WWE Uncooked Outcomes: Winners, Reside Grades, Response and Highlights From Sept. 23
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On the highway to Dangerous Blood on October 5, WWE Uncooked rolled into the Toyota Middle in Ontario, California, with a fundamental occasion pitting Jey Uso in opposition to Bron Breakker for the Intercontinental Championship.
The title match headlined a broadcast that additionally featured the newest in Sami Zayn’s pursuit of the World Heavyweight Championship held by Gunther, Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest’s tried revenge on The Judgment Day, and Drew McIntyre’s response to CM Punk’s phrases from every week in the past.
What went down, who emerged with momentum on their facet and the way did every phase grade out?
Discover out with this recap, together with an evaluation of every main match and improvement from Monday’s present.
Match Card
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- Intercontinental Championship: Jey Uso vs. Bron Breakker
- Sami Zayn vs. Ludwig Kaiser
- Drew McIntyre promo
Introduced prematurely for Monday’s episode have been:
Ante Upped for Rhea Ripley vs. Liv Morgan at Dangerous Blood
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- As Mysterio and Morgan entered the sector, Braun Strowman and Bronson Reed crashed by an oddly positioned merch stand, persevering with their brawl from every week in the past.
- It was good to see Morgan take heart stage and get the person promo time after fading into the remainder of The Judgment Day in current weeks. She had been too robust a heel to not be featured forward of SummerSlam and Bash in Berlin.
- “I am gonna beat you, not as a result of I am larger than you, stronger than you; I’ll beat you as a result of I am smarter than you,” Morgan mentioned. Foreshadowing, thy identify is Liv.
- This was a powerful promo to begin the present that targeted on Ripley and Morgan’s unsettled variations after shifting the main focus to the overarching conflict between The Judgment Day and Terror Twins.
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Ladies’s world champion Liv Morgan and Dominik Mysterio kicked off Monday’s present with a victory lap to rejoice the previous’s revenge tour going based on plan.
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Rhea Ripley interrupted and had two necessary bulletins to make.
Firstly, she is cleared to compete following a knee harm suffered just a few weeks again. Secondly, Mysterio won’t be able to intervene on behalf of Morgan at Dangerous Blood in Atlanta as a result of he shall be suspended above the ring in a shark cage.
The Eradicator rocked Morgan with a headbutt, knocking her to the ground and leaving Mysterio to verify on her.
Grade
B+
Prime Moments and Takeaways
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Sami Zayn vs. Ludwig Kaiser
3 of 10
- Kaiser is among the most intriguing wrestlers on the WWE roster. He has the presence and in-ring capability to be a top-tier expertise, but it surely appears like he has to interrupt away from Gunther to make that occur ultimately.
- Analyst Wade Barrett linked the gang’s response to Zayn’s capability to battle again from something. They love him, and he feeds off of it, utilizing their cheers to gasoline him. Nice stuff from the colour commentator.
- The backstage phase that includes Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods and American Alpha, which included Kingston clinging to the previous to win his companion over and reinvigorate their crew, was nice stuff. It is about time The New Day felt necessary on this present once more, and Woods’ story has been pretty much as good as any.
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Sami Zayn continued his pursuit of the World Heavyweight Championship within the night time’s opening contest, besting Ludwig Kaiser in a stellar matchup.
Kaiser reduce Zayn off at each flip, placing him on the defensive and exhausting his power. Each time the babyface tried a comeback, the right-hand man of the world champ reduce him down.
Nevertheless, the resilient Zayn caught Kaiser with a German suplex and delivered the Helluva Kick for the win.
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After the match, Gunther emerged from the locker room, teased awarding his rival a title alternative after which denied him once more, a lot to Zayn’s dismay.
End result
Zayn defeated Kaiser
Grade
B+
Prime Moments and Takeaways
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NEW DAY.
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Dragon Lee vs. Carlito
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- There was not a lot to this one, with most significant motion happening across the squared circle. Lee picked up a win, which is all the time welcome given his immense expertise, however LWO appears like a faction that’s caught on a reserving treadmill with no actual course, which is extra of an indictment on the artistic course of than something.
