WWE Raw: Results, Highlights, Analysis, and Grades for May 21

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So We’re Doing THIS Again, Huh?

Kurt Angle heads down to the ring for some “HUGE announcements.” At least, that’s what he called them when he tweeted about it earlier in the afternoon. BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT BECAUSE STEPHANIE MCMAHON IS BACK. (Does sarcasm translate through the written word? Because that’s sarcasm, folks.)

All Kurt is able to spit out is something the graphics already told us: Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax will sign the contract for their Money in the Bank championship. And because Stephanie basically says Kurt is terrible at his job, she pulls him away from presiding over the contract signing. Instead, Stephanie herself will oversee it. I’m sure everything will go perfectly according to plan, don’t you?

Next on the agenda is how Angle is “mishandling” Roman Reigns. Oh, so we’re breaking the fourth wall, I see. Someone must have seen Deadpool 2 this weekend. But as The Billion Dollar Princess starts to talk about The Big Dog, out he comes to — wait, are those cheers?

Obviously, Stephanie is out to finally make sure Reigns gets cheered. And for the most part, it works. There isn’t a crowd in this universe that is going to cheer Stephanie McMahon, so it’s kind of a default reaction for Roman since he’s the anti-Stephanie. Maybe it’s what he needs to get the babyface ball rolling?

But Kevin Owens emerging from the back gets an even bigger reaction, so maybe Roman still has some work to do. Owens is by far the best thing about this segment. He’s got terrific timing, he makes logical points, but — because he’s a heel — you can’t really agree with everything.

It takes almost 15 minutes to get to the end game of Owens vs. Reigns, which happens after the commercial break. But there’s enough good mixed in with the typical “heel authority has problem with babyface hero” nonsense that it’s still entertaining. And Roman getting cheers is so foreign at this point, hearing them is a big surprise.