A stern faced CM Punk came out and and reminded everyone about Chris Jericho's words about his alcoholic father last week and stated that no one who's been dealt a card like that in life shouldn't believe that hey can't still be destined for greatness, which was a great sentiment. He went on to explain that his Dad worked hard to then overcome his addiction later on in life and that he is "proud of my Father" and proud of being straight edge. It was a terrific and heartfeltly given speech by Punk.
Chris Jericho then appeared on the big screen and apologised for his words on his Dad last week and admitted that he was out of line. But then spoke about Punk's sister and her apparent history with drug abuse. He carried on to once again claim that it was Punk's destiny to begin drinking eventually. It was an even better promo then last weeks and certainly adds more hype to what should be a great match at WrestleMania.
Before Big Show's following match, Cody Rhodes once again presented a video package of Show's most embarrassing moments at 'Mania, it was just the same as we'd already seen recently, nothing new.
Kane defeated Big Show in a brief and forgettable match after Rhodes distracted Show from ringside. Afterwards the Intercontinental Champion handcuffed Big Show to the ropes and began beating on him whilst wearing boxing gloves as a tribute to Floyd Mayweather.
David Otunga defeated Santino Marella in a mediocre bout after Marella was distracted by Laurinaitis throwing his phone into the ring, allowing Otunga to capitalise. After the match Long punched Laurinaitis in the face and legged it with Marella.
The Rock spoke outside in the streets of Philadelphia about his childhood memories of WrestleMania and his own when he wrestled in the event, but claimed that he now had to beat John Cena to become the "greatest of all time."
Daniel Bryan defeated Zach Ryder in a fairly short but decent match up. It's a shame they weren't allocated some more time, unfortunately I didn't ahve the same feelings about the next match.
John Cena defeated Mark Henry in the return of Cena's old 'play dead then make a heroic comeback' routine. The bout was dragged on for too long for my liking and unfortunately took away from Cena's strong work on the mic as of late. Afterwards The Rock came down to the ring, Rock Bottomed Henry and left.
We were then shown footage from the show 'Extra' where unfortunately a match at WrestleMania was instigated pitting Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos against Eve and Beth Phoenix, I was really hoping the rumours were true that after Karma wouldn't be appearing they'd decided to drop a Divas match from 'Mania. Or they could've began a feud with Natalya and Phoenix a while back with them turning on each other leading to a decent match in Miami.
The Miz compared his situation of going from main eventing last years 'Mania to not even having a match this year on the card to King Kong Bundy's from WrestleMania 2 and 3 (when Bundy went from main eventing 2 to significantly dropping down the card at 3). Miz decided to have an open challenge to prove he deserved to be on Laurinaitis' team on April 1st.
Sheamus answered the challenge and defeated The Miz in an enjoyable enough contest. I know I've said it before but to me it doesn't make sense having The Miz in a loosing streak storyline like this, he deserves to be on the card in Miami.
When interviewed regarding his match up with Kane at WrestleMania, Randy Orton simply reminded us of the beating he gave Kane last Summer that forced the 'Monster' to shake his hand and stated that he has the upper hand going into their match.
Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger defeated Kofi Kingston and R-Truth in an average to decent tag team bout. Afterwards Vickie Guerrero and Aksana began a heated argument and started brawling in the ring until they were separated.
Shawn Michaels admitted that, regarding the Undertaker versus Triple H match that he'll be refereeing, it's pretty cool to be holding the end of an era in his hands. Before he could say much more 'The Dead Man' interrupted HBK and came to the ring, the same then happened with Triple H interrupting Taker. 'The Game' explained that this feud wasn't about Michaels but just about the two of them. He went on to say how it was poetic that it'll all end in a Hell in a Cell match, a match which has meant so much to both men.
The Undertaker questioned whether Triple H was really willing to put everything on the line in their match up, to which the 'Cerebral Assassin' said that he was, and he will. Before Taker then went to leave, he claimed that he was right in his previous statement from before and that Michaels is better then Triple H. Which left HBK with a slight grin as Raw ended, nice touch.
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