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WWE RAW REPORT: A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC, DOES THE TITLE REIGN END NEXT WEEK?, AN ULTIMATUM, AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2021-02-22 22:59:00

We are back and Asuka with elbows to Nia but Shayna tags in and they kick Asuka.  Shayna with a snap mare and kick to the back.  Shayna gets a near fall.  Shayna starts to work on the arm and she turns the wrist while standing on the side of Asuka's head.  Nia tags in and Shayna stomps on the elbow.  Nia wraps the arm in the ropes.  Shayna tags in and he applies an arm bar.  Shayna prepares to stomp on the elbow but misses.  Asuka with a rollup for a near fall.

Charlotte tags in and sends Shayna into the corner and she kicks Shayna.  Charlotte sends Shayna into the turnbuckels again and misses a splash.  Shayna kicks Charlotte in the leg.  Nia tags in and connects with elbows.  Shayna comes in and they go for a double suplex but Charlotte lands on her feet and she clotheslines Shayna and elbows Nia.  Charlotte with a Flair flip and a shoulder to Nia and a kick to Shayna.  Nia catches Charlotte and hits a power bomb for a near fall.  Nia with a reverse chin lock.  

Charlotte with a jaw breaker and Nia with a clothesline.  Shayna tags in and she punches Charlotte and applies a double wrist lock.  Charlotte with a rollup for a near fall.  Shayna with an arm bar.  Nia tags in and connects with a shoulder.  NIa with an Irish whip but Charlotte knocks Shayna off the apron.  Charlotte with a sunset flip and Nia hits near the turnbuckles.  Shayan tags in and knocks Asuka off the apron.  Charlotte with a single leg take down and Charlotte with a figure four leg lock.  Nia with a leg drop to force Charlotte to release the hold.  Charlotte kicks Shayna and tags Asuka in.

Asuka with a missile drop kick.  Nia tags in and Asuka with a round kick to Nia and hip attacks to Nia and Shayna.  Nia hits Shayna and Asuka with a Codebreaker and she gets a near fall.  Asuka with a cross arm breaker and Shayna tags in and kicks Asuka in the head.  Asuka goes for the Asuka Lock and Charlotte kicks Asuka.  Charlotte and Shayna go to the floor and Nia with a leg drop for the three count.

Winners:  Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler

After the match, Charlotte checks on Asuka and Asuka slaps her hand away.

Match Number Six:  Jeff Hardy versus Sheamus

Sheamus with forearms and kicks to Hardy.  Sheamus with an Irish whip and Hardy with a back heel kick and a head scissors take down.  Sheamus with a running back elbow.  Sheamus chokes Hardy and kicks him.  Sheamus with an arm bar.  Hardy with punches and an arm drag that sends Sheamus to the floor.  Hardy with punches to Sheamus but Sheamus with a clothesline.  Sheamus gets Hardy on his shoulders and Hardy escapes.  Hardy with a back body drop and Sheamus lands on the apron.  Hardy with elbows and he drop kicks Sheamus to the floor.  Hardy kicks Sheamus through the ropes.  Hardy goes off the steps with a leg lariat.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Sheamus with an arm bar followed by a uranage back breaker and a second one.  Sheamus with a third uranage back breaker for a near fall.  Sheamus with punches to Hardy.  Hardy with a jaw breaker and Hardy sets for a Twist of Fate and Sheamus blocks it and Hardy lands on his feet on a belly-to-back suplex.  Hardy moves and Sheamus hits the ring post.  Hardy with Whisper in the Wind.  Hardy with a reverse atomic drop.  Hardy with a double leg take down and leg drop followed by a drop kick but Sheamus gets his knees up on the splash and Sheamus gets a near fall.   Sheamus runs into boots from Hardy in the corner.  Hardy with a splash for a near fall.

Hardy with a Twist of Fate and he goes up top for the Swanton but Sheamus gets up and Hardy lands and appears to have hurt his knee.  Sheamus misses a Brogue Kick and Hardy with a rollup for a near fall.  Sheamus with a knee and Brogue Kick for the three count.

Winner:  Sheamus

Ric and Charlotte Flair stand awkwardly in the back and she says she can't focus on this crap with this Lacey stuff.  To dance around after Lacey's announcement.  It is about protecting our last name and our legacy.  It is not funny.  That is not the performer I am out there.  She tells Ric to go home.

