Quick Summary: Roman Reigns closed Raw by putting World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk through the commentary table with a powerbomb in the most explosive segment of the night. Penta retained the Intercontinental Championship against Dirty Dominik Mysterio after Finn Balor showed up and created enough chaos to swing the match. AJ Lee accepted Becky Lynch’s WrestleMania challenge after Lynch provoked her with a promo that got deeply personal. Je’Von Evans looked spectacular beating Grayson Waller, the Vision beat the Usos by disqualification in the tag title match, and WrestleMania 42 is now 26 nights away in Las Vegas.
Event: WWE Raw Date: March 23, 2026 Venue: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts Commentary: Michael Cole and Corey Graves
Quick Match Results
- The Vision (Logan Paul and Austin Theory) defeated The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) via disqualification in a World Tag Team Championship match. The Usos retain.
- Je’Von Evans defeated Grayson Waller via pinfall.
- Bayley and Lyra Valkyria defeated The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) via pinfall.
- Penta defeated Dirty Dominik Mysterio via pinfall to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
Full WWE Raw Results — March 23, 2026
The show opened with the standard WWE video package before the drone camera swept over Boston. TD Garden was loud from the opening minute. Dirty Dominik Mysterio arrived alongside Liv Morgan and the rest of Judgment Day. Bayley and Lyra Valkyria were shown talking backstage ahead of their match with the Kabuki Warriors. World Tag Team Champions the Usos made their entrance. Je’Von Evans was spotted greeting iShowSpeed in the back before heading to prepare for his match against Grayson Waller.
The big storyline hanging over everything tonight was straightforward. World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk and Roman Reigns were going to be in the same building. With WrestleMania 42 just 26 nights away at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, that was more than enough to have Boston buzzing before the first match even started.
Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman Open the Show, Oba Femi Makes Another Statement
Brock Lesnar’s music hit to a thunderous reaction to start the night. Lesnar walked out in a cowboy hat wearing a shirt that read “FAF5,” with Paul Heyman right beside him. The crowd was already chanting “Oba” before Heyman got a single sentence out, and Lesnar was visibly irritated by it.
Heyman opened by running through Lesnar’s credentials, reminding Boston they were looking at the only man in history to hold the NCAA, UFC, and WWE Heavyweight Championships. Then he pivoted to last week. He acknowledged that Lesnar had fought through roughly twenty masked men before Oba Femi made his move, and argued that Femi’s moment only happened because Lesnar was already deep in multiple fights and distracted by Seth Rollins at the same time. Heyman called it opportunistic rather than impressive.
He then rattled off the long list of names who were supposedly going to be the one to beat Lesnar over the years. Goldberg. Braun Strowman. Dean Ambrose. Bobby Lashley. AJ Styles. John Cena. None of them got it done. Heyman said Femi was simply the latest name on that list and promised he would be victimized and conquered at WrestleMania just like the rest of them.
Then the lights went out.
Oba Femi walked to the ring to a massive ovation. He stood across from Lesnar and the two stared each other down. Lesnar threw the first shot, kicking Femi and hoisting him up for an F5. Femi slipped off the back, fired back with a clothesline, and sent Lesnar tumbling over the top rope to the floor. Lesnar stood at ringside looking genuinely stunned. Heyman pleaded with him to walk it off and head to the back. Lesnar eventually backed up the ramp, but he was not happy about it. He shouted that Femi was not that lucky. Femi stood in the ring and posed as the crowd roared.
For the second consecutive week, Femi got the better of the exchange. The WrestleMania match is set, and Femi is not behaving like someone who is intimidated by the legend across from him.
World Tag Team Championship: The Vision def. The Usos via Disqualification (Usos Retain)
The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) (c) vs. The Vision (Logan Paul and Austin Theory)
Logan Paul and Austin Theory came in aggressive from the start. Theory worked over Jey early and tagged Paul in quickly, with Theory taking Jimmy out at ringside to keep the numbers advantage. The Vision controlled the opening stretch.
After the commercial break, Jimmy caught Paul with a step-up enzuigiri to swing the momentum. Michael Cole took a moment during the comeback to pay tribute to the late Dennis Condry.
Jey got the hot tag on Theory and went through his full sequence of clotheslines and punches. Theory ripped the turnbuckle pad off to try to create a distraction, tossed it at Jey, and went for a Rolling Thunder. Jey caught him, but Theory nearly stole it with a pin attempt before Jey ducked a clothesline and connected with a Spear.
