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Characteristically heel behavior during a match finish on tonight’s WWE Raw suggests that perhaps a Raw star will be turning heel.

After last week saw some snappy retorts from Shinsuke Nakamura as he got fussy with people about getting involved in “his business”, tonight more heelish behavior.

While he was relatively dismissive of Tommaso Ciampa in an earlier backstage segment, he elected to go forward with a match to squash whatever issues the pair may have with one another.

Or at least, that was the idea before the match started.

In the end of his match with Ciampa, Nakamura may have picked up the win but he used one of the oldest tricks in the book to secure the victory.

Holding onto the trunks of Ciampa for leverage, Nakamura did win but continued what appears to be a soft turn to a darker side of Shin.

Elsewhere on WWE Raw, Ricochet and Logan Paul’s feud heated up after Paul brought up Ricochet’s real life fiancée, ring announcer Samantha Irvin. You can click here to read more about that. 

Click here to find out what other rising star in WWE just had their first singles match (and victory) on the show as well.

Emerging rivals @CiampaWWE & @ShinsukeN clash on #WWERaw! pic.twitter.com/EigRGk0GFR

— WWE (@WWE) August 1, 2023

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