WWE Raw Review: 5 Things We Learned from Last Night's Episode (April 2)

Holy crap. What a show.

Before I say anything else, I want to give the Miami crowd some major props for being the best crowd I've ever heard. Yes, ever. They made that show truly unbelievable.

Last night's episode of Monday Night Raw was one of the most newsworthy shows in recent memory—featuring three huge returns, including Brock Lesnar and his thunderous F5 on John Cena.

I literally felt like a little kid watching the show. I was entertained from start to finish and damn near giddy after that last segment sent the crowd into a frenzy.

While I was amped up after WrestleMania 28, I'm even more jacked up now.

Why? Well, you shouldn't have to ask, but let's just look at five things we learned from the first post-WrestleMania 28 edition of Raw anyway.

5. Brodus Clay Has His First Feud...Finally

It's about damn time.

For roughly three months now, Brodus Clay has been on and off WWE TV, and he's yet to do anything more than squash lower-card workers. Until now.

Following the Triple Threat match for the United States Championship, Clay made the save for Santino Marella, hit Dolph Ziggler with a huge headbutt and had a stare-down with Jack Swagger.

So, it looks like we're going to see some sort of Santino-Clay comedy team that feuds with Ziggler and Swagger, or perhaps even a singles' feud between Clay and either one of Vickie Guerrero's clients.

I've been begging for a while now to see Clay have some type of feud, and a rivalry with Swagger and/or Ziggler could be a solid little mid-card rivalry that gets Clay over even more than he already is.

After all, he's gotta stop beating jobbers at some point.

4. Creative Doesn't Know What It Wants to Do with Lord Tensai

Lord Tensai's debut wasn't what I was expecting. At all.

He debuted at a really random time (I think it was like 40 minutes into the show, which obviously isn't a pivotal time slot), and then he went on to simply squash Alex Riley.

Remember what happened to the last unstoppable big guy who debuted by squashing lower-card workers? Yeah, that was Clay, who's just now getting his first real feud.

I don't get why the WWE would debut Lord Tensai by having him beat a wrestler that hardly ever appears on TV. The WWE should have had him make a much bigger impact by, you know, actually debuting him in a storyline.

It appears, though, that the creative team isn't quite sure what it wants to do with Lord Tensai, and thus, is going to have him continue to be the big guy who squashes jobbers for a while.

Come on, creative, we've already seen this way too many times before.

3. Punk/Henry and ADR/Sheamus Feuds Seem Likely Down the Road

At the top of the second hour, we were treated to a surprisingly good WWE Championship match between Mark Henry and CM Punk.

The only real complaint I had about it was the ending, but now that I think about it, it looks like Henry's countout victory was done to set up another Punk-Henry match and likely a full-fledged feud between the two that I assume would happen after the WWE Draft.

Also, the same can be said about Sheamus and Alberto Del Rio.

ADR could have made his return at any point during the show, but he came back and interrupted Sheamus. Though it was done at least partially to set up their match on Smackdown, I think that it's probably foreshadowing a World Heavyweight Championship feud between the two as well.

Del Rio and Sheamus have never feuded, so that would be a fresh little rivalry that would make a ton of sense after the WWE draft takes place.

Maybe this is me analyzing things a bit too much, but it sure seems like Henry-Punk and Sheamus-ADR feuds are going to happen in the very near future.

Judging by what we saw tonight, that's fine by me.

2. The WWE Foreshadowed the Rock vs. CM Punk

During The Rock's show-opening promo, he said that he had a vision that he would win the WWE Championship.

I smell what The Rock is cooking, and I'd bet that it's a potential WWE title feud with CM Punk.

Think about it. Who is the current WWE Champ? Punk. And who's been very outspoken about The Rock since his return? Punk.

The Rock made it pretty clear that he's going to wrestle again, and even as he was making his way up the ramp, he held up his finger and said, "One more time."

I think that that one more time could very well come against Punk at some point down the road, possibly at SummerSlam or perhaps even at next year's WrestleMania.

The Rock will be back in a WWE ring, and if he wants to go after that WWE title, then he's probably going to have to go through Punk to get it. 

1. Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena at WrestleMania 29?

The crowd wanted Brock Lesnar, and they got him.

During John Cena's promo at the end of the show, the raucous Miami fans were chanting "We Want Lesnar!," and much to their delight, Lesnar entered the arena and planted Cena with a huge F5.

It was one of the greatest moments in recent WWE history, even if the fans essentially knew it was coming.

Rumors have been swirling over the past few days about a potential WWE return for Lesnar, and he indeed came back for what should be an epic feud with Cena.

Much like last year, the WWE seems to be building up to the WrestleMania main event a year in advance. Then again, could we see Cena vs. Lesnar at SummerSlam?

I don't know, but one thing I do know is that "The Next Big Thing" just made things a lot more interesting in the WWE.

Note: As part of the new WWE blog, I'll be asking all of the B/R wrestling readers for questions for a new mailbag that I will post on Fridays. It will be a slideshow featuring 10-20 questions and answers on a wide range of topics. You can submit questions either through Formspring or Twitter, and the best ones will be answered in the B/R mailbag.