Arena Reports 1/15 WWE results Oakland, Calif.: Tag Title change, Laurinaitis in-person, Jericho appearance, Punk vs. Ziggler
Jan 15, 2012 - 11:40:05 PM
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WWE Raw house show report
January 15, 2012
Oakland, Calif.
Report by Erick Lainez, PWTorch reader
Up first was The Miz trash-talking the Bay Area and the 49ers, saying they'll lose in the Super Bowl. James Durbin from American Idol was in the house and Miz sang and was booed. He began trash-talking about R-Truth, who came out from the crowd into the ring and took Miz out. As he was about to keep beating him down, out came "Mr. Excitement" John Laurinaitis, who kicked R-Truth out of the ring because he was interrupting his show. John was booed so loudly, and he decided to "give the WWE Universe what they wanted" and made R-Truth vs. Miz right now.
(1) R-Truth beat The Miz in a good bout.
(2) "Ryback" Skip Sheffield beat Alex Riley in an okay bout. A lot of people didn't know who Skip was and weren't really into the match.
(3) "Funkasauras" Brodus Clay beat Tyler Reks. Clay had a nice crowd reaction, but the match was not all that great.
(4) Primo & Epico (w/Rosa Mendes) beat WWE tag champions Air Boom (Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston) to retain the Tag Titles. It was a clean, fast-moving match and led to a big celebration from the new tag champs after a good win.
The Raw ring announcer announced matches for the Road to WrestleMania Smackdown house show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco next month: Sheamus vs. Christian in a Special Challenge match, Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett in a steel cage match, and Daniel Bryan vs. Big Show vs. Mark Henry in a triple match for the World Title.
Chris Jericho came out to a big crowd reaction. As he was about to do a promo, Jack Swagger interrupted. Swagger hit him with the mic, but was then trapped in the the Walls of Jericho.
[Intermission]
(5) Divas champion Beth Phoenix beat Eve Torres to retain the Divas Title. Eve had the match won, but the Bella Twins cost Eve the match.
(6) John Cena beat Kane via DQ. Kane hit Cena with a chair, then chokeslammed him. Kane returned to the ring after they announced Cena won the match by DQ, only to take the Attitude Adjustment
(7) WWE champion C.M. Punk beat Dolph Ziggler to retain the WWE Title.
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