A RAW Evening

Last Monday my son and I went to the live telecast of RAW from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.  We had 2nd row seats, which put us close to the action.  The total show was close to four hours long, and was quite an experience.  I took a camera along to record the show, and for the most part the pictures turned out like crap, but there were a few that were okay, and here they are.

Fandango and the Miz in an early match.  A few minutes after this was taken the Miz messed up a kick and broke Fandango's nose.  The match was stopped for 5 minutes or so while a doctor treated him.  Once the match was back underway the Miz won.

Dolph Ziggler making his entrance to the ring.  While he was waiting for his opponent to come out, another wrestler, Dean Ambrose, ran right past us and attacked Ziggler.  After the beatdown, Ziggler's opponent came out.......

......Goldber, er, Ryback.  Ryback then proceeded to finish of Ziggler....

....and leave him on his back, looking up at the lights of Wells Fargo Arena.

The main event saw Daniel Bryan take on the Big Show.  The Big Show did not want to face Bryan, but the evil Triple H made him, and then forced him to knock him out after the Shield worked him over for what seemed like the 348th time in the past few weeks.  And with that, RAW was over......

.....or was it?  After the show went off the air we had a "Dark" main event.  Wrestling's Evil Genius, Paul Heyman and his client, Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel, had a no disqualification handicap match with CM Punk.  It was a short match, and Punk picked up the win.

Here is CM Punk celebrating the victory with the fans, or trying to fly, I'm not quite sure which.

It was a fun night, and the next time the WWE rolls into town I'm pretty sure my son and I will be going again, although I don;t know if we'll be this close again.