 The NXT Rookies Introduced ThemselvesUnsurprisingly, these promos were rough. Kaitlyn showed some charm, but I hated the bit where she had to tease tension with her pro Vickie Guerrero since that had just been done with Daniel Bryan and his pro The Miz in Season 1. I could barely understand what Aksana was saying, Jamie was stiff as a board and AJ was far from the talker we know her as today. However, I liked Naomi's energy and I thought Maxine was the best of the bunch.
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 Big Show def. Randy OrtonShow beat Orton clean on SmackDown a few weeks prior, which really surprised me at the time. I thought that would write Orton off television for a while, but apparently not because he was back for the rematch here. I don't know that a rematch was necessary, nor was it necessary for this to last as long as it did if Show was going to be on offense for a majority of it, but I get that they were trying to establish Show as a threat (again) heading into his World Heavyweight Championship match with Sheamus at Hell in a Cell. There was a whole lot of selling throughout and it honestly made for a fairly boring bout.
 Matt Hardy def. Mark Henry, Finlay, Chavo Guerrero and The Miz in a Scramble Match to Win the ECW ChampionshipThis Scramble match was the first of its kind. It took some time for the crowd to get into the concept as it started out slow, but once they picked up the pace, they came alive for a lot of the nearfalls. This turned into an enjoyable opener. Hardy winning the right call after having failed in his previous attempts at capturing the championship and Henry (the defending champ) didn't have to get pinned in the process.
 WWE Champion Triple H Saved Jeff Hardy from United States Champion Shelton Benjamin, MVP, The Brian Kendrick and Ezekiel JacksonMan, Triple H was really in the prime of his "burial" era at this point. He completely broke the fourth wall by calling this a promo and did nothing to elevate either Benjamin or MVP when talking about them. He even made a comment about being a champion for the next century, and he was a babyface! It didn't help that he was the last one left standing over all of his Unforgiven opponents. I know this was supposed to hype the WWE Championship Scramble match for that Sunday, but it wasn't very effective.
 Unified WWE Tag Team Champions ShoMiz def. John Morrison and R-TruthYou had to know WWE's tag team division was depleted at the time if two makeshift teams were fighting for the tag titles at WrestleMania. I remember the build being very basic, which reinforced that this only existed to get these guys in a match at 'Mania that wasn't the Money in the Bank Ladder match. Worse yet, this was over before it had a chance to really get going, so what we got was completely forgettable. A total waste of time this was, and a weird choice for the opener.
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