The Judgment Day’s Finn Balor and JD McDonagh accomplished their first title defense of this reign as World Tag Team Champions during “WWE Raw.”
Balor and McDonagh captured the titles from the Recent Day on June 30 to start their second reign together, and on Monday’s show they met their primary contenders Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde of the LWO for his or her maiden defense; Wilde and Balor kicked off the bout, the previous tagging in Del Toro and the latter subsequently tagging out for McDonagh. Wilde tagged back in and took advantage with explosive offense, landing a splash to each McDonagh and Balor on the skin. But he was quickly caught by McDonagh and isolated within the ring, with Balor tagging in and continuing to wear him down.
Del Toro tagged back in to get a near-fall on McDonagh, only to seek out his momentum halted by the interfering El Grande Americano. Dragon Lee emerged to tug Americano from the apron and wrestle him to the back, with Balor getting a detailed near-fall on the next roll-up attempt.
Then one other masked figure, purportedly one other Americano while clearly being another person under the mask versus either Chad Gable or Ludwig Kaiser, appeared at ringside to trip Del Toro; that allowed Balor to deliver the Coup de Grace and secure the winning pinfall on Del Toro.
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The second masked figure has been noted for his resemblance to Pete Dunne, who last wrestled in May alongside Tyler Bate as Recent Catch Republic on “WWE Major Event.” Michael Cole and Corey Graves tussled with the concept it was Kaiser’s Americano that had returned to the fold, though that appeared to not be the case.