WWE RAW Notes: Oba Femi Appears, Lucha Masked Chad Gable Makes Surprise Return & Gable Claims Its Not Him, Raquel Rodriguez Wins Shot for Women’s IC Title, Roman Reigns Makes Surprise Return, John Cena to Appear & Early US Start Time for 3/17 Show

Mar 10, 2025

Oba Femi Makes Appearance on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York featured current NXT Champion Oba Femi making a surprise parlance on the show.

Prior to the start of the Tornado Tag Team match between the New Day and LWO, Femi was shown in the front row of the crowd and held up his NXT Championship belt.

Lucha Masked Chad Gable Makes Surprise Return & Claims Its Not Him on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Chad Gable making his surprise return to WWE.

Near the end of the Tornado Tag Team match between the New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston) and the LWO (Dragon Lee & Rey Mysterio), a mystery masked person ran out and leaped off the Prime Energy Drink stand with a flying hurricanrana to Lee and followed it with a leaping head-butt. This led to Mysterio attempting to attack this mystery person only to get attacked in return and hit Mysterio on the apron and followed it with a delayed German suplex.

This mystery masked person wore a USA colors mask that had the words “American Made” on it leading to RAW commentators Michael Cole and Pat McAfee debating if that really was Gable. This mystery masked person then raised up his arms Gable style and shouted out “Gracicas” before being grabbed by security only for this mystery person to escape and run away.

In a follow-up segment, Gable was seen walking backstage and was stopped by Cathy Kelly who wanted some answers over him returning earlier as a masked luchador and attacking the LWO. Gable claimed that was not him and after some banter between the two, the camera zoomed in to the background revealing this mystery masked person being led away by security. This led to Kelly giving a puzzled look over what just happened.

This was Gable’s first in-person appearance in WWE since the February 3rd WWE RAW show due to him going on a storyline break to learn the “Dark arts of Lucha.”

Raquel Rodriguez Wins Shot for Women’s IC Title on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Raquel Rodriguez defeating Bayley in a #1 Contender’s match for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

As a result of her victory, Rodriguez will be facing off against Lyra Valkyria for the Women’s Intercontinental title at a future show.

Roman Reigns Makes Surprise Return on Monday’s WWE RAW Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured Roman Reigns making his surprise return.

Near the end of the Steel Cage match between Seth Rollins and CM Punk, Rollins was seated nearby the corner on the cage door side with the door open. Instead of leaving, Rollins looked on wondering how much more it was going to take for him to finally put away Punk. Before anything else could happen, Reigns ran out and yanked Rollins out of the cage resulting in the referee calling for the bell to award Rollins the victory. Reigns then proceeded to attack Rollins laying him out and placed his head on the steel steps. Before Reigns could give a curb stomp as revenge for what Rollins did to him at the Royal Rumble, WWE officials ran out to stop Reigns. Besides WWE officials, Paul Heyman also had ran out but instead of trying to calm down Reigns, he went into the cage to check on Punk. This led to an irate Reigns noticing what happened and entered the cage and proceeded to lay out Punk. Reigns then stood tall over the carnage he did as the show went to a close.

This was Reigns’ first appearance since this past February’s Royal Rumble 2025 event.

John Cena Appearance & More Set for Card of Next Week’s Show

Monday’s WWE RAW show also featured four new matches announced for the card of next week’s show on March 17th at the Forest National in Brussels, Belgium.

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

It was also announced that next week’s show will be starting at an earlier than usual time of 3PM EST in the United States due to the show airing live from Belgium.

Current card for March 17th WWE RAW show: