WWE: Three New Matches & More Set for 7/28 WWE RAW Show, WWE Reportedly Had “Full Falling Out” with Travis Scott, Drew McIntyre Announces He Was Denied Entry Back to the U.S. & Current Stuck in the U.K., More News

Jul 27, 2025

Three New Matches & More Announced for Monday’s WWE RAW Show

WWE RAW General Manager Adam Pearce announced three new matches and three new segments for the card of this Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

In regards to the new matches, the first new match announced was a WWE World Tag Team Championship match of LWO (Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro) vs. Judgement Day (JD McDonagh & Finn Balor) (c).

The second new match announced was a singles match of Jey Uso vs. “Big” Bronson Reed.

The third new match announced was an Eight-Women Tag Team match of Rhea Ripley, IYO SKY, Nikki Bella, & Stephanie Vaquer vs. Naomi, Chelsea Green, & The Secret Hervice (Alba Fyre & Piper Niven).

In regards to the new segments, it was announced that Roman Reigns, CM Punk, and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Gunther will be making an appearance on the show.

#WWERaw GM @ScrapDaddyAP has your OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ahead of the final #RawonNetflix before #SummerSlam tomorrow night!

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Current card for July 28th WWE RAW show:

WWE World Tag Team Championship match – LWO (Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro) vs. Judgement Day (JD McDonagh & Finn Balor) (c)
Eight-Women Tag Team match – Rhea Ripley, IYO SKY, Nikki Bella, & Stephanie Vaquer vs. Naomi, Chelsea Green, & The Secret Hervice (Alba Fyre & Piper Niven)
Jey Uso vs. “Big” Bronson Reed
Roman Reigns to appear
World Heavyweight Champion Gunther to appear
CM Punk to appear

WWE Reportedly Had “Full Falling Out” with Travis Scott & Dropped All Plans for Him

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that WWE recently had a full falling out with rapper Travis Scott.

Meltzer reported that this was the reason why Scott was removed as the planned celebrity playable character and replaced with El Grande Americano for the New Wave DLC pack for the WWE 2K25 video game.

Meltzer reported that the reason for the falling out between WWE and Scott is currently not known but this is also why it has been “open season” for WWE talents to knock him publicly.

In regards to the original decision for Scott to be included in WWE 2K25, those spoken to close to the situation reportedly stated that while they do have celebrities in the game, fans have indicated that they would rather have wrestlers than celebrities for new playable characters additions. Meltzer reported that the belief was that by adding celebrities, this may open up the game to fans of those celebrities who have a far bigger fanbase following than a non-marquee wrestler for that spot.

Drew McIntyre Announces He Was Denied Entry Back to the U.S. & Current Stuck in the U.K.

Drew McIntyre announced earlier today on TikTok that he was denied entry to the United States and is currently stuck in Great Britain after traveling there for a wedding this weekend.

McIntyre stated that he was denied the chance to board his flight back home due to the fact he did not have his U.S. passport with him and only his U.K. passport instead.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources within WWE confirmed that McIntyre’s situation is legitimate and the company is currently dealing to resolve it.

WWE News & Notes

As noted before, Chad Gable has been out of action for WWE since this past June due to a shoulder injury and surgery. Sunday’s MLB game of Washington Nationals vs. Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis, Minnesota featured Gable being interviewed in the crowd and revealed that he has been dealing with an injured rotator cuff for the specific nature of his injury.

WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque recently announced that Lucha Libre AAA’s upcoming Triplemania XXXIII event on August 16th in Mexico City, Mexico will be streaming live on YouTube.

Paramount recently released a new first look trailer for their upcoming new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy television series for their Paramount Plus service. This upcoming new series features Becky Lynch among the cast.

The upcoming live action animated film Coyote vs. Acme starring John Cena is currently scheduled to be released in theaters on August 28, 2026.

In a recent interview with Women’s Wear Daily, sportscaster Erin Andrews announced that she recently signed a partnership deal with WWE for the creation of women’s sportswear collection for WWE’s wrestlers and Premium Live Events.

As noted before, WWE is currently interested in potentially signing former AEW and Ring of Honor talent Leyla Hirsch to a non-wrestling referee role in the company. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources clarified the reports of WWE wanting Hirsch to work as a referee and provided additional details. Meltzer reported that those spoken to stated that Hirsch was the one who reached out to WWE and wanted to be a referee in the company. Meltzer also reported that Hirsch did get a tryout with WWE last month but no other details were given.

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, passed away on July 24th at the age of 71 due to a cardiac arrest. Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that prior to his passing, Hogan’s health had taken a turn for the worst and he could no longer talk. One person close to Hogan spoken to reportedly stated that Hogan’s health situation at the time was not as bad as Bubba The Love Sponge was claiming but it was much worse than what anyone else was saying. Another source spoken to reportedly stated “Bubba pretty much had legit info the whole time. Basically, what happened with Hulk was they took him out of the hospital and made a hospital in his house as there wasn’t much left they could do.” This same source reportedly also stated that Jimmy Hart was privately telling Hogan’s friends and former friends that it wasn’t good but to keep it quiet.

WWE recently released three new videos for their on-going Top 25 SummerSlam matches of all-time countdown. The #6 spot was the WWE Tag Team Championship TLC match of The Dudley Boyz (Bubba & D-Von Dudley) vs. The Hardy Boyz (Matt & Jeff Hardy) vs. Edge & Christian (c) from SummerSlam 2000. The #5 spot was the WWE Championship Steel Cage match of Owen Hart vs. Bret “The Hitman” Hart (c) from SummerSlam 1994. The #4 spot was the No Disqualification match of CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar from SummerSlam 2013.

In a recent interview with Abema, IYO SKY gave her thoughts about the origin of her rapid pointing to her head with both hands signature taunt. SKY stated “This, right? (taunts) It’s me! It’s me! It’s me! It’s me, right? It’s like ‘look at me!’ or ‘I did it!’ It just kind of came out naturally, you know? Then when I did it, people started reacting little by little. So I thought, ‘let’s keep doing it’. Now everyone’s like ‘yay!” (English translation via meraWrestling)

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, Daria Berenato, former Sonya Deville in WWE, gave her thoughts about how ‘Pure Fusion Collective’ was a terrible name for her former group with Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark. Berenato stated “They just didn’t wanna go back to it (partnership with Chelsea Green). They didn’t wanna go back to it and I had pitched that it would be a natural angle to go after Piper (Niven) and be like, what the hell? B*tch, that’s my f*cking championship! Very natural angle. But they had this idea for this faction and so that was where we were gonna go… While I was out, I did pitch coming back in my MMA gimmick. Like a modified version but I did pitch going back to my roots and I think Triple H had the same kind of idea and he was like, ‘Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Let’s do this group,’ and when he told me the group, I was like, okay, interesting. I didn’t know how the three of us were going to blend together — me, Zoey (Stark) and Shayna (Baszler) in PFC. So, I was open-minded to it and of course, whatever he wants, let’s do… I saw myself more as the mouthpiece in that scenario and I was like, oh, okay. But we couldn’t get our footing and then we were given the name Pure Fusion Collective and I thought that was terrible. I don’t think it was ever going to be the thing, but, we tried to make it work.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of this week’s WWE SmackDown show on August 1st in Newark, New Jersey: