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. McDonagh sets a table up in the ring as Balor crawls outside the ring.
Balor gets back in the ring and McDonagh has set the table up in the corner of the ring. Balor gets back in the ring and the two trade punches. McDonagh is taken down with an elbow drop and Balor then hits McDonagh with a chair. Balor continues to hammer down on McDonagh with a chair and then stops.
He tries to slams down McDonagh on a chair with a neckbreaker but McDonagh counters and slams Balor down on the chair and then hits a Moonsault and covers Balor for a near fall. McDonagh tries to swing Balor into the table but Balor stops himself and hits a Slingblade on McDonagh.
Balor runs at McDonagh and dropkicks him who flies into the table in the corner. Balor climbs the ropes and misses a Coup De Grace and McDonagh moves and then takes down Balor, powerbombs him and covers him for a near fall. McDonagh hits a top rope Moonsault and covers Balor who kicks out at two.
McDonagh gets another table fro, under the ring and tosses it into the ring and sets it up in the ring. McDonagh lays Balor on the table and punches him. McDonagh climbs the ropes and Balor trips him and sets him on the table and punches him.
Balor climbs the ropes and Dominik Mysterio comes out of nowhere and distracts Balor. McDonagh climbs up with Balor and hits a superplex through the table and takes a bit to get on Balor and Balor kicks out of the pin. Mysterio looks around the ring.
He gets a garbage can from under the ring and then finds another and sends them both into the ring. Mysterio and McDonagh strike Balor with the trash cans. Balor dodges a 6-1-9 and McDonagh is smoked with it. Balor knocks Mysterio out of the ring and puts McDonagh in a trash can and then hits a Coup De Grace and gets the win.
Winner: Finn Balor
Backstage With Seth Rollins
We see clips from last week’s RAW highlighting the fallout between Seth Rollins and The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins). We cut backstage and Cathy Kelley talks to Seth Rollins. Rollins says he has no allies and he’s on his own and he knows he has to put an end to The Vision.
He says the easiest way to take down Bron Breakker, Austin Theory, Logan Paul and Paul Heyman is to run right through them. Rollins says he hasn’t wrestled on RAW in nine months and Adam Pearce has given him the main event spot and he wants to fight any member of The Vision.
Rollins says he wants Breakker to take up his challenge because he wants to know who Breakker really is – is he a nepo baby? A wasted talent or is he everything he says he is. Rollins wants Breakker to show him who he really is and urges Breakker to accept the challenge.
Sol Ruca And Becky Lynch To Battle At Saturday Night’s Main Event
Oba Femi stretches backstage and his Open Challenge is up later. We get a highlight reel for Sol Ruca. We then cut backstage and Byron Saxton is with Ruca. Saxton asks Ruca about her high profile matches and asks her on her thoughts about how she’s doing.
Ruca says while she hasn’t won, she’s pretty new to all this and she’s honoured she’s gotten to face the best. Becky Lynch comes by and tells Ruca she’s a liar as she hasn’t wrestled the best and tells Ruca to leave. Ruca leaves.
Lynch is happy Ruca left and instead Ruca’s music plays and Lynch gets all worked up that Ruca is heading out to the ring. At ringside, Sol Ruca comes out to the ring. She says she’s going to cut to the chase so she’ll just do this out in the ring.
Ruca calls out Becky Lynch and tells her to put her money where her mouth is. Lynch comes out and Ruca what kind of stunt she’s trying to pull. Ruca says she knows Lynch thinks Ruca should go back to NXT, but Ruca has worked her ass off to get here and wants to fight Lynch right here, right now.
Lynch refuses. Lynch says she’s the GOAT and she prides herself on that and being a locker room leader. Lynch talks about the women who thought they were ready to face her but weren’t. Lyra Valkyria, Maxxine Dupri, AJ Lee – they all stepped up and were defeated. Lynch says Ruca isn’t ready and if she wants her she’ll fight Ruca.
