WWE Monday Night RAW06/04/09 - Houston, TX (Toyota Centre)
A video package airs replaying Wrestlemania XXV before fireworks boom to welcome us to Monday Night RAW, live from Houston, Texas!
Featured on tonight's show: the coronation of Miss Wrestlemania, Santina Marella. The Cutting Edge with 'the greatest talk show guest of all time'. And Chris Jericho takes on another legend: Goldust!
Randy Orton storms the ring to start the show with his flunkies, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. He snaps and snarls, disgusted with the manner in which he lost to WWE Champion Triple H in last night's main event. "Triple H didn't get the job done; a sledgehammer did!" he hisses at the WWE Universe. "A viper is most dangerous when it's back is against the wall and it is desperate. I don't just want revenge: I need it! At any cost" he continues. Mr. McMahon emerges from the back with his son-in-law, WWE Champion Triple H. "IF you're that desperate Randy, and you'll do anything how about this: beat any opponent that Triple H chooses, and you can have one more title match". "YOU'RE ON, OLD MAN!" Randy barks back. Triple H nods and whispers a name into McMahon's ear as the Chairman nods. "Come to the ring for tonight's main event then, Mr. Orton. Good luck, I think you're gonna need it!"
1/8In the back, the RAW Locker Room is shown discussing who it could be when NEW World Heavyweight Champion John Cena walks in. The room falls silent. Could Cena be Randy Orton's opponent?
Match 1) WWE World Tag Team Champions The Colons (w/ Brie Bella) def. Cryme Tyme
Primo pins JTG following a backstabber. [05:39, 47%]
Former World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz walk out as the Champions celebrate with Brie's sister, Nikki, by their side. "Last night, you stole our moment Colons!" starts Miz. "But it's OK, because the past is lame anyway" continues Morrison. "We're both tag teams, we know sometimes two is better than one - it certainly is with the Bellas - and it is with you because you may be first the worst, but at Backlash we'll be second the best!" "BE JEALOUS!" finishes Miz.
2/8Unfamiliar music plays as 'Miss Wrestlemania' Santina Marella skips down to the ring with her sash and crown on and sceptre in hand. "I'm just a humble girl from Italy who never dreamed of this! Thank you WWE Universe!". 'The Glamazon' Beth Phoenix, however, disgarees, and sulks to the ring with RAW General Manager, Vickie Guerrero. "I know it's you Santino, so you can stop lying and give me what is mine: that crown! You're a man: you can't be Miss Wrestlemania" "A me? I'ma just Santino's sister, Santina, we are how you say... twins?!"
EXCUSE ME!!! Vickie Guerrero butts in. "I thought you might say that Santino, so I spoke to the staff at the Reliant Stadium last night and they sent me over this".
Footage plays showing Santino entering a janitor's closet as himeslf and exiting as Santina!
'The Milan Miracle' darts from the ring, determined to keep a hold of his title, but he is stopped at the ramp by THE BIG SHOW! Marella hits Show with the sceptre, but to no effect, before Show KO punches Santino as he tries to get around him. The 'World's Largest Athlete' tears the sash from his body and the crown from his head, grabs the sceptre and hands it over to Vickie Guerrero, who then awards it to Beth Phoenix! Boos ring around the arena as Show storms to the back.
3/8Match 2) Chris Jericho def. Goldust
Jericho pins the 'Bizarre One' off the Codebreaker. [5:49, 56%]Jericho brushes his hands and grabs a mic. "Listen up, you bunch of sycophants!" he says, ridiculing the WWE Universe. "You'll cheer for any old-washed up has-been, you want these so called legends who couldn't lace my boots to see you. You'll believe them when they say they are one of the best of all time: they don't touch me, cos I'm the best in the world at what I do". Menacingly, he stares down camera one: "next week, I'm gonna sit in this ring, MY RING, and I challenge anyone who thinks they're better than me to make me move!"
4/8
Interviewer Todd Grisham is standing by with The Big Show, asking for answers about his actions earlier against Santino Marella.
TG: "Big Show, did you do what you did earlier to Santino just because General Manager Vickie Guerrero asked you to?"
Show: "I'm a giant Todd, and for too long, I've been a giant joke. I didn't do it for Vickie; I did it for me! There ain't nobody bigger or badder than I am, and the sooner the RAW Locker Room sees that, the better!"
Match 3) Mr. 'Money in the Bank' CM Punk and Kofi Kingston def. Kane and Mike Knox
Punk hit the GTS on Knox for the win as Kingston nailed Kane with Trouble in Paradise [07:12, 62%]5/8In the ring, The Cutting Edge is set up and the it's Rated R host, Edge, is standing in the ring. "You'll always be that goofy tag team guy. You've broken your neck: you are out for a year. Lita will ruin my career. I know setbacks, I know adversity. I've overcome them to become an 8 time World Champion, an 11 time tag team Champion, a 'King of the Ring' and 'Money in the Bank' winner. Some might say I'm the greatest of all time. I would. SO WHY CAN'T I BEAT JOHN CENA? WHY DOES HE ALWAYS GET THE FINAL WORD? NO, I WON'T STAND FOR IT! I'VE WORKED TOO HARD, MISSED TOO MANY BIRTHDAYS, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS, FOR JOHN CENA AND HIS STUPID HAT AND HIS STUPID SHORTS AND HIS STUPID, STUPID MUSIC TO DEFINE ME!
Then, that "stupid, stupid, music" interrupts Edge, and World Heavyweight Champion John Cena appears on the ramp. "Edge... Everything you've just said is true. You're more like me than you think... I live by the hustle, loyalty and respect mantra: you've got the hustle, and whilst you may not be loyal, in our battles you've won my respect. So what do you say we finish this once and for all at Backlash... Let's see who the better man is, one more time with THIS on the line".
Cena raises the world championship. "YOU'RE ON CENA! But on my terms... I want to beat you like I KNOW I CAN. I don't want a three count. I want 10! So let's make it a LAST MAN STANDING MATCH!" The champ agrees: the match is set!
6/8A recap video plays of last night's WWE Intercontinental Championship match where Rey Mysterio won the title and JBL quit WWE!
Match 4) WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio def. William Regal
Mysterio dialled up 619 on the reigning King of the Ring [04:21, 53%]A limosuine pulls up in the parking lot, with Triple H there ready to greet it. The door opens. "He's not gonna know what hit him" opines 'The Game'.
7/8Randy Orton makes his way to the ring for the main event, alongside the Legacy. He stalks the ring, waiting impatiently for his opponent, before eventually snatching a microphone.
"WHOEVER IT IS THAT I HAVE TO BEAT TO GET MY HANDS ON TRIPLE H AND THAT TITLE, COME TO THIS RING RIGHT NOW!!"
Still, nobody enters. An impatient Randy Orton, with Rhodes and DiBiase by his side, walks up the ramp before
BATISTA's music hits! The returning 'Animal' bowls out from the back and clotheslines down Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase before chasing Orton into the ring. Orton swings for a PUNT kick but Batista catches the boot, pushing it back and Orton off his feet before leathering him with a clothesline! He shakes the ropes, before putting his thumbs up and back down and nails his former Evolution running buddy with the Batista Bomb! Batista's music hits, as he poses for the fans to close RAW.
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