{"id":148916,"date":"2025-12-17T20:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=148916"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:40:26","slug":"preview-wwe-raw-12-22-25-happy-holidays-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/17\/preview-wwe-raw-12-22-25-happy-holidays-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE Raw (12\/22\/25) Happy Holidays Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Three matches are confirmed for the WWE Raw Happy Holidays special, set for three days before Christmas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let\u2019s take a look at the match card for the festive WWE Raw. This week, WWE Raw streams on Netflix at 8c on December 22, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>WWE Raw (12\/22\/25) Match Card<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Je\u2019Von Evans vs. Rayo <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bayley vs. Roxanne Perez <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rhea Ripley vs. Asuka<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WWE Raw Happy Holidays<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/09\/28\/what-to-expect-from-los-americanos-wwe-debut\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Americanos<\/a> Rayo is \u201cDunne\u201d seeing NXT stars get opportunities over him and looks to prove he is \u201cButch\u201d enough to defeat Je\u2019Von Evans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rhea Ripley will try and win the Women\u2019s Tag Team Championship along with IYO SKY on the first WWE Raw of 2026. This week, she faces one of the champs, Asuka. Asuka tried to blind Ripley with her poison mist last week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Regardless of whether the Kabuki Warriors or Ripley and SKY hold the tag gold in 2026, they\u2019ll have plenty of challengers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bayley and Lyra Valkyria want a shot at the titles. As do Roxanne Perez and Liv Morgan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bayley faces Perez with, clearly, more than bragging rights on the line. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austin Theory Is Unmasked <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austin Theory was revealed to be the mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/15\/masked-man-revealed-on-wwe-raw\/\" target=\"_self\">masked man<\/a> who had been helping The Vision since Survivor Series: War Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But why? We might hear from Theory. We might hear from Paul Heyman about Theory. Or, CM Punk might just kick Theory in his now-unmasked face.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><b>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n<section class=\"mb-12\">\n<div class=\"max-w-4xl mx-auto\"><em><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><u><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i> for more on Rhea Ripley 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.<\/i><\/em><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><em><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Netflix<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>USA Network<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>The CW<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Tubi<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments), and\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Peacock<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>YouTube<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>).<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three matches are confirmed for the WWE Raw Happy Holidays special, set for three days before Christmas. Let\u2019s take a look at the match card for the festive WWE Raw. This week, WWE Raw streams on Netflix at 8c on December 22, 2025. WWE Raw (12\/22\/25) Match Card Je\u2019Von Evans vs. Rayo Bayley vs. Roxanne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":148921,"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":[229,160,8833,536,9588,3041,8487],"class_list":["post-148916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-asuka","tag-bayley","tag-jevon-evans","tag-pete-dunne","tag-rayo","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-roxanne-perez"],"modified_by":"Laurence Gibbons","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148916","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=148916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148922,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148916\/revisions\/148922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}