THE Raw after WrestleMania is always the biggest edition of the show all year – and last night’s edition delivered some big surprises. Sun Sport attended the show in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and here are the five big talking points from all of the action. 3 WWE champion Kofi Kingston and Seth joined forces at Raw 3 The lights went out in the Barclays Center before the Undertaker arrived RAW FANS UNHAPPY The show started with a huge surprise when The New Day – including new WWE Champion Kofi Kingston – interrupted new Universal Champion Seth Rollins. Inspired by the women’s winner takes all match at WrestleMania, Kofi challenged Seth to a title-for-title match. But the match was hijacked by The Bar for no reason and ended in a DQ – so there was an impromptu (and much less interesting) Kofi and Seth v The Bar tag match instead. Kofi and Seth made a lively team and got the win – but fans were unhappy about being screwed out of seeing a proper conclusion to the big title-for-title match. Fans chanted “AEW” (Cody Rhodes’ new rival promotion), “CM Punk” and “bulls**t”. Some fans left the building before the action had finished and others threw beach balls around in protest. But Rollins won back the fans’ attention after the show went off the air by calling out Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose to mark Ambrose’s final night on Raw with a heartfelt Shield reunion. UNDERTAKER RETURNS Elias tried for the second night running to hold a concert, this time baiting John Cena – who had interrupted him with a rap at WrestleMania – with some rapping of his own. But Elias came to deeply regret his final line: “Mark my words, the next one to interrupt me is a dead man.” The lights went out and the famous gong sounded to signal the arrival of The Undertaker. There was a spine-tingling reaction in the building for the arrival of The Deadman, and Taker stepped into the ring for a stare down with Elias. Elias tried to charge Taker, but got hit with a big boot, chokeslam, and Tombstone for his troubles. Undertaker looked in his best shape for years in the segment. But it’s strange that WWE chose not to bring him out at WrestleMania. It was the first Mania he’s missed in 18 years. BECKY LYNCH V LACEY EVANS “The Man” Becky Lynch came out wearing both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships. She said she knows she’s now a marked woman in WWE and laid out a challenge to all comers – including Ronda Rousey when Ronda has finished “sulking”. Becky said: “The Man will be here waiting to slap the empty head off your shoulders once again.” It was a huge, crowd-pleasing promo from Becky. Fans chanted “You deserve it!” and “Becky two belts!” and sang her theme tune. There was a surprise appearance from Lacey Evans, who did her usual routine of coming down to the ring for no reason – but this she time Lacey clocked Becky with a hard punch. Becky fought back and the two women scrapped up the ramp and across the stage. So it looks like Becky’s next challenger will be Lacey Evans. It’s good to see Becky up against fresh competition and Lacey doing something other than just waving. LARS SULLIVAN RAW DEBUT After Kurt Angle’s disappointing farewell match at a Mania, Baron Corbin came out to gloat about his win. Fans heckled Corbin with chants of “a**hole”. Kurt Angle came out to shake Bazza’s hand and wish him luck. But Kurt swerved Corbin by adding that he meant “bad luck” and hit the Angle Slam and clamped on the Ankle Lock. Fans lapped it up until Angle was confronted by Lars Sullivan, who finally made his main roster debut after delays because of reported anxiety attacks. Lars nailed Kurt with his Freak Accident slam and a diving headbutt from the top rope. SAMI ZAYN RETURNS After 10 months out of action with two torn rotator cuffs, Sami Zayn made his long awaited return. Sami had a huge ovation from the crowd (even though he embarrassingly fell over when he stepped out onto the stage) and issued an open challenge. The challenge was answered by new Intercontinental Champion Finn Balor, who defeated Zayn in an exciting, quick-paced matchup when he landed the Coup de Grace. Afterwards Zayn grabbed the mic and cut an excellent promo, saying that he knew the fans had missed him, but he hasn’t missed the fans at all. most read in wwe DISGUSTING Shocking moment wrestler slams boy, 5, to ground after lad tried chokehold COST CUTTING WWE make MORE staff cuts as backstage crew and new Raw commentator leaves Pictured TRIBAL CHIEF Birthday boy Reigns shows off amazing body transformation leaving Rock 'proud' ALEXA'S PIG PAIN WWE superstar Alexa Bliss left heartbroken as beloved pig Larry-Steve dies BUFF BAGGED Ex-WWE star Buff Bagwell arrested on more than 10 different charges after crash KO BLOW Controversial ex-WWE star Enzo Amore rushed to hospital