{"id":161458,"date":"2026-05-14T03:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=161458"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:16:38","slug":"wwe-raw-preview-5-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/05\/14\/wwe-raw-preview-5-18\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Raw Preview (5\/18\/26) &#8211;  Fatu Has Bitten Off More than He Can Chew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Here&#8217;s our full WWE Raw preview live from Greensboro, North Carolina, live from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsocomplex.com\/events\/detail\/wwe-raw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Horizon Coliseum<\/a>, on Netflix at 8\/7c. WWE Raw streams on Monday, May 18, 2025, and there&#8217;s a lot to unpack. Let&#8217;s get unpacking now with our packed preview for this action-packed show. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>WWE Raw Preview for May 18, 2026: <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tag Team Division on WWE Raw <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE tag teams, beware. Los Garza were plucked from obscurity last week and chucked around like they were Kai En Tai by an angry Oba Femi. Sorry, what&#8217;s the most popular guy in WWE Ooooo-ba got to be sulky about? Oh yeah, nobody answered his open challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvZ5EeRVzjs?si=6lOk_Kx6B73ZvJZI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So please, oh please, somebody answer it this week. Otherwise, Oba might hunt the tag team bargain basement for another poor team. I hear the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/04\/15\/insane-wrestlemania-week-matches-you-need-to-know-about\/\" target=\"_self\">Headbangers are still wrestling.<\/a> Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/03\/02\/demolition-finally-announced-for-wwe-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_self\">Demolition could take their newly minted WWE Hall of Fame rings<\/a> out for a test run on Femi&#8217;s face?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the actual tag team division, Brie Bella and Paige will <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be forced<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to prove their return from obscurity to win the Women&#8217;s Tag Team gold at WWE WrestleMania 42 wasn&#8217;t a fluke. Former champs, and former fans, Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez are the challengers. It\u2019s hard to imagine Bella and Paige would drop the straps so soon after winning them. But with Liv Morgan willing to attack on behalf of the challengers, it\u2019s hard to write them off, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Has Fatu Bitten Off More Than He Can Chew?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 610px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBYQFg9Fuo\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3000px; aspect-ratio: 3000\/2000;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jacob Fatu is going the right way about getting a proper Bloodline hiding. If we forget all his naughty behavior in the build-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/05\/11\/wwe-backlash-2026-4-things-wwe-got-right-at-the-ple\/\" target=\"_self\">WWE Backlash<\/a>, there&#8217;s still enough to him to get a good slap on the wrist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last week alone, he refused to acknowledge Roman Reigns &#8211; naughty. Slapped Jey Uso &#8211; naughty naughty. Threw Jimmy Uso into a barricade &#8211; naughty, naughty, naughty. Finally, he put Reigns through a table and applied the Tonga Death Grip &#8211; naughty times a million. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Bloodline will be out for, well, blood on WWE Raw. And only the Samoan Werewolves will do. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1d8_WL_NGaA?si=yD6Rzzi3EMjP_kix\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Finally, Sol Ruca is going to get into it for real with Becky Lynch very soon. JD McDonagh owes Finn Balor one for launching his trademark massive head into a wall. And all the fake luchadors involved in the El Grande Americano situation have just two more weeks to try and convince WWE Raw fans that they gotta fly to Mexico for their big Mask vs. Mask match.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We run down the card right here:<\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Raw (5\/18\/26) Match Card:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tJEM0bxLT4?si=VgovEkildDP3stY0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Women\u2019s World Tag Team Championship: Brie Bella &amp; Paige <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">vs.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Roxanne Perez &amp; Raquel Rodriguez\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Oba Femi Open Challenge<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our full WWE Raw preview live from Greensboro, North Carolina, live from the First Horizon Coliseum, on Netflix at 8\/7c. WWE Raw streams on Monday, May 18, 2025, and there&#8217;s a lot to unpack. Let&#8217;s get unpacking now with our packed preview for this action-packed show. WWE Raw Preview for May 18, 2026: Tag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":161003,"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":[25,2192,4,3],"tags":[1636,3006,8734,194,77],"class_list":["post-161458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-brie-bella","tag-jacob-fatu","tag-oba-femi","tag-paige","tag-roman-reigns"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161458","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=161458"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161503,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161458\/revisions\/161503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}