- Karrion Kross continued his makes an attempt to tug the monster out of The Miz, which is intriguing however contemplating we by no means actually acquired a payoff to his story with Woods (at the least, as of but), one has to marvel what the endgame right here is apart from to current the previous NXT champion as a grasp manipulator who by no means wins.
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Morgan rallied the troops forward of Carlito’s match in opposition to Dragon Lee, reminding him, JD McDonagh and Mysterio that the LWO tried to value The Judgment Day the WWE World Tag Staff Championship every week in the past.
It labored momentarily, with McDonagh and Mysterio laying out Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde at ringside, offering a momentary distraction that ought to have given Carlito the benefit in opposition to his opponent.
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As an alternative, Rey Mysterio flew from out of nowhere to put out the heels at ringside whereas Lee dodged a sneak assault by his opponent.
Lee downed Carlito and scored the pinfall victory seconds later, giving the LWO a key victory of their facet program with The Judgment Day.
End result
Lee pinned Carlito
Grade
C
Prime Moments and Takeaways
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The Miz vs. Bronson Reed…Or Not
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- The Miz being overshadowed and discounted as a result of Strowman and Reed had unfinished enterprise stayed consistent with his story. On the identical time, Tessitore’s noting that he was nowhere to be discovered suggests there may be nonetheless a little bit of that previous cowardly heel Miz working by his veins.
- The Strowman-Reed program has been excellent. Triple H discovered a option to take two super-heavyweights right here in 2024, in an period the place followers want quicker, faster and extra athletic, and make them as related as they’ve been in years by letting them beat the life out of one another.
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The match between The Miz and Bronson Reed by no means acquired began as Braun Strowman attacked, resuming his ongoing rivalry with the Australian.
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They brawled round ringside, leveling safety and standing tall to shut out the phase whereas play-by-play commentator Joe Tessitore famous: “Miz is nowhere to be discovered.”
End result
No match
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Drew McIntyre Responds to CM Punk
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- “I promise, I’m going to make you bleed. Loads,” The Scottish Warrior warned Punk.
- “It is acceptable you in contrast your self to the satan once more final week as a result of this has all the time been about good vs. evil, hasn’t it?” McIntyre was nice right here, echoing the widespread theme of his argument in opposition to Punk all through this program: He’s unhealthy for the enterprise and the locker room and the Scot desires him out of WWE.
- Backstage, Uncooked normal supervisor Adam Pearce instructed interviewer Jackie Redmond that Strowman and Reed will meet subsequent week in a Final Monster Standing match. From there, Pearce interrupted a beatdown by Pete Dunne to Sheamus that concluded with a vicious shot from a cricket bat.
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Drew McIntyre hit the ring to answer CM Punk’s phrases of warning from every week in the past.
Like Punk, he spoke clearly and instantly, promising to punish his rival not like he has ever punished anybody earlier than, even supposing neither of their households need them to set foot inside Hell in a Cell.
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He vowed to interrupt Punk completely in Atlanta on October 5 to wrap up his promo.
Grade
A
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Harm CTRL vs. Unholy Union
7 of 10
- Belair and Cargill have been the identical assured champions they’ve all the time been, however the followers’ response to Sane and Sky right here was overwhelmingly constructive, which begs the query: Would the gang activate the champions and root for the possible challengers?
- Extra importantly, which crew works babyface?
- The work Fyre and Daybreak have put in throughout this run has been underrated. They’ve been precious property to the ladies’s division as central heels for fashionable babyfaces to fight. Their ring work has been stable, even when the artistic has left rather a lot to be desired.
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Moments after a backstage confrontation with girls’s tag crew champions Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill, Harm CTRL’s Iyo Sky and Kairi Sane inched nearer to a title alternative with a victory over former holders Isla Daybreak and Alba Fyre.
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An excellent, prolonged, action-packed match noticed the heels isolate Sane and work over the wounded left eye of The Pirate Princess that she injured when she smacked her face off the announce desk just a few weeks earlier.
Sane fought by the ache and punishment, tagged Sky into the match, and The Genius of the Sky sparked the babyface comeback.
After Sane wiped Fyre out with an In-Sane Elbow on the ground, Sky delivered a picture-perfect Over the Moonsault to Daybreak for the victory.
