OPENING SEGMENT-
Orton comes out to cut a promo and the second Randy starts talking we get nice, loud "CM PUNK!" chants.
Randy says that he thinks the Authority is trying to get the belt off of him. He says he has beaten all of the challengers a bunch of times and says that he will beat them in the Elimination Chamber, then beat Batista at Mania because he is better than Batista, too.
Hunter & Steph come out and we get nice loud "CM PUNK!" chants when they try to talk, too. We get more teasing that Hunter and Steph are going to dump Orton as the "Face of the WWE." Steph says that Orton will face Dragon tonight, and if Dragon wins, they might have to consider making him the new face of the WWE instead of Orton. This was a good segment. Hunter doing the "YES!" chant was just weird.

THE SHIELD vs. REY MYSTERIO JR., BIG E. LANGSTON, & KOFI KINGSTON- 6/10
Ambrose steals the win from Reigns, pinning Big E. Once again, I doubt anything will come from the IC Champion being pinned, so why have him get pinned at all? Why not just pin Kofi "Jobber to the Stars" Kingston?
Reigns and Ambrose argue after the match, but Rollins makes them get along. Then Bray cuts a promo from the Tron. He talks about The Shield having a "king" that they don't even know about.

BAD NEWS BARRETT SEGMENT- OMFG something actually came of this! Unfortunately, that thing was that Lawler made fun of Wade.

CHRISTIAN vs. JACK SWAGGER (w/Zeb Coulter & Antonio Cesaro)-6.25/10
A pointless rematch from Smackdown. Zeb is very unhappy with Swagger's loss.

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE WWE TAG TEAM TITLES: The New Age Outlaws(c) vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust- 6.75/10
This match happened WAY too early in the show. "CM PUNK!" chants here, too.
Decent babyface in peril stuff. I liked everything but the finish, which saw Cody do a HUGE moonsault press off the top of the cage onto Road Dogg... then get pinned about seven seconds later. It just seemed like a waste of a huge spot.

TITUS O'NEIL vs. ZACK RYDER-
Should have been more of a squash for Titus. Unfortunately, they picked this match to also have Miz come out and bury them both and say that he deserved to be on TV more than them.

DANCE-OFF: Santino Marella vs. Fandango (w/Summer Rae)-
For some reason Santino is allowed to rebook things on the fly, so he challenges to have Summer Rae compete in a dance-off against a random member of the audience... who, of course, just happens to be EMMA! So anyway, no we have a...

DANCE-OFF: Emma (w/Santino Marella) vs. Summer Rae (w/Fandango)- eh segment. Their stuff on NXT was SO MUCH BETTER!

SHEAMUS vs. CURTIS AXEL (w/Ryback)- 0.75/10
"CM PUNK!" chants here, too. Axel works over Sheamus' formerly injured shoulder. The match was VERY short.

BATISTA & DEL RIO SEGMENT- very bad.
Batista comes out and is about to start speaking but Del Rio comes out and interrupts him. The people were so into this segment that we got dueling chants of "DANIEL BRYAN!" and "CM PUNK!"
Del Rio cut an eh promo, then attacked Batista, but Batista got the better of him in the end, immediately killing the heat that the sneak attack got.

THE WYATT FAMILY vs. R-TRUTH, DOLPH ZIGGLER, & XAVIER WOODS- 5/10
Dolph eats the pin instead of the rookie Woods, meaning he is still on the doghouse.

SHIELD PROMO- AWESOME!
And Bray's reaction to it was even more awesome! He just laughed and shouted "I WELCOME THIS WAR! BRING IT TO ME!"

RUSEV & LANA PROMO- loved it.

NAOMI (w/Cameron) vs. AKSANA (w/Alicia Fox)- 0.5/10
Alicia Fox is accompanying Aksana to the ring because the heels must be united in their efforts to destroy Total Divas because that will make the Total Divas constant victories that much greater (or at least I assume this is WWE's logic). AJ comes out to do commentary. She dubs this combination of heels "Foxana." I love it!
Naomi wins clean. Fox tries to attack her after the match, but Cameron stops her, then Naomi hits her with the Rear View. The announcers try to goad AJ into giving Naomi a Divas Title match but Naomi says that she won't. Naomi has pinned AJ twice so far! Why doesn't the Authority just book a title match?

