WWE spent most of 2025 telling fans that John Cena is the GOAT. Cena’s brief storyline with GUNTHER made it seem like WWE was actually saying Cena is the greatest sports entertainer of all-time, rather than the best professional wrestler. That’s why it was pretty interesting to hear the line that was fed to Michael Cole right after GUNTHER sent Cena into retirement as a quitter at Saturday Night’s Main Event, with the camera panning across the stunned live audience: “Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, professional wrestling destroyed sports entertainment.” The truth of the matter is that “sports entertainment” is a really stupid phrase that Vince McMahon tried for decades to replace what WWF and WWE fans always understood to be “professional wrestling.” The term always sounded like ridiculous nonsense; practically nobody goes around saying things to friends and family like, “I’m a huge fan of sports entertainment!”, “Stone Cold is my favorite sports entertainer of all-time!”, or “I want sports entertainment action figures for my birthday!”

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer puts the gold on the line tonight against Raquel Rodriguez. Women’s Intercontinental Champion Maxxine Dupri returns from her training at The Dungeon with Natalya to make her first Raw title defense tonight, and it’s against Ivy Nile. Considering that Ivy hasn’t won a match on Raw in 2025, it seems clear that Dupri will retain the belt as everyone awaits Becky Lynch’s eventual return from her current boycott of the show. WWE is revisiting one of its greatest tag team rivalries ever tonight with New Day vs. The Usos. Neither team is performing at its peak level at the moment, with New Day rarely ever winning on Raw these days, and Jey Uso reluctantly returning to tag team wrestling after failing so many times to win back the world heavyweight championship.

Rey Mysterio vs. Logan Paul is also booked on Raw. The YouTube douchebag now has The Vision backing him up, so Mysterio may very well end up as the next babyface who is Tsunami splashed through a car by the time tonight’s show is over. Finally, a pissed off World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk returns to Raw for the first time since he was pinned at War Games. CM will address all the trash that Bron Breakker’s been talking in recent weeks, as well as the masked mystery man who is running around in WWE and helping The Vision.