June 30 , 2014 Monday Night RAW results The June 30 , 2014 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE ' s RAW brand , which took place on June 30 , 2014 at the XL Center in Hartford , Connecticut . Summary . Behold the King , and the egg on his face thanks to John Cena ’ s WWE World Heavyweight Championship victory at Money in the Bank . The Champ ’ s 15th ascension to the throne put a damper in The Authority ’ s plans for supreme domination . WWE COO Triple H did attempt to put a positive spin on Cena ’ s title victory , extending an olive branch to The Champ in the form of a cover spot on “ WWE 2K15 , ” Cena saw through the subterfuge and called the corporate power out on their “ phony ” politeness . To which The Game replied he was willing to live with Cena as champion , provided he did so with the proper “ respect . ” The Champ ( to put it lightly ) deferred the request and opted to go for the hard way . His choice was honored in the form of a Fatal 4 - Way title defense at Battleground against Randy Orton , Kane and Roman Reigns and a tag - team main event teaming him and Reigns against Orton & Kane later in the evening . A win over Rob Van Dam hasn ’ t necessarily put Seth Rollins in the clear where Dean Ambrose is concerned . Still , defeating his forbearer had to feel good for the aching Mr . Money in the Bank , who risked life and limb to claim the coveted contract that may well anoint him as Champion of Champions within the next calendar year . The Aerialist was slow in his takeoff , as lingering damage from the wild Money in the Bank Contract Ladder Match prevented him from getting out of the blocks . RVD capitalized by targeting the small of Rollins ’ back , but Rollins responded by targeting RVD ’ s legs to take away his flight and followed up with a Curb Stomp to escape with the win . As good as Rollins was feeling after the match , though , Ambrose was quick to spoil his party from the TitanTron with a promise “ from one scumbag to another ” that their conflict was far from over . It was only a matter of time , really . All of Lana and Rusev ’ s posturing about the greatness of Russia had led to some beneath - the - surface tension with Zeb Colter and his right - hand Real American , Jack Swagger . And that pressure finally blew up in The Super Athlete ’ s face when Lana demanded that America ’ s next “ failure ” present himself for crushing . Answering Lana ’ s call for an opponent brought out Swagger and Colter , and despite The Ravishing Russian ’ s insistence that Rusev not engage the former World Champion , The Bulgarian Brute charged Swagger and got arm - dragged out of the ring for his efforts . The Usos & Sheamus may be “ Uso crazy , ” but The Wyatt Family ’ s good , old - fashioned brand of insanity won the day when the backwoods brawlers faced off against the troika of champions and came out clean ( relatively speaking ) on the other side . Granted , The Usos one - two punch brought their trio to an early advantage , but The Wyatts turned Jimmy Uso and , later , Sheamus into sharkbait ; all three tagged in for brief , brutal stretches of offense against the titleholders , though it was “ Sheam - UCE ” who caught the worst of it . The Celt was able to create space by hoisting Harper into the Irish Curse and his heroics brought in Jey Uso , who felled Harper like a wifebeater - sporting redwood and nearly ended the match . The rest of the Wyatts stormed the ring to throw the champions off their game and all hell broke loose , leaving Jey right in the eye of the storm and , thanks to a final fake - out from Bray himself , vulnerable to an earth - shaking discus clothesline from Harper . It ’ s a sad day in Bella World , but the skies are getting cloudy in Planet Funk thanks to Cameron ’ s ballooning – and detrimental – ego trip . Calling herself “ the bomb dot com ” hasn ’ t exactly turned Cameron into the second coming of Lita ; the Funkadactyl was in fact thoroughly embarrassed by Nikki Bella in a bout designed to punish Nikki for Brie ’ s insubordination at Money in the Bank . It seemed as though Nikki might pull off the miracle during her manhandling of Cameron , but Naomi managed to save her team ’ s chances and pin Nikki with the inverted DDT . It was the last bright spot of the evening for the dancing Divas , though , thanks to some mean - mugging and eventual storm - off from a frustrated Cameron . Could the WWE Universe be looking at the next Intercontinental Champion in Cesaro ? The King of Swing certainly proved himself as the first force to be reckoned with in the upcoming Battleground Battle Royal for Bad News Barrett ’ s vacated ( due to injury ) Intercontinental Championship . He did so at the expense of Kofi Kingston , who declared for the Battle Royal and promptly unleashed an impressive performance that called to mind his instant - classic U . S . Title defense against Cesaro little more than a year ago . The surprising thing about all of this was that Kingston actually won the match , shocking a surging Cesaro by reversing the Neutralizer into a sunset flip rollup . The Boom Squad