WWE Raw Results: Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights After Crown Jewel

Welcome to Bleacher Report's live coverage and recap of WWE Raw on November 6.

Saturday's Crown Jewel featured some results that may have surprised a few fans. Not only did we see Logan Paul defeat Rey Mysterio to win the United States title, but we also saw Solo Sikoa get a dominant victory over John Cena.

Monday's show dealt with all of the fallout from the weekend's events, but it also began setting up Survivor Series: WarGames on November 25.

Among other matches, Ivar, Bronson Reed, Ricochet and The Miz competed in a Fatal 4-Way to find the next contender for Gunther's Intercontinental Championship.

Let's take a look at what happened on Monday's show.

Opening Segment

Raw opened with a video recapping Crown Jewel before Seth Rollins made his way to the ring. He thanked Drew McIntyre for not aligning with The Judgment Day so they could have a fair match.

Sami Zayn showed up, and Rollins thanked him for getting in Damian Priest's way and preventing him from cashing in his Money in the Bank contract at the weekend. The Visionary told him he could have a shot at the world title, and Zayn opted to take it in the main event.

Both of these guys are great and the crowd seemed to be having a good time, but this segment was twice as long as it needed to be.

Grade: B-

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Zayn going from feuding with one stable on SmackDown to feuding with another on Raw is starting to feel repetitive. This story needs to play out differently. 
• Rollins' bright yellow suit was somehow one of the most understated things he has worn in months. 

The New Day vs. The Judgment Day

Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods had a chance to prove they deserved a tag team championship match by facing Finn Bálor and Damian Priest in a non-title bout this week.

The two former world champions started for their teams when Bálor and Kingston had a fast-paced exchange that led to a double-team sequence from The New Day.

The Irishman and Priest have grown into a solid tag team. They both bring different skills to the table but find ways to combine them so they are a well-oiled machine.

The match ended relatively clean with Bálor hitting the Coup de Grace on Woods for the pin.

This was a decent opening match that didn't overstay its welcome and gave the champions a win over one of the most successful teams in WWE history.

Result: The Judgment Day defeated The New Day

Grade: B

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Woods and Kingston had new gear with roses all over it. 
• Priest is a veteran of this business, but you can still see him making improvements to his game all the time. Little things like how he throws a punch look so much better now than they did a couple of years ago. 
• It was surprising that nobody else from The Judgment Day was at ringside for this. It would have made perfect sense for JD McDonagh to be there so he could keep sucking up to Priest in order to win him over. 

Akira Tozawa vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

In an attempt to impress Alpha Academy, Akira Tozawa challenged Shinsuke Nakamura to a match.

The former 205 Live regular went right after The King of Strong Style and hit a couple of nice moves like a German suplex and a suicide dive.

They traded control back and forth a few times before Nakamura took his opponent down with a Kinshasa for a quick win.

This match had great energy and included more offense from Tozawa than expected, but it was still on the short side.

Otis confronted Nakamura but he just turned around and walked away from the powerhouse.

Result: Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Akira Tozawa

Grade: C

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Tozawa's German suplex looked just about as perfect as that move can get. 
• Seeing Tozawa used as a comedy act is kind of disheartening if you know how good he actually is. WWE rarely gives him the chance to show it. 
• Nakamura seemed less enthusiastic during this match than he has in other recent encounters. 

The Miz vs. Bronson Reed vs. Ivar vs. Ricochet

Four men fought for a shot at Gunther's Intercontinental Championship this week.

The Miz, Reed and Ricochet have all had run-ins with the titleholder at some point, and Ivar has been on a roll, so this bout wasn't as predictable as a lot of matches we get every week.

The Miz and Ricochet sort of teamed up at first to take on the two powerhouses, but they started going at it the moment they were alone in the ring.

The Highlight of the Night sent The A-Lister out of the ring before Ivar knocked his block off with a spinning kick for a two-count.

The first few minutes of this match gave everyone a bit of time with the upper hand. We saw every combination of opponents clash before we even got to the commercial break.

Everyone in the crowd seemed to get the most excited whenever Ivar and Reed would lock horns, so that might be a feud WWE wants to consider at some point.

This was a fun and frenetic match that made all four guys look good, which is not easy in situations like this. The Miz hit several moves we don't usually see from him to get a big pop from the crowd.

The ending seemed a bit screwed up from the looks of it. Based on how the ref reacted, The Miz and Ivar were supposed to get the pin at the same time, but Ricochet kicked out in what might have been a mistake.

Result: The Miz won to earn an IC title shot

Grade: B+

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Notable Moments and Observations

• WWE played two videos before this match. The first was for Natalya and the second had Raw general manager Adam Pearce hyping up this bout. 
• Let's just do a Best of Seven series with Ivar and Reed. We need more super-heavyweight fights in pro wrestling again. 
• Even though Ricochet is lighter than a lot of competitors, Ivar lifting him from a sitting position on the mat into a suplex position was still impressive. The hurricanrana Ricochet used to take him down right after was also cool. 
• This match had the first justified Tower of Doom spot in a long time. 

