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Revision as of 02:27, 19 February 2013
The February 18, 2013 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE's RAW brand, which took place on February 18, 2013 at CajunDome in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Summary
We’ll say this much for CM Punk: He does not go down without a fight. Like the proverbial bad penny, The Straight Edge Superstar just keeps coming back when the WWE Universe thinks him gone for good. This week, his machinations have ostensibly inserted him back into the WWE Title picture he was removed from just 24 hours earlier when The Brahma Bull retained his championship at Elimination Chamber. Punk’s latest scheme, however, was not targeted at The People’s Champion but instead at his old foil, John Cena.
Cena, who declared his intention to challenge for the WWE Title at WrestleMania 29 several weeks prior, had barely begun to address the Cajundome crowd when Punk cut the Cenation leader off and attempted to provoke the proverbial bear, recalling Cena’s defeat at Rock’s hands at WrestleMania XXVIII and his numerous losses to Punk himself.
“The Rock beat me fair and square last night … and he beat you fair and square last year at WrestleMania,” said Punk. “But when we’re talking about wins and losses,youhave never beatme …you have something that doesn’t belong to you.”
Cena, however, would not be quite so easily goaded. However, he did concede two points: He had never beaten Punk, and he had never beaten The Rock. And he had just the solution in mind to silence The Straight Edge Superstar as well as his critics:
“A match,” Cena said. “The big one. John Cena vs. CM Punk. If I win, you shut your mouth, crawl back in the hole you came from and go away.”
“If you win, then you’re right. I don’t deserve to be in the main event of WrestleMania. If you beat me, you deserve it. My word, if you beat me in a match right here, right now and I will give you my WrestleMania title shot.”
Never one to accept such a challenge on anyone’s terms but his own, The Straight Edge Superstar accepted the challenge, with the caveat that it would happen next week.
“You just made the stupidest decision of your life,” Punk said after Cena had laid down the challenge. In one week’s time, the WWE Universe will know whether or not the onetime “Voice of the Voiceless” spoke the truth.
Now that the Elimination Chamber has passed, it would appear that Sin Cara and Mark Henry have unfinished business that needs attending to. The Mexican Icon was on the receiving end of former World Heavyweight Champion’s homecoming onslaught a couple of weeks ago on Raw, and with no Superstars willing to claim The World’s Strongest Man as an opponent, Sin Cara happily volunteered. For all his acrobatic efficiency, though, The International Sensation proved about as effective a roadblock for Henry as a housefly to an 18-wheeler, and found himself demolished by a World’s Strongest Slam in relatively quick order.
Despite the victory, though, Henry seemed poised to continue his mangling of the lucha hero, and hauled Sin Cara up for a second World's Strongest Slam after the pinfall had been counted. But before Henry could pulverize The International Sensation a second time, The Great Khali stomped his way down the ramp. With Henry in his sights, The Punjabi Giant made to throw down against Henry in the ring, but The World’s Strongest man mockingly abdicated, mimicking Khali’s signature dance as he backed away from the ring.
Unfortunately for The Miz, the former WWE Champion’s rematch against U.S. Champion Antonio Cesaro did not include a stipulation that put The Swiss Superman’s beloved title up for grabs. It did, however, feature a nice, fat trade-off for the bitter rivals: a No Disqualification clause.
Given that Miz was disqualified for a potentially exaggerated, likely fabricated and entirely accidental knee to Cesaro’s groin at Elimination Chamber, the gist of the new stipulation? Well, not to put too fine a point on it but kick ‘em anywhere you want, Miz.
And that he did, although he absorbed a fairly shocking amount of punishment from Cesaro before he got there. The Swiss Superman administered numerous chair strikes as well as a Singapore caning to The Awesome One’s gimpy shoulder before Miz got his feet back under him and returned the favor. Miz seemed all but done when he hurled Cesaro into two steel chairs, pouncing on the prone champion with the Figure-Four Leglock to get his long-awaited, hard-earned win over The United States Champion. Ain’t that a kick in the – well, you know.
Results
- Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- Mark Henry defeated Sin Cara
- The Miz defeated Antonio Cesaro in a no disqualification match
- Alberto Del Rio (w/ Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated Dolph Ziggler (w/ Big E. Langston & AJ Lee)
- Brodus Clay & Tensai & Naomi (w/ Cameron) defeated Epico, Primo & Rosa Mendes
- Sheamus, Chris Jericho & Ryback vs. The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose)
- Dark match: John Cena & Ryback vs. CM Punk & Dolph Ziggler
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Cena challenged Punk
Mark Henry v Sin Cara
The Miz v Antonio Cesaro
Alberto Del Rio v Dolph Zigger
Also see
External links
[ Raw #1030 results]
