WWE Raw 1/5/26 Review | TWO TITLE CHANGES On A LIFELESS Stranger Things Episode
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Solomonster reviews the first WWE Raw of 2026 with CM Punk defending his World Heavyweight Championship against Bron Breakker and TWO title changes on the show, which also set up a major match for Germany next week. Yet this was a perfect example of one of those WWE shows where things happen, but it largely feels lifeless and boring. An oh yeah, Je'Von Evans was announced as the newest addition to the Raw roster... during a commercial break.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 2006. |
| 0:02.4 | Tonight, |
| 0:03.7 | W.W.E was in my backyard. |
| 0:06.9 | They were in New York. |
| 0:08.7 | New York. |
| 0:10.0 | They're a home base. |
| 0:11.6 | If you can't get over in New York, |
| 0:14.4 | probably not going to happen. |
| 0:15.8 | But if you do get over in New York, |
| 0:17.8 | especially with this audience, |
| 0:19.1 | you've done something right. |
| 0:21.7 | WWE did not do hardly anything right tonight. |
| 0:24.8 | Tonight, the big promotion was Stranger Things, because of course we have to have the |
| 0:28.9 | Netflix tie in here to the new season. |
| 0:31.6 | So it was a Stranger Things edition. |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, it was a very strange episode of Raw. |
| 0:36.7 | Yes, that is the case. It certainly was. This entire show felt like it was in the upside down. But that's what it was. It was the Stranger Things episode of Monday Night Raw here for the first Raw of the new year. And, you know, it's one of these things where you're going to hear from a lot of people who are going to be very upset because they thought that Chris Jericho was going to be on the show tonight and he wasn't there. |
| 1:03.3 | And damn it, it ruined the entire show for them. |
| 1:07.0 | And to be fair, WWE has really nobody to blame but themselves when you have Adam Pierce posting on social media this weekend. |
| 1:15.5 | A video hyping up the show tonight where he says, |
| 1:18.2 | we're going to break the walls down on Raw with three huge championship matches. |
| 1:23.6 | Like, yeah, I don't know. |
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