WWE RAW Notes: Dragon Lee Wins Shot at WWE Intercontinental Title, New Lola Vice Vignette Airs, Joe Hendry Surprise Return, Penta Wins WWE World Heavyweight Title #1 Contender Tournament & To Face Roman Reigns at 9/14 Show, 9/7 Show Card

Dragon Lee Earns Shot at WWE Intercontinental Title

Monday’s taped WWE RAW show featured Dragon Lee defeating “All Ego” Ethan Page in a #1 Contender’s match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.

THE DRAGON 🐉@dragonlee95 is now the No. 1 Contender for the Intercontinental Title! pic.twitter.com/7yTWmtCeJq

— WWE (@WWE) September 1, 2026

As a result of his victory, Lee will be facing off against Chad Gable for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at the September 14th WWE RAW show in Mexico City, Mexico.

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New Lola Vice Vignette Airs

Monday’s taped WWE RAW show featured another vignette airing hyping up Lola Vice’s upcoming arrival to the RAW brand.

This video also featured the same text of “9.14” hyping up her official debut at the September 14th WWE RAW show in Mexico City.

another Lola vignette I’m so excited for her debut🥹 pic.twitter.com/6IyopPw9uO

— manihausen ݁ᛪ༙ (@mani_uce) September 1, 2026

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Joe Hendry Makes Surprise Return

Monday’s taped WWE RAW show also featured Joe Hendry making a surprise return.

During the singles match between, Dominik Mysterio and Je’Von Evans, Judgement Day’s JD McDonagh interfered to help Mysterio, Judgement Day continued their attack on Evans leading to Hendry coming out to save Evans and set up a tag team match between the two teams right afterwards.

Adam Pearce has SPOKEN! 🗣️ @ScrapDaddyAP

We now have an impromptu tag match! pic.twitter.com/Z70A0JsoyX

— WWE (@WWE) September 1, 2026

This tag team match ended with Judgement Day defeating Hendry and Evans.

FINAL JUDGMENT 👊@jd_mcdonagh uses his big head to knock out Joe Hendry leading to the @DomMysterio35 frog splash! pic.twitter.com/rdcR7en9F8

— WWE (@WWE) September 1, 2026

This was Hendry’s first appearance since his squash match loss to Bron Breakker at the August 3rd WWE RAW show.

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Penta Wins WWE World Heavyweight Title #1 Contender Tournament & To Face Roman Reigns at Sept. 14th WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Penta defeating Rey Fenix in the Finals of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender tournament.

PENTA WINS 🔥 @PENTAELZEROM

A match for the AGES!!! pic.twitter.com/mLjK0VwGrP

— WWE (@WWE) September 1, 2026

As a result of his victory, Penta will be facing off against Roman Reigns for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at the September 14th WWE RAW show at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico.

Penta beats Rey Fenix!

Roman Reigns vs Penta is going to be SPECIAL.#WWERAW pic.twitter.com/fOX3IjAJRP

— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) September 1, 2026

Current card for September 14th WWE RAW show:

• WWE World Heavyweight Championship – Penta vs. Roman Reigns (c)
• WWE Intercontinental Championship – Dragon Lee vs. Chad Gable (c)

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Current Card for Next Week’s Show

WWE announced several new matches for the card of next week’s show on September 7 at the Legacy Arena At The BJCC in Birmingham, Alabama.

The new matches announced were:

• Men’s and Women’s Money in the Bank Qualifying matches to begin

Current card for September 7th WWE RAW show:

• WWE Women’s World Championship – Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan (c)
• Men’s and Women’s Money in the Bank Qualifying matches to begin