Oba Femi opened Wwe Raw in Paris by brushing off Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh, then sending both men away after a fast, physical exchange that put his King of the Ring run front and center. Femi smiled as the Paris crowd chanted his name, then answered Mysterio’s claim that he would win the crown this year by fighting him off in the ring.
The June 8 show from France mattered because it kept the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments moving with two quarterfinal matches, and the Paris segment gave Femi a direct stage to look every bit like a threat. He said he would run through everyone in the tournament and still wanted a rubber match against Brock Lesnar, a nod to a rivalry that continues to shadow his rise and one that has already fueled interest in his Raw run. For readers following the bracket, the episode also delivered a Queen of the Ring quarterfinal in which Raquel Morgan beat Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss and Chelsea Green.
What made Femi’s segment work was the way it flipped quickly from words to resistance. McDonagh cracked him with a chair, but Femi punched the chair back into McDonagh’s face, then later threw Dominik across the ring before Mysterio and McDonagh bolted. Dominik tried to back up his warning with a 619, but Femi was still the one standing tall when the dust cleared. That kind of response matters more than a speech in a tournament like this, because it showed he will not be talked down by someone who has already started framing the bracket around himself.
The next test comes next week, when Femi moves into a semifinal match that will decide whether this Paris moment becomes the start of a run or just another loud opening for a show overseas. Raw also had Lyra Valkyria defending her IC title against Sol Ruca on the same card, underlining how much the episode was built around matches with immediate stakes rather than setup alone. In Paris, Femi did not just survive the interruption. He turned it into proof that the road to the crown now runs through him.
