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The WWE show started with a dark arena and ring announcer Lilian Garcia announced WWE champion Randy Orton. Orton was center ring in the dark arena greeted by boos. He played up the crowd reaction while Jerry Lawler referenced Bizzaroworld since they’re in Canada. Ironically, Bizarroworld started at Summerslam 2004 when Orton won his first World Title against Chris Benoit at Summerslam in Toronto. It was also the show where JBL-Undertaker in the semi-main event was greeted by The Wave.
Randy Orton began his promo saying people have been talking behind his back about facing John Cena at Summerslam. He said people think he’s scared; that he bought off Jeremy Piven to do his dirty work last week. Orton said it’s a rumor, but fact is that he will beat John Cena at Summerslam. Cena’s music interrupted and Cena came right up to Orton with a scowl on his face. Cena said people talk about truth and rumors and gray areas, but when Orton talks about it, it makes…him…angry. Cena said Orton knows what it’s like to have a problem that keeps bothering you and bothering you and bothering you until you’re ready to snap! Cena screamed at Orton that he’s tired of watching Orton walk around acting like this business owes him something and like he thinks he can bully people around.
Cena told Bully Orton to bully him. He said so what if they have a match in two weeks.Cena said Orton is staring at a problem ready to rip him in half. “So, are you going to talk about it…or are you going to do something about it?” Cena shouted. Cena and Orton then went forehead to forehead before Orton slowly walked away. Before he could walk out of the ring, the Big Jericho theme music hit and out walked the Unified tag champs in business suits ready for a corporate board meeting. Cena and Orton were dressed to wrestle by contrast.
Show said it’s funny watching them try to intimidate each other when they don’t know the first thing about intimidation. He said he breaths…crowd interrupted with “Y2J” chant for Jericho, who no-sold to keep his heel persona going. Show finished that he breathes and people are intimidated. Cena said that’s because his breath smells like Shaq’s jockstrap. There’s your Shaq namedrop to keep him in the picture.
Jericho then picked up the promo and the crowd came alive with a chant for Jericho. Jericho referenced Canada as the place he grew up, the place he trained, the place he … Cena interrupted and said the place he chose to migrate from to the U.S. Crowd booed, Jericho sneered, and told Cena not to change the subject. Jericho said he already talked to Sgt. Slaughter and got what he wanted: a match one-on-one with Cena. Crowd cheered. Jericho walked up to Cena and said he’ll beat him one-on-one tonight in his country. Orton then vowed to pick up the scraps and Punt Cena in the skull. Big Show interrupted and told Orton not so fast. See, Show wanted people to forget about Shaq last week, so he destroyed Kofi Kingston. Tonight, he got what he wanted from Sarge: a match tonight against Orton. Show vs. Orton tonight.
They showed WWE champion Randy Orton walking down the hallway before the commercial, then he came to the ring for the first of two main events.
Randy Orton vs. Big Show
The match started with Big Show slowly walking toward Orton to intimidate him. This was a follow-up from last night’s house show in Colorado Springs where Orton worked babyface against Show, who worked heel in the house show main event. Crowd was behind Orton, who absorbed punishment early on before landing the horizontal DDT across the middle rope. Orton wanted the RKO, but Show flung him away. Show teased the chokeslam, then grabbed Orton and delivered a chokeslam. Orton was KO’ed, but Orton managed to get a foot on the bottom rope to escape a pin. Show then blasted Orton with stomps and kicks out of frustration. Show readied the Big Right Hand, but Orton ducked and slithered out of the ring. Orton stood on the outside as the ref applied a ten count. Ref reached eight and Orton teased re-entering, but he opted to walk away. Show with the count-out victory. Show wasn’t too pleased with Orton bailing.
Winner: Big Show via count-out at 6:05.
Randy Orton then snuck into the ring and the bell sounded for the match to be thrown out. Crowd went from being red hot to dead silent as Cena and Orton just kind of stared at each other.
Post-match, Jericho gave Cena the codebreaker from behind. Orton then dumped Jericho to the outside leading to Big Show sneaking in the back door to chokeslam Orton. On cue, Slaughter came out on stage and said the maggots gave him a good idea. As his final act of duty, he’s going to make a tag match for next week: Big Show & Jericho vs. Cena & Orton. Crowd apathetic to a match for next week. Orton and Cena then snuck up behind Show and clotheslined him to the floor. Cena wanted the FU on Jericho, but Orton snuck up behind Cena and delivered the RKO on Jericho while Jericho was in FU position. Credit to Sean Radican for a text on this one: the FUKO. Jericho’s neck was snapped back on the landing. Ouch. Orton and Cena then circled around Jericho’s fallen body staring at each other with questioning eyes since they’re opponents at Summerslam, but worked together at the end of Raw tonight.