DANIEL BRYAN vs. RANDY ORTON- 8/10
An awesome match with both men picking a body part and sticking to it. Dragon looked dominant, even fighting Kane off, too, and best of all, though: DRAGON BEAT ORTON CLEAN!

Orton and Kane beat Dragon down after the match.

A decent Raw, propped up by an awesome main event.

Big Red Machine wrote:OPENING SEGMENT-
Orton comes out to cut a promo and the second Randy starts talking we get nice, loud "CM PUNK!" chants.
Randy says that he thinks the Authority is trying to get the belt off of him. He says he has beaten all of the challengers a bunch of times and says that he will beat them in the Elimination Chamber, then beat Batista at Mania because he is better than Batista, too.
Hunter & Steph come out and we get nice loud "CM PUNK!" chants when they try to talk, too. We get more teasing that Hunter and Steph are going to dump Orton as the "Face of the WWE." Steph says that Orton will face Dragon tonight, and if Dragon wins, they might have to consider making him the new face of the WWE instead of Orton. This was a good segment. Hunter doing the "YES!" chant was just weird.

i can't help but seeing all these segments as wwe trying to suck up to the crowd and 'make up' for their shit. I just can't enjoy them.

Big Red Machine wrote: THE SHIELD vs. REY MYSTERIO JR., BIG E. LANGSTON, & KOFI KINGSTON- 6/10
Ambrose steals the win from Reigns, pinning Big E. Once again, I doubt anything will come from the IC Champion being pinned, so why have him get pinned at all? Why not just pin Kofi "Jobber to the Stars" Kingston?
Reigns and Ambrose argue after the match, but Rollins makes them get along. Then Bray cuts a promo from the Tron. He talks about The Shield having a "king" that they don't even know about.

it's the US champ pinning the IC champ, it likely won't go anywhere, but at least it's understandable that a champ can pin another champ.

Big Red Machine wrote: STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE WWE TAG TEAM TITLES: The New Age Outlaws(c) vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust- 6.75/10
This match happened WAY too early in the show. "CM PUNK!" chants here, too.
Decent babyface in peril stuff. I liked everything but the finish, which saw Cody do a HUGE moonsault press off the top of the cage onto Road Dogg... then get pinned about seven seconds later. It just seemed like a waste of a huge spot.

well, Cody did miss the moonsault, i can see him getting pinned, good excuse for Goldust to get annoyed that he would take the risk and lose the title shot.

Big Red Machine wrote: BATISTA & DEL RIO SEGMENT- very bad.
Del Rio cut an eh promo, then attacked Batista, but Batista got the better of him in the end, immediately killing the heat that the sneak attack got.

not killing the heat of the sneak attack, but getting heat since Del Rio didn't beat up Batista, who is who the fans really wanna crap on

cero2k wrote:

Big Red Machine wrote: STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE WWE TAG TEAM TITLES: The New Age Outlaws(c) vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust- 6.75/10
This match happened WAY too early in the show. "CM PUNK!" chants here, too.
Decent babyface in peril stuff. I liked everything but the finish, which saw Cody do a HUGE moonsault press off the top of the cage onto Road Dogg... then get pinned about seven seconds later. It just seemed like a waste of a huge spot.

well, Cody did miss the moonsault, i can see him getting pinned, good excuse for Goldust to get annoyed that he would take the risk and lose the title shot.

But he hit the moonsault. He definitely landed on Road Dogg. And if he had missed, the announcers wouldn't have been talking it up as a "moment."

Big Red Machine wrote:

cero2k wrote:

Big Red Machine wrote: STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE WWE TAG TEAM TITLES: The New Age Outlaws(c) vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust- 6.75/10
This match happened WAY too early in the show. "CM PUNK!" chants here, too.
Decent babyface in peril stuff. I liked everything but the finish, which saw Cody do a HUGE moonsault press off the top of the cage onto Road Dogg... then get pinned about seven seconds later. It just seemed like a waste of a huge spot.

well, Cody did miss the moonsault, i can see him getting pinned, good excuse for Goldust to get annoyed that he would take the risk and lose the title shot.

But he hit the moonsault. He definitely landed on Road Dogg. And if he had missed, the announcers wouldn't have been talking it up as a "moment."

i watched it on mute, so i couldn't know, but it seemed like he missed, a bit to much on the side