{"id":134937,"date":"2025-05-07T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=134937"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:43:10","slug":"preview-wwe-raw-5-12-25-check-out-post-backlash-raw-match-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/07\/preview-wwe-raw-5-12-25-check-out-post-backlash-raw-match-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE Raw (5\/12\/25) Check Out Post-Backlash Raw Match Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Raw offers three matches and all the fallout from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/06\/wwe-backlash-preview-5-10-25-card-time-watch\/\" target=\"_self\">WWE Backlash<\/a> on Monday, May 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>WWE Raw airs live on Netflix at 8 ET from the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, KY. Here&#8217;s our full \u00a0preview and match card.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Raw Match Card (5\/12\/25)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">IYO SKY &amp; Rhea Ripley vs. Roxanne Perez &amp; Giulia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">War Raiders vs. American Made <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AJ Styles vs. Finn B\u00e1lor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WWE Raw Match Card<\/h3>\n<p>The first time AJ Styles and Finn B\u00e1lor met in WWE was <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LuawQdUjoHQ\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a last-minute match at WWE TLC 2017<\/a> when Bray Wyatt couldn&#8217;t compete. The match is widely recognised as one of WWE&#8217;s greatest ever matches.<\/p>\n<p>The two men meet under the pretence that B\u00e1lor will deflect Styles off his path towards a match for Dominik Mysterio&#8217;s Intercontinental Championship. But, both men will want to reach the heights they did eight years ago and remind everyone that they are much more than just second fiddle in Mysterio&#8217;s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of second fiddle, both War Raiders and American Made would like to be seen as the second-best tag team on WWE Raw. This match will surely identify who gets the next crack at the top team, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/19\/wwe-wrestlemania-41-new-title-reign-for-the-new-day\/\" target=\"_self\">World Tag Team Champions The New Day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does any of the above six superstars meet the modus operandi of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/28\/does-rusev-have-a-secret-wwe-raw-tag-team-partner\/\" target=\"_self\">Rusev<\/a> who is targeting those not operating at their potential?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the match shift team of Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY will attempt to stunt the rise of the invading NXT women, Giulia and Roxanne Perez.<\/p>\n<h3>Post-Backlash WWE Raw Fallout<\/h3>\n<p>The post-<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/06\/wwe-backlash-preview-5-10-25-card-time-watch\/\" target=\"_self\">Backlash<\/a> WWE Raw is hard to predict as a result of the number of superstars competing on the PLE card.<\/p>\n<p>There are many questions going into the post-Backlash WWE Raw. Will Pat McAfee be on the broadcast team, or will Gunther have ripped his vocal cords out?<\/p>\n<p>Will Becky Lynch or Lyra Valkyria be able to stand tall as the Women&#8217;s Intercontinental Champion? Meanwhile, can Dominik Mysterio hold onto the Men&#8217;s Intercontinental Championship at Backlash against Penta?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with Seth Rollins, Paul Heyman, and Bron Breakker seemingly taking the night off for Backlash, we can expect them to continue trying to prove their dominance on WWE Raw. The new faction could be enough to push the constantly on the verge of a breakdown <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/07\/wwe-raw-gm-adam-pearce\/\" target=\"_self\">Adam Pearce over the edge.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CM Punk might have something to say about the above faction following his return at the conclusion of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/05\/uso-rollins-title-match-ends-in-chaos\/\" target=\"_self\">last week&#8217;s excellent WWE Raw main event.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL MATCH: Jey Uso vs. Seth Rollins | World Heavyweight Title Match: Raw, May 5, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VWAiAHbcxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Raw offers three matches and all the fallout from WWE Backlash on Monday, May 12, 2025. WWE Raw airs live on Netflix at 8 ET from the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, KY. Here&#8217;s our full \u00a0preview and match card. WWE Raw Match Card (5\/12\/25) IYO SKY &amp; Rhea Ripley vs. Roxanne Perez &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":134947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[25],"tags":[145,9214,111,5900,8442,3041,8487,76,2522],"class_list":["post-134937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw","tag-aj-styles","tag-american-made","tag-finn-balor","tag-giulia","tag-iyo-sky","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-roxanne-perez","tag-seth-rollins","tag-war-raiders"],"modified_by":"Laurence Gibbons","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134937","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\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134948,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134937\/revisions\/134948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}