WWE Champion CM Punk kicked off the show by confronting Jerry Lawler regarding his statement as last weeks 1000th Raw went off the air after Punk had just GTS'd The Rock, when he said that the WWE Champion had turned his back on the WWE Universe. Punk explained that The Rock had earlier in that show shown him as champion a lack of respect by first ignoring him to mock Daniel Bryan, then by acting as if he's going to just take the WWE title from whoever's holding it at the Royal Rumble and then trying to steal the show by attacking Big Show later on. It was a good promo, and all true really.
Big Show then came out and tried to claim that the ending of last weeks show was focused mainly on him, it never is Show. He also took credit for CM Punk still holding the WWE title after interfering in his title match with Cena. Speak of the devil, John Cena then came out and started attacking Big Show with his trademark awful and fake looking offense. The new Raw General Manager AJ then joined them all and announced Cena versus Show in a WWE Championship number one contenders match.
Alberto Del Rio defeated Santino Marella in an average to fair match up. Marella was surprisingly given more offense against Del Rio than I was expecting. Afterwards Del Rio told the fans that he will not compete unless it is a World title match.
Vickie Guerrero interrupted Brodus Clay's entrance to perform a purposely awful dance routine. Fortunately the charismatic Damien Sandow halted it and after playing the VT of his attack from DX last week began pommeling Clay. It's a good sign for Sandow seeing him regularly on Raw, hopefully it keeps up.
Daniel Bryan stormed into AJ's office and confronted her about leaving him at the altar last week. She retorted by claiming that she saw men from a mental institute last week and realised that Bryan wanted to marry her so she could be legally committed. She also informed him that he'll be facing Sheamus later on.
Sheamus beat Daniel Bryan in a Street Fight. It was an enjoyable bout, with solid enough action and not an overkill use of weapons but enough to give it a different feel from the rest of the shows card. After the bell had rung Bryan refused to leave the ring until he saw a doctor so Kofi Kingston and R-Truth came out and asked him to leave. Bryan responded by pretending to kick the imaginary Little Jimmy and calling out his group of mental health workers to take Truth away. But instead AJ told them to take away Bryan instead. It was a bit of a bizarre segment and I'm not sure what it achieved exactly. The loss would've been enough to add to Bryan's recent woes.
Titus O'Neil defeated Kofi Kingston in an average and quite forgettable contest. Once again O'Neil and Young's manager Abraham Washington was one of the more entertaining things about the match with his ringside pep talk.
Heath Slater, after being embarrassed by past WWE wrestlers for weeks, decided to instead challenge any current member of the roster. So the returning Randy Orton answered his call and beat Slater in a rather quick match. I wonder who he'll face at SummerSlam?
Chris Jericho and Christian defeated The Miz and Dolph Ziggler in an largely entertaining tag bout. All four men put in good efforts and provided the best match of the night. I'm very much looking forward to the forthcoming Jericho vs Ziggler match up, should be great.
Tyson Kidd won via disqualification versus Lord Tensai in a squash match for the most part. Tensai took out Kidd for the majority of the contest, eventually pinning him. But as he continued the assault after the bell had rung the referee decided to reverse the decision and award Tyson the win. This infuriated Tensai, who decided to take out his anger on his assistant? Protege? Who is that guy that follows him around again?
After a series of short segments with Daniel Bryan being evaluated by a doctor, with a few amusing parts here and there, the doctor deemed Bryan mentally healthy. But things once again went against Bryan as Kane then attacked him.
John Cena versus Big Show ended in a double DQ. The bout had been quite fair up until then which was far better then what I was expecting from the match, with the crowd largely behind Cena throughout. Although my personal favourite part came when CM Punk (who'd been on guest commentary) rightfully called Jerry Lawler "rubbish" at commentary, which is so, so true. Towards the end Big Show avoided an attack from Cena on the outside which led to him flying into CM Punk at the commentary desk. This caused Punk to take out both men in the ring and bring on the disqualification.
Punk then grabbed a mic and called both wrestlers "losers" before leaving. AJ also predictably announced that at SummerSlam it will be a Triple Threat between Big Show, Cena and CM Punk for the WWE Championship, which angered the WWE Champion.
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