Cena goes on to mention that nobody can interfere in a cage match.  Clearly he didn’t see the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, where Big Show managed to sneak into the ring during Stone Cold’s match with Vince McMahon.  Incidentally, cages looked way better back in the day.  He says that Darren Young ‘ran into 250 pounds of crap your pants wearing an orange T-shirt’, whatever that means.  Just as he’s talking about taking out all of The Nexus... here they are.

Barrett tells him they can wait until later on, rendering the point of them being out there irrelevant.  Still, they’re going to give John Cena exactly what he deserves.  Bingle!  I do enjoy the heat Cole gets just for answering the email... plenty of ‘What?s’ tonight as well.  More stipulations about suspensions if people get involved in the handicap match, or if The Nexus fail to tag in and out.  Cena’s goal for the night:  Take a few of them down with him.

Match 1:  Alicia Fox vs. Gail Kim – Eve at ringside

King hits on Eve a bit, and they show a package of how Alicia retained her title against Eve by feigning injury.  Gail Kim, despite being the most technically proficient diva on Raw at the moment, jobs to Alicia Fox again.  The lowlight of the match was the ending, where Alicia missed her axe kick by a clear foot, hitting Gail in the middle of the back.  Cole said it was the back of the head.  He lied.

Bingle!  Despite Alicia Fox winning cleanly against Eve last week, the anonymous GM seems to think she cheated so at Money in the Bank, Eve’s going to have another rematch.  We’re all thrilled.

Match 2:  The Hart Dynasty vs. The Usos and Tamina

Quick package showing the ambush by The Usos last week, with the Superfly Splash by Tamina onto Natalya.  I still can’t tell the Usos apart, but Tyson does the decent thing and takes out both of them with a cannonball from the apron.  Tyson gets set for a springboard (presumably the elbow) but Tamina moves the rope, allowing The Usos to get on top and slow it down.  He makes the hot tag to DH Smith, who hits the high angle back suplex but Tamina breaks it up, only to be taken down by Natalya.  DH Smith misses a blind tag and gets hit with a superkick during a rollup, and a top rope splash by Jay Uso wins them the match.

4/10 – Very short, and I’m still yet to be impressed at all by the Usos

Chris Jericho shakes hands with Wade Barrett, who thanks him for his help during NXT as his pro.  The Nexus then ambushes Yoshi Tatsu, the forgotten man of the WWE.  He groans unconvincingly as Tarver stares at him.

I Fight Dragons – Money is the theme for Money in the Bank.  The lyrics appear to consist of ‘around and around’ a lot.  They’re here tonight.  Once again, thrilled.

Still, at least Ted DiBiase and Maryse are out.  Ted has impeccable taste.  Ted introduces ‘the most powerful couple in the WWE’ and strokes Maryse’s face.  He of course, is referring to himself, and the Money in the Bank briefcase.  Maryse looks a bit unhappy with this, until Ted says he’s going to shower her with gifts when he wins.  But here’s John Morrison (w/ slow motion entrance and sunglasses to small child in a Cena T-shirt who looks strangely unimpressed).

“Hold on a second Teddy, you’re going to shower her with gifts?  Everyone knows the French don’t take showers.”  Nice one JoMo.  Maryse has a go at him in French, and Morrison duly translates... and DiBiase takes offence, strangely enough.  He goes for Dream Street, but hits an overhead kick and sets up for Starship Pain, but Maryse makes the save.  Either of these guys might be a decent choice for Money in the Bank, if they’re looking to bring someone up who’s not had a great run recently but is on the cusp of being ready for a Championship run.

Oh dear god... cringeworthy segment involving Santino and tonight’s Guest Host, Florence Henderson, from the Bradys, or something.  I don’t know what they are, being British.  Regal makes a joke that’s probably funnier than Santino’s.  He says something about the Partridge family.  I still don’t know what’s going on.  Santino tries to kiss her, for some reason.  She must be like 60.

Video package for Edge’s Money in the Bank victory and cashing in at New Year’s Revolution 2006 to win the title.  The package contains Shelton Benjamin, strangely enough.

Match 3: Edge vs. Randy Orton

This is one worth looking forward to.  The former tag team partners in Rated RKO.  I’d love to see Orton expand his move-set a bit...  Slow start to the match, so I’ll fast forward a little.  A snap powerslam sets up for the rope-drop DDT but Edge drops down and hits the Edgecution and gets a very near fall and sets up for the Spear.  Orton instead gets the boot up, goes for the RKO, reversed, Spear misses and Orton hits the backbreaker.  Jericho comes down to cause the distraction, Edge hits the Edge-O-Matic for the win.

Jericho gets in and hits the Codebreaker on Edge, RKO to Jericho.  Bourne comes down and nails a spinning kick to the face of Orton and sets up for Air Bourne, with Orton halfway across the ring.  He looks like he’s made it, but Orton reacts and manages to hit the RKO midway through the Shooting Star Press.  An absolutely unbelievable move.

