The Authority, Seth Rollins & John Cena Kick Off RAW
This week’s show kicks off with Triple H, Stephanie McMahon and Seth Rollins making their way down to the ring. Triple H gets on the microphone and welcomes us to Monday Night RAW.
HHH says tonight will be a huge night of firsts. He says he’s gonna kick off the firsts with a huge announcement. He announces that this year’s SummerSlam pay-per-view will be a four-hour event.
Stephanie puts over Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar and then HHH announces that tonight on RAW, Big Show will go one-on-one with Dean Ambrose. Stephanie then announces Sasha Banks vs. Paige for tonight.
HHH then says Kevin Owens will face Randy Orton here tonight as well. Stephanie announces Alicia Fox and Nikki Bella vs. Becky Lynch and Charlotte for tonight.
Seth Rollins gets on the mic and says if we’re talking about firsts, he knows a thing or two about firsts. He brags a bunch and then says to cap this night of firsts off, we need to involve all of us. He tells everyone to stand up and admit that he will go down as the greatest champion of all-time.
From there, John Cena’s theme song hits and out he comes. Cena calls Rollins an arrogant jackass. He mocks Rollins for claiming to be the greatest champion ever. He calls him a joke. He calls Rollins a coward for running from him last week.
Cena turns his attention to HHH and Stephanie. He talks about tonight being a night of firsts. He says tonight we need to see if Seth Rollins can become a man. He challenges Rollins to a one-on-one match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Rollins tells Cena to do everyone a favor and for the first time, shut the hell up. He says this isn’t a little U.S. Open Challenge. He says you have to earn an opportunity at his title. Stephanie cuts him off. She says they should let the people decide.
Stephanie asks the fans if they want to see Cena vs. Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The fans cheer and break out into a light “Yes!” chant. Stephanie says for the first time ever, she’s saying no. She says she agrees with Rollins.
HHH says he gets that. He says no one wants to see the world title defended on RAW. He says the idea is valid, so tonight in this ring, it will be John Cena vs. Seth Rollins, but it will be for Cena’s United States Championship, because that’s what’s best for business. His music plays and they walk off. From there, we head to a commercial break.
Big Show vs. Dean Ambrose
When we return from the break, Dean Ambrose and Big Show each make their way out to the ring for the first of our “night of firsts” matches.
The bell sounds and here we go. Early on, Dean Ambrose lives up to his moniker of “The Lunatic Fringe,” as he’s a madman, jumping all over Big Show.
As the match goes on, the larger Big Show starts to exert his dominance. Slowly but surely, Ambrose faded, and Big Show completely took over.
Big Show took out Ambrose on the floor. The referee counted to nine and Ambrose just barely made it in. From there, Ambrose had Big Show isolated on the floor and went to dive through the ropes, however Big Show caught him coming out with a KO punch. This time, Ambrose couldn’t make it in.
Winner via Count Out: Big Show
After The Match
After the match, Big Show sees Ambrose won’t stay down. Big Show charges at him but Ambrose moves and Big Show crashes through the barricade. Ambrose laughs and walks off. We head to another commercial break.
