Event: WWE Monday Night RAW
Airdate: Monday, May 4th, 2015 (USA Network)
Location: The Bell Centre in Montreal, QC
Results by Matt Boone
“Yes, sir, we promised you a great main event…”
Randy Orton, Roman Reigns & The New Day Kick Off RAW
This week’s show opens up with a live shot inside the Bell Centre in Montreal as Michael Cole welcomes us to Monday Night Raw. From there, Randy Orton’s theme hits. The Apex Predator makes his way to the ring.
Orton’s music fades as the cheers from the fans pick up. Orton says Payback is a fitting name for a pay-per-view. He says payback is exactly what he’s going to get on Seth Rollins in two weeks.
He continues to talk about Payback, mentioning that the fans voted for a triple-threat match with he, Rollins and Roman Reigns. He says it doesn’t matter because he’s walking out the new champ and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
With that said, Reigns’ music hits and out he comes through the crowd. Reigns tells Orton all that stuff he just said isn’t going down like that. He says if anyone is getting payback, it’s him. As all of this is going on, the fans are chanting “RKO” super-loud. Super fn loud. Reigns says the fans can’t fight for him. Orton says “oohhh” mockingly.
Orton and Reigns battle back-and-forth on the mic, interupting each other a few times and talking about their history and accomplishments. Orton puts Reigns down for not accomplishing some of the things he has. Reigns says he wants his payback on Seth, but he doesn’t mind breaking Orton one more time like he did at SummerSlam.
Reigns and Orton continue to argue off-mic as The New Day’s music hits. They come out in yellow and grey outfits clapping and dancing. Xavier Woods tells Orton and Reigns to “hold on.” The fans chant New Day-sucks at them. They say they feel the need to spread the positivity. They tell them no one cares about their problem. They continue to talk trash for what seems like forever with their annoying “super positive voices.”
They try to close the segment by clapping and they ask Orton and Reigns to do it with them. Kingston is mad when he notices them not doing it with them. They tell them that one thing they will do is face them tonight, and that’s an order from the Director of Operations — Kane. They say it’s going down right now.
3-on-2 Handicap Match
– The New Day vs. Roman Reigns & Randy Orton
The New Day’s music hits again as they clap and dance their way to the ring as Orton and Reigns talk to each other. We head to a commercial on that note, with our three-on-two handicap match coming up next after the break.
When we return from the break, The New Day guys are doing a good job of staying on top of Orton. Finally, Orton tags in Reigns and Reigns begins to clean up on them. Once Reigns establishes control, he tags Orton back in.
Orton comes in and takes over where Reigns left off, taking it to Woods in the center of the ring. The New Day take back over control of the offense in the match, as they are now taking turns keeping fresh guys on Orton as we head to a mid-match commercial.
We’re back from the break and the first thing we see is Reigns stuck in a chinlock from Kingston. Kingston tags Big E. in and he picks up where he left off. Reigns is down and out and The New Day are smiling and clapping as they continue to deliver punishment.
The beatdown on Reigns seemed like it was going to go on forever. Finally, he clotheslines Woods down and crawls to the corner to finally make the tag to Orton.
Orton takes the hot tag and comes in cleaning house, taking out everything that moves. He nearly botched a big powerslam spot. Reigns coms in to help but ends up getting knocked on his ass. Orton hits the draping DDT and he’s now calling for the RKO.
As Orton waits for Kingston to get up, Woods goes to attack him from behind. Orton catches him and RKO’s him. As he goes to RKO Kingston finally, Reigns comes in with a spear, but Kingston moves and he ends up spearing Orton. The New Day makes the pin.
Winners: The New Day
After The Match: Tonight’s Main Event Is Set
After the match The New Day celebrate their way to the back as Reigns walks around the ring upset. Orton is still on the mat in the ring as Reigns enters it. Kane comes out and tells them there’s nothing to be ashamed of in losing to the tag champions.
Kane tells Reigns and Orton that their evening isn’t over just yet. He tells them that in tonight’s main event, Randy Orton will go one-on-one with Roman Reigns. The fans pop. Kane tells them that’s what’s best for business and he walks off.
Backstage: Kane, The New Day & Seth Rollins
We see Kane walking backstage. He walks past The New Day. They are celebrating wild and telling Kane “we told you!” Kane keeps walking and rolls his eyes.
Up walks Seth Rollins, accompanied by J&J Security. He tells Kane that what he just did to Reigns and Orton was great, but The Authority is coming back and they are going to punish Kane for what he did to Rollins.
