WWE Raw Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from June 27

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Welcome to Bleacher Report’s coverage and recap of WWE Raw on June 27.

This week marks WWE’s celebration of 20 years of John Cena, so The Leader of The Cenation showed up to help kick off the festivities.

The other big story to continue this week was the ongoing feud between Kevin Owens and the Samson siblings Elias, Ezekiel and their youngest brother, Elrod.

This week was also the go-home show before Money in the Bank, so plenty of time was spent hyping the pay-per-view.

Let’s take a look at what went down during the matches from Monday’s show.

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The first match of the night was a Last Chance Money in the Bank qualifier Battle Royal that included a few dozen Superstars fighting for their chance to compete at Sunday’s PPV.

We saw stars from the top to the bottom of the card. Riddle, Rey and Dominik Mysterio, Shinsuke Nakamura and Dolph Ziggler were competing alongside the likes of T-Bar and Shanky.

Akira Tozawa was the first elimination after about a minute. The rest of the eliminations were spaced out over several minutes, so it never felt like we were seeing multiple people thrown out at the same time in a way that was difficult to follow.

Battle Royals can be so tricky, especially when everyone starts in the ring at the same time instead of coming out one by one like the Royal Rumble. This match included some skilled veterans, so it had plenty of fun moments and decent action.

However, this was no different than any other random Battle Royal we have ever seen. It was good but not memorable, which is fine because we don’t need every match to be the best thing ever. Sometimes, it just needs to be good to keep the story moving along.

It all came down to AJ Styles and Riddle before The Miz revealed his injured leg was a ruse and eliminated Styles. The Bro and The A-Lister fought until Riddle hit an RKO on the apron to take out The Miz and claim the win.

Winner: Riddle

Grade: B-

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Notable Moments and Observations

• Cena was shown shaking a lot of hands before the show began as he arrived at the arena. WWE clearly wants this night to feel like it means something to his career.
• Jinder Mahal eliminating Shanky is yet another nail in the coffin of their team. 
• The fact that AJ Styles, Ricochet, Ziggler and Shelton Benjamin had to fight for one of the last spots is kind of sad because all of those guys should be in the men’s MITB match already. 
• Ricochet had the best spot in the match with T-Bar and one of the ladders that was at ringside.