RAW & Slammy Awards LIVE Coverage - December 21, 2015
WWE RAW Results (December 21, 2015)
From the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stephanie McMahon & Roman Reigns Kick Off RAW
The 2015 Slammy Awards edition of WWE RAW opens with a lengthy video package recapping Mr. McMahon’s return and Roman Reigns’ WWE World Heavyweight Championship victory over Sheamus from last week’s show.
From there, we shoot live inside the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota where a professional announcer off-camera welcomes us to the 2015 Slammy Awards. Stephanie McMahon’s music then hits as Lilian Garcia introduces her and she makes her way to the ring. Michael Cole, JBL and Byron Saxton then appear on camera and reference last week’s main event as Stephanie finishes her entrance.
Stephanie welcomes fans to Raw and the Slammy Awards. She addressed Reigns winning the title and taking out her 70 year-old father last week. She said that unlike the fans, McMahons do not wallow in their own self pity. She said this is a night of celebration.
Roman Reigns’ entrance music played and he made his entrance through the crowd and let some fans touch the title belt before bumping fists as he headed to the ring.
Reigns said it seems like a good night and that Stephanie, he, and the fans were in a good mood. He said they were celebrating the Slammy Awards and a new WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Reigns told Stephanie that he doesn’t sweat her or her father, “and I damn sure don’t swear your husband Triple H.” Reigns asked why he would given that he hasn’t seen him since he laid him out at TLC.
Reigns told Stephanie to tell her husband that he’s not hard to find and he’s the guy carrying the gold. “Get out,” Stephanie responded. Stephanie told Reigns to march his way back up the stairs where he came from. Reigns laughed. Stephanie raised her voice when the fans chanted “no” and he told her they don’t want him to leave. “This is my ring,” she yelled. “Get out!”
Reigns told Stephanie that she sounds like a little kid. Stephanie told him to leave before she makes him leave. Stephanie’s tantrum continued. Reigns asked the fans if they want to see her get really bad. Reigns turned his back and she said, “How dare you turn your back to me.” Reigns smiled as he left the ring and played to the fans. Reigns walked back up the steps and bumped fists with the fans.
Stephanie announced New Day vs. The Uso Brothers in a handicap match to get revenge on Reigns. When that didn’t get a response, she booked Dean Ambrose in a cage match against Sheamus. Reigns laughed and held up the title belt. Stephanie there would be hell to pay because of Reigns.
Slammy Awards
The broadcast team set up the announcement of the first Slammy Award… Dolph Ziggler came out to present the award for Breakout Star of the Year. Ziggler said there’s no blueprint for breaking out, you just have to make an impact. Ziggler ran through the nominees and they went to break.
After the break, Ziggler announced that Neville won the Breakout Star of the Year.
Neville came out and gave a brief speech before he was interrupted by Kevin Owens, who said he should have won. He received some cheers that were drown out by boos. Neville told him “whatever, Kevin” and then left. Really? Owens said he’s seen a lot of ridiculous things happen in WWE, but this one takes the cake.
Owens boasted that he beat John Cena in his first match. Owens turned to Ziggler and asked him what was so funny. He told him the only way Ziggler would win a Slammy is if they have a Has-Been of the Year category. Ziggler attacked Owens, but they were quickly separated by referees.
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Bray Wyatt vs. Kane
The Wyatts were in the ring coming out of the last segment and then Kane made his entrance for the match. It didn’t last long, as the rest of the Wyatt Family attacked Kane at ringside for the DQ. The Dudley Boyz and Tommy Dreamer ran out for the save and there was an ECW chant.
Winner via DQ: Kane
Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper, and Erick Rowan vs. Kane, The Dudley Boys, and Tommy Dreamer
The match was joined in progress after a commercial break. Cole’s big joke is that Strowman reminds him of Chewbacca from the new Star Wars movie. He’s hip. He’s cool. He’s with it. In the end, Harper caught D-Von with a discus clothesline and pinned him…
Winners: The Wyatt Family
Slammy Awards
Santino Marella was introduced. He set up the video package for the LOL Moment of the Year nominees. Voting is open now.
R-Truth won the LOL Moment of the Year award. Santino said he was accepting on behalf of Truth because he’s never won one before. R-Truth came out Santino tricked him earlier and ran off.
Announce Team Checks In With Match Announcements
The broadcast team announced Dolph Ziggler vs. Kevin Owens, and hyped Ambrose vs. Sheamus in a cage match… Mick Foley played Santa Claus and his daughters played elves in a pre-taped skit.
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Slammy Awards
Paul Heyman came out to present the OMG Moment of the Year award. He said that with the exception of the LOL and Diva of the Year award should be awarded to Brock Lesnar. Brock’s hometown fans cheered. Heyman set up the nominees video for OMG Shocking Moment of the Year. Commercial time.
The screen went black and then it came back on during a Tribute to the Troops video package… Back to Heyman, who announced that Kalisto won the OMG Shocking Moment of the Year for the big spot at TLC. Kalisto said moments like these motivate him to keep fighting and to fly higher. He capped it off by leading some in the crowd in a “lucha” chant.
Kevin Owens vs. Dolph Ziggler
Owens had the first prolonged run of offense. Cole hyped Smackdown live on USA for tomorrow night.
Ziggler came back with a DDT heading into the break. [C] Owens back in control and got a near fall. He went for his finisher, but Ziggler went over the top of him, landed on his feet, and superkicked him to the floor. The announcers said Owens was lucky he ended up at ringside.
Back in the ring, Ziggler hit the Fameasser and got a good two count that the crowd counted along with. Ziggler ended up running into a Pop-Up Powerbomb, and Owens pinned him clean.
Winner: Kevin Owens
Slammy Awards
Stephanie McMahon was introduced and came out to no reaction for her second appearance of the night. She apologized for losing her temper earlier and then the boos started. Stephanie listed the nominees for the Superstar of the Year award and noted that ever wrestler on the roster was eligible for the first time ever. She set up a video package with “the nominees.” It was a video that featured a bunch of wrestlers and spotlighted Reigns, Sheamus, John Cena, Bray Wyatt, New Day, Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Kane, Sting, etc. Cole said the winner of Superstar of the Year would be announced after the break.
12-22-2015, 03:59 AM
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Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger
Del Rio was in control heading into the early break.
We return from the break to see Rusev, Sheamus, and King Barrett were at ringside. Swagger took control and led the crowd in a We The People chant and followed up with a Swagger Bomb.
JBL talked about how Minneapolis is AWA country and fans there remember the Vader Bomb. Swagger got tied up in the ropes and then Del Rio performed his finisher for the win. Cole said that’s what John Cena has to look forward to next week. After the match, Sheamus performed a Brogue Kick on Swagger.
Winner: Alberto Del Rio
Slammy Awards
Mark Henry came out to present an award while Cole gushed over him and said he is a hero to so many. The nominees for The Hero In All Of Us award were Natalya, Roman Reigns, Big Show, Titus O’Neil, John Cena. They read through the charities they work with. Cole said it was time to vote.
A Did You Know graphic boasted about the work WWE does with the military… Henry announced The Hero In All Of Us award winner is John Cena. The crowd roared. Henry announced that Henry is not at the show. The crowd booed. Henry said he spoke with some of the guys before the show and they don’t expect an award for what they do. He accepted the award on behalf of Cena.
The broadcast team ran through some of the awards that were issued on the Raw Pre-Show.
Bo Dallas, Not Mick Foley, Comes Out As Santa Claus
Santa Claus was introduced to present a Slammy Award. A non-Foley version of Santa came out to no reaction. It turned out that it was Bo Dallas, who said he’s the real Santa Claus unlike that fat, smelly old man at the mall. “Santa Claus is real, all you have to do is Bo-Lieve!
