Ups & Downs: WWE Raw Review (Jun 1)
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
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Summary
Our WWE Raw review as Simon Miller recaps:
0:00 Jacob Fatu acknowledges Roman Reigns
3:20 Oba Femi vs. Penta vs. Carmelo Hayes vs. Solo Sikoa
5:20 Sol Ruca celebration
6:18 Roman Reigns backstage
6:48 Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee vs. Ethan Page & Rusev
8:58 IYO SKY vs. Roxanne Perez vs. Giulia vs. Lash Legend
10:26 Backstage promos
12:08 Seth Rollins vs. Bron Breakker
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| 0:00.0 | So Roman Raines kicked off this week's episode of Raw with an acknowledgement ceremony. |
| 0:03.8 | So I have some homework for you today. Go and find an on Wrestling fan and say, ha ha, guess what happened on Raw last night? And tell them this and then report back to me in the comments. I promise you they're never going to talk to you again. Also, like my friends, one to ups and downs for Monday Night Raw, which went down last night, and actually I thought was a pretty good show, although a lot of it was, okay, we did that at Clash in Italy, so maybe we need to undo it a little |
| 0:24.8 | bit. And poor Jacob at two base, he got sat on by a horse. That all that means, we are going to |
| 0:29.0 | talk about it. I am Cy Meller, pro wrestling content creator and wrestler myself, also known as a |
| 0:33.2 | big buffoon. Let's up those downs for Raw. So yes, out came Roman Rains with Jimmy and Jay Uso and incident. I'm going to give it a down because it was in this moment I realized, man, we did nothing with Jimbo and Jay. After WrestleMania, they just went, okay, Roman will be your boys again. And even though there was some teasing, joined the Jacob of a two feud, well now essentially got to the end of that program and they had just right back where they were, a couple of years ago. |
| 0:55.6 | Roman didn't even have to convince them. |
| 0:57.3 | He didn't have to use, like, a men-in-black, flashy pen thingy, |
| 1:00.2 | so they forgot what happened. |
| 1:01.4 | Over the last while, they just decided, I'm so tired. |
| 1:04.8 | We will fall in love with you again, Roman Raines. |
| 1:06.7 | I just think we could have had more fun with that, so I'm giving it a down. Roman just tells me as well because he actually said the words, There's no day, like acknowledgement ceremony day, which is not a thing. You're not getting away with that one. No one's ever said that in the history of mankind, but he was annoyed, because can you believe it, Jacob 2 is late to his own acknowledgement day ceremony, when quite coincidentally out came Jacob 2. So he must have been hiding backstage. I think he had stage fright. Jacob is so damn funny as well, because after Jay was all like, yeah, man, let's get to all of this. He was like, listen, I will acknowledge you Roman Reigns, but I'm not acknowledging that idiot. I didn't lose to him in Italy when, yeah, not only did he say, I acknowledge you Roman Reigns, but he got down on one knee. I was like, man, I wouldn't have done that. He may as well have kissed the ring or kiss the Ulafala. And listen, everybody cheered for this. I was like, is this not a heel thing to do? You're making somebody in your bloodline get down on one knee and say nice things to you. I'm sorry, that is totally flubbed up. Roman then said he loved Jacob for two, which means he is still a gaslighting SOB. When Jimmy Uso grabbed the microphone, actually said, oh, locker room, we're coming for you, because we're the two's and he's the ones, and everyone did do the Roman Raines pointing thing, and of course Jacobo two thought about it, and then he did it anyway, because under contract, it says he has to. Now, once again, as we did speak about yesterday on the Clash in Italy review, surely this has to be leading somewhere with The Rock. Otherwise, I do not know why W.W go back to this unless they went, do you know what, we were very successful in 2020, in 2004, so we shall hit copy and paste. But I'm just going to be honest with you, it's not for me. |
| 2:35.1 | It's not bad. Roman Raines is flipping brilliant, and Jacobo could be the champion right now. |
| 2:39.0 | But actually, I think that does tie in. Usually you do this kind of story, because now Jacob |
| 2:42.9 | 2 is trapped in the bloodline and Roman is going to beat him up before he does leave and gets his revenge |
