WWE RAW Notes: Mr. Iguana & El Hijo del Vikingo Appears, Bayley Hears Voices In Her Head, Sheamus vs. Rusev in Donnybrook Match Set for Clash In Paris, Bronson Reed Challenges Roman Reigns for Clash In Paris, Special Early Start Time & Card for 8/25 Show

Aug 18, 2025

Mr. Iguana & El Hijo del Vikingo Makes Appearance on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Lucha Libre AA talent Mr. Iguana making an appearance.

Is Mr. Iguana about to become a TAG TEAM CHAMPION?! pic.twitter.com/9cNFuQsRFC
— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2025

Mr. Iguana competed in a tag team match with Dragon Lee against Judgement Day’s JD McDonagh & Finn Balor on the show, which was won by Judgement Day with some help by Dominik Mysterio.

Following the match, Judgement Day attacked Mr. Iguana and Lee leading to El Hijo del Vikingo coming out from the crowd and attempted to save Mr. Iguana and Lee only for him to also eventually get laid out by Judgement Day in the end.

The Judgment Day keeps on WINNING! pic.twitter.com/2sVzy9CACY
— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2025

Bayley Hears Voices In Her Head Mocking Her & Her Failures

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured a new video promo segment featuring Bayley battling her inner voices in her head mocking her failures in her WWE career and all of her friends stabbed her in the back. Bayley covered her ears to try to drown out the noise leading to her being successful or at least she had thought. The video ended with Bayley’s inner voice saying she needs a hug.

bayley has a premonition pic.twitter.com/SerUz6Q1L2
— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2025

Sheamus vs. Rusev in Donnybrook Match Announced for WWE Clash In Paris

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new match announced for the card of Clash in Paris, which takes place on August 31st at the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, France.

This new match announced was a Good Old Fashioned Donnybrook match of Sheamus vs. Rusev.

This match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over Sheamus and Rusev’s heated bad blood issues with each other. During tonight’s show, Jackie Redmond interviewed Sheamus backstage asking him about his issues with Rusev. After some words by Sheamus, Rusev showed up to interrupt and got into a confrontation that was quickly broken up by WWE officials and security. RAW GM Adam Pearce showed up and after some angry words, announced a match between them at Clash in Paris.

“Yell at somebody today.” pic.twitter.com/awWQfQz7LF
— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2025

Current card for WWE Clash in Paris:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Fatal Four-way match – Jey Uso vs. LA Knight vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins (c)
Good Old Fashioned Donnybrook match – Sheamus vs. Rusev
John Cena vs. Logan Paul

Bronson Reed Challenges Roman Reigns for Match at WWE Clash In Paris

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new potential match for the card of Clash in Paris.

This new potential match is a singles match of “Big” Bronson Reed vs. Roman Reigns.

This new potential match was setup over recent weeks shows over Reigns’ bad blood issues with Reed and The Vision leading to Reed stealing two pairs of Reigns’ shoes and proclaiming it as his “shoe-la-fala.” During tonight’s show, Reed came out to interfere during the Extreme Rules match between Jey Uso and Bron Breakker. This led to LA Knight, CM Punk, and Seth Rollins also coming out and a big brawl breaking out. This brawl ended with Reigns showing up and proceeded to lay out Reed and Breakker to help Uso pick up the victory. As Reigns was celebrating with Uso, Reed issued a challenge to Reigns for a match at Clash in Paris.

OTC1 challenges Bronson Reed at Clash in Paris! 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/C7yFRBaH0M
— WWE (@WWE) August 19, 2025

Special Early Start Time & Current Card for Next Week’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured two new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on August 25th at the bb pulse LIVE in Birmingham, England.

It was also announced that next week’s show will be having an earlier than usual start time of 3PM EST due to it airing live in Birmingham.

These matches were setup following promos, storyline angles, and match card graphics throughout the show.

Current card for August 25th WWE RAW show: