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Ups & Downs: WWE Raw Review (Jul 21)

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Simon Miller with all the Ups & Downs for the July 21st edition of Monday Night Raw

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0:00.0

2 J. Stiles and Dominic Mysterio are just winning Raw these days, because Dominic Mysterio and the Judgment Day turned up to Roar this week, and AJ Stalz was there as the valet, and once again he was intimidating Dombey because he wants his intercontinental title match. He then took Dominic's keys and threw them away. That's the one job, man, that's the whole job as a vali. So you totally drop the ball.

0:21.2

The hell is a vali. Also, all my friends, the one of ups and downs. The only wrestling of you show you need. And today we are focusing on Monday Night Raw, because you know Monday Night Raw was just on. I don't decide that. Also, remember, a bald life for anyone that is no longer a full-headed individual. but you know what? I shout out to the full heads too. I ain't one of these horrible people

0:21.2

that goes after people's follicle. anyone that is no longer a full-headed individual, but you know what? I shout out to the full

0:37.5

heads too. I ain't one of these horrible people that goes after people's follicle. Is that even

0:42.5

a thing? I don't know. Let's set those doubts. We started with CM Punk as well because of course

0:46.8

he has a world title match at SummerSlam against Gunter. Given that SummerSlam is like tomorrow,

0:51.8

we have to hit fast forward on this build. Somebody could say that WW has too many events, which makes it very difficult to come out of one and then go straight into another one. Not me, I'm just putting it out there. Hercourse also reminds us of his two goals. He'd returned to WW, which was one, main event WrestleMania, and he's done that, and two, win the world title. I was like, wait a minute, I thought when you came back, you said you didn't want any friends, but you wanted to make a lot of money. I do not remember a championship being brought up. Still, though, the only reason he hasn't done the second one is because people keep getting in his business, because they keep taking things so personally. And hey, let's talk about Gunter. He is the world champion and he is one of

1:28.9

the best wrestlers in the world. And I really enjoyed what he said next. You listen, I'm going to do my best to beat him. Doesn't mean I can promise that, but having all of you fans in my corner will make him for warm and fuzzy in my tum-tum. If I just put Gunter on a pedestal man and you should put Gunther on a pedestal. He's the flipping champ.

1:25.8

He then continued to sing his praises too, because he held the Intercontinental title for 666 days, and of course he's now a two-time world champion. It doesn't matter though that he's already got two weeks left, because he has been preparing for this his entire life, and also he knows deep down his tutsi toes, he is the best in the world. Gunther then did arrive because his name had been said a lot, and that ties into wrestling clause rule 14.4. He got booed and what chance, and you tapped out when he was like, well, look who it is. CM Punk, what a wonderful competitor you are. He didn't want any drama, though, because he actually agrees with CM that it is all about money and winning titles, but you know, you keep going on about how the fact you're the best in the world, but you can't be because the best in the world holds this world championship and do you hold it? No, you do not, but I do. He's also going to make punk regret ever stepping in the ring with it because it's going to drop him like a wet towel because you know if you wet towel you dropped it on the floor it's going to go clunk and it's going to fall really

2:37.8

fast which essentially means you've knocked the towel out don't go and punch towels today what did they

2:43.4

ever do to you instead punk can just have all of these degenerate fans chanting for him for the rest

2:47.9

of his life as he does just wither away when good theys had just left, and his music started playing, oh, how I laughed. I was like, what? The production team just decided we shouldn't let CM Punk have any kind of retort. And CM Punk did kind of start. There was egg on his face, like, hang on, I got a microphone. I'm really good with this day. Could you have let me have said something? It was pretty good though, although maybe a little bit understated, but let's not forget that we are pitching this as champion versus challenger or Mano versus Manor, whatever the flub that's saying is. And really the idea here is to make you go, I don't 100% know who's going to win here, which is the truth. I'm now convinced myself that Seth Rollins is catching in because later Paul Heyman for the second week was like, no, Seth Rollins will be away for a long time, but maybe I'm being worked, maybe my chain is being yanked, and they don't do that, that's PG-18, but yes, we do wait and see. I am going to give it an up. It's just such a cool match, right, CM Punk versus Gunther with a championship on the line. I mean, if that main event SummerSlam night won,

3:25.9

I'm not going to have a problem with it at all. cool match, C.M. Punk versus Gunther, with a championship on the line. I mean, if that main

3:41.5

event, SummerSlam night won, I'm not going to have a problem with it at all. Naomi then interrupted a backstage interview with Stephanie for care and was all like, oh, hi, we've never met before, so let me introduce myself. And Steph was like, well, no, I obviously know who you are. I work here. Neither than I'maum was very confident that we'll be taking on each other when we get to clash in Paris.

