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WWE Raw Preview (6/22/26): WWE Announces Earlier Start Time, Two Huge Tag Title Matches for London Return

WWE Raw preview for 6/22/26 features a strong card for the brand’s go-home show before Night of Champions.

WWE Raw is headed back across the pond next week as the flagship show airs live from the O2 Arena in London, England, on June 22, 2026. This will be Raw’s go-home show before Night of Champions takes place the following weekend. Night of Champions is shaping up to be a solid card, but before that, WWE has plans for quite the eventful Raw on Monday. On Monday, June 15, WWE announced that two of the company’s three tag team championships will be on the line in London.

WWE Raw Preview (6/22): Vision and Paige/Brie Bella Defend

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship: Brie Bella/Paige (C) vs Bayley/Lyra Valkyria

Ever since winning the titles at WrestleMania 42, Paige and Brie Bella have taken on all comers. The veteran duo, in their first reign with the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, have successfully defended their titles three times against two different teams: The Irresistible Forces (Nia Jax and Lash Legend) and the Judgment Day (Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez). They’ve also wrestled Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair, Giulia and Kiana James, and Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid) in non-title action.

Now, a duo of former champs will get their shot to win their first title as a team. Bayley, who was the first women’s tag team champion alongside Sasha Banks, hasn’t held the gold in six years. Her partner, Lyra Valkyria, enjoyed the shortest of title reigns when Becky Lynch, who filled in for an injured Bayley, turned on the partner with whom she just won and subsequently lost the titles.

Bayley and Valkyria have had their ups and downs since becoming a team but the two seem as united as they’ve ever been of late. This is their first opportunity at claiming the titles and it’s one they won’t take lightly. Now, as just mentioned, the two are a united force at the moment but there’s a chance WWE pulls the trigger on the Bayley heel turn that they’ve been teasing for quite some time. We’ll learn more on Monday.

WWE Tag Team Championship: Bron Breakker/Austin Theory (C) vs Street Profits

With an injury to Logan Paul, Bron Breakker has stepped up as the third man in the Vision’s tag team championship unit. He’s played a major role in helping Paul and Austin Theory of late. Exhibit A, on Monday in Baltimore, Breakker speared Je’Von Evans mid-air in the midst of Evans’ match with Theory. On Monday in London, Breakker will get his first chance to defend the titles he’s been freebirded into. And he’ll do so against the Street Profits, who have been quite the thorn in the Vision’s side over the last few weeks.

Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins have entered into a tentative alliance with Seth Rollins in a sort of, enemy of my enemy sort of deal. And that’s where things get interesting. Rollins and Breakker are set for a steel cage match at Night of Champions which most likely means on Monday, WWE will get all of the interferences out of the way. Rollins could well cost Breakker and Theory as part of his quest to destroy the Vision and get revenge for Breakker costing him the King of the Ring.

Alternatively, there continue to be rumors of a Ford singles run and after the Vision failed to recruit Je’Von Evans this week, they might turn their attention elsewhere. It’s equally possible that Ford turns on Dawkins and aligns himself with the Vision as it is Rollins costing the group the titles. There are options here and neither seems like a particularly bad one.

WWE Raw Start Time, Location, Date

  • Location: O2 Arena in London, England
  • Date: Monday, June 22, 2026
  • Time: 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT (special start time)
  • Stream: Netflix

About Marilee Gallagher, Manager

Marilee Gallagher is a Philadelphia native and lifelong sports fan with interests beyond just the major five U.S. sporting leagues. At Last Word on Sports, she is the Department Manager for Last Word on Pro Wrestling, helping lead a team that covers WWE, AEW, and indies both in the U.S. and internationally. Past writing experience includes time as a featured columnist for Bleacher Report and Rant Sports.

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