WWE Raw results, live blog (July 8, 2024): Money in the Bank fallout

WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (July 8, 2024) from the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, featuring all the fallout from the Money in the Bank premium live event that went down this past Saturday night in Toronto.

Advertised for tonight: Damian Priest is still your world heavyweight champion and a match with GUNTHER looms large. Liv Morgan & Dominik Mysterio team up for the first time against Rey Mysterio & Zelina Vega. Elsewhere, Jey Uso takes on Chad Gable, Braun Strowman teams with Awesome Truth to battle The Judgment Day, and Lyra Valkyria links up with Katana Chance & Kayden Carter to duke it out with Damage CTRL. Plus, a whole lot more!

Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the Raw live blog will kick off once the show starts on USA Network. It will be below this line here. Reminder: GIFs and pics allowed, but no links to illegal streams, please.

WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR JULY 8

Rich boy on his hoard of milk and honey, kneeling at the altar of inherited money and all the marks are in it to win it but he’s selling yesterday’s lottery tickets. Me, though? I’m just here to liveblog this pro wrestling show for you folks.

The show opens with a recap of Money in the Bank from Saturday.

We see Damian Priest, still World Heavyweight Champion, walking backstage.

CM Punk makes his entrance, a smile on his face and a spring in his step as he gladhands fans on the ramp.

He gets in the ring and on the mic and begins, saying it’s been a long time since he’s been in Ottawa and it’s great to be here. He’s got a lot to get off his chest, but the first thing he wants to do is recognize someone he’s shared a lot of hours in the ring, someone he once insulted very deeply by calling him the New York Yankees.

He congratulates John Cena on his retirement and says he doesn’t know what the future holds but he’d love to lace up with him one more time. But Cena’s not here and he is, and there’s another guy who isn’t here, and his name is Drew McIntyre. Part of Punk wanted to check under the ring but million dollar body and ten cent brain got himself suspended.

And he’s got the footage if you don’t know what he’s talking about, and it rolls of Drew McIntyre interrupting the post-show panel at Money in the Bank, shoving referees, and knocking Raw general manager Adam Pearce back with an elbow before Wade Barrett holds him back from further violence.

CM says he came back to get his hands on Drew and he’s been trying to teach him the simple lesson that there are consequences to your actions. You should not be shocked when you pick a fight with CM Punk and he fights back. There are consequences to your actions, and CM Punk is the consequence to all of those actions.

He recounts all the times he played spoiler to McIntyre over the last several months and his promise that as long as there’s air in his lungs, Drew will never be world champion again. He wants to put hands on McIntyre and he can’t do that if he’s suspended. Punk admits that he got fined $25,000 for his actions and asks Jack Tunney or Adam Pearce or whoever if he can please lift Drew’s suspension so they can fight.

Enter Seth Rollins.

CM Punk hops on the commentary desk since Seth’s entrance is going to take a while and borrows Pat McAfee’s headset and asks what Michael Cole thought he was doing calling him his government name at Money in the Bank and they go back and forth about his actions.

Rollins asks him to come into the ring, unless he’s afraid of having his ass kicked. Punk says he’s not sure if Seth remembers the last time they shared a ring but he told him he wouldn’t take further disrespect so watch his mouth. Rollins says he wouldn’t disrespect him, he’s just trying to understand why actions having consequences applies to everyone in Punk’s life except for him.

Seth talks about how he understood Drew cashing Money in the Bank in but he doesn’t know why CM did the one thing he told him not to do when he came back by sticking his nose in Seth Rollins business. Punk says he didn’t stick his nose in Seth’s business, he was handling his own business and he’d hope that Rollins being a husband and dad himself would understand.

Rollins bristles and Punk says yeah it doesn’t feel good and a man is walking around with a bracelet with his wife’s name and his dog’s name on it and it may be cheap but it means something damnit. He hears it, he has no quarrel with Seth and if he screwed things up for his little pipe dream, legitimately, he’s trying to apologize…

Seth tells him to spit it out and CM says he’s sorry, he apologizes, he never meant to screw anything up for him and he’s snowblind with rage now and he gets that Seth is also focused but he’s sorry… except that since it’s Rollins he can’t be that sorry, can he? Seth says he always has an excuse, Punk says he always has an answer, and Rollins accuses him of being a serial gaslighter, the king of propaganda.