But she’ll do it at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Ruca agrees and says she’ll snatch Lynch’s soul and Lynch’s title. Lynch says it won’t be a title match, and the title means prestige and Lynch is prestige. Lynch says this will be Ruca’s test to see if she’s ready and drops her mic and leaves.
Backstage With The Vision
Backstage we check in with The Vision. Breakker wants to have the match with Seth Rollins and Heyman says it’ll be Theory -vs- Rollins. Breakker asks Theory and Paul to leave and then asks Heyman what he’s doing. Heyman says he knows Breakker can beat Rollins but now he can see where Rollins will be and how he does things.
Tornado 6-Man Tag
El Grande Americano & Los Americanos (Bravo & Rayo) vs. OG El Grande Americano & Los Americanos Hermanos (Bruto & Julio)
Back to the ring we go for scheduled Tornado 6-Man tag-team action. We get the bell and all six competitors go at it. Rayo and Julio are left in the ring. Julio tosses Rayo across the ring. Rayo jumps at Julio but gets caught. Bruto gets in the ring and Rayo is tossed out of the ring.
Bravo comes in and kicks Julio out of the ring and rights Bruto. Bruto tosses Bravo and Americano gets in the ring and beats up Bruto. OG gets in the ring, and OG and Americano trade punches. OG gets Americano in an ankle lock – Rayo and Bravo break up the hold.
OG is double teamed by Los Americanos and OG fights back. Julio and Bruto come and help OG. Rayo and Bravo take out Bruto and Julio its a Moonsault out onto Rayo, Bravo and Bruto. Americano takes out Julio and OG takes everyone else out.
Back in the ring, OG hits a superplex on Bravo and Bravo kicks out at two. Americano comes in and kicks OG out of the ring. 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 things start to pick up.
Americano beats up Bruto and slams into Bruto in the corner. OG gets Americano on his shoulders and Bravo and Rayo make the save. The three beat up OG and kick him. Bravo and Rayo try to double team OG but OG clotheslines them both down and slams them both.
Bravo jumps on OG’s back and OG picks up Rayo and suplexes them both. OG tosses Americano into the corner and tries for a pin but Bravo breaks the pin. Julio superplexes Bravo, Bruto hits a moonsault and OG hits a flying headbutt onto Bravo and tries for the pin and Rayo breaks the pin.
Rayo and Americano knock Bruto out of the ring, Julio misses a strike off the top rope and this leaves OG by himself. Los Americanos and Americano put metal plates in their masks and go at OG. Bruto and Julio come in to make the save and slam them all down.
OG, Bruto and Julio Moonsault onto Bravo, Rayo and Americano and get a near fall. OG and Americano fight outside the ring and OG is tossed into the time keepers area. Bravo is slammed into using all the loaded masks. This leads to the pin and the victory for El Grande Americano and Los Americanos.
Winners: El Grande Americano & Los Americanos
Backstage With Brie Bella, Paige & Alpha Academy
Now we shift gears and shoot backstage, where we see the reigning WWE Women’s Tag-Team Champions Brie Bella and Paige ahead of their scheduled defense later in the evening. ‘WhataGuy’ from WhataBurger comes up behind them with food and he’s intercepted by Otis and Akira Tozawa. Tozawa and Otis happily take the food. And on we go.
Backstage With LA Knight & The Usos
Cathy Kelley talks to The Usos backstage. Jey says the battle between Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu for Tribal Combat will be intense. LA Knight comes in and Jimmy says they don’t want to do this right now. Knight gets in their faces and says they’re playing dirty. Jimmy tells Knight this isn’t the right time for this and they leave Knight.
Michael Cole Interviews Ethan Page
Now we see Ethan Page is interviewed backstage by Michael Cole. They talk about Page going for Penta’s Intercontinental Championship. Page says he’s destined for championship gold as it comes easy for him and people like Penta have to work hard.
