April 7 , 2014 Monday Night RAW results The April 7 , 2014 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE ' s RAW brand , which took place on April 7 , 2014 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans , Louisiana . This was the Raw after WrestleMania XXX . Summary . 24 hours later and it still doesn ’ t seem quite real . But there he was in the flesh , Daniel Brayn – WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan – galloping all the way down Bourbon Street with his conjoined championships on display as the “ Yes ! ” Movement all but swallowed him whole on the first Raw after WrestleMania ( " YOU - DE - SERVE - IT ! " was the chant du jour , as they say in the French Quarter ) . And Triple H was , as ever , right there to pull Bryan back down to Earth . The King of Kings apparently isn ’ t one for miracles , as he vowed to kickstart the Reality Era and end Bryan ’ s reign before it even got going , naming himself as the first challenger to the submission expert ’ s title later the same evening . John Cena ensured his legacy will live another day by defeating Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 30 , but The Eater of Worlds did not grant the Cenation leader a further reprieve the night after The Show of Shows . Finding himself in need of two partners for a six - man showdown , Cena came strapped with Big E and Sheamus at his side , and at first the heavy artillery appeared to pay dividends against “ The Man of 1 , 000 Truths ” and his dead - eyed brood when all three charged The Wyatts right off the bat . The relative inexperience of The Wyatts left them at a slight disadvantage when faced with a team of two veterans and a champion , though Bray ’ s aggressiveness and Rowan ’ s raw power kept them in the game . Big E brought the crowd to its feet with three backbreakers to Rowan , but Harper was right there to reclaim the advantage with a timely tag . The bout see - sawed wildly for 20 epic minutes ( The crowd , it should be mentioned , seemed to be under the sway of Bray Wyatt ) and it was Bray himself who dispatched his foes with Sister Abigail to Big E while Cena looked on in horror . The night after WrestleMania 29 , Fandangoing was born . The night after WrestleMania 30 was less kind to the dancing fiend , who suffered a mixed - tag embarrassment at the hands of his happy - go - lucky rivals , Santino & Emma . The night nearly ended in an instant for Fandango when Santino withdrew the Cobra early on , though a timely tag to Summer Rae brought Emma back in . That , sadly , went worse for the duo , as the former NXT standout applied the Dil - Emma , Emma Sandwich and Emma Lock in short order while The Italian Stallion Cobra ’ d an interfering Fandango out of the ring . Well , we can ’ t say we weren ’ t warned . The WWE Universe was told by Paul Heyman , time and again , that his monstrous client would be the one to defy The Undertaker and suck the life from his WrestleMania Streak . Even a day after that fateful F - 5 sent The Phenom from the ’ 72 Dolphins to the ’ 07 Patriots , it ’ s difficult to believe the mad scientist ’ s typically empty rhetoric carried so much weight . Yet , Lesnar and Heyman – with the headlines to back them up – strutted down Bourbon Street with the swagger of two Egyptian Pharaohs , relating the story of The Deadman ’ s trip to the hospital and the prevailing excellence of Lesnar himself . As for the WWE Universe , they are nothing more than “ wannabes ” in Lesnar ’ s black - and - blue eyes , while The Anomaly himself is “ The one … the one in 21 - 1 . ” We may not see another Evolution run with the WWE Tag Team Championships , and despite the fact that Randy Orton & Batista didn ’ t dethrone The Usos as the twin titleholders , they did display a kind of brutal synergy in their Authority - mandated challenge of the Samoan brothers . The Viper & The Animal displayed a ruthless aptitude when they hit Daniel Bryan with an RKO - Batista Bomb combination one night previous at WrestleMania , and they picked right up where they left off against The Usos , taking it to the twins in what amounted to something of a mugging . The Usos hadn ’ t even gotten their fleet feet under them when their opponents tossed the titleholders to the outside , bashing the brothers to and fro while the referee counted them out . Not that they particularly cared ; the twosome punctuated their evening with a hanging DDT to Jey off the barrier and a Batista Bomb to Jimmy atop the steel steps . WWE was having a party in “ Nawlins ” and didn ’ t invite Rob Van Dam ? ! Clearly , that simply would not do for the former WWE Champion , who soared back into WWE the night after WrestleMania with a typically high - flying victory over the increasingly beleaguered Damien Sandow . The former Mr . Money in the Bank ( Sandow , that is ) didn ’ t take too kindly to RVD ’ s attempt at a happy homecoming , cutting the former Mr . Money in the Bank ( Van Dam , that is ) short each time he attempted to do his famous chant . An Elbow of Disdain knocked Van Dam loopy , RVD recovered and initiated a highlight reel of greatest hits : First a corkscrew guillotine leg drop to Sandow atop the barricade , a Rolling Thunder , and finally Mr . Monday Night descended upon The Intellectual Savior of the Masses with a Five - Star Frog Splash for the win . Welcome back , Rob ! Van ! Dam ! ( Yes , he did the chant . ) Good news for all you Bad News Barrett fans out there : The three - time Intercontinental Champion has traded in his podium for a pair of boots once again . Despite the fact that Rey Mysterio wasn ’ t exactly