WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Jan. 14, 2019) from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming Royal Rumble pay-per-view scheduled for later this month in Phoenix. Advertised for tonight: Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley for the Intercontinental championship, Sasha Banks & Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax & Tamina, and more! Come right back here at 8 p.m. ET when the Raw live blog kicks off once the show starts on USA. It will be below this line here. (REMINDER: NO GIFS OR PICS ARE ALLOWED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. OFFENDERS WILL BE BANNED.) WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR JAN. 14 Don’t ever ask us to define our morals. Sometimes when fundamentals meet teenage heartbreak, some of us are all of us; half-selves that love whole hopes and hara-kiri heartbreak. There’s almost nothing worse than never being real, strained voices crying wolf when nobody can hear. If I had a gun I’d pump your ethics full of lead, but since I don’t, I’ll just have to liveblog this here pro wrestling show for y’all. The show opens with a slow pan across a limousine that Vince McMahon steps out of. McMahon points out a scuff or two on the rear fender and makes his chaffeur buff it out before power-walking his way wherever he’s headed. (RRROOOAAARRR!) Braun Strowman makes his entrance in the arena. He gets on the mic as a “Get These Hands!” chant breaks out and lets it breathe for a moment before saying he’ll never admit it, but Brock Lesnar has always been afraid of him. When he had Money in the Bank, Brock was constantly looking over his shoulder and ripped doors off cages to stop him winning the title, and at World Cup, he had Baron Corbin attack him from behind to prevent him from winning the Universal Championship. He says he hopes Beastie Boy is watching from training camp, because he’s all healed up and Corbin is no longer in power, which means there’s no one to save him. His biggest fear is about to come true-- at Royal Rumble, Braun will get the Universal Championship and the only thing Lesnar will get is These Hands! Enter Baron Corbin, sans music. He says he may not run Raw anymore, to which Strowman points out he got fired and leads a “You got fired!” chant when he tries to continue. Baron says they can chant but they’ll listen to every word he has to say if he has to stand here all night. And in fact if he stands up here for just five minutes it’ll be longer than Braun lasted against Brock Lesnar. Corbin wants Braun to stop lying and letting the people who believe in him down, and everybody knows he can’t beat Brock. While he’s doing that, Baron’s gonna focus on winning the Royal Rumble and going to the main event of WrestleMania. Braun’s had about enough at this point and chases Corbin to the back! Cameras follow and we see that Braun has lost track and accosts the Singh Brothers in catering, bieling one of them across the table! He sees Vince’s limo before turning and going after Baron again. The camera pans past a road case and Elias sings a song describing what just happened and saying he saw where Baron went, which is a really neat production beat. Strowman comes back and the song points out that Baron is in the limo, shocker. Strowman stalks after the limo while the Drifter continues to play, and kicks the driver’s side mirror off before yanking the driver out and bieling him over the hood! Unable to get the door unlocked, Braun looks for a helpful entry tool and comes up with a steel pipe that he uses to shatter the window! Baron screams for help as the monster yanks the door off with his bare hands! Corbin pops out the other side and Braun tells him he better run when Mr. McMahon rolls up to survey the carnage. He takes it in while Strowman backs off and we go to commercial. Back from commercial, Braun puts the door back in place awkwardly and it falls right back off. He shrugs and Vince begins, calling him a raging woolly mammoth, a human wrecking ball that should have caution tape wrapped around him. He fines Strowman $100,000! Braun contests it saying that “piece of crap” isn’t worth that much, so Vince tells him he’s lost his title shot at Royal Rumble! Strowman, enraged, gets hands under the limo’s center of mass... AND HE FLIPS THE ENTIRE GODDAMN LIMOUSINE! Commentary reacts to what we just saw. We get entrances for a relevos increibles tag match featuring the women’s division and go to break. Back from commercial, we see Braun Strowman escorted out of the arena by police as Baron Corbin watches and laughs. Nia Jax & Tamina vs. Ronda Rousey & Sasha Banks Banks and Jax to start, right hands, Sasha counters a powerbomb into a Frankensteiner and hits the knees in the corner. Monkey flip blocked, Nia puts her up top, sunset flip attempt denied, pass into the corner, duck a lariat, hard right from the Boss sets up a step-up arm drag that Jax blocks completion on. Banks tries a sleeper, backed into the corner, she locks it right back on! Set on the apron, a knee connects, off the top with a bulldog, sliding knee... NOPE! Tag to Rousey, knee, kick, lighting her up with punches but a rookie mistake leaves them in the corner for a tag from Tamina. Headbutt connects, Ronda manages to float over, armbar attempt and Nia yanks Snuka out of the ring! Heels regroup outside the ring while referee Chad Patton and his beard count. Back inside, Tamina slides right back out and we go to break. Back from commercial, Jax has Banks in the bear hug! I can hardly bear it! Sasha out with an elbow, off the ropes, rolling sunset flip attempt countered into a Tenryu powerbomb... NOPE! Nia freight trains her for another two count and locks a cobra clutch on in the middle of the ring. Jawbreaker to counter, Jax clips her with an elbow and passes her into the corner before tagging Tamina in. Snuka puts boots to her, draws her up, scoop, float over, schoolboy pin from the Boss for two. Blocking the tag, inches away, throwing Banks aside, clear Rousey off the apron and referee Chad Patton has to hold the champion back! Tamina charges in, boot up, deck Jax, Russian legsweep rolled through into