Raw Deal - Raw recap for April 7, 2025

General Manager Adam Pearce is in the ring to start tonight's show. Pearce welcomes Iyo Sky, followed by Bianca Belair, followed by Rhea Ripley. Pearce misidentifies Rhea as a member of The Judgment Day (Finn Balor, "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio, Carlito, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez). Pearce takes responsibility for everything that has happened up to this point, and to right these wrongs, he makes the match for the World Women's Championship at WrestleMania a Triple Threat Match. After Pearce asks for three signatures, Bianca says this would have originally pissed her off, but after everything that has transpired recently, she has no problem overcoming a Triple Threat Match to become champion. She signs. Rhea is about to speak, but Bianca tells her to shut up and sign since she whined enough to get here. Rhea gets the hint and signs, then tosses it back at Bianca. Iyo stands between them, but when Rhea shoves her aside, she walks away at first, then drop kicks Rhea into Bianca before signing the contract.

Backstage, Finn Balor addresses him and "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio challenging for the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania. Liv feels that the more members of The Judgment Day (Finn Balor, "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio, Carlito, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez) are challenging for the Intercontinental Championship, the merrier, so long as one of them wins. Finn says Dominik does not have what it takes to win at WrestleMania, then says he has a chance to prove everyone wrong.

Lyra Valkyria retains the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship against Bayley after rolling out of the Rose Plant and pinning Bayley with a jackknife pin. After the match, Bayley smacks Valkyria's hand away, then hugs her.

Backstage, Cathy Kelley interviews comedian Bert Kreischer when American Made (Chad Gable, Julius Creed, Brutus Creed, Ivy Nile) shows up. Chad Gable says he is not competing tonight, but The Creed Brothers (Julius and Brutus) and El Grande Americano are. Kreischer tells them he came for Alpha Academy (Otis, Akira Tozawa, Maxxine Dupri), not America Made, then he and Otis rip their shirts off.

Backstage, Jackie Redmond interviews "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles. Styles says he gets to embarrass Logan Paul at WrestleMania because you cannot beat experience. Karrion Kross and Scarlett show up, and Kross says experience got him nowhere recently, then says he wants another side of Styles, saying that if he loses, WWE loses. Styles says he will give Kross another side of him in a match next week.

American Made (Julius and Brutus Creed) and El Grande Americano beat The Latino World Order (Dragon Lee, Joaquin Wilde, Cruz del Toro) in a six-man tag match after Ivy Nile hands a piece of metal to Americano to put in his mask. Americano uses it to headbutt Rey Mysterio when he calls this out, then does the same to Dragon Lee when Dragon Lee goes for his mask. He then wins the match with a flying headbutt to Dragon Lee.

Gunther heads to the ring. Shortly after he enters it, "Main Event" Jey Uso heads to the ring from inside the crowd. Gunther laughs as Jey Uso smacks the microphone out of Gunther's hand and takes his sunglasses off, then asks Gunther if he has a mother and if he has talked to her. At this point, Gunther has stopped laughing. He asks if they have talked about the usual family stuff before he mentions how he talked to his mother about being laid up in a hospital bed with fifteen stitches across his head before she asked him why he did not protect Jimmy Uso. He says he was afraid and that Gunther was three steps ahead and playing chess while he played checkers, but that was not enough for him and he had to get his family involved. He addresses what happened last week, then says Jimmy's blood is on his hands and that he has never been so pissed off and "damn near scared." He says Gunther made the whole world stop when he violated his brother in front of him and made his heart stop. Jey says that in his darkest moment, a light bulb went off, and he realized that he is not afraid of Gunther anymore. He tells Gunther to hug and kiss family before WrestleMania, then says he will say a prayer for Gunther, more so for himself, and forgive him for the man he is about to become, as he will get Gunther for himself and his family and take the World Heavyweight Championship.

Backstage, Maxxine Dupri and Natalya get a tag team match on SmackDown. Rey Mysterio then meets with General Manager Adam Pearce and wants a WrestleMania match with El Grande Americano so he can expose him as a fraud. Pearce makes it official.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe guests on commentary for the next match.

The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) beat The War Raiders (Ivar and Erik) by disqualification after Xavier Woods and Ivar fight over a metal folding chair and Ivar hits Woods in the gut with the chair. The War Raiders (Ivar and Erik) retain the World Tag Team Championships. After the match, Kofi swings at Ivar, then The New Day goes on the attack - with Woods choking Erik inside an open chair at one point - until officials back them up to the ramp.

Adi Shankar, Taylor and Daniel from Love Is Blind Season 8, and comedian Bert Kreischer are seen in the crowd.

Penta beats "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio. After the match, Carlito attacks Penta from behind, but Penta fights back. Dominik grabs Penta by the ankle so that Carlito can hit the Backstabber, then Dominik and Carlito go on the attack before Bron Breakker shows up. Breakker throws himself into Carlito with a Spear, then hits Dominik with a Spear in the ring before doing the same to Penta. Suddenly, Finn Balor shows up from behind and hits Breakker with an elbow before holding up the Intercontinental Championship. Breakker goes for a Spear, but Finn Balor barely avoids it.

Paul Heyman is in the ring. He says that he will always be loyal to his Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns. He also says he will be loyal to CM Punk. Heyman also proclaims that his loyalty to both of them does not mean he will be disloyal to either of them. Before he can make anything perfectly clear, Seth "Freakin'" Rollins shows up and says tonight not about him, but about Heyman, and wants to know whose side Heyman is on. He wants to know if Heyman will be CM Punk's best friend or Roman Reigns' wiseman, and says Heyman is convincing everyone that he can be both yet it occurred to him last week that he is neither. Rollins tells Heyman that Roman Reigns does not give a damn about him, much less respects him, and only uses him, reminding him that when Roman disappeared after losing the WWE Championship, Solo Sikoa's Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Jacob Fatu) treated Heyman like the scum of the earth and did not come to his rescue. Rollins also reminds Heyman that CM Punk did not save him, either, and that he walked out on everyone in WWE - including Heyman - and tried to tear down everything here. Rollins also reminds Heyman about how he - not Punk - was the first choice for WarGames, even though he declined, and how Punk ended up being the last and only choice and only joined to get a favor out of Heyman. He says that CM Punk only loves himself, then admits that he feels bad for Heyman for being in a position where the only easy solution would be to remove himself from the situation entirely so he, Punk and Roman can battle it out for the soul of the industry. Rollins says he understands that Heyman will not betray Roman or Punk, and thinks about a way to remove Heyman for the situation before stating he would take it as a privilege to do it himself here and now with The Stomp. Rollins says that neither Punk or Roman is here to save Heyman, even quoting Punk by saying Punk is here to make money, then asks how much Heyman is worth repeatedly as he begins to smack him around. Heyman snaps on Rollins, telling him not to put his hands on him, but Rollins shoves Heyman to the corner. Punk shows up and fights Rollins before going for The Stomp on him. This ends with Rollins escaping and hitting The Stomp on Punk. Heyman checks on Punk, and when Rollins goes for The Stomp, Heyman is somehow able to avoid getting his head pummeled. Rollins then says to Heyman "Now you owe me a favor."

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