Jey climbed to the top rope, but Paul climbed up and crotched him. Jimmy grabbed Paul to stop him, but Paul drove Jimmy headfirst into the ring post. Paul pulled out his brass knuckles, and that is when LA Knight’s music hit. Knight ran out, attacked Paul from behind, and sent him crashing into the ring post. Knight slid the knuckles into the ring. Jey put them on, but the referee caught him and called for the bell immediately.
Winners by Disqualification: The Vision. The Usos retain the World Tag Team Championship.
Jey did not let it end there. He came back and knocked Paul out cold with the brass knuckles anyway. The win goes to the Vision on paper, but the Usos stood tall when it was over.
The aftermath set up the next chapter. Backstage, LA Knight walked with the Usos, and Knight told Jey he was starting to act like Roman Reigns. Jey took serious exception to that. Jimmy stepped in to cool things down and warned Knight to be very careful about how he speaks when it comes to their family.
Becky Lynch Provokes AJ Lee into a WrestleMania Match
Becky Lynch came to the ring to heel heat and did not seem bothered by it at all. She opened by asking how the crowd could boo her while cheering someone who disappeared for a decade. She acknowledged taking ten months off herself but said that was nothing compared to ten years. She said she went home because people got tired of watching her succeed, and that her family appreciated her even when the fans did not.
Lynch then made it personal in a way that shifted the entire tone of the segment. She said when she went home after losing at Elimination Chamber, she found her daughter singing AJ Lee’s entrance theme, skipping around the house, flicking her hair like what she called “Jersey scum.” She said her daughter did not seem to realize her mother was the greatest of all time, a fact backed by Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Report. Lynch wrapped it up by dismissing Lee’s entire career as a product of the Divas Era, a chapter she claimed to have personally killed.
AJ Lee came sprinting to the ring. Lynch slipped out through the crowd before Lee could get her hands on her. Lee climbed onto the commentary table and fired back hard. She told Lynch she fights dirty and said she would embarrass her one more time and tap her out on the biggest stage in the business. Lee then officially accepted the challenge and made it official. She would put the Women’s Intercontinental Championship on the line against Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 42.
Lynch smiled from the crowd and said Lee had walked right into her trap. She reminded Lee of the last time she wrestled at WrestleMania, pointing out that Lee handed in her resignation the very next day and was gone for a decade. Lynch promised that at WrestleMania in Vegas, she would take the title and end Lee’s career so definitively that she would never have to hear from her again.
This was a well-constructed promo exchange. The personal detail about Lynch’s daughter changed the atmosphere in the building and gave the rivalry genuine emotional weight heading into WrestleMania.
Je’Von Evans def. Grayson Waller
Grayson Waller (w/ Kofi Kingston) vs. Je’Von Evans
Boston Celtics guard Derrick White and head coach Joe Mazzulla were seated at ringside and received a loud ovation from the home crowd.
Evans was electric from the opening bell. He opened with a leapfrog sequence, a backflip to create distance, a dropkick, and a springboard hurricanrana that had the crowd immediately locked in. He followed that with a huge suicide dive that nearly sent him headfirst into the floor. It was the kind of reckless, fearless athleticism that makes Evans genuinely exciting to watch.
Waller took control during the commercial break and slowed things down. After the break, Evans began to fight back with a superkick, some ground and pound, and a springboard clothesline that brought the crowd back to life. He hit the Red Dot for a near fall before Waller began to find counters.
The finish was something else entirely. Evans hit a standing top rope super hurricanrana from the second rope, immediately climbed back to the top, and connected with the OG Cutter for the pinfall.
Winner by Pinfall: Je’Von Evans
Kofi Kingston refused to attack Evans during the match despite Waller demanding it. That tension between Waller and Kingston continues to simmer and it seems like it is only a matter of time before that situation boils over.
Paul Heyman Addresses Seth Rollins, Gets Forearm to the Face
Raw General Manager Adam Pearce pulled Paul Heyman aside backstage and told him he had arranged time for Heyman to address Seth Rollins in the ring. Heyman did not want to do it, but Pearce gave him no choice.
Heyman walked to the ring looking genuinely uncomfortable. He opened by admitting he was having a bad night. He noted that Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker were both out of action, Lesnar had left the arena in frustration, and Logan Paul and Austin Theory were barely conscious after the tag match. He was out there alone.