fixing to listen to a “ BAD NEWS ” oration – he kicked the mic right out of the Englishman ’ s mitts – it didn ’ t take the former bare - knuckle champion to find his groove once again . Things got hairy for a moment when Mysterio connected with the 619 , but Barrett wasn ’ t about to abandon his trend of eventful post - WrestleMania Raws . With the international crowd raining soccer chants down on Barrett , he tripped Mysterio up in the ropes before he could Drop the Dime and connected with a Bull Hammer to The Master of the 619 while he was stranded atop the turnbuckle . Rusev crush . Rusev destroy . And Ryder … well , Ryder is the one who pays the price . “ The Bulgarian Brute ” made his long - awaited debut on Monday Night Raw , squaring off against The Long Island Iced - Z in what amounted to little more than a display of the former NXT standout ’ s monstrous power . Ryder got his hits in where he could , but a swift kick to the dome robbed The Ultimate Broski of all higher brain function and things snowballed from there : Rusev hurled Ryder through the air with a fallaway slam and locked in his “ Accolade ” submission hold , refusing to break it until his valet , Lana , commanded him to do so . The Ultimate Warrior had the entire WWE Universe on the edge of their seats when he took the stage for a no - holds - barred acceptance speech at the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony . How about an encore ? The firebrand WWE Hall of Famer made his return to Monday Night Raw and rode that rocket ship one last time ( oh yes , ropes were shaken ) , tossing on an Ultimate Warrior mask and slipping seamlessly back into his old persona . Rather than talk up his own legend , the former WWE Champion gave his gratitude to all his Warriors , asking them to lend their same spirit to all future legends in the WWE locker room . Facts are this : AJ has beaten every Diva that has lined up to face her on the main roster , and it would take a challenger from a wholly unexpected place to throw the Divas Champion off her game . AJ ’ s post - WrestleMania “ pipe bomb ” left the WWE Universe smoldering when NXT Women ’ s Champion Paige made her first appearance on the WWE roster to offer up her congratulations to the self - proclaimed “ Queen of the Divas Division . ” AJ wasn ’ t all that appreciative and forced the newcomer into an impromptu match . . . although her “ post - WrestleMania treat ” of a title defense turned sour very quickly when Paige reversed the Black Widow into her signature “ Paige - Turner ” to put AJ on the mat and claim the title for herself . Undisputed Divas Champion , anyone ? He was a Real American … now he ’ s a Paul Heyman Guy ? ! ? ! Cesaro , who seemingly broke free of Zeb Colter ’ s Real Americans hours before he channeled Hulk Hogan and bodyslammed Big Show out of the ring to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 30 , not only cemented his split from Colter ’ s clan on Raw , but shocked the WWE Universe at large when he revealed his new allegiance . The Immortal One himself had come to present Cesaro with the Andre trophy when Colter crashed the party and extolled the virtues of his mightiest “ Zeb Colter Guy . ” The former U . S . Champion , however , politely informed The Founding Father that he was , in fact , now a Paul Heyman Guy . As Colter stood there gobsmacked and Heyman instructed the announce team how to address the “ King of Swing , ” Jack Swagger struck from behind and destroyed the Andre trophy . Unfortunately , that only made Cesaro mad … When Paul Heyman gets ‘ em right , he gets ‘ em right . The mad scientist ’ s latest client , Cesaro , proved his stripes as a Heyman Guy almost immediately by defeating his former fellow Real American , Jack Swagger , in a one - on - one contest on Raw . With Heyman clutching the remnants of the Andre the Giant trophy at ringside , Cesaro went to work in high style against the former World Heavyweight Champion . Swagger knew Cesaro too well to go quietly into defeat , though , unceremoniously tossing The Swiss Superman from the turnbuckle to the mat before planting him with a double - leg takedown . With Heyman crowing at ringside , “ The King of Swing ” found his second wind and booted Jack out of a Swagger Bomb , suplexed him off the ring apron and went clobberin ’ with a series of European uppercuts . Swagger made himself scarce before the Über - American could apply the Cesaro Swing , though , taking the count - out on Zeb ’ s orders and leaving Cesaro to celebrate with his new advocate . Triple H has made a habit of cutting Daniel Bryan ’ s World Title reigns short . But habits were , of course , made to be broken . The Game seemingly had entrusted The Shield to make sure Daniel Bryan didn ’ t leave New Orleans with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . Alas , Kane exposed The Game as the architect of his recent attacks on The Hounds , so they weren ’ t much interested in supplanting a pre - match beat down of The Beard by Randy Orton , Batista and Kane himself . The referee only rang the bell – on The Game ’ s orders – after that mauling had concluded , and The Shield made themselves known before Triple H could pin the felled Bryan . With Kane , Orton and Batista frothing for a fight and The Shield looking for some payback , The Game was unable to corral his lieutenants into order and ate a Spear from Reigns that ended the match with a DQ ; though Triple H ended up worse for wear after The Shield drove his men from the ring and Bryan himself blasted him with the Running Knee . As they say in New Orleans : Oui ! Oui ! Oui !