Post WWE Raw 2/24/2025 Show Discussion Thread

Venue: Heritage Bank Center (Cincinnati, OH)

Attendance: ~11,600

Winner Loser Match Finish Stipulation
Ludwig Kaiser Pete Dunne and Penta Inverse DDT
The New Day LWO Lights Out
Lyra Valkyria (c) Dakota Kai Nightwing For the Women's Intercontinental Championship
Bron Breakker Dominik w/ Judgement Day DQ when Judgement Day attacks Bron Breakker
Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez w/ Dominik Bianca Belair and Naomi (c) Liv Pinfall after Raquel bounces Naomi's head off the top of the ringpost For the Women's Tag Team Championships

  • Kick-off with Logan Paul making his way down to the ring, he says he has a story for the crowd, he was flying in on his bird today and saw grey dirty Cincinnati and was about to tell his pilot to pivot and bring him home to Cleveland instead, but he decided he is so humble that he will perform in front of these peasants. Logan says this city wastes talent unlike him who beat Rey Mysterio 3 weeks ago to punch his ticket to the Elimination Chamber where he vows to beat 4 doorknobs and John Cena to set his path to Wrestlemania. CM Punk makes his way out and confronts Logan in the middle of the ring where Logan asks what the fans and Punk's problem with him is thinks Punk is jealous of him. Logan says he succeeds at everything outside of this ring while Punk's career is a series of failing upwards. Punk tells Logan he doesn't have a problem with him, he doesn't know him well enough and the Elimination Chamber is just business. But what he's seen of him, he's a dime a dozen dumb kid who does ignorant and stupid things for a reaction who things he's a gift but these people deserve better. Logan blows him off and says if this is just business then the truth is Punk came back and snapped under the presser and tore his tri-cep, that is why he's here, Punk is familiar to these people and just like Austin and Cena that name will change and now that Logan is a full timer soon it will be his name being chanted. The crowd chants for CM Punk, Punk asks if we should give them some time to wait. Punk says Logan was wrong about a lot of things but he is right that the names change, however the names he listed are legends who made history under the pressure Logan claimed he cracked under. Punk says that Logan is less than a flash in the pan who won't be around long enough for anyone to remember him. He vows to eliminate Paul at the Elimination Chamber before moving on to make history at Wrestlemania. Punk says he doesn't care if Cody thinks he has to sell his soul to beat him because he already knows what Logan will find out on Saturday, that he is Satan himself and Logan Paul is nobody. The two square up to each other until Logan slaps Punk and quickly rolls out of the ring while mocking him as he backs up the ramp. Punk tells Logan to run while he can because on Saturday it isn't just a ring, he'll be trapped in a cage with him and know why they chant his name.

  • Rhea Ripley is interviewed out in the crowd, Rhea says she'll have an eye on the Chamber but her full focus is on Iyo Sky next week. She has never beaten her and if she wants to walk into Wrestlemania as champion then she'll have to do something she's never done before. However Rhea says it's been 5 years since she's faced Iyo and in that time she has become the most dominant woman in WWE, defeating the likes of Becky Lynch, Charlottle, and Liv Morgan and next week Iyo's name will be added to the list. Iyo Sky approaches and tells Rhea she will beat her against next week and go into Wrestlemania as Women's World Champion.

  • Following their victory, the New Day continue to beat down the LWO until Dragon Lee runs in to make the save. He fends off Woods and Kofi but Kofi is able to distract Lee and the two double team Lee with a double power bomb.

  • In the Clubhouse Finn tells Dom that he's sick of it, last week was the most embarassing day in the history of the Judgement Day and it was all because of Dom trying to take the lead. Dom says that Finn also lost his qualifier and they should really think about adding someone else. Finn shoots him down and says it's his decision anyways. Liv and Raquel walk in and says they need to focus on the Chamber this weekend and their tag title match tonight but Finn says it's Liv and Raquel's own fault for bringing more trouble to them with the Jade stunt. Liv says she doesn't even care about what happens to Jade but they are still taking the tag titles tonight.

  • Former TNA Tag Team Champion Pac-Man Jones is in the crowd, this is important.

