admits his defeat. Before Balor can get much farther, Intercontinental Champion Bobby Lashley comes out with his hype-man Lio Rush to interrupt. Rush talks trash at Balor and then Lashley starts to put a beating on him after Balor made fun of Lashley for being eliminated from the Rumble last night in 12-seconds.

***

Tag Team Match: The Revival vs. Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins

The Revival picks up the win with a Shatter Machine on Hawkins.

Winners: The Revival

***

Elias is in the ring playing guitar and doing his shtick. But then Double-J Jeff Jarrett comes out and cuts him short. Jarrett starts cutting a promo about Elias smashing him with a guitar last night, but Road Dogg’s music hits and he comes out and starts cutting a promo on Elias as well. Jarrett and Road Dogg then start singing their classic song from the 90s “With My Baby Tonight”.

Elias ends up smashing a guitar on Road Dogg’s back and then he and Jarrett trade punches in the ring. Jarrett gets the upper hand and grabs the guitar and signals that he means to use it. Elias counters and ends up smashing it over Jarrett’s back instead.

***

Elimination Chamber Qualifying Tag Team Match: Natalya & Dana Brooke vs. The Riott Squad (Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan)

Morgan rolls Natalya up for the quick surprise 3-count. The Riott Squad qualifies for the Tag Team Championship Chamber match.

Winners: The Riott Squad

***

Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey comes out to issue an Open Challenge for her title. The crowd gives her a negative reaction and they interrupt Rousey with chants for Becky Lynch. They barely let Rousey speak at all as they jeer her. Rousey tries to take it all in stride and forces herself to laugh. She never seems to get going with the promo and time must have run long because Bayley enters to take Rousey up on her Open Challenge.

Raw Women’s Championship Match: Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Bayley

Rousey pulls out the win after a close match with a crafty slam off the turnbuckle into an armbar, forcing the tap.

Winner: Ronda Rousey (c)

After the match, Rousey and Bayley shake hands. But then Becky Lynch’s music hits and the crowd roars. The Man comes out limping. The crowd is going wild as Becky starts cutting a promo on Rousey. The audience is more into this than they’ve been into anything for a very long time. They erupt over everything she says. Then Rousey talks and the crowd boos raucously. The crowd literally chants “Kick her ass!” when Becky says she’ll kick Rousey’s ass. Rousey inadvertently comes across as a heel as the crowd just drowns her words out with boos.

Becky, who won the Royal Rumble last night, says she chooses Rousey as the champion she wants to face.

***

Singles Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Braun Strowman

Strowman is about to use the steel steps on McIntyre but Corbin interferes and attacks Strowman.

Disqualification

Corbin continues to assault Strowman but then Strowman fires back and starts decimating Corbin. He bounces Corbin’s head off the steel steps. But suddenly McIntyre comes flying in with a Claymore Kick to Strowman out on the floor. Corbin and McIntyre then both go to work on Strowman. They hit a dual-chokeslam, together slamming Strowman hard on the steps.

***

Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman come out to the ring and Heyman cuts a promo. Rollins comes out to interrupt, and he will now choose which champion he will face at WrestleMania. Lesnar or Daniel Bryan. Rollins charges to the ring and he and Lesnar go at it. Rollins starts taking it to Lesnar but Lesnar ends up taking control and nails Rollins with four consecutive F-5s. Then Lesnar hits one more onto the title belt for good measure. Then Lesnar raises the belt and the crowd boos. He’s about to leave and Rollins staggers against the ropes and calls him on again. Lesnar angrily plants him with a sixth and final F-5 as the show closes.

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