WWE Monday Night Raw is live tonight (Apr. 20, 2026) from the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, and tonight’s show is all about the fallout from WrestleMania 42!
Advertised for tonight: It’s the Raw after WrestleMania, baby, and that means it’s wild and woolly and anything can happen, probably! Get ready with our preview here!
Come right back here back at the normal start time of 8 pm ET. That’s when the Raw live blog will kick off in the space below once the show starts on Netflix.
WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR APR. 20
In the common place between hunger and thirst, the words that define us a blessing and curse. The words that confine the ideas traversed the ear to hear the song without verse, the sound of the sound of the sound, utter first, then burst into nothing so sudden and soft, but me? I’m just here to liveblog this here pro wrestling show for you, folks.
The show opens with a recap of WrestleMania 42.
Drone footage of Las Vegas follows while commentary welcomes us to the show and hypes up tonight’s festivities.
The usual montage of talent arriving at the arena follows.
Oba Femi makes his entrance and gets on the mic.
He holds for a long beat before simply saying the Ruler has arrived and dropping the mic to soak in the adoration of the people.
Kabuki Warriors get a video promo where Asuka berates IYO SKY for choosing Rhea Ripley over her family and says she’ll always be her sempai and asks what IYO is now that Rhea is champion again? Kairi Sane says last week, she beat SKY, and this week, they’ll beat RHIYO together.
RHIYO make their entrance to send us to break.
Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) vs. RHIYO (IYO SKY & Rhea Ripley)
SKY and Sane to start, collar and elbow, struggling, into the ropes, referee Eddie Orengo counts the break and Kairi gets right in there with a shove! Wristlock, reversed, Kairi with a handful of hair and a hair pull mat slam! Throwing her across the ring, IYO with a handspring evasion, front kick, arm wringer, whip reversed, SKY back body drops her to the apron, Sane with a shoulder block, up and over!
Taunting Rhea and IYO, Sane sidesteps, off the ropes, duck a lariat, front kick, tijeras, basement dropkick, fired up, SKY with a schoolboy for two! Elbow from Kairi, up for an Alabama Slam, IYO counters, delayed butterfly backbreaker! Tag to Ripley, double-team for a nearfall, Asuka tags in, strike rush on Rhea, off the ropes, sliding knee gets an enzuigiri, cover for two!
Asuka distracts Orengo, Sane runs interference, Empress with a cheap shot, Kairi dives an elbow to the floor and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Kabukis working Ripley over, Rhea lands a kick on Sane, the path is clear, crawling, desperate, tags made! SKY ducks a lariat, back elbow, Shotei, another Shotei, shoved off, boot up, Kairi rolls back in and IYO uses her to kick Asuka! Duck under, off the ropes, handsprings, double dropkick, kip-up, handspring, SKY fired up!
Kabukis down and out, double knees corner to corner, buzzsaw roundhouse to Asuka, cover… NOPE! Ripley tags in, Razor’s Edge connects, missile dropkick from IYO, cover… KAIRI SANE BREAKS IT UP! Asuka floats over, clear the apron, Codebreaker, Sane tags in, blockbuster connects, Total Elimination… SKY BREAKS IT UP!
IYO with an assisted dive to take Asuka out on the floor, Rhea headbutts Kairi, tag to SKY, Riptide connects, IYO perches…
RHIYO win by pinfall with the diving moonsault from IYO SKY on Kairi Sane.
Post-match, Asuka berates a largely unconscious Kairi Sane on the floor.
We get a media hype reel recap of WrestleMania 42.
Backstage, general manager Adam Pearce congratulates Penta on retaining his title and Je’Von Evans rolls up to shake hands.
He congratulates Penta but he wants to be real, he came close to being champion and he’s not going anywhere. Zero says his title isn’t going anywhere because he’s Penta el Zero M.
“All Ego” Ethan Page rolls up and Pearce introduces him as Raw’s newest superstar.
Page says he always gets what he wants and he wants the Intercontinental Championship, but the difference between them is he won’t need a second chance. They bicker, and Pearce books a match between them tonight. Evans tells All Ego nobody’s taking his spot, especially not him.