End result
Harm CTRL defeated Unholy Union
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
The New Day vs. American Made
8 of 10
- This was a powerful match between two nice groups. The chemistry was off the charts and whereas it was needed for the story at play, an easy match with a clear end would have enhanced this much more.
- Tessitore appropriately known as out Woods for speaking about composure earlier within the present, solely to lose his cool and the match.
- Backstage, a pissed off Woods disrespected Rey Mysterio and LWO, claiming the Corridor of Famer would not have time for him as a result of he is not a former world champion like Finn Bálor. They agreed to Woods vs. Mysterio on subsequent week’s present whereas Kingston tried to speak sense into his companion.
- WWE produced a superb video bundle highlighting the Bálor-Damian Priest feud that can culminate in a match at Dangerous Blood.
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Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston have been moments away from successful a match in opposition to American Made that might have reversed the fortunes of The New Day.
As an alternative, Woods let his feelings get one of the best of him and the crew dropped yet one more contest, this time to Julius and Brutus Creed.
The heels remoted Woods for many of the match till a scorching tag to Kingston sparked the comeback. Late, with Brutus down at ringside following a somersault plancha from the previous WWE champion, Woods set his sights on ending Julius along with his top-rope elbow drop.
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As an alternative, Chad Gable interjected himself within the match.
Woods unleashed weeks of frustration on the Olympian, bringing him into the ring and unloading on him. Julius recovered, hit a leaping knee and Brutus completed him with a Brutus Ball for the win.
End result
American Made defeated The New Day
Grade
B+
Prime Moments and Takeaways
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Intercontinental Championship: Jey Uso vs. Bron Breakker
9 of 10
- A lot was manufactured from Uso’s failure to win singles gold in his earlier six matches that it was too apparent he would win right here, whereas additionally too apparent that they might swerve the viewers and rob the followers in Ontario of the title change. Good on WWE for delivering the pleased ending.
- “Bron Breakker can do what your favourite heavyweight can do and, concurrently, he can do what your favourite cruiserweight can do,” Wade Barrett mentioned after the champion delivered a top-rope Frankensteiner.
- The gang erupted for Uso’s victory, a testomony to all the pieces he has achieved to ascertain himself as a singles star past The Bloodline.
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The seventh time was the attraction for Jey Uso, who erased the frustration and frustration of his six earlier failures to gather singles gold by defeating Bron Breakker and successful the Intercontinental Championship in the principle occasion of Uncooked.
It was not straightforward, although.
Uso absorbed large punishment from Breakker, who probably might have ended his opponent’s Cinderella story any time he needed however allowed his vanity and hubris to value him.
Within the closing moments of the match, he tried the tremendous spear across the ringside space, solely to catch a superkick from Uso.
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A near-fall deflated the viewers till the challenger Yeeted Breakker with a Spear by the timekeeper guardrail, one other again within the squared circle, and one final Uso Splash for the pinfall and the title.
End result
Uso defeated Breakker to win the Intercontinental Championship
Grade
B
Prime Moments and Takeaways
Total Grade
10 of 10
A lot hype and anticipation went into Uso vs. Breakker that the principle occasion of Monday’s present would finally resolve how the episode was acquired.
The match began slower however picked up, delivering a flurry late and the result followers demanded and deserved. Their assist of Uso has been unwavering since he jumped into singles motion, and his win over Breakker was the one end result.
The match felt like an enormous deal, a premium stay event-worthy showdown that WWE correctly hyped and offered on commentary by Tessitore and Barrett.
The remainder of the present was robust, too. Extra targeted, even.
Triple H and Co. eased off of The Judgment Day, thus stopping overexposure, whereas shining a highlight on Woods, Kingston and what appears to be a cracking New Day. The newest in that feud, the robust match between Zayn and Kaiser and denial of a championship alternative by Gunther, all furthered ongoing tales.
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Throw within the newest from Strowman and Reed forward of subsequent week’s Final Monster Standing match, a tease for the returning Viking Raiders and a haunting new QR code from the Wyatt Sicks, and also you had a present that maximized its three-hour run time and set the stage for future episodes.
An amazing effort.
Grade: B+