WWE Raw 4/25/11 (Draft and Recap)

20 Man Battle Royal For 1 Draft Pick

Smackdown vs Raw

Smackdown Superstars in the blue shirts and Raw in the red. Kane gets eliminated first by Sheamus, Bourne and Kozlov. Khali and big show going at it. 4 Smackdown members eliminate The Great Khali. Kozlov gets eliminated by Masters and Rhodes. Mark Henry eliminates Ezekiel Jackson. Out goes Heath Slater. Chris Masters gets eliminated. Out goes Wade Barrett. 4 Smackdown superstars in a row. Ted DiBiase eliminated by Kofi. Mark Henry takes himself over the top rope with Brodus Clay. Big Show puts Yoshi Tatsu out. Sheamus almost gone, but hangs on. McIntyre hits him with a knee and Sheamus is out, as we go to the first commercial break.

We are back with 4v4 in the battle royal. Evan Bourne takes out McIntyre. Santino tries to give Big Show the Cobra and gets the Cobra reversed on him. Santino is out. Cody Rhodes is out by Mason Ryan. Out goes Bryan from Kofi. Down to 2 on 2. Big Show, and Kofi against Evan Bourne and Mason Ryan. Evan Bourne almost gone but hung on in great fashion. Big Show puts out Bourne, down to 2 on 1. Big Show puts out Ryan and Smackdown pick up the first draft pick of the 2011 WWE Draft.

Winners: Big Show & Kofi (Smackdown)

-Smackdown Drafts John Cena

-John Cena comes out as we go to a break.

We are back with Todd Grisham holding an interview with the new Smackdown Superstar John Cena. He talks about how it's the biggest move in the WWE Draft, and then talks about Extreme Rules. The Miz shows up and says that Cena's right, after Sunday He can't see him.

Back at commentary, Michael Cole talks about his match tonight with Jim Ross. Josh and the King talk about R-Truth's actions and they show the video, which was good.

Justin Roberts announces Truth's name. He comes out without music and tells the crowd to shut up, saying they should be booing themselves. He talks about last week with Morrison. Truth gets mad at the crowd for shouting 'WHAT', still classic. He says they're all pissing him off and takes heat. WWE is trying to bleep out the words 'pissed off' and failed twice. He impersonates a little kid and tells the crowd to shut up again. This really is a better R-Truth than we've ever seen. He cuts a promo on an invisible little kid named 'Jimmy'. He says he's giving the the crowd the boot, peace out. He tells someone to 'sit down 4 eyes'. He says for the first time in his life the Truth has set him free. Morrison comes out behind and attacks Truth taking him down and out come the refs to break it up. Morrison breaks free and attacks Truth once more. The Refs pull him off again but Morrison keeps fighting back.

We go to a video about The Rock's birthday next week Live on Raw.

-Commercial

We are back with a promo video of Awesome Kong. It shows her face, and the word 'HARM' and then 'KHARMA' which will be her ring name.

Eve Torres vs Layla (Winner gets a Draft Pick)

McCool came out behind Layla. We go to a video of those two last friday. Eve Torres and Layla lock up, and Michael Cole comes on the mic. During this Eve Torres picks up the victory and picking up a draft pick while Michael Cole is still talking saying he's a real athlete. He goes up the ramp talking about how he's going to take out JR later tonight. He says Mr. WrestleMania has left ringside.

Winner: Eve Torres

Outside Layla and Michelle McCool fight. Layla takes McCool's head and hits it twice off the barriers on the outside and then into the ring. McCool then goes flying over the announce table and lands into Jerry Lawler.

I hate that they disrupt the Divas matches every time now, no respect for them.

-Raw Drafts Rey Mysterio

Backstage JR warming up and getting ready to face Michael cole as we take a commercial break. Would prefer to see JR announcing only, but that's WWE.

We come back Josh Mathews talking about you can do your own Draft on WWE.com. Backstage with Cody Rhodes and Todd Grisham. He says he's going to give Mysterio a going away present after Extreme Rules and that it will be a new mask.

Kofi Kingston vs Sheamus (Winner gets a Draft Pick)

They tie up and Sheamus quickly gets the upper hand taking down Kofi with knees. Sheamus gives a flying shoulder block from the outside, good move. He gives a clothesline and taunts. Kofi moves out of the way and Sheamus goes shoulder first into the ring post. Kofi up top, hits the cross body and gets a 2 count. He jumps to the top rope and gives the punches to Sheamus but Sheamus explodes out of the corner with a clothesline, looking to go for the High Cross but Kofi counters. Sheamus try's for the Brouge Kick but Kofi counters again and hits two Trouble in Paradise's to pick up the victory and the third draft pick of the night.

Winner: Kofi Kingston

-Smackdown Drafts Randy Orton

Commercial Break.

