WWE Raw results, live blog (Sept. 9, 2024): Bret Hart returns!

WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Sept. 9, 2024) from the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming Bad Blood premium live event set for early next month in Atlanta.

Advertised for tonight: Bret Hart returns to WWE television! We don’t know what he’ll be doing but the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be is going to be in the house. Plus, the Intercontinental title tournament wraps up, Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill defend the women’s tag team titles, Drew McIntyre responds to CM Punk, and a whole lot more!

Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the Raw live blog will kick off once the show starts on USA Network. It will be below this line here. Reminder: GIFs and pics allowed, but no links to illegal streams, please.

WWE RAW RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR SEPT. 9

I will kill for love, do I strike you as a liar? It’s the same down here as above, a holy fire. You bite the hand that holds the heart, but me? I’m just here to liveblog this pro wrestling show for you folks.

The show opens with the usual montage of talent arriving at the building.

Commentary hypes up tonight’s show.

We get a Wyatt Six VHS promo about paying for your sins and Uncle Howdy being the reckoning.

American Made (Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, Ivy Nile, & Julius Creed) vs. Wyatt Six (Dexter Lumis, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, & Nikki Cross) (Mixed Atomicos Street Fight)

Wild brawling to start, Cross puts Nile in a trash can and wails on her with a kendo stick before throwing her into the barricade! Gacy and Brutus fighting on the apron, Rowan throws Julius into the barricade and Joe snap suplexes Creed into the apron! Gable off the top, caught into a full nelson mat slam by Lumis!

Nikki clearing the announce desk, Chad wallops Dexter with a kendo stick and then takes it to Gacy in the ring, but when he goes after Erick the tide turns! Rowan suplexes the Creeds! Big Red setting up a table, Nile cuts him off with a fire extinguisher and American Made slam him through the table and pile garbage on him!

American Made taking control of the match, smashing Lumis with kendo stick shots, choking him on the apron, but he recovers and ducks a chair and back suplexes Gable! Leg drop, now working Gacy over, putting a trash can on his head and teeing off with kendo sticks, splintering the wood and denting the trash cans!

Cross startles Ivy from under the ring and wails on her with kendo stick shots! Rowan fired up, lariats all around, nearfall and Gable saves it! Hammering kendo stick shots, action to the floor, Creed the elder smashing dudes with the stairs, Lumis dives, taking charge with Gacy, stereo chokeslams!

Dexter with a diving leg drop to the floor and through a table! Chad back inside with Joe, handspring into the corner, the Upside-Down! Setting Gable on a table, Gacy goes up top, Chad pops up and joins him… AVALANCHE OLYMPIC SLAM THROUGH THE TABLE! SLOW TO CAPITALIZE… THE CHAINSAW KICKS OUT!

Gable shifts to an ankle lock, Nile with kendo stick shots, Nikki pulls her out of the ring and German suplexes Gable! Dropkick to Ivy, dragon screw neck whip off the apron and into chairs on the floor! Chad isolated, Lumis off the top…

Wyatt Six win by pinfall with a dive from Dexter Lumis on Chad Gable.

Finn Balor makes his entrance and gets on the mic.

He says Damian Priest says they screwed him, but really he screwed the Judgment Day. He’d been trying to hold Priest up, but the more he did, the more Damian held him down, and they were supposed to be brothers. He should have been World Heavyweight Champion a long time ago but Priest was lurking behing his back with that briefcase, getting in his way every time he got close to the title and screwing him.

So he wants Damian to come out here because he has things to say to his face.

Enter Damian Priest.

He says ever since Balor broke up the real Judgment Day he’s been wanting to drop his ass. Finn says that’s not how it’s going to go, he’s not his sidekick anymore. He ain’t no sidekick! He and Rhea are going to fall on the same night, because he wants him one on one at Bad Blood. Priest accepts and advances on Balor!

Finn says he’s forgetting one thing, the old Judgment Day playbook. Priest says he wrote the playbook— and here come Carlito and JD McDonagh and Dominik Mysterio! Damian is game to fight them off but soon enough That Damn Numbers Game overwhelms him.

