The road to WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event and WWE Clash In Italy continues tonight.
Live at 8/7c on Netflix from Greensboro, North Carolina, is the May 18, 2026 episode of WWE Raw.
An Angry Roman Reigns Arrives
We see the usual video intro, previous week highlight recap package and Superstar arrival opening, with commentary welcoming us to the show. Once we settle in, a1 black SUV drives into the arena. An angry WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns steps out.
WWE Raw General Manager Adam Pearce stops him. If Reigns had just listened to him last week, none of this would have happened. Fatu should be fired because he doesn’t deserve to be here. They’re going to do things Pearce’s way. Reigns asks what he wants him to say because it doesn’t matter.
Jacob Fatu Kicks Things Off
Reigns just needs a few minutes because he’s calling him out. All of a sudden, we hear Jacob Fatu’s music hit. Pearce and Reigns are irate. Out comes “The Samoan Werewolf” to kick off this week’s show. Fatu has four of his fingers on his right hand taped up to emphasize his Tongan Death Grip.
Fatu tells Reigns to come out right now as he’s calling Reigns out. The Usos (Jimmy & Jey) come out first. Jey has a chair in hand and Jimmy is telling Jey to calm down. Jimmy has a mic and tells Jey to let him talk to Fatu first. The Usos get in the ring and Jimmy asks Fatu what he’s doing.
Jimmy says Fatu says he wants the best for his family and the deal was if Fatu lost at Backlash he’d acknowledge Reigns and now instead, management wants to fire Fatu. Jimmy asks if Fatu is wanting to go back to the bad life and be back in prison. Jey goes to smack Fatu with the chair but Fatu gets to Jey first.
Fatu locks Jimmy in the Tongan Death Grip and Jey hits Fatu with a chair and Fatu doesn’t flinch. Fatu puts Jey in the Tongan Death Grip and drops him. Reigns’ music hits and he comes out to the ring and The Usos are pushed out of the ring by Fatu. Reigns gets in the ring and Fatu tells Reigns to come get him.
Reigns and Fatu trade punches and Reigns kicks Fatu into the corner. Reigns runs at Fatu to deliver a Superman Punch but Fatu catches Reigns and gets him in the Tongan Death Grip. The Usos superkick Fatu, and then hit him with a spear and Uso Splash. Fatu then gets 1-D’d by The Usos.
Fatu gets back up and The Usos tie Fatu up in the ropes. Reigns then hits a Superman Punch on Fatu, then The Usos superkick him, Reigns hits another Superman Punch and Fatu gets superkicked again. Fatu is set free and The Usos send Fatu into Reigns who spears Fatu.
Fatu is left motionless in the ring and the trio leave the ring. Adam Pearce comes out and meets Reigns and The Usos as they’re leaving. Reigns tells Adam Pearce to do whatever he wants now. He says he can fire Fatu for all Reigns cares at this point.
With that in mind, we see Fatu get on the microphone as he’s laid out. He tells Reigns he challenges him to a Tribal Combat match. Pearce tells Reigns to stay back. Reigns takes the mic out of Pearce’s hands and says he accepts. It appears it’s on. That’s how the explosive opener wraps up.
Street Fight
Finn Balor vs. JD McDonagh
Now it’s time for our first match of the evening. Kicking things off will be a Street Fight between former tag-team champions and Judgment Day members, as Finn Balor goes one-on-one against JD McDonagh. Following the respective ring entrances, the bell sounds and off we go.
Balor charges McDonagh and trips him. McDonagh is then knocked over the top rope and Balor heads out and slams McDonagh into the barricades. McDonagh is then sent shoulder first into the steel steps and Balor pulls some Kendo stick from under the ring and tosses them in the ring.
Balor gets some chairs in the ring and then smokes McDonagh with a chair. Back in the ring, McDonagh strikes Balor with a Kendo stick. McDonagh sets a chair in the turnbuckles and Balor then hits McDonagh with a Kendo stick. McDonagh hits a Russian Leg Sweep and Balor rolls to the corner.
McDonagh chokes Balor in the corner with a Kendo stick. Balor sneaks under McDonagh and then sends him across the ring into the chair McDonagh set on the opposite turnbuckle. Balor gets a table out from under the ring and McDonagh comes out of nowhere with a suicide dive flattening Balor on the outside.
Balor is send into the time keeper’s area and knocks Balor in the head with Alicia Taylor’s mic. The two battle into the crowd and Balor slams McDonagh’s head into an equipment crate. McDonagh slams Balor into the crate and McDonagh climbs a couple levels up and moonsaults off another crate onto Balor down.
On that note, the show shifts gears and settles into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues. When the show returns, we see the action still in progress, with things starting to quickly pick up.
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