Raw Deal - Raw recap for January 28, 2013

Raw Deal

RAW Roulette Edition

Hello again, and welcome to another edition of Raw Deal!

This time around, the road to WrestleMania has begun! The Royal Rumble has just ended, but it's just the start of a new beginning for a few WWE Superstars! Read on!

Vickie Guerrero introduces the three wheels that will be spun for tonight - the stipulation wheel, the Superstar wheel and the Vickie Guerrero Challenge wheel! The first match is Antonio Cesaro vs. Randy Orton, with the stipulation being a special guest referee. It's all part of Raw Roulette, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada...America's gambling capital!

An infuriated CM Punk comes to the rings and takes his anger out on both the cameraman and Justin Roberts before saying he was screwed and that he's still the WWE Champion. Vince McMahon shows up and becomes the target of Punk's venom, but Vince has video proof that Paul Heyman has orchestrated something with The Shield, thanks to a mystery source. Paul Heyman is going to have a "performance review," and he just might be fired before show's end...

Randy Orton and Antonio Cesaro's special guest referee for their fight is...The Miz! Cesaro is ticked!

Antonio Cesaro argues with The Miz...and it costs him. Randy Orton beats Antonio Cesaro. Miz helps Cesaro up only to eat a Skull Crushing Finale.

Ryback has to make people laugh in his match. Hmmm...

Ryback's opponents? The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil). They end up being the joke after Ryback beats them down. Matt Striker, who got out of the way for this, declares Ryback the winner only to be Shell Shocked by Ryback.

Wade Barrett choose his own victim due to the Player's Choice stipulation. Not surprisingly, he chooses NXT talent Bo Dallas, who eliminated Barrett at the Royal Rumble match last night.

Bo Dallas turns Wade Barrett's Bull Hammer into a powerslam and gets the win against Barrett in an impressive debut.

Cody Rhodes gets John Cena for his opponent.

Cody Rhodes grabs a mic, calls the match a waste of his time and leaves only for John Cena to drag him back in and get the win.

John Cena is on the mic after the match. He weighs the options, talks about his match with The Rock at WrestleMania 28 last year, weighs his options again, and makes his decision right here...right now: The Rock. He calls Rock and CM Punk marked men, but The Shield show up and beat him down. Sheamus and Ryback show up seperately, but The Shield still has the upper hand and puts Cena in a triple powerbomb before leaving.

It's a lingerie pillow fight for...Brodus Clay and Tensai? Even Vickie Guerrero thinks it's a bad idea, and after Tensai leaves Brodus Clay spins the Vickie Guerrero Challenge wheel. It becomes a dance-off!

Tensai missed the memo, and wears a slip under a robe, and disrobes before the dance-off. Jerry "The King" Lawler has to coax Tensai into dancing with the "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" line, and Ron Simmons can't believe what he's seeing.

Alberto Del Rio gets the Body Slam Challenge...and he gets Big Show, too.

Big Show drags Alberto Del Rio to the ropes and duct tapes one of his wrists to the ropes. Ricardo Rodriguez then gets a beatdown. Del Rio tries to break free, but Big Show wraps more duct tape around his wrist, knocks out Ricardo and tortures Del Rio some more before knocking out Del Rio and walking away.

The Las Vegas Showgirls Lumberjills match between Kaitlyn and Tamina Snuka ends when the lumberjills go at each other.

The Rock comes to the ring and celebrates by thanking the fans. He declares an end to CM Punk's championship reign and makes fun of Punk and Paul Heyman. After declaring that everyone will get pie (tee-hee), Punk shows up. He bashes the fans, brags about his own reign and asks for the title back and an apology. Rock tells him to come and get it. Punk walks down the ramp, stares at Rock, contemplates his options and walks back up the ramp. Punk says he'll do it on his own terms, and he'll grant Rock a rematch in three weeks at Elimination Chamber. The Rock accepts his challenge all too readily.

Damien Sandow is not pleased that his match against Sheamus is a Tables match...

Sheamus plows Damien Sandow through a table, winning the Tables match.

Zack Ryder and The Great Khali (with Natalya and Hornswoggle) participate in a karaoke challenge. After Khali sings Shawn Michaels's theme, 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, Jinder Mahal) crash the party just to show off. #MB get demolished, not surprisingly. Then, our karaoke participants and their friends celebrate.

Chris Jericho is here tonight!

Chris Jericho makes his way to the ring. It's his first Raw in almost six months, and he's happy to be back. He thanks the fans, then Dolph Ziggler shows up with AJ and Big E Langston. Ziggler tells Jericho to get out while AJ brags about getting Jericho terminated, and Jericho calls AJ "crazy." Big E grabs the mic and tells Jericho to get out only to be the butt of some more jokes. Vickie Guerrero shows up on the TitanTron, reveals she re-signed Jericho to WWE, and spins the stipulation wheel. It lands on the Strange Bedfellows stipulation. Instead of fighting each other, Ziggler and Jericho have to tag team together to face Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane)!

Kane and Daniel Bryan argue, and Chris Jericho takes advantage by...letting Dolph Ziggler get the hot tag. Too bad Jericho slaps Kane in the back, slips away and leaves Ziggler high and dry and the victim of a choke slam. Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) beat Chris Jericho and Dolph Ziggler.

Trish Stratus is inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame. Now go read this Wikipedia article if for some strange reason you've never heard of her.

Booker T has an announcement concering the World Heavyweight Championship on SmackDown this Friday.

Vince McMahon shows up, tells us that CM Punk has been escorted out of the building, then calls out Paul Heyman. Heyman enters he ring. They shake hands, then gives Paul Heyman the micand washes his hands with more hand sanitizer than necessary. Paul Heyman says he has nothing to do with Brad Maddox and The Shield. When Vine asks if he's lied, Paul Heyman says yes, as he is a promoter and that's what promoters do. He's not a saint, but he's trying to be an honorable man (when Vince asks about that point, that's what he says, anyway). We then see video footage of Heyman with Brad Maddox. He basically paid the Shield and had Brad Maddox in it, but Brad Maddox didn't want to do it at first and was beaten up by The Shield as a result. Heyman says that wasn't him, and that it was an impersonator. Vince fires him anyway, but Brock Lesnar shows up out of the blue at the last minute. He continuously tells Paul Heyman to back off, as Vince tells Lesnar not to do something he'll regret later on. Lesnar then puts Vince in the F-5, and Paul tells him to stop before Lesnar walks away.

What an ending...but what happens next? Find out next week...on Monday Night Raw!

In the meantime, we still have that announcement from Booker T, as well as the Intercontinental Cup on Main Event! Tune in throughout the week for news on these events!