Rhea Ripley hobbles down on a crutch to save Priest and of course Liv Morgan is right behind her and of course she’s faking and wails on Liv and Dom both with the crutch! In the ring the numbers take over though and Judgment Day take the crutch and break it over Priest’s ribs! JEY USO IS HERE WITH A CHAIR TO MAKE THE SAVE FOR THE TERROR TWINS AND JUDGMENT DAY ARE SENT PACKING!

Braun Strowman is interviewed backstage.

He says he’s still banged up but he’s not using that as an excuse and it takes a whole lot to keep the monster down, and he’s going to show the whole world.

Bron Breakker rolls up and says he’s a monster but he’s here to prove that you don’t have to be seven foot tall and nine hundred pounds to be a monster, and the only reason Strowman’s standing here right now is he’s never been in the ring with him.

Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill (c) vs. Unholy Union (Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn) (WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship)

Belair and Fyre to start, Bianca with a side headlock, shot off, shoulder block, Dawn runs in, champions double-team her, double clothesline sends Alba to the floor and the champions flex! Cargill scoops and slams, Isla takes her into the corner for mounted punches, blocked, Fyre tags in, putting boots to her, cover for two!

Belair in, mounted punches, backflip up and over, duck under, diving crossbody takes ‘em both out! Isolated in the corner briefly, Bianca shoves Dawn into Fyre, up top with Alba, blind tag from Isla. double powerbomb, folding press… BELAIR KICKS OUT! Match breaking down, rolling Bianca through, up for the KLR Bomb, the reverse STO combination… JADE BREAKS IT UP!

Cargill tags in, lining Fyre up, big boot connects! Picking Alba up, wheelbarrow DDT sets her up…

Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill win by pinfall with the wheelbarrow DDT / wheelbarrow German suplex combination on Alba Fyre, retaining the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.

Latino World Order are interviewed backstage and talk about how they’re going to outfox Judgment Day tonight.

Judgment Day roll up and Finn Balor says if they stand in the way of Judgment Day, they’ll be next. Rey Mysterio calls them wannabe thugs who run from fights and tells Finn to stop hiding behind his stupid son and face him tonight. Balor agrees to the match!

Bret “the Hitman” Hart is shown walking backstage to send us to blessed merciful break.

Back from commercial, Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett are in the ring to introduce Bret “the Hitman” Hart.

They have an announcement for Survivor Series in Vancouver, for which ticket sales will begin on Friday.

Bret says this is the place to be, and no one took more pride in being not just a champion, but a Canadian champion, than he did. Canadian champions will take on anybody, never duck a challenge, and have to prove themselves, as he did, to be the best there is, was, and ever will be.

Enter GUNTHER.

He says he’s about to pour his heart out to one of his childhood heroes, to thundering boos. He repeats Bret’s tagline and says this feels a little like passing a torch because yes Hart is the best there was, but he is the best there is and ever will be. Business aside, from the bottom of his heart, all the boys in the back watched Bret growing up, including him.

Bret was a childhood hero of his and he wanted to tell him he’ll always be a close second to his actual favorite, Bill Goldberg.

Enter Sami Zayn.

He tells GUNTHER he’s got a lot of nerve talking to this man in this city this way, and it’s not a joke, Bret is a Canadian hero and a hero to every single person in this city and to an entire generation of wrestlers in the back who still study his matches, and more importantly he’s a hero to Sami personally.

GUNTHER may hold the title but Bret set the tone for what it means to be a champion, and when Sami challenged him, he ran away. He wants to say he’s the best there is? Fine, prove it, Sami Zayn vs. GUNTHER part II for the World Heavyweight Championship.

He tells Bret he’s not in his league and Sami is far away from being in Bret’s league, and his answer remains no.

He leaves and Hart tells him he’s a gutless yellow coward to walk away like that. Sami pops to the floor and confronts him and a brawl breaks out until referees defuse it.

Bron Breakker chats with Pete Dunne backstage and says he didn’t think much of him when he was running with Sheamus. Dunne says he’s going to win the title tonight and smash Bron and win the title.

After Bron walks away, Sheamus arrives with the shillelagh to brawl with him and Dunne only barely avoids doom!

Judgment Day make their entrance and we go to break.