Kane tells Rollins that what he did with Reigns and Orton was best for business. He says that brings him to Rollins. He says he can’t leave their opponent at Payback not having any action tonight.
He says tonight it will be Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose and just so there won’t be a repeat from last week, J&J Security is banned from ringside. Rollins isn’t happy so he flips out and complains. Kane threatens to make a bunch of weird stipulations to make things worse if Rollins doesn’t shut up. Rollins walks away pissed as the fans cheer. We head to commercial break on that note.
Ryback & Bray Wyatt Segment
When we return from commercial, Renee Young is in the ring. She introduces Ryback. “Feed Me More” blares from the speakers as he makes his way out to the ring in street clothes.
As he makes his way to the ring, we see highlights of Bray Wyatt attacking him twice. Young asks Ryback if he knows why Wyatt is attacking him. He says he doesn’t know but it doesn’t matter because he’s not afraid to face fear. The Montreal fans get Ryback to pause in his tracks a few times with “Goldberg” chants. They approve and start chanting “Feed Me More” instead.
Ryback goes on to talk about some of the severe injuries he’s had in the past and how doctors told him he would never wrestle. He tells Bray he’s faced fear many times, but he takes it on directly and he eats it. He says that is what he does. He leads the fans in a loud “Feed Me More” chant.
Finally, Wyatt cuts in humming “He’s Got The Whole World” backstage in a dark, smokey room. He says Ryback is painting himself like an undestructable force. He says he sees him as a scared little boy. He talks about how fear controls people. Wyatt tells Ryback he’s going to make him fade away just like his dreams. He finishes by simply saying, “Run!” We cut to commercial.
Tyson Kidd & Cesaro vs. The Ascension
When we return from the break, Tyson Kidd and Cesaro, along with Natalya, make their way to the ring. Out next is The Ascension. It’s time for some tag-team action.
Konnor and Kidd kick things off for their respective teams. Kidd gets in a little bit of fast-paced offense, but Konnor takes over. Konnor and Viktor get Kidd in their corner and continue to tag-in and tag-out to keep a fresh guy on him.
Finally, Kidd gets to Cesaro and makes the tag. Cesaro takes the hot tag and is flying all over the place. He whips him into the corner back-and-forth about 20 times and followed in with an elbow each time. That was like a standinng version of the big swing or something. Whatever it was, it was cool and the fans loved it.
Cesaro calls for the swing but The Ascension double-teams him to get him down. Kidd makes the save. Viktor turns around into a Cesaro Swing as he tags Kidd in before starting the swing. Kidd does a move off of the swing and pins him. 1-2-3. Kidd and Cesaro win.
Winners: Tyson Kidd & Cesaro
Renee Young Catches Up With Seth Rollins
Backstage, Renee Young catches up with Seth Rollins and asks him for his thoughts on his match with Dean Ambrose tonight. Rollins says there’s no point to have this match and says Kane is a moron. We head to a break on that note.
For A Spot In Payback PPV Main Event
J&J Security Banned From Ringside
– Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins
When we return from the break, we see highlights of Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins from SmackDown, and all that happened with Kane at the end of the match. From there, we shoot back live to RAW inside the Bell Centre in Montreal.
Dean Ambrose’s theme hits and out he comes to a huge pop. It’s time for our rematch from Thursday’s SmackDown. The bell sounds and Eden does the first half of the official introduction for Ambrose. Out next, without J&J Security, because they are banned from ringside, is WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.
Both Ambrose and Rollins are out now. This one is about to officially get underway. Before it can, however, Kane’s music hits and out he comes. Kane says since Rollins said there’s no point to this match, he’s going to change the stakes. He says there’s a point to the match now because if Ambrose wins, he will be added to the Payback main event to make it a fatal four way.
Rollins says it’s not fair because fans voted for a triple threat last week. As Rollins continue to complain, Ambrose takes the mic from him. He asks if fans have a problem with him being added. They side with Ambrose. Rollins yanks the mic from Ambrose now. Kane tells Rollins the match and the stipulation is on. He tells the ref to rinng the bell.
The bell sounds and Ambrose rolls Rollins up. Rollins kicks out at two. Ambrose goes at Rollins, chopping the hell out of him until Rollins scoots out of the ring to catch a breather. He can’t, however, because Ambrose comes out and attacks him. Ambrose takes it to Rollins on the floor. The fans are loving it.
