Paul Heyman, John Cena Open Up This Week’s Show
The WWE Night Of Champions “go-home” edition of RAW opens up this week with Paul Heyman standing in the middle of the ring. He says he’s going to show us a preview of what’s going to happen this Sunday at Night Of Champions. As he mocks John Cena, he is interrupted by Cena’s theme.
Cena makes his way to the ring. He asks Heyman where Brock Lesnar is in a goofy, jovial-Cena fashion. He reminds us that he’s either fighting Lesnar tonight, or he’s fighting Heyman. Heyman tells Cena if that’s what he wants, that’s what he’s going to get. He pretends to introduce Lesnar but he doesn’t show up. Heyman laughs and informs us that Lesnar’s private plane has been delayed, but that he will be here later tonight.
Heyman turns to leave all proud of himself but Cena grabs him by the scruff of his neck. Cena says in about 80 minutes, give-or-take 10 minutes, if Lesnar isn’t here, simply put, he’s going to kick Paul Heyman’s ass. He lets Heyman go and Heyman says okay, he’ll let you know when Brock gets here.
As Heyman exits the ring, Cena runs around him and cuts him off in the aisle. Cena says he doesn’t trust Heyman. He says he promised the fans in the Cajundome, the site of tonight’s RAW, that they will get a fight. He grabs Heyman in a headlock and drags him back to the locker room. That ends this week’s RAW opener.
Backstage: Update On Cena & Heyman
When we return from commercial, courtesy of the WWE App, we see Cena dragging Heyman backstage. He throws him in his locker room and calls over The Great Khali. He tells Khali not to let Heyman out of his dressing room. Khali stands guard as Cena walks off.
Chris Jericho vs. Kane
Chris Jericho’s theme hits and he out comes with his light-up jacket. Michael Cole informs us that Jericho is in action against “Corporate Kane” next. We head to our first commercial break of the evening.
After the segment with Cena, Heyman and Khali, we see Jericho in the ring waiting. Kane’s theme hits and he makes his way down to the ring for our first match of the evening.
The bell rings and here we go. Jericho takes the early offensive lead in the match, knocking Kane out to the floor. He goes up to the top rope and flies off, splashing onto Kane on the floor. He runs at Kane on the floor to follow-up, but Kane catches him coming in with a big shot. He slams Jericho back-first into the ring apron and rolls him back inside.
Kane goes for a pin attempt once they return to the ring but Jericho kicks out at two. Kane seems to be in control of the offense, but Jericho starts fighting back. He drops Kane with a dropkick and starts putting the boots to him in the middle of the ring.
Corporate Kane finally takes control of the match and slams Y2J down to the mat. He throws him out to the floor and taunts the fans. We see Jericho laid out on the floor outside of the ring as we head to a mid-match commercial.
When we return from commercial, Kane is still in firm control of the offense of this match. He remains in control for a while but eventually Jericho starts making his comeback. Kane cuts him short. Kane takes the turnbuckle pading off of one of the corners. This leads to Jericho drop-toe-holding Kane face-first into the exposed turnbuckle for the 1-2-3.
Winner: Chris Jericho
Backstage: Paul Heyman Can’t Reach Brock Lesnar
Backstage, we see Paul Heyman on a cell phone. He’s trying to get a hold of Brock Lesnar but apparently Lesnar’s phone has bad reception because he can’t hear Heyman. Heyman looks worried that Lesnar won’t make it to the show in time for the cut-off point that Cena gave him earlier. We head to commercial.
Announcers Hype Rusev/Mark Henry Feud
We return from commercial to see a “Did You Know?” about SmackDown. They then talk about the Rusev and Mark Henry feud, leading to clips from SmackDown of the arm-wrestling contest between the two. They then promote a “Mark Henry Rallies America” segment for later tonight. The first of what appears to be a series of taped vignettes airs with some Olympian dude encouraging Henry to beat up Rusev.
