WWE Raw Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from March 7

Welcome to Bleacher Report's coverage and recap of WWE Raw on March 7.

With WrestleMania 38 still four weeks away, WWE is taking a measured approach to setting up the card. So far, seven matches have been booked between both nights.

Monday's show continued to build up the big event by having a few people stop by. Not only did Jerry Lawler make a special appearance, but Edge and Logan Paul also showed up to hype their upcoming 'Mania matches.

Reigning Raw tag team champions Chad Gable and Otis put the belts on the line against RK-Bro and the team of Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens.

Let's take a look at everything that happened on Monday's episode of Raw.

Alpha Academy vs. RK-Bro vs. Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins

Raw opened with a recap of events from the house show held in Madison Square Garden on Saturday. We saw Roman Reigns attack Brock Lesnar after his WWE title match against Austin Theory.

When we went live in the arena, Kevin Owens made his way to the ring with Seth Rollins. They talked about their quest to earn a spot on the WrestleMania 38 card until Alpha Academy and RK-Bro joined them for the Triple Threat tag team championship match.

Unlike some three-way tag bouts where only two men are legal at once, this match saw one man from each team in the ring at the same time. This allowed certain combinations of opponents to temporarily work together against the third Superstar in the ring.

While Rollins and Owens would be classified by most as heels, they were the heavy favorites judging by the crowd's reaction to them. Every single time they hit a big spot or scored a near-fall, the fans erupted. In fairness, Orton was just as over with the audience.

The match we saw here was a lot of fun. All three teams had sufficient time to look good, but Rollins and Owens might have looked the best. In the short amount of time they have been together, they have developed incredible chemistry as partners.

This whole match was fun from start to finish. Riddle and Orton winning was genuinely surprising, and in most cases, that is a good thing in pro wrestling.

Grade: A

Notable Moments

• Owens screaming "That was three!" to the ref after Rollins only got a one-count on Riddle was hilarious.
• Rollins hit a beautiful springboard crossbody to Riddle and Gable at the same time.
• Otis could have won but picked Riddle up to prevent the pin when he got cocky.
• Orton and Riddle working together to drop Otis on the announce table with a double back suplex was a nice spot.
• The Tower of Doom spot with Alpha Academy, Rollins and Owens looked great.
• Orton hitting the RKO to Gable in the middle of a moonsault was incredible.
• The opening promos and this match took up the first 45 minutes.

Dana Brooke vs. Tamina

Before Dana Brooke and Tamina met for a match, they each had a moment with their respective beaus backstage. Both women got kisses for good luck, but Tamina's was a bit more aggressive.

After a short exchange, Brooke was able to get the pin when she reversed a Boston crab into a seated pinning combination. It wasn't much of a match.

Grade: D

Notable Moments

• Tamina stopping Brooke in the middle of a handspring elbow looked good.
• Having Brooke power out of a Boston crab the way she did would work against most women because she is so muscular, but it makes a lot less sense against someone like Tamina. She is supposed to be a powerhouse.

The Miz with Logan Paul, Dirty Dawgs vs. Bron Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa

The Miz came out to a warm welcome from his hometown Cleveland crowd, but the mood changed when he brought out Logan Paul to join him. He received more of a mixed response.

Jerry Lawler joined them in the ring. The Miz trashed Cleveland to get some heat before leaving. This whole thing was a big waste of time. Thankfully, we got a tag team match after that with Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode taking on Bron Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa.

This was a rematch from last week's episode of NXT 2.0 and a small preview of what we can expect from Ziggler vs. Ciampa vs. Breakker for the NXT title on Tuesday.

This was a good tag match but nothing people will be talking about by tomorrow. Breakker definitely stood out the most out of the four competitors and not just because his gear was so bright.

Breakker and Ciampa were able to score the win, but Ziggler made sure to remind them that in Tuesday's Triple Threat, they will be enemies.

Grades: F (Lawler, Paul and The Miz), B- (Tag team match)

Notable Moments

• Lawler mentioning four different Ohio cities to get cheap pops seemed excessive even for him. Mick Foley would never.
• The Miz getting the same crowd that chanted for him to boo him so loudly was some solid heel work. He's such a pro at this.
• Ziggler still has one of the best dropkicks in the game. He always hits his mark and makes it look good.
• The way Breakker is able to press somebody over his head with ease is incredibly impressive.

Omos vs. Apollo Crews, Edge Promo

Omos faced Apollo Crews in a match, but he seemed to be distracted by Commander Azeez before the fight even got going. Crews was able to get in more offense than most of Omos' opponents, but he was still defeated in a couple of minutes.

Squash matches are fine at first, but Omos needs to start having more competitive bouts if he wants to have longevity in WWE.

This was followed by a segment with Edge explaining why he attacked AJ Styles so viciously last week. He came out in a suit without his music to accompany him to the ring.

The Rated-R Superstar says he is finally being the real Edge and he feels more in control than ever before.

Grade: C- (Omos match), B (Edge promo)

Notable Moments

• The staredown between Omos and Azeez was genuinely interesting. We'll see if WWE follows up on it.
• The small detail of Edge coming out without his music changed so much about this. We got to hear the crowd react to him as he ignored their pleas for high-fives on the way to the ring.
• The blue lighting in the ring, while the house lights stayed off, was a nice touch.

Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley vs. Carmella and Queen Zelina

Rhea Ripley found herself a new tag team partner in Liv Morgan. They faced Carmella and Queen Zelina in a non-title match with the implication that if they won, they would earn a shot at the Women's Tag Team Championships.

This was a relatively uneventful tag bout, but it was nice to see them get enough time to do more than one or two tags. We actually got to see all four women for significant portions of the match.

While Carmella was distracted talking to Corey Graves, Ripley defeated Zelina to earn herself and Morgan a spot in the tag title bout at WrestleMania 38.

Grade: C

Notable Moments

• Zelina hitting Ripley with a tornado DDT looked all right, but it looked more like Ripley threw herself than anything else.
• Ripley holding Mella up in a suplex while kicking Zelina away made her look very dominant.
• Carmella being too distracted by her boyfriend to help her partner is not a good way to advertise their reality show.

Austin Theory vs. Finn Balor, Final Segment

The main event of the night saw Finn Balor face Austin Theory. The new United States champion was not defending his title here, but his pride was still on the line.

Both of these guys are incredible athletes who are in their prime, so they were clearly going to come out and leave a big impression with their performance.

This was fast-paced, had some innovative offense and allowed both guys to hit some of their most popular moves. This was a main event that both delivered and gave us a good idea of what a feud between Balor and Theory could look like.

Damian Priest attacked Balor to cause a disqualification. Once he left, Theory picked the bones and hit Balor with his finisher before taking a selfie.

Grade: B+

Notable Moments

• WWE confirmed Vader will be going into the Hall of Fame this year right before the match. We broke the news here Monday morning.
• We might need to run a poll about who has the more defined abs between these two.
• The way Theory scooped Balor up for a fisherman's suplex looked so effortless.
• It was hard to tell if Priest was getting legitimate heat or if WWE edited those reactions into the show.
• KO came out to end the show with his plan for getting a spot on the WrestleMania card. He eventually challenged Steve Austin to appear on "The KO Show" at the pay-per-view.