September 10 , 2012 Monday Night RAW results The September 10 , 2012 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE ' s RAW brand , which took place on September 10 , 2012 at the Bell Centre in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Summary . Fifteen years later , Bret " Hit Man " Hart finally came home , returning to the site of his most infamous match as Raw descended upon Montreal ' s Bell Centre . And for a minute , the WWE Hall of Famer ' s presence was all the WWE Universe needed , as they showered the humbled " Hit Man " with cheers and praise ( and more than a few " Thank you Bret " chants ) while he thanked the people of Montreal for their unwavering support in the 15 years since Survivor Series 1997 . And while the people of Montreal cheered their hometown hero , WWE Champion CM Punk took the opportunity to make his presence known . " With all due respect , " Punk began with boos raining down before he slyly began to belittle the " Hit Man . " Punk crassly implied that , had he been the one to face Hart at the ' 97 Survivor Series instead of Shawn Michaels , he would have altered the course of history , negated the Attitude Era and caused WCW to win the Monday Night War when he took Hart ' s place as the one to " jump the sinking ship . " Hart was unmoved , matching The Second City Saint quip for quip and berating his decision to leave the Allstate Arena in Chicago last week before his planned match with Sheamus . Punk retaliated with fire , getting right into the " Hit Man ' s " face as he reiterated his demands for due respect and vowing that he would cement his legacy as the best WWE Champion ever by " [ putting ] John Cena to sleep . " " Just like you ' re putting all these people to sleep right now , " Hart retorted . It took The Voice of the Voiceless a few seconds to find his words after that , but when he did , they were full of venom . " At Night of Champions , I ' m going to turn John Cena into a beaten , broken down shell of a man , just like you are , " Punk said . Boom goes the “ pipe bomb . ” It was truly a night of champions in the first match on Raw in Montreal as WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston & R - Truth went head - to - head with Intercontinental Champion The Miz and United States Champion Antonio Cesaro , who brought his usual bilingual swagger to the proceedings as he recited " prestige " in five languages on his way to the ring . However , it was Kofi & Truth who came out guns blazing in Montreal , sending both Miz and Cesaro over the ropes with their unique , daredevil - style offense and driving their mouthy opponents back before Miz and Cesaro were able to get rolling . The challengers rallied , though , with Miz sending Truth off the apron and into the announce table before Cesaro tagged in and mauled the Tag Team Champion with a vicious sequence of technical attacks . ( Aksana , it should be noted , posed on the apron for the entirety of Cesaro ' s attack on Truth . ) Miz was next in , pounding Truth with an axe handle strike from the top rope before Truth rallied enough to deck Miz with a kick to the head . With Miz dazed and Truth spent , Kofi and Cesaro were next to tag in , and Kingston wasted no time in attempting to put the contest away . The Boom Squad General felled Cesaro with the Boom Drop and , while Miz was able to cut him off before Trouble in Paradise , Kofi rallied and kicked out of a vicious roll - up from Cesaro . He then executed an acrobatic duck under the ex - rugby hooligan ' s outstretched arm before connecting with Trouble in Paradise to earn the incumbent champions their latest victory . It ' s safe to say that the legal system has never seen quite anything like the deposition that Sheamus was ordered to give to Harvard - educated David Otunga at WWE HQ in Stamford , Conn . , concerning his attack of Ricardo Rodriguez and the subsequent ban of the Brogue Kick by SmackDown General Manager Booker T . First , The Celtic Warrior nearly had Otunga convinced that his last name was " Lipschitz " ( it nearly worked ) and that his St . Paddy ' s Days were full of raucous partying ( " Danny Boy " and " Hava Nagila " included ) , followed by a period of crushing guilt . Then , he managed to insult Daniel Bryan and Rodriguez within the span of about five minutes , all while belittling the legal system in general . Otunga , to his credit , would not be dissuaded , attempting to parade the injuries of Rodriguez , referee Chad Patton and other Brogue Kick victims as a tool to lead Sheamus into an admission of guilt . Yet , The Great White would not be fooled . Then , when Otunga ' s attacks got personal , implying that the Brogue Kick could only be used by a " vile human being , " Sheamus simply got up and , following some threatening words toward Otunga , Brogue Kicked the camera . Then , of course , he sang " Hava Nagila . " Case dismissed . The Divas took to the ring en masse for a hard - hitting Six - Diva Tag Match in Montreal , with Divas Champion Layla , No . 