WWE RAW Results (06/03/2024): Liv Morgan’s plan for Dom, Breakker levels up, Kaiser solo push

Patrik Walker

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WWE RAW Results (06/03/2024): Liv Morgan’s plan for Dom, Breakker levels up, Kaiser solo push image

Liv Morgan WWE RAW June 3 2024

Things were cooking at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania on WWE Monday Night RAW, and what a meal it was — a multi-course delight that offered up plenty of variety. 

The flagship show didn’t disappoint with its offerings to wrestling fans who, on Friday, saw an explosive show and ending to Friday Night SmackDown that saw “The Phenomenal” A.J. Styles drag WWE [Universal] Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes straight through the gates of Hell.

It was a hard act to follow, but RAW didn’t have much filler to speak of, and even included timely quick-hit promos from Jey Uso and Lyra Valkyria in declaring their intention to be declared victor at Money in the Bank in early July.

Valkyria was then promptly assaulted by former WWE Woman’s Champion Iyo Sky, who is still furious at her loss to Valkryia in the semifinal at 2024 King and Queen of the Ring. 

Let’s break down the results and recap of the penultimate episode leading into the PLE (premium live event) in Scotland. 

Liv’n the Good Life

Make no mistake about it, the WWE Woman’s World Champion is currently sitting on top of the world, playfully swinging her feet from the throne as she watches the trail of destruction being left behind on her revenge tour. 

Morgan took to the squared circle on Monday night, one week after planting the kiss of death on “Dirty” Dom Mysterio, and let him know that the seductive gesture might literally involve death — Dom appearing to tell Morgan that Rhea Ripley is “not playing the same game” and “will kill” her when Mami returns.

Morgan’s reply? “Well, maybe, but she’s going to kill you, too. But, it’s gonna be worth it.”

She went on to declare she does, in fact, want to steal Rhea’s boyfriend; and it took The Judgment Day’s Finn Balor running to Dom’s supposed rescue to back Morgan off.

I haven’t seen something this sinister since the original Exorcist.

The Woman’s World Champ also basked in the fact Becky Lynch will be on an extended hiatus, or rather an “early retirement”  following the loss one week ago in the rematch for the title — Lynch, in reality, being a free agent until further notice on an expired contract — marking not one, but both of WWE’s top talents in the women’s division having been [temporarily] ended by Morgan.

The Jersey girl is on a warpath right now, and it doesn’t feel as if there’s anyone currently present in the women’s division of RAW that has a storyline strong enough to dethrone her, at least not until Mami reappears to show her what an actual sociopath looks like. 

Although Morgan is proving she is not to be taken lightly, so hold onto your butts, folks.

“I’m giving [Rhea] some space,” Dom said to Damian Priest after his latest encounter with Morgan, before assuring him everything is OK at home with Mami.

But, is it really?? 

The Beta Academy?

Easily one of the best storylines in all of professional wrestling, the events occurring in The Alpha Academy is writing worthy of only the finest soap operas. The young talent in the faction is getting restless as Chad Gable has gone full Victor Newman (Google this), deepening his heel turn to heights one could have never fathomed when Gable was a longtime babyface.

The emotional, mental and physical assault being waged upon Otis is pure evil, and it’s spilling over to Maxxine and Akira Tozawa, who are doing their best to halt Gable’s wrath against his “No. 1 guy”. 

Sami Zayn, the reigning Intercontinental Champion, showed up on Monday night to again try and convince those three to turn on Gable, but to no avail. Gable had Maxxine read Zayn a letter claiming he wasn’t in the building but demanding another title shot, to which Zayn obliged.

It will mark the third time the two have squared off, Zayn winning the first matchup that then ended in Gable’s heel turn and then in a triple threat win over Gable and Bronson Reed at 2024 King and Queen of the Ring. 

The rivalry is thriving. 

It again felt like Otis was on the verge of putting hands on Gable, though. After Tozawa grabbed Gable’s arm following more slaps to Otis, and Gable demanding Maxxine to get on her knees and plead with him to stop (she did), it was Otis confronting Gable and it really felt like that was the moment the Academy would implode.

Zayn reappeared to beat up on Gable but was then thrown into Otis’ back as he stood near the ropes checking on a mentally fractured Maxxine and Tozawa, sending both to the mat with Maxxine selling a leg injury.

Otis had enough, but Gable convinced him it was Zayn’s fault, leading to Zayn being slammed to the mat and everyone watching feeling more anger and frustration with Otis — meaning this storyline is working precisely as intended, and then some.

