mobanmarketWWE RAW Opener:
This week’s “Cyber Monday” edition of WWE RAW, which emanates from the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opens up with a video package of last week’s happenings, primarily focusing on the end of The Authority’s reign as the power figures of WWE.
From there, we shoot live into the BOK Center where the “Anonymous RAW GM” “ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling” rings throughout the building. Michael Cole, “and he quotes,” begins reading the “anonymous” statement.
As Michael Cole tries to begin reading “the following announcements,” he is cut off by the theme music of John Cena.
“What a paramount night we have tonight on Monday Night RAW, huh?!” opens Cena. He then references the “Anonymous RAW General Manager.” He says he loves absolutely nothing about the RAW Anonymous GM. He says the Anonymous RAW GM and Brock Lesnar have one thing in common — they both show up once a year.
Cena goes on to brag about how The Authority is gone and is never coming back. As Cena continues to talk, the “ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling” noise hits again for the RAW Anonymous GM. Cole tells Cena he’s just the spokesperson, as he backs away. The noise continues as Cena approaches the podium and the laptop. He slowly closes it and does the “cut-throat” sign.
Before he can do anything else, however, “Mr. Money In The Bank’s” music hits, and out comes Seth Rollins, Joey Mercury and Jamie Noble.
Rollins hands his briefcase off to his security team and then asks eveyrone in Tulsa to give Cena a big hand. He tells Cena he has “bad jokes for days.” Cena says he has a lot of them. Rollins says he waives his hand in front of his face like he just discovered them. Cena says he does that right before he beats him. Rollins says he’ll get to that in a minute.
“Mr. Money In The Bank” continues, informing Cena that he sucks on a nightly basis. Rollins says he’s particularly good at taking credit for things he doesn’t do. He talks about how he eliminated Cena at Survivor Series. He says he would have been the sole survivor and The Authority would still be in power if it wasn’t for one man — Sting.
Cena says it was exciting to see Sting, but he forgets the fact that “Team Cena” had one man left. He says they had one man left who took out all three of “Team Authority” members that were left — Dolph Ziggler.
Rollins shrugs off Cena’s comments and says he’s really out to ask this — after a week, can he honestly ask himself, is WWE really better off without The Authority in power? The fans in Tulsa respond with a loud, thunderous “Yes! Yes! Yes!” chant.
Rollins jokes about JBL taking over as GM. He then takes a dig at Batista’s wrestling and acting, saying maybe he could try his hand at GM. He says we can go to the “Way Back Machine” and let Eric Bischoff run things. Cena cuts Rollins off and asks him what his point is.
Rollins says his point is that Cena comes out every week and says what’s best for WWE is what the fans say is best. Rollins says what’s best for WWE is the same thing that’s best for business. He says Cena is the only person who has the power to restore order and bring back The Authority. He tells Cena he has to do it.
Cena tells Rollins he sounds awful bossy. He tells Rollins that The Authority is gone and they aren’t coming back. Cena says Rollins is a normal dude — who wears way too much latax — that always has two “mall cops” with him. He says he does have the power to bring The Authority back. Cena tells Rollins to ask him. Rollins says he did. Cena says to ask him nicely.
This prompts the fans in Tulsa to break out in “let’s go Cena, Cena sucks!” chants as Rollins ponders his next move. Rollins says “will you please bring back The Authority.” Cena says that wasn’t nice enough and tells Rollins to get down on one knee. The Anonymous RAW GM “ding-a-ling” rings again but Cena ignores it. Unfortunately, he can’t ignore it for too long, as Michael Cole chimes in and informs us that Cena and Rollins will compete one-on-one in a “Tables Match” at the TLC pay-per-view.
Cole goes on to inform Cena that if he loses at the TLC PPV, he will no longer be the number one contender to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Cole says “a new number one …” but before he can continue, Rollins blasts Cena with the microphone from behind. Cena fights off Rollins, Mercury and Noble, but Kane comes out and blasts Cena with a chokeslam.
This leads to Rollins bringing a table out from under the ring. “Feed Me More” hits and out comes Ryback. Ryback fights off Kane, Mercury and Noble, and then hits Rollins with a big press-slam. When he turns around, however, Kane has a steel chair and begins wailing away at him with it over, and over, and over again.
As Kane continues bashing Ryback with a chair, out comes Erick Rowan. He hits Kane in the aisle with a big boot and enters the ring. He throws Mercury and Noble out of the ring and then manhandles Rollins into the corner.
Out of nowhere, with no music or fanfare, The Big Show comes out and splashes Rowan from behind. The “You Sold Out” chants ring throughout the BOK Center as Show continues his onslaught on the former Wyatt Family member. He blasts Rowan with the top-half of the ring steps outside of the ring.
And then, out of nowhere, “I’m here to show the world!” hits and Dolph Ziggler sprints to ringside, knocking Big Show down in the process. He grabs a ladder from under the ring, only to turn around and get taken out by Luke Harper, who also appears out of nowhere with no music.
Meanwhile, back in the ring, Noble and Mercury and holding Cena as Rollins sets up a table. Cena fights his way free but then Harper grabs him. Cena fights free from Harper, but then turns around right into a knockout punch from Big Show. This leads to Noble and Mercury picking Cena up and handing him off to Rollins, who “triple power bombs” him through the table in the ring, old-school Shield style.
The fans boo as Rollins, Kane, Harper, Noble and Mercury stand tall over a beaten down Cena in the center of the ring. On that note, we head to our first commercial break of the evening.