1 contender Kaitlyn & Eve teaming up against Beth Phoenix , Natalya & Alicia Fox . For the first part of the match , Kaitlyn took the brunt of the offense , although a quick tag to Layla turned things in the favor of her team when she left Alicia Fox helpless following a kick to the head . Eve took advantage of the situation , executing a controversial tag that put her in the match before quickly felling Miss Fox with a neckbreaker to win the match . Never one to avoid courting controversy , Eve raised both Layla and Kaitlyn ' s hand in victory as the situation surrounding the Divas Title became more and more nebulous . The WWE Universe spoke , and it was Randy Orton who slithered forth to challenge WWE Champion CM Punk in a RAWactive Match . As the Montreal crowd showered The Apex Predator with cheers , Punk wasted no time in taking it to his longtime foil , dropping Orton to the mat with consecutive shoulders before The Viper began to rally . Punk responded quickly , driving Orton into the corner and bringing him to his knees with a series of knees and kicks to the gut before dragging him out to the center and hitting a backbreaker , slowing The Apex Predator ' s momentum for a moment . Punk relied on his ground game to keep Orton at bay , wrangling The Viper with a sequence of headlocks and technical strikes until Orton got his second win , mounting an offensive flurry that sent Punk rolling outside the ring . The champion contemplated his options for a moment before heading up the ramp , seemingly content to take a loss via count - out . Orton was not , however , as The Apex Predator streaked up the ramp and hauled Punk unceremoniously back into the ring . Business quickly picked up , as Orton rolled Punk to the announce table and bashed his head against the commentary desk before the two returned to the ring and Punk gained the upper hand , trapping Orton in a contorting abdominal stretch and later pounding The Viper with an elbow from the top rope . Looking to put the match away , Punk left Orton prone on the mat and ascended the turnbuckle to perform his elbow drop , but Orton had life in him yet , thwarting The Second City Saint ' s effort and sending him airborne with a superplex for a near - fall . The Viper took control of the match next , slamming Punk with a series of bone - rattling clotheslines and setting him up for the hanging DDT . The champion rallied , though , springboarding off the ropes and flooring Orton with a flying clothesline . Signaling for the Go to Sleep , Punk prepared to put Orton to bed . But The Apex Predator recovered quickly , elbowing his way off Punk ' s shoulders and executing the hanging DDT on The Second City Saint before signaling for the RKO . . . Until , that is , a certain Showoff decided to get involved . Dolph Ziggler sprinted from the backstage area , ganging up on Orton with Punk and seemingly leaving The Viper in ruins . . . Until , that is , a certain " King " decided to get involved . Jerry " The King " Lawler was the next to enter the fray , rising up from the commentary table and joining in on the beatdown when Raw General Manager AJ Lee appeared , announcing that Orton and Lawler would team against Punk and Ziggler . The impromptu tag team match pitting Randy Orton & Jerry Lawler against CM Punk & Dolph Ziggler was meant to restore order to a deteriorating situation after Punk and Orton ' s match descended into chaos . But the madness only amplified , as Orton and Ziggler traded furious blows to open the contest , with Orton gaining the upper hand over The Showoff by bouncing him off the ropes for a suplex . Lawler quickly tagged in , opening his second match in three weeks by unleashing not one , but two flying fists on a prone Ziggler . The Showoff recovered enough to mount some offense of his own , laying a series of dropkicks on " The King " and tying him up in a sleeper hold before disrespectfully smearing his boot all over the WWE Hall of Famer ' s face . Against all odds , though , Lawler reached deep down and found a second wind , recovering from a humiliating beatdown enough to plant