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WWE RAW REPORT: DREW HAS AN OPPONENT, NEW NUMBER ONE CONTENDER FOR THE TAG TITLES, TWO TITLE MATCHES, AND A FEUD ENDS?

We are in St. Petersburg, Florida and your announcers are Tom Phillips, Samoa Joe, and Byron Saxton.

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre makes his way to the ring.

Drew welcomes everyone to Raw.  He says this is no ordinary episode of Raw because we are officially on the Road to (point at the sign) Wrestlemania.  He says it started last night.  He mentions that he went to war with Goldberg last night and they beat the crap out of each other and they earned each other's respect.  Drew talks about the other matches on the pay per view.  Drew talks about how Bianca Belair solidified herself as the future.

Drew starts to talk about the Men's Royal Rumble match and . . . 

The winner of the Men's Royal Rumble Edge makes his way to the ring.  

Drew says he was going to get to Edge.  Drew says since he came to America and has been in the WWE, Edge has been a mentor to him and he looked out for Drew.  Drew says he remembers being there the day Edge had to retire.  Drew says he remembers hearing Edge'e music over the speakers while AJ Styles was choking him last year in the Rumble.  Drew says he thought Edge was done after his injury.  Then Edge outlasts 29 other people last nigh to win.  

Edge thanks Drew for the compliments.  Edge says he likes Drew and has been a mentor, but he wants to be blunt.  What is wrong with you?  I won the Royal Rumble and it means I can challenge you for the title at Wrestlemania.  I am an immediate and viable threat.  Instead of kicking my head off when I came through the ropes, you shower me wtih compliments.

Drew says that is what an opportunist, but that is not what he would do.

Sheamus makes his way to the ring.

Sheamus congratulates Edge on his win.  Edge should be happy and flattered, but Sheamus is not happy.  Who are you to question anything about this man?  He steered this company through uncharted waters while you were on your arse with a triceps injury.  I have been this man's friend for half his life.  Drew may want to take the high road, but I don't.

Drew thanks Sheamus for the enthusiasm but he has it.  Drew asks Edge if he is going to make his decision or does he have to do it.

Edge says he has been in the game for a long time.  Edge says he is the ultimate opportunist and he will make his decision known.  You have a big target on you.

Sheamus wants to know why Edge is saying what he is saying.

Edge says whoever he chooses, he is walking out of Wrestlemania a champion.

Drew turns around and Sheamus with a Brogue Kick and then Sheamus leaves the ring.

We go to commercial.

We are back with a Moments Ago Moment of Sheamus' attack on Drew.

Charly Caruso ambushes Sheamus and wants to know what happened.  

Sheamus says everyone knows him as Drew's friend.  Drew is no longer his friend and he wants the WWE Championship.

Match Number One:  Matt Riddle versus Bobby Lashley (with Montel Vontavious Porter) for the United States Championship

Riddle with a forearm as the bell rings but Lashley with forearms to Riddle.  Riddle wtih a forearm and punches followed by kicks.  Lashley with a spinebuster and forearms.  Lashley with a delayed suplex throw.  Riddle with a head scissors to send Lashley over the top rope (and if it was yesterday, Lashley would have been eliminated).  Riddle with a kick and a springboard corkscrew moonsault.  Lashley with a full nelson in teh ropes and Lashley refuses to release the hold so the referee calls for the bell.

Winner:  Matt Riddle (by disqualification) [Lashley retains championship]

After the match, Lashley reapplies the full nelson on the floor.

Porter wants to know why Lashley did what he did.  Lashley grabs Riddle and reapplies the full nelson and he tosses Riddle over the ringside barrier.

We take a look at the Women's Tag Title match from the Kickoff Show when Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax regained the championships thanks to assistance from the future Mrs. Ric Flair, Lacey Evans.

A Bugatti arrives at the building and we see feet and then the camera pans up and it is not Omos, but Bad Bunny.

We are back and Matt Riddle is being helped and he is asked who he wrestled.  He is told he wrestled Bobby Lashley and he starts to get up.  Riddle asks what happened.

Randy Orton is in the back and he tells Edge he has to level with him.  He says he didn't think it was possible that he would return to the ring.  You return to the Royal Rumble and enter at number one and win the match.  Orton congratulates Edge, but there is a problem. I told everyone that Edge wasn't coming back.  You make me a liar.  I smashed your head through two chairs, I RKOed you six times, I kicked you in the head, and RKOed your wife.  I sent you home to take care of your kids.

You are not going to main event Wrestlemania because you looked past me.  Tonight, there will be no mercy, there will be no compassion, and there will be no main event of Wrestlemania.

Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are in the gorilla position and he is going to even the score wtih Retribution.  Kofi says Ali has lost his mind that everything that happened to him in 2019 was going to happen to Ali.  Tonight, you are going to take care of Retribution.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Mustafa Ali says taht Retribution want to welcome Kofi back to Raw.  To celebrate this moment, he invites Kofi to ringside to watch as he tortures and breaks Xavier Woods.

Match Number Two:  Xavier Woods (with Kofi Kingston) versus Mustafa Ali (with T-Bar and Slapjack)

They lock up and Woods runs his forearm across the back of the head.  Ali with a back heel kick and punch.  Ali with a side head lock and Woods with a shoulder tackle and he sends Ali over the top rope to the floor.  Woods goes for a pescado but misses when Ali moves.  Woods sends Ali into the ringside barrier and they return to the ring.  Ali with a swinging neck breaker as Woods re-enters the ring.  Ali punches Woods and then sends Woods into the turnbuckles.  Ali chokes Woods in the corner.

Ali with an Irish whip that sends Woods sternum first into the turnbuckles followed by a neck breaker for a near fall.  Ali with a reverse chin lock.  Woods with an arm drag and back heel kicks.  Woods with punches and chops.  Woods with a head scissors into a side Russian leg sweep.  Woods runs into a boot from Ali and Ali goes for a tornado DDT but Woods pushes him away.  Woods with a clothesline for a near fall when T-Bar breaks up the cover.  Kofi with a splash onto Slapjack off T-Bar.

Ali with a rollup for a near fall but Woods with a roll up for the three count.

Winner:  Xavier Woods

Bad Bunny and Damian Prist are in the back and they are talking.

We go to commercial.

We take a look back at what happened when Sheamus threw away a life long friendship.

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