All signs point to Otis helping Zayn retain at Clash at the Castle but, at this point, are you willing to bet money on it?

Aha … 

Kiana James vs. Natalia 

Result: Kiana James wins clean 

Reaction: I’ll keep this one as short as the match itself was. James made her debut on Monday night after being prepped for weeks following the WWE Draft that promoted her from NXT to RAW, and her first opponent was future Hall of Famer Natalia. 

The self-proclaimed “one percenter” made quick work of Natalia who has, unfortunately, become really close to a jobber at this point in her otherwise illustrious career. 

With that, James is on the board at the Red Brand. 

Women’s Tag Team Title Match

Result: Baszler, Stark disqualified due to interference

Reaction: In the only title match of the evening, Belair and Cargill were fed up with all of the yammering from the sideline from the duo of Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark. 

This match was seeded a week ago in the backstage area when Baszler and Stark were warned by Sonya Deville, the former tag team champ (alongside Chelsea Green) who is still recovering from torn ACL but has found a way to return in some capacity to WWE, warned them that nobody respects them in the women’s tag division. 

Deville tried again to give them some advice, unsuccessfully, and they’d pay for it.

What began as a promo by Belair and Cargill grabbing mics to reinforce their dominance since becoming tag champs quickly turned into a demand that Baszler and Stark pull up and back up the talk by trying to walk the walk. 

Surely general manager Adam Pearce wouldn’t agree to this with a PLE so near? 

Well he did, and don’t call me Shirley. 

Baszler and Stark put up a valiant fight but they never actually had control of this match and it was quickly taking their tag team down a one-way road to Loserville, USA until Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn came out of nowhere to interrupt the artful chemistry of Belair and Cargill — a synchronicity that is rarely developed this quickly in tag teams nowadays.

I mean, seriously, they just began wrestling together but their tandem moves, timing and even their color coordination creates vivid flashbacks in my mind of throwback teams like The Rockers or the Hardy Boyz, though we can only hope there’s no Barbershop window-esque moment in their future.

Fyre and Dawn want a piece of Belair and Cargill and well and you can damn well bet your buns they’ll get it soon after not only interfering with the work, but also then joining Baszler and Stark in handing out a four-woman stomp session on the tag team champs.

Can anyone say three-way tag title match at Clash at the Castle? 

Wait, I just did. 

Book it. 

Ludwig Kaiser vs. Sheamus

Result: Kaiser wins clean

Reaction: Does Sheamus know how to put on a match that is not a banger? That is a rhetorical question, folks. The Celtic warrior delivered yet another of many as he officially launched his rivalry with Ludgwig Kaiser after weeks of Kaiser cutting promos that verbally assaulted Sheamus in the wake of costing him his 2024 King of the Ring qualifier against Gunther.

Sheamus grabbed the mic on last week’s RAW to call Kaiser out and when he couldn’t get him to step to him like a man, the Irishman tried to chase him down backstage, but was instead blindsided by Kaiser and the fight spilled out into the arena.

This time around, the fight was in the ring and my presumption that WWE is trying to put Kaiser over as a soloist is proven true by Sheamus’ very comments cementing that fact — wondering out loud if Kaiser is being “held back” by Gunther.

The match that followed walked the careful line between Sheamus helping to put Kaiser over, at least a little, with German evolved throughout the match from being completely outmatched by the future Hall of Famer to wearing him down by targeting his right knee time and again, no doubt understanding he didn’t have the power or experience to win.

Sheamus really sold the injury, to the point where he grabbed the official’s arm to keep him from stopping the match due to medical reasons, before a bloodied and buckled Sheamus looked Kaiser in the eyes from the mat and dared him to keep fighting.

“Come on, ya b-tch,” he yelled in defiance.

A knee to Kaiser’s face took him to his knees and that set him up to be the latest victim of the Brogue Kick, but Sheamus’ injured knee didn’t give him permission to do it, and so it couldn’t be executed, but 13 beats of the Bodhran sure did send a message. 

In the end, the younger and more strategic Kaiser walked away with a pinfall that was clean, and it’s key to note there was no interference in the victory, and that really drives home how the WWE wants everyone to begin seeing Kaiser as more than just a henchman.

To avoid Sheamus looking like a jobber, this rivalry demands a couple more matches and the next one, in my opinion, has to end with Sheamus taking the victory, which would also set up a very, very entertaining third match that could be PLE-worthy.

