WWE RAW Off-Air Notes: Chris Jericho And Kevin Owens Antics, Randy Orton, John Cena And AJ Styles

Thanks to Wrestling Inc. reader Brian Reed-Baiotto for sending in these off-camera notes from last night’s RAW:

* A friend of mine works at John Wayne Airport in Orange County and he took a picture of the WWE jet parked at John Wayne. It’s only a 15 minute drive from that airport to the Honda Center up the 5 freeway. You can check it out above.

* Raw is about to start and Michael Cole’s music hits and he and Byron Saxton walk out to the announcer’s desk. Saxton was following Cole around like he idolized Cole, and Corey Graves was already at the table because he had done the two ‘Superstars’ matches with Tom Phillips.

* Enzo Amore and Big Cass’ music started off the show and it got loud. Amore came out and referenced old songs and then mentioned local baseball star Mike Trout of the Anaheim Angels, which surprisingly got a mixed, but loud reaction. Trout is extremely popular in Orange County, so hearing a lot of boos was odd.The back-and-forth banter between Enzo-Cass and Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens went over very well with the crowd. The length of time that it took to do the promo and match seemed to catch the fans’ attention. By the time the match was done, 30 minutes of the show was already gone.

* After they went to commercial following the opening promo with Enzo, Cass, Jericho and Owens, many in the crowd seemed confused like “is this a match that’s going to happen now? Is it a tag-team match?” Anyway, when they went to commercial, for about 90 seconds, they all walked around in the dark and then one guy working ringside went up and handed Jericho-Owens mics, and then another man handed mics to Enzo-Cass. They did a funny back and forth for about another two minutes, in which Owens and Jericho would switch up the “how you doin'” to “how’s it going or how are you,” to which the crowd laughed several times. The two Canadians also worked in an “eh” a couple times to be more Canadian sounding.

* During a commercial after the Jericho vs. Amore match, AJ Styles music plays and the crowd was happy and stunned. He came out and said he was here because he was advertised before the brand split and that “Raw sucked as much as Anaheim.” He went on to say he came there to do what he does best and that was to “beat up John Cena.” Instantly, Cena’s music hit and the crowd erupted. When Cena got in the ring, Styles got the first several shots in, but Cena reversed Styles and dropped him with the AA.

* Cena and Styles got out of the ring area just in time for the show to go …

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