Adam welcomes Je’Von to Raw and they shake hands to send us to break.
Back from commercial, we see this year’s Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in Memory of Andre the Giant winner Royce Keys in the crowd.
The camera follows CM Punk from the back, through Gorilla, and to making his entrance and getting on the mic.
He says he’s been dealing with loss since about October, when he got a call that his MMA trainer Duke Roufus had passed, and then his dog Larry died, and it seems like every two weeks since then he’s lost somebody, camera operators, hair and makeup people, truck drivers, everybody who makes this place a well-oiled machine.
His job is easy, but these men and women grind day in, day out, away from their families, and so last night he had to show some respect on his jacket. And unfortunately most recently his pal Bo passed, and he lost last night. All the aforementioned losses sting a little more than losing the title and the thing is every week he came here and we helped him cathartically heal and get through these losses.
Being heavyweight champion gave him an anchor and reason to not just slow down and reduce himself to a puddle of tears every day, even when he wanted to, and he just wanted to come out and thank us for helping him process his grief, and something tells him we’ll help him get through his loss from last night, too.
Hell, he wasn’t even supposed to be world champion, having survived GUNTHER and then being cashed in on by Seth Rollins, and something inside him had the thought that at his age, three minutes as world champion? Not bad! He could have stayed at home with his hot wife and watched television, but he stayed here and stayed ready, and an opportunity arose for him to be champion and if he hadn’t stayed ready you’d be here yeeting with Jey Uso instead.
So he stayed ready because he never knows when a title match is gonna fall out of the sky, but he’s smiling and he’s got a skip in his step because he’s still the Best in the World, the baddest ass, and he had a dream as a little kid and he proved it on the Grandest Stage of Them All, it just wasn’t his night.
He’s not gonna go sulk, he’s not going on vacation, but he’s gonna stay ready because you never know when a title match is gonna fall out of the sky.
Enter “American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, title under his arm, a limp in his step, and an absolutely grody black eye on his left side and several lacerations superglued together above it.
Punk takes a real close look at that colossal shiner when Cody gets in the ring because c’mon how could you do anything but?
He asks if he screwed up and went over his time because he was leaving– Rhodes tells him this is his show and his time and maybe he assumed wrong and this isn’t what he expected, but… CM asks if Cody thought he was gonna freak out or crash out, and Rhodes says yeah, he kinda did. He knows how Punk likes to handle things, but he’s here buttoned up and he’s glad Vegas gave him the flowers he deserves, always.
Cody admits he feels like a loser today and Punk asks if HE should feel like a loser and says maybe to some people he looks like a loser with his marshmallow on a stick tattoo, but he doesn’t feel like on. CM says Rhodes feels the way he does because he beat a friend and a mentor and that’s a real challenge.
He hates the guy he lost to but that makes it easy for him! Maybe he is a loser, but the path is clear for Cody and heavy lies the head that wears the crown, but he needs to keep winning and keep being champion while Punk just needs to stay ready because you never know… when a championship opportunity is just gonna fall out of the sky, pointed stare at the title in Cody’s hands.
Punk leaves and Rhodes calls him back and tells him to just say when.
We get a promo video from Finn Balor where he talks about the Demon putting Dominik Mysterio down last night and he’s not finished with Judgment Day. He expected this kind of betrayal from Dom, but he remembers when JD was just a kid who walked into a gym in Ireland and he’s helped him grow into one of the greatest performers on Earth.
And in Judgment Day, when he needed someone who he would know would have his back under any circumstances, it could only be JD, and then he stabbed him in the back. So it’s full circle tonight, because he brought JD McDonagh into the business, and he’ll take him out.
“All Ego” Ethan Page makes his entrance to send us to break.
“All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Je’Von Evans
Page in control early, headpats, off the ropes, drop down, go-behind, Evans with a schoolboy for two! Backflip evasion, up and over, Matrix Evasion, jumping Ace Crusher sends Ethan staggered into the corner! Cheap shot out of the corner, grounded punches, overhead elbow, big backbreaker connects!