And the dumbest smart dude he’s ever met in his entire life. He’s got most of it figured out except the one thing that would make him the hero he thinks he is. He hasn’t figured out that the world doesn’t revolve around CM Punk. He can be selfish and burn bridges anywhere else and he’ll let it slide because he’s above him, and not just because of the heels.

He was willing to let it slide, except Saturday, because if it weren’t for Punk he’d be world champion. He doesn’t care about collateral damage, well that’s not happening on his watch, and he won’t take a cheap shot because his body isn’t 100%, but when CM is cleared, he won’t even be able to say “Drew McIntyre” before Rollins snaps his arm and puts him back on the shelf.

Actions have consequences.

Adam Pearce is backstage apologizing to Dominik Mysterio for not getting to him and he asks what the problem is. Dom doesn’t want to tag with Liv Morgan, but Pearce says she said he’d want it and his dad and Zelina Vega agreed to it. Mysterio complains but Adam says the match is signed and happening, happy Monday.

Liv Morgan rolls up and says she’s doing this for Dominik. She felt bad about last week so she wants him to see who the real daddy of the Mysterio family is. He begrudgingly accepts and says they better win and there better be nuggies.

“Main Event” Jey Uso makes his entrance and we go to break.

Chad Gable vs. “Main Event” Jey Uso

Uso with a wristlock, Gable rolling through, headlock to a drop toehold, paintbrushing the back of Jey’s head. Block a kick, right hands from Uso, waistlock takedown from Chad, crossface strikes, whip across, hip toss blocked, jockeying for position, finally Uso hip tosses him over the ropes and to the floor!

Suicide dive caught into a belly-to-belly suplex on the floor and we go to break!

Back from commercial, off the ropes, Gable hoists him up, crucifix lift dropped into a DDT, diving headbutt connects, Jey throws him to the floor, and wipes him out with a suicide dive! Back inside, diving crossbody for two! Right hands, taking his shirt off, leg-feed 540 roundhouse kick!

Gable on the comeback, ankle lock, the lights start going down stepwise, Chad distracted…

“Main Event” Jey Uso wins by pinfall with a spear.

Post-match Uso sees the way the wind is blowing and hightails it up the ramp post-haste!

Lights down, fireflies out, mist fills the ring and smothers a prone Gable as he strugles to wake up and sits up. The masked woman appears at the commentary end of the ring and Chad leaves up the ramp and books it while she stands there and slowly turns around, holding yet another box.

She gives her box to Pat McAfee and the screen goes dark.

Sheamus is interviewed backstage.

He says all these young thundercats think they can take shortcuts but it takes years to put on banger— “Big” Bronson Reed interrupts to ask why they’re not talking about him, who is the future, instead of Sheamus, who is stuck in the past. Sheamus calls him a crybaby and says he must know what comes next when you rudely interrupt him, and he wants to settle it in the ring.

Bronson says he’ll fight him any time, just not tonight. First he needs to witness what he does to his mate Pete Dunne.

And we need to go to break.

Back from commercial, Pat McAfee pulls out our third “PLAY ME” VHS tape and passes it to production.

“Big” Bronson Reed vs. Pete Dunne

Collar and elbow, Reed shoves him down, Dunne passes him to the floor, plancha elbow into a moonsault off the apron! Asai moonsault takes Bronson off his feet and we go to break!

Back from commercial, Reed in control but Pete hammers him with overhand chops, running enzuigiri, all for nothing as Bronson wipes him out with a lariat! Dunne rolls away from a senton, stomp the hands, buzzsaw roundhouse kick, corner enzuigiri, another one, double stomp to the arm! Running knee, cover, only two!

Bicep stomp, Reed passes him into the corner and shrugs off kicks for a buckle bomb! Revolution Liger Bomb… NOT ENOUGH! Up top, Pete works the fingers but Bronson trips him up…

Bronson Reed wins by pinfall with the 747 Splash.

Post-match, Reed looks like he’s going for another splash but Sheamus makes the save and they brawl! A Brogue Kick sends Bronson to the floor! Sheamus tries to hug Pete but he’s not having it!

We see Sami Zayn shaking hands backstage and we go to break.