He acknowledged that Seth Rollins had been a thorn in his side for a long time. He described Rollins as a stalker and a jaded ex who fancied himself a Visionary. He said WWE was not big enough for both of them and threw out what sounded like an open invitation, suggesting maybe it was time for Rollins to come down and put him out of his misery.
Heyman looked around the arena nervously. A masked man appeared at ringside and climbed onto the commentary table. Heyman did not see him. When the mask came off, it was Rollins. Before Rollins could get into the ring, police officers appeared and blocked him. Heyman finally turned around and smiled when he realized what was happening.
Heyman then revealed he had filed a restraining order against Rollins. He threatened that violating the order would mean jail time, divorce from his wife, and losing custody of his daughter. He went very far with the threat, saying he would personally adopt Rollins’ daughter himself.
Rollins had heard enough. He broke free from the police, got into the ring, and cracked Heyman with a forearm to the face. Officers dragged him away as Heyman smiled from the mat, knowing exactly what he had done.
Bayley and Lyra Valkyria def. The Kabuki Warriors
The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) vs. Bayley and Lyra Valkyria
This was a competitive tag match with a clean finish. Asuka and Sane used smart double-team work to control Bayley early, cutting the ring in half and not giving her a clean path to tag out.
After the break, Valkyria got the hot tag and ran through both Kabuki Warriors with a diving crossbody. She hit a sit-out powerbomb on Sane for a near fall before Asuka came in off a blind tag and hit a codebreaker to swing momentum back.
The sequence that ended the match came together quickly. Valkyria hit a fisherman’s buster on Asuka. Bayley followed with a diving elbow from the top for a near fall. Asuka responded with a German suplex on Bayley. Sane landed a double stomp with Valkyria trapped in the tree of woe, but Bayley broke up the pin. Asuka took Bayley out with a kick and Bayley fired back with a Bayley-to-Belly on the commentary table, which brought the crowd to their feet. Asuka moved out of the way of a diving elbow attempt from Bayley on the table.
Valkyria ended it with a wrecking ball dropkick to both Kabuki Warriors and then hit Nightwing on Sane for the pinfall.
Winners by Pinfall: Bayley and Lyra Valkyria
After the match, both women confirmed they will be at Madison Square Garden next week. Their opponents Nia Jax and Lash Legend have been calling their names, and the Women’s Tag Team Championship match at MSG is now official.
In the backstage aftermath, Asuka blamed Kairi Sane for the loss and walked off. IYO SKY approached Sane and told her she deserved better than how Asuka was treating her. This storyline has been developing slowly and quietly, but it is starting to feel like something real is coming between Asuka and Sane.
Stephanie Vaquer Attacks Liv Morgan Before the Intercontinental Title Match
Before Dominik Mysterio and Liv Morgan could even make it to the ring, Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer came out of nowhere and attacked Morgan from behind. Mysterio tried to pull Vaquer off, and she responded by foreaming him in the face. Officials flooded the area but Morgan fought back hard. The two brawled all the way into the Gorilla Position where Vaquer slammed Morgan on the floor before referees finally separated them.
It was a chaotic scene that shifted the atmosphere heading into the Intercontinental title match.
WWE Intercontinental Championship: Penta def. Dirty Dominik Mysterio (Penta Retains)
Dirty Dominik Mysterio (w/ JD McDonagh) vs. Penta (c)
Mysterio jumped Penta before the bell even rang, attacking him from behind during ring announcer Alicia Taylor’s introductions. Referee Eddie Orengo stepped in, backed Mysterio off, and called for the bell with the match officially underway.
Penta recovered quickly and answered with a backbreaker and a handstand slingshot corner dropkick. Mysterio came back by knocking Penta to the floor and hitting a suicide dive into a DDT on the outside. Mysterio took a rough landing on that spot.
After the break, both men went back and forth at a good pace. Penta hit a reverse sling blade, a tope con hilo to the outside, and a diving crossbody back inside. He blocked a kick attempt and connected with a fisherman’s buster for two. The Penta Driver nearly ended it but Mysterio stayed alive.
