Shawn, after presenting the footage of Triple H accepting Taker's challenge, expressed his disappointment that it was 'The Dead Man' claiming that Michaels was better then him that had upset him so much that he accepted the match at 'Mania. Triple H responded by explaining that this was not the reason he's facing Taker in Miami, it was because he was tired of people to referring to Michaels as a "failure" and a "looser" who couldn't the job done which drove him to want to end The Undertaker.
As Shawn left he also revealed that he will be the Special Referee for the Hell in a Cell match on April 1st. Should add another interesting twist to the match. The segment was yet again another strong one by both men, although maybe not as good as their previous encounter.
Santino Marella defeated Jack Swagger (c) to win the United States Championship in a poor and crowded match up. During the bout John Laurinaitis and David Otunga made their way out, even though Teddy Long was in charge of Raw for the night. Long, accompanied by Aksana and Kofi Kingston also joined them and began fighting on the outside. After the match Long ordered security to escort Laurinaitis and Otunga out of the building.
Well Swagger really gained a lot from that title reign, eh? How pointless.
The Rock on the big screen at the Boston Harbour compared Cena to the British in America many years ago which brought about the American Revolution (see, you also learn a bit of history in here too!) he also started to present various John Cena merchandise and start tossing them into the harbour. It was an entertaining and quite funny segment with 'The Great One' as he went through all the tacky merchandise.
Eve defeated Alicia Fox in a mediocre Divas bout that was fortunately kept short. Afterwards Zach Ryder made his return and claimed that he was glad that they never "hooked up" since he believed in "broskis before hoeskis." It was a bit of a drab line to mark his come back with. Backstage Eve chased after Ryder and kissed him, leaving Ryder with a goofily happy expression on his face. This isn't really doing anything at all for his character, just making him look pathetic enough to fool for Eve's tricks once again.
We were show a VT of John Cena in the empty arena earlier in the day where he spoke about the grandeur and significance of WrestleMania and his match with The Rock. He also added how no one remembers second place, and that's why he has to defeat Rocky in his own backyard at Miami on the grandest stage of them all.
Chris Jericho and Daniel Bryan defeated CM Punk and Sheamus in a decent enough tag team bout. The majority of it was solid and it had an exciting finish, it just felt like a little bit of a let down considering the talent involved. Not to say it was bad of course.
The Rock again gave us another history lesson regarding the American Revolution, this time saying that if Cena had been there then the British would've won since people would have been sick of Cena just like "they're sick of you now." It was another amusing promo from Rocky.
Before Big Show's following match, Cody Rhodes presented another embarrassing WrestleMania with him. This time it was WrestleMania X8 where Show wasn't in action but instead eating at WWE's old restaurant in Times Square.
Big Show defeated The Miz in a short and forgettable bout, which only further buried Miz's career. That's right, instead of pushing the man who main evented 'Mania last year they're pushing the overweight and average (at best) Big Show.
Kane defeated R-Truth in a brief but okay match up. After the bout Randy Orton decided to exact revenge on Kane and applied a bit of a sloppy RKO on him.
John Cena revealed on the mic that at at WrestleMania he wants to face the real Rock, not the second best one who he'd apparently shook up the previous week. So with that he called out 'The People's Champ' to find out who he'd be up against in four weeks. The Rock confronted Cena and confirmed that he has "never been more confident" heading into their match. All the while The Rock was giving this serious promo, Cena had this infuriating goofy smile on his face, like he didn't have a care in the world and The Rock's words were a joke. If I were Vince I'd have some serious words for him after that mockery. At least his promos of recent weeks have been an improvement on his usual sucking up to the fans ones we get from him.
After Rock left Cena admitted that if he lost their match up then he looses "everything" he's worked for in the last ten years, which just sounds like a ridiculous statement to me. He then celebrated with the fans and his family at ringside in his hometown.
Overall it was a largely average Raw, with no particularly outstanding contests in the ring, which is poor for a show of this standard. Fortunately the promos of The Rock, Triple H and Michaels were able to save it a bit.
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