WWE RAW Results Coverage, Reactions and Highlights for December 16, 2024

It’s Monday night, and you know what that means! The post-WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event episode of RAW will go down tonight, and Ringside News has got you covered with live play-by-play results coverage for the December 16, 2024 episode.

The start time for WWE RAW is 8:00 PM EST. Match-by-match highlights and results from the show will take place on this very page. Feel free to leave any reactions in the comment section below.

WWE RAW Lineup (12/16/2024):

• “The Best In The World” CM Punk will kick off the show
• Seth “Freakin” Rollins will appear
• The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) will address the WWE Universe
• WWE Intercontinental Championship Match: Bron Breakker (c) vs. Imperium’s Ludwig Kaiser
• WWE World Tag Team Championship Match (The Judgment Day is banned from ringside): The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh) (c) vs. The War Raiders (Erik and Ivar)
• WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament First Round Triple Threat Match: Pure Fusion Collective’s Zoey Stark vs. The Judgment Day’s Raquel Rodriguez vs. Kayden Carter

WWE RAW Results (12/16/2024):

The show opens up with Joe Tessitore welcoming us, while we get a shot of the host city. We then see the arrivals of The Judgment Day, WWE Intercontinental Champion Bron Breakker and Ludwig Kaiser in the backstage area. Tessitore then says there will be a medical update on Cody Rhodes, while we see video footage of him being on the receiving end of a package piledriver from Kevin Owens.

CM Punk’s music then hits and he makes his way down to the ring to address the WWE Universe. Punk starts off by telling the fans to be careful because some people might get mad if you chant his name. Punk also calls out a fan in the front row for having the balls to wear a New York shirt in Boston. Punk then says is it great to be alive on a Monday night in Boston or what. Punk then says he is feeling a little low and was in a bad mood. Punk then recalls Seth Rollins indicating that he thinks about him a lot and then telling Rollins that he doesn’t think about him at all. Punk then says he’s in a bad mood because Rollins is right. Punk then says as much as he’d like to put their issues in the past and avoid it, it’s only a matter of time before they meet in the ring. Punk then says that he knows when he’s addressing the fans, Rollins’ stupid music will hit and he can come in clogs. Punk then compares Rollins to Liberace and says it’s not an insult because he thinks Liberace is cool as hell. Punk then says wearing Elton John sunglasses doesn’t make you Elton John. Punk then says just because Rollins grew up working CM Punk doesn’t make him CM Punk. Punk then says he’s not litigating the past and he’s looking to the future. Punk then says Rollins wants to paint him as a bad guy. Punk then says he will be the bad guy. Punk then asks the fans if they’ve ever been the bad guy in their life. Punk then says he’s the bad guy because there’s no such thing as a bad student, there’s just bad teachers. Punk then calls Rollins his failure. Punk then says if Rollins wants to interrupt him, he will give him the wrestling lesson that he asked for years ago for free. Punk then asks Rollins if he’s tougher than Drew McIntyre. Punk then says Rollins might think he is, but Boston knows that Rollins is not. Punk then says there wouldn’t be enough staples to put Rollins back together once he’s done with him. Punk then expresses some surprise that this didn’t piss off Rollins enough to come out. Punk then notes that the fans chanted his name during Rollins promos.

Seth Rollins then appears in the crowd and starts chanting CM Punk’s name. Rollins then says life is about perspective, then calls Punk an a**hole. Punk then tells Rollins he belongs in the audience with the rest of his fans and Rollins says he will always be a fan. Rollins then says he put WWE on his back and made it stronger when Punk abandoned it. Rollins then makes his way down to the ring, but Punk meets him in the crowd and the two begin to brawl. RAW General Manager Adam Pearce and other officials then appear at ringside and separate the two men. Punk then breaks free and gets some shots in, then Rollins breaks free and jumps on top of Punk. Punk and Rollins then enters the ring and throws some punches at each other until they are pulled apart again. Punk and Rollins are then pulled to ringside. Both men then pick up some chairs, but the producers and referees are able to keep them apart. Rollins then acts like it was over, then hops the barricade and takes a long path to get to Punk for another round of punching until they are pulled apart again.

We then head inside The Judgment Day clubhouse, where Finn Bálor wondered where the rest of his crew was when he was left facing two men at once. Liv Morgan then recalls Bálor saying he didn’t need help. Morgan also says the rest of the faction is banned from ringside during Bálor and JD McDonagh’s tag team championship match later tonight. Morgan, Dominik Mysterio and Raquel Rodriguez then leaves the room. Bálor is then seething, while McDonagh and Carlito are focused on their WWE video game.

Ludwig Kaiser then makes his way down to the ring for the first match of the night, which is a WWE Intercontinental Championship Match.

We then see the Triple H video with the new Monday Night RAW logo for the Netflix debut. Joe Tessitore then hypes Wednesday’s WWE on Netflix kickoff event that will stream online from WWE Headquarters.

We then see Seth Rollins walking backstage. Adam Pearce then follows Rollins, who tells Pearce he wants a match with Punk. Pearce then tells Rollins to let him do his job. Drew McIntyre then shows up to confront Rollins after Pearce leaves. McIntyre recalls Rollins telling him that he needed to get over his issues with Roman Reigns and The Bloodline. McIntyre then says it’s not so easy when it’s staring you in the face. McIntyre then says he and Rollins know that Punk is the same person he was and that includes Sami Zayn and Jey Uso. Rollins then says McIntyre thinks they have a common cause and are friends. Rollins then says he took Reigns out of power at WrestleMania and he had Zayn and Jey at his side. Rollins then says he respects Zayn and Jey. Rollins then tells McIntyre that he is going to do something that McIntyre couldn’t do and that is end CM Punk.