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The nominees for the “Surprise Return of the Year” award were the Dudley Boyz, Chris Jericho, Alberto Del Rio, Kane, and Sting.
Sting won the Surprise Return of the Year award. Sting wasn’t there either and Bo accepted. The crowd cheered a bit when he won and there were groans and boos when he wasn’t there to accept…
New Day stood in the ring and said Sting didn’t care enough to show up, but they were there. They shamed the fans for not voting for them for any awards. Big E teased spoiling Star Wars, but Kofi Kingston hadn’t seen it yet…
Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods vs. The Uso Brothers in a handicap match
New Day bailed to ringside early on and they cut to commercial.
The Uso Brothers remained in offensive control and worked over Woods coming out of the break. New Day came back and Woods played the trombone as they roughed up one of the brothers.
Cole hyped the live broadcast of Smackdown for tomorrow night. Jimmy eventually made the hot tag to Jey Uso, had an offensive flury on Woods. Big E ran in, but Uso took him out with a kick and then threw Woods into the air and performed a Samoan Drop and went for a pin that Kingston broke up. A short time later, Woods rolled up one of the Uso Brothers, who rolled through and got the pin…
Winners: The Uso Brothers
Cole hyped New Day vs. The Lucha Dragons for the WWE Tag Team Championship for Tuesday’s live Smackdown… The broadcast team instructed viewers how to vote for the remaining awards…
Slammy Awards
R-Truth came out with his award. He apologized for having to chase Santino Marella. He said he won LOL Moment and the award belongs to him. He said 2015 has been the year of the Diva (let’s hope 2016 is the year of the women’s division). He said they have style and grace and some of them could probably beat him. The nominees for Diva of the Year were Nikki Bella, Naomi, Paige, Sasha Banks, and Charlotte…
An ad with Big Show and the Bella Twins touted WWE Week on USA Network and then Cole did the same… R-Truth won the Diva of the Year award. Paige was all smiles. She hugged Truth and then pushed him aside. It was time for the Steve Harvey gag, as Truth returned and said he made a mistake. Paige threw a fit. Truth announced Nikki Bella as the Diva of the Year.
Nikki Bella won Diva of the Year award.
Nikki came out wearing a see through dress and hugged Paige. Nikki asked Paige to stay with her. She spoke about being the longest running champion and the success of Total Divas, then dedicated the award to the other female wrestlers, the women in the office, etc. Nikki and Paige left together.
12-22-2015, 04:50 AM
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Rusev (w/Sheamus, King Barrett, Alberto Del Rio) vs. Neville
The Miz sat in on commentary. Rusev dominated Neville at ringside heading into the break.
Neville put Rusev down and went up top. He was on the top rope for a bit and by the time he jumped Rusev was already on his feet and caught him with a kick. Rusev applied the Accolade for the win. Afterward, Sheamus dished out another Brogue Kick…
Winner: Rusev
Slammy Awards
The Miz was introduced as the presenter for the This Is Awesome Moment of the Year. The crowd responded with silence. He said his goal was to do the Oscars better than the Oscars. He ran through his movies and said he’s not even nominated for his own award. “But so be it,” he said. The nominees were Brock Lesnar destroying a car, Randy Orton hitting an RKO out of nowhere, The Divas Revolution, The Shield performing the Triple Powerbomb on Randy Orton, and The Rock and Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania..
The Rock and Ronda Rousey won the This Is Awesome Moment of the Year award. In a shocking twist, Miz accepted the award on their behalf. Miz said that if Rock was there, he would tell everyone that Santa’s Little Helper is bigger than Star Wars and every movie out there…
Becky Lynch (w/Charlotte) vs. Brie Bella
Lynch applied the Disarmer for the win.
Cole noted that she did it on her own. Saxton said that’s something to feel good about. JBL said going to the pay window is something to feel good about and winning is winning.