the Bank Statement crossface... IT’S OVER! Ronda Rousey & Sasha Banks win by submission with the Bank Statement crossface from Banks on Tamina. Rousey immediately rushes in the ring to congratulate Banks on her win and an interview rolls up. Ronda says it’s easy to trust each other because they respect each other and it’s a real honor to tag with her tonight and then defend the title against her. A victory over Sasha would be her greatest accomplishment, even. Banks says she’s glad Rousey already picked where she ranks on her list of accomplishments, to which Ronda says that’s not what she meant, and she’s going to do everything she can to tap her out. Banks takes offense to this as well and tells her to ask Nia Jax and Tamina how the Bank Statement feels. She says she’ll face any woman, any size, any place, anywhere, and it’ll be her pleasure to teach Rousey how to lose with class. Ronda says she can teach her by example and keep the title of World’s Classiest Loser because she doesn’t want it. Banks questions the idea that she’s a loser and reminds Rousey that last week she said she was the best. She’s not scared of her and has to learn how to deal with not getting her way, because come Royal Rumble, she’s tapping to the Bank Statement and she can bank on that.<doc-sep>This week's edition of WWE Monday Night RAW (14th January 2019) saw a lot of contrasting moments. Right from Bobby Lashley becoming the new Intercontinental Champion to Finn Balor earning his right as the #1 contender for the Universal Championship by defying all odds, last night's episode had it all. Thankfully, the episode itself was great. All segments blended well into each other as one cohesive unit and there were a lot of takeaways from the show as well. With Royal Rumble taking place just two weeks away from now, let us take a look at some interesting observations from last night's episode of Monday Night RAW... #3: The opening segment was one of the most memorable bits in recent memory RAW seems to be getting a hold of the 'opening segment' formula One of the great aspects of producing a top-notch show is by portraying a great beginning, middle and an end. While RAW managed to deliver on all three fronts this week, it is safe to say that the opening segment was clever and innovative too. Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin set up a premise in a promo that kicked off a chain of events. The best moments occurred when Strowman chased Corbin backstage- From The Singh Brothers' comedic bit to Elias roaming around like a 'drifter' (that was a nice touch) backstage, it seemed as if each and every small moment added up to a huge set of positives. Of course, Mr. McMahon wasn't too pleased when The Monster Among Men destroyed his limousine, and the latter did pay for that. Strowman is no longer part of The Universal Championship match at the Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View. This plotline would, later on, lead to the end of the show, where Finn Balor would defy all odds set against him in order to become the new #1 contender for Brock Lesnar's title. This is some good piece of writing, where the show is treated as a collective whole instead of small, separate bits. 1 / 3 NEXT<doc-sep>Copy Link Icon WWE Raw: Live Updates, Results and Reaction for January 14 Memphis, Tennessee Welcome to Bleacher Report's live coverage of WWE Raw on January 14. This week's show will feature Dean Ambrose defending the IC title against Bobby Lashley and Seth Rollins in a Triple Threat match and Ronda Rousey teaming up with Sasha Banks to take on Tamina and Nia Jax in a tag team match. We will also see more buildup for The Royal Rumble on January 27. Make sure to keep it locked right here for live updates of all the action.<doc-sep>
On tonight’s episode of WWE Raw, Seth Rollins will have another opportunity at Dean Ambrose’s Intercontinental Championship, but can he defeat “The Moral Compass” and Bobby Lashley? Last week on WWE Raw, Sasha Banks defeated Nia Jax after hitting her with a, “Bitch, what line?”, to earn an opportunity at the Raw Women’s Championship. Banks and Ronda Rousey will square off for that championship at the Royal Rumble Pay Per View on Jan. 27 in Phoenix, Arizona, and this bout could end up being one of the best of 2019 when it’s all said and done. But before that, Banks and Rousey must work together to be the scary tag team of Tamina and Nia, who have done everything possible to rule the Raw Women’s Division. Along with the Boss’N’Hug Connection, comprised of Sasha and Bayley, Nia and Tamina are seen as one of the favorites to grab the Women’s Tag Team Championships whenever they are officially rolled out. Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose fought to a disqualification in last week’s Raw main event, which was a heated Falls Count Anywhere match for the Intercontinental Championship, which Ambrose won at TLC from Seth. These two bitter rivals won’t be alone in this rematch, because Bobby Lashley has an opportunity at the title after spoiling the Falls Count Anywhere bout last week. With Lio Rush an ever-present danger to Rollins, this Triple Threat match will be treacherous territory for “The Architect”. But now that Triple H has brought the best out of his former protege, perhaps none of that noise will matter to the potential Royal Rumble winner. Braun Strowman disappointed the WWE Universe last week with a poor promo on Brock Lesnar, as he seemed to have forgotten his lines and came off rather unconvincing for a monster. Just about a year ago, Strowman was one of WWE’s most popular acts and received thunderous ovations during hot tags, but, now, he seems to be on the periphery. Even though Strowman has a Universal Title match at the Rumble against Lesnar, many fans believe Rollins will be the one to conquer The Beast Incarnate. Rollins is viewed as a favorite to win the Rumble match and eventually defeat Lesnar at WrestleMania 35, but Braun may have something to say about that. Each week, Braun’s involvement on Raw will be worth monitoring. Check back here at 8 p.m. ET for live results, highlights, and grades from WWE Raw, which can be viewed on the USA Network.