We then see video footage of Ludwig Kaiser slapping Bron Breakker last week in a backstage segment and Bron Breakker makes his way down to the ring for the first match of the night.

WWE Intercontinental Championship Match: Bron Breakker (c) vs. Imperium’s Ludwig Kaiser

The match starts off with Bron Breakker delivering some shoulders on Ludwig Kaiser’s midsection in the corner. Breakker then follows it up with a back body drop, but Kaiser sends Breakker into the opposite corner and hits him with an open palm strike. Breakker then delivers some right hands on Kaiser, then sends him out of the ring. Breakker then delivers more right hands on Kaiser in the corner. Breakker then hits Kaiser with a spinebuster and goes for a pin, but Kaiser kicks out. Breakker then hits a bodyslam on Kaiser and follows it up with a suplex and a clothesline off the apron that sends Kaiser crashing over the announce desk. Both men then get back in the ring and Breakker places Kaiser on the top turnbuckle. Kaiser then escapes and delivers some stomps on Breakker’s shoulder. Kaiser then begins targeting Breakker’s shoulder and wears it down before he hits a dropkick on his shoulder. Breakker then delivers some right hands on Kaiser. Kaiser then sends Breakker’s shoulder bouncing off the top rope and hits a stomp on it, then follows it up with a kick on it. Breakker then nails Kaiser with a jumping knee and follows it up with a couple of clotheslines, then hits him with a flying back elbow and places him on the top turnbuckle. Breakker then hits Kaiser with a hurricanrana off the top rope, but Kaiser responds with a Death Valley Driver on Breakker and goes for a pin. Breakker then kicks out and Kaiser continues wearing his shoulder down with a submission hold. Kaiser then sends Breakker crashing into the middle turnbuckle shoulder first, then sends him out of the ring. Breakker then nails Kaiser and sends him back inside the ring, then hits him with a gutbuster and follows it up with the Super Spear for the win.

The winner and still the WWE Intercontinental Champion, Bron Breakker!

The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) are then shown walking backstage and they are about to enter the men’s locker room, but WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio comes out and stops them. Mysterio says it isn’t just him as everyone in the locker room doesn’t want them there. Mysterio then says after what they said to Big E, he felt it is best that they find somewhere else to dress. Woods then says it is okay because they didn’t want to share a locker room with all of them anyway.

Classic still shots of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Mike Tyson, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna are then shown from RAW in Boston back in 1998.

We then get a video package recapping the Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens match for the Undisputed WWE Championship on Saturday Night’s Main Event. We then see video footage from after Saturday Night’s Main Event of Owens hitting Rhodes with a package piledriver followed by Rhodes being stretchered out of the arena.

Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett then speaks from their desk. Barrett says that it was a banned piledriver that took Randy Orton out and now Owens used a package piledriver on Rhodes as well. Tessitore then reads through the storyline injuries suffered by Rhodes and says X-Rays are negative and Rhodes returned home where he is resting.

We then get a promo video from The War Raiders. Erik and Ivar speaks about the major surgeries they went through. Erik then says he held his newborn son two weeks ago. Ivar then says The Judgment Day tried to end their careers. Erik then says his son has to know that all of the pain and damage was worth it and the only way they can prove that is to bring home the World Tag Team Titles.

We then get a video hyping Monday Night RAW’s debut on Netflix on January 6 in Los Angeles. Tessitore then hypes Roman Reigns vs. Solo Sikoa in Tribal Combat on the RAW debut on Netflix.

We then head to the back, where Cathy Kelley is speaking with RAW General Manager Adam Pearce about the RAW debut on Netflix and asks if he can confirm any additional matches. Pearce then announces CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins for the January 6th show. We then get a graphic listing Punk vs. Rollins, while commentary speaks briefly about it. Tessitore also hypes the RAW on Netflix kickoff special set to take place on Wednesday at 1PM CT/2PM ET and says Triple H will be there with Punk and Rollins. Tessitore also says Michael Cole will host the event.

WWE Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan, “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio and Raquel Rodriguez then all make their way down to the ring. Dominik Mysterio demands that the live fans put their hands together to welcome the greatest World Champion of all time. Morgan then uses a megaphone while repeating what Dominik said about her being the greatest Women’s World Champion of all-time. Morgan then says 2024 is the year of Monday Night Morgan. Morgan then says we’re just getting started. Morgan then says there are a lot of historic changes happening in WWE next year and there’s no one better to lead the company into the future than her. Rhea Ripley’s entrance music then interrupts Morgan. Ripley says Morgan will care about what she has to say. Ripley then enters the ring and tells Morgan to shut up. Ripley then says it’s gone on long enough and it’s time to settle things once and for all. Ripley then says Adam Pearce made it official by naming her the No. 1 Contender for the Women’s World Championship. Ripley then says she will be the new Women’s World Champion and the only thing Morgan will be left with is her little chicken tender slut. Dominik then acts like he was taken aback by Ripley’s insult.

We then see Jackie Redmond catch up with Seth Rollins and she informed him about the match with CM Punk being made official. Drew McIntyre is then shown walking quickly towards Redmond and Rollins. Sami Zayn then appears and fights with McIntyre until they are pulled apart by producers and referees.

Zoey Stark then makes her way down to the ring for the next match of the night, while Wade Barrett assumes that McIntyre was going to attack Rollins had it not been for Sami Zayn. Raquel Rodriguez is already in the ring for the match.

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