Today's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw (April 7, 2025) emanates out of the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and will air starting at 8 p.m. EST on Netflix.
This post will be updated frequently throughout the program (for however long the show goes on). As Raw goes on, keep refreshing this post to get the most up-to-date information on all the match winners, breakdowns of the promo segments, and anything else noteworthy or interesting that takes place.
Preview & Predictions for WWE RAW:
On tap for tonight's episode, The New Day will get a shot at The War Raiders for the World Tag Team Championship titles. My guess is we'll either see some shenanigans go down that results in a match being added to the WrestleMania 41 card, or that The New Day will just outright win the titles. I don't think Erik and Ivar are still holding this gold past Mania, at the very least.
Lyra Valkyria will defend the Women's Intercontinental Championship against Bayley. Seeing as they're teaming up on SmackDown for the women's tag team title shot gauntlet, I'd expect this to end with some other team getting involved to throw the match out, or Lyra to retain outright before any of that happens.
CM Punk, Seth Rollins, and Paul Heyman are set to appear. No Roman Reigns? Man, that guy really does have a part-time schedule. That will hurt some of the momentum from the most recent stuff, but it'll give WWE a chance to refocus more on the Punk and Rollins feud in a promo that will probably also result in some physicality.
Penta will face Dominik Mysterio. A win for Penta to offset his pinfall last week makes sense, but if this is what determines if Dom gets in the Intercontinental Championship scene or not, then the smart bet is on Dirty Dom winning. He'll definitely be in that WrestleMania match.
Adam Pearce is also going to solve the Women's World Championship situation between Iyo Sky, Bianca Belair, and Rhea Ripley. If this isn't finally the time where he announces a Triple Threat, I'll be shocked, as that's what needs to happen.
Undoubtedly, while it isn't advertised, we'll see more advancements in the Gunther and Jey Uso storyline, more stuff with El Grande Americano in action since this is Chad Gable's hometown, and probably something with AJ Styles and/or Logan Paul, among other things.
Here are your results for WWE Monday Night Raw April 7, 2025:
- Adam Pearce made the Iyo Sky, Bianca Belair, and Rhea Ripley triple threat for WrestleMania 41 for the Women's World Championship official.
- The Judgment Day have some more tension backstage over Dominik Mysterio also being inserted into the Intercontinental Championship match at WrestleMania instead of just Finn Balor.
- Women's Intercontinental Championship Match: Lyra Valkyria (c) defeated Bayley by pinfall. Bayley was upset after the match, but then embraced Valkyria.
- Backstage, comedian Bret Kreischer was approached by American Made, but had to break the news to them that he's not there to see them, before bonding with Otis and Alpha Academy.
- Karrion Kross interruped AJ Styles' interview to say that he can't have him lose at WrestleMania to Logan Paul. If Styles loses, they all lose, which prompted Styles to talk to Adam Pearce about having a match between them. Kross and Scarlett then smiled at how their plan is working, whatever that is.
- American Made (El Grande Americano and The Creed Brothers) defeated LWO (Cruz Del Toro, Dragon Lee, and Joaquin Wilde) by pinfall with some help from a steel plate Chad Gable put inside his mask.
- Promo: Jey Uso and Gunther had an in-ring face-to-face promo, with Jey admitting that he's afraid of Gunther and upset about what The Ring General did to his brother Jimmy Uso last week. But he's not afraid of Gunther anymore, and warned the champion that he's going to pray the night before WrestleMania that God will forgive him for the man he's about to become in their title match, as he's not only getting payback and revenge, but he's taking the title, too. Gunther didn't even get a word in during the segment.
- World Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day defeated The War Raiders (c) by disqualification after a steel chair was introduced and some confusion happened with the referee. After the match, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods used chairs to beat down Erik and Ivar, targeting their injured necks.
- Penta defeated Dominik Mysterio by pinfall. Carlito then attacked Penta from behind following the bell. Bron Breakker came out to make the save with an insane spear to Carlito, then Mysterio, and then, surprisingly, to Penta as well. Finn Balor then took out Breakker from behind, but Breakker was able to eventually get back up and run Balor off.
- Seth Rollins tells Paul Heyman that CM Punk and Roman Reigns don't actually respect him and threatens to take him out of the equation for WrestleMania by beating him up right here and now in the ring. Punk came out to fight with Rollins, but Rollins got the upper-hand. Rollins then showed that he could've given Heyman a stomp, but chose not to, ending the show by saying "Now, you owe ME a favor."
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