This is the 1st time I have watched RAW since 2nd Feb 09 and am not surprised in the slightest that the show is unchanged in style, format or talent in the 6 months I haven't seen it. The last WWE show I watched was an episode of Superstars on 11th Jun 09 so I haven't seen ANYTHING WWE related in over 2 months so if I don't recognise people or fail to know gimmicks have changed or people have turned face or heel thats why.
With guest host Freddie Prinze Junior.
United States Championship, Kofi Kingston vs Carlito (with Rosa Mendes) - I guess Carlito has gone heel since breaking up as a tagteam with his brother? I can't recall seeing Rosa work a match ever (having checked my blog I'd seen her in 2 matches and clearly neither made an impression) but generally going from wrestler to valet is a big step down and tends to show a lack of trust by WWE. This had a very slow start & the break during the match didn't help things either. Michael Cole must have been watching a different match from me with comments like "non stop action" and "amazing action", all I saw was 2 guys having at best a mildly average match where Kingston took the win off Trouble In Paradise.
The Miz vs Evan Bourne - Essentially this was Bourne selling and putting Miz over in an obvious new push for him. Its very sad that WWE are pushing Miz over someone as talented as Evan Bourne, after coming back into the ring Bourne owned Miz for all of about 2 minutes until The Miz hit what looked like The Stroke (Jeff Jarretts finisher in TNA) but he calls it The Skull Crushing Finale to take a win that he certainly didn't deserve in a push he also doesn't deserve either.
DX return. Who was the singing Blond that HHH put the bin over? I assume that was Santino who got Super Kicked (1st time I have EVER seen him sell a move and sell it well)? And Legacy beat the s**t out of them, its about time someone did.
Divas Championship, Mickie James vs Gail Kim - This is the match I wanted to see as someone said a lot of botches and bad moves were done. Kim started out with a few armbars and James' attempt at a cartwheel to break them wasn't very well executed. The roll throughs looked good but James looked unwilling to take that Cross Body Block. And by the way that was a reverse thrust kick, not a back elbow after the cross body block - James didn't hit the elbow until she was in the corner.
James hit an incredibly sloppy Hurricanrana (p**s poor execution) however Kims didn't look brilliant either but I don't think James helped her there with positioning or delivery, James was also stood too close for Kim to delivery a decent Missile Dropkick (so James gets the blame for bad ring positioning there). James managed to dodge an attempted cross body block from Kim by baseball sliding under Kim, the DDT was severly botched by James (Kim doesn't block it, James totally f**ks up her leg positioning and Kim was lucky to not get hurt by the move) but the colour desk tried to cover the flub by claiming Kim countered the move.
James missed the spinkick but the cameraman and tv director are also to blame for that flub choosing the wrong camera and totally no-selling the move by showing how badly James missed making any kind of contact. James hit a forearm after the missed (but really well sold) spinkick to take the win and retains her title. If Mickie James is the best WWE women have to offer then I do agree that they should cease their womens division.
James did look seriously annoyed after the match as she had her arm raised for the win but she had a really s**tty match here with a lot of rookie mistakes not just by her, I assume the cameraman and director who caused the no-sell of her spinkick will be fired for those equally bad rookie mistakes. I think Kim sold well and if she genuinely did need help standing up after the match it was due to that very bad DDT fall.
MVP vs Jack Swagger - Due to an overly long backstage segment involving John Cena, Chris Jericho & The Big Show there were no introductions for this match, they literally ended the backstage segment and this match started right away. There was no action with the ref calling for the bell within minutes of the start & MVP took the win off a DQ as Swagger failed to break after the ref counted way beyond 5. The postmatch scrap was pretty c**ppy too.
Falls Count Anywhere Match, Chavo Guerrerro vs Hornswoggle - Hornswoggle bolted straight under the ring and we were left watching an empty ring for over 20 seconds until it was revealed both men were on opposite sides of the ring when they both emerged. Hornswoggle fled backstage and we followed Chavo just standing in corridors until he opened a door and was floored by a tin of paint (a la Home Alone) then Hornswoggle got the easy pin in a p**s poor gimmick match where they then showed Macauley Culkin just in case anyone hadn't got the joke. See WWE fans! The company thinks your THAT stupid they had to explain the joke that thoroughly.
Overly long promo for Summerslam.
Tag Match, The Big Show & Chris Jericho vs Randy Orton & John Cena - Considering at the top of the show he refused stone dead to work tonight Orton didn't seem unhappy to be coming to the ring. Before the match got started Freddie Prinze Junior came out to inform Orton this was now also a Lumberjack Match and that he'd handpicked the Lumberjacks who were Mark Henry, MVP, Jamie Noble (then the d**khead cameraman decided to follow Henry). I managed to work out the other Lumberjacks were Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne and I think the other guy next to Noble on his side of the ring might have been Primo Colon (this was confirmed later by the colour desk) but we never really got a got close look at him. Very poor match where Cena took the win off The Attitude Adjustment only to get an RKO from Orton as he celebrated the win.
If this show was an attempt to get people to buy Summerslam then WWE shouldn't be surprised if no-one does as it had no heat and totally failed to pique my interest. Even in its worst days ECW put on better shows than tonights RAW.
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