RAW opens with a video package,cut to crowd with empty announcing area. Cut to an empty backstage with Hunter being the only BABYFACE on the roster walking to the ring. Remember when CM Punk kicked started this angle? The roster is outside refusing to come into the building unless Hunter leaves.
Hunter is asking the crowd if he should walk away they say NO.. yeah they booked this ALL WRONG. HUNTER WILL NOT QUIT. So tonight wrestling fans will we get 2 hours of complete shit. Hunter says he’ll wrestle a broomstick for 2 hours if he has to. Then says he’s wrestled some of the guys in the parking lot and a broomstick would give him a better match
I needed a few days to porcess what went down this past Monday Night RAW. RAW has been a title wave of good and bad since the summer of Punk. WWE has shown glimpses of brilliance yet reverts back to old ways at times. Its like going back to the same pussy after a break up its comfortable, yet you know change needs to come. Granted some steam has been lost like involving Kevin Nash, but for the most part the level of confusion WWE creative has thrown at us isn’t stale. After Sunday’s PPV Hell In The Cell it seems like some shit is about to go down. Shockingly no promo starts the show. What opens RAW was Orton vs Drew McIntyre. Yeah Drew McIntyre, he used to be a big deal..not anymore. Guess who wins?
After the match Mizzzark Henry came out held the heavyweight title in the air. Its good to see Henry rubbing shit in Orton’s face.. Orton and Henry exchange punches. Johnny Ace is out with security to separate them seconds. We see a promo video hyping the return of the Big Show before Mark Henry’s match with John Morrison. Yea I know I was like WTF Morrison. Henry made fast work of Morrison killed him dead in minutes.
Alberto, Christian, Cody, Dolph, Swagger, Otunga and Vickie hit the ring to announce they are contemplating legal action against Hunter. Hunter tells them to just shut up and fight in the main event. The Main event is a 6 on 6 against Cena, Punk, Air Boom, Sheamus & Mason Ryan. ITS TAG TEAM MANIA TONIGHT ON RAW.
Remember when cage matches has a build up, blood/violence and an actually ending? Yea that didn’t happen at last nights Hell In The Cell. It was more like hey chain link seems like a nifty idea lets sell a few million buy rates. The announcers for the show are Michael Cole, Booker T. and Jim Ross. Lawler is still out selling the anal bleeding.
The show starts and we see Miz and R-Truth had brought tickets to see the show but Laurentis came down with security and had them escorted out of the arena. I’m sure that’s the last we’ll see of them.
Sheamus vs. Christian: Heres how this match went. Christian does all the wrestling, Sheamus HULKS UP powerslam for two. Sheamus then attempted the razor edge which Christian reversed to set up the killswitch before Sheamus countered with the brogue kick. Decent show opener.
Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara: AKA The Lucha Off AKA The rudo vs the tecnico AKA doppleganger city AKA the crowd gave two fucks less. They should have cared this was a great match, readers please start watching Lucha libre. We all have a spanish friend who can translate plus Telemundo is free on your TV. I’ll refer to each guy as Sin Cara Blue and All Black Everything Sin Cara. This match had a whole bunch of flippy do’s and flying head-scissors. All Black Everything gets put on the floor with a senton dive, which leads to a sequence of both guys bumping heads. More flying head-scissors and flippy do’s occur until All Black Everything tries his third powerbomb of the night but Sin Cara Blue pulls out a rollup for victory. Highlight of the Match Booker T screaming Sin Cara Negro.
Before we start our weekly epitaph, does anyone else get annoyed when they say “supershow”? I think at this point the the brand extension is slowly dieing off. The “super shows” eliminates 70% of the WWE roster and we only see the same handful of top guys each week, this renders the draft pretty much useless.
Triple H starts the program and explains why Truth and Miz were fired, because of their words and actions from Night of Champions. Ziggs and Vickie come out to complain about guest host Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman interfering in Ziggs match last week. Seconds later Cody Rhodes hits the ring cuts a promo about Randy Orton bashing him with a ring bell on Smackdown.
Christian comes out to piss and moan to Hunter. Christian does his best impression of Sly Stallone from the movie F.I.S.T and attempts to organize the heels into filing a massive lawsuit against WWE. Captain Charisma being the selfish scumbag we all know and love tells Hunter he will forget the whole thing if he gets just one more match. Because HHH is snarky Hunter decides to book Christian against Cena (non-title), Orton on Friday and Sheamus at Hell In The Cell. While all this nonsense took place Dolph Ziggler has to face Zack Ryder while Cody has to defend the Intercontinental title in a 10-man battle royal. I blame Punk for all the wrestlers speaking their minds in these shoot style promos.
