MONDAY NIGHT RAW Results - August 26, 2019

What does Stacy Bryan have in store for Matt Charles' punishment? Also, two huge non title matches tonight!

RAW Opener

The show opens up with Stacy Bryan already standing in the center of the ring with a microphone in her hand and a huge smirk on her face.

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to MONDAY NIGHT RAW!!" - Stacy Bryan

Cheap pop from the crowd.

"And unlike last week, there are not going to be any surprises. There aren't going to be any hiccups. This IS MY SHOW and I DECIDE what happens on MY SHOW! I can vow that what happened last week with our World Heavyweight Champion, will NEVER happen again. The next time anyone, and I mean ANYONE wants to spit in MY FACE, not only will it be the end of your time on RAW and Smackdown, but it will be the end of your entire career. What happened last week was disrespectful to not just me but to my fath...*softly sobbing* my late great father, Doc Bryan." - Stacy Bryan

"That's right! He spit in the face of this entire industry and a great man! He should be stripped of the title and fired on the spot!" - Corey Graves

"So tonight people must pay. The PRESTIGE MUST PAY. Matt Charles MUST PAY!! So let's stop wasting time, Matt Charles, get your ass out here RIGHT NOW!" - Stacy Bryan

The World Heavyweight Champion Matt Charles comes strutting out with a smug smirk on his face as he chomps done on his gum and sporting a new $2000 Armani three piece suit. Charles doesn't pay any attention to the 50/50 crowd and just continues to adjust his ray bans and focus on the GM. Matt is holding his World Heavyweight Championship firmly in his hands and gets face to face with Stacy, clearly not being at all afraid of what's in store for him tonight. Matt grabs a microphone of his own from ringside.

"Ya know I'm real glad that you brought me out here tonight, baby. Because I think we have some things we need to talk about as well, I thi...." - Matt Charles

"No no no. When I talk, you shut it. You listen. I didn't bring you out here tonight to have a conversation. I brought you out tonight for an apology. So unless your next words out of your mouth are "I'm sorry", then you might as well just put that microphone down, because I don't give A DAMN about what you have to say." - Stacy Bryan

"You want me to apologize to you, Stacy? You actually want the World Heavyweight Champion to get down on his knees and apologize to you?" - Matt Charles

"That's right! And you're gonna do it or you're gonna have big BIG PROBLEMS TONIGHT!" - Stacy Bryan

Matt looks back and forth at the crowd with a smug smile on his face and sarcastically wipes down his World Heavyweight Championship belt. Matt gets down onto his knees and looks up at Stacy with as sarcastic of an endearing face as possible and chuckles to himself,

"Stacy will you please forgive me for spitting in the face and showing the world THE NASTIEST, DIRTIEST, FILTHIEST, MOST DISGUSTING TRASH BAG HOE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!" - Matt Charles

The crowd pops at the cheap insult on the more hated Stacy Bryan. Bryan's face drops down in shock and anger as Matt slowly stands back up to his feet.

"AND THE ONLY THING I'LL EVER APOLOGIZE FOR IS NOT KICKING YOUR FIANCE'S ASS WAY BEFORE NOW SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO EVEN STEP INTO THE RING WITH THE NO TALENTED HAS BEEN PIECE OF SH**!!" - Matt Charles

Stacy in an unstoppable rage rares back and goes to slap Matt Charles across the face, but instead Matt blocks the slap with his arm and proceeds to rip off her blouse!! Matt starts laughing hysterically and making jokes about how disgusting she looks as she quickly tries to scurry around the ring to pick up her blouse and put it back on. Matt chuckles and does the "suck it" taunt before exiting out of the ring and back up the ramp. Stacy grabs the microphone back up off the canvas and starts screaming at Matt that she is going to destroy his career!!

"SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! Tonight you're gonna get your ass kicked in the center of this ring by BOTH RJ Stagg and Darren Cox in a 2 on 1 handicap match! Your ass won't even make it to Clash of the Champions!! And when your carcass is laying in the center of the ring looking up at the lights, I want MY WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT BACK!!" - Stacy Bryan

Matt doesn't sell the brutal reality of him having to take on both Stagg and Cox in a handicap match, instead just continues to poke fun at Stacy from the ramp as cameras fade to a commercial.

