WWE Raw results, Aug. 27, 2018: Strowman joins Ziggler and McIntyre in shutting down The Shield

Mr. Monster in the Bank will cash in his contract against the Universal Champion in a Hell in a Cell Match.

TORONTO — Braun Strowman is calling his shot. Having been thwarted by the reunion of The Shield last week, Mr. Monster in the Bank declared his intentions at the conclusion of his summit with Universal Champion Roman Reigns at the start of Raw: In a move that would both circumvent The Hounds of Justice and allow him to make good on his promise to cash in his Money in the Bank contract face-to-face, Strowman challenged Reigns to a title match at (and inside) Hell in a Cell that will serve as The Monster Among Men’s cash-in.

Reigns accepted and shook Strowman’s hand, though Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre were quick to crash the party and challenge Reigns & Strowman to a tag team match, citing their need for a new challenge. (According to Ziggler, he’s had Seth Rollins’ number every time they fought and is biding his time until he calls in his rematch for the Intercontinental Title). Out came Constable-turned-Acting General Manager Baron Corbin to make his first, second and third matches as showrunner: 1) Strowman's cash-in against Reigns in a Hell in a Cell Match; 2) Ziggler & McIntyre vs. Reigns & Strowman for later in the night; and 3) a surprise match between Finn Bálor and The Lone Wolf himself that was due to start then and there.

Titus Worldwide's Dana Brooke aims to pick up momentum before WWE Evolution, going one-on-one against The Boss.

WWE Evolution is coming up, and Dana Brooke wants a match despite a long gap between singles bouts. That means she needed a "tune-up match" to help make her case, though any expectations that she'd be facing some starry-eyed local were quickly dashed when Titus O'Neil revealed he'd finagled a match between Brooke and Sasha Banks. 

As Apollo Crews pointed out, a four-time Women's Champion ain’t exactly a warm-up opponent, but Titus insisted he believed in his statistician’s skills. To her credit, Brooke didn’t wither in the face of The Boss, even going so far as to put Sasha on her heels. But once Dana got Sasha’s attention, The Boss turned on the jets, and it was a short walk to the inevitable Bank Statement that forced Dana to submit.

Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder aim to keep the pressure on the Raw Tag Team Champions as they inch closer to a title opportunity.

How long can The B-Team hold off The Revival? For all the unlucky breaks that have kept the “Top Guys” from the mountaintop, Dash & Dawson are closing in on another opportunity after sweeping Dallas & Axel in singles victory and handing The B-Team the first outright (albeit non-title) loss they've suffered since their rebirth in the wake of the Superstar Shake-up. And, as they made clear, they don't intend to let their next opportunity go unfulfilled.

Of course, The B-Team have defied the odds before, but on this particular night, the champs looked truly vulnerable for the first time in a long time. After pinning Curtis Axel with a Shatter Machine (and hitting Bo Dallas with an another one out of spite after the match), Dash & Dawson laid hands on The B-Team’s titles and deemed the champs an insult to the lineage of the Tag Team Titles and the great champions of yesteryear. Claiming that they can take the titles whenever they want, Dash & Dawson clinked The B-Team’s championships as if they were their own and departed the ring. Later in the show, it was announced that the "Top Guys" would receive a title match next week, and if the past two weeks are any indication, Dallas & Axel’s time as champions may be a B-word they haven’t considered: Borrowed.

Canada's own Natalya mixes it up with The Foxy One on Raw, as Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey and WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus back up The Queen of Harts, and Alexa Bliss and Mickie James stand in Alicia's corner.

As Alexa Bliss heads toward her clash with Trish Stratus at WWE Evolution, The Goddess is looking to shore up her ranks. Little Miss Bliss sent her lieutenant Alicia Fox into action against Natalya and had a few choice words for The Queen of Harts’ own equalizers: Not only did Bliss evoke her Raw Women’s Title rematch clause against Rousey for WWE Hell in a Cell, she went so far as to deem Trish “irrelevant” and claim she replaced the WWE Hall of Famer.

She may be overplaying her hand. Riding high on a wave of emotion, The Queen of Harts didn’t miss a beat against Fox, and once Rousey and Trish chased away Alexa and Mickie James (who Alexa brought back into the fold after a brief absence) from ringside, Natalya pounced with a discus clothesline and Sharpshooter to force the former Divas Champion to tap. In an emotional post-match moment, the former SmackDown Women’s Champion used her victory to pay homage to her late father Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart, holding back tears as she pointed skyward in tribute.

As it turned out, however, Trish was far from the only Superstar with a surprise up her sleeve. When the trio of Natalya, Ronda and Stratus made their way through the arena after the match, they came across The Bella Twins, who revealed they would be back in action next week on Raw. Their opponents? The Riott Squad.

Nikki & Brie Bella will get back in the ring next Monday night, live on Raw.

Bobby Lashley puts his powerhouse strength to the test against two denizens of The Wasteland.

Baron Corbin is a man with many enemies, and now, thanks to his promotion to Acting General Manager, he has the tool to make them all pay. Of course, some of those same foes simply powered through their punishment by force of will — case in point, Bobby Lashley, who outlasted The Ascension in a spontaneous Handicap Match that maybe, just maybe, was designed as payback for Lashley’s humiliation of The Lone Wolf the previous week.

Lashley’s match proved to be a demonstration of the former NXT Tag Team Champions’ power and, more crucially, the resilience of the former ECW Champion. Despite a series of quick tags by The Ascension, Lashley took out Konnor — who he’d correctly identified as a potential match, power-wise — with a clothesline over the ropes, leaving Viktor vulnerable to a big slam to end the match.

The Lunatic Fringe takes on The Modern Day Maharaja in a chaotic confrontation.

In Jinder Mahal’s defense, he’s probably right that Dean Ambrose could benefit from a meditation technique or two. That said, The Modern Day Maharaja clearly didn’t read the room when he attempted to pass his mantra onto The Lunatic Fringe, as Ambrose challenged Mahal to a match and ultimately upended the former WWE Champion in yet another impressive showcase of his new, power-based style.

Mahal is no slouch in the aggression and strength departments either, and he didn’t hesitate to use those attributes when it became clear that Ambrose had no intention of taking it easy. Sunil Singh provided a distraction to give The Maharaja an opening, and Mahal pounced, even going as far as to cue up the Khallas. But Ambrose writhed free of Mahal’s clutches and administered a whip-fast Dirty Deeds, putting his opponent down for three.