WWE Raw results, March 4, 2019: Ronda Rousey unleashes on Becky Lynch as high-stakes WWE Fastlane match looms

The Big Dog tries to convince Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose to unite as The Hounds of Justice one last time.

PHILADELPHIA — You are Seth Rollins. Your brother-in-arms, Roman Reigns, is back in action against improbable odds, he has given his blessing to your WrestleMania match and all he wants is one thing: to forgive Dean Ambrose's transgressions and get The Shield back together. Do you do it?

As it turns out, yes. Moved by Reigns’ hard-earned assertion that tomorrow is not guaranteed, Rollins agreed to let bygones be bygones. He offered to wipe the slate clean for The Lunatic Fringe — and there is plenty to clean —to set up a long-shot reunion of one of the most dominant factions in the history of Raw. Unfortunately, Ambrose didn’t get to offer his own take on the prospective reformation of The Hounds of Justice, as Elias roared from behind the curtain and shattered a guitar over his back before he could reply.

The Monster Among Men, the Intercontinental Champion and The Olympic Hero battle The Scottish Psychopath, The Lone Wolf and "The All Mighty One" in tag team action.

There is a difference between a superteam and an actual team, and after a few weeks of dominance, Drew McIntyre, Baron Corbin & Bobby Lashley are beginning to look very much like the latter. That ominous development proved to be a problem for the equally-talented-but-less-cohesive collective who opposed them on Raw: Braun Strowman, Kurt Angle & Intercontinental Champion Finn Bálor. 

True, Angle was muscling the clock backward by sheer force of will. And Strowman was reducing everything in front of him to a cloud of dust. Even Bálor got his team to the cusp of victory after a one-two of a Running Powerslam and a Coup de Grâce to Corbin. But the squad had no answer for Lio Rush, who broke up the Irishman’s pinfall and instigated a mad scramble that ended with Strowman plowing both himself and The Man of the Hour through the barricade. The night, however, ended with a ruthless display of power by McIntyre, Corbin and Lashley, who disposed of a reeling Angle on the outside and downed Bálor with a Claymore and double chokeslam on the steel steps. In short, it was an impressive collection of parts, dismantled utterly by a dominant whole that is looking more and more ironclad by the week.

The Queen of Harts locks up with the leader of The Riott Squad.

Interfering in Natalya’s matches seems to have become the thing to do; luckily, The Queen of Harts at least managed to get all the way through her contest this week before a third-party came a-callin’. One week after being wrecked by Becky Lynch, the former SmackDown Women’s Champion was looking to get in and get out quick against Ruby Riott — and she did, hitting the road moments after pinning Ruby with a roll-up to avoid an ambush by Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan.

Her departure, however, was spoiled by the arrival and exit of Lacey Evans, who graced the WWE Universe with one of her now-signature pageant walks down and back up the ramp. And there was no mistaking the look in the Hart heiress’ eyes as the belle passed her by: Although The Lady of WWE had laid no hands on Natalya, she had the look of someone who had been slapped in the face by Evans all the same.

After crushing The B-Team and The Ascension, Otis & Tucker face former WWE Tag Team Champions Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins in a Tag Team Gauntlet Match.

Ever since stomping their way up from NXT, Heavy Machinery have been somewhat difficult to pin down. Are they jovial, protein-shake guzzling jocks or vile dumpster-divers who are stealing the thunder of more deserving Superstars? The remainder of Raw’s Tag Team division seems to have firmly cast their votes in favor of the latter, saving the worst of their insults to the quirky, boulder-like Otis. They certainly lived to regret it. Their schoolyard-bully insults riled up some genuine aggression from the quirky big men, who dismantled each and every one of their aggressors in a Gauntlet Match with relative ease. The B-Team were first to fall; The Ascension followed; and Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins — the one team who held back in insulting Heavy Machinery — were the last to go, with Otis scoring the decisive pinfalls on all three teams. No one will argue that Otis isn’t an odd cat — least of all him. But clearly, insult him at your own risk.

Otis & Tucker reveal what awaits any Raw tag team that mistakes their fun-loving nature for weakness.

The Boss takes on one of her WWE Women's Tag Team Championship challengers at WWE Fastlane in singles action.

You could say Bayley defeated Nia Jax last week or you could say she got lucky. Either argument would have merit, and whichever one you picked The Boss ’N’ Hug Connection would find no such relief tonight. Facing The Irresistible Force’s tag team partner Tamina in a final preview of Sunday’s WWE Women’s Tag Team Title clash, Sasha Banks found herself on the wrong end of a superkick that brought their bout to an abrupt, brutal end. If it happens again on Sunday, The Boss and Bayley’s historic reign will suffer a similar fate.

"The Samoan Slaughterhouse" are tired of being underestimated as they look to capture the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles at WWE Fastlane.

NXT standouts Ricochet & Aleister Black throw down with Raw's "Top Guys" with the Raw Tag Team Titles on the line.

Is it possible to be dominant and embattled? The Revival might just be threading that needle, having both re-established the idea of a traditional tag team holding sway over the Raw division and woefully unprepared for a new, left-field crop of opponents from NXT. The “Top Guys’ ” Raw Tag Team Title reign has been stop-and-start enough that they found themselves defending the championships against Aleister Black & Ricochet just three weeks after winning them. And if not for a fateful interference from Bobby Roode & Chad Gable, Dash & Dawson may well have lost them.

The former champions found their reign saved, in no uncertain terms, by Roode & Gable, who were vocally stewing on the outside — perhaps over the lack of an automatic rematch clause that would give them another crack at the titles. Roode & Gable swarmed The Revival in the middle of the match, notching a disqualification for the champions and giving the attackers a chance to assert themselves against the NXT newcomers. Their attempt to throw hands ended in disastrous fashion, however, as Black & Ricochet sent them ingloriously from the ring before posing ominously in the center of the squared circle. Whether Black & Ricochet would have definitely won the titles is a matter of pure conjecture, but the lasting image of the match left no such doubt: Much like The Revival, Roode & Gable may have picked a fight they aren’t ready for.