The Wyatt Family are here, Vickie Guerrero fired, All Stars face each other and things heat up between Henry and Cena.
Vickie Guerrero addresses the WWE Universe:
We Kicked things off In Baltimore with Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero and her assistant Brad Maddox. She tried to gain sympathy with the WWE Universe but the crowd weren't buying it. Jerry 'The King' Lawler interrupted Vickie and announced that the WWE Universe will decide the fate of Vickie through a vote on the WWE App. After this vickie announced the following matches for the show:
Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan
Kane vs Christian
CM Punk vs Randy Orton the Main Event
Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan
No 18-second sob story tonight for Daniel Bryan, who slew his second Goliath in three weeks and knocked off Sheamus in the first of Vickie Guerrero’s three planned bouts between the Money in the Bank All-Stars.
With the WWE Title Contract hanging ominously overhead,The Celtic Warrior didn’t seem like he expected to repeat his famous blink-and-you’ll-miss-it feat from WrestleMania XXVIII. But even he seemed taken aback by the berserker intensity of the former Tag Team Champion in a bout that was rough and brutal. Anticipating Bryan’s head of steam, Sheamus countered his running clotheslines into the Irish Curse, but it was Bryan who won out in the end by reversing the Cloverleaf into a cradle pin. The effort was enough to earn Bryan a hearty handshake from the Irishman himself in a genuine gesture of respect for the beard and the man who wears it, as well.
Result: Daniel Bryan wins
WWE Tag Team Champions The Shield vs Tons Of Funk
Despite an up-and-down couple of weeks for the self-styled “Hounds of Justice” and despite an early beating at the hands of Brodus & Tensai, Rollins & Reigns were ultimately in fine form against their funky foes. Rollins took the brunt of the big men’s early punishment, but Roman Reigns helped turn the tide and ultimately decided the match after Rollins kicked out of a pinfall attempt from Tensai, tagging back into the contest and cutting “Sweet T” down with a furious Spear to earn The Shield its latest victory.
Result: The Shield Win
WWE Champion John Cena confronts Mark Henry
After a short confrontation between the two superstars, John Cena didn't want to mess around as he tried to lift The Worlds Strongest Man in an attempt to execute the Attitude Adjustment but Cena's legs could not withstand the weight of Henry leading to henry falling on Cena's head. Mark Henry gave The Champ a strong beating and to end it all he hit The Worlds Strongest Slam on The WWE Champion.
Chris Jericho vs Curtis Axel
With Jericho reeling, Axel took too long to taunt his opponent and Y2J capitalised, locking in the Walls of Jericho and later throwing Axel into the commentary booth. Given that The Miz was scouting the champion from ringside, this proved to be the deciding factor as the champion jaw-jacked with his contender for too long and walked unwittingly into a second Codebreaker once he rolled back into the ring at the beat-up Heyman’s frantic behest. Call it almost perfect. it was ultimately a mental error that led to Axel’s loss.
Result: Chris Jericho wins
WHC Alberto Del Rio vs Sin Cara
Though Sin Cara was in rare form against The Essence of Excellence, Del Rio was competing under no small amount of duress. Ziggler (without AJ at his side once again despite her earlier promise) had no intention of leaving the champion six days before their hotly anticipated rematch, Making fun off Ricardo Rodriguez’s ring announcing and throwing The Mexican Aristocrat off his game. Del Rio ultimately ditched the match to tussle with Dolph, but Sin Cara quickly pounced on The Essence of Excellence, leaving a World Champion flattened for the second time in one night but concluding the bout in a double count-out.
Result: Double Count Out
Vickie Guerrero's Job Evaluation
On the one hand, Vickie Guerrero is indeed fired, expelled from the Managing Supervisor’s position by Stephanie McMahon herself after a record-setting WWE App vote acted as a tiebreaker between the whims of Mr. McMahon (who wanted Vickie to stay) and Triple H (who voted her gone). While Vickie’s emotional pleas to keep her job didn’t exactly tug at The Chairman’s heartstrings, the impulsive nature of a major business decision did propel him into an executive decision. It just wasn’t the one anyone expected.
"You have no idea what the right decision would be," The Chairman roared at the WWE Universe, "[So] I'm gonna make it for you ... you people deserve this." In other words, ladies and gentlemen, say hello to your new Raw General Manager: Brad Maddox, who revealed his qualifications to WWE.com as a former hall monitor, fourth grade class president and captain of JV basketball team in 10th and 11th grades.
Kane vs Christian, The Wyatt Family Arrive
The Devil’s Favorite Demon faced a stiff challenge in Christian, who certainly made his case for One. More. Match. by keeping Kane on the defensive for the duration of the bout. Christian’s success went to his head, though, and he attempted a too-early Spear that led to a Chokeslam … and that’s when the lights cut out and Bray Wyatt’s final dispatch played to the WWE Universe. Moments later, the Wyatts themselves emerged from the darkness and laid siege to The Devil’s Favorite Demon.
While Bray Wyatt watched from a rocking chair at ringside, Erick Rowan and Luke Harper decimated Kane with the steel steps, leaving him in a heap before Wyatt knelt beside the fallen form of his first victim … but most likely not his last. It now begs the question, Will Kane compete at the Money In The Bank PPV this Sunday?
Result: Kane wins
Randy Orton vs CM Punk
In a bout between two of WWE’s most vicious Superstars, it was CM Punk who came out on top once Vickie Guerrero’s final match as Managing Supervisor was said and done, avenging a WrestleMania loss to hand Randy Orton another high-profile defeat. Punk started strong, but Orton steadily dismantled The Straight Edge Superstar by targeting his ribs and back to leave him writhing.
Orton’s sadistic tendencies got the better of him as he laid a barrage of punches on Punk’s head against the turnbuckle, though, giving Punk time to writhe free and the wind to counter the RKO with a kick to the head. One Go to Sleep later and Orton’s night was over. But Daniel Bryan wasn’t about to leave without making a statement of his own, dissecting Punk with kicks and bulldozing Orton with a ladder before clutching the coveted briefcase for his own.
Brutal? Yes. Dangerous? Certainly. But when it comes to Money in the Bank, such things are all in the game.
In what was an enjoyable episode of RAW, There could still be a few twist and turns leading into Money In The Bank, Daniel Bryan looks to be favorite to win the All Stars MITB match but you can never write off CM Punk and Randy Orton. The Wyatt family are here and look like a very formidable trio. RAW was a solid 7/10.
Biggest Reactions from the crowd:
*John Cena
*Randy Orton
*CM Punk
*Daniel Bryan
*The Wyatt Family
Backstage Fallout
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