Evans with jabs, off the ropes, Page ducks under, right hand, off the ropes, back elbow, cover for two! All Ego grabs a reverse chinlock, Je’Von stands up and rams him into the corner, back suplex, lands on his feet, big dropkick sends Page into the ropes! Arabian Press tijeras connects, Evans fired up, off the ropes, big tope con giro connects and he celebrates in the crowd as we go to break!
Back from commercial, Evans with strikes, putting Page into the corner for a buzzsaw kick, springboard crossbody, cover for two! All Ego with a cross-arm Iconoclasm, pulling Je’Von up after into a powerslam… NO DEAL! Out to the floor, kick off the apron from Evans, Ethan ducks a moonsault but Je’Von manages to put him into the post and then superkicks him into the announce desk but Rusev blindsides him from the timekeeper’s area!
Evans nails him with a kick and then a body splash over the barricade, back inside to beat the count, springboard but Page trips him up and catches him…
“All Ego” Ethan Page wins by pinfall with Twisted Grin.
Post-match, Rusev attacks Evans and Page takes his leave. As the Redeemer puts him in the Accolade…
PENTA MAKES THE SAVE! In with kicks, superkick blocked, duck the lariat, superkick connects! Zero heads up top but Ethan Page is back and knocks him off the turnbuckles and into a Machka Kick! All Ego gives Rusev a round of applause from the apron before backing off so the Bulgarian Lion can lock Penta in the Accolade!
He lets go and puts the title on his shoulder.
We get an ad for the Netflix documentary about noted racist Hulk Hogan.
Judgment Day are shown walking backstage to send us to break.
We see Paige, Brie Bella, and Nikki Bella in the crowd.
Liv Morgan makes her entrance, flanked by the rest of Judgment Day.
“You deserve it!” chants rain down before Liv begins speaking, doing her usual schtick putting herself over. But before she gets to really celebrating, there’s a few people she wants to thank. First off her Judgment Day family, who have been her rock and she wouldn’t be where she is today without them.
Secondly, this one might surprise you, but believe it or not she’d like to thank Stephanie Vaquer. They beat the hell out of each other but she reminded Liv of a feeling she hasn’t felt in a long time, of who she is, and who she is is the most talented woman in WWE. This is her ring, her division, her show, and her WWE Women’s World Championship.
And if you guys thought she was messy and trouble before, just you wait, because–
She apologizes for interrupting and says she’s been watching Liv and she’s such an inspiration. Watching her journey over the past decade taught her what she knows and Morgan is the top woman in the division and she congratulates her. Liv says she’s got some nerve coming down during her championship celebration with her family, but she really does appreciate the kind words and she’ll say it as nice as she can– Sol is no Liv Morgan.
But she’ll give her a chance right now to save herself, because if she wants to make it to WrestleMania, Ruca will get out of her ring right now. Sol says she’s misreading the situation and she didn’t come here to pick a fight, but she’s not gonna back down from one either, and they both drop their mics.
He tells everybody to calm down because they’re acting like they want to see a fight. He realizes the crowd wants to see a fight and calls referee Jessika Carr down to officiate the match, after the break!
Back from commercial we get another media hype reel recap of WrestleMania 42.
Morgan with a kick combo, waistlock from Ruca, reversed, trading nearfalls, off the ropes, Liv with a tijeras, Sol lands on her feet, backsplash, standing moonsault, knees are up! Morgan cuts her off in the ropes, puts boots to her, giant step, whip across, running knee and a big dropkick… NO DEAL!
Back roll, Liv cuts her off, Gator Roll, hanging onto the front chancery for some knee lifts, shot off, flip through, X-Factor connects! Morgan rolls to the floor, Sol hits a kickflip moonsault and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Liv wants the Three Amigos, Ruca reverses with a suplex of her own, trading elbows from their knees and to their feet, windmill chops from Sol, big uppercut, whip across, spin-out back elbow, flying forearm, whip to the corner, German suplex on the rebound! Ruca up top, missile dropkick, kip-up, fired up, lining her up, running knee… NOPE!
Sol up top, moving slow, Morgan counters with a Codebreaker… SO CLOSE! Ruca staggers her with a kick, hits the Sol Snatcher but Liv rolls out of the ring to dodge the cover! Sol off the ropes… SPACE FLYING TIGER DROP TAKES JUDGMENT DAY OUT ON THE FLOOR! Zaria is here and shoves Ruca into the post and then spinebusters her on the floor!