3:38.9

It's definitely, it's like,

3:39.7

you've got to get through SummerSlam first, so maybe you will lose, and I will compete with another competitor. Obviously, Neri didn't like that, so she went ha ha ha ha, ha, and did her crazy laugh and walked off. I'm just going to tell you, I think Naomi is great. Well, we did indeed get Seamus versus Roussev part two and listen, I love these two fighting. It is big men, slapping man meat, but I would absolutely prefer it if it did have a little bit more depth and more story and something could jump into here. And given that Seamus did win, I hope we are going to do the rubber match because they're now one and one at SummerSlam and we should give it a stipulation and essentially let these two kill each other. I mean, they do that anyway. Some of the shots here, and they were basically punching each other in the face. Then at one point, Seamus went to the top of team of the turnbuckle and he actually fell down, which I think he must have slipped because he went back up there again. He did dive to the outside with a massive close line. They looked at the camera like, oh, man, that was a close one. It could have gone bad. Also, I said the word, dive 2025, part of one on the board. We've been doing this for like two weeks. That is stupid. I think this delay must have helped because Rousseff then threw Seamus into Ali the Announce table and he avoided a brook kick and hit a bomber power for a one-two-oh. When Seamus just came back with his awesome knee to the face and then Rusef threw a kick and kind of missed a bit but still went for the pin. But hey-ho, that doesn't matter because one, they're only human beings, but also two, they were throwing such vicious blows.

5:18.7

I'm not surprised it went down. They just got back to their feet and started doing this over and over again when Seamus was able to get out of the accolade. This is where Rousseff was like, I worked first time. I'm going to expose Tina the turnbuckle. But on this occasion, Seamus actually threw Roussev into that thing, so he learnt a lesson. and when the referee went to deal with this,

5:20.8

which was the worst time to deal with this in the history of the human race, Rusef saw that damn shaleli, he was going to smack Shamus. Instead, he got brokicked right in the face, and Seamus pinned him for the Uno Dose Trez. So now Roussef, as opposed to say, well, you know, even though I had this weapon, the weapon kind of hit me a little bit, also your brokick me, you son of a bitch. Either way, though, this was fun and they have great chemistry together. I just really hope next week, because that is to go home raw for SummerSlam, they can just shout each other for a bit and really make you feel something. But I am going to give it up again. I could watch this till the cows come

6:11.2

home, but there's more we can do. El Gros de Americano was then cutting a promo in Spanish, so I guess he really must be a luchador when Dragon Lee walked in and said, excuse me, Ludwig Kaiser, he didn't say that, but come on now, you are one big phony. And I was like, excuse me, Dragon Lee, you pretend to be a dragon. Eventually, maybe Ludwig Kaiser Pye faced him, so they got into a brawl and for the useless wrestling security tried to break it up, when thankfully Lyra Valkyria found Bailey and was like, what have you done, you absolute goober? Why in the flub are we fighting for the women's tag team titles later? And Bailey was like, well, went to Adam Pearce, he always promised me that we could have a tag team title match given that I got dicked over at WrestleMania, so it's happening tonight. Now listen, at least we came up with some story here, but WrestleMania was three months ago, it's a little bit of a stretch. Well, Kiri was so damn angry about this though, which did kind of give us some and justification because she doesn't care about this, she's got a match with Becky Lynch at Hot WrestleMania. And Becky was just like, Seller Breaker at times, she just wants to win a belt. I mean, the good news is that the women's tag team titles are now being focused on for like multiple weeks in a row. Usually what happens is we do do something good, and then they fall the abyss and I have to try and find them. I tell you it never work. When we got a party match, that's what I'm going to call it now because people don't like party matches, but party matches is meant to be a good thing. You can just sit back and play Nintendo. There's also a number one contender match for the tag team titles and it was the new day, taking on the creeds, taking on the LWO is getting it down right away. We have not seen the LWO for around about 47 years. I was going to put them on a milk cart on last week and ask for the CREDs, they never win. So just go to show the lack of depth in the RAW Tag Division. Can't we pop over to Fridays and throw one of these teams on RAW? We need it. Thankfully, it was super fun though and Cruz del Toro wackyed wild. Just like, listen, we have to make a good impression here because again, we're never on TV. And then as soon as people were climbing up the rope, I've been now pushed them up. And so one on the dickboard. Dragon League then of course tried to stop this by going after the Creed because he was was on the outside as well and thankfully he didn't use his fire when of course El Grande Americana came up and they started to fight so if they don't have a match next week something has gone wrong in the void of wrestling. Then everybody started to brawl Del Toro then hit this awesome dive, 25, put a one on the counter and the new day were totally fine with this because, ha ha, we can hit our finish, which is what we are going to do. When the LWO zoomed in there, they threw Kofi Kingston out the ring, and they hit the most devastating move. In all of sports entertainment, the surprise runner on Xavier Woods, and they got the one, two, three. Now, listen, I like the LWR. I think they're very talented, but I could not believe this.

8:42.5

And the issue we have here, and I'll be wrong now, and WW will do it, is in no realm, in no universe, in no life. Do I think the LWO are going to meet the Judgment Day for the tag team titles because there has just been no build whatsoever? So once again, we just need to do more with this tag team division.

8:39.3

And I feel like we're all united on this.

8:41.5

People tell me messages.

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