Finn Balor vs. Dragon Lee

Result: Balor wins due to interference

Reaction: Carlito strikes again, and his disdain (read: jealousy) toward Dragon Lee might be without limits. This match was anything but clean as Balor’s TJD teammate, J.D. McDonough, continuously ran interference to try and distract Lee from the task at-hand. 

Lee more than held his own despite that chicanery, though. Balor was really in for much more of a battle than he had anticipated and he found out just how athletic Lee is — when Lee turned one of Balor’s rope runs into a grab-flip-swing-setup conversion to a seated power bomb,

That dragon has fangs.

But just as the match was turning in Lee’s favor, Carlito ran to the ring to try and promise the victory to Balor, though he was quickly dismissed by Lee before he could enter the ring; but what happened next is what cost Lee the night. His inexperience showed in allowing his feelings to get the best of him, undoubtedly wanting revenge on Carlito for the attack he orchestrated on Lee backstage weeks ago.

Lee took to the top turnbuckle and instead of ending a downed Balor, he flew off of the top rope to take down Carlito outside of the ring before superkicking the spit out of McDonough’s mouth. It was fun to watch, but it gave Balor time to recover.

By the time Lee got back to Balor, it was too late. One Coup De Grace later, it was Balor taking the win before all three would begin stomping Lee into the mat.

Rey Mysterio (who had a match scheduled with the current leader of The Judgment Day, Damian Priest) joined Braun Strowman in helping to take down TJD, though it was too little, too late. Still, the Monster Amongst Men wiped out three-fourths of the active faction to further his storyline against them.

But, now, Carlito has been told by Priest to set up a match with Carlito. 

Some comeuppance is long overdue for the apple-eater, and Strowman is the right man for that job. 

Braun Strowman vs. Carlito 

Result: Strowman wins clean

Reaction: As you could expect, this was over before it ever started. Carlito was wildly outmatched by One Big S.O.B., and so he’d require a ton of interference from his other Judgment Day members, only to lose clean anyway. 

But that was just the start of the action. 

Keeping with their usual cowardice, or unity, depending on how you choose to look at it, TJD went to work in trying to dismantle Strowman but he’d hold his own against Balor, Carlito and McDonough and, for the first time since being injured, we saw the return of “Dirty” Dom actually getting his hands, well, dirty again.

Strowman would attempt to go after Dom near the ramp but guess who came to his rescue?

Yup, Liv Morgan. Does her mind games know no bounds? I certainly hope not, because this is a wild ride we can all enjoy. 

Morgan politely stood in-between Strowman and Dom, asking him to spare her … er … um … new toy, and it bought just enough time for the other members of TJD to renew their attacks. Following a series of chair strikes by McDonough that finally submitted the Monster Amongst Men, it became a feeding frenzy. 

Strowman is now firmly implanted in a war with TJD after returning to the squared circle from injury, the WWE wasting no time in getting him involved in a top storyline that has many layers to it — e.g., Strowman vs. TJD with assistance from LWO. 

Count me in. 

Bron Breakker vs. Ricochet

Result: Breakker wins clean

Reaction: The “dog-faced gremlin”, as RAW general manager Adam Pearce described the young Steiner to his face following the latest rampage that defied a suspension and a fine, put himself on a collision course, literally, with Ricochet after attacking the high-flying WWE Speed Champion — narrowly missing Ilja Dragunov in the process (put a pin in this for now).

Finally, and I do mean finally, the WWE decided to end their ramp-up of Breakker in his transition from NXT dominance to rookie RAW talent, one that saw the promotion constantly booking him against mostly unknown talent who didn’t stand a snowball’s chance at the feet of Lucifer at defeating him. 

Enter Ricochet, a dynamic wrestler who is a bonafide middle card performer.

Brute strength was met by pure athleticism and gymnast ability in this one, and it was everything it was built up to be. There was even just enough smoke and mirrors to make you wonder if Ricochet would actually help Breakker get over, but then you consider the business side of things — Ricochet’s contract reportedly set to expire soon — and the due north trajectory of Breakker and it made plenty of sense for the rookie to take the W.

And so he did, but he had to earn it, and so he did.

I’ve seen plenty of people comparing Breakker to Hall of Fame wrestler Goldberg, but those people found out just how off that comparison is.

It’s fair when comparing the devastation of The Spear as the finisher, and the pure strength, but what Goldberg never had was the sheer ability of Breakker. If you don’t believe me, let the FrankenSteiner on Ricochet off of the top rope that preceded The Spear ahead of the three count.

And this was after Breakker kicked out of a Recoil from Ricochet. 