Dominik Mysterio vs. Dragon Lee

Lee in control early, senton de la muerte, hesitation dropkick, cover for two! One-arm powerbomb, cover for two! Up in the turnbuckles, punch into the tree of woe (crucify him!) double stomp sends Mysterio crashing to the mat and JD McDonagh puts his foot on the ropes to stop the cover!

Rey Mysterio attacks JD on the floor, a brawl breaks out between Judgment Day and Latino World Order and Joaquin Wilde with a somersault senton into the crush! Liv Morgan with a chop block on Dragon, 619 connects, Dom off the top…

Dominik Mysterio wins by pinfall with the frog splash.

Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill run into Damage CTRL backstage.

IYO SKY tells them not to get used to having the tag titles and they walk off.

Commentary memorializes Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, local hockey heroes who recently passed away, and we go to break.

Back from commercial, Sonya Deville yells for the music to get cut during Lyra Valkyria’s entrance and calls her a joke, saying she tries and fails and this mystery partner is supposed to be scary? Their mystery partner is going to get destroyed the same as they will, and if she wants to step up she can shoot her shot.

The mystery partner is Natalya!

Lyra Valkyria, Natalya, & Zelina Vega vs. Pure Fusion Collective (Shayna Baszler, Sonya Deville, & Zoey Stark)

Vega and Deville to start, Sonya passes her to the floor, quick tags to keep Zelina off-balance, Stark with a plancha and PFC stands tall as we go to break!

Back from commercial, Vega is still on the wrong side of town as the heat segment rolls on. Tag to Natalya, in hot with forearms, punching away at Stark, whip out of the corner reversed, sidestep the charge, slingshot Atomic Drop, the running step, basement dropkick, side Russian legsweep blocked but Nattie picks her leg for the Sharpshooter!

Shayna and Sonya scramble to save Zoey, the match breaks down, slingshot sunset flip, trading nearfalls! Legs picked, step through, Sharpshooter applied and the babyface team gets triplicate submissions in…

Lyra Valkyria, Natalya, & Zelina Vega win by submission with a Sharpshooter from Natalya on Zoey Stark.

We see Drew McIntyre walking backstage to send us to break.

Back from commercial, Uncle Bret reunites with Natalya backstage.

Drew McIntyre makes his entrance and gets on the mic.

He talks about CM Punk saying he’s done with him last week and says he’s not going to let him just try and move on like that after costing him the title three times. He says he can live with himself because he ended CM Punk’s career and now it’s time to talk about what matters around here, him, Drew McIntyre.

He’s going after the world title and also his first Hollywood movie comes out this week! The Killer’s Game with Drew McIntyre and the Animal Dave Bautista, check that out! He’s afraid he’s got some bad news that involves Wade Barrett. He says Wade is one of his oldest friends and they go back decades and have been arrested together.

Barrett is the only voice fighting for him as CM Punk hurt not just him but the whole business, so why did he step in the way when it was time to end Punk? He’s not angry, buddy, he’s just diappointed. But if he does it again he’s not going to be disappointed, he’s going to be angry and he’s going to do something about it.

Wade takes off his headset and stands up to step to Drew, but Adam Pearce comes down to defuse the situation. He asks if Drew’s lost the plot so bad he wants to fight with his friends? He doesn’t believe that, cut the charade, he has information Drew needs to hear.

McIntyre says he was just talking to his friend and Pearce isn’t his friend, he’s just a corporate stooge, so say what you have to say fast. Adam says he spoke to CM Punk and Punk is not done and more specifically, he’s not done with Drew. McIntyre doesn’t believe him, saying there’s no chance after last week that CM wants another piece of him.

He polls the crowd on another McIntyre/Punk match and of course they want it. Drew says if it’s true he’s signing CM’s death certificate, and Pearce says they have to end it and it ends at Bad Blood.

CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre, one more time, at Bad Blood, and he assures Drew that he’ll find peace when it’s over, because he’ll know in his heart that it’s over, because at Bad Blood, it’s Punk vs. McIntyre… HELL IN A CELL!

