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Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE Raw results for May 4, 2020. This week’s episode featured a “last chance” gauntlet match for a spot in the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match, Drew McIntyre taking on Seth Rollins’ disciple Murphy, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of Raw column.

WWE Raw Results:

– The episode opened with MVP interviewing Asuka, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler on the VIP Lounge. The three women traded insults until Baszler and Asuka decided to team up and kick Jax out of the ring.

1. AJ Styles won a Last Chance Gauntlet Match for Apollo Crews’ Money in the Bank ladder match spot. The falls were as follows:

• Bobby Lashley defeated Titus O’Neil with a spear.
• Lashley defeated Shelton Benjamin with a spear.
• Humberto Carrillo defeated Lashley by disqualification when Lashley shoved the referee. Lashley took out his frustrations on Carrillo with a post-match attack.
• Carrillo defeated Angel Garza by countering the Wing Clipper into a sunset flip.
• Carrillo defeated Austin Theory by countering a superplex with an inside cradle.
• AJ Styles, returning from death, defeated Carrillo by submission with a Calf Crusher.

After the match, Styles continued to attack Carrillo, repeatedly smashing Carrillo’s leg into the ring post. He then cut a promo about how he’s going to rewrite history at Money in the Bank.

– Seth Rollins was interviewed about his match against Drew McIntyre at Money in the Bank.

– Edge and Randy Orton will be on next week’s show.

2. Brendan Vink and Shane Thorne defeated Ricochet and Cedric Alexander. Vink pinned Ricochet after a big boot.

3. The Viking Raiders defeated Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits with a Viking Experience on Angelo Dawkins.

– Aleister Black and Rey Mysterio had short backstage promos about Money in the Bank.

– Charlotte Flair came to the ring to talk, and was interrupted by Liv Morgan. They exchanged words, and Morgan challenged Flair to a match.

4. NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair defeated Liv Morgan by submission with the Figure-Eight.

5. WWE Champion Drew McIntyre defeated Murphy with a Brogue Kick. After the match McIntyre challenged Seth Rollins to get in the ring and fight him. Rollins pretended to leave, then snuck up on McIntyre to hit him with a kick. Rollins tried to hit a Stomp, but McIntyre dodged and hit a headbutt. McIntyre attempted a Claymore, but Rollins bailed.

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Let’s be honest, it’s basically your throne.

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Will swallowing Mentos and Diet Coke at the same time kill you? Let’s find out.

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“A lot of people think that OCD is just about cleanliness — that’s actually so far from the truth.”

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The world is facing unprecedented tragedy thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, with over 60,000 Americans dead and millions suddenly out of work, unsure about their futures. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is apparently still planning on going to space. But that’s not all: According to Deadline, Tesla’s CEO and chairman, who Forbes calculates is currently worth $38.7 billion, is teaming up with Tom Cruise to make a cinema first: a narrative movie filmed in outer space.

There are no details about the movie, beyond it being an action adventure and that it won’t be connected to any Cruise franchise. That means you won’t see Mission: Impossible daredevil Ethan Hunt in space, unless this changes. Nor is any studio currently involved. Deadline claims it’s all in the early stages, so it may not happen until life has been restored to something resembling order — perhaps after the eternally youthful Cruise has crossed the 60-year-old mark, when he may still be willing to put his life at risk to entertain us.

Musk has been working on revolutionizing space transportation with his company SpaceX, which alone is worth $20 billion, and it’s likely that only the rich and powerful will be able to afford cruising between the stars like some jet around the nation or planet. Cruise is definitely someone who could afford a SpaceX flight, but this, of course, would be one better. If so, it would — and this is true — be the first movie Cruise has made not only filmed but also set in outer space.

(Via Deadline)

States across the country are reopening and implementing sweeping changes to their stay-at-home orders this week, despite the fact that the coronavirus hasn’t, you know, gone anywhere. This fact isn’t lost on the states, who are essentially operating in the dark and responding to a problem that no one can really offer definitive answers or guidance on. Governors are balancing communications with hospitals and doctors against the president’s aggressive position and armed protests. It’s no small puzzle.

Clearly, we don’t know for certain what post-lockdown life will look like yet, but our most populous state has given some early indications. California — the first state in the country to implement a statewide lockdown — currently has the lowest number cases and deaths per 100 thousand people when compared to the top eight states by total confirmed COVID-19 cases. That success, in a state with a population of nearly 40 million, is due to a wide number of factors, with the state’s leadership and rapid response being central elements.

On May 4th, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled phase two of California’s plan to reopen in a press conference and indicated that by as soon as Friday, people could expect certain businesses to open for the first time since early March. This plan will allow clothing stores, florists, bookstores, and sporting good stores to open their doors this Friday. Offices will remain closed and teleworking will continue, restaurants will still be barred from in-person dining, and shopping malls will remain closed.

Governor Newsom has long said that California’s reopening plan would be determined by science and data and not public pressure, but it appears that he has caved slightly to a certain subset of Southern Californians who were growing increasingly frustrated with the governor after he ordered all Orange County beaches to close after large crowds flocked to the beaches during a particularly hot weekend in SoCal.

Beginning on May 5th, beaches in the Orange County cities of Laguna Beach and San Clemente have been granted permission to reopen on a very limited basis. According to CNN, beaches in the two cities will be open between the hours of 6 am to 10 am (on weekdays only for Laguna). People who want to visit the beach must participate in what is being called “active recreation” — meaning they’ll be able to visit the beach so long as they’re running, swimming, or surfing. Picnicking and beach lounging will remain prohibited, so if you want to work on your tan you’re going to have to do that at home or on the move.

“In the spirit of collaboration and the spirit of modifications I want to really thank the leadership down in Orange County,” said Newsom in a press conference announcing the changes. “They put together an outstanding plan to begin to reopen those beaches and we not only applauded that, we enthusiastically embraced it, and as a consequence, with those modifications… those beaches will be reopened.”

The changes come just three short days after the county attempted — unsuccessfully — to block the Governor’s order to close these same beaches. Governor Newsom also indicated that similar announcements would be made in the coming days regarding other public gathering spaces, while stressing that individual communities will need to remain proactive in what they feel is too much too soon, given the massive size of the state. If things go as smoothly as the state is hoping, we could be looking at a useful model for other states to adopt.

“We are not telling locals that feel it’s too soon, too fast to modify,” Newsom said. “We believe those local communities that have separate timelines should be afforded the capacity to advance those timelines.”

Given that the temperature across Southern California for the next seven days looks likely to hover around 90-degrees, we imagine people aren’t going to be waiting too long to hit those freshly opened beaches. If that means you, just remember to put your pent up quarantine energy to good use and keep moving.