The first match of the night was the Intercontinental Title 10-Man Battle Royal. Remember when the IC title was the cooler title than the heavy weight? Shit I do… I use to backyard wrestle and could give two flying shits about any other title. The IC belt was held by the best of the best. Any way there are a whole bunch of workers in this match so allow me to run through this match fast. Drew McIntyre who hasn’t had a push in what seems like years gets eliminated immediately because he’s a jobber and cant sell a t-shirt. Heel Sin Cara the taller one runs out and yanks out baby-face Sin Cara the smaller one out of the ring and we get week two of a lucha off. Justin Gabriel and Alex Riley get eliminated by the machine Sheamus, Ezekiel Jackson tosses Daniel Bryan and John Morrison at the same time.
This Monday Night RAW felt like a RAW rerun from 2009: Triple H high on his ego, Cena is champ, a model is divas champ and one interesting guest host than its all down hill with the guest host after that.
Hunter/Punk/Johnny Ace segment opens up the show with Punk claiming that Ace is manipulating he and hunter..Hunter makes Punk/Cena/Del Rio in a Hell In A Cell for the HIAC PPV.. Johnny Ace wishes Punk best of luck in his future endeavors and fires him, Hunter unfired him and says he is getting to the bottom of the conspiracy and someone is getting fired tonight.I was expecting a way better Pipe Bomb than what was said.Punk has been hit or miss yet when he is on camera were all compelled to watch.
8 Man tag:Sheamus, Gabriel, & Air Boom beat Barrett, Christian, McGuilicutty & Otunga Shemus pins McGuilicuty off the Cross while stairing a whole thru Christian.Sheamus is pale and scary. Del Rio is fighting someone now but they didn’t announce who..Music hits its John Morrison all our interest is lost, cross arm breaker for the submission.The match had be 2 minutes at most.
Wolverine Ziggler/Vickie are in the ring..Ziggs calls em Batman..says he is not here to fight robots and says “sorry Mason Ryan”.Hugh Jackman mind you is pretty damn tall. Logan says he is going to find an “underdog” in the locker room to fight Ziggler.We want Ryder chants just picked up..Jackman grabs a sign in the crowd that says Ryder < Wolverine and holds it up for all to see. So yeah, its Zac Ryder.
Lets just start this review with what we all give two flying fucks about… Triple H vs CM Punk.
What a Kanye shrug of a main event. Did we really need three run ins during this match? What I was hoping would be the match of the night turned into the Vince Russo’s specialty. I get why Kevin Nash ran out and attacked both Punk and Hunter. Earlier in the evening John Laurinaitis was seen sending a text so it makes sense why Kevin Nash emerged through the crowd.
I don’t understand the reason for Miz and R-Truth. Wouldn’t Miz and R-Truth want Punk to pin Triple H. I mean for weeks on RAW they both talked a lot of poop about Hunter. Honestly I think all of us wanted another Kliq member to run in. X-pac in instead of Nash would have been money. Pac was super impressive at Chikara’s Kings of Trios. Punk and Pac, both have similar styles, actually wrestling would occur.
Don’t get me wrong I really enjoy the match both Punk and Hunter made the other look good. The spot where Punk went inside the ring and climbed to the top rope for a Randy Savage flying elbow, which sent them both through the table made me mark out. Triple H has ONLY wrestled twice this year and you wouldn’t know it. People REALLY hate HHH for winning this, contrary to the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community) belief. Punk is not being buried, Punk didn’t come off as weak, Punk is now moreover than ever. His baby-face status he will sell a ton of Ice-Cream bar t-shirts. I see a rematch happening at WWE’s next PPV Hell In The Cell.
I had Monday Night RAW on the DVR so yu best believe thats how I spent my Saturday Night. For the first time in a long time…weeks RAW didn’t start with Triple H. The mark in me knew that Hunter was going to end the program. Del Rio starts off the show. ADR cuts a brilliant spanglish promo. RAW was live in the New Jersey of the north Canada. Bret Hart lives their (cheap pops ensues) lets have him add heat for ADR. The Hitman say your not a real champion until you go out and wrestle day in an day out blah, blah, blah.
Del Rio had a great response to Bret’s homeless look. Cena comes out to save the day does the whole sarcastic tough guy act than BAM tag team match tonight ADR/Ricardo vs Bret/Cena. I wonder if both Bret and John went shopping at the “Hey Wear Ridiculous Short Store”.
Riley/Morrison beat Swagger/Ziggler setting up the fatal 4 way at NOC. I think Ziggler is so underused. Riley is over so a United States title change could happen at Night Of Champions. All the fuckery between Vicki and her clients might work in favor of Riley. Fast forward to the Miz/Truth segment which by the way was amazing. I hated Miz for such a long time, he was the dude from the Real World but then his title run really made me respect dude as a worker. R-Truth NEVER EVER disappoints.
When has Truth ever said a bad line? The Ninja please line made me LOL in real life, had that line been said in the USA it would of went over Canada only cares for Hitman and Edge. Miz beat Kofi.. Miz/Truth vs Air Boom at NOC is going to be a great match. Anyone else excited that TAG TEAM WRESTLING is getting a nice push…. tweet @emiliosparks if you agree.