Cole then goes on to ask Page why he’s so arrogant and says Page has an ego. Page says it’s pure confidence and he believes he’s the best wrestler in all of WWE. He then goes on to say that he’ll beat Penta at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships
Brie Bella & Paige (c) vs. Raquel Rodriguez & Roxanne Perez
Back to the ring we go for advertised women’s tag-team championship action. Paige and Perez start and Paige kicks Perez down and tosses her around the ring. Paige throws Perez around some more and then slams her into the corner. Paige boots Perez in the corner and Bella wants a tag but Paige ignores her.
Bella is tagged in and Perez is double teamed. Perez kicks Bella down and covers her for a one count. Rodriguez is tagged in and Bella is about to be double teamed but she kicks Perez out of the ring and kicks Rodriguez. Bella jumps at Rodriguez and gets caught.
Bella counters out but gets flattened by Rodriguez with a shoulder tackle. Perez is tagged in and Bella is double teamed. Perez slaps and Bella slaps Perez back. Bella slams into Perez against the ropes. Paige is tagged in and Rodriguez gets in the ring.
Bella kicks Rodriguez and Paige kicks Perez through the ropes. Rodriguez is knocked out of the ring and Paige goes to get Rodriguez but Rodriguez slams Paige into the ring apron. 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 Perez has Paige in a chin-lock. Paige tries to fight out of it and Perez knocks her down. Rodriguez is tagged in, and Paige is double teamed. Rodriguez slams Paige to the mat and then slams into her in the corner. Perez is tagged in and Paige takes Perez down.
Rodriguez runs in and Paige sends Rodriguez out of the ring. Bella is tagged in and she takes Perez down with some clotheslines and then kicks Rodriguez off the apron. Bella hits a neck-breaker and then tosses Perez into Rodriguez who tries to get in the ring.
Bella hits a double neckbreaker and covers Perez for a near fall. Bella kicks Perez in the corner and then Bella climbs the top rope and tries for a missile dropkick but barely connects. Morgan distracts the ref and Rodriguez takes down Bella.
Paige and Bella slam down Rodriguez and Perez then sends Paige out of the ring and attacks Bella. Perez goes for a Moonsault but Bella gets her knees up. Bella climbs the ropes and Morgan pushes Brie off as the ref has her back turned. Morgan is ejected from ringside.
Rodriguez tosses Perez a tag title belt and Perez goes to use it but Bella rolls up Perez and gets the win. After the match, Morgan attacks Bella. Rodriguez, Morgan and Perez beat up Paige and Bella until Bayley & Lyra Valkyria run down to make the save.
Winners and STILL WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: Brie Bella & Paige
Backstage With LA Knight & Seth Rollins
LA Knight comes up to Seth Rollins in the parking lot. Rollins wants to know if Knight wants to do this right now. Knight says he doesn’t like Rollins but he knows what will happen and tells Rollins that he’ll get stomped out and that Rollins will need help but Knight won’t be there to help him and Knight leaves with his suitcase.
Brock Lesnar Returns, Lays Out Oba Femi
Oba Femi walks backstage and he’s set for an Open Challenge and we cut to a commercial break. When we return, Oba Femi comes out for his Open Challenge and he gets in the ring. Brock Lesnar comes out of nowhere and hits Femi with four F-5’s and leaves Femi laid out in the ring and leaves.
We see Raw G.M. Adam Pearce is backstage and asks officials to find Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman. Pearce goes to his office and Heyman is in his office. Pearce says he’s filed retirement papers for Lesnar and asks what just happened. Heyman says Lesnar is retired and gives Pearce a contract with Lesnar’s signature on it. Heyman says Lesnar wants a rematch at Clash in Italy.
Backstage With The Street Profits & Seth Rollins
Backstage, Cathy Kelley talks to The Street Profits about their match at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Ford says they’ll come out as champions. Dawkins gets distracted by Seth Rollins and Ford says he can do what he wants but Ford isn’t going to get involved.
