January 19 , 2015 Monday Night RAW results The January 19 , 2015 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE ' s RAW brand , which took place on January 19 , 2015 at American Airlines Center in Dallas , Texas . Summary . Brock Lesnar is not amused . Suffering a Curb Stomp from your self - proclaimed usurper will certainly do that to you , so it was hard to begrudge The Beast Incarnate the bee in his bonnet when he stormed onto Raw and demanded Seth Rollins make good on his SmackDown grandstanding and fight . The Authority , as ever , was quick to rally around their standard - bearer , and John Cena ’ s appearance completed the playing field . Cena ’ s rousing rhetoric remained unchanged despite suffering the same indignity as Brock last week ; the 15 - time World Champion repeated his plan to win Brock ’ s WWE World Heavyweight Title and hold it hostage until Dolph Ziggler , Ryback and Erick Rowan were reinstated . His overzealousness may cost him yet , though : The Authority agreed to put Cena in a match that would reinstate the trio if he won , and excise him from the Triple Threat Title Match if he lost … provided the WWE Universe votes for it to happen at all on the WWE App . The good news first : Daniel Bryan looked as mobile as ever in his first Raw match in nearly a year , and he didn ’ t have any hesitance to battle Bray Wyatt despite once numbering himself among The Eater of Worlds ’ followers . The bad news : Kane ’ s unexpected arrival seemed to throw The Beard off his game in a match that was already designed to weaken Bryan in advance of his make - or - break contest against The Devil ’ s Favorite Director of Operations on SmackDown . And that was only in the metaphorical sense ; Kane influenced the bout in a far more literal manner moments later after Bryan — worn down by a brutal attack on his neck from Wyatt — improbably crawled his way back to the brink of victory . With the win only moments away , Kane sprang from the commentary table and tripped Bryan up on the apron and Wyatt picked the bones , ramming Bryan beard - first into the turnbuckle and finishing the job with Sister Abigail . Moments later , Kane added insult and potentially further injury to The “ Yes ! ” Man , Chokeslamming his old buddy and mugging him for all the WWE Universe to see . We ’ re a long way from hugging it out , people . One of Raw Reunion ’ s marquee attractions ( though it ' d be tough to top X - dow ) got derailed in a hurry when Big Show decided to add his two cents to the Royal Rumble Legends Panel consisting of Hulk Hogan , Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels . After the Legends discussed their Rumble experiences and debated who would win this year ’ s melee ( for the record , HBK picked Bray Wyatt , Hogan pegged Daniel Bryan and “ Naitch ” threw his lot with Dean Ambrose ) , the giant thundered down to the ring . He took the veterans down a memory lane detour of the occasions on which they ’ d been subjected to Show ’ s own fury and proclaimed himself the inevitable winner of the contest seeing as no one ( well , almost no one ) can eliminate a giant . He even knocked out Flair for good measure . But Roman Reigns ’ appearance evened the odds and proved the giant ’ s boasts wrong when he hauled all 450 pounds of him over the top rope . And just like that , the honeymoon ’ s over for Bad News Barrett , who thwarted Sin Cara on SmackDown to save his title but found himself ground to a halt when he came up against a fighting - mad Dean Ambrose on Raw . Ostensibly acting under The Authority ’ s orders to neutralize The Lunatic Fringe , Barrett quickly found himself fighting for his life against the former U . S . Champion , hungry for a win after several near misses against Bray Wyatt . Ambrose came into the match ablaze , pestering Barrett with brutal , street - brawl style offense that sent the big Brit tumbling from the apron after only a few moments . The aggressive style aggravated Ambrose ’ s previously tweaked knee , but Barrett couldn ’ t capitalize , missing a wide - open window for the Bull Hammer and instead wandering headfirst into Dirty Deeds when his Wasteland follow - up fell short . Ric Flair may just be right yet . Another rough day for “ The Professional ” and “ The Fact - Dropper , ” as Cesaro & Tyson Kidd once again failed to knock off the pesky positivity of The New Day . But this particular iteration — Kofi Kingston & Big E — didn ’ t so much overpower the two technicians as they caught a lucky break . Cesaro & Kidd , flanked as always by Natalya , Adam Rose and the Rosebuds , ran roughshod all over Kingston for most of the match , subjecting The Boom Squad General to a pair of pulverizing tag - team maneuvers . Kingston pulled the win out by the narrowest of margins , though , kicking Kidd off the apron and initiating a roll - up pin from atop Cesaro ’ s shoulders for the win . Even the Rosebuds were impressed . The Ascension have caught flack from JBL for comparing themselves to legendary tag teams who aren ’ t able to stick up for themselves . But the ascendant behemoths switched up their tactics a bit on “ Raw Reunion , ” confronting The nWo ( that ’ s Kevin Nash , Scott Hall & X - Pac ) moments after the renegade faction winkingly took credit for “ anything great that has ever happened . ” Their audacity provoked JBL to get up from the commentary table and summon Ron Simmons for an impromptu reunion of the APA . The New Age Outlaws arrived to stack the deck further and that was about all she wrote for The Ascension this time , as the Legends united against the NXT veterans to send them tumbling from the ring . Despite a few disagreements here and there , it seems like Natalya & Paige might have something going for them as a duo . The Diva of Tomorrow and The Queen of Harts knocked off yet another tandem of the Divas division ’ s finest in the form of Summer Rae and Alicia Fox . They did this in almost perfect sync , it must be added , with Natalya superkicking Alicia into the P . T . O . while The Bella Twins watched with disdain from ringside . Perhaps the upcoming Divas Tag Team Match at the Royal Rumble will help settle this complicated score . Give R - Truth credit for having the gumption to face Rusev in the ring with no regard to The Super Athlete ’ s undefeated , untapped streak since his debut last year . But you ’ d think the former U . S . Champion would know what ’ s up by this point . Rusev made quick work of his foe , and even though Truth showed that the Russian monster could be tossed over the top rope in advance of the Royal Rumble Match , it was still an Accolade and a tap - tap - tap for the U . S . Champion . The Miz has proclaimed that Damien Mizdow gives him not one , but two chances to win the Royal Rumble Match . Alas for the former WWE Tag Team Champion , he had one chance to lose to Jey Uso and that ’ s exactly what went down on Raw . In fact , Miz was so convinced he ’ d ultimately overpower the Tag Team Champion same in the same fashion as he did his brother that he remained completely oblivious to the titleholder ’ s building momentum , not to mention Jey ’ s ingenious manipulation of Mizdow . Uso hurled Miz into the turnbuckle and the stunt double followed suit , taking him out of the match and rendering both Mizzes unable to counter the big splash that followed . UCE ! The WWE Universe ’ s support landed John Cena in what ended up being a 3 - on - 1 Handicap Match against Seth Rollins , Kane & Big Show , and with his buddies ’ jobs on the line , Team Cena ’ s guardian angel came through once again . Good thing , too , because up until that point , the bout hadn ’ t been so much a wrestling match as a public beating , dished out at great leisure by The Authority , which took no small amount of pleasure in humiliating the 15 - time World Champion in his darkest hour . After a spear from Big Show and a Chokeslam from Kane left Cena down , an image of Sting appeared on the TitanTron just as Seth Rollins was about to put his foe away with a Curb Stomp . What was seemingly a still image of the former WCW Champion turned out to be a live shot of the vigilante himself , who stalked to the top of the Raw ramp for the first time ever and distracted Rollins enough for Cena to steal the win with a roll - up and reinstate Dolph Ziggler , Ryback & Erick Rowan on the spot . Triple H ’ s irate demands for Sting to present himself again were instead answered by Brock Lesnar , who summarily laid waste to Kane and Big Show , though Rollins got away . This Sunday , he might not be so lucky .