WWE RAW Results
April 26, 2010
Report by Matt Boone for WrestleZone.com
Show-Miz & Bret Hart Opener:
Miz and Big Show come to the ring. Miz gets on the mic and talks a bunch of trash about The Hart Dynasty. Miz calls Bret Hart the biggest loser of the Hart family. Miz tells Bret Hart to come out and announce Show-Miz as the best team of all time. Bret Hart comes out. He says Show-Miz is the best tag-team of all time. He says he also declares The Mountie as the best Intercontinental champion of all-time and David Arquette as the best World champion of all-time. He says he can say whatever they want, but it’s all about results and tonight the result is Hart Dynasty as the new tag-team champs.
Unified Tag-Titles:
-Big Show & The Miz (c) vs. The Hart Dynasty (w/ Bret Hart)
Decent match. Went about 12 minutes, including a commercial break. Finish came when Miz tried to cheat on a pin attempt with his feet on the ropes. Bret knocked his feet off. Big Show walked over but Kidd knocked him off the ring apron. Moments later, Hart Dynasty hit their finisher. Kidd followed up with a Sharpshooter and Miz tapped out. We have new Unified Tag-Team Champions.
Winners and NEW Unified Tag-Team Champions: The Hart Dynasty
Backstage: Josh Matthews Interviews Jack Swagger
Swagger brags about beating Randy Orton to retain his World title. As he continues to put himself over, in walks Edge, who informs Swagger that he’s next in line for a title shot with his win over Chris Jericho at Extreme Rules.
Winning Brand Gets A Draft:
-Michelle McCool & Layla vs. Maryse & Eve Torres
Match went about five minutes. It was what you’d expect here. Finish came when Eve was attempting a move, but Maryse force-tagged herself in. In being distracted while arguing with Eve over the tag, McCool blasted Maryse with the big kick. She scored the pin and Smackdown gets a draft.
Winners: Michelle McCool & Layla
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SmackDown Draft:
With the win by McCool & Layla, SmackDown gets a draft. SmackDown gets Kelly Kelly.
Winning Brand Gets A Draft:
-CM Punk vs. Evan Bourne
Short match. Finish came when Serena of the Straight Edge Society distracted the ref, allowing the mystery member to attack Bourne. Punk hit the GPS on Bourne a moment later for the pinfall.
Winner: CM Punk
SmackDown Draft:
With the win by Punk, SmackDown gets a draft. SmackDown gets The Big Show.
Backstage: Pissed Off Big Show & Teddy Long
Teddy Long gives his congrats to Big Show for being drafted to SmackDown. Show looks pissed. Teddy tries to shake his hand, Big Show won’t accept. Teddy asks Big Show if there’s anything he could do to help. Show got an idea of some kind in his head and looks happy. He tells Teddy that it’s no problem and he walks off.
Live Arena Segment: Sheamus, Randy Orton & John Cena
Sheamus comes to the ring. He talks about beating down HHH last night and said he probably ended his career. He says he wants a title shot. Randy Orton’s music hits and out he comes. Orton says when he put HHH on the shelf, he did it face-to-face and didn’t need a pipe. Sheamus tells Orton he had a title shot last night and lost, and to scram. He threatens to put Orton on the shelf next to HHH if he don’t get out of the ring. Orton says he’s got a better idea, maybe he’ll take Sheamus’s head off with an RKO. John Cena comes out. He says he couldn’t think of a better time to introduce tonight’s RAW guest host. He introduces him, nothing happens. He gets a phone call. Cena takes his cell out of his pocket and answers. The host is at the "other draft." Cena gets off the phone and declares it will be Sheamus vs. Orton in a number one contender’s match tonight. Sheamus goes for the big kick and Orton goes for the RKO, but both guys avoid it. They walk away glaring at each other.
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Winning Brand Gets 3 Drafts:
-10-Man Battle Royal
Kane, R-Truth, Rey Mysterio, Drew McIntyre and Shad Gaspard represent SmackDown in this match. Santino Marella, MVP, Ted DiBiase, Mark Henry and Yoshi Tatsu represent RAW. Tatsu eliminated McIntyre early, but was immediately thrown out himself afterwards by Gaspard. Mysterio eliminated MVP. A group ganged up and eliminated Gaspard & R-Truth. Kane eliminated Henry. DiBiase eliminated Kane. DiBiase eliminated Mysterio. Team RAW wins.
Winners: Team RAW
RAW Draft:
With the win by DiBiase and Santino in the Battle Royal, RAW gets three drafts. RAW gets John Morrison, R-Truth and Edge.
Live Arena Segment: Chris Jericho & Heath Slater
Jericho comes to the ring and bitches about losing to both Heath Slater and Edge in the last week. He said he promises never to lose to an unaccomplished nobody again. He tells Slater he owes him an apology for costing him his match against Edge last night at Extreme Rules. Slater comes out and says he is sorry. He’s sorry Jericho couldn’t beat him or Edge. He says Jericho won’t beat Christian either. That match is next.
Winning Brand Gets A Draft:
-Christian vs. Chris Jericho
Decent match, kept pretty short. Finish came when Christian went to the top rope for a high spot. He comes off but Jericho catches him coming down with The Codebreaker. He pins Christian and wins the match.
Winner: Chris Jericho
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SmackDown Draft:
With the win by Jericho, SmackDown gets a draft. SmackDown gets Kofi Kingston.
Winning Brand Gets A Draft:
-John Morrison (representing RAW) vs. Jack Swagger
This match went about 15 minutes. Pretty good stuff here. Finish came when Morrison attempted the Starship Pain. Swagger avoided it and hit his Gut Wrench Power Bomb finisher for the pinfall victory.
Winner: Jack Swagger
SmackDown Draft:
With the win by Swagger, SmackDown gets a draft. SmackDown gets Christian.
Next Week’s RAW Guest Host: Wayne Brady
Michael Cole announces that Wayne Brady will be the host of next week’s edition of WWE RAW.
Backstage: Ted DiBiase Jr. Looks For His "Virgil"
Backstage, DiBiase Jr. is with Carlito. He tells Carlito to take him up on his offer. He says it would take Carlito off the sidelines. Carlito said he’d rather sit on the sidelines and walks off. DiBiase next spoke with R-Truth and said he’s looking for a confidant to watch his back, carry his bags, etc. Truth says DiBiase Jr. is looking for a Virgil (DiBiase Jr’s father’s butler-type manager). DiBiase says it’s not the same thing. He says he’s just looking for someone to tell them what to do, then have them do it, and just get paid a lot for it. R-Truth bitch-slaps DiBiase and walks away.
Winning Brand Gets A Draft:
-Hornswoggle vs. Dolph Ziggler
Hornswoggle wins in 40 seconds. He tried running away from Ziggler early. Ziggler got stuck outside the ring and Hornswoggle kept throwing shit at him to keep him from getting back in the ring. The ref counted to ten and Horny wins.
Winner: Hornswoggle
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RAW Draft:
With the win by Hornswoggle, RAW gets a draft. RAW gets Chris Jericho. Jericho comes out to the top of the stage. Michael Cole mentions it is the final draft of the night. We head to commercial.
#1 Contender’s Match:
-Sheamus vs. Randy Orton vs. Batista
Batista was added to this to make it a triple-threat match for a shot at the title. Finish came when Orton hits the RKO on Sheamus. Edge came out of nowhere, speared Orton (heel turn by Edge). That set up a Batista spear on Sheamus for the pin. Batista is the number one contender.
Winner and NEW #1 Contender: Batista
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