Back in the ring, Ambrose continues to deliver the punishment to Rollins. He clotheslines him down and drops some elbows on him. He locks him in a goofy submission as the announcers talk about the stipulation. Ambrose suplexes Rollins down. Rollins finally cuts Ambrose off with a kick to the gut and now he is in control of the offense.
Rollins continues to beat on Ambrose until finally Ambrose knocks Rollins out of the ring and out to the floor. Rollins is down as we head to a mid-match commercial break.
When we return from the break, Rollins is still in control of the offense, as he’s stalking a laid out Ambrose in the middle of the ring. Ambrose starts fighting back, however, and now the pace of the action is picking up. Rollins drops Ambrose throat first on the turnbuckle in the corner.
Rollins springboards into the ring from the apron but comes in directly into a tornado DDT from Ambrose. Both guys are down now in what is turning out to be a great match.
Both guys are up now and are trading punches back and forth. Ambrose gets the better of it. Ambrose hits a running bulldog on Rollins. He climbs to the top rope but when he comes off, Rollins ducks out to the floor. Ambrose runs and dives through the ropes and crashes into Rollins on the floor.
Ambrose brings the action back into the ring where he is in control of the match now. He hits Rollins with a big finishing move type of move that’s new. He tries to pin him but Riollins just manages to kick out. The announcers sell it like that should have finished it as the Montreal fans loudly chant “This Is Awesome.”
Ambrose goes to the top rope and comes off with a Macho Man style flying elbow smash onto a standing Rollins. They crash onto the mat together and Ambrose stays on top of him for a pinfall attempt. Rollins kicks out at two. The fans chant “Ole! Ole!” loudly as Rollins and Ambrose continue to battle.
Rollins yells at Ambrose and slaps him while Ambrose is trying to get to his feet. Ambrose slaps him back from his knees but Rollins answers back with a powerful HBK superkick for a close nearfall.
We see some replays of the kick as Ambrose punches his way back to his feet. The fans are hanging on every move, every punch, everything at this point. Both guys fly into each other near the ropes. They go over the top and spill out to the floor, landing hard. The fans loudly chant “This Is Awesome” as Rollins powerbombs Ambrose into the barricade on the floor. The fans chant “holy sh*t” after that one.
Rollins rolls back in the ring and lets the referee count. He’s content to have Ambrose counted out so he’s not added to the Payback main event, but Ambrose barely manages to roll in at 9 1/2. He had to run to do it, too. Rollins, who thought he had won, starts stomping Ambrose in the corner because he’s pissed.
Ambrose splashes Rollins in the corner and then blasts him in the center of the ring. Ambrose picks Rollins up for his finisher but J&J Security hit the ring. In the confusion, Ambrose rolls Rollins up. He’s going to Payback. We head to commercial.
Winner: Dean Ambrose
Backstage: Kane & Seth Rollins
Backstage, Seth Rollins and J&J Security come into Kane’s room. Rollins is freaking the hell out at Kane because Ambrose is now in the main event with him at Payback, along with Reigns and Orton. Kane gets in Rollins face and warns him that he can keep adding people to his match. Kane says he knows Rollins is upset but this is all about making him better. Kane tells Rollins not to worry, he says he’s got a plan.
Backstage: Lana, Fandango & Rusev
Backstage, Byron Saxton is wtih Lana. The fans cheer when they see her on the screen. As Lana tries to avoid answering a question about how she’s being embraced by the WWE Universe, in walks Fandango. He tells her to accept it, that they love her. Rusev walks in yelling in Russian and drags her away. Rusev and Fandango go one-on-one next, live. We head to a break on that note.
Rusev vs. Fandango
We return from the break and out comes Fandango dancing his way to the ring. Out next is Rusev and Lana.
The bell sounds and here we go. Rusev dominates Fandango from the early goings. Fandango manages to knock Rusev down. He’s outside the ring with Lana now. He does the Fandango dance, the crowd does it with him and they convince Lana to do it too. Lana is doing it up big time now, doing a big ole’ Fandango dance along with him.
Rusev attacks Fandango from behind and yells at Lana, ordering her to go to the back and go away. Lana looks all sad in the face as she walks to the back and the fans boo.
Back in the ring, Rusev gets Fandango in The Accolade submission finishing hold. Fandango has no choice but to tap out. Rusev keeps the move on longer than he has to because he’s pissed off. After the match, we head to another break.
