Raw live results: Feb. 18, 2013

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LAFAYETTE, La. ??We?ll say this much for CM Punk: He does not go down without a fight. Like the proverbial bad penny, The Straight Edge Superstar just keeps coming back when the WWE Universe thinks he?s gone for good. This week, his machinations have ostensibly inserted him back into the WWE Title picture he was removed from just 24 hours earlier when The Rock retained his championship at Elimination Chamber. Punk?s latest scheme, however, was not targeted at The People?s Champion but instead at his old foil John Cena.

Cena, who declared his intention to challenge for the WWE Title at WrestleMania 29 several weeks prior, had barely begun to address the Cajundome crowd when Punk cut the Cenation leader off and attempted to provoke the proverbial bear, recalling Cena?s defeat at Rock?s hands at WrestleMania XXVIII and his numerous losses to Punk himself.

?The Rock beat me fair and square last night ? and he beat you fair and square last year at WrestleMania,? Punk said. ?But when we?re talking about wins and losses, you have never beat me. You have something that doesn?t belong to you.?

But Cena would not be quite so easily goaded. However, he did concede two points: He had never beaten Punk and he had never beaten The Rock. Cena had just the solution in mind to silence The Straight Edge Superstar as well as his critics, though.

?A match,? Cena said. ?The big one. John Cena vs. CM Punk. If I win, you shut your mouth, crawl back in the hole you came from and go away.

?If you win, then you?re right. I don?t deserve to be in the main event of WrestleMania. If you beat me, you deserve it. My word, if you beat me in a match right here, right now, I will give you my WrestleMania title shot.?

Never one to welcome such a challenge on anyone?s terms but his own, The Straight Edge Superstar accepted the offer, with the caveat that it would happen next week.

?You just made the stupidest decision of your life,? Punk said after Cena had laid down the challenge. In one week?s time, the WWE Universe will know whether the onetime ?Voice of the Voiceless? spoke the truth.

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