Ziggler with a thunderous backdrop that opened the window for him to tag in Randy Orton . The Viper came at The Showoff hard , hauling him over the ropes for the hanging DDT , but Ziggler tossed Orton outside the ring to cut The Apex Predator ' s attack short . Rather than tag in , however , Punk remained on the apron until Paul Heyman himself came sauntering down the ramp . Oblivious to the match unfolding behind him , Punk hopped down from the apron and conferred with Heyman for a few moments . Punk , none the wiser ( and not concerned in the slightest ) when Orton foiled Ziggler with an RKO to win the contest and send The Showoff packing . . . did not make the most ignominious of exits , however : He simply retrieved his title and , still in conversation with the mad scientist , walked away . Later , Matt Striker approached the twosome and demanded clairification on the nature of their relationship . Punk simply echoed his first " pipe bomb " and replied , with no small amount of venom in his voice : " I ' m a Paul Heyman guy . " Following his loss to Zack Ryder last week , Heath Slater was a man incensed . The One - Man Band took to the ring and , with minimal fanfare , demanded he be granted an immediate rematch ( " NOOOWWW , BABAAAYYY ! ! " ) . Instead , however , The Ultimate Broski appeared on the TitanTron , sneering at Slater that his opponent wasn ' t named Ry - der , but was something close enough . The next thing the WWE Universe heard was the familiar strains of " FEED ME . . . MORE , " as Ryback thundered out to the ring and feeding time commenced . Slater , though , did not go quietly into the food chain , mounting a string of offense against the monstrous Ryback , but his efforts were , like so many before him , to no avail . Ryback rebounded quickly from The One - Man Band ' s attack , pummeling him to the mat with Shell Shocked and adding yet another course to his ever - expanding meal . Nothing like a little immersion therapy to get the results you want . Dr . Shelby appeared in Montreal , asked by AJ Lee to organize a final , radical attempt at a breakthrough for Kane and Daniel Bryan . It turned out , the two rivals were slated to team up together against The Prime Time Players , with the No . 1 contenders ' spot for the WWE Tag Team Titles on the line ( AJ Lee justified it to the Players by explaining that Kane & Bryan were the only team they hadn ' t beaten yet ) . The tactic seemed doomed at first , with Kane and Bryan in each other ' s faces before the match even began . Then , Bryan found himself at the Players ' mercy after Titus O ' Neil and Darren Young ganged up on the submission technician , roughing him up with a series of powerful team moves and forcing him into a corner where he couldn ' t reach Kane for the tag . " The Real Deal " stayed on the offense against Bryan , forcing him into the turnbuckle before Bryan rallied with a series of kicks to the big man ' s midsection . The rebound was short - lived , though , as Titus continued to hammer away at Bryan with kicks of his own , locking the " No ! " man up in a torturous headlock before tagging in Young . Bryan had better luck here , building his strength back up enough to leave Young prone on the mat . Bryan refused to tag in The Devil ' s Favorite Demon , instead opting to continue the punishment on his own until Kane tagged himself in and planted Young with a Chokeslam , tossing O ' Neil over the ropes for good measure . Before The Big Red Machine could seal the match , though , Bryan tagged himself in , sneering at Kane ' s frustration and looking to steal the win for himself . Kane , in what can mildly be described as a lapse in his therapeutic recovery , grabbed Bryan , the legal man , by the throat and Chokeslammed him onto the prone Young . With Bryan having tagged in , the referee got down to the mat and counted to three . Progress ? Debatable . New No . 