WWE RAW Season Premiere Preview: Universal Title Match, Brock Lesnar

RAW is all new.

The season premiere of WWE Monday Night RAW is here and it’s a loaded show.

With just hours until bell time, it’s time to look ahead starting with tonight’s episode of Monday Night RAW. 

Several segments and matches have been announced thus far for this show including an appearance by Brock Lesnar to hype his scheduled match against WWE Champion Kofi Kingston on the debut episode of Friday Night SmackDown. 

Also, just six days before facing Bray Wyatt inside of the Hell in a Cell structure, Seth Rollins puts his Universal Title on the line when he meets Rey Mysterio. 

WWE holds this show in Phoenix, Arizona at the Talking Stick Resort Arena. WWE is advertising the following items for tonight’s broadcast:

  • Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman appear
  • The Miz hosts MizTV with WWE Hall of Famers Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan
  • WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins defends against Rey Mysterio
  • Sasha Banks vs. WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Alexa Bliss
  • WWE United States Champion AJ Styles defends against Cedric Alexander
  • RAW Tag Team Champions Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler defend against Heavy Machinery

As usual, fans should expect more matches and segments to be revealed this afternoon for RAW. 

Join us here later tonight for WWE RAW Live Results and our post-show RAW Takeaways feature.

Andrew Ravens
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