{"id":136463,"date":"2025-06-09T10:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=136463"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:01:44","slug":"preview-wwe-raw-5-26-25-jey-uso-vs-gunther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/06\/09\/preview-wwe-raw-5-26-25-jey-uso-vs-gunther\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE Raw (5\/26\/25) Jey Uso vs. Gunther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jey Uso must face his toughest opponent Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship on WWE Raw. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first show after a massive weekend for WWE means we have no other matches announced. But the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments do begin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here\u2019s the full preview for WWE Raw from the PHX Arena in Phoenix, AZ. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As always, WWE Raw airs live on Netflix worldwide at 8 ET\/5 PT. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WWE Raw Match Card (6\/9\/25)<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">World Heavyweight Championship: Jey Uso vs. Gunther<\/span><\/li>\n<li>King of the Ring First Round Match<\/li>\n<li>Queen of the Ring First Round Match<\/li>\n<li>Nikki Bella Returns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Uso vs. Gunther Or Cash In<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Uso couldn\u2019t beat Gunther for almost a year. The Austrian seemed too big a challenge. But at WrestleMania 41 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/19\/wwe-wrestlemania-41-jey-uso-dethrones-gunther-in-classic\/\" target=\"_self\">Uso beat Gunther<\/a> and became World Heavyweight Champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since then, Uso has defeated Seth Rollins and Logan Paul with his title on the line. But now he faces an old adversary with a revived focus and aggression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If Uso can topple Gunther again, he must stay aware of the looming <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/06\/07\/wwe-money-in-the-bank-2025-fan-favorite-winner-crowned-in-stunner\/\" target=\"_self\">new Money in the Bank briefcase holder.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>SummerSlam Challenger Decided<\/h3>\n<p>WWE will also begin its quest for the challengers for its major titles at WWE SummerSlam. \u00a0The King and Queen of the Ring tournaments will kick off on WWE Raw.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament winners will get a shot at a championship of their choosing at WWE SummerSlam.<\/p>\n<p>But will Arizona-native Nikki Bella announce her participation. The former Divas Champion will return in her home state tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jey Uso must face his toughest opponent Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship on WWE Raw. The first show after a massive weekend for WWE means we have no other matches announced. But the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments do begin.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the full preview for WWE Raw from the PHX Arena in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":136464,"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":[25,3],"tags":[8238,1724,254],"class_list":["post-136463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-gunther","tag-jey-uso","tag-nikki-bella"],"modified_by":"Laurence Gibbons","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136463","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=136463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136467,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136463\/revisions\/136467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}