WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives today (April 7, 2025) from the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming WrestleMania 41 extravaganza scheduled for later this month in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Advertised for tonight: Lyra Valkyria defends the women’s Intercontinental championship against the only woman to beat her since she won it, Bayley.
Elsewhere, Paul Heyman will be coming around to address CM Punk and his favor, Seth Rollins is scheduled for the show, The War Raiders defend the world tag team titles against The New Day, Penta vs. Dominik Mysterio, El Grande Americano returns to action, and a whole lot more!
Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the Raw live blog will kick off once the show starts on Netflix. It will be below this line here.
WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR APRIL 7
Junkies down in Brooklyn are going crazy, they’re laughing just like hungry dogs in the street. Policemen are hiding behind the skirts of little girls, their eyes have turned the color of frozen meat, but me? I’m just here to liveblog this pro wrestling show for you, folks.
The show opens with the usual montage of talent arriving at the arena.
We get a recap of last week’s WWE Women’s World Championship match.
Raw general manager Adam Pearce is in the ring with the title and he gets on the mic.
He gets down to business and says we all saw what took place last week and because of that, the situation at WrestleMania needs to be addressed, so he introduces our champion, IYO SKY. She’s wearing a very charming white bustier styled like a blazer over shiny pinstripe booty shorts with black lace-up knee boots, and I like the idea of it but something isn’t quite coming together about the outfit.
Pearce introduces Bianca Belair next, and since I wrote about what IYO’s wearing I have to acknowedge the EST’s custom black leather (real or fake I dunno) EST tie-up crop top and pleated miniskirt, with matching thigh boots and opera gloves, which I mean I always hate ties for autistic reasons but it’s a good look.
Rhea Ripley is of course next, kinda phoning it in in a black leather lace-up vest, torn black jean shorts, and (sing it with me) Roddy Strong-style shitty little boots. But hey when you got a gimmick that works for you, you’ll never look bad when you work the gimmick, even if the outfit seems a little uninspired.
Adam (who, for completeness sake, is wearing a purple suit like he’s Bruce Banner, which feels like he’s probably trying to send a signal) berates them, saying he assumed they could have handled this like professionals but now it’s incumbent on him to fix the problem and he gets right to it— it’s a triple threat match and he needs three signatures on the contract.
Belair says a couple of weeks ago this would have really pissed her off, but after all she’s been through since Elimination Chamber she knows she can overcome a triple threat and she’s gonna walk out of WrestleMania as champion and she’s gonna go through Ripley to do it, and she signs it.
Rhea starts talking but Bianca cuts her off and tells her to just shut up and sign, and Ripley does so before throwing the contract back at the EST. They square up, IYO steps up and Rhea shoves her away. SKY throws the mic down and stomps off without signing the contract.
She goes to the apron, Adam tries to talk sense into the other two and springboards into them to lay them out! IYO signs the contract and leaves with her title over her shoulder!
We get a recap of our Intercontinental Championship scene and the four-way that Pearce set up.
Cut to the Judgment Day clubhouse where Finn Balor is surprisingly even-keeled about Dominik Mysterio being in the match. Liv Morgan says it doesn’t matter which of them win and Finn makes a show of agreeing before saying people are saying that Dom doesn’t have what it takes, he doesn’t have the killer instinct, he’s a loser, but he’s got a chance to prove them wrong by beating Penta all by himself, and Finn believes him.
Mysterio is worried about fighting alone but Carlito appears out of nowhere to tell him he’ll have his back.
We see Bayley and Lyra Valkyria walking backstage and we go to break.
Bayley vs. Lyra Valkyria (c) (WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship)
Mat grappling in the early goings, neither woman able to get an advantage, shifting gears, Bayley with a schoolboy for two! Waistlocks and standing switches, drop toehold, La Casita, Valkyria rolls through but the Role Model catches her with another pin for another nearfall! Lyra throws a kick, blocked, Bayley with a big knee!
Sunset flip into the corner, blocked, reversed, cover for two! Bridging northern lights suplex from the champion, cover for two, up and over, cartwheel away, roll through, step through, inverted Boston Crab applied! Wrists clutched for the full rocking horse! Cover for two, back and forth, Bayley to the floor, Lyra blasts her with a dropkick through the ropes!
Back inside, another nearfall and we go to break!
Back from commercial, trading forearms in the middle of the ring, action to the floor, Bayley with the corner dropkick through the ropes, back inside to break the count, off the ropes… NO WATER IN THE POOL! Valkyria’s wrecking ball dropkick caught… BAYLEY-TO-BELLY ON THE FLOOR! BOTH WOMEN BEAT THE COUNT!
Lyra with an enzuigiri, Doctor Bomb… SO CLOSE! Bayley with the Knee Trembler… STILL NO! Up in the turnbuckles, jockeying for position, Valkyria slips out, powerbomb lift, Bayley slips out! Charging in, sunset flip into the turnbuckles! Lyra on the comeback, fisherman suplex… NOPE!
Bayley catches her legs, Boston Crab applied! Valkyria crawls for the ropes but the Role Model drags her back to the middle and cranks her back! Shifting gears, Roseplant, countered…
Lyra Valkyria wins by pinfall with a jackknife pin, retaining the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship.
Backstage, Bert “DA MACHEEN” Kreischer is interviewed backstage but before he can say much, American Made roll up to chat.
Chad Gable apologizes for not wrestling tonight but says Bert will get to see his boys the Creed Brothers work with El Grande Americano to take the Latino World Order down. Kreischer apologizes but says he didn’t come to see Gable, and Alpha Academy roll up.
Bert is stoked to see Otis and they both tear the shirts off and scream as American Made storm off.
Commentary hypes up Dark State’s in-ring debut tomorrow night.
The LWO are shown walking backstage and we go to break.
Back from commercial, AJ Styles is interviewed backstage.
He says he’s in a good place right now— he gets to embarrass Logan Paul on the grandest stage of them all, because you can’t beat experience.
Karrion Kross rolls up to taunt him and AJ demands to know what he wants. Kross says he wants to help him find the AJ Styles that can get the job done, and if he loses at Mania they all lose at Mania. Styles says he’s gonna go talk to Adam Pearce and get a match agaist Karrion next week.
American Made (Brutus Creed, El Grande Americano, & Julius Creed) vs. Latino World Order (Cruz Del Toro, Dragon Lee, & Joaquin Wilde)
