It took nearly the whole episode of Raw to make the match happen, but Bobby Lashley closed this week’s Monday Night Raw by winning the WWE Championship for the first time in his career. Miz spent the majority of the episode trying to find any way to get out of the match. First, he faked having stomach cramps, then tried to get the match pushed to WrestleMania. But Lashley ignored all of that, so Miz grabbed the title and ran away as soon as the bell rang. Shane McMahon later announced that if Miz didn’t defend the title by the end of the night he would be stripped of it and Lashley would be crowned the new champ. McMahon came out just before the match to announce it would be a Lumberjack match, bringing out the Raw roster to surround the ring.

From there it only took Lashley about three minutes to nail Miz with a Spinbuster and lock in The Hurt Lock for the submission victory. He then celebrated with The Hurt Business before going right back to attacking Miz.

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