John Cena opens the show sporting a new "the champ is here" shirt. He starts off by having a little banter with this exuberant crowd and then talks about his epic encounter with The Rock at Wrestlemania 29. If I am not mistaken, I think I heard a few boo's when The Rock's name was mentioned which was great! Mark Henry then interrupted Cena after Cena said he will defend the WWE Championship on Raw that night. Bit of a confrontation between the two until WWE Hall of Famer Booker T came down and told Cena that he could not make WWE Championship matches. He then went on to say that if Henry could beat Cena tonight, he would get the opportunity to fight Cena for the belt since The Rock is injured and won't be cleared to fight for some time (bearing in mind he has Hercules to film to). After Wrestlemania we all wondered who would be Cena's next challenge for the belt and so far it seems its Henry.
The Undertaker talking about his 21-0 streak was announced for later on in the show.
The next match would let us see the debut of Big E Langston on Raw in his first singles match. He would be going against Daniel Bryan. This was a very quick match with Langston finishing off Bryan with the Big Ending.
Next up was The Miz (c) vs Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship. This was just a repeat of the Wrestlemania pre-show but boy was it a lot better, the crowd was very vocal, showing that they really wanted Barrett to win back his championship. Luckily for them Barrett did win after using his Bull-hammer finisher.
Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter vs Alberto del Rio was next. To put it simply, this match sucked. Zeb played no role throughout and all Swaggers job was to soften up the leg of del Rio. Swagger lost the match after del Rio used his cross-arm breaker. Now. We all were hoping and praying Ziggler would cash in his Money-In-The-Bank briefcase at Wrestlemania but sadly this didn't happen. But luckily for us, on the post-Wrestlemania show we finally got to see him cash in! This was probably the greatest pop ever when he cashed in, it was CRAZY! And as per the usual workings of the briefcase, Ziggler won to be crowned the new World Heavyweight Champion! The crowd went crazy, absolutely nuts, it was epic! There were points after the cash in that most would of thought Ziggler wasn't going to win, which was great.
Next came The Undertaker segment. Undertaker was standing in the ring saying how he dedicated his Wrestlemania match to Paul Bearer when suddenly THE SHIELDS MUSIC HITS!!! OMFG THE SHIELD!!! They make their way down and surround the ring, when, OMG, OMFG!!!! Kane's pyro hits and him and Daniel Bryan make their way down to the ring to even up the numbers, this is absolutely crazy!!! Words cannot describe the feelings I felt during this segment, it was unbelievable.
There was a filler match which I can't remember who was involved or what happened, I was just too excited from what happened before.
Next was a part of the episode that has to be watched. Sheamus and Randy Orton were arguing all Raw for who is gonna face Big Show tonight after he screwed them over at Wrestlemania so Booker T and Vickie Guerrero said they should face enough other to decide who will go against Show later on in the night. Overall the match was too long and sucked, but its the crowd that was the reason this match had to be watched. They were chanted everything under the sun, things that had absolutely nothing to do with the match. They went from chanting "ole" to "RVD" to "JBL" to "Jerry Lawler" to "Michael Cole" within a span of 3 minutes. Big Show saved the match when he came down to the crowd chanting "thank you Big Show". He WMDed both Orton and Sheamus.
We got to see the cancelled Wrestlemania match tonight, but it sucked, so the end.
Finally was the main event, John Cena vs Mark Henry for a shot at the WWE Championship. The match was short and Cena won through a countout. What happened afterwards was interesting. Ryback came down after Henry attacked Cena to save Cena. Ryback then helped Cena up on to meat-hook clothesline Cena. Here is a picture to sum up everything that happened just then: http://i.imgur.com/6FvHaIT.gif.
Overall this was a grade A++ show, best Raw in a very, very, very long time!
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