In a special three hour episode of Monday Night RAW, the prestigious King of the Ring tournament was brought back. It was kicked off by a match pitting the Mexican Aristocrat, Alberto Del Rio, and the man who holds the United States Championship, Daniel Bryan. Del Rio managed to make Bryan tap out, thereby advancing in the tournament.

Michael McGillicutty tried to find R-Truth and make him pay for helping John Cena last week, but was attacked by a mystery assailant who gave a "you can't see me" wave of the hand.

John Morrison defeated "Dashing" Cody Rhodes to advance, evening the score between RAW and Smackdown.

Ezekiel Jackson and the Sinister Scotsman, Drew McIntyre, were both counted out of their KOTR match. An enraged Jackson pulled McIntyre back into the ring and slammed him down.

Jerry Lawler grew tired of the Miz boasting about his title win, and the GM arranged a tables, ladders, and chairs match between the two.

Mark Henry and Yoshi Tatsu defeated Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater in a non-title match. Cena helped with this, distracting the Nexus members long enough for Henry to pick up the win. Afterwards Cena hit Slater with an Attitude Adjustment, before the rest of Nexus chased him away again. For a guy who's supposedly "fired," Cena sure does make a lot of impact.

Morrison faced Del Rio in a semi-finals match, where Del Rio found himself distracted by Rey Mysterio getting into his car. Morrison was quick to take advantage of Del Rio's lack of focus.

Wade Barrett was furious about Cena attacking Slater, and sent Nexus out to the parking lot to fight Cena. They got more than they bargained for, due to a host of RAW superstars being there to beat them up. Cena told Barrett that he would never stop attacking each member of Nexus.

There was a six-Diva tag match, with Natalya, Gail Kim and Melina taking on Maryse, Alicia Fox, and Tamina. During the match Santino came out to sing a love song to Tamina, which allowed Natalya to lock Fox in a Sharpshooter yet again for the win.

In the final KOTR match, Morrison would find himself going up against his most dangerous opponent yet, Sheamus. Morrison's impressive athleticism proved to be no match for Sheamus' brute strength, and the Celtic Warrior won the match and the honour of being crowned King.

For the main event of the night, the Miz had to defend his WWE Championship against Lawler. The deck was stacked against the challenger right from the start, as Alex Riley interfered. Lawler dealt with him, but then the Miz's number one fan, Michael Cole, also got involved in the match. This cost Lawler his shot at the belt, and gave Miz his first successful title defense.