{"id":112530,"date":"2022-04-04T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=112530"},"modified":"2022-04-04T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:08:58","slug":"veer-mahaan-monday-night-raw-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/04\/04\/veer-mahaan-monday-night-raw-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Veer Mahaan Makes Monday Night Raw Debut, Attacks Mysterios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since November of last year, <strong>WWE<\/strong> aired vignettes hyping the <strong><em>Monday Night Raw<\/em><\/strong> debut of <strong>Veer Mahaan<\/strong>. The company wasn&#8217;t exactly forthcoming with a specific date; regardless, WWE continued to tease said debut, which would become something of a meme among wrestling fans. However, on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/04\/04\/raw-after-wrestlemania-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">the post-<strong><em>WrestleMania<\/em><\/strong> edition of <em>Raw<\/em><\/a>, Veer Mahaan made his debut on the &#8220;red brand.&#8221; He did so in major fashion, too, establishing himself as one of the new stars on the show to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeerMahaan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@VeerMahaan<\/a> is on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWERaw<\/a> and he&#39;s taking out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reymysterio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@reymysterio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DomMysterio35?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DomMysterio35<\/a> \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/faAFeWdIlr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/faAFeWdIlr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1511147393525428226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Veer Mahaan Makes Raw Debut<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>What to Know Following Long-Awaited Debut<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>During the first hour of <em>Raw<\/em>, <strong>The Miz<\/strong> defeated <strong>Dominik Mysterio<\/strong> in quick fashion. Following this victory, Veer Mahaan made his way to the ring. The Miz quickly exited the ring, leaving Dominik and <strong>Rey Mysterio<\/strong> as Mahaan stepped through the ropes. Mahaan quickly set his sights on the Mysterio family, laying out Rey and cinching in a submission hold on Dominik to choke him out. Though his debut was a short one, Mahaan quickly made a statement by attacking the son-and-father tag team.<\/p>\n<p>Following a brief stint on the <strong><em>NXT<\/em> <\/strong>brand, Veer Mahaan made his way to the main roster in May of 2021. Initially, he was aligned with <strong>Shanky<\/strong> and <strong>Jinder Mahal<\/strong> as a faction. However, following that year&#8217;s draft, Mahaan remained on <em>Raw<\/em> while Shanky and Mahal were drafted to <em>Friday Night SmackDown<\/em>. In the interim, prior to his Raw debut, Mahaan competed on <strong><em>WWE Main Event<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since November of last year, WWE aired vignettes hyping the Monday Night Raw debut of Veer Mahaan. The company wasn&#8217;t exactly forthcoming with a specific date; regardless, WWE continued to tease said debut, which would become something of a meme among wrestling fans. However, on the post-WrestleMania edition of Raw, Veer Mahaan made his debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3354,"featured_media":112531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,25,3],"tags":[7695],"class_list":["post-112530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-veer"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}