| 2:47.7 | on Roman. But we just did that, and we decided to go with Roman Reigns instead, which is perfectly fine. WW, we can do whatever the flub they want to do, but it's not going to get Jacob a two anymore over, because he was already at his peak, and sometimes I think when somebody reaches their peak, who should pull the trigger, well, peek's not the right word, he's going to be fine for years. I just don't want to go back to the bloodline stuff. |
| 3:41.5 | I don't. I watched it all back then. I don't need to see it again now. I think I'm just in the mood for new and fresh stuff. So while this was perfectly fine and again, they all do come across like super duper-whooper stars, giving it on down. It's not for old time. When WW did sort out the king of the ring, at least for one day, I swear that bracket It changed 42 times in the last seven minutes, but it was Oberfemi, taken on Penta, taken on Kamala Hayes, taken on Sorosakoa, and man, this was so damn good, because Oberfemi, during his entrance beat them all up and then did his pose. This is one reason I didn't want him to lose to Brock Lesnar. Just treat him like this all of the time. |
| 3:42.8 | And now it's not going to make a difference. |
| 3:41.5 | He's still going to be a main event to until my... This is one reason I didn't want him to lose to Brock Lesnar. Just treat him like this all of the time. |
| 3:59.8 | And no, it's not going to make a difference. He's still going to be a main event to until my dying day. But sometimes I just want to see a big man crush people. And my gosh, do we get that here. Somehow it wasn't even the highlight either, because damn this solo Sacoa, we have to let him do more stuff like this. At one point, he started doing the Oberfembi strut. So, Oberfemi grabbed him and basically ripped off all of his arms until actually Oberfemi did get taken out for a while, but that was never going to stop him. He returned to the ring like a zombie, and once again, he just ran through everyone. If you don't like Oberfemi, I think you have a problem. We also made sure we did the big stare-down between Tala I am the tallest Tonga and Oberfemi. I don't want to be that guy, but Talah I and the tallest Tonga could have been one of Obafemi's open surprise challenge opponents and that thing could have gone on for longer, but ultimately everybody got slammed here, even though Pentrell and Carmela Hayes were doing their best to hit some moves, when Ober decided, you, Sola, Sarkoara, you took the Mick out of my walk. He gave him the fall of grace, one, two, three. When he grabbed a microphone and went, ha, ha, Brut, you coward, you can't keep me down. Remember, we are one-on-one, and I'm going to kill you. And this was absolutely the right thing to do, and once again, Obafemi feels like the man again. |
| 4:49.0 | But I didn't think he was curious that Solo took the pin here, given that the MFTs and the bloodline stared off at the end of Clash in Italy. He's the leader of that group, so they're totally mugged off. But we'll worry about that if we do get there. I am giving it an up because once again I will say it to the cows come home. |
| 5:04.3 | Oba Femmy should probably win the king of the ring and become the world champion at SummerSlam. I am giving it an up because once again I will say it's if the cows come home, |
| 5:21.8 | Obafemmy should probably win the King of the Ring and become the world champion at SummerSlam. It's not going to happen, but we don't need to wait on ceremony, Mr Wayne, giving it up. We've then got our big video for Bronbreaker versus Seth Rollins, which isn't the main event. I was like, shouldn't have WW promoted that a little bit more? I know they talked about it last week when in the background we saw Maxine Dupree and Austin Theory having a chat, so eventually I imagine Maxine is going to join the vision. I wouldn't do it. It's cursed. When it was right into, let's celebrate the fact that Sol Ruka is the Intercontinental Champion, which is slightly different from an acknowledgement day ceremony. But actually, WW kept this nice and simple, Soul came out, she said, man, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you fans for supporting me. I know we could do it. And isn't it great, I beat Becky Lynch because she keeps telling us she is the best, which means now I must be the best. She also promised to be a fighting champion, and I think a lot of wrestlers need to stop saying that because it is becoming a bit overplayed. |
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