WWE Monday Night Raw preview, April 15: Watch online

Here’s the info you need to watch this week’s WWE “Monday Night Raw” online via stream.

It’s Irwin R. Schyster’s favorite day of the year, when he inevitably shows up to find out who didn’t pay their taxes. Or maybe to flash back to being part of the Million Dollar Corporation back in 1994. But in this case, it’s 2019 and we’re getting ready for this year’s Superstar Shake-up. And it goes down this week on WWE Monday Night Raw.

The futures of every WWE Superstar will be up in the air over the next 48 hours, as the Superstar Shake-up set to be a two-night event that will spill over to SmackDown Live on Tuesday as well. Last year, we saw Jinder Mahal bring the United States Championship to Raw as the first pick of the 2018 event, only to lose that title about 15 minutes later to Jeff Hardy. Then Hardy (you guessed it) took the title back to SmackDown Live the very next night when he was “drafted” to the brand.

In the past, it was known as the WWE Draft. The events have led to tag teams being split up, new alliances formed and even announcers are subject to new assignments. This brings up an interesting question about Corey Graves, who provides color commentary on both Raw and SmackDown. Will he continue to pull double-duty, or will he be forced to step down from one of his weekly staples?

We also have issues that need to be resolved before certain WWE stars find new homes. Last week, Lacey Evans finally put the world on notice when she decked WWE Raw and SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch in the jaw, two nights in a row. How will the dual champion now known as “Becky Two Belts” respond to the lady that’s been making random entrances without a word over the last few weeks?

Bobby Lashley sent Dean Ambrose into the unemployment line last week with a vicious assault that ended up atop the Raw announce table. It was Ambrose’s final night on Raw, and it did not go as well as he’d hoped. Will we see Seth Rollins step up for for his Shield brother, or will Lashley and Lio Rush continue to terrorize the Raw roster?

Speaking of The Shield, there are other developments to keep an eye on. Roman Reigns was finally able to get a win on Drew McIntyre, after weeks of McIntyre’s nonstop brutalization of The Big Dog, Rollins and Ambrose. Now that Reigns might be able to put the Scottish Psychopath behind him, where does that leave the former Universal Champion? That title now sits around the waist of Rollins. Reigns never actually lost the Universal title, instead being forced to relinquish it last October to go to battle with leukemia.

Is a showdown between Rollins and Reigns for the title looming? Or does Reigns have something else in mind? He did tell the world last October he would come back and reclaim the gold. How long does Rollins have before Reigns sets his sights on the Universal Championship?

Date: Monday, April 15, 2019
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue: Bell Centre
TV Info: USA Network
Live Stream: USA Live

Don’t forget — it’s not only the Raw and SmackDown Live Superstars that are involved in this year’s Shake-up. We are guaranteed to see some NXT faces make their debuts this week as well. Now that the rush of WrestleMania is behind us, it’s time to get some fresh scenery on the screen and see where we end up with SummerSlam just months away.