The show began with special guest host Bob Barker presenting a Price is Right-style pricing game with contestants Chris Jericho, Jillian Hall, Santino Marella, and Irwin R. Shyster. An unhappy Jericho confronted Barker and inadvertently ended up guessing the correct cost of a Best of SmackDown DVD. The former Y2J was rewarded with a match against Montel Vontavious Porter, who won the entertaining bout after reversing Jericho’s Codebreaker.

Evan Bourne over Chavo Guerrero via pinfall following interference by Hornswoggle. Bob Barker appeared on the TitanTron beforehand and informed Chavo that a victory here would earn him a Corvette. A frustrated Guerrero later confronted Barker backstage, but the daytime legend used his “karate moves” to drop The Mexican Warrior.

John Cena over Cody Rhodes via disqualification following interference by Randy Orton. Rhodes cut a pre-match promo confirming that he was still a part of Legacy despite Orton’s RKO on his father last week.

Santino Marella won a second pricing game (which included AJ Pierzynski of the Chicago White Sox). Bob Barker introduced The Big Show as Marella’s opponent for a special “Bodyslam Challenge”, a contest easily won by the Co-Unified Tag Team Champion. Barker then announced that Show would take on Mark Henry in another Bodyslam Challenge. Henry impressively lifted the giant for a slam to emerge victorious.

DeGeneration X over WWE Champion Randy Orton and Chris Masters via Shawn Michaels’ submission on Masters. Orton and Masters were selected as DX’s opponents earlier in the night when Triple H and HBK spun a computerized Price is Right wheel featuring each wrestler on the Raw roster. Post-match, DX brawled to the parking lot with Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, who arrived to rescue their leader. Orton then entered the ring and vowed to make John Cena submit at Breaking Point (Oh, did you forget there was a PPV this Sunday? Well, don’t worry - so did the Raw creative team). Cena hit the squared circle and the two battled to the arena floor. Orton drove Cena to the mat with a DDT as the number-one contender made his way back inside, and followed up by delivering an RKO on a steel chair. The Legend Killer stood triumphant over his PPV challenger as the broadcast concluded.

This was a fun enough edition of Raw, although not much of a go-home program leading into Sunday’s Breaking Point event. With that said, however, Bob Barker did a great job as Raw guest host and the game show theme made for some entertaining segments.
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