Backstage, Karrion Kross is getting into Miz’s ear when Xavier Woods rolls up to ask what he’s doing and run him off. He asks Miz if he’s listening to any of this and the A-Lister says he knows what he’s doing, he invented that move, but he’s not wrong, he’s in a rut and everybody knows he’s going to get destroyed by Bronson Reed.

Xavier reminds him that he defended the WWE Championship against John Cena at WrestleMania and Miz says that’s the problem.

Kofi Kingston rolls up and comments on Woods’ Bret Hart cosplay shirt before telling him he got them a shot at the tag titles next week!

Rey Mysterio makes his entrance to send us to break.

Finn Balor vs. Rey Mysterio

Circling, Balor with a knee, a club, arm wringer into a wristlock, Mysterio escapes, leg kick into punches, whip reversed out of the corner, up and over, off the ropes, Finn sends him flying with a knee! Body blows in the corner, mounted punches, dropkick sends Balor to the floor and a plancha wipes him out and sends us to break!

Back from commercial, Balor in control with a reverse chinlock, whip across, Finn to the floor, Rey dropkicks him and follows it up with the low suicide dive! Back inside, diving seated senton, springboard crossbody, 619 to the midsection, tijeras sets him up for the real deal! Balor blocks the proper 619 and catapults Mysterio into the ropes after!

Achilles lock in the ropes, referee Shaun Bennett counts…

Rey Mysterio wins by disqualification when Finn Balor refuses to break a hold in the ropes at the referee’s count.

Post-match, Finn keeps the hold in for a long beat before letting go and posing in the turnbuckles like he won. A dropkick sends Rey hard into the ringpost as he goes to leave! Another dropkick puts Mysterio into the apron as referees warn Finn off!

Ilja Dragunov is interviewed backstage.

He says he’ll have to dig deep to survive this match but he wants the prize at the end of the match, a chance to settle unfinished business with Bron Breakker.

Speak of the devil, Bron rolls up and says they don’t have unfinished business because he’s beaten Dragunov and if he wants, he’ll beat him again. “Main Event” Jey Uso appears and cold shoulders past Breakker and calls for his music and makes his entrance to send us to break.

Back from commercial, Judgment Day cut a promo.

Finn Balor says tonight was a message that anybody can get it at any time and the tag division belongs to them now.

Braun Strowman vs. Ilja Dragunov vs. “Main Event” Jey Uso vs. Pete Dunne (WWE Intercontinental Championship #1 Contender’s Match)

Strowman holding court early but Dunne targets the injured ribs and staggers him briefly. Braun throws Pete to the floor and the Bruiserweight sidesteps him into the barricade! Low bridge sends Uso diving into the monster! Dunne back inside, striking away at Dragunov, Ilja snaps off a German suplex on him!

Running knee in the corner, running boot, Jey cuts him off with an enzuigiri! Strowman throws guys to the floor and we go to break!

Back from commercial, Jey and Pete going at it, shifting to staggering Braun on the floor, all three men shove him hard into the steel steps! Back inside, Dragunov blocks a kick from Dunne, trading enzuigiris, Ilja goes up top, Jey superkicks him out of midair… THE NEARFALL SENDS US TO BREAK!

Back from commercial, Constantine Special connects, Dunne breaks the cover up! Pete wishbones Ilja’s fingers, Strowman shoves him off the turnbuckles, shoves Jey down, freight trains him, pump kick takes Dragunov out, clubbing blows, to the floor, freight training everybody!

Strowman stalking, clear the table… BRONSON REED APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE TO DIVE ON HIM OFF THE TIMEKEEPER’S BARRICADE! THE MONSTER GOES CLEAN THROUGH THE TABLE!

Dragunov and Uso square up, trading punches, Jey ducks the backfist, off the ropes a few times, spear, Dunne back in to steal it… ILJA KICKS OUT! Pete puts boots to Dragunov, pumphandle, Bitter End blocked, pump kick from the Mad Dragon! Big release powerbomb, H Bomb connects but Jey breaks it up!

Superkick, off the top…

Jey Uso wins by pinfall with a diving splash on Pete Dunne, becoming #1 contender to the WWE Intercontinental Championship.

Uso celebrates his victory and Bron Breakker appears behind him.

That’s the show, folks.