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Backstage Segment; Adam Stewart Wants This Fight Alone

Cameras come back from the commercial break on RAW to show The Brotherhood all standing backstage in the locker room discussing how important this is tonight for them to take the victories over Ben Conners and Tony Murr. The three build up how important Clash of the Champions is in the sense that they NEED to take the tag team titles off of The Prestige once and for all. Stewart explains to his brothers that he became the King of the Mountain Champion by himself, and he wants to show the world that he even though he loves his brothers, he can fight his own battles. Austin and Christian both try to talk Adam out of it, selling what could happen out there with all of Prestige at ringside and Adam the only member of The Brotherhood. But Stewart doesn't want to hear it and demands that nomatter what they stay back here and let him do his thing in the ring tonight against Tony Murr. Christian and Austin reluctantly agree and Stewart hypes himself up before walking out of the locker room.

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Normal Non-Title Match; Adam Stewart vs Tony Murr

This match is explosive right from the very beginning, with Adam Stewart doing everything he can to showcase that he can defeat all of the odds himself. However, Tony Murr has the advantage of having both KOTM #1 contender Cody Miller at ringside on commentary, along with the big man himself, Ben Conners standing "stoicly" at ringside. Miller throughout the match does everything he can to belittle Stewart's ability, trying to hype the fact that nobody even knew who "this jack off was" until he started to fight The Prestige. Miller on commentary goes through his long list of accomplishments while in the WWEP so far, and builds up how this is doing nothing but just giving Stewart a taste of what's in store for him at Clash of the Champions. Murr and Stewart are going at it hard in the ring with Stewart looking like an unstoppable beast against Murr, just refusing to stay down. Murr gets several nearfalls on the wild man, but Stewart continues to battle back out of them. At one point during the match Stewart catches Murr into a pop up powerbomb out of nowhere, but Tony Murr is somehow someway able to kick out just in the knick of time at 2! Cody Miller on commentary jumps up from the commentary booth in distress and ridicules the referee of making "too fast of a count", and trying to do "everything he can to screw The Prestige." But once Stewart is not able to put Murr away with the pop up powerbomb, it looks like momentum slowly starts to turn and Stewart never gets back his win again. The match ends when Stewart locks eyes on Miller and the two exchange verbal jabs at each other before Murr comes out of nowhere and ends the match decisively with a Circles of Hell! After the match is over, Cody Miller and Ben Conners waste no time jumping into the ring to attack the already beaten down King of the Mountain Champion. The three on one assault leaves Stewart unable to even make it back up to his feet, with Cody Miller looking relentless in his attack. Miller's eyes widen and he refuses to let up even after several of the referees run down to the ring to try and pull him off Stewart. Miller goes to walk away but before he exits the ring, he turns around one more time and delivers a devastating curb stomp onto Stewart for good measure! Prestige all stand above Stewart's laid out body in the center of the ring, doing their TOO SWEET hand gesture as cameras fade to a commercial and commentary builds up the brutality and viciousness of The Prestige.

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Backstage Segment; "Go Home With Him Now!"

Cameras come back from the commercial break as Christian and Austin Pieper are frantically trying to get someone to assist their beaten down brother Adam Stewart. Austin Pieper and Christian Pieper are furious as they cut a promo about how The Prestige has to be stopped, and how Austin can't wait to get his hands on Ben Conners tonight for what happened to Adam. Christian tells Austin that he isn't gonna let what happened to Adam, happen to Austin. Christian tells Austin that he will be right there with him during his match tonight against Ben. Austin immediately cuts his brother Christian off and tells him that he needs to take Adam home and take care of his brother. Christian looks at Austin with a confused look on his face and exclaims that Austin needs him out there tonight, because if not, he will end up just like Adam did subject to a 3 on 1 assault. Austin gets more angry and demands that Christian take Adam home tonight and that he can handle Ben Conners without help. The two go back and forth about it, but eventually Christian reluctantly agrees to take Adam home and let Austin go out there alone against Ben Conners.