The Creed Brothers vs. DIY

Brutus and Julius Creed followed up their successful Raw debut against Alpha Academy last week with a match against Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa.

The Creeds came into this with the power advantage, but DIY had the edge in experience, so the teams ended up on a pretty even playing field.

They didn't waste time by starting slowly to feel each other out. They got right into the action and packed quite a bit into the first few minutes before the break.

Both of these duos are great at double-team offense, so we saw plenty of innovative spots sprinkled throughout the match. With both teams being babyfaces right now, this was a good, clean contest between two teams that could be important to the division in the near future.

Ciampa saved Gargano from taking the Brutus Ball, but it was all for naught. Ludwig Kaiser interfered and cost DIY the match to give the Creeds their second win on Raw.

This helps protect DIY and furthers a feud with Imperium while also giving a new young team a big victory.

Result: The Creeds defeated DIY with an assist from Ludwig Kaiser

Grade: B+

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Ivy Nile can be such a great addition to the Raw women's division. Let's hope WWE gives her some matches soon. 
• Julius standing up from the mat while holding up Gargano in a suplex position was an awesome display of power and balance. 
• The way Brutus sold the Widow's Bell DDT looked incredible. His whole body went limp like he was knocked out cold. 

Battle Royal

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Rhea Ripley

In order to find a new No. 1 contender to Rhea Ripley's women's world title, WWE held a Battle Royal with most of the Raw women's division.

The field included Becky Lynch, Nia Jax, Natalya, Tegan Nox, Chelsea Green, Piper Niven, Shayna Baszler, Zoey Stark, Kayden Carter, Katana Chance, Xia Li, Maxxine Dupri, Indi Hartwell, Candice LeRae, Nikki Cross, Raquel Rodriguez and Ivy Nile.

Li attacked Lynch during her entrance, so Pearce told her she was no longer in the match and sent her to the back.

After another break, the bout got started. This played out like most Battle Royals. We saw some comedy spots, a few interesting confrontations and a couple of surprising eliminations.

The final three competitors were Baszler, Rodriguez and Stark. After three superkicks and a DDT to The Queen of Spades, Stark scored the final elimination to get the win. She will take on Ripley at Survivor Series.

Result: Zoey Stark eliminated Shayna Baszler to win

Grade: C+

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Cross was still doing her blank stare that she started doing during her tag match with LeRae recently. 
  
• It was almost weird seeing Natalya in blue gear instead of black. 
• There was a funny moment with Jax, Cross and Rodriguez before Cross was thrown out of the ring. 
• Rodriguez eliminating Green was an entertaining spot. 
• Jax told Lynch that no one woman would eliminate her, and she was right. It was four women. 

Seth Rollins vs. Sami Zayn (World Heavyweight Championship)

The main event of this week's show was the World Heavyweight Championship match that was set up in the opening segment between Zayn and Rollins.

These two men are friends who respect each other, so they started with a simple, clean lockup that led to a nice technical sequence. Zayn played some mind games by patting Rollins on his injured back to show that he could have attacked it but chose not to.

Their offense got more aggressive as the contest progressed, but they kept it within the confines of the rules. Both competitors were taking a lot of risks to make this feel like an important main event.

Unsurprisingly, Zayn and Rollins put on a great performance that was met with chants of "This is awesome." After struggling to counter a Boston crab, The Visionary managed to roll his opponent over and keep him down for the pin.

The Judgment Day attacked Zayn as he was leaving the ring, and Rollins ended up getting taken down when he tried to help. Jey Uso came out to assist Rollins and Zayn, but the tide didn't turn until Cody Rhodes showed up to help.

Several producers and security guards broke up the fight, and Pearce had a meltdown on the mic. He booked The Judgment Day vs. Zayn, Uso, Rollins and Rhodes for WarGames.

Result: Seth Rollins defeated Sami Zayn

Grade: A-

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Having someone make their entrance just to have them wait 10 minutes in the ring for the match to start makes no sense. Zayn waited through a commercial break and a video package before Rollins appeared. 
• The Visionary wore the same outfit that he wore at Crown Jewel. You would think a fashion icon would know not to repeat outfits that close together. 
• Zayn is such a great singles performer. His tag team with Kevin Owens was great, but he is at his best when he is a solo act fighting against someone bigger than him. 
• The moonsault Zayn hit from the barricade looked nice. 

The Final Word

This week's Raw had to deal with the fallout from Crown Jewel and set up Survivor Series, and it managed to do both of those things relatively well.

The Fatal 4-Way match, Creeds vs. DIY, and The New Day vs. The Judgment Day were all good in different ways, but the best performance of the night was the main event with Rollins and Zayn.

The women's Battle Royal also had some interesting moments. Li taking out Lynch has set them on a collision course, Stark winning gives Ripley a fresh challenger, and a few other potential feuds were teased along the way.

This episode had some flaws, but the good outweighed the bad.

Grade: B