  • GUNTHER says it is clear the crowd can not contain their excitement because he will be in action tonight. Before he gets to that he has to address Wrestlemania. When Jey first picked him he was angry, but as more time goes by he is accepting it because it will give him a chance to embarrass him on the grandest stage and end this Yeet circus once and for all. GUNTHER says he was in the Wrestlemania spirit and went to Adam Pearce and to give him some competition tonight, namely from someone he hasn't faced before and GUNTHER chose Akira Tozawa. Tozawa enters the ring and GUNTHER explains he picked him because he saw him doing some TikTok dance with those two clowns as he walked in today. GUNTHER says they have a bit in common, they both uprooted their lives and got into the best shape of their lives for a chance at greatness but Tozawa wasted it all to entertain these generate goofs. Just like Pat McAfee said last week some things can happen on any given night and Tozawa has the chance to earn his respect. GUNTHER pie faces Tozawa and shoves him into the corner as he challenges him to earn his respect before Tozawa explodes out of the corner attacking GUNTHER to start the match. After the match GUNTHER locks in the sleeper again until Otis storms into the ring and knocks him away. GUNTHER measures up Otis who begins to vibrate and charges at GUNTHER but GUNTHER ducks out of the ring. Maxxine and Otis check on Tozawa as GUNTHER ambushes Otis and locks him in a sleeper as well. Jey Uso runs in to make the save and GUNTHER decides to back away as Jey challenges him.

  • Ivy Nile attacks Dakota Kai on the ramp as she is leaving following her match before rushing to the ring where she ambushes a celebrating Lyra Valkyria, laying her out with a flatliner and holding up the Women's Intercontinental Championship.

  • The Judgement Day gang up on Bron Breakker during his match with Dominik and proceed to beat him down after the match but Bron is able to throw Finn to the outside before Spearing Carlito.

  • The Creed Brothers are hyping up Ivy after her attack on Lyra. Ivy is interviewed and says they are fulling Master Gable's request as he goes on his quest to learn the secrets of lucha libre. She says the Creed Brothers are getting another shot at the tag titles next week and she will continue to hunt Lyra until she gets her Intercontinental Title match. The War Raiders appear behind the Creed brothers and the four brawl until officials split them up.

  • WWE Champion Cody Rhodes comes down to the ring and says to Cincinnati that he's pretty sure he knows what they have to talk about. Cody says it can be hard to understand what it means to offer someone your soul but he knows what The Rock wants from him. Cody says that it's good guy 101 to be completely truthful and says this decision does not impact him alone, it affects him, his wife Brandi, Liberty, little Brodie, two nephews breaking into the industry, and the memory of his father who worked into his 60s on the independents and doesn't want his sacrifice to mirror his future. Everything he fought and clawed for The Rock is promising without the need to scratch and claw for it any longer. Seth Rollins comes out to interrupt, he says this is the first time they've been in a ring together since Wrestlemania 40 and he'd love for this to be a moment of celebration and to tell him how proud he has been of Cody's reign over the past year and how he'll be facing him this year at Wrestlemania, but that's not why he's out there. He is out here to ask Cody what the hell is he thinking? A year ago they stood side by side against the Bloodline and The Rock and now he's back and asking Cody to be his champion and sell his soul? Seth says the fact that Cody didn't smack him on the spot is a smack in his face and tells him not to throw away everything that Seth sacrificed last year. Seth asks what will Cody get? A bit part in one of Rock's movies? A few of his social media followers? Or is the pressure of being champ getting to him already because it wouldn't have gotten to him. Cody says Seth is awfully judgement for someone who was never even given this offer but maybe because his soul is already corrupted. Seth shook Cody's hand when he was injured, only to hit him with a sledgehammer. Seth was the one who destroyed the Shield and joined the Authority leading to Cody and dozens of others to leave this company. However at Wrestlemania 40 Seth was his shield and stood by him as his brother to help him realize not only his dream but the dream of his entire family. Seth says his mistakes eat at him and his hate has been pointed at the right directions like Roman and CM Punk but he doesn't want to hate Cody. At Wrestlemania Seth doesn't want to face the shell of Cody Rhodes, he wants to face the Cody Rhodes he fought when he returned 3 years ago, the one who he went to battle with when he was injured at Hell in a Cell, the Cody he helped become champion last year. Seth says that he isn't coming for Cody's soul, but he is coming for his title.

  • Tozawa is being checked out in the trainers room when Jey Uso goes to tell him that he earned his respect tonight and he's got some real heart. Jey leaves the trainers room when Waller and Theory approach him and Waller says it seems all of Jey's friends keep needing ice packs and soon enough he won't have many friends left around. Waller says Jey is nothing but a meme but Jey just yeets. Jey says he's sick of it, people keep doubting him, feels like half the damn world is against him but he knows he can do it and yeets, Theory also starts to yeet as well and Grayson berates him for it but is hit by a superkick from Jey.

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