Winner: Becky Lynch
Slammy Awards
Ric Flair was the presenter for the Match of the Year award. The nominees were John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins at the Royal Rumble, Sting vs. Triple H at WrestleMania(?!?), John Cena vs. Kevin Owens at Elimination Chamber, Roman reigns vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kevin Owens vs. Alberto Del Rio in a four-way on Raw, and Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match.
Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar won the Match of the Year award. Lesnar’s music played and the crowd erupted. Fools! Paul Heyman came out instead to accept the award on behalf of his client. The fans booed. There was a “We Want Lesnar” chant.
Heyman said if they want him to shoot from the hip, he’d give them this. “Brock Lesnar has no desire to accept awards,” Heyman said. “Brock Lesnar wants to come for a fight. Now you want Brock Lesnar, but no one in that locker room is man enough to want Brock Lesnar.”
Heyman said Undertaker stood and picked a fight with The Beast. He congratulated Taker for taking that beating inside Hell in a Cell. Heyman ran through Lesnar’s accomplishments and worked in a University of Minnesota reference to get some easy cheers…
The cage lowered for the main event as Cole hyped Sheamus vs. Dean Ambrose. They cut backstage to where League of Nations were beating up The Uso Brothers. Del Rio put one of them in the Cross Arm Breaker while Rusev put the other in the Accolade. Sheamus delivered Brogue Kicks to both Uso Brothers…
Cole hyped Big Show for ESPNews SportsCenter on Tuesday… League of Nations made their entrance to very little reaction.
12-22-2015, 05:03 AM
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An ad hyped John Cena returning to face Alberto Del Rio (in an apparent non-title match) on next week’s Raw… Dean Ambrose made his entrance for the main event and received a strong reaction. Cole announced Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kevin Owens in a Triple Threat for the Intercontinental Title for Tuesday’s live Smackdown television show.
Dean Ambrose vs. Sheamus (w/Alberto Del Rio, Rusev, King Barrett) in a non-title cage match
As Ambrose was entering the cage, Sheamus kicked him to ringside with a Brogue Kick. The rest of League of Nations attacked Ambrose, then rolled him inside the ring to start the match.
[Overrun] Sheamus ran Ambrose into the cage and dominated the early portion of the match thanks to the outside interference. Cole said there were 1.34 million votes cast for the Slammy Awards. There was a loud “This is Boring” chant. Amen, Minnesota.
Stephanie McMahon was shown watching the match on a backstage monitor. Sheamus performed White Noise from the top rope at 4:40 and went for a cover, but Ambrose kicked out. An impressive spot that the live crowd reacted to.
Ambrose ended up knocking Sheamus off the ropes a short time later and was at the top of the cage. Rusev and Del Rio climbed the cage by him, so he decided to perform his flying elbow off the top of the cage and onto a standing Sheamus in the ring. Ambrose tried to leave through the cage, but Del Rio slammed the door on his head.
Roman Reigns ran out and attacked the extra League of Nations members at ringside with a chair. Barrett ducked a chair swing and headed away from ringside, so he’s probably not able to do anything physically at this point.
Sheamus tried to escape the cage, but Reigns climbed the cage and glared at him through it. Reigns tossed the chair inside the cage. Ambrose got it and worked over Sheamus with it. Ambrose performed Dirty Deeds on the chair. Ambrose climbed the cage and made it to the top, but Sheamus climbed up and stopped him.
Both men sat atop the cage and traded punches. They both started to climb the outside of the cage. Sheamus threw punches and both guys hung on for no good reason. Sheamus headbutted Ambrose, who fell from the cage and landed on the floor to win the match. Once Sheamus dropped down, Reigns speared him…
Winner: Dean Ambrose
Backstage, Tom Phillips asked Stephanie McMahon for her reaction to the match. She slapped him repeatedly and left him lying on the ground in front of the monitor. Reigns and Ambrose celebrated in the aisle as Cole hyped the live Smackdown for tomorrow night.
