[WWE 2023] Ragnarok And Revolutionize

Monday -- Week 2 -- June 2023

LIVE! from Omaha, NE

The show opens with the Street Profits coming down to the ring. Dawkins is pissed off over being tricked last week. He says that everything in him has been saying to handle this on the street or in the parking lot but he knows that what's best for his career is to handle this in the ring. Ford says that he's going to be all healed up in a week or two and he thinks the Profits deserve a rematch. This prompts Rollins and Paul to come out onto the stage. They parade around with the tag team titles and laugh hysterically as they point at the Profits. They walk down to the ring and get in to confront the Street Profits. Seth starts to speak, telling the Profits that they got played by Seth Freakin' Rollins -- the master strategist. Seth laughs and Dawkins shoves him. Logan Paul jumps Dawkins, leveling him with a right hand. Ford throws down one of his crutches and goes to hit Logan Paul with the other but Seth grabs it. Seth kicks Ford in the midsection and then slams the crutch over Ford's back. Ford falls to the mat and Seth stomps on his injured ankle. Dawkins starts to fight back on Logan and Seth hits him with a low blow using the crutch. Dawkins falls to the mat and rolls to the apron. Seth tells Logan to go get a chair. Logan brings a chair into the ring and hands it to Seth. Seth places Ford's injured leg into the chair and tells Logan Paul to hold him in place. Logan holds him in place and Seth climbs up to the second turnbuckle. Bianca BelAir comes running down to the ring to protect her husband but she's too late and Seth leaps off the turnbuckle and Pillmanizes Ford's ankle. Ford screams in pain. Bianca grabs Logan Paul by the hair and he stands up and backs off with his hands up. Seth looks at Bianca and laughs and then slides under the bottom rope. Seth and Logan take their tag team titles and head to the back as Bianca checks on Montez. Dawkins crawls over to check on his teammate and we see the medical staff come down to the ring as the show goes to commercial. | 92

This wasn't so much a match as it was a long angle. An inset promo from Jinder Mahal during the Coffey Brothers' entrance announced that his stable's name is Kshatriya. McIntyre was attacked by Bronson Reed as he made his way to the ring. Reed rolls McIntyre into the ring for the Coffey Brothers to beat on. The Coffeys beat McIntyre all over the ring but he moves out of the way when Joe Coffey charges him in the corner. Drew clotheslines Joe over the top rope and then Mark Coffey charges too but Drew hits the Claymore Kick out of nowhere and covers him for the pinfall. Bronson Reed immediately enters the ring and he beats up Drew for a bit. Reed powerslams McIntyre near the corner and climbs up onto the turnbuckles for a vader bomb but Drew moves out of the way. Drew pops up and hits another Claymore Kick and covers Reed for the win. Drew looks at Jinder at ringside and waves at him and tells him "you're next!"

An angry Jinder climbs in the ring and attacks Drew. He kicks him in the head and then picks him up and hits a piledriver. Drew is down holding his neck and Jinder stands over him and applies the Camel Clutch. He has Drew locked in and eventually Drew passes out. Jinder lets go and stands over Drew and raises his arms in victory. | 49

Mace and Mansoor are backstage with Cathy Kelley. She asks them about Maxxine leaving them to manage Los Lotharios. Mace says it's not a big deal. He says the modeling job offers are still rolling in and Mace and Mansoor are sexier than ever. Mansoor then says that they've already received offers from new agencies looking to sign them. But their hearts are in wrestling and they're gonna try to find a way to keep doing both modeling and wrestling. | 46

As Mansoor finishes talking there's a commotion in the background. The camera man turns to the left and we see Randy Orton and Karrion Kross brawling backstage. The two men fight and eventually Kross tackles Orton through a door and into Raw General Manager Mick Foley's office. In a cool cameo Foley is backstage meeting with James Storm as the brawl enters his office. Foley stands up and demands the two men stop fighting. Security bursts in and pulls Orton off of Kross and holds them apart. Foley says if they want to settle their differences they can do it at Bad Blood. | 70

Cardona and Green carried this match as Moss and Emma did not put up a good performance at all. The heels stalled a lot to start with Chelsea refusing to get in the ring. Eventually the male heels locked up and Cardona got the upper hand and never looked back. The finish came when Riddick Moss had Cardona in the middle of the ring and was going to punch him but Chelsea stepped in front and said to hit her instead. Moss refused so Chelsea slapped him. Emma tackled Chelsea and Moss got distracted, allowing Cardona to kick him in the dick and then hit the Rough Ryder for the pinfall.

