WWE RAW Notes: Lillian Garcia Surprise Return & Replaces Samantha Irvin, New Day & LWO Advances in WWE World Tag Titles #1 Contender’s Tournament, Seth Rollins vs. Bronson Reed Set for Crown Jewel, Bron Breakker Wins IC Title, 10/28 Card

Oct 21, 2024

Lillian Garcia Makes Surprise Return & Replaces Samantha Irvin

As noted before, WWE RAW brand ring announcer Samantha Irvin announced her departure from WWE earlier today.

During the start of Monday’s WWE RAW show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WWE legend Lillian Garcia made a surprise appearance and was announced to be the new ring announcer for RAW going forward.

#WWERaw is LILIAN! 🎤 pic.twitter.com/z2nnowzSgY
— WWE (@WWE) October 22, 2024

New Day & LWO Advance in WWE World Tag Titles #1 Contender’s Tournament

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured two First Round matches for WWE’s current World Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s tournament.

The first tournament match was New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston) defeating Authors of Pain (Akem & Rezar).

New Day advances in the tag tournament.#WWERAW pic.twitter.com/yBN7G2rm2Z
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) October 22, 2024

The second tournament match was LWO (Dragon Lee & Rey Mysterio) defeating American Made (Julius & Brutus Creed).

LWO vs New Day vs War Raiders for a shot at the World tag team titles NEXT WEEK ! #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/Vyf1jjnqzy
— Chris The Wrestling Informer 🇧🇪 (@Thewrestlingin1) October 22, 2024

As a result of their victories, New Day and LWO advance to the Triple Threat Finals with War Raiders that will be taking place on next week’s RAW show.

Seth Rollins vs. Bronson Reed Announced for WWE Crown Jewel 2024

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new match announced for the card of WWE’s Crown Jewel 2024 event, which takes place on November 2nd at the Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

This new match announced was a singles match of Seth Rollins vs. Bronson Reed.

This match was initially setup over recent weeks shows over the bad blood issues between Rollins and Reed. During tonight’s RAW show, Rollins and Reed engaged in several brawls around the venue leading to RAW General Manager Adam Pearce snapping and yelling at both of them. An extremely angry Pearce stated that he has had enough and they will be facing off against each other in a match at Crown Jewel 2024.

Our #WWERaw GM just LOST IT backstage and made a match official for #WWECrownJewel! pic.twitter.com/WayhTey2ka
— WWE (@WWE) October 22, 2024

Current card for WWE Crown Jewel 2024:

Men’s Crown Jewel Championship – Cody Rhodes vs. Gunther
Women’s Crown Jewel Championship – Nia Jax vs. Liv Morgan
Seth Rollins vs. Bronson Reed

Bron Breakker Wins Intercontinental Title on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Bron Breakker defeating Jey Uso to become the new Intercontinental Champion.

During the match, the Bloodline came out from the crowd leading to Uso becoming upset over them showing up and laid out Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa. Uso would then get into a verbal confrontation with Solo Sikoa on the outside that ended after Breakker accidentally speared Sikoa after Uso dodged his running spear attack around the ring. After some more back-and-forth action, Tama & Loa attempted to interfere again leading to Adam Pearce and WWE officials rushing out and sending them to the back. This led to Uso attempted a running spear around the ring to Breakker only to get hit with a superkick by Jacob Fatu while the referee was not looking. Fatu then picked up Uso and hit a Samoan Drop to him onto the announcer’s table that did not break. This then led to Breakker grabbed Uso and tossing him back into the ring and hit a spear for the pinfall victory.

BRON BREAKKER has just defeated Jey Uso to regain the #ICTitle! 😲 pic.twitter.com/HykpAUzAys
— WWE (@WWE) October 22, 2024

2-time Inter-BRON-tinental Champion!#AndNew pic.twitter.com/67rnFQw4u3
— WWE (@WWE) October 22, 2024

This was Breakker’s second Intercontinental Championship victory in his WWE career.

Current Card for Next Week’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured one new match announced for the card of next week’s show on October 28th in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

This new match was setup following storyline angles and match card graphic shown throughout the show.

Current card for October 28th WWE RAW show:

WWE World Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Finals Triple Threat match – LWO (Rey Mysyerio & Dragon Lee) vs. New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) vs. War Raiders (Ivar & Erik)