Shane lumbers out to a huge Shane-O-Mac chant. Shane comes out with eye makeup on and shakes Vince's hand. He thanks the crowd, who tells him "you still got it". He wrestled maybe twice and had tons of time off and access to the best medical care imaginable - it's not like he could've done what he did on a regular road schedule. He says goodbye again, but Vince won't be upstaged and talks about how crazy it would be if Shane ran Raw. Crowd chants "let him run it" and Vince just...lets him... WHAT IN THE FUCK!? Cole says "this can just be nonsensical!". This is stupid, but will be less stupid if it's used as an excuse for mayhem ensuing with the Balor Club/Bulletproof and then that being proof Shane can't run the show. New Day is out. Big E's hips are out of control and the crowd chants along with every part of their intro.
A thank you Wyatts chant breaks out after the beating...so I guess they're faces. WM slideshow. Vince says that Shane running the show is temporary. Summer Rae talks about the pre-show match, which we get no shots or clips of. She talks smack about Sasha, resulting in a match. Sasha has her Eddie gear in shorts form now - yay! Not much to this - Sasha wins with the Bank Statement. Apollo Crews just debuts next. Should've had a heel win the IC Title match and then give Crews the title tonight if you're going to at least go with an on-paper new era-ish vibe. Oh well - he'll join the main roster's 50/50 club now. And his hype video has lots of green in it for some reason.
Shane meets with Roman and makes the fatal 4 way. So the moral of the story is "lose the IC Title and get into the WWE Title mix". Kind of like how losing in NXT promotes you to the main roster. Speaking of which, Baron's intro absolutely works seamlessly on the main roster. Baron cuts a great promo on the fans who don't know anything about him - he doesn't care, and this trophy is all you need to know. He's destroyed people and dreams to get here and he's going to be the end of days for anyone in his path.
Good promo. Not a good match though. Baron's offense was very basic, other than the Deep Six. They fight into the crowd for a countout. Well, Dolph's a good guy to do a program with Baron - this was a fine first step. End of Days on the floor to Dolph. Baron shouldn't beat FORMER WORLD CHAMPION Dolph Ziggler on night one on Raw - so this worked.
Ryder comes out with his title and gets a YOU DESERVE IT/WOO WOO WOO chant. This has to feel so good for him. He cut the promo about holding Razor's title after WM X, and now, Razor got to hold his IC Title after WM. That is a great, organic story and something that makes him easy to root for. He thanks his dad for taking him to all the shows, and Miz comes out and blames him for losing. I don't know what Miz's outfit is called, but it's amazing. Miz talks shit and goads him into a title match. Ryder runs a bit wild before the break. After not much action, Maryse returns to slap Zack's Dad and it distracts Zack and Miz wins!
Owens cuts a promo on Sami and Roman. "So, the night after the biggest-drawing WrestleMania of all time, Kevin Steen cut a promo on the WWE World Heavyweight Champion..." This was cool.VAUDEVILLAINS...DEBUTING ON SD!? Even more doomed. Lita came out for the WWE Women's Title celebration...while Eva's tits are just all over the place mid-ring. "HEY, WE WANT SOME BAYYYLEEEYY!" So did AJ Lee a year ago, and that didn't do much for her. And now Cole just buries that whole deal. Charlotte thanks the SUPERSTARS IN THE RING for everything happening. And the fans. More Bayley singing. She sucks up to the fans a ton here. Charlotte is not good or experienced enough for this...and is she a heel? Shouldn't she be thanking herself for being so good? They interrupt her constantly with a "women's wrestling!" chant. Charlotte thanks herself, FINALLY ACTING LIKE A HEEL, and all the other women leave. Nattie and her catsuit cut a promo on Charlotte and put her in a sharpshooter before Ric saves her. Awful stuff, but it's leading to a good match. AJ says he wants to be WWE Champion. That ain't happening.
Primo and Epico are now pro-Puerto Rico/anti-WHEREVER YOU ARE heels akin to Sylvan when he was the ambassador for France. Table match time. No real action here. NAKAMURA chants. Dudleys win to at least get into the 50/50 club instead of the 10/90 club. Sami says he's been in the underground for 14 years and goddamn is that a lot of time to run your body down. Owens jumps him - so either he's hurt off that dive earlier that looked weird, or they're firing up their story. Powerbomb through the table - so I guess he's fine and this is just story-builder.
Dudleys run down the aisle. Team SAWFT to feud with the Dudleys! I don't know what Enzo is dressed as, but he needs to not do that again. Odd to not have Carmella in this act on the main roster. Crowd does their whole deal on DAY ONE on the main roster - so the NXT format at least works well for doing that. "I GOT THE GIFT OF GAB AND THE GIFT OF JAB - AND I'LL PUT THAT LAZY EYE TO WORK!" Goddamn he was great and he made himself a star in a minute.
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