WWE RAW 04/05/2010
RAW opens with it's usual amazing pyro display at the entrance ramp followed by the cameras scanning the various signs in the crowd before focusing on Michael Cole and The King sitting at ringside. They talk about Shawn Michaels' emotional farewell last week and HHH being attacked by Sheamus when he went to say his goodbye's to his longtime bestfriend. They mention that HHH will be looking for his revenge tonight in the mainevent when he takes on Sheamus in a WrestleMania re-match. They also talk about Jack Swagger moving to Smackdown after winning the World Heavyweight title last week and that he will be here this week, one last time, to say goodbye to RAW. They also talk about the John Cena / Batista situation and pop up some questions about when Batista will decide to cash in his re-match clause for the WWE championship.
The opening segment starts with John Cena's music blaring over the PA as the crowd in Moline, Illinois go absolutely nuts for the WWE champ. He gets in the ring and starts to talk about Batista and how he backed out of his re-match clause last week and Cena also is wondering when The Animal will choose to face Cena again in their WrestleMania re-match. This brings out The Animal to thunderous boos from the crowd. When he goes to address Cena from a top the entrance ramp, the crowd cuts him off by chanting "You Tapped Out" repeatedly. This drives Batista nuts and he starts to yell at the fans as well as Cena saying that Cena's win was nothing but a fluke. Cena responds by saying that Batista may think it was a fluke, and maybe other people may see it that way as well, but he again reminds Batista that fluke or not, he wasn't the one tapping out at WrestleMania, The Animal was.
This is what pushes Batista over the edge as the crowd again chants "You Tapped Out". He tells Cena that he's sick of all this and says that he's taking his re-match clause RIGHT NOW! He starts to make his way to the ring as Cena gets ready for battle inside when Batista is cut short on his way to battle by the music of NxT Rookie and RAW Guest Host, David Otunga. Otunga tells both men that as thrilling as it would be to see these go square off, it's a mainevent type match not a match to open his A-List show. And besides, he's already got a mainevent scheduled for tonight and not only that, but the two can't face eachother tonight because Cena is already scheduled for a match. Batista glares up at the rookie in complete anger and shock and when Cena asks Otunga who his match is against, the NxT rookie enthusiastically replies "ME"! And to top it off, he invites Batista to ringside for their match to do color commentary and he says that he will show Batista how you defeat John Cena. Our host exits via his music as Batista and Cena engage in a staredown.
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DIVA'S TAG TEAM MATCH
RAW comes back from commercials the sound of the beautiful Kelly Kelly's music hitting the PA as she is alongside Gail Kim as the two get set for a Diva's tag team match. Their opponents make their way out next to WWE Diva's champion Maryse's music and she is accompanied by her partner Alicia Fox. The match overall wasn't what you would call a "wrestling masterpiece" and with the exception of watch four beautiful women in the ring, the crowd wasn't that much into it. Maryse and Alicia dominated the whole match pretty well and cut off the ring to lay a good beat down on Gail Kim. Kelly Kelly wasn't even tagged in yet when Maryse hit her "French Kiss" DDT and went for the pinfall but at the count of two she pulled Gail up, looking to inflict more damage.
This started the ending of the match sequence where Kelly Kelly ran in to stop another French Kiss DDT which caused Maryse to chase Kelly back to her own corner. This bought Gail time however and she managed to hit her finisher on the Diva's champion and then made the tag to Kelly seconds after Maryse tagged in Fox. Kelly suprisingly looked pretty decent and really took it to Alicia who as so fed up with being beat on that she tagged in a fatigued and still somewhat hurt Diva's champion. Moments later, Kelly hit Maryse's own finisher on her and was able to score the upset victory over the champion. As Kelly and Gail celebrated in the ring, Maryse and Kelly Kelly stared eachother down.
RAW cuts to the Guest Host's office where we see Otunga sitting comfortably on a leather couch eating some green M&M's. Just then Batista storms into his office as our stands immediately stands up to great the enraged Animal. Batista tells him what nerve he had to deny Batista his shot at the title and book himself in a match tonight against Cena. Not only that but to tell him that a rookie will show The Animal how you beat Cena. He says that he has a right to face Cena for the title and he wants to tonight! Otunga calmly denies Batista's request again by saying the match is already made and it's Otunga's time tonight to be in the spotlight. However he agrees with the Animal and says that he does deserve a re-match for the title. Therefore he tells Batista that he will get his shot at the WWE championship at Extreme Rules on PPV. This makes the Animal somewhat happier and he wishes Otunga the best of luck in his match tonight and says he is looking forward to seeing how someone beats John Cena. The Animal exits.
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UNIFIED TAG TEAM TITLE # 1 CONTENDER'S MATCH
RAW comes back with Evan Bourne's music starting to blare on the PA and he and Yoshi Tatsu enthusiastically make their way to the ring. At ringside, Michael Cole informs the viewers at home that this match will be between a RAW and a Smackdown team and the winners will receive a shot at Show-Miz's Unified Tag titles. Out next are their opponents, the Hart Dynasty accompanied to the ring by the gorgeous Natalya. This match was a very fast paced, exciting matchup with both teams hitting several exciting spots. This tag match was much closer to what you would call a "wrestling masterpiece" then the tag match before it. Both teams got to hit about an equal amount of offense and each competitor a chance to show off their skills.
