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.
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.
Wrestling fans all over the world have been singing the praise of Zack Ryder. He’s a pretty mediocre wrestler, but he’s entertaining, and works hard to connect with the fans. Ryder’s got a lot of heart.
While he hasn’t been on TV too much, Zack Ryder’s been putting himself out there with his Youtube video series. We thought he’d getting more television exposure last month, but his storyline was quickly dropped, or so we thought until Monday. On this weeks episode, he celebrates getting a big match with Jerry Lawler and a video package on Monday Night Raw. Is he finally getting proper recognition from his own company, or are they fucking with him like they’ve been doing for months now. How long until they make him pull his Z! True Long Island Story webisodes? He’s getting too popular on his own, which is a no-no in WWE for some stupid reason. Zack Ryder, we support you.
The shooting star press. It’s a move that’s been pretty much banned from WWE since it almost killed Brock Lesnar a few years ago. In fact, only one person, Evan Bourne, is allowed to perform the move. It’s a spectacle of a move, always drawing cheers. Even the most jaded “this is fake” viewer is going to appreciate the athleticism it takes to pull off a forward-moving backflip.
Last night, on Monday Night RAW, Bourne attempted the move, but was subsequently caught mid-air by Randy Orton, who performed his move, the RKO. Yes, this was scripted, but it looks damn amazing. And you have to also appreciate the fact that this stunt was performed live in front of a huge crowd, so there wasn’t room for a re-take.
Few things:
1. Its about time Evan Bourne gets a push
2. Randy Orton has surpassed Tripple H as Raw’s go to guy
3. Most impressive thing I have seen on Raw in years
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