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2 on 1 Handicap Match; RJ Stagg & Darren Cox vs Matt Charles

Before the match starts, Stagg and Darren Cox are discussing their game plan in the corner of the ring, when Ashley Cox slowly walks out through the curtain and down to ringside. Stagg's eyes immediately direct over to Cox as the two just stare each other down as she walks down the ramp. Darren and her embrace at ringside, but Stagg just continues to stare at her with a look of rage. The bell rings and Matt taunts at Stagg from across the ring, but Stagg is clearly still just focused on Ashley outside the ring. Matt goes to attack Stagg, but the Universal Champion #1 Contender is right there to cut him off and start exchanging blows with him. It looks like the numbers game takes a quick advantage over the world champion, when Stagg and Cox are able to utilize their double team offense and hit some pretty devastating double team suplexes. A few times during the match the cameras cut to Stacy Bryan who is sitting in her office watching the monitor with a devilish grin on her face, clearly wanting Stagg and Cox to do everything they can to take out Charles. Matt starts getting a little steam when he is able to low blow Cox and then hit a double underhook DDT on his #1 contender! But as he goes for the quick pinfall, Cox is right there to break up the count. Cox starts wailing shot after shot on the world champion, doing everything he can to soften up Charles ahead of his title match against his best friend. The match takes a drastic turn though when Ashley gets on the ring apron and starts trading verbal jabs against her nemesis RJ Stagg. The two get face to face and start acting as though if they could explode at any minute. Darren desperately tries to pull them together and calm them down but its to no avail. Stagg turns around and acts as if he is gonna walk away and focus back on the laid out Matt, when all of a sudden he quickly turns back around and goes to swing at Ashley Cox with a stiff right hand. But just as he goes to swing, Ashley ducks underneath the shot and instead it slams right into the face of his best friend Darren Cox!! Stagg looks at Darren Cox in shock and awe that he just wiped out his best friend. Ashley screams at Stagg for knocking Darren out unconscious, but it looks like Stagg is even more concerned for his best friend, trying to do everything he can to "revive him". But with all focus dialed in on Darren Cox, Matt Charles comes barreling at Stagg with his World Heavyweight Championship belt and completely levels him out in the center of the ring over the top of the head! The referee immediately calls for the bell and disqualifies Matt from the match, but Matt could careless and just continues to wail on his #1 contender opponent. Matt unloads shot after shot on Stagg, not letting up as Ashley carries Darren Cox to the back, completely abandoning Stagg in the ring. Matt takes his world title and starts shoving it in the face of Stagg, pressing it against his cheek and screaming that "he will never take this belt from him!" Matt gets back up to his feet after a vicious assault and spits on Stagg's unconscious body in the center of the ring before strutting out through the ring holding his championship belt high in the air.

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Backstage Segment; Tonight Clearly Has Been A Prestigious Night

Cameras open up from the commercial break to show all of Prestige standing in their own personalized locker room with "The Muscle" Ben Conners doing curls preparing for his huge main event against Universal Champion, Austin Michael Pieper. The four go back and forth hyping each other up about the devastation they have caused so far on RAW tonight, and how they have all the momentum in the world going into Clash of the Champions. Cody Miller pokes fun at how helpless the King of the Mountain Champion Adam Stewart looked out there tonight when they completely pummeled him into the mat, with Tony Murr laughing at how he "wanted to go out there alone" against all of Prestige. Matt then switches gears and laughs at how easy it was to take out RJ Stagg tonight and that the "elite three" are all crumbling before "our very eyes". They hype up Ben's strength and how the Universal Champion doesn't stand a chance, because not only is Ben the most POWERFUL and VICIOUS wrestler in the organization, but "the idiot" Austin Pieper is making the same stupid mistake his brother made and going out there alone. Prestige all celebrate that they are going out there together as a force. But their celebration and "hype party" is quickly and abruptly derailed when GM Stacy Bryan walks into the locker room with a group of security guards. Stacy informs The Prestige that earlier tonight she said there would be no more surprises, and there will not be...because if Austin is going out there alone tonight, Ben is gonna do the same. Bryan instructs the security guards to take out the other members of Prestige and force them out of the building. This initially gets a push back from Prestige, but after a few moments they oblige Stacy and as they are taken out of the locker room they yell back at Ben that "he has nothing to worry about" and to "take the trash out tonight!" Stacy walks out of the room in a huff and Ben just continues to curl his weights and breath heavily as commentary sells the fact that Ben is not scared at all and that these two are gonna rip each other apart limb from limb coming up next!

