Smark Out Moment

Tonight's episode of WWE Monday Night Raw for December 9, 2019 is coming to you live from the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC. Follow along here for ongoing coverage of the results of the show to find out what happens as things occur and chat with fellow WWE fans in the comments below!

• We're starting things with the divorce proceedings for Rusev and Lana. Blah blah blah. Lots of overacting. Arguing over their dog. Lana doubles down on the whole "Rusev wanted to have sex" thing. Rusev wants a match with Bobby Lashley. They fight. Rusev puts Lashley through the table. How much do you want to bet that's the whole setup for a tables match at TLC?
• Backstage, Kevin Owens tells Charly Caruso that AOP attacked him because Seth Rollins told them to. He bumps into Rey Mysterio who offers to watch his back and gives him the lead pipe for protection.
• Drew McIntyre defeated Matt Hardy by pinfall.
• Earlier tonight, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch had a chat in the locker room. Flair suggests they team up, even though they have their issues. Becky still doesn't trust her and would rather fight them in a handicap match.
• Backstage, Kevin Owens asks around if anyone's seen AOP. Mojo Rawley says they've gone to the left...to the right...both ways....so Owens slaps him and says "you just went THAT way". (I loved it).
• The Viking Raiders put out and open challenge. The Street Profits answer the call.
• The Viking Raiders defeated The Street Profits by pinfall. After the match, Erik and Ivar show Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford some respect. Seth Rollins comes out. He has some business to take care of right now. He wants to fight AOP. Kevin Owens comes out to say Rollins is calling them out because they're not there. AOP show up on the TitanTron arriving in the arena (Side note: Why the hell does WWE show this stuff so often? Why would people be allowed to show up an hour into the show?) Instead of AOP coming out to the ring, it's Sami Zayn with Mojo Rawley. Zayn is able to show up on Raw because he has a managerial license. Blah blah blah. Owens gives Rawley a stunner.
• Aleister Black defeated Akira Tozawa by pinfall.
• Hype package for Humberto Carrillo. Andrade and Zelina Vega interrupt and everyone argues in Spanish, so I have no idea what that was all about.
• Liv Morgan's makeover is coming soon.
• Humberto Carrillo defeated Andrade by pinfall.
• Owens is still looking for AOP.
• Buddy Murphy defeated Zack Ryder by pinfall.
• Owens attacks the van AOP was supposed to be in, but they're not there. They jump him from behind. Seth Rollins was the decoy for the plan. He gives Owens a curb stomp.
• Becky Lynch defeated The Kabuki Warriors by disqualification when Asuka used a steel chair. Asuka and Kairi Sane then brought out a table (cause, you know, it's December, so we have to set up the stupid TLC event). Sane gave Lynch an elbow drop through the table.
• The O.C. plans to take the Raw tag titles away from The Viking Raiders and the United States title away from Rey Mysterio, and if Randy Orton sticks his nose in their business again, they'll end his career.
• Flair checks on Lynch in the med room to make a point. Lynch agrees to team up. Flair leaves and is attacked by The Kabuki Warriors.
• Eric Rowan is out to fight a jobber, who runs out of the ring, grabs the cage, sets it on the stage and then runs back into the ring, hoping for a count out victory. AMAZING. I LOVE IT. But it doesn't work and Rowan makes the count and absolutely wrecks him. Erick Rowan defeated this jobber by referee stoppage.
  
• The Kabuki Warriors challenge Becky and Charlotte to challenge them for the titles for this Sunday. So there you go. Everyone agrees. Aaaand we're checking back AGAIN with Flair and Lynch, who say they want a TLC match. C'mon, WWE. It didn't take like 9 segments to do this tonight.
• The Street Profits parody SNL's Weekend Update by running down the TLC card. Confirmation that Rusev vs. Bobby Lashley will be a Tables Match and such.
• Rey Mysterio defeated AJ Styles for the United States Championship due to a distraction from Randy Orton, with zero time left in the show so they immediately cut away after the pin.