10/10 – Including the aftermath, the match itself was probably an 8, but the RKO-SSP was incredible, perfectly executed.  Orton looks like he’s getting the focus as we go into MITB.

Skip Sheffield bumps into John Morrison backstage, and the Nexus surrounds him.  Morrison throws some elbows, but is another one who gets a beating, with Sheffield and Slater doing most of the damage.

The Miz is out, reminding us of what he did to R-Truth last week.  He’s the dark horse in the MITB match.  Bingle!  The replacement is Mark Henry, and he’ll face Miz now.

Match 4:  Mark Henry vs. The Miz

Not really a match, Henry overpowers the Miz, but misses him with a charge and goes head-first into the GM podium.  I assume Miz is disqualified because he dumps litter on him then throws the plastic bin at him, which clearly wouldn’t hurt.  It just bounced off him.  I’m not going to give this one a rating, because it wasn’t really a match.

Match 5:  Santino, Kozlov, Goldust and The Great Khali vs. William Regal, Primo, Zack Ryder and Doink the Clown – Florence Henderson as the Guest Ring Announcer

What?  I suppose I’d actually forgotten Primo existed, so it’s good for something.  Then again, I’ve never rated Primo, and his heel turn was completely wasted since Carlito was fired.  I don’t see the point in Santino’s rivalry with Regal, it doesn’t make any sense.  Regal beats him up a bit, but Santino hits the Cobra, which actually hits for possibly the first time ever.  Doink gets the tag in, so does Khali.  Doink tries to stamp on his foot, then tries a bodyslam, then sprays him in the face with a water pistol... and walks into the big forearm.

Ugh, 0/10 – It annoys me that Goldust and Ryder are there just to make up the numbers.

Oh dear god... again.  Florence Henderson makes out with The Great Khali.  Honestly, what’s the point in this?  As far as I can tell, she’s not even promoting anything.

NXT promo – The Nexus are coming home, with an unnecessarily deep and gravelly voiceover.

Package for CM Punk’s 2009 MITB win (more spots for Shelton Benjamin).  They also show him cashing it in on Jeff Hardy at Extreme Rules... That’s a bit of a surprise.  Good to see he’s not cut out completely though.  Might have been interesting if they’d shown Kennedy winning...

Josh Matthews for the 3^rd time tonight tries to interview someone, this time it’s Edge.  Edge being the nice guy he is actually answers the question, which is about Jericho.  Jericho’s reminded him that it’s every man for himself and apparently he’s got a voice in his head that tells him to be ruthless and devoid of compassion.  Sounds like he should have Randy Orton’s theme song.  No mention of IED recently I notice.

It’s Bourne’s turn to get beaten up by the Nexus after being taunted by Sheamus.  They make a move towards Sheamus as well but he runs off, asking for Cena’s locker room.

Match 6: John Cena vs. The Nexus – 6 on 1 Handicap Match

Cena starts off against Tarver, a suplex later and Gabriel’s in.  A clothesline and it’s Sheffield’s turn, who gets Cena briefly into the corner, but he escapes and Nexus regroups on the outside.  They distract the ref and Slater attacks from behind, allowing Sheffield to get on top.  Slater comes in and hits 3 consecutive back suplexes.  Otunga comes in and a clothesline and suplex stop Cena from having a brief fightback.  Barrett goes for his finisher but Cena escapes and hits the 5 moves of doom, but Sheffield made the blind tag before the Attitude Adjustment hit.  Sheffield’s finisher seems to have changed from a really devastating looking stunner-type move to the Clothesline from Hell, which is a shame... effective though. Otunga hits his (and Kozlov’s) finisher and Gabriel lands the 450 splash for the win.

Before they get the chance to dismantle Cena completely he rolls out and grabs a chair, gets a few shots in on Slater before the Nexus regroups.  They circle the ring but conveniently leave a space ramp-side... and Sheamus comes down with a steel chair to reinforce Cena!  The crowd goes a bit mental, and Sheamus accidentally drops his chair on the outside but the Nexus run for the hills to close the show.

6/10 – Match did what it had to do, but Sheamus coming down was quite predictable, even though it was quite a good moment

Overall show rating: B

Only the one good match, but it was very good and the RKO to Bourne I’ll remember for some time.  I’m still not entirely sure where the Nexus storyline is headed.  Barrett still has a title opportunity to come, so it’s safe to assume they’ll terrorize whoever the champion is before he takes that match.  I actually thought the Nexus were going to interfere in the Money in the Bank match and have one of them take down the briefcase, but they ruled that option out themselves in a backstage segment with Randy Orton last week.  Is Sheamus going to be a face now?  I can’t see it happening for long, but I’ve been impressed with how he’s established himself at the top after such a short time, he’s going to be a credible challenger for the foreseeable future.

I’ve been the General, consider yourself debriefed.