WWE: Roman Reigns Set To Open 8/25 WWE RAW Show, Stephanie Vaquer on Naomi’a Pregnancy & Their WWE Women’s World Title Match Being Cancelled, Seth Rollins on “ESPN Deal Will Legitimize WWE Even Further”

Aug 22, 2025

Roman Reigns Announced To Open August 25th WWE RAW Show

WWE announced one new segment for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on August 25th at the bb pulse LIVE in Birmingham, England.

This new segment announced was a promo segment featuring Roman Reigns. It was also announced that Reigns will be kicking off the show.

🚨 BREAKING: ROMAN REIGNS KICKS OFF #WWERAW ON MONDAY!#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/slCiuZ1vF4
— The Movement – Pro Wrestling (@TheMovementXx) August 22, 2025

Current card for August 25th WWE RAW show:

Rhea Ripley vs. Roxanne Perez
Penta vs. Kofi Kingston
Roman Reigns to open the show

Stephanie Vaquer Comments on Naomi’s Pregnancy & Their WWE Women’s World Title Match Being Cancelled

As noted before, this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania featured WWE Women’s World Champion Naomi officially announcing that she is pregnant with a child and relinquished her title.

Stephanie Vaquer reflected earlier today on Twitter congratulating Naomi and Jimmy Uso on the pregnancy and gave her thoughts about her match against Naomi for the WWE Women’s World Championship at Clash in Paris being cancelled as a result.

“I didn’t tell you before because you were surely overwhelmed with emotions, but I want to congratulate you and Jimmy on the future superstar that’s on the way ❤️. Someday I’ll tell your baby how they helped you escape from me and prevented ‘Stephanie Velcro’ from winning the title in Paris 🙃☺️😆.
Enjoy this new chapter, I know you’re going to be a great mom, Chiquita. I’m already ready for Paris and I’ll be here, waiting for you whenever you decide to come back 💪🔥”

I didn’t tell you before because you were surely overwhelmed with emotions, but I want to congratulate you and Jimmy on the future superstar that’s on the way ❤️. Someday I’ll tell your baby how they helped you escape from me and prevented ‘Stephanie Velcro’ from winning the… pic.twitter.com/hhF7xVyT0C
— Stephanie Vaquer (@Steph_Vaquer) August 22, 2025

Seth Rollins Comments on “ESPN Deal Will Legitimize WWE Even Further”

A recent episode of ESPN’s Get Up show featured Seth Rollins as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rollins’ thoughts about WWE’s recent new partnership deal with ESPN to air their PLEs on ESPN’s new streaming service.

“The fact that we’re here teaming up with ESPN, it’s like my two favorite things in the world — sports and WWE — coming together. It’s huge for us as an industry. Professional wrestling has been a part of Americana for many, many, many years with different iterations and as we start to dip our toe further into the mainstream and really integrate ourselves into the mainstream, this is a huge step for us legitimatizing what we do as artists, as athletes. For me personally, to be a part of the ESPN family is huge. I’m looking forward to this partnership and everything that is brings.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com