{"id":159553,"date":"2026-04-20T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=159553"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:35:32","slug":"preview-wwe-4-20-26-raw-after-wrestlemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/20\/preview-wwe-4-20-26-raw-after-wrestlemania\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE (4\/20\/26) Raw After WrestleMania 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE WrestleMania 42 week will finish with one last show from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>WWE Raw emanates from the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/20\/wwe-raw-after-wrestlemania-42-live-results-highlights-and-what-comes-next-4-20-26\/\" target=\"_self\">The WWE Raw After WrestleMania 42 kicks off at 8\/7c on Netflix (you can follow along with our live results here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Raw Returns and Goodbyes<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WrestleMania 42<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With Bron Breakker and Paige both returning to WWE on night one of WWE WrestleMania 42, there\u2019s less chance of some shocking returns on WWE Raw. But we could see at least one NXT call-up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rhea Ripley bids farewell to WWE Raw after winning the WWE Women\u2019s Championship at WWE WrestleMania 42. The title will be defended on WWE SmackDown, but will Ripley give IYO SKY a shot at the gold before she says bye-bye to bestie? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Penta would be wise to offer any of the men he bested in the Intercontinental Championship ladder match last night. They will all want a one-on-one shot at some point. None of them is anywhere near 100%, so now would be the time to give them a shot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, will Roman Reigns and CM Punk now admit that they actually didn\u2019t hate each other after all?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE WrestleMania 42 week will finish with one last show from Las Vegas. WWE Raw emanates from the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. The WWE Raw After WrestleMania 42 kicks off at 8\/7c on Netflix (you can follow along with our live results here). Raw Returns and Goodbyes WrestleMania 42 With Bron Breakker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":157072,"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":[2192,25,3],"tags":[3041],"class_list":["post-159553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-rhea-ripley"],"modified_by":"Steph Franchomme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159553","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=159553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159659,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159553\/revisions\/159659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}