She tells Sol she’ll be looking at the lights tomorrow, too and walks off. Ruca gets herself inside but Liv is ready…
Liv Morgan wins by pinfall with Oblivion.
Post-match, Stephanie Vaquer makes her entrance and stares Liv Morgan down with Roxanne! Perez and Raquel Rodriguez in the background.
We get a retrospective video package recap of Brock Lesnar’s career set to I Stand Alone by Godsmack, which cracks me up a little bit.
Paul Heyman and the Vision, consisting of Austin Theory and Logan Paul, make their entrance to send us to break.
Back from commercial, Paul Heyman and the Vision are in the ring.
Heyman gets on the mic and says he had a whole speech prepared but the beginning of this program threw him off a bit. His favorite part of WrestleMania is always expecting the unexpected, and WrestleMania was so unexpected it’ll live in his heart and he suspects other people’s hearts for the rest of their lives.
He changes his attention to CM Punk kissing the asses of all the production crew but yet his Beast is still in the “Now” in the “Then. Now. Forever.” tag at the top of the show because these stupid asses can’t comprehend what happened yesterday. He’s not now anymore, he belongs in forever, because he’s the baddest ever to step foot in a WWE ring, and that Beast’s name is Brock Lesnar.
So now to the “Now.” whereupon Paul E claims that WWE’s tag team division is experiencing a renaissance thanks to your tag champions the Vision, and he interrupts for a personal message from Logan Paul and hands him the mic.
Paul flexes his title belt up onto his shoulder and says the only reason– he pauses to let the crowd boo– the only reason that the Usos and– more booing– the only reason that the Usos and LA Knight stole the victory from his brother and he at WrestleMania was that ungrateful, backstabbing weasel, IShowSpeed.
He’s absolutely sick of these interlopers, these streamers thinking they can just come into our business and do what they do. He hates these outsiders, and nothing that happened at WrestleMania matters, because guess what, IShowSpeed left the weekend with a piece of Logan’s fist lodged in his face while he and Austin are still tag team champions.
Heyman takes the mic back and the champions pose. Paul E says it’s only fitting if we all take a moment to realize what a magnificent favor was done for him by GUNTHER, and not only does he thank him but he owes him one and whenever he’s ready, he’ll be here to repay. But the big prize of the weekend belongs to the man who split Seth Rollins in half… BRON BREAKKER!
Bron makes his entrance, gets in the ring, hugs his Vision stablemates and gets on the mic.
He says he was thinking today, one year ago is when he became the leader of the Vision right here in this very same arena, because Seth Rollins was too weak. He doesn’t know about us, but his favorite part of WrestleMania weekend was seeing Seth get this close to beating GUNTHER before he ruined everything for him.
He hopes Seth is watching somewhere, because from here on out, from this day forward, every single day he’s going to come after Rollins and make his life–
Seth Rollins jumps the Vision from behind with a steel chair! He takes Bron and Logan out with chairshots but Austin manages to grab his arms and hold him down for the beatdown!
THE STREET PROFITS ARE BACK TO MAKE THE SAVE! They send the Vision packing and Montez Ford lands a tope con giro on them and he and Angelo Dawkins fight Paul and Theory trhough the crowd! Breakker goes back into the ring and Seth drops him with a superkick! Grounded punches follow, Blackout countered and Bron hits the spear!
Breakker grabs Rollins by the head and tells him he’s going to make everyone remember him as a shell of what he used to be, he mimes breaking him in half, off the ropes, head of steam and a spear!
JD McDonagh tells Finn Balor to get rid of the wigs and makeup and cuts a video promo on him about how they were supposed to be family but he doesn’t recognize him anymore, taking cues from CM Punk, picking fights with the clubhouse like he’s the leader. People ask him how he could turn on Balor, but it was easy and he’d do it again.
Finn Balor makes his entrance to send us to break.
Back from commercial, we get another media hype reel for WrestleMania 42.
