RAW Dark Match, Live Notes, & WWE Superstars **SPOILERS**
Credit: Ben Rash & PWTorch
Superstars taping for Thursday's show:
(1) Zack Ryder beat Santino Marella. Santino came out to a good pop first, then Ryder came out to a decent amount of heat. Back and forth five minute match, then Santino hit the Cobra. Ryder rolled to the ropes, then got up and hit the Zack Attack for the win.
(2) MVP & Christian beat Carlito & Chavo Guerrero. Forgettabl, back and forth match. Chavo tried a frog splash after Three Amigos on Christian, but MVP knocked Carlito out of the picture. The distraction allowed Christian to move and hit the Killswitch for the win. MVP had the loudest pop.
RAW Notes:
After Raw went off the air, Batista remained standing/straddling John Cena. Sheamus's music then hit and he came running down to the ring. Dave pointed to Cena, who rolled to the ropes and Sheamus began attacking him. They double-teamed him and the crowd started chanting "Triple H" until his music hit to the loudest pop of the night. He cleared house and asked John if he had one more fight in him. Of course, he did.
Post-Raw Dark match: John Cena & Triple H beat WWE champion Batista & Sheamus. They did a great job not giving away either WrestleMania singles match and pairing up the opposite WrestleMania opponent. (Triple H was still in street clothes.) The technical guys then accidently cued up Hunter's music while he was standing on the apron. The crowd was confused and Hunter played it off by pointing to his chest and acting with it. I actually can say for the first time in ages I got behind Hunter after that.
Cena made the hot tag, Hunter cleared house on Sheamus doing his routine, and he had him set up for a Pedigree, but Batista made the save with a forearm to the back. Cena then came in and gave Batista an Attitude Adjustment followed by Hunter hitting a Pedigree for the win. Batista and Sheamus rolled out as Hunter and Cena then celebrated. Cena made a quick escape as Hunter took his shirt off and high-fived everyone who had a ringside seat all the way up the entranceramp and to the back. He posed and walked back to the locker room to close the show.
Great show live. It seemed like on TV there would have been a lot of dead spots in second hour.
Biggest Pops
– Triple H for the save post-Raw
– John Cena
– Undertaker
– Randy Orton in the Legacy match
– Jerry Lawler
– MVP
– Kofi run-in
Biggest Heat
– Miz Show
– Vince McMahon
– Legacy
– Sheamus