CM Punk vs Finn Balor Fallout, Gunther Forces AJ Styles To Gamble HIS CAREER | WWE Raw Review
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JDfromNY
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
CM Punk defends the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Finn Balor on WWE Raw, while Gunther escalates his rivalry with AJ Styles by demanding a career-threatening stipulation ahead of the Royal Rumble.
On this WWE Raw Review, I break down the fallout from Raw in Ireland, creative decisions heading into the Royal Rumble, and what these matches mean for WWE’s direction.
On this episode:
♦CM Punk vs Finn Balor and the championship implications after Raw in Ireland
♦Gunther demanding AJ Styles put his career on the line at the Royal Rumble
♦Becky Lynch defending the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship
♦Natalya turning heel on Maxxine Dupri
♦The Vision vs Rey Mysterio, Penta, and Dragon Lee in six-man action
♦Je’Von Evans injured during his match and what it means going forward
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys? |
| 0:01.3 | Thank you so very much for joining me right here on Off the Script. |
| 0:04.2 | This is your Monday at Night Raw Post Show for January 19, 2026. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm your host, Jadie from New York. |
| 0:13.0 | As always, coming to you live from the OTS venue inside my mother's basement. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you guys so very much for joining me on this Monday evening, |
| 0:23.7 | wherever you may be. Thank God. This is the last week of WWE having an earlier start time for these |
| 0:34.1 | Monday and Friday night shows, man. It really has lasted as long as it possibly |
| 0:40.5 | could, man. I'm ready to get back to normal. I'm getting, I'm getting really tired of, like, |
| 0:45.2 | watching these shows in the early afternoon to avoid the spoilers. And then you got to go live |
| 0:51.7 | at some weird hour after nobody clearly gives you shit about any of this |
| 0:55.2 | because everybody had to watch it early or you forgot that it was on early |
| 0:59.0 | and you're not going to watch us here live on YouTube cover the show |
| 1:02.1 | because you don't want to be spoiled. |
| 1:09.2 | Monday night aired at 3 p.m. today from Dublin. |
| 1:15.5 | Now, where were they? |
| 1:16.4 | Dublin? Where were they today? |
| 1:17.5 | Ireland? I forgot what part of Ireland they were from. |
| 1:21.4 | They were in Ireland. |
| 1:23.6 | And I thought this was a decent show. |
| 1:29.3 | WWE, you know, you would never know that they have a royal fucking rumble coming up. |
| 1:39.3 | And legitimately a week and a half, two weeks. They got the Rumble. |
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