WWE Raw brand house show report
March 20, 2009
Rolla, Missouri
Report by Mike Rawlings, PWTorch.com reader

A near capacity crowd at Rolla tonight. The line was so long there were still people trying to get in when the first match started. To start the evening it was announced that Rey Mysterio would not be appearing. John Cena and Randy Orton were also not on the card.

(1) Beth Phoenix beat Mickie James. Santino and Beth stayed in the ring to work the crowd about how dominating they were.

(2) Stone Cold Charlie Haas beat Santino. Santino challenged anyone in the back to a match and Charlie Haas came out as Stone Cold and defeated Santino.

(3) Kane beat Kofi Kingston.

(4) Mark Henry beat Finlay in a Belfast Brawl. Hornswoggle received one of, if not the, biggest pop from the crowd. Gotta love the little fellow.

(5) WWE tag team champions Carlito & Primo Colon & Brie Bella beat World tag team champions The Miz & John Morrison & Nikki Bella.

(6) ECW champion Jack Swagger beat Christian to retain the ECW Title.

Ricky Steamboat then came out and addressed the crowd about the Hall of Fame and promoted WrestleMania. When he was nearly finished, Chris Jericho came out to belittle Ricky and the crowd went nuts. As Jericho was in Ricky's face, C.M. Punk came out and their match begin and Steamboat left the ring.

(7) C.M. Punk beat Chris Jericho. During the match, Jericho left the ring to get a chair. On his way back in, Ricky Steamboat appeared and grabbed the chair from Chris from the floor. Chris kicked the chair into Ricky's head, then jumped to the floor and threw Ricky into the steel stairs. Dragon laid there until the end of the match. Punk then defeated Jericho and left the ring to check on Steamboat to get him to the back.

(8) World Hvt. champion Edge beat Big Show. They came out and played to the crowd for ten minutes or so about WrestleMania and Vickie Guerrero. Edge pinned the Big Show to win the match and end the show.

In my opinion it was a great card for a town show the size of Rolla.

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