Not satisfied with simply defeating opponents lately though, Breakker decided to continue attacking Ricochet and even picked up the steel stairs to throw it at the beaten foe before several officials ran out to stop him, and then Dragunov (I told you we’d get back to this) rushed out to Ricochet’s aid before Breakker made a break for it.

Those two also know each other very well from their time together at NXT.

With two extremely impressive acts now beefing with Breakker, his arc at RAW can really begin to take hold, because the throwaway matches are now in his rearview mirror. 

*bark*

The New Day vs. The Authors of Pain

Result: AOP win clean

Reaction: Bravo Hunter, because this was quite the curveball. It felt as if this battle was a prepackaged victory for The New Day, all things considered, and the 11-time tag team champs had all of the rightful swagger going into this one … but something didn’t sit right with me from the outset.

It was something Karrion Kross said to Xavier Woods, and the reaction, or lack thereof, that he received from it; as anyone who’s followed professional wrestling can attest: pay attention to every little detail.

So when Kofi Kingston instructed Woods to follow him to the ring, you’d initially not think anything of it, but Kross then told Woods he wouldn’t have to “follow” Kingston anymore after this match. To that comment, Woods didn’t say a word. He instead simply side-eyed Kross, but it was less of a dismissal and more of a curiosity. 

This easter egg hatched during the match, or at least the shell began to crack, because TND wound up dropping the bout to a far less qualified and far, far less impressive duo in The Authors of Pain, but not because TND wasn’t the better team on Monday.

It was because Kross effectively caused Kingston to abandon his post to hop down to the floor and argue with him instead of being available for tag when Woods needed him most, resulting in Woods being dismantled with a Last Chapter for a clean pinfall. Afterwards, a disoriented Woods could be seen asking Kingston where he was when the match was on the line, and all Kingston could do was apologize.

Meanwhile, Kross stood on the ramp with the victors yelling, “I told you.”

And for the first time in the history of the group, we’re all left to wonder if TND could actually fracture and split … or could someone unexpectedly show up and prevent it from happening at the last second in the near future?

Maybe someone who knows them like no one else ever could, and maybe that someone’s name has a “big” ole’ vowel in it. 

Damian Priest vs. Rey Mysterio 

Result: Priest wins “clean”

Reaction: It’s no secret that TJD hasn’t had the best run of success since Mami’s departed with injury at the hands of Liv Morgan. That changed quite a bit this Monday night, with the exception of Carlito losing his match with Strowman but, even then, the faction was able to send a message to that One Big S.O.B. 

Priest set the tone for the night before it ever got underway, opting to try and cut off the head of the LWO in a main event match in Pennsylvania with the hopes of it serving as an exclamation point to TJD’s evening.

Mysterio, the babyface one, wasn’t an easy out for Priest and that tracks, because the Hall of Famer never is for any opponent. His heart and grit was on full display against Priest, despite being at a disadvantage in size and power. 

Where Priest was outmatched was with both experience and athleticism, as the 619 nearly reminded the WWE Heavyweight Champion aka El Campeon. 

It didn’t take long for the warring factions to join the fight, with Carlito (because of course) being the first to try and interfere before Dragon Lee deleted him, only to be deleted himself by Finn Balor. 

Priest used the distraction, though it wasn’t technically interference, to deliver a South of Heaven on Mysterio after grabbing him off of the top turnbuckle and land the pinfall. 

But, as predicted in my preview, Drew McIntyre would not miss the opportunity to try and weaken his Clash at the Castle adversary. As Priest attempted to stand from his victory, he found himself on the business end of a FutureShock DDT. 

McIntyre warned him earlier in the program to enjoy the moment in the sun, because winter is coming, but not quite yet — seeing as McIntyre was then choke slammed through the broadcaster's table by a pissed off Priest. 

Can McIntyre become the Night King in his homeland in two weeks? Priest better be ready for a fight, the likes of which would make Rob Stark blush, but McIntyre better be ready for the entire Judgement Day and every underhanded tactic that comes with it.

Then again, he should also be on the lookout for C.M. Punk. 

On to next Monday we go…

Patrik Walker

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Patrik [No C] Walker is an accredited, award-winning journalist and podcaster who has worked to become one of the most respected and recognizable forces covering the Dallas Cowboys. Having never lost his lifelong passion for the wrestling, the one-of-a-kind analyst is using his talents to complete a journey that began as a rambunctious kid wearing a championship belt fashioned from cardboard and aluminum foil, to the ranks of covering an industry that's had his heart pinned to the mat for decades now. Follow him on Twitter/X: VoiceOfTheStar.