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.
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