By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

-The battle royal was a solid surprise bonus match in part because it featured the return of Christian. The fans reacted to Christian like a returning veteran star and popped for his win. It ended up seeming to be, more than anything, a bone thrown to the undercard wrestlers who normally don't get PPV exposure or PPV bonuses.

-The tag match showed what a good tag team division can feature in terms of a mix of personalities who have good athleticism who aren't in the singles title hunt, but collectively can fill 10-15 minutes with good action that feels meaningful because of the titles at stake.

-Lawler complained about Eve ordering Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks to confiscate signs went against Freedom of Speech. Lawler missed the day in school when we were all taught Freedom of Speech applies to the government regulating speech, not private corporations who are holding live events where people gather.

-Layla and Phoenix went out there and packed a good match into seven minutes they were given. Layla seemed to have her timing and cardio back.

-Chris Jericho said Randy Orton was "over-exaggerating." It's one thing to use big words to act aloof, but it's another to add onto an already long word to create one that doesn't actually exist.

-That promo with Randy Orton and Jericho would have been a good addition to Smackdown on Friday to help sell the PPV. It was better than anything on Smackdown in terms of promos selling this PPV.

-Quotebook - Michael Cole: "Randy Orton, a nine-time World Champion; many call him the franchise of Friday Night Smackdown."

-I liked Lilian Garcia's in-ring pre-match introductions. It gave the World Title four-way a big match feel. She's very good at that job.

-It's not a WWE multi-person match without that ridiculous WWE math. In this instance, Lawler had the honors of saying Sheamus had a "one-in-four" chance of retaining his title. That's only true if every wrestler is exactly equal in skill.

-A good, three-star-plus Fatal Four-way match for the World Title. I liked seeing Sheamus retain the title. I'm all for long title reigns, especially when the duration of the reign against tough competition can be used to make a case for Sheamus being a true top tier star. It builds him up in the eyes of the fans as a major star. WWE needs to use everything they can to elevate current main eventers to real draws, and long title reigns can help in that regard.

-Orton was fuming after the loss. You wonder if they're thinking of turning Orton, and having his frustration with not winning the World Title by playing it fair being what causes him to snap. Would WWE be able to get Orton over as a heel, though, or would fans just cheer him as a heel like last time.

-Quotebook - Michael Cole to Booker T: "I do my research, Booker. I don't spend my week worrying about stuff on the Internet."

-Miz continues to challenge King Kong Bundy for the worst career tailspin after main eventing a WrestleMania.

-Quotebook - The Miz: "The Rhodes family and the Carolinas go way back… You people are short-sighted and biased and I am a better man for not having grown up around you."

-I'd like to see Garcia do the formal ring introductions in the ring before IC Title matches, not just the World Title and WWE Title matches. It would give the secondary title matches a more prestigious feeling.

-Notice how, unlike when Orton appeared to have a pin earlier when Cole declared the match over even before the ref began his count (meaning, of course, it wasn't the finish), when Christian had Cody covered, Cole instead said, "Is he gonna do this? He does!" Vince McMahon's aggravating policy of having announcers give away finishes and kick-outs through predictable reverse psychology continues.

-It's smart to give Christian a big title win fresh back from his injury timeout. It gives him some momentum out of the gate and gets him right into the mix. Will they do anything, though, to explain his apparent transition from a heel to a babyface? Fans seemed willing, though, to greet him as a returning star they were glad to see. In a way, that's an indictment of WWE's booking that they don't hold anything against him for how he acted before his injury hiatus.

-When Daniel Bryan's ring entrance began, it sealed the match order. Indeed, John Cena would headline even though no title is on the line and despite facing a retired wrestler/executive. I was hoping they'd take this opportunity to put the World Title or WWE Title after Cena, but it wasn't realistic given the positioning of the Cena-Laurinaitis hype on Raw above all else last week.

-Quotebook - Michael Cole on the prospect of Laurinaitis being fired: "It'd be like Gandhi going away."

-Quotebook - Michael Cole after Punk-Bryan: "That one is going to be remembered for a long, long time."

-Quotebook - Michael Cole: "I'd love to have a body like that." Booker in response: "Of course you would, look at you."

-Quotebook - Jerry Lawler: "Oh look, there's a string hanging off of Laurinaitis's sleeve. Oh wait, that's his arm."

-When the fans didn't exactly pop huge for Big Show dragging Laurinaitis to the ring by his ear, was that a sign that they figured he was going to turn heel and saw it coming a mile away, or did they lose all respect for him the way he cried and begged for his job and let himself be walked on.

-If Bobby Heenan were on commentary, he would have said as Big Show walked to the ring, "Who's side is he on?!"

-Quotebook - Jerry Lawler after John Laurinaitis's win: "This may be the darkest day in the history of this company." Not to be overly picky here, but he did preside over announcing the death of Owen Hart and was at the Raw after Chris Benoit killed his family and himself. Setting real life aside, it was still a crazy exaggeration given all of the big angles over the years. The effect of this finish was just status quo, hardly qualifying for the darkest day ever in WWE storyline history.

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