Winner: Rusev
R-Truth vs. Stardust
When we return from the break we see a bunch of new Tough Enough audition videos. From there we shoot back inside the Bell Centre where R-Truth is already in the ring. Out next is his opponent for tonight, Stardust.
Both guys are in the ring now and the bell officially sounds to kick this one off. Stardust dominates Truth from the word go. Truth finally starts to fight back but his offensive run is short lived as Stardust cuts him off and then does a big cartwheel.
Truth starts punching back and is fighting his way back into the match. Truth hits a flying shoulder tackle and now both guys are down in the center of the ring.
Stardust is reaching for something in the corner that he brought to the ring. Truth stops him and hits a big kick. Truth dances and plays to the crowd before hitting Stardust with another move.
Truth walks over to the bag that Stardust was trying to get earlier. Truth looks inside the bag and it freaked him out so he fell backwards and Stardust rolled him up. 1-2-3. We find out after the fact that it was a bunch of plastic spiders. Stardust poses face to face with one of the fake spiders and smiles. We head to another commercial break.
Winner: Stardust
John Cena Promo
When we return from commercial, the WWE United States Champion, John Cena, makes his way out to the ring. The fans immediately start doing the “John Cena Sucks! John Cena Suuucks!” singing version of his theme song as he makes his way to the ring.
Once in the ring, Cena can’t get two words out for a few minutes, as the fans are all over him. The fans chant “Cena sucks!” regularly now. The fans chant “Ole! Ole! Ole!” as he tries to talk. The fans chant “Cena sucks!” again as he tries to continue again.
Finally, Cena gets the crowd to go with him a bit as he turns up his passion levels. He’s got the crowd completely on his side now as he talks about fighting for what you believe in and never quitting, including in his match at Payback with Rusev. The fans even do “The Champ Is Here” thing with him at the end.
Bret Hart Promo
Cena changes things up now and begins his U.S. Open Challenge. He talks about Payback and now he says it’s time to talk about tonight. He issues his open challenge.
As Cena waits to find out who is going to accept his challenge, Bret Hart’s theme hits. You think it’s going to be someone dressed up like Hart in Montreal, but nope, out comes the real deal.
The WWE Hall Of Fame legend himself, Bret “The Hitman” Hart makes his way to the ring to a huge ovation. He’s in the ring with a mic now as Cena sits in the corner in the background, letting Hart have the spotlight. Hart says he’s here for one reason. He’s here to introduce a great wrestler. Before he can continue, Heath Slater’s theme interrupts him.
U.S. Open Challenge
– John Cena (c) vs. Sami Zayn
Slater comes out telling Hart and Cena to wait a minute. He says he’s sick of getting attacked, and just as he does, Hart blasts him with a mic. He says as he was saying, he’s here to introduce a great wrestler.
With that said, Hart introduces former NXT Champion Sami Zayn. The crowd goes nuts as Zayn’s theme plays and he makes his way to the ring. Cena takes his shirt off and gets ready for battle. The U.S. title is on the line next. We head to commercial.
We return from commercial and the bell rings to make this one official. The fans go ballistic with “Ole! Ole! Ole!” chants as Zayn works over Cena early on. Cena takes control now and holds Zayn in a headlock on the ground. The fans rally behind Zayn as he makes his way back to his feet.
Cena suplexes Zayn and cuts him off, remaining in control of the offense here with the main roster rookie. The doctor has to check on Zayn after the suplex. The announcers are talking like it’s his shoulder. The match is literally on pause as the doctors talk to him in the corner and Cena waits.
Finally, the doctor is done talking to him and Zayn is ready to go back to battle, almost like a UFC fight where you stop the action to check on a cut. Cena makes sure Zayn is ready and now here we go, the action continues.
Cena dominates the action for a while, as we see Rusev and Lana watching on from backstage. Zayn catches Cena in one of his finishing submission moves but Cena survives. Zayn hits a wicked DDT move on Cena landing all the way on the floor.
Zayn takes a while to get Cena back in the ring. As soon as they get in the ring, Cena surprises Zayn by popping up with an Attitude Adjustment. He immediately covers Zayn and Zayn somehow kicks out. Cena yells and complains to the referee, as he thought it should have been a three count.
Since it wasn’t a three count, the match continues. Zayn is firing up now and is starting to make a comeback. He hits a Blue Thunderbomb on Cena for a close nearfall. He continues to sell his shoulder as replays are shown of the Blue Thunderbomb nearfall. The fans, meanwhile, we erupting with “This Is Awesome” chants.