Jim Ross vs Michael Cole

Cole came out to Swagger's music with Swagger. Booker T has joined the announce team with Mathews and The King is in JRs Corner. We go to a video of showing Michael Cole being Knighted by 'The Queen' last week on RAW. Out comes JR in his Sooners jersey. The King joins JR's corner. The match starts with Cole and Swagger mocking JR's weight. Cole goes to the outside and grabs JRs hat. He puts it on and acts like he's JR. Cole takes the hat off and stomps on it. Still no fighting has happened and Swagger tells Cole to do some push ups which he does. JR gets hold of Cole and throws him down to the ground. Cole asks for a timeout and Swagger brings in the stool, quite funny. Swagger gives Cole some water. Cole trys to slam JR But JR falls on top of him and gives him some punches on the ground. Cole tries to run away but Lawler pushes him back in and gets hit from behind with Swagger. Swagger into the ring and takes out JR. He puts the ankle lock on JR with Cole bleeding quite badly from the mouth. Cole orders Swagger to take JR's belt off and he gives it to Cole. Back into the ankle lock, and Cole whips him with the belt. In comes Lawler with the safe taking out Cole and throwing Swagger over the top rope. He takes JRs belt and whips Cole with it. Cole gets out the ring and runs off up the ramp as we hear from The Anonymous Raw GM. He says JR and Lawler vs Sir Michael Cole and Jack Swagger will now be a Tag Team Country Whipping Match. I've never heard of that but it doesn't sound that good.

Winner: Jim Ross by DQ

Backstage we're with Scott Stanford, Alex Riley and The Miz. Riley turns the 'W' sign upside down on the mic for the 'M'. The Miz says the big story is next week when everyone comes out to celebrate The Rock's birthday. He says nobody should be talking about The Rock's birthday as despite the fact he'll be in a triple threat steel cage. He says Cena and Morrison will be losers. He says we should hope he doesn't get drafted to Smackdown as Raw will be canceled within a month. He says he's awesome, which he is.

-Commercial

Randy Orton vs Dolph Ziggler (Winner gets 2 Draft Picks)

They tie up and Orton with a big slam. Firemans carry from Ziggler and a two count. He puts Orton in a choke hold. He fights out and out goes Ziggler to the outside with Vickie over to him. Thumb to the eye from Ziggler and a great standing dropkick which sends Orton over the barrier. The count is up to 6 and Orton slides in with the Lou Thesz press. Clothesline to Ziggler, an Angle Slam and gets the two count. Orton with the back-breaker to Ziggler and drops down ready for The RKO. They remind us that this is worth two picks. Ziggler almost stole the victory but Orton out of nowhere with the RKO and picks up two picks for Smackdown.

Winner: Randy Orton

Out comes CM Punk interupting the draft. He says it's ironic that the PPV is called Extreme Rules as they're going to get Extreme on each other. He says he's going to beat Orton with everything. He says an RKO out of nowhere won't get him anything and he's going to send him to Smackdown hurt. Orton on the mic now and he says there's going to be many things he's going to miss on Raw but won't miss Punk having to ramble on and on. He says Punk will be sleeping unconcious after Sunday. He says he'll be The Last Man Standing and his music hits.

Back from the break and we go to the draft picks.

-Smackdown Drafts Mark Henry

-Smackdown Drafts Sin Cara

Wade Barrett vs Rey Mysterio (Winner gets 2 Draft Picks)

Wade starts aggressively gaining the upper hand. Rey comes back with some kicks of his own but a counter from Barrett and gets a two count. Barrett beats down on Rey. Rey back with a springboard crossbody and gets a two count. Barrett catches Rey and puts him into the corner. He puts Rey on the top rope. Rey off the rope with a hurricanrana into the 619 and then up top for the frog splash and picks up the victory to earn Raw the two draft picks.

Winner: Rey Mysterio

-Raw Drafts Big Show

-Raw Drafts Alberto Del Rio

-Commercial

Back at ringside. Michael Cole is back. We now have 4 announcers here. They preview Extreme Rules matches.

Out comes the GM of Smackdown Teddy Long. He says the Main Event tonight will be a 6 man tag team match. He says it'll be for the final draft pick. Team Raw will be CM Punk, Del Rio and The Miz against John Cena, Christian and Mark Henry.

-Commercial

Back with the announcers showing us that the Draft will continue on WWE.com tomorrow at noon. The Superstars come out for the Main Event.

-Commercial again.

The Miz, CM Punk & Alberto Del Rio vs John Cena, Christian & Mark Henry

(Winner gets a Draft Pick)

Cena and Miz start the match. Cena with a suplex to The Miz as The Miz tags in CM Punk. Cena tagging in Mark Henry. He gives him a huge clothesline and tags in Christian. Christian to the second rope and hits a flying elbow. He gets the upper hand but gets sidetracked by Del Rio and a kick to the face from Punk. Del Rio in and gets a two count on Christian. Del Rio tagging in The Miz. Kick to the face from The Miz and a two count. Christian fights back but The Miz quickly gains the upper hand again and tags in CM Punk. He beats down on Christian for another two count. Punk tags The Miz back in as they do the classic heel tag team situation. The Miz taunts Cena and lets Christian fight back but The Miz coming back with his modified clothesline in the corner and gets a two count. Del Rio in now and gives an arm breaker and another two. Christian now up the top rope but he fights with Del Rio and sends him to the mat. Christian hits a DDT from the second rope on Del Rio. Both men trying to come to it and get the tag. The Miz in first and Cena in also. Shoulder blocks from Cena, backdrop. But in comes Mark Henry and he lays out John Cena for some reason. He then goes to the outside and lays out Christian also. The Miz and Cena in the middle of the ring now. Skull Crushing Finale. It's over. Raw picks up the last pick of tonights WWE Draft.

Winners: The Miz, CM Punk & Alberto Del Rio (Team Raw)

-Raw Drafts John Cena.

It was always going to happen.

Cena in and taking out the whole Raw Team. He gives The Miz the 5 Knuckle Shuffle and throws him over the top rope onto the Raw Team. Cena then grabs a Raw shirt and puts it on. Cena celebrates as we go off air.

Overall not the best Raw, but it wasn't about the quality of the matches.