General paid dearly for his quick thinking when Paul Heyman demanded Cesaro “ teach him a lesson . ” Said lesson consisted mainly of a hellacious mugging after the bell that left Kofi splattered across the XL Center floor , a winner for all the good it did him . Of all the personas Damien Sandow has adopted , this was perhaps his most audacious : Just a few hours up the road from WWE HQ , The Enlightened One threw on a suit and took on the guise of Mr . McMahon himself . However , “ Mr . McMahondow ’ s ” entry of Sandow into the Battleground Battle Royal for the Intercontinental Championship didn ’ t exactly endear Sandow in the eyes of a proper McMahon : Stephanie . In fact , The Authority ’ s resident queen delivered swift justice to the imposter in the form of another contestant in the Battle Royal : The Great Khali , against whom the would - be Chairman had ( you guessed it ) no chance in hell . The much - hyped return of a former WWE Champion who remodeled himself into a cross - platform , multimedia superstar turned out to be , in fact , the return of two former WWE Champions who remodeled themselves into cross - platform , multimedia superstars . First up was The Miz , who claimed he had returned to reclaim the WrestleMania main - event spot he believed was rightly his . The Awesome One ’ s arrogance was , of course , never going to go unanswered , but even he couldn ’ t have expected who came out to respond : Chris Jericho re - emerged and shut Miz up with a Codebreaker to the mouth . Before Jericho could cement his return with a hearty “ RAW IS JERICHO , ” however , the lights blacked out and The Wyatt Family appeared in the ring to tear the former Undisputed Champion to pieces . This time , it might be Jericho who needs saving . Yeah , it ’ s pretty good to be Dolph Ziggler sometimes . On top of The Showoff ’ s genetic gifts , he has a victory over Fandango to his name and a rollicking round of tonsil hockey with Summer Rae on top of everything else . The emergence of Summer came at a crucial point for Fandango in the match ; the dancing fiend had The Showoff on the ropes and was all but purring thanks to the adulation of Layla at ringside . Fandango ’ s happiness turned to horror when Summer snagged Ziggler and initiated an impressive bout of PDA ( show the world , indeed ) , and when the heat rose , Fandango fell to the tune of a Zig Zag from the former World Heavyweight Champion . Star light , star bright , Ryback & Curtis Axel are looking up at the lights . And yet again , the goonish tandem of The Big Guy and the former Intercontinental Champion came courtesy of Goldust & Stardust , who can seemingly do no wrong since the emergence of the ethereal Stardust a few weeks back . Ryback had seemingly rid himself and his partner of the persistent , painted duo by mauling Goldust across the ring , though The Bizarre One ’ s reversal of the Meathook Clothesline gave Stardust the opening he needed . Tagging in and flitting around a fresh Axel , Stardust attacked Axel with a springboard Bionic Elbow and , finally , a face - first drive to the mat that scored the 1 - 2 - 3 . Grace period ’ s over : Paige ’ s meteoric , three - month rise to the top of the Divas division made believers out of almost everyone in the WWE Universe . But she didn ’ t exactly convince AJ Lee , the very Diva who Paige defeated the night after WrestleMania 30 to claim the title in the first place . The Black Widow ’ s return to WWE left Paige on the defensive to begin with , and initially The Diva of Tomorrow refused to put her title on the line . By evoking the will of the WWE Universe , AJ managed to goad the champion into a match and , thanks to a surprise roll - up , reclaimed the title for her own . She ’ s back , WWE Universe . In three weeks , John Cena , Randy Orton , Roman Reigns and Kane will be bitterest enemies battling over WWE ’ s ultimate prize . But on Raw , the fatal foursome entered into a pair of uneasy alliances as a prelude to the Battleground main event that will stack the odds higher than ever against Cena ’ s budding title reign . Oddly enough , it was Reigns who took the brunt of the punishment from The Authority ’ s foot soldiers on Raw ; Orton in particular was looking to balance the scales against the 12 staples he received in his head the previous night . Reigns was able to beat back Kane long enough for Cena to make his entrance ; an ensuing brawl took the big dog and The Viper up the ramp and left The Champ to fend for himself against The Devil ’ s Favorite Demon . That he managed to do so was owed to a technicality – Kane bashed him in the head with the steps for the DQ and then Tombstoned him – but that he managed to survive a cash - in from Seth Rollins was owed entirely to Dean Ambrose , who took advantage of an argument between Triple H and the officials to chase Rollins from the arena before the bell could ring . That he managed to survive further punishment from Kane was owed to Reigns , who returned to Spear the demon in two and stare Triple H down until The Game backed off . At least for now , the status quo remains .