Cathy Kelley is backstage with Seth Freakin' Rollins and Logan Paul. She asks them what made them decide to team up to become the WWE World Tag Team Champions? Seth says that he'll be honest and say that he didn't like Logan at first. But this was a marriage of convenience. They both wanted the money that comes with being a champion. So Seth put his feelings aside to do what's best for his career. And Logan did the same. But then Seth realized how much he and Logan have in common and how great Logan is and now -- they're best friends! Logan agrees and says that he used to think Seth was a sniveling loser with an annoying fake laugh. Now he loves the guy! They slap each other on the back and walk off singing Seth's theme song. | 89

Becky Lynch hits the ring. She acknowledges that she does not have the NXT Women's Championship around her waist right now and she says the only person to blame for that is Tessa Blanchard. Becky introduces a clip that shows her hitting Roxanne Perez with the Manhandle Slam and Tessa immediately blasting her in the back with a chair and then throwing her out of the ring. Becky says she gives Tessa credit for successfully costing her the title but points out that she still hasn't gotten her hands on Tessa in a one-on-one setting yet. So Becky is calling her out right now. Tessa walks out onto the stage with a microphone. She goes to speak but then throws the mic down and runs to the ring. | 100

Tessa hits the ring and she and Becky start throwing punches. Becky tackles Tessa and they roll around on the mat choking and punching each other. Road agents rush out to separate the two women. Mick Foley hobbles out onto the stage and announces that he is signing these two women to meet at Bad Blood. | 96

A good match despite not much going on. Roode gives Boogs some offense early on and Boogs looks pretty good when he's on the attack but Roode turns things around and eventually wins with a fisherman's suplex for the pinfall.

Judgment Day cut a promo in the back. Finn Balor promises that he or Damian Priest is walking out as the #1 contender and going on to face Cody Rhodes at Bad Blood. Priest says that there's no contention here, no arguing, what's good for one member of Judgment Day is good for everyone in Judgment Day. If he can help Balor win, he will. And he knows that if Finn can help him win, he will. The ultimate goal is to bring the WWE Championship into the fold. | 85

Wow, talk about heat. Austin Theory came to the ring with Dabba-Kato by his side. He got in the ring and started talking to the Omaha crowd about how he is both King of the Ring and the United States Champion and that makes him the King of America. He denigrates the fans in attendance and says that Omaha is dirty and poor and all the women wish their men looked like Austin Theory instead of the fat slobs they are. Theory finishes running down the crowd and then says that he is going to win the Fatal 4-Way tonight and become the #1 contender for Cody Rhodes' title at Bad Blood. | 98 (yes you read that right -- Theory got a 98!)

I don't think anyone expected this. These two had a phenomenal match. The match opened with Ciampa tackling Knight and unloading on him with lefts and rights. Knight covered up and eventually got to the ropes. Knight pulled himself up and Ciampa attacked again. Knight was able to use Ciampa's aggressiveness against him and turn the tide in the match. These two just kept trading big moves and near falls and the crowd got to a fever pitch. At around the 12 minute mark Ciampa went up to the top rope while LA Knight was on down on the mat. Knight popped up to his feet, shook the ropes and caused Ciampa to crotch the top turnbuckle. Knight hit a superplex and then picked up Ciampa and hit the Blunt Force Trauma for the pinfall.

Next up is a squash match for the Maximum Male Models. They made quick work of their jobber opponents and get the win when Mansoor hits a frog splash on Ryan Kidd.