The ending came with Smith and Bourne in the ring and Bourne soaring off the top looking for a cross-body but having David Hart Smith catch him in mid-air. Smith stumbled back a few steps because of this which allowed Tyson Kidd the chance to make the blind tag. When Smith started to move forward, Kidd springboarded off the top rope and hit their version of the Hart Foundation of old's finisher "The Heart Attack". Smith immediately charged and decked Yoshi off the ring apron while Kidd locked in the sharpshooter on Bourne causing the young high-flyer to tap out. Natalya then enters and the three celebrate being the new number one contenders.
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It's now time for the "RAW Rebound" which shows footage of last week's heartbreaking farewell speech by Shawn Michaels then footage of HHH coming out earlier in the night to give his farewell to his best friend before being attacked by Sheamus using a lead pipe. The rebound ends with a shot of Sheamus standing over a beaten HHH looking down with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.
RAW then cuts to the backstage interview area where Josh Matthews introduces The Game, HHH. The Cerebral Assassin steps into camera view in his war gear and also wearing a D-X T-shirt, no doubt in honour of his retired friend. The Game cuts a very good promo, hyping tonight's mainevent against Sheamus. He says that tonight he will get his revenge for not only himself, but for robbing Shawn of hearing what HHH had to say to him. He says that tonight he will end Sheamus' enfactuation with him once and for all by beating the Celtic Warrior within an inch of his life.
We cut back to rinside where "Get On Your Knees" by Age Against the Machine starts to blare out throughout the arena as the brand new World Heavyweight champion, Jack Swagger steps out onto the stage with the World title draped over his shoulder. He is also suprisingly dressed in his in-ring wrestling attire. He makes his way to the ring where he gets on the mic and starts to brag about how he won Money in the Bank and how he cashed it in last week on Smackdown to become the new World champion. He officially announces to the RAW audience that he is now on the Smackdown brand and if they want to see the only true "superstar" on RAW then they will have to tune in on Friday nights now, instead of Monday. He tells everyone that he was the greatest star in RAW history and to prove it, he is issuing an open challenge to anyone on the RAW roster to face him in a non-title match right now. He says he will leave RAW in style, standing victorious in the ring with his arm held high.
"Just Close Your Eyes" suddenly hits and out steps Cpt. Charisma, Christian as the fans in Moline give the Canadian a pretty loud ovation. He makes his way to the ring, gets on the mic and accepts Swagger's open challenge. The World champion however just laughs at this saying that Christian can't accept the challenge because he's too far out of Swagger's league. Swagger goes on to say that he won the Money in the Bank match at WrestleMania. That he cashed in his briefcase and became World Heavyweight champion faster then any other MITB winner before him. He also reminds Christian that he is an All-Amercian-American! He then asks Christian what he has ever done to make him think that he deserves to face the World champion here tonight.
Christian goes on answer Swagger's question by reminding him that when Christian returned to the WWE, he defeated Swagger to become ECW champion. He also reminds him that he was the longest reigning ECW champion in the brand's WWE era and comments on how Swagger only held the title for a month or two and the only reason he stayed champion for that amount of time was because he was ducking real competition, just like he is now, and defending his title against real "tough" competitors like Hornswoggle. Christian then tells the World champion to nevermind, it just reminded him of Swagger's past title reign and how he probably will only be World champion for a couple weeks before coming back to RAW anyway. Christian goes to leave but Swagger is so upset that he yells into the mic that the match is on! He tosses his title to the outside and his robe as a referee slides into the ring to start the match.
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NON-TITLE SINGLES MATCH
RAW comes back from commercials with Swagger dominating the match. Michael Cole tells the audience at home that Swagger has dominated the match since the start and throughout the entire commercial break. Christian did eventually go on the offensive by reversing an attempt at the Gut-Wrench Powerbomb by Swagger and hitting a DDT. The match ends when after going on the offensive for a while, Christian goes to hit the Kill Switch Engage but Swagger slides out of it and immediately exits the ring. He takes his title and starts to walk to the back, obviously having enough of his farewell RAW match. Christian on the other hand is not satisfied with a count-out victory and goes after the World champion. He hits another DDT on the steel ramp, slams Swagger's head into the guard barrier a few times and even tosses the champion into the steel steps before rolling him back into the ring to break up the ten count. Christian scales to the top rope and waits there for Swagger to stumble to his feet. Once he does, Christian soars in the air looking for a flying cross-body but the champion catches him, puts him down and goes for the Gut-Wrench. Christian, however, manages to slide behind Swagger once he was on his shoulders and immediately locks him up and hits the Kill Switch on the champion. Michael Cole is screaming the words "Kill-Switch, Kill-Switch, Kill-Switch" at ringside as Christian turns Swagger over and pins him for the 1-2-3 and upset victory! The crowd goes nuts as Christian celebrates in the ring while Swagger leaves looking back in shock. And to add insult to injury, Christian gets on the mic and leads the Moline crowd on in the singing of "Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah.... Hey-Hey-Hey.... Good-bye"! Swagger is furious that this is how his career on RAW ends.
RAW cuts to the back where Josh Matthews introduces Ted Dibiase Jr and Sr. Junior talks about how Orton's time with Legacy is over and now it's Dibiase's time to shine and tonight he will prove it by beating the Viper in the middle of the ring, 1-2-3. The Hall of Famer, Million Dollar Man then reminds the crowd that tonight he is the special referee. He tells his son that he tried to tell him months ago that Orton was only using him for his own gain and he's glad that he's finally seen that. He apologizes to his son for his loss last week to Christian and guarentee's that tonight that won't happen again and that the Million Dollar Man and his son will have the last laugh. Senior ends the promo with his cliche laugh as we go to commercials.
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