Ric says that he never said the baby was his.  He says he saw the potential in her.  

Charlotte says he sees potential in a lot of blondes.

Ric says he saw she could be a great competitor.  He thought he could motivate her.  You became a champion on your own, but i feel like I had a part in that.  How about the tough love and advice.  The things we have done together.  I love you and want the best for you.  The man behind the Raw Women's Title.  I want the women to be the biggest part of the market.  If you think I am doing anything to trash our name.  I want the name to be household.

Charlotte says she does not see it that way.  You say you want to support the women but you are trying to take the spotlight from me.  When I am in the ring, it is my time.  I am in the ring to prove that I am not Ric Flair's daughter, but that I am Charlotte Flair.  Charlotte says she is thankful for the doors you have opened and for what you have given me, but let me be Charlotte Flair.  

Charlotte walks away.

We go to commercial.

Match Number Seven:  Naomi and Lana versus Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose

Naomi and Dana star tthings off and Lana tags in and she kicks Dana and hits a bulldog for a near fall.  

We see Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax watching in the back.  

Dana with a front face lock and Mandy tags in.  Dana with a slam and Mandy with a running knee for a near fall.  Mandy sends Lana into the turnbuckles and she kicks Lana.  Dana tags in and hits a handspring back elbow.  Mandy tags in and she tries to slam Lana but Lana escapes.  Mandy keeps Lana from making the tag but Naomi tags in.  Lana sends Dana to the floor and Naomi and Lana with a double X Factor for the three count.

Winners:  Lana and Naomi

Match Number Eight:  AJ Styles (with Omos) versus Ricochet

Ricochet with a drop kick and kicks to the leg that sends AJ to the floor.  AJ returns to the ring and Ricochet with a slam and elbow drop.  Ricochet gets a near fall.  Styles lands on his feet on a suplex and AJ kicks Ricochet.  AJ suplexes Ricochet into the turnbuckles.  AJ with a back breaker for a near fall.  AJ with a reverse chin lock.  Ricochet with punches but AJ with a drop kick.  Ricochet blocks a kick and punches AJ.  The referee pulls Ricochet off AJ.  AJ with a double thrust to the throat and a kick to the midsection.  AJ drops Ricochet onto the top rope and he tries for the Styles Clash on the rebound but Ricochet counters with a head scissors for a near fall.

Ricochet with a kick and German suplex for a near fall.  Ricochet goes up top and and rolls through on a 630 attempt.  Styles with a knee to the head and AJ with a Styles Clash for the three count.

Winner:  AJ Styles

After the match, Omos stands over Ricochet and picks him up by the throat and drops Ricochet to the mat.

Miz is in the back with John Morrison and they talk about what is going to happen.  Braun Strowman stops by and then Miz and John Morrison walk the other way.

We go to commercial.

Match Number Nine:  Braun Strowman versus Bobby Lashley in an If Braun Wins the Match, the WWE Championship Match is going to be a Triple Threat Match, but if Braun Loses, it will just be Miz versus Lashley Next Week for the WWE Championship Match

Before the match starts, Miz makes his way to the ring.

They lock up and go around the ring.  Lashley with a waist lock take down.  Lashley with a waist lock and Strowman with a standing switch and take down for a near fall.  Strowman with punches.  Strowman with a hard Irish whip.  Strowman with elbows in the corner.  Strowman wiht a splash into the corner.  Strowman gets Lashley up for a power slam but Lashley holds on to the ropes and Strowman sends Lashley to the floor.  Strowman goes for the wacky lap but Lashley leaps onto the apron and Strowman goes inot the ring steps.  Lashley with a clothesline off the ring steps.

Lashley with a drop kick to the knee and a flatliner for a near fall.  Lashley with punches and he sets for the full nelson.  Strowman with an elbow.  Lashley goes for a suplex but Strowman lands on his feet and Strowman with a clothesline.  Strowman with a splash into the corner and he gets Lashley up for a power slam for a near fall.  Strowman gets Lashley up again but Lashley escapes and hits a spinebuster and a spear for the three count.

Winner:  Bobby Lashley

After the match, Lashley clips Strowman.  Lashley puts Strowman in the full nelson.

After the match, Miz enters the ring and Lashley witih a spinebuster.  Lashley sets for a spear and hits it.

We go to credits.


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