WWE Raw results, recap, notes: Brock Lesnar leaves his mark, The Undertaker is back

Raw's Monday show, which will serve as a back-to-back show before WWE returns to Saudi Arabia on Friday, was a mix of hits and misses. With the company remaining neutral in recent storytelling, there was certainly something to be wailed at by the cynical creators of the WWE, including a questionable decision by Brock Lesnar regarding his Money in the Bank contract. However, the moments when Raw seemed to reduce his constraints produced the best moments.

The last segment of Bray Wyatt's Firefly Funhouse has not only been the most awesome and entertaining of the group so far, but the trashy conversation-shooting style between Triple H and Randy Orton has been like a comeback to episodes from Raw. Let's take a closer look at what happened Monday in Austin, Texas.

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Brock Lesnar saves an attempt at cashing for Friday

The arrival of Lesnar in the arena behind the scenes via a limousine interrupted the appearance of Seth Rollins on Miz TV. The universal champion, who told Miz that he wanted Lesnar to cash in and pull himself together to ease his back, looked on the big screen while Lesnar stopped just before entering the game. Arena before heading to the locker room.

Rollins entered the ring later in the series and challenged Lesnar to make money. After Lesnar's music was falsely played, Baron Corbin came out to start a fight. When Lesnar's music again played to distract Rollins, Corbin staged it with End of Days. Finally, Lesnar's music hit a third time and he went out with Paul Heyman, the briefcase and a referee. He took a chair and hit Rollins with a low blow. But despite Heyman's calls to immediately cash his briefcase, Lesnar chose to distribute a long series of shots with German suplexes, chair shots and an F5 on the floor. Finally, Lesnar shouted to Heyman that he would wait Friday at the Super ShowDown to cash his winnings. A bloody Rollins was placed on a stretcher and real life girlfriend Becky Lynch observed her placement in an ambulance.

The psychology employed by WWE since Lesnar won the Money in the Bank contract could not be more strange or detrimental to storytelling. First, Lesnar admitted last week that he did not know that he had a full year to cash out. Then the WWE decided to force him to declare the champion on which he was going to trade and, once he refused, posted an absurd video with Stephanie McMahon threatening to charge him for disrespecting the briefcase . Monday's development, written solely as a cliffhanger to watch the Friday card, was simply laughable as fans were forced to believe that a Lesnar stub would dismantle Rollins and then decide not to win the title. This type of booking is a taunt of both Lesnar and the MITB concept as a whole, which gives tired fans lazy writings of the WWE and its shameless business decisions plus a reason to avoid the Friday card. in Saudi Arabia.. Grade: D-

What happened to Raw?

• Drew McIntyre & The Revival def. Roman Reigns & The Usos via Pinfall thanks to the late distraction of Shane McMahon. The Usos have saved Reigns after a defeat in the opening segment. After McMahon and McIntyre joined Reigns to promote their next pay-per-view games against him (McMahon on Friday at the Super ShowDown, McIntyre in two weeks at Stomping Ground), The Revival attacked Reigns from behind. The Usos are out to run the heels and even the sides. McIntyre kicked Claymore on Reigns and Jey Uso, who took the fall. After the match, Reigns endured a Shatter Machine machine and another Claymore kick in a long strike that ended with McMahon harpooning and mocking him.
• Lucha House Party fought another attack by Lars Sullivan. In a preview of his Saudi Sullivan match on Friday, Sullivan broke off the lineup before the start of the first leg for six players and was replaced on the outside by a triple dropkick. Inexplicably, with an angry look, Sullvan chooses to back off.
• Charlotte Flair def. Lacey Evans via disqualification after Becky Lynch removed Flair from the ring. Lynch continued to hit his Manhandle Slam on Evans before standing up with his title. The impromptu match, spurred by Flair's "wild card" appearance at SmackDown, resulted in a three-way trash conversation segment that saw Evans flaunt Flair with Woman's Right.
• Rey Mysterio ceded his US title to Samoa Joe because of an injury to the shoulder. After the two broke, Joe attacked and put Mysterio on standby via Coquina Clutch.
• Braun Strowman def. Bobby Lashley in an arm wrestling. In what looked like a return to WWF in the 1980s, Lashley threw chalk in Strowman's eyes after the match and beat him before hitting a running powerlam. Not only is it time for Strowman to get involved in a real quarrel, but it was an ideal way to climb it.

• Nikki Cross def. Peyton Royce via pinfall following a neck breaker that swings from the second rope. Royce pulled a coffee from Alexa Bliss's hands to inadvertently create a distraction as Billie Kay pushed Bliss, who was wearing white trousers, into the leak. Cross and Bliss celebrated wildly after, teasing a future quarrel of women's team titles. Earlier in the series, they became even more friendly behind the scenes.
• Bray Wyatt preached fitness at this week's Firefly Funhouse. Putting on his Zubaz back and pants, Wyatt debuted with his new friend Huskus, the piggy boy, with a chocolate addiction. He also debuted with a devil horn, a puppet of Vince McMahon, before launching an aerobic-style videoclip of the 1980s. Wyatt continues to prove that it's nothing short of that. a maniacal genius.
• Triple H and Randy Orton exchanged insults before the match on Friday in Jeddah. Orton asked Triple H, with humor, to "get his balls back from Stephanie [McMahon’s] stock Exchange."
• Ricochet def. Cesaro via pinfall The pair of high-level workers again had time to make themselves known. Cesaro attacked from behind after the match but found the 24/7 R-Truth champion hidden under the ring when he pulled out a table. Suddenly, a group of cloakroom fighters pursued until Carmella gave Drake Maverick a great kick to help Truth escape.
• The Undertaker Promotes Goldberg this promised that he would "claim your soul for all eternity" in Saudi Arabia by releasing "inhuman levels of brutality". Not only did Taker close the show saying it would be his opponent's last match, but he added, "Goldberg, you're next."