9 Best Post-Royal Rumble WWE Raw Moments

Putting celebratory specials to one side, two episodes of Monday Night Raw stand out from the 50 or so that WWE put on each year.

The first of them is the post-WrestleMania edition, which features the fall-out to the undisputed biggest night of the wrestling calendar, as well as a smattering of (typically inebriated) international fans, who help cultivate a lively atmosphere that you just don't get anywhere else.

Less heralded is the post-Royal Rumble show, which follows on the heels of WWE's annual 30-man free-for-all (and, as of this year, its 30-woman free-for-all too). Here, storylines and feuds that will climax at April's showpiece kick chaotically into gear, with the big winners and losers from the previous night often keen to lay down a marker ahead of 'Mania.

With SmackDown's Shinsuke Nakamura taking the spoils at last night's show - and already confirming in his post-match interview that it's a date with AJ he's got his eye on for New Orleans (duh) - it's unlikely anything huge will happen at this year's post-Rumble Raw. But the cliches are true: you can never be 100% sure in WWE.

A fun, forgotten fact from Randy Orton's 2009 run is that on the post-Royal Rumble edition of Raw, he diagnosed himself with intermittent explosive disorder - a condition that causes people to kick Vince McMahon in the head really hard - and it's pretty much never been referenced again since.

Stephanie wasn't convinced that this excused his crimes, however, and decided to punish him later in the same broadcast by putting him in the ring with Shane McMahon - which is quite an odd choice, really, given that she had her pick of a roster including Undertaker, Big Show and, you know, her own husband, Triple H.

But Shane O'Mac came on out anyway, nailing Orton's Legacy protégés Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase with a series of unconvincing Shane O'Mac punches before turning his attention to the Viper himself, who he would (inevitably) go on to lose to at February's No Way Out.

Mainly, this was cool because it was the first time we could actually cheer the chairman's son in going on a decade. In the intervening years, he was either getting his nuts electrocuted by Kane or palling up with his dad in their mutual fight against D-Generation X (ugh).