The most dramatic sequence came when Penta set up for the Mexican Destroyer. JD McDonagh jumped on the apron to distract him, and Mysterio recovered with a 619 attempt. Penta superkicked him out of his boots on the way in. Penta set up for the Mexican Destroyer again, but McDonagh distracted him a second time. Mysterio landed the 619 and went to the top rope looking for the Frog Splash.
That is when Finn Balor walked out.
McDonagh immediately ran over to deal with Balor on the stage, and Balor took him apart. Mysterio got distracted watching it happen, went for the Frog Splash anyway, and Penta got his knees up. Penta covered him and got the three count.
Winner by Pinfall and still WWE Intercontinental Champion: Penta
Balor was not finished. He got in the ring, hit Mysterio with a Sling Blade, and connected with a shotgun dropkick. Mysterio escaped to the floor, so Balor hit the ropes and took both Mysterio and McDonagh out with a somersault senton on the outside. Back in the ring, Balor hit McDonagh with a shotgun dropkick and then climbed to the top to land the Coup de Grace. Mysterio retreated through the crowd with a very worried look on his face.
Balor has been making it abundantly clear that his issues with Dirty Dominik are far from settled, and the crowd in Boston responded loudly every time he was in the ring.
CM Punk and Roman Reigns End Raw in the Most Explosive Segment of the Night
World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk was walking in the Gorilla Position when Jimmy Uso pulled him aside and warned him that Jey was in a serious mood tonight. Punk walked to the ring anyway to one of the biggest reactions of the night.
Punk opened his promo by bringing up Jimmy’s warning to the crowd, getting a laugh out of Boston by suggesting he should probably watch what he says. He then pivoted to Roman Reigns and pointed out that Reigns cannot seem to do anything without leaning on his cousins and that no one in the Samoan family has been able to operate independently. He said he had them so rattled that Reigns gave the whole family permission to come after him, and still nobody had tried him.
Then Punk addressed the “old” comment from Reigns the previous week. He acknowledged it directly and with zero defensiveness. He told the crowd he was old, and when a few in the audience cheered that, he admitted he would be lying if he said otherwise. But he said he was not ashamed of it. He pointed out that Reigns covers his gray hair with product while Punk wears his gray whiskers openly. He compared himself to Terry Funk in his middle-aged prime and referenced Nolan Ryan throwing no-hitters and beating Robin Ventura’s ass at an age where most athletes would have retired. He said age is just a number, called himself “Mr. Game Seven,” and said the older he gets the better he performs under pressure.
He finished by noting that Reigns underestimating him was a mistake. Last week, the “old man” dropped Reigns with one punch. At WrestleMania, the old man would hit the GTS and walk out still champion.
Jey Uso came to the ring fired up. He told Punk to stop talking about his family and said they could handle it right now. Jimmy came out to calm his brother down, reminding him that they had already picked up a disqualification earlier and had their tag titles on the line at MSG next week. Jey was not hearing it. He said Punk had everything to do with this.
Then Roman Reigns walked out.
The crowd erupted. TD Garden sang his name and the “OTC” chant filled the building. Reigns surveyed the ring, stared at Punk, and then looked at his cousins. In as controlled a tone as possible, he told his cousins to get out of his ring. Punk told them to stay. Jey finally snapped and charged at Punk. Punk cracked him in the face with the microphone. Jimmy grabbed Punk from behind, and Reigns stepped in and dropped Punk with a Superman Punch.
Officials and Adam Pearce came sprinting to the ring. Jey was screaming at Reigns to finish it. Reigns got back in the ring, loaded up, and cut Punk in half with a Spear. Then he dragged Punk to the floor and drove him headfirst into the ring post. Twice. Then he picked him up and put him through the commentary table with a powerbomb.
Reigns stood over the wreckage looking completely in control. The crowd chanted for one more time. Then the camera found Punk. He was lying in the ruins of the commentary table, laughing. Reigns turned around and saw it, and the fury on his face was real. Punk looked up, still laughing, and said he was not the one who needed help.
Reigns walked to the back. Punk laughed in the rubble. Raw went off the air.
Next Week on Raw — Madison Square Garden
- Brock Lesnar returns
- Women’s Tag Team Championship: Nia Jax and Lash Legend (c) vs. Bayley and Lyra Valkyria
- IYO SKY vs. Raquel Rodriguez
- World Tag Team Championship: The Usos (c) vs. The Vision in a New York Street Fight
Coverage by Vijayabalaji, WWELiveTV.com. Covering WWE since 2011.
