WWE superstar Bron Breakker has been the Intercontinental champion for several weeks now, with the young ex-NXT athlete who beat former champion Sami Zayn, to snatch him the secondary title of Monday Night Raw, after trying already at Money in the Bank, but in vain.
After the beginning of his new reign, WWE has tried to find a new contender for the title for Breakker, constituting a new tournament to decree the no. 1 contender to the belt of Breakker, divided in several matches, in which Jey Uso and Pete Dunne had already qualified in the past weeks.
Tonight there were two more three-man matches, to decide the last two who will compete in the Fatal 4 Way to find Breakker’s #1 contender, with WWE legend Braun Strowman, Ludwig Kaiser, Sheamus, Dominik Mysterio, Dragon Lee and Ilja Dragunov who had the opportunity to make their own match during the episode of Monday Night Raw tonight.
Ilja Dragunov's win at Raw
To win one of the two triple threat was Strowman, after the massive athlete had gone to replace Bronson Reed, stopped for covid, as announced by WWE itself, with the Monster Among Men who is rusticated with his finisher to pin Ludwig Kaiser, After Pete Dunne went to attack Sheamus once again, continuing the feud between the two European athletes.
The second triple threat match dedicated to the tournament for the IC title, was instead the Russian Ilja Dragunov, after the triple threat has become a real siege by the Judgment Day, with WWE veteran Damian Priest who immediately went to counter Carlito’s attempts to favor Dominik Mysterio to the final victory.
After knocking out his enemy Bash in Berlin, Priest left free field to Dragunov to attack Dragon Lee with his finisher, allowing the Russian to win the second match dedicated to the tournament for the IC title, By making him take a ticket to the final Fatal 4 Way.