I guess they thought there was too much wrestling on RAW in 2011 to date, because tonight, the well was dry. Seriously, the only long form match they had before the main event was maybe the worst non-Great Khali match I've seen on RAW in a long time. Randy Orton and Michael McGillicutty stunk up the joint something fierce. Of course, that wouldn't have been too egregious had the out-of-ring stuff been knocked out. It wasn't. Now, I'm not going to hate on this episode as some amongst my Internet brethren will. It was hit or miss, but the misses were DREADFUL.
First up, Triple H came back and opened his mouth. Okay, it was a decent promo, but what followed kinda unsettled me. I flipped my shit at Sheamus getting buried right away, but I'm willing to look past it because I think they have something for Sheamus, no matter how much that buck-toothed idiot Kevin Dunn is reputed to have it in for him. Plus, we got the return of Evan Bourne out of it. EVAN MOTHERFUCKING BOURNE BACK IN TIME FOR WRESTLEMANIA! I love it.
The showdown between Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler was well-done too. Jack Swagger's addition into the program adds to it in my view. I think this might lead to another Oklahoman returning to the fold, but that could just be wishful thinking.
I also thought The Rock's promo was simply electrifying as well. I felt bad for the live crowd since it was made for TV rather than the people paying to be in attendance. Furthermore, they followed it up with the Shawn Michaels pre-taped promo, and it must have killed that crowd. God, I felt bad for those fans. Of course, the worst part of the night was Cena's promo on Miz. Seriously, that was terrible. Stop with the cutesy bullshit, Cena. It almost ruined the whole flow of the show for me, but Miz reclaimed it at the end of the night. Seriously, Tweeting during guest commentary? Awesome. Just awesome. Miz is growing into a main event superstar before our eyes here, and it's awesome.
Too bad the rest of the show wasn't as consistent as the main event was. Too much filler, too many mistakes, and Christ, John Cena needs to have someone grow balls, pull him aside and tell him that he should be building towards WrestleMania with his strong suit, serious promos rather than this cutesy bullshit. Right now, not only is he being lapped by The Rock, but Miz is wrecking him too.
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I think the worst thing they could have done to Cena is EXACTLY what they did.. They followed up his promo from last week, which probably won him back some of the male adult fans just by the serious tone of it...with THE SINGLE CORNIEST, CHILDISH PROMO CENA HAS EVER DONE. Not only was the material weak, but his delivery was terrible, and he just got eaten alive by Miz, both on the Mic and in the ring.. This is the first time Cena has shown ass in a long time, but it isn't even intentional.
ReplyDeleteI was so creativity-starved after this show that I just did something creative myself. Behold, creative critique:
ReplyDeleteOur CM Punk, who art on RAW,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
if Trips would be done,
on Earth, it would be Heaven.
Give us this day our Daniel Bryan,
and forgive us our mark outs,
as we forgive those who mark out against us.
And lead us not into endless promos,
but deliver us great matches.
For thine is the Nexus, and the bumpage, and the awesome, for ever and ever. Amen.
They do a show this bad again and I'm doing The Raven. Full length. Don't make me get out the Poe, WWE. Don't make me!
Abysmal show, especially considering its recent quality (for WWE) and how close 'Mania is. The Cena/Miz/Riley segment was the shittiest in recent memory (though Riley getting buried on commentary for the rest of the night was amusing), and even Rock's promo was weak.
ReplyDeleteLoved the official burial of Sheamus (take that, you silly Irishman -- you thought eight Brogue Kicks and half a dozen pipe shots had gotten the job done?), as well as the terrible, crowd-killing promo that preceded it. That mediocre non-draw talking about how he's only one in the locker room (75% of which can wrestle and/or talk circles around him) who has a chance of ending the streak had me howling. I hope his match against 'Taker bombs like almost all his other Wrestlemania main events and that I never see him in the ring again.
But hey, at least Bourne is back, which is great news for us Superstars fans.
I thought the show was spotty. With hit or miss promo after promo, it lost it's smoothness and was awkwards at times.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned it in a comment before, but it feels like Cena's stuff is intentional. I think they are turning Miz soon (would explain dumping Riley), I wouldn't rule out a double turn at WM.
I think post Mania Cole may get taken off announcing and be a heel manager, probably for Swagger. I smell a Miz/Swagger feud going in or coming out of Backlash, which would be awesome.
I only watched the first half hour of PromoFest 2011 -- I mean, Monday Night RAW -- and to judge from your description, I didn't miss a damn thing. Do they really think they'll amp up the Mania buyrates with six weeks of talking?
ReplyDeleteOf course, the tone was set by Mr. Slow Promo himself. I realize Triple H gets a big crowd reaction; but as far as I'm concerned, whenever he makes his interminable walk to the ring, RAW screeches to a halt. And not in a good way.
Interesting side note: I was reading John Piermarini's blog and he said this about the Sheamus segment...
ReplyDelete"- Sheamus is being humbled big time these last few months. My guess is that his head got a little too big the last year with his meteoric rise. I seen a change in him since the day he won the WWE Title, apparently I wasn’t the only one."