What You Didn't See On RAW This Week, ESPN, More Posted by Tim Brown
on 04/14/09
-- Reminder: ESPN's E:60 will be airing their WWE special tonight at 7:00 p.m.
-- WWE has officially changed the name of "WWE 24/7" to "WWE Classics On Demand". The change has been expected for some time.
-- The following news items are compiled from several live reports sent in from fans who were at last night's RAW (Thanks to site readers Patrick, Jamie and RC88):
- Dark Match: Dolph Ziggler defeated Goldust with a reverse neckbreaker.
- Dark Match: Kurt Hawkins defeated Jimmy Wang Yang with a Moonsault.
- Taker vs. Matt Hardy was taped for WWE Superstars.
- The building wasn't sold out as there were open seats on the floor (off camera seats) and up top.
- RAW GM Vickie Guerrero announced during a commercial break that the 2010 Royal Rumble will take place on January 24 at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, GA. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at Ticketmaster.com.
- During the commercial break, Santino cut an in-ring promo for WWE.com.
- After his match with the Great Khali, Santino sold the beatdown for a few minutes.
- There were "boring" chants during the Divas match.
- John Cena got a good reaction when he cut his promo on Swagger, but then got booed when he came out.
- There was no dark match main event. Triple H, Batista and Shane celebrated after the show went off the air. Batista and Triple H made fun of Shane McMahon's "dance" that he does when he comes out from behind the curtain, and they went to the back.
