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7/21 WWE RAW REPORT: TAG TITLE MATCH, ROMAN ADDRESSES THINGS, PUNK AND GUNTHER, IS DOM OKAY?, AJ HAS MANY HATS TONIGHT, AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2025-07-21 22:42:00

We take a look at Dom's assistance during the women's tag match.

Iyo, Asuka, and Kairi are in LOCKER ROOM and they talk about being champions again.

Stephanie shows up to talk to Iyo.  

She says if they face off in Paris they can see who would win.  

Iyo says she had her beat.

Vaquer says they don't have to wait.

Iyo suggests they figure it out tonight.

Stephanie accepts the challenge.

Vic Joseph is on the Interstitial Concourse with Trick Williams.

Trick with a low level Lash Alarm as he arrives.  

Vic asks Trick if he silenced the doubters over his victory last night.

Trick says he is only worried about himself.  He mentions his accolades.  

Vic asks Trick about the Undertaker and the confrontation tomorrow night.

Trick says he doesn't have a problem with the Undertaker.  Undertaker has a problem with him.  It was his LFG guys who were in his way.  If you want to talk, let's talk.  He says he might knock Taker's ass out tomorrow.  He says tomorrow might be Taker's last ride.

Adam tells Dom he has to go for the evaluation.  

Dom says he has to help Roxanne and Raquel.

AJ show sup and he is Hacksaw Jim Duggan and he mops the floor while he waits for Dom to be cleared.

Woods and Kofi talk about how things are messed up after Pearce killed the tag team division, but AJ is a janitor, like he has always been.

Grayson Waller shows up and he says Austin Theory is A Town Down and he is injured so that is dead weight off his back.  He says he can help Kofi and Woods out.

Kofi and Woods say they will think about that. 

Waller leaves and Woods and Kofi are not sure what to think.

Becky Lynch makes her way to the ring.

Becky tells the crowd not to do what they are doing.  She tells them to put some appreciation on her name.  She says she shouldn't even be here tonight.  She should be at the premiere of her new movie, Happy Gilmore 2, but she is in Houston.  That is what leaders do.  She says she has to address some business.

At Evolution, she had the slicked victory of all time.  She says she did what she said she would do.  She won and held everyone down.  She says she was honest about that.  Lyra spent months crying about stealing opportunities.  Lyra is taking opportunities.  How greedy do you have to be?  Who needs two titles?  

Becky says it was different when she did it.  Lyra's intentions are selfish.  As the leader of the division that ends now.  She asks for Lyra to come out.

Lyra Valkyria makes her way to the ring.

Becky tells Lyra they are one for one in singles competition.  She says she has made Lyra a star, but that free rides end.  The trilogy ends at SummerSlam.  The last time, she said she would never challenge again if she lost.  Becky tells Lyra when she loses, she can never challenge again.

Lyra says every time she thinks she has dealt with a problem, it has come back to haunt her.  She says she doesn't take it far enough.  She accepts the terms and tells Becky no count outs, no disqualifications, there must be a winner.

Becky accepts.

Lyra says she will see Becky at SummerSlam.

Becky tells Lyra she has done nothing but disrespect her for months.  Becky says this will be the most important title match and she tells Lyra to respect the title and respect her.  Becky says she will be the bigger person and she asks Lyra to shake her hand.

Lyra puts out her hand and Becky swings at Lyra and Lyra ducks and hits a uranage.

Lyra picks up the title belt and Bayley makes her way to the ring for their tag title match.

Match Number Three:  Bayley and Lyra Valkyria versus Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez for the WWE Women's Tag Titles

Bayley and Perez start things off and they lock up.  Perez backs Bayley into the comer.  They push each other on the break.  Bayley pushes Perez to the mat and Roxanne goes to the floor.  Bayley chases Perez back into the ring and Perez with a slap.  Bayley runs Perez into the corner and she punches Perez.  Bayley with a clothesline for a near fall.  Raquel tags in.  They lock up and Raquel sends Bayley to the mat.  Bayley with a waist lock and Raquel sends Bayley to the mat.  Raquel corner Bayley in the corner but Bayley escapes and she tags in Lyra.  Lyra with a side head lock and goes for a shoulder tackle but she bounces off Raquel.  Raquel catches Lyra but Lyra lands on her feet.  Lyra with kicks but Raquel blocks a suplex and Bayley tags in.

Bayley with a kick and she wants Lyra to join with a double suplex but Raquel with a double suplex and she hits snake eyes on Bayley.  Perez tags in and Raquel sends Perez into Bayley with a fallaway slam.  Raquel tags in an Bayley sends Perez to the floor and she kicks Raquel away.  Lyra tags in reluctantly.  Lyra with kicks and head butts.  Raquel tosses Lyra into the corner but Lyra with a kick and she floats over.  Lyra with a leg sweep and enzuigiri but Raquel stays on her feet.  Raquel blocks a wheelbarrow move and she drops Lyra on the top rope.  Perez drops Lyra on the top rope and Raquel with a clothesline.  