after he was knocked out WRESTLE MANIA Olympic hero Gardner put on 15 STONE when he retired and ran up debts of £3m 'NUCLEAR HEAT' WWE release six NXT stars along with controversial referee Drake Wuertz NEW JACK DEAD WWE pays tribute to ECW legend New Jack who died aged 58 Pictured WEIGH TO GO WWE legend Mark Henry has lost nearly SIX STONE as he targets shock return He called WWE a “super toxic environment” because of the fans and their “ugliness”. He said: “Your lives so seem so empty and devoid of any kind of meaning… you only get joy and satisfaction out of being critics.” He then vowed to come out each week and hold the fans accountable for their failings. It was a masterful heel turn and delivery from Sami – let’s hope WWE gives him a good push on the back of it. 3 Becky Lynch and Lacey Evans scrapped up the ramp and across the stage<doc-sep>When the announcement was first made on WWE RAW after WrestleMania 35, the crowd could not believe their ears. Kofi Kingston and Seth Rollins, two men who realized their destinies the night before would engage in battle and one man would walk out Double Champion. Of course, this would be like the Becky Lynch situation, as she's the current RAW and SmackDown Women's Champion. But eventually, WWE decided to pull the plug on this angle, with The Bar's interference. Let me try and answer why WWE did not have a double champion crowned during the show. As always, let me remind you that this is pure speculation and little more, but based on reports I've read and my experience of covering sports entertainment for the last few years. I invite you to weigh in and voice your opinion too. Why do you think neither man became a Double Champion? #5 The brand split is still very much a thing Seth Rollins vs. Kofi Kingston – Universal Champion vs. WWE Champion Winner Take All Match: photos pic.twitter.com/FOeuYeO9ya — WWE (@WWE_Wrestling0) April 9, 2019 Everyone on the internet was talking about the titles being unified while I sat scratching my head in puzzlement, quite honestly. Why would the titles be unified when the Superstar Shake-Up is scheduled to take place on next week's show? It would make no sense at all to do a Shake-Up with a common Champion. I mean I'm not even very happy with the whole Becky Lynch situation because, with the schedules of both brands, I'm guessing that she cannot perform double duty for long. She will either have to show up on the red or blue brand. And the other one will suffer for lack of a resident champion, I feel. If it's any measure of consolation, I'm just glad that both men retained. At least, both brands will have a male world champion. 1 / 5 NEXT<doc-sep>
The Raw after WrestleMania always promises surprises, and it looked as though we were going to see another history-making moment to close the show last night. The new Universal Champion Seth Rollins opened Raw from the Barclays Center to a thunderous ovation, only to be interrupted by Kofi Kingston - the new WWE Champion. What was unusual about this was that Kofi is a SmackDown superstar, but there was soon to be a reason for his arrival on the red brand for one night only. A match was made between the pair, a 'Winner Takes All' spectacle where the victor would hold both belts at the end of the night. The cynic in many though had already decided that there was going to be a screwy finish and that's exactly what happened - it just wasn't from the team people necessarily wanted. Just as the match was getting going, jumping in through the crowd was Cesaro and Sheamus aka The Bar, proving that the brand split at this point is pretty much meaningless. The title bout quickly turned into a tag team match and the fans had become restless, so they decided in true post-Mania spirit to hijack the show. Vociferous chants included 'bull***t', 'delete', 'a**hole' and many CM Punk shouts, but the ones that Vince McMahon should be most concerned about were the loud 'AEW' chants. And even though WWE banned them from arenas when they are performing, fans were able to sneak in beach balls and re-created 'Beach Ball Mania' - to which Cesaro reacted very badly to. The Swiss Cyborg ran into the crowd to steal one and proceeded to tear it up by hand at ringside just as he did at SummerSlam a few years ago. To be honest though, what reaction were WWE officials expecting when they decided to make this the main event? If a new act like NXT's Undisputed Era were brought up to interfere and cause havoc it would've blown the roof off the place. But The Bar have lost countless amount of times in the last few months on SmackDown - and that's no disrespect to Cesaro and The Celtic Warrior as they're both great athletes, but it just seemed like lazy booking. Let's hope WWE can flesh out their mistakes next week as the Superstar Shake-up begins in Montreal. News Now - Sport News