Monday Night Raw – April 8, 2013: I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This
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Night Raw
Date: April 8, 2013
Location: IZOD Center, East Rutherford, New Jersey
Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, John Bradshaw Layfield
Alberto faces Colter/Swagger in a handicap match tonight.
Daniel Bryan vs. Big E. Langston
Kurt Warner, former NFL quarterback, hosts a new reality show called The Moment on USA and is at Raw tonight.
Intercontinental Title: The Miz vs. Wade Barrett
Back with Barrett getting a near fall off the Winds of Change. Miz rolls to the floor so Wade can drop an elbow off the apron for two. Off to a chinlock on the champion for a bit but Miz fights up and pounds away. A running knee and big boot put Barrett down but they botch the Reality Check (the backbreaker went fine but Wade fell down before the neckbreaker started).
Randy Orton comes up to Booker in the back and asks for a match with Big Show tonight. Booker says Sheamus has already gotten that match tonight but Orton says Booker is a GM and a Hall of Famer. This makes Booker overrule Vickie and give Orton the match instead. Great. Now we get battling GMs. Again.
Alberto Del Rio vs. Zeb Colter/Jack Swagger
Post match Alberto has his leg looked at and HERE COMES ZIGGLER!
Smackdown World Title: Alberto Del Rio vs. Dolph Ziggler
R-Truth/Santino Marella/Zack Ryder vs. 3MB
No entrances for any of these guys in this random tag match. Truth and Heath start things off with Slater being slammed down. Santino comes in, thrusts his pelvis, gets punched once, and bails. Off to Ryder vs. Mahal with Zack getting beaten down on the floor by a cheating McIntyre. Apparently Drew is legal now and hits a big boot to the jaw for no cover.
We look at the week in New York/New Jersey to promote Wrestlemania.
Sheamus vs. Randy Orton
They shove each other to start and the fans do an OLE chant. Orton hits a snapmare but Sheamus avoids a knee drop. Sheamus hits a pair of knees for his own for two and starts working on the arm. Orton comes back with another knee to the chest as the match keeps going. Randy hooks a chinlock as the fans think a four minutes old match is boring.
Fandango vs. Kofi Kingston
Rhodes Scholars/Bellas vs. Funkadactyls/Tons of Funk
We look at The Moment again.
John Cena vs. Mark Henry
Non-title here and if Henry wins, he gets a title shot at some point in the future. Cena ducks under Henry and dances a bit. He pounds on Henry but gets run over by a single shot from Mark. The fans are behind Henry of course. Mark pounds on Cena in the corner but misses a splash, allowing Cena to pound away. Henry rolls to the floor as we hear about Rock tearing his abdominal muscle off his pelvis bone in addition to having a hernia.
Results
Big E. Langston b. Daniel Bryan – Big Ending
Wade Barrett b. The Miz – Bull Hammer
Alberto Del Rio b. Jack Swagger/Zeb Colter – Cross Armbreaker to Swagger
Dolph Ziggler b. Alberto Del Rio – Zig Zag
Zack Ryder/Santino Marella/R-Truth b. 3MB – Cobra to Slater
Sheamus b. Randy Orton via DQ when Big Show interfered
Fandango b. Kofi Kingston via DQ when Chris Jericho interfered
John Cena b. Mark Henry via countout
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