Monday, May 2, 2016

WWE Raw (live report from St. Louis, MO)

-Greg Hamilton ring-announced for Superstars; it looked like Tom Phillips doing commentary with Byron Saxton.  Lillian Garcia was conspicuously absent this weekend as Eden Stiles ring-announced for Raw (Eden split announcing duties with Jojo Offerman at Payback.)  Raw commentators, as usual, were Michael Cole(using different music and not the old Kerwin White theme), Byron Saxton, & John Bradshaw Layfield.
-Taped for Superstars:  Darren Young d. Damien Sandow with the Gut Check(fireman's-carry double-knee gutbuster) (5:09).
-Taped for Superstars:  Apollo Crews d. Heath Slater(w/ Curtis Axel & Bo Dallas) via delayed Blue Thunder Bomb (7:55).
-Antonio Cesaro d. Kevin Owens by DQ when Intercontinental Champion Mike Mizanin(w/ Maryse Ouellet-Mizanin) attacked Cesaro after being drawn into the fight from the commentary table (11:30); Sami Zayn made the save and took a closer look at the Intercontinental Title belt.
-Tyler Breeze(w/ "R-Truth" Ron Killings) d. Goldust(w/ Johnny Fandango) via rollup (1:48).
-Tag Team Champions The New Day(Big E Langston, Kofi Kingston, & Xavier Woods) & "Big Cass" Colin Cassady d. The Vaudevillains(Aiden English & Simon Gotch) & The Dudley Boys(Buh-Buh Ray & D-Von) when Cass pinned D-Von after the East River Crossing(sitout swinging uranagi) (17:01).
-Emma Tayla d. Becky Lynch after a thumb to the eye set up a modified Michinoku Driver (5:43).
-Alexander Rusev(w/ Lana Perry) won a battle royal for a shot at U.S. Champion Kalisto(who did commentary).  Eliminations:  Rick Viktor, Damien Sandow, Stardust, Darren Young, Apollo Crews, Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, Titus O'Neil, Curtis Axel, Bo Dallas, Sin Cara, Sheamus O'Shaunessy, Alberto Del Rio, and Zack Ryder (13:39).
-A.J. Styles, Karl Anderson, & Luke Gallows d. WWE Champion Roman Reigns & Jimmy & Jey Uso when Styles pinned Jimmy Uso after the springboard forearm (11:31).  Anderson & Gallows encouraged Styles to lay out Reigns with a chair, but he refused to do it...the Usos re-entered and hit Styles with the chair, so A.J. retaliated and turned the chair on them.  However, Reigns recovered to see Styles with the chair and attacked him, finishing with a powerbomb through the broadcast table.

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