Kelly vs Vickie Guerrero no one cared. Swagger comes out during that match punches Zig they got into it earlier and Kelly rolls Vickie up for the three count. After match Vickie yells at Zigs, Beth tries to run in but Kelly see’s her coming throws the sloppiest punches that Beth had to sell then bails. Beth Phoenix is sorta hot like some days hot some days not. Zac Ryder was the slam of the week could it be a push? Most likely not but lets all do a WOOO WOOO WOOO YOU KNOW IT BRO.
Lawler and a mystery partner vs Otunga/mcguilicutty its freaking tag team mania tonight I love it. Lawler’s partner… Sheamus aka let the pale guy steam roll right thru the fuckers. WWE please keep doing these Lawler mystery partner angles. Lawler’s partner next week should be Trent Barreta. That dude is money!
Eight minutes of eeh aka Bret/Cena vs Alberto/Ricardo. I do get a kick out of Ricardo matter fact Ricardo is actually a indy guy from Cali. Ricardo tapped to the shooter after Del Rio bailed on the match. Ricardo worked like Heenan pretty much. How did Bret do you ask? Better than usual.. basically did he one move and that’s that..
Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes this has to be the third time they have fought this month and I’m not mad at that. mark Henry Had awesome promo this week, which makes me say let that boy cook. Orton vs Cody was a solid match. Henry watching from the aisle. Cody wins.. Distraction from Henry and a mask shot from Rhodes. I hope you realize that Cody Rhodes is no joke. I’m calling it now future WWE champion, he has charisma just watch the paper bag stick he does during his entrance. Henry with a chair bashes Orton in the back and raises the world title high in the air.
Punk/HHH face to face Punk’s over as all heck in Canada. Phil lights the ultimate pipe bomb the “body builder” complex that vince has. Meaning the big guys where pushed to the moon because of size. Think Lesner, Goldberg, Big Show, Batista, Cena, HHH, Hogan, Nash, Warrior, Undertaker, Kane, Yokozuno, Sid vicious, Sheamus, and so on. All these guys are ‘big guys’ who WWE saw as champions only because of there size….maybe. Keep in mind the art of wrestling has nothing to do with big business, WWE is a business. Businesses are out to make money. If a bigger guys is going to make more money as the champion, he deserves the belt. If he doesn’t draw he doesn’t deserve to hold the title for a long time. That goes for the little dudes and the big dudes.
Ice cream bars chant yet again haha pretty funny stuff.. Punk makes mention to his PPV debut where he was on Team DX and the crowd was chanting “CM Punk” this is one of the better promo’s since Punks promo that changed it all. Hunter plays the perfect season veteran who tells the young pugs that getting over is due to hard work and how Punk made this personal. His mic gets cut off once he says Hunter’s real name. Hunter gives Punk another mic. He calls Hunter Paul again and is cut off… third mic now as Hunter is playing dumb to it. A FED UP PHIL SMASHES PAUL IN THE HEAD WITH THE MIC AND DOES THE CROTCH CHOP. Fade to black show ends.
Closing thoughts: I’m calling it now WWE will be 3 for 3 with this PPV’s. The ending of RAW just made WWE’s buy rate go through the roof. Until this point Phil and Paul really didn’t tap in to the awesome of what the fan could expect now one assumes a great match will happen. I enjoyed a Kevin Nash less RAW lets keep it that way come today. I have been getting email about the finish, honestly I don’t know whats to come. I do think an interference, I’m hoping X-Pac so HHH and his buddies can run this company as a heels. I wish a Colt Cabana run in would go down but thats likely NEVER to happen. Del Rio over Cena because WWE wants Del Rio to be the champion going into there up coming Mexico tour. Night Of Champions happens today order it on Pay-Per-View.
CM Punk surprises Cousin Sal’s son Archie. Anyone else notice how the kid predicted last nights match on RAW? My brother and I really laughed at this. SUMMER OF PUNK CONTINUES!!!!
Bryan Danielson, perhaps Ring Of Honor’s biggest star, and one of the most praised professional wrestlers in the world, is heading to the WWE. Trained by William Regal, and Shawn Michaels, Danielson is a gifted technical wrestler who’s competed in many different countries, and has held World titles for Ring Of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, as well as the Global Honored Crown Jr. Heavyweight championship for Pro Wrestling NOAH. Will WWE give him a push like they are doing with another ROH alumnus, CM Punk, or will they make little use of him, like Colt Cabana? Time will tell. In the mean time, check out a tryout match from 2003 where Danielson took on John Cena.
You also have to check out this HILARIOUS promo by Danielson and Paul London. Danielson can’t keep a straight face!
Danielson’s last ROH match will be a bout against current World Champ, Austin Aries. It’ll take place next month in NYC. To get an idea of what to expect, check out a prior Danielson vs Aries match here.
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