Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed predictably destroyed the ring last night in the Last Monster Standing match on Monday Night Raw.

Reed hit a superplex, which caused all of the ring posts to collapse. Still, we needed one monster to rise before the 10-count to determine a winner.

Seth Rollins came out and stomped Reed’s head into the steps to give the victory to Strowman.

Rollins was gaining revenge after Reed put him on the sidelines with a series of Tsunami splashes from the top rope several weeks ago.

NEW DAY DRAMA

Xavier Woods scored the biggest win of his career over Rey Mysterio. Woods took off Rey Jr.’s mask before rolling him up for the victory.

Yes, we saw Mysterio’s face when he was forced to unmask in WCW back in 1999, but WWE fans have always seen him with the mask.

Woods then learned that his friend Kofi Kingston had given up a shot at Intercontinental champion Jey Uso so that Woods could have it.

That seemed to ease the recent tension between the New Day teammates, but Woods accidentally caused Kingston to lose his match to Chad Gable.

TALK THE TALK

Talking segments on Raw hyped these matches at Saturday’s Bad Blood event:

·      CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre (Hell in a Cell)

·      Damien Priest vs. Finn Balor

·      World women’s champ Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley

But the most effective talking came from Sami Zayn, who finally goaded Gunther into a World title match on next week’s Raw.

Zayn got Gunther to admit his embarrassment of inviting his father to fly from Austria to Philadelphia, only to witness Gunther losing the IC title to Zayn.

The Awesome Truth team broke up, as Miz turned against R-Truth. The Authors of Pain won the match easily.

Zoey Stark defeated Lyra Valkyria with help from her Pure Fusion Collective teammates. Judgment Day won a six-man match over the Latino World Order.

WWE paid tribute to baseball’s all-time hit king, Pete Rose, who passed away yesterday at age 83. At least Rose made it into the WWE Hall of Fame after taking beatings from Kane at three straight WrestleManias.

Note that Raw will go back to two hours for the rest of the year. It will return to three hours in 2025 on Netflix, and Smackdown is expected to expand to three hours, too.