As the new General Manager of both Raw and SmackDown John Laurinaitis began addressing the locker room, CM Punk interrupted him and called Johnny a "giant toolbox." Laurinaitis retaliated by putting Punk in a WWE Championship match against the boring Mark Henry.
The Rock came out to chants of "You still got it" (which he does) and reminded us of his classic win over John Cena at WrestleMania, claiming that it wasn't until then that he could truly say that he'd "come back...home." He also gave Cena credit for pushing him to his limit "like never before." He went on to also thank 'The People' for all their support. He also claimed that this was not the end of his WWE run, but "just the beginning," well we know he'll be at SummerSlam and WrestleMania 29 at least.
Rocky finished up by saying that his final vision for his wrestling career is to become "WWE Champion." Well that's certainly some vision.
Santino Marella (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger to retain the United States Championship. The bout itself was quite average, the heels predictably turned on each other and Santino capitalised by applying a Cobra on Swagger for the win.
As Ziggler and Swagger went to double team the US Champ after, Brodus Clay came to his rescue and head butted Dolph, thereby scaring away Swagger. Santino then joined the 'Funkasaurus' in a dance. I'm just relieved that Clay is finally involved in a real feud and not just performing the same routine each week, well that's how it's looking anyway.
Lord Tensai (aka A Train, Giant Bernard) defeated Alex Riley via referee stoppage. The match played before an indifferent crowd, except for the scattered chants of "A Train" at the start. Tensai looked solid enough here, he just needs a more relevant opponent to destroy to get peoples attention. He could've maybe come out and destroyed Cena on the show, imagine how big that would've been?
A very annoying part of the bout was the fact that Lawler and Cole refused to acknowledge it was obviously a former WWE performer, event the fans were chanting his name for pity's sake. They could have just mentioned his former monicker and stated that he'd trained in Japan since his departure.
Mark Henry won via count out versus CM Punk (c) in a match for the WWE Championship. The contest was largely dull, as usual with anything involving Henry, Punk fortunately managed to save the match a bit after going on the offense towards the end. The crowd were clearly fed up of it too, as they began entertaining themselves with chants of "Daniel Bryan" "Randy Savage" and "Yes!" (paying homage to Bryan).
After the title match Chris Jericho came out through the crowd and suggested having a drink to toast their brilliant bout at 'Mania last night. He continued to abuse Punk by reminding him of his families history, pouring whisky all over the WWE Champion and eventually smashing the bottle over Punk's head. It was a nice segment between the two and proved that this feud still has some life in it yet.
Just before Sheamus was able to celebrate his World Heavyweight Title win, Alberto Del Rio interrupted him in his return. Del Rio announced himself as the new challenger to the Irishman's title. All the while there were strong chants of "Daniel Bryan" and "We want Bryan" raining down as these two exchanged words. Finally Sheamus ended the dull segment by Brogue Kicking Del Rio as he went to grab another mic.
Shortly into Cody Rhodes versus Kofi Kingston, the Big Show gained a bit of payback as he presented his own "Embarrassing WrestleMania Moment of Cody Rhodes' and showed photos of his WMD on Rhodes from 'Mania that won him the Intercontinental title. Kingston capitalised on this and struck Rhodes with a Trouble In Paradise for the one-two-three.
Eve bragged about manipulating Zach Ryder and her low blow to him last night. She also added that she was proud that Laurinaitis was now in charge.
The Miz defeated Zach Ryder in the best bout of the night in a fair match up. Ryder had the majority of the offense, along with the fans strongly behind him, which is a great sign considering how much the lame Kane Cena feud put him back. Both men put in a good effort here, maybe this could develop further? It's not like either man is involved in anything else right now.
John Cena came to the ring and explained that he never thought he'd loose the match with The Rock because that's never the right mentality to have, but he owned up and admitted defeat "like a man." He went on to thank all his supporters, and claimed that he was going to wipe the slate clean now and move on to become an even better performer. Cena then invited Rock down to the ring to give him the respect he was due after their huge bout.
Then that classic music hit, and out came the beast Brock Lesnar. The fans understandably went nuts as he made his way down to the ring, with chants of "Holy shit!" After milking the huge reaction, Cena extended his hand to Brock only to then be F5'd. What a return. And a return of a real powerful badass that the company needs. WWE were worried that they had a lot to live up to in their post 'Mania Raw, don't worry guys, you did good. You did real good here.
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