WWE Raw results, Aug. 14, 2017: SummerSlam comes early for Fatal 4-Way Match participants

Raw's sinister songsmith mercilessly attacks R-Truth before their match can begin.

You would think the Raw locker room might have learned not to upstage Elias anymore, but R-Truth evidently missed that memo.

When the opening bars of “What’s Up?” silenced the sinister balladeer’s latest performance, Elias took his frustrations out on the former United States Champion in a major, major way, attacking Truth in the ropes and planting him with Drift Away. Suffice it to say, R-Truth will not be joining the Walking With Elias World Tour anytime soon.

Six nights before Big Show's battle against Big Cass at SummerSlam, the so-called "good brothers" join the seven-footer in disarming the giant.

What began as a pointed confrontation between Big Cass and Big Show in the shadow of the Shark Tank that will enclose Enzo Amore at SummerSlam turned into a potential dagger for Muscles Marinara and The World’s Largest Athlete. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson got involved in the fray, blindsiding the giant right as he was about to go another few rounds with his opponent on Sunday, Big Cass.

The attack by the good brothers left The World’s Largest Athlete stunned, and Big Cass — who weathered an unholy amount of vitriol from the Boston faithful and dispatched Enzo in the fracas — joined in with the former Raw Tag Team Champions in a coordinated and prolonged assault that appeared to break Show's right hand, though that could not be confirmed as the giant refused a medical evaluation. That KO Punch has been a persistent problem for the seven-footer, but come SummerSlam, he might just have one less problem to worry about.

The mysterious Irishman battles The Eater of Worlds for the first time ever.

Finn Bálor and Bray Wyatt couldn’t wait until Sunday to turn their psychological warfare physical, but a few extra days’ preparation might have been better for the inaugural Universal Champion, as Wyatt defeated his adversary in a heated match stemming from a backstage brawl that occurred earlier in the show.

Much to the shock of the Bálor Club, The Reaper of Souls was firmly in control for most of the match, brutalizing his foe with suffocating chinlocks and a reverse backbreaker-type maneuver that sucked the wind from Finn’s sails. Bálor briefly revved back to life, but The Eater of Worlds tripped Bálor up in the ropes pre-Coup de Grâce and hauled him off the turnbuckle straight into Sister Abigail for the win.

With the battle won, Wyatt administered a second Sister Abigail and briefly vanished, reappearing only to empty a decrepit bucket filled with a viscous, acidic red fluid over Bálor's head, leaving the Irishman squirming in horror. He wasn't done yet, however: A recovering Bálor successfully petitioned Kurt Angle for a rematch on Sunday, leaving Raw with an ominous vow to reveal his "demons" to The Reaper of Souls.

The bitter Emma gets the chance to prove herself against the battle-tested Mickie James.

Emma’s one-woman crusade for the spotlight has certainly raised some eyebrows (she lost a close Triple Threat Match last week, after all), but it hasn’t exactly endeared her to women like Mickie James. The six-time Women’s Champion took exception to Emma’s all-about-me mindset in a backstage confrontation and put her in her place in a match later in the show, though Emma was all over her decorated foe from jump.

That James claimed the win was more a matter of her veteran savvy than a lack of skill on Emma’s part; a scramble near the ropes left an overzealous Emma open for a split second, and James threaded the needle with a pinpoint kick to the chin to claim the 1-2-3. A narrow miss, but Emma might make it all about her yet.

Having taken a brief detour into Suplex City the week prior, The Miz has resumed his budding rivalry with Jason Jordan, and The A-Lister and his crew got a measure of payback against the two-time Tag Team Champion when Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel swarmed Jordan in the midst of his bout with Miz, handing the gold-blooded wunderkind a beatdown at the expense of a disqualification loss for Miz.

Luckily for Jordan, two guardian angels quickly came to his rescue. The Hardy Boyz, who were backstage during an earlier confrontation between The Miztourage and Jordan’s father Kurt Angle, swarmed the Hollywood elites to even the odds, which set up ...

A singles bout pitting Jason Jordan against The Miz transforms into a Six-Man Tag Team Match thanks to Raw General Manager Kurt Angle.

Thanks to Scott Dawson’s injury, The Hardy Boyz missed out on an opportunity to get their hands on The Revival. That said, The Miz & The Miztourage made for an excellent substitution as foes for The Most Exhilarating Tag Team In History all the same.

With Jason Jordan joining the former Raw Tag Team Champions, The Hardys unleashed the full scope of their skills in an impromptu Six-Man Tag Team Match. It seemed as though the bout would come down to Jordan and The Miz, at least until Curtis Axel saved The A-Lister from calamity. That kicked off a three-on-one assault of Matt Hardy, at least until Jeff and Jordan entered the fray.

One by one, The Miztourage attempted to break up the action, and one by one they were denied — The Miz was the last to fall to Jordan’s Angle Slam-neckbreaker combo. With Bo Dallas as the last man standing, he was subjected to a belly-to-belly from Jordan, Twist of Fate from Matt and finally a Swanton Bomb from Jeff that sent him to the showers.