Dawkins walks to Rollins and tells Rollins he appreciates Rollins trying to help but he screwed things up. Rollins says he appreciates Dawkins seeing what he was trying to do but he has to focus on his match and Rollins heads towards the ring.
Seth Rollins vs. Austin Theory
It’s main event time!
We see the ring entrances, and then we see Seth Rollins jump out at Logan Paul and Austin Theory before the bell. Rollins slams Theory into the barricades around the ring and tosses Theory in the ring. The bell rings and Rollins slams down Theory and kicks him over and over again.
Rollins misses two stomp attempts and clotheslines Theory over the ropes. Rollins stalks Theory around the ring and misses another stomp. Rollins slams Theory into the steel steps and chops Theory around the exterior of the ring. Paul gets in the way allowing Theory to make an escape.
Theory attacks Rollins in the ring and tries for an Alabama Slam and Rollins counters and sends Theory into the corner with a buckle bomb. Rollins stomps Theory in the corner and Theory crawls onto the apron. Rollins kicks Theory off the apron and then tries to kick Theory.
Instead, Theory blocks it and sends Rollins’ leg into the turnbuckles. Theory pins Rollins’ ankle between the ring post and the steel steps and slams Rollins’ leg. Theory punches Rollins around the ring and Rollins punches back. Theory slams his shoulder into Rollins in the corner.
Rollins rolls out onto the apron. Rollins guillotines Theory and as the ref checks on him, Paul pulls Rollins off the apron. Theory comes out and beats up Rollins outside the ring. On that note, we shift gears and settle into a mid-match commercial break as the main event of the evening continues.
The show returns and we see Theory elbow Rollins in the leg several times. Theory tries for a suplex but Rollins counters with a Falcon Arrow. Rollins chops Theory into the corner. Rollins clotheslines Theory and Theory gets sent out onto the apron.
Theory rolls in and jumps into a sit-out powerbomb on Theory and covers him for a near fall. Rollins goes for a pedigree and Theory reverses it and strikes Rollins. Theory hits a spinning sit-out powerbomb and covers Rollins for a near fall. Theory locks Rollins in a half crab and Rollins rolls out of it.
Theory tries for a pin and Rollins kicks out. Theory hits a superkick and kicks Rollins in the face again. Theory goes to stomp Rollins but Rollins fires back with a clothesline knocking Theory to the mat. Rollins climbs the ropes and Paul pushes Rollins off the top rope behind the ref’s back.
Theory hits a stomp and covers Rollins who kicks out at two. Theory mounts Rollins and starts punching him out. Paul flashes brass knuckles to Theory and Theory puts them on. Paul distracts the ref and Theory goes to punch Rollins but Rollins superkicks him and takes the knuckles.
Paul tells the ref that Rollins has knuckles and the ref takes them away. Rollins punches Paul off the apron and Theory tries to roll up Rollins but Rollins kicks out. Rollins hits a pedigree on Theory for the victory in the May 18 Raw main event.
Once the match wrapped up, Paul and Theory attack Rollins. Angelo Dawkins runs out to make the save. Paul and Theory beat up Dawkins and Montez Ford comes out to save Dawkins. Ford beats up Theory and Paul. Ford asks Dawkins why he came to save Rollins.
Bron Breakker runs out and spears Ford. Rollins attacks Breakker and Breakker ends up spearing Rollins. Breakker, Theory & Paul place Rollins on the steel steps and attempt to smash him into the steps. Officials then run out to break them up.
As this is going on, we see Breakker continue to beat up Rollins. Adam Pearce escorts Breakker, Paul and Theory to the back as Rollins slowly gets to his feet and the end credits start to roll. Paul Heyman joins the trio at the entrance ramp and the show wraps up on that note. Thanks for joining us!
Winner: Seth Rollins