Zayn, with one arm, and Cena, start trading shots. Cena throws a kick instead of a punch, so the fans boo. Cena starts slugging Zayn now but Zayn stops and his face turns mean. He runs at Cena but Cena catches him with a springboard stunner into an A.A. 1-2-3. Cena wins.
Winner and STILL WWE U.S. Champion: John Cena
After The Match
After the match, Cena made facial expressions like he was shocked how good Zayn was. He raises Zayn’s hand and leaves the ring to him. He claps and walks backwards as Zayn plays to the crowd, who are going nuts for him. We head to another break.
Bad News Barrett & Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler & Neville
When we return from the break, Bad News Barrett makes his way to the ring. He cuts a King Of The Ring promo. Out next is his tag-team partner for tonight, Sheamus. Out next are their opponents for tonight. First out is Neville. Out next is Dolph Ziggler.
Barrett and Ziggler kick things off for their respective teams. King Barrett immediately jumps off to an offensive lead as Michael Cole and JBL bicker on commentary. Ziggler fights back, planting Barrett with a big DDT. As Ziggler and Neville take over in the match, we head to a mid-match commercial.
We’re back from the commercial and the first thing we see is the action continiing in the ring. Neville starts flying all over the place. Ziggler and Sheamus brawl out to the floor. In the ring, Neville comes flying off the top into a Bull Hamer Elbow from King Barrett. 1-2-3.
Winners: Bad News Barrett & Sheamus
Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton
After the tag match, we go back to the ring where Eden introduces the first of our main event participants — Roman Reigns. Reigns makes his way through the crowd. Out next is Randy Orton. Their one-on-one main event is up next.
When we return from the break, Kane’s music hits and he comes out by himself it seems at first, however Seth Rollins and J&J Security end up following behind him, with all four men coming out together to Kane’s music.
Jamie Noble grabs a mic and hops on the announce table. He introduces our special guest ring announcer — him, Jamie Noble. Our special guest bell-keeper, Joey Mercury. Think he meant time keeper. Our special ringside enforcer, Kane. And last but not least, our future — everybody’s WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Seth Rollins! He forgot to say what Rollins was doing, so he informs us that Rollins is our special guest commentator.
Rollins joins the announcers on commentary as the bell sounds to make the Reigns-Orton match official in the ring. The fans chant Justin Bieber at Rollins, so Orton and Reigns stop to look at him and laugh. Orton immediately tries sneak-grabbing Reigns with an RKO, but Reigns shoves him off and starts blasting him with punches.
Reigns takes it to Orton as Rollins wines on commentary about the fatal four-way match at Payback. Reigns and Orton battle out to the floor. Noble gets in the way so Reigns knocks him down with a big shot.
The action returns to the ring where Reigns is still in control, but Orton is starting to fight back. Rollins and the announcers are ignoring most of the action in the ring as they bicker back-and-forth with Rollins on commentary.
Reigns gets Orton under control and is now calling for the Superman punch. When he goes for it, Orton avoids it and counters with a quick snap-powerslam. Orton hits Reigns with the draping-DDT and then starts pounding the mat, calling for the RKO.
When Reigns gets up, Orton goes for the RKO, but Reigns avoids it. He shoves him into the ropes backwards, when Orton turns around, he is nailed with a big Superman punch from Reigns.
Kane ends up getting involved, beating up Reigns on the floor. He runs around the ring and joins J&J Security, who are joined by Seth Rollins, to stomp out Randy Orton as well. Reigns comes flying out of nowhere over the top rope and he takes out all of them.
Rollins grabs Reigns from behind and slams him face-first into the ring post. There are bodies everywhere as The Authority members recover and get Orton in the ring by himself. Orton is trying to fight, but the numbers game catches up with him as the fans chant “We Want Ambrose!”
They continue to pummel Reigns and Orton until finally Amborse’s theme hits. He sprints to the ring and starts blasting everyone that moves. Orton is back on his feet, as is Reigns. They all clear the ring and now it’s just the four members who will be in the fatal four way at Payback.
Reigns spears Rollins, only to turn around into an RKO from Orton. Ambrose grabs Orton from behind and turns him around into a Dirty Deeds. Reigns and Orton are laid out in the ring, Rollins is out on the floor. Ambrose’s theme plays as he stands over all of them as RAW ends.
