Monday Night Raw Results 4/8: The show kicked-off with New WWE World Heavyweight Champ Daniel Bryan expressing his gratitude to the WWE Universe for supporting him in his title campaign in Wrestlemania 30. He was speechless for about ten minutes as the WWE Universe kept on cheering his name and his signature 'Yes!' dialogue.
Triple H def WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan via Disqualification
Triple H has made a habit of cutting Daniel Bryan's World Title reigns short. But habits were, of course, made to be broken. The Game seemingly had entrusted The Shield to make sure Daniel Bryan didn't leave New Orleans with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Alas, Kane exposed The Game as the architect of his recent attacks on The Hounds, so they weren't much interested in supplanting a pre-match beat down of The Beard by Randy Orton, Batista and Kane himself.
The referee only rang the bell - on The Game's orders - after that mauling had concluded, and The Shield made themselves known before Triple H could pin the felled Bryan. With Kane, Orton and Batista frothing for a fight and The Shield looking for some payback, The Game was unable to corral his lieutenants into order and ate a Spear from Reigns that ended the match with a DQ; though Triple H ended up worse for wear after The Shield drove his men from the ring and Bryan himself blasted him with the Running Knee.
The Wyatt Family def. John Cena, Intercontinental Champion Big E & Sheamus
The relative inexperience of The Wyatts left them at a slight disadvantage when faced with a team of two veterans and a champion, though Bray's aggressiveness and Rowan's raw power kept them in the game. Big E brought the crowd to its feet with three backbreakers to Rowan, but Harper was right there to reclaim the advantage with a timely tag. The bout see-sawed wildly for 20 epic minutes (The crowd, it should be mentioned, seemed to be under the sway of Bray Wyatt) and it was Bray himself who dispatched his foes with Sister Abigail to Big E while Cena looked on in horror.
Santino Marella & Emma def. Fandango & Summer Rae
Fandango & Summer Rae has been out of rhythm for the past few weeks as they kept losing match-up after match-ups. This week, the same thing happened to the duo as the former NXT standout applied the Dil-Emma, Emma Sandwich and Emma Lock in short order while The Italian Stallion Cobra'd an interfering Fandango out of the ring.
WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos def. Randy Orton & Batista via Count-out
The Usos hadn't even gotten their fleet feet under them when their opponents tossed the titleholders to the outside, bashing the brothers to and fro while the referee counted them out. Not that they particularly cared; the twosome punctuated their evening with a hanging DDT to Jey off the barrier and a Batista Bomb to Jimmy atop the steel steps.
Rob Van Dam def. Damien Sandow
On his first singles match since his last stint, An Elbow of Disdain knocked Van Dam loopy, RVD recovered and initiated a highlight reel of greatest hits: First a corkscrew guillotine leg drop to Sandow atop the barricade, a Rolling Thunder, and finally Mr. Monday Night descended upon The Intellectual Savior of the Masses with a Five-Star Frog Splash for the win. Welcome back, Rob! Van! Dam! (Yes, he did the chant.)
Bad News Barrett def. Rey Mysterio
Things got hairy for a moment when Mysterio connected with the 619, but Barrett wasn't about to abandon his trend of eventful post-WrestleMania Raws. With the international crowd raining soccer chants down on Barrett, he tripped Mysterio up in the ropes before he could Drop the Dime and connected with a Bull Hammer to The Master of the 619 while he was stranded atop the turnbuckle.
Alexander Rusev def. Zack Ryder
Rusev crush. Rusev destroy. And Ryder ... well, Ryder is the one who pays the price. "The Bulgarian Brute" made his long-awaited debut on Monday Night Raw, squaring off against The Long Island Iced-Z in what amounted to little more than a display of the former NXT standout's monstrous power. Ryder got his hits in where he could, but a swift kick to the dome robbed The Ultimate Broski of all higher brain function and things snowballed from there: Rusev hurled Ryder through the air with a fallaway slam and locked in his "Accolade" submission hold, refusing to break it until his valet, Lana, commanded him to do so.
NXT Women's Champion Paige def. AJ Lee to become the new Divas Champion
What was supposed to be a celebration for Women's champ AJ turned out to be her worst nightmare. NXT Aspirant Paige came over to congratulate AJ, but in return, she insulted her and challenged her to a match. Due to her arrogance, it cost her title.
Cesaro def. Jack Swagger via Count-out
Swagger knew Cesaro too well to go quietly into defeat, though, unceremoniously tossing The Swiss Superman from the turnbuckle to the mat before planting him with a double-leg takedown. With Heyman crowing at ringside, "The King of Swing" found his second wind and booted Jack out of a Swagger Bomb, suplexed him off the ring apron and went clobberin' with a series of European uppercuts. Swagger made himself scarce before the Über-American could apply the Cesaro Swing, though, taking the count-out on Zeb's orders and leaving Cesaro to celebrate with his new advocate.
