The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal winner did, however, make his presence known as Reigns exited the stage, attacking the Superstar of the Year on the ramp and chokeslamming him atop the roof of a car. The last time Randy Orton squared off against Cesaro, one was a champion and one was a rising force destined for greater and greater things. Battling for the right to determine his stipulation against Seth Rollins at Extreme Rules, Orton came out swinging against The Swiss Superman, but never got a chance to kick it into second gear, as Tyson Kidd tripped The Viper on the apron in full view of the ref.
Cesaro rushed the ring while Kidd was on the ropes and ate a powerslam in response, and when Kidd springboarded off the ropes to catch Orton from behind, he caught an RKO outta nowhere instead. Hide your Rosebuds and assorted valuables: Dean Ambrose is back and hoo boy, is he mad. The Lunatic Fringe — showing his face for the first time since a pair of brutal powerbombs sent him to the injured list — came to Raw ready to deliver beating.
And it was just Adam Rose's bad luck that he happened to be the poor guy in the former U. Champion's way. Rose didn't exactly wilt for the rampaging madman, though a stiff challenge didn't measure up to Ambrose's momentum. The Lunatic Fringe not only took flight with a suicide dive that sent Rose tumbling into his own crew, but he also replied to a superkick with his ricocheting clothesline and Dirty Deeds for the win.
One star shone in London and another, perhaps, was reborn when Stardust toppled Fandango, leading to a surprising change in heart from the dancing trickster that many in the WWE Universe have wanted to see for two years. Moments after the Disaster Kick put him away, Fandango, who was being consoled by Rosa Mendes, finally embraced his destiny — and his popularity — by spurning his Latina lover and electing to share his gifts with the world.
Fandango's original entrance music hit and, at long last, he was Fandangoing the night away with the WWE Universe. Call it the Chokeslam of Doom. And even though he planted Rollins with a Chokeslam, he stopped short of a Tombstone, electing, after much debate, to lie down next to an unconscious Rollins instead and drape the champion's lifeless arm over himself to lose the fall as commanded.
It was a long time coming, but Damien Mizdow finally found himself topping the bill just one week after suffering a humiliating loss to The Miz on Raw.
Perhaps, like Rikishi, he did it for The Rock. I took him under my wing. And this is how he repays me? Which I think more people wish you were more often.
OK, that was a good one. Six times I was attacked by The Shield. Where were you? Designing your latest t-shirt? Not that anyone is counting. Well, I smell a two-star match in our futures. The fact that this guy can't walk the aisle and deliver that promo shows that he doesn't belong in that spot. If you can't cut a live interview, how can you hope to make it at the top of this business?
You know how sometimes there is a match on Raw designed simply to fill time? This was that match. This was over before it even really got started. An awful, disjointed mess. I guess this makes Truth a contender? I don't understand why the WWE has so many non-title matches.
Can someone explain? By the way, I feel like the world's oldest man yelling at the wold to get off my lawn right now. Damien Sandow is out to quote philosophers and kick butt. And he's all out of butt to kick. Sandow snuck up behind Santino to steal a win while the world was distracted by the incredible pairing of Hornswaggle and the Great Khali. Let's face it—WWE doesn't have three hours of material every week for Raw.
This is one of those weeks. Fandango was a revelation at WrestleMania and again last week when a boisterous crowd hummed along to his theme music and treated him like a legitimate star. It felt like something special was brewing. The WWE felt it too and pushed him hard in social media throughout the week. Yet, as he stood in front of the crowd in Greenville, he had nothing. Absolutely nothing.
His attempt at getting a crowd participation catchphrase over failed and failed miserably. It was awkward and a little painful to watch. How are your hips feeling? Instead he bails out back to the announce desk. And that's pronounce my name correctly. It's Fan And failing. So you can all go Fandango yourselves. That was mesmerizing. You could see the flop sweat form as Fandango tried and failed to connect with the crowd.
I can't believe the WWE booking team sent him out there with no material and no plan. That was ugly. Think that holding the world championship changes anything for Dolph Ziggler? No such luck. After the match, Del Rio comes down to get his revenge on Swagger. He wasn't healthy enough to wrestle, but I guess he was well enough to jump a guy? Swagger doesn't seem quite into it, and neither is the crowd.
The fans were in danger of losing circulation—they'd been sitting on their hands for an hour. Swagger pins the champ after draping him neck first onto the top rope and then school boying him.
That was a nifty finish—for a squash match in The match was okay, but the Swagger vs. Del Rio feud has X-Pac heat at this point. The fans in the crowd just sat with their eyes glazed over. And I don't blame them.
As usual, it was up to CM Punk to save the day. The show to this point had been abysmal. Truly wretched stuff. But Punk with a live mic can light a fire under any crowd. There was hope yet. Before he even came to the point, Punk was leaving the ring like Shawn Michaels sans smile. The WWE championship meant the world to me And I found that challenge in The Rock.
I always want more. That's a shoot. And I looked to the one thing that could possibly be bigger than the championship that I loved Well, he kicked out of your finishers a bunch. Is that what you mean? It was Truth who got the final word, though, springing the Lie Detector on Barrett to cut the Barrage short The duo goaded The Punjabi Titan into tagging in Santino and then going to work, taking advantage of a distracting melee outside the ring and rolling up the two-time Intercontinental Champion to earn the win.
Given that Fandango is a man of few words that don't include his own name, it came as little surprise he was more than willing to dance with the crowd The dynamic World Champion strutted to the ring as if the Teddy Long-sanctioned bout was already in-hand and for a while, it seemed like Ziggler's dynamic offense had Swagger at a permanent disadvantage.
But Ziggler received a rude awakening in short order when Swagger reversed the Famouser into a roll-up pin for a victory, leaving the champion stunned on the mat. CM Punk has often said that he can work wonders with the microphone, but a WWE Universe that was expecting a scathing opus in The Second City Saint's first address since WrestleMania 29 were left with a whimper instead A visibly exhausted Punk had barely begun to speak on his loss to The Undertaker when he stopped mid-sentence, wearily looked around and cut his speech short by giving Paul Heyman an apologetic embrace.
With that, the former WWE Champion handed off his sacred microphone and departed the stage, leaving the WWE Universe with more questions than answers as to what would come next. True to form, though, they were speechless in his wake. The Bellas promised trouble for the Divas division upon their return to WWE, and they kicked their mischievous campaign off in high style with a chicanery-filled victory over Divas Champion Kaitlyn in South Carolina.
With the referee distracted, Nikki ducked out of the ring and Brie emerged from beneath the apron, taking her sister's place and capitalizing on Kaitlyn's confusion to notch an ill-gotten pin on the stunned titleholder. Ryback certainly didn't mince words when he explained his attack of John Cena, so how did The Champ respond when he came to the ring to address the beast's accusations against the time WWE Champion?
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