Home / Results / Monday Night Raw / July 11, 2011

1. Non-title: John Cena def. David Otunga & Michael McGillicutty, pinning McGillicutty.

2. Non-title: Kelly Kelly def. Melina.

3. Alex Riley, Kofi Kingston, & Evan Bourne def. The Miz, R-Truth, & Jack Swagger when Riley pinned Swagger.

4. Big Show vs. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre ended in a double countout.

We begin tonight with CM Punk, reinstated by Vince McMahon at the end of last week's show. Punk gives a Reader's Digest recap of what got him suspended two weeks ago, all the while armed not only with the usual mic, but also a megaphone that probably came from the Jimmy Hart collection, given that there's an air raid siren attached.

Punk is soon joined by John Cena, who wants to fight. Punk is willing to negotiate with McMahon, and will get that opportunity. Cena, meanwhile, is in our first match.......

1. Non-title: John Cena vs. David Otunga & Michael McGillicutty.

Gee, what a surprise, eh? The tag champs are forced to tag in and out, but the ref does allow a little leeway for double-teams. However, they employ that strategy a wee bit too much, and it costs them. All the while, Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler are debating the point about the title and the combatants on Sunday. Cena rallies, but Otunga breaks up the STF. Back to back splashes don't work, as McGillicutty misses, and eats the Attitude Adjustment. Cena clears out Otunga, and ends it. Winner: John Cena.

After the Mark Henry vidpack plays again, we find the dapper US champ, Dolph Ziggler engaging in some role-play with Vickie Guerrero, with Vickie pretending to be Vince. Ziggler wants Kofi Kingston cashiered right along with Cena. Drew McIntyre joins in, and the three begin mocking McMahon, speaking for a lot of his detractors when they suggest the chairman should retire. For once, I agree with Ziggler. Unfortunately, the nutty professor has just arrived, and puts McIntyre & Ziggler in a handicap match of their own-----vs. the Big Show.

Scott Sandford then asks Vince about the contract negotiations, and he tells Scott to tell the world to go to.....well, you know......

2. Non-title: Kelly Kelly vs. Melina.

Melina, a former champ, gets no entrance. Uh-oh. The Bellas are on commentary. Melina looks like there's some place she'd rather be. Misses an axe kick and does a split on the mat. Kelly with the K2, and that's it. Winner: Kelly Kelly.

The Bellas do some trash-talking after, prompting Kelly to attack. She gets laid out, and so does Eve Torres, who tries to help. Yeah, the Bellas took a page from the LayCool playbook. Like that's going to help.

The Miz makes his way out. He won the Raw Money in the Bank ladder match last year, and thinks he can do it again. Ah, but hold on. Jack Swagger won a MITB ladder match at Wrestlemania last year, and he thinks he can do it again. But, then, you have guys like Evan Bourne, R-Truth, Alex Riley, Kofi Kingston, & Alberto Del Rio (Rey Mysterio has the night off) who've never won it. Del Rio isn't dressed for battle, but everyone else is......

Preview of Big Show appearing on "Burn Notice" later this week.

3. The Miz, R-Truth, & Jack Swagger vs. Alex Riley, Kofi Kingston, & Evan Bourne.

Truth has suddenly been turned into a joke. His promo had him confusing fear of heights with arachnophobia (fear of spiders). He is also reincorporating some dancing, so a reversal back to being a babyface may be nigh before the year is out. Kingston & Riley took turns as faces in peril. Hot tag to Riley, who cleans house. Bourne cuts off Miz. Riley blocked the Swagger Bomb and put Jack away with the implant DDT. Winners: Alex Riley, Kofi Kingston, & Evan Bourne.

Post-match, Miz hit the Skull Crushing Finale on Riley. Kingston took out Miz. Truth took out Kingston. Bourne went for the shooting star, but was cut off by Del Rio, who came back out and used a ladder on everyone moving, including Swagger, who got back in only to take a ladder to the face.

Recap of the Cena-McMahon-Punk angle thus far.

4. Big Show vs. Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre (w/Vickie Guerrero).

Not much to this match, unlike the earlier handicap. It ended with Show chasing McIntyre up the ramp, unaware of the ref's count, while Ziggler waited and hid. Show prepared to give McIntyre a chokeslam off the stage, but Mark Henry broke that up. McIntyre fell to the side while Henry 8 Show plunged off the stage together and through a table. Winner(s): None. McIntyre & Show were counted out.

Vince McMahon milks his entrance as much as possible before finally walking down the ramp. Rightfully, a contract negotiation isn't conducted in public, but obviously, this is a slap at the NFL & NBA lockouts. CM Punk is out next. The contract Vince drew up wasn't satisfactory, so Punk had his lawyers draw up a new one with a bunch of perks that are so over the top, you know right away it's not going to be signed. He turns himself babyface and gets boss pops just by coaxing McMahon to apologize. Predictably, John Cena is out next, and we have a debate between champ & challenger. Punk gets the last word in, saying that Cena, more than he has, has lost sight of things. Forever portraying himself as the underdog, Cena, a 10 time champion, has become the thing he despises most in Punk's eyes, a dynasty, like his home city's sports teams. As soon as Punk says Cena's become like the Yankees, Cena punches him. Punk leaves and tears up his "contract", vowing again that he'll leave as champ on Sunday. In truth, he may have written a different kind of epitaph, but since it's McMahon we're dealing with here, well, you never know anymore......