Los Lotharios hit the ring and attack the Maximum Male Models. Angel throws Mansoor out of the ring and to the arena floor. He and Humberto then grab Mace and hold him to allow Maxxine to get into the ring and kick Mace in the dick. Los Lotharios let Mace hit the mat and as he writhes in pain they head to the back. | 45

Byron Saxton is backstage with AJ Styles. Styles is joined by Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. Saxton asks AJ about the #1 contender Fatal 4-Way tonight. AJ says he's confident that he can win. He says that Austin Theory has Dabba-Kato, and the Judgment Day have 5 people but he has the Good Brothers here with him tonight. Karl Anderson says that they've had some ups and downs in their friendship and they did AJ dirty in the past but they're all beyond that now. Gallows says that if it wasn't for AJ they'd be back in Japan missing their families right now but AJ spoke up for them and got them new deals and now they're here tonight ready to step up and protect AJ if needed. AJ finishes the promo by saying that he has three opponents and three ways of ending matches. Styles Clash. Phenomenal Forearm. Calf Crusher. He says to watch out for them tonight. | 61

Next up is a video set to the song "Bang Bang" by Revnoir. The video recaps the long-term feud between Rhea Ripley and Bianca BelAir. | 70

A good match designed to get Cameron Grimes over and that's exactly what this does. Miz cheats to start and takes control of the match. Miz beats Grimes all over the ring but eventually Grimes manages to fight back and eventually he hit the Cave-In and got the pinfall win.

Cody Rhodes comes down to the ring. He wants to talk about tonight's main event and his title defense at Bad Blood. But before he can say anything else the lights go out and "Feed The Machine" by Zeal & Ardor plays and the Wyatt Family come out onto the stage. While the rest of the family surrounds the ring, Bray walks right down the aisle and climbs up onto the apron and then climbs in the ring. He tells Cody that he knows all of his secrets and he knows that Cody is trying to ignore Bray. He knows Cody is afraid of the things Bray will do and even more afraid of the things Cody will have to do to stop Bray. Cody stops Bray and says that he isn't ignoring Bray, he's just busy being WWE World Heavyweight Champion and handling every single responsibility that comes with that title. Cody says that until Bray steps into the ring and EARNS a shot at the title, he's basically just a ghost that comes out every night and acts spooky and tries to scare Cody. Bray gets right in Cody's face and tells him that he's real. He's real and he's right here biding his time and waiting for the exact perfect moment to strike. Cody gets right back in Bray's face and says "I ain't afraid of no ghosts." Bray headbutts Cody and the rest of the Wyatt Family get in the ring to join in the fight. Cody does an admirable job fending them off but they eventually get to him and start beating on him but AJ Styles and the Good Brothers run down to the ring with chairs and chase the Wyatt Family off. The segment ends with AJ and Cody shaking hands as the show goes to the final commercial break. | 100

Chaotic and frantic are the two best ways to describe this. Also, fun. It wasn't the best match from a technical standpoint and it looked like AJ Styles suffered an injury mid-way through but he toughed it out and the finish seemed to point to a crazy three-way coming up at Bad Blood. The match began with all four guys throwing punches at one another. Priest clotheslined Theory out of the ring and then Theory grabbed his feet and pulled him out. They brawled outside for a while to let Styles and Balor handle the in-ring action. Eventually all four men get back involved and we get near falls from each man. The finish begins with each man hitting their finish on someone. Priest on AJ, Theory on Priest, Balor on Theory, and then AJ on Balor. AJ covers Balor but Dominik Mysterio comes out of nowhere and pulls AJ off of the pin. Karl Anderson tackles Dominik and they brawl. Priest hits his finish on AJ again but before he covers, he sees Dom in trouble and goes outside to help. Priest and Gallows begin brawling. AJ hits the Styles Clash on Theory and goes for the cover but Balor breaks it up. Balor and AJ brawl and eventually AJ ends up on the apron, going for the Phenomenal Forearm but JD McDonagh shows up and grabs AJ's leg. AJ falls as he attempts the springboard. Balor hits the Slingblade and then the Coup de Grace and covers AJ for the win.

As Balor celebrates in the ring, the other three men in Judgment Day begin attacking Gallows and Anderson. AJ gets to his feet and tries to even the odds but Balor joins in as the brawl gets back into the ring. Cody Rhodes rushes out to help out AJ and the Good Brothers by going after Balor. The lights go out and when they come back on the Wyatt Family is standing at ringside. They climb in the ring and all 12 men brawl in the ring. Austin Theory grabs his US title and flees and the show goes off the air with security and road agents rushing to the ring to break up the 12-man brawl. | 67