Raquel with a reverse chin lock.  Perez tags in and Raquel with an Irish whip and Perez with an uppercut.  Perez with a side Russian leg sweep while Raquel hits a boot and Perez gets a near fall.  Perez with a knee drop to the arm.  Perez with a wrist lock.  Perez misses a boot to the shoulder and Lyra with a rollup for a near fall.  Perez gets a near fall.  Lyra with a near fall of her own.  Perez continues to work on the wrist and she gets a near fall.  Raquel tags in and she lifts Lyra by her injured arm and hits a shoulder tackle for a near fall.  Raquel with a wrist lock and Lyra with a head butt.  Raquel sends Lyra to the mat and she knocks Bayley off the apron.  Perez tags in and Raquel with a slingshot jackhammer followed by a double jump moonsault for a near fall.  Perez pie faces Lyra.

Perez taunts Lyra by holding her hand out when Bayley is not on the apron.  Raquel tags in and misses an elbow drop.  Perez tags in and she stops Lyra from making the tag.  Lyra kicks Perez away and Bayley tags in and connects with clotheslines and a belly-to-back suplex.  Bayley with a forearm and she blocks a kick.  Bayley with a double knee drop to Perez in the ropes.  Bayley with a sunset flip power bomb to Perez for a near fall.  Bayley with a shoulder in the comer and she does the wavy arm elbow into the corner but misses.  Raquel clotheslines Bayley from the apron when the referee was not looking.  Raquel tags in and so does Perez.  Raquel with a slingshot jackhammer and Perez goes for the double jump moonsault but Bayley gets her knees up.

Bayley with a leg lariat for a near fall.  Lyra tags in and she hits the leg drop to the back for a near fall while Raquel and Bayley fight on the floor.  Perez escapes Night Wing and Perez backs Lyra into the corner.  Perez goes up top but Lyra with a forearm.  Perez goes for a superplex but Lyra counters into a sit out power bomb.  Bayley tags in and hits the elbow drop but Raquel breaks up the cover.  Bayley with forearms to Raquel and Bayley sends Lyra into Raquel and they go to the floor.  Dom gets on the apron and that distracts Bayley.  Perez with a rollup for a near fall.  Bayley with a knee to Perez.  Raquel hits Dom with a boot when Lyra moves.  Lyra with a drop kick through the ropes to Raquel.  Bayley and Perez both go down.  

A member of the medical staff comes out and she is stopped by AJ who forces Dom to the back.  Becky Lynch pulls Lyra off the apron and into the ring steps.  Perez with a rollup for a near fall.  Bayley wtth a rollup for a near fall.  Raquel tags in and Bayley with a belly-to-belly to Perez.  Raquel with a Tejana Bomb for the three count.

Winners:  Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez (retain championship)

Jackie Redmond is with Sami Zayn and she asks about his current health status.

Sami says he is not 100 percent medically, but this does not have to drag on.  It is one thing when he was lurking in the shadows with his cryptic messages but Kross is getting in the way of his goals.  Sami says he could have been in that gauntlet last week.  He doesn't want to wait.

Dom is trying to avoid AJ Styles and Finn and JD tell him he isn't here.

Pearce tells Dom he will give him the title or he will get the evaluation.

Match Number Four:  Sami Zayn versus Karrion Kross

They lock up and Kross teases a punch on the break.  Sami with a waist lock and Kross with a standing switch.  Sami gets to the ropes.  They lock up and Kross runs Sami into the corner and Sami with a knee and chops.  Sami with a suplex but he holds his ribs.  Kross with a back elbow.  Kross with forearms to Sami.  Kross stomps on the leg.  Kross with punches in the corner followed by a hard Irish whip.  Kross with chops and Sami returns fire and then he punches Kross from the turnbuckles.  Sami clotheslines Kross over the top rope to the floor.  Sami goes to the apron and sets for an Arabian Press and he hits it.  Sami sends Kross into the ring and Kross talks to the referee and Scarlett shows Sami's ribs her boot.

Kross sends Sami into the ring steps and follows with a forearm to the back.  Kross with kicks to Sami followed by a back elbow.  Kross with a triangle and he punches Sami.  Sami escapes and he punches Kross.  Sami punches Kross and he tries for a suplex but Kross blocks it and Kross with a Death Valley Driver for a near fall.  Kross with a body scissors on Sami.  Kross with a kick to the ribs followed by an Irish whip and a clothesline and forearm in the corner.  Kross with an exploder out of the corner.   Sami leap frogs over Kross and hits a clothesline.  Sami with a back elbow to Kross and a kick.  Sami with a wrist lock and he goes to the ropes for a tornado DDT for a near fall.  Sami is backed into the corner by Kross and Kross with shoulders.  Kross pulls off the protective wrapping.  Sami is put on the turnbuckles and Kross goes up top for a superplex but Sami stops him and Sami with a sunset flip power bomb off the turnbuckles for a near fall.

Scarlett hodls out the pipe for Kross but she pulls it away when the ref is in position.  Sami with an exploder into the corner.  Scarlett gives Kross the pipe while the referee checks on Sami.  Sami goes for the Helluva kick but Scarlett grabs his foot.  The referee has words for Scarlett.  Sami goes for the Helluva Kick but Kross with the pipe to the ribs for the three count.

Winner:  Karrion Kross

AJ asks Pearce for an update and the doctor comes out.

He says he has to finish the paperwork.

Dom hits AJ from behind.

Dom says he is cleared and he will see AJ at SummerSlam.

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