WWE Raw rolls into the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California as it continues down the road to Bad Blood.
Drive on for our preview of this week’s WWE Raw.
WWE Raw Match Card (9/23/24)
- WWE Intercontinental Championship: Bron Breakker vs. Jey Uso
- Sami Zayn vs. Ludwig Kaiser
- Drew McIntyre Promo
Can Uso Win WWE Intercontinental Championship
WWE Raw continues to benefit from the strategy of slimmed-down cards on Premium Live Events. The meaty offering of Bron Breakker defending the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Jey Uso, hungry for his first singles WWE title, is good enough for any PLE.
Besides Uso winning an excellent three-week No.1 contenders tournament, there’s a lovely backstory behind this match that will surely headline WWE Raw.
29 years ago, Uso and Breakker’s fathers met at WrestleMania IX. Rick and Scott Steiner defeated Samu and Fatu in Las Vegas. Rick Steiner went on to father Breakker who in just six months on WWE Raw has claimed the Intercontinental Championship.
Fatu became Rikishi who became papa to Jey Uso. Uso has been with WWE for 14 years but never held a single title. An intense promo between the two, last week, whetted the appetite for the match.
Fun fact.
Their dads battled each other in tag team action at WrestleMania IX.
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Zayn vs. Kaiser
Some things are made to go together and last. Milk and cookies, Barbie and Ken, peanut butter and jelly, and Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser.
Bitter that his friendships are more Batman and The Joker, Sami Zayn tried to drive a wedge between Gunther and Kaiser. But much like Zayn and Kevin Owens, or Zayn and The Bloodline, it didn’t work.
Zayn’s attempt to talk his way into a World Heavyweight Championship match against Gunther also hasn’t worked. This week, he battles Kaiser one on one.
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— WWE (@WWE) September 17, 2024
Is McIntyre Prepared To Die?
CM Punk confirmed a hunch that he doesn’t engage with his former employer AEW’s content when he copied a quote directly from one of its biggest stars. Inadvertently borrowing a line from Toni Storm, Punk asked Drew McIntyre if he was ‘prepared to die?’ when they meet in Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood.
This week, expect McIntyre’s response. Perhaps he’ll attack Punk with a high-heeled shoe in the style of Storm’s nemesis Mariah May.
Anything Else?
WWE Raw is still three hours long so we’ll get a lot more than the advertised above. Natalya has been on a winning streak for the past two weeks at the expense of the Pure Fusion Collective. Zoey Stark lost last week, so one of the other two in the Collective might step up this week.
Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods will continue their journey towards an eventual explosion. The Judgement Day and the Terror Twins will continue building towards their Bad Blood matches.
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