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Normal Non-Title Match; Austin Michael Pieper vs Ben Conners

Austin Michael Pieper clearly is on a mission to do anything and everything he can to destroy Ben Conners and that is self evident as soon as the bell rings. Pieper comes at Conners with both guns blazing, just unloading shot after shot on him, that clearly look like live rounds to the face. Conners is able to utilize his strength to pull Pieper off of him and get a little breathing room, but Pieper looks like he has never looked before, wanting to rip apart Ben for the vicious and brutal attack that his brother suffered earlier in the night at the hands of Prestige. Both Ben continues to look just as dominant, hitting big power move after big power move. Austin refuses to stay down though and quickly flips the switch on Ben when he is able to dropkick Ben into the corner and throw his entire body into Ben with a Stinger Splash! Austin rallies the very pro Brotherhood crowd behind him and he uses it to fuel himself up even more, enough to connect with a groundbreaking inverted facebuster onto the hard canvas! Ben for the first time tonight looks dazed and confused, not knowing where he is. This leaves Pieper enough time to bounce off the ropes and connect with a running dropkick followed up with his signature CinCity Driver for the victory! The crowd pops with excitement as Pieper grabs his Universal Championship and poses to the crowd with tears rolling down his cheek, clearly still very emotional for getting his revenge on his brother's vicious assault earlier. Pieper celebrates with the fans at ringside as cameras cut to the final commercial break and commentary promises that Charly Caruso will get a word with the Universal Champion right after this break.

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"What I Did Out There Was For My Brother"

Cameras open up backstage to show the Universal Champion, Austin Michael Pieper limping around and looking as if he is gonna completely pass out from the very hard fought match he had with Ben Conners before the break. Pieper stumbles to the parking lot where his limo is already waiting and backstage interviewer Charly Caruso rushes over to him to get a quick word about the emotions running through him right now after defeating Ben Conners out there, and if he has any word on the condition of his brother Adam.

"Nah. *out of breath pause* Nah. What I did out there tonight was for my brother, and more importantly it was for THE BROTHERHOOD. I...I...I don't know what's gonna happen *out of breath pause* after tonight. I don't know what kind of shape my brother is in. I just got a text from Christian that said he was gonna be fine and good for his match at Clash, but other than that, I don't know. That's what I gotta find out. But what I did out there...*out of breath pause* what I did out there was for my brothers and was for my family. Prestige, you may be able to take out the First Family or The Kingdom or whatever other jobbers want to step up, but you can't take out the Brotherhood. What we have in that ring is REAL and its in our blood...and you make one of us draw blood...you make all of us draw blood. And together, we'll make sure we draw YOUR BLOOD. *out of breath pause* But I have to check on my brother. I have to go. I'm sorry. I have to go." - Austin Michael Pieper

Charly Caruso walks away with her microphone as Austin just hunches over holding his knees completely out of breath and shaken from his match. But just as he is about to open up the limousine door, he hears a couple clicks, and he immediately jumps back right in the knick of time BEFORE HIS ENTIRE LIMO EXPLODES!! The explosion even knocks him back a little bit further as after just a couple seconds the entire limousine is in flames. Austin struggles back up to his feet, holding his Universal Championship tightly in his grasp. Austin just stares at the burning limousine for a few seconds as cameras zoom into his face, and it's evident his rage is growing deeper and deeper. Commentary sells the shock and awe of what just happened and speculates who would be behind this as Austin just stands there seething in anger and clinching his fists. A solid steel symbol with a "D" carved in it falls out of the back door and is engulfed in flames, giving Austin all the speculation that the culprit is his Clash of the Champions opponent, Darren Cox. Cameras fade to black as the shadow of the fire illuminates Austin's shocked but inflamed rage look on his face.