Finn Balor vs. JD McDonagh
Pre-match, Balor sends McDonagh to the floor, out into the crowd, diving over the barricade and taking him into the crowd for a walk-and-brawl! Halfway up the steps, cutting him off, back to ringside, inside and we get the bell!
Whip reversed, Balor ducks a lariat but eats a back elbow, gets McDonagh set up, nobody home for the Coup de Grace and JD sends him to the floor to send us to break!
Back form commercial, Balor hits the inverted DDT, both men down and out, Finn throwing punches, body blows, double leg to the stomp to the midsection! Balor bleeding from the mouth, Sling Blade connects, JD steps back to block the shotgun dropkick, cover for two! Headbutt connects, another nearfall, up top for the moonsault, Finn gets the boots up!
Shotgun dropkick connects this time, Balor perches…
Finn Balor wins by pinfall with the Coup de Grace.
Post-match, Dominik Mysterio attacks but Finn Balor fights both of them off!
GUNTHER is interviewed backstage.
First of all, to make it clear, there is no him and Paul Heyman, Heyman just owes him a favor. He says everyone should get comfortable with the idea of the world championship being around his waist again.
LA Knight rolls up and congratulates him on beating Seth Rollins but he’s not the only one with eyes on the world title and of the two of them he’d prefer to be the one to do it.
Commentary hypes up next week’s show.
RHIYO are backstage upset about going to separate shows.
Rhea Ripley tells her it’s not forever and they’re just gonna have to hold things down themselves for the time being. They embrace and Ripley tells her to be safe.
Ripley walks away and walks past Liv Morgan and they have a moment.
We see Roman Reigns get out of an SUV in the loading dock, world title on his shoulder, and make his way through the back.
He runs into the Usos in Gorilla and they all shake hands. Roman invites them to come on out with him and the three of them make his entrance together to send us to break.
Back from commercial, Roman Reigns gets on mic and tells Las Vegas to acknowledge him.
He says he was gonna keep it simple tonight, talk about the title, about business moving forward, and about the future, but then he ran into his cousins and it just made sense to talk about family business first. He misses this, he misses having their full trust, he misses having their full love, respect, and admiration, and he misses doing business with them.
He holds a hand up with fingers splayed and says right now this is them, separated and scattered and vulnerable. CM Punk can run his mouth, some rapper from the nineties can start stuff, but he’s the Yeet Man, he changed the whole environment, and he’s got washed rappers running their mouths at him?
That hand isn’t them, Reigns says, folding his hand into a fist, the fist is them. They have the power and when they’re together, nobody can touch them. They ran this business for four years straight like that. He’s not asking them to serve him, he’s just asking them to be his blood and stand with him.
“Big” Jim Uso speaks first, saying he speaks for his brother when he says Roman will always be their Tribal Chief, and anytime the Bloodline is in your city, they know they’re the twos, and the Bloodline are the ones.
The Usos throw their ones up and Roman goes to raise his hand as well–
Enter “Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu!
Reigns says it’s been a while since he’s seen him and there’s only a couple reasons he could be out here and he can only assume it’s to acknowledge him. Fatu says that ain’t it and Roman says it must be because he wants the title. Jacob says he doesn’t want the title, he needs the title! He’s not out here to be Tribal Chief, but he needs everything that he has.
He needs the shoe deal, the private jets, the Rolex, more vehicles, a bigger house, to put his children in better schools, and he’ll do anything for his family even if he’s gotta go through Reigns, so at Backlash he’s upgrading, he’s leveling up his household, and Roman better know he’s all gas, no breaks, yaddamean?
Reigns gives him a concerned squint and cracks his neck while the Usos pace behind him. Roman agrees with Fatu, he wants all those things for him too, and maybe he can beat him, but the question is, if he can beat him, can he handle the burden of the title? But then we have to look at it on the other side, if he can’t beat him, can he handle the burden of having to acknowledge him?
It’s thin air up here, there’s not much footing, it’s the top of the mountain. He’s gonna give him the rest of the week to think about it, and he’s not saying he’s not ready, he’s just saying he should think about it, and he’ll see his little cousin next week on Monday Night Raw.
Roman tells the Usos to talk some sense into him on the ramp.
That’s the show, folks.