1 contenders ? Absolutely . Six nights before his Night of Champions clash with World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus , Alberto Del Rio was determined to make an example out of Canada ’ s own Tyson Kidd in the Hart Dungeon graduate ’ s home country . From the onset , it was clear that The Mexican Aristocrat would given a clear size advantage in this international encounter , but that didn ’ t stop Kidd from at one point locking Del Rio in the Sharpshooter — much to the delight of Kidd ’ s incredibly vocal countrymen . In the end , however , those same WWE Universe members were silenced when Del Rio overpowered the ring technician with a vicious application of the Cross Armbreaker . Not content with merely defeating his foe , The Mexican Aristocrat took the opportunity to boast that not only has Sheamus been stripped of the use of the Brogue Kick thanks to SmackDown General Manager Booker T ’ s ongoing investigation , but come Sunday , he ’ ll be stripped of the World Heavyweight Title as well . After being forced to participate in David Otunga ’ s deposition at WWE Headquarters in Stamford , Conn . , World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus was all too excited to take out his frustrations on the Harvard - educated attorney , who used his legal expertise to convince SmackDown General Manager Booker T to ban The Great White ’ s signature Brogue Kick . After putting away the litigious Superstar with his newly honed submission hold , the Cloverleaf , Sheamus further punished Otunga with a Brogue Kick regardless of Booker T ’ s ongoing internal investigation about the maneuver . The Great White ’ s use of the prohibited boot to the face prompted a response from Raw General Manager AJ Lee who , in turn , was pre - empted by SmackDown General Manager Booker T . Since the World Heavyweight Title falls under Booker ’ s jurisdiction , the blue brand authority decreed that if Sheamus uses his pump kick again , he will be stripped of the World Heavyweight Championship . Consumed with an obsessive mission to unmask and humiliate Rey Mysterio , Cody Rhodes was aggressive in his attempt to ground the highflier on Raw , targeting Rey with the tenacity of a wild dog with a series of swift knees to the midsection . However , Rhodes ’ bizarre and twisted mission seemed to be a fruitless one in Montreal , when Mysterio had Rhodes draped across the middle rope and vulnerable to the 619 . As Mysterio dialed up the dazzling maneuver , Intercontinental Champion The Miz charged the ring and jumped on the apron … and was swiftly kicked off by The Ultimate Underdog . Taking advantage of the confusion , Rhodes ensnared Mysterio in the Cross Rhodes and got the 1 - 2 - 3 . Since his initial attempt at interfering in the match was thwarted , The Awesome One saw fit to target Mysterio after the bout and was met with a Cross Rhodes of his own . They say that misery loves company , but as far as “ Miz - ery ” goes , it ’ s every man for himself . Bret Hart ’ s interview with John Cena started out a good deal more positively than his conversation with CM Punk . The two former WWE Champions traded compliments while Hart mentioned that Cena ’ s rivalry with Punk reminded him of his former animosity with another WWE Hall of Famer , Shawn Michaels . Hart told Cena that he saw a lot of himself in Cena , and a lot of the old HBK in Punk . While Cena paid due homage to The Excellence of Execution , Hart then asked Cena to reveal what he was going to do to “ shut this phony punk up . ” That brought Punk out , blood boiling , to stir the pot once again . Punk echoed Hart ’ s sentiment that the “ Hit Man ” and Cena were alike … in the sense that they were “ unceremoniously surpassed ” by someone better than them — in Hart ’ s case , it was Michaels , and in Cena ’ s case , it was Punk himself . Punk continued to preach to the WWE Universe , extolling his nearly yearlong reign as champion , his humiliation of The Rock and his defeat of Cena in an attempt to throw his weight around before the Cenation leader . Cena , however , retaliated in kind , throwing Punk ’ s history as champion back in his face , claiming that Punk retained his mantle “ by any means necessary , ” which does not truly define a champion in Cena ’ s eyes . He claimed that Punk , formerly an agent of change , was currently defining himself simply by possessing the WWE Title , which was a far cry from the revolutionary The Voice of the Voiceless claimed to be . Cena then played to the home crowd by talking some smack in French , though Punk was quick to chastise Cena for “ lowering himself ” to speak “ the language of the locals . ” This woke the dragon even further in Cena , who erupted in a tirade against The Second City Saint and dubbed him “ ignorant ” before playing the role of Rosetta Stone and translating hisfrancaisfrom a few moments earlier : “ You say you ’ re gonna win , but I ’ m gonna kick your ass , ” Cena repeated in English . After some fuming , Punk lashed out not against Cena but against Hart , who blocked The Second City Saint ’ s attack and struck him in the head . Punk tumbled from the ring , backed up the ramp , and held onto his WWE Championship like his life depended on it .