WWE RAW Results: April 1, 2013
The final Monday Night RAW before Wrestlemania 29 kicked off with John Cena making his way to the ring. He promised that the ‘Great One’ will fall at Wrestlemania.
John Cena made some audacious statements ahead of his Wrestlemania 29 match against The Rock
Match 1: The team of Randy Orton, Sheamus and Big Show defeated 3MB in a six-man tag-team match. The Shield came out and mocked the unity of their Wrestlemania opponents.
Match 2: Dolph Ziggler defeated Daniel Bryan in a singles match. Post-match, Big E Langston attacked Kane.
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Shawn Michaels came out and talked about Triple H’s retirement match against Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 29. The Heart Break Kid revealed that he will be in Triple H’s corner in six days at the MetLife Stadium. Hunter joined him and both of them started comparing the upcoming Wrestlemania match with HBK’s final match against the Undertaker a couple of years ago. Brock Lesnar came out with Paul Heyman who made a few intimidating statements about Triple H.
Shawn Michaels making his entrance on RAW
Match 3: Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett defeated Zack Ryder in a singles match. Barrett delivered the bullhammer elbow to get the pin-fall victory. It was announced that The Miz vs Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental title will take place during the Wrestlemania 29 pre-show.
Santino pulled off an April fool’s prank on Brad Maddox and Vickie Guerrero. He was reprimanded with a match against the ‘World’s Strongest Man’ Mark Henry.
Match 4: Mark Henry squashed Santino in a singles match. Then, Ryback came out and attacked Mark Henry using Santino as a weapon since they have a no-contact clause in place.
CM Punk gave a backstage interview stating that he wanted to get into the Undertaker’s head by talking about Paul Bearer’s death.
Match 5: Alberto Del Rio defeated Zeb Colter via disqualification after Colter attacked Del Rio with Ricardo Rodrigruez’s crutches. After the match, both Swagger and Colter viciously attacked Del Rio with the crutches.
The Rock responded to John Cena’s promo earlier on in the show. He talked about becoming the President in 2016. He assured that he will beat Cena at Wrestlemania.
Match 6: Chris Jericho defeated Fandango in a singles match. Fandango gave scores to Chris Jericho’s moves throughout the match. Soon after Jericho won the match, Fandango attacked him.
It was announced that Stephanie McMahon will induct Trish Stratus into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2013, later this week.
Match 7: The Bella Twins defeated The funkadactyls in a divas tag-team match. Naomi and Cameron dominated throughout the match only to lose in the end courtesy of a roll-up by one of the bellas.
The Undertaker came out to verbally eviscerate CM Punk. He was interrupted by druids walking down the ramp. Paul Heyman disguised as Paul Bearer came out. The Undertaker was angered by this and left the ring and walked towards Heyman when one of the druids who actually turned out to be CM Punk attacked him. Punk continued his assault on Taker. He opened the urn and poured the content inside it on Undertaker as Raw came to an end.