The show opens with a guy who's more into being a star than a football player, Chad Ochocinco. Actually there was a spin the wheel deal on a " gimmicked " wheel with John Cena & Stone Cold Steve Orton. They are supposed to face off in a tables match!
Anyway, Ochocinco does a pretty good promo to be interrupted by a better promo delivered by The top Heel in The Business Mike Mizanin ( aka- The Miz ) who is really embracing the top dog role and gave some shoot comments on Chad from yesterday's drubbing by The Patriots. This led to the obligatory E-mail fro the anonymous GM ( who I think will end up being Michael Cole or Jim Ross ) to spin the wheel and gee they set up a submission match with guess who? Daniel Bryan!!! He uses The Labelle Lock ( named after "Judo" Gene Labelle ) and in truth comes across as a 70's Bob Backlund with the lack of charisma. He was trained by Sean Michaels/Rudy Boy Gonzales and I respect his work, but I just wish he patterned his style after HBK and not that horrible human being Chris Benoit who murdered his wife and little boy years back before cowardly taking his own life. Well Bryan uses the Crippler Crossface ( Labelle Lock ) and Miz pulls some old school I'm hurt heel shit, and puts Alex ( I'm gonna be a star after I pay my dues ) Riley in his place and Bryan taps them both by the end and it was a good go home angle for the PPV.
Adam Copeland known to the world as Edge with his " I was named in the roid scandal a while ago, so now I'm starting to look like Dick Murdoch with Long Hair. " draws a bodyslam challenge from Evan Bourne. To show how little I know, I once walked by Bourne ( then Matt Sydal ) and C.M. Punk in an ROH locker room to see my old buds The Midnight Express and said, these two will never be nothing, because they are tiny. Anyway, Bourne is a great worker who reminds me of A.J. Styles. He lost a competitive deal with an awesome kick to Edge, but the GM made him do the slam deal with Michael Hayes drinking buddy Mark Henry. Henry went over?
So far wheel has been spun by Eve Torres ( bangable ), Alicia Fox ( more bangable ), Jillian ( marriage material, as she's just a gal from OVW who earned her spot and was not given it due to being a fitness model ), and the dissed Gail Kim ( not as bangable as her first run, but still hot ), and I will continue this hottie segment as the night unfolds.
R-Truth & Eve got a rap pop in a song and dance gimmick, as Maryse ( yes the WWE's hottest ) just saw a slutty photoshoot, and always see her Facebook pics that Jack Swagger is always in? Seems like a party girl? Ted sung My Way which was horrid.Faces went over. yeah, if Velvet Sky wasn't in wrestling Maryse would be my fave.
In what was a funny segment The Bella's spun ( might be bangable, but I can't get int them ) for a late 80's WCW Saturday Night bout of Regal ( still great facials, I mean Regal, not The Bella's in Vince's office ) vs Goldust where they have to look like each other.
Sheamus ( AKA Capt. Lou Albino ) did an anti Ocho deal where he called him fella. I'm not as into Sheamus as HHH is.
Backstage deal showed John Morrison doing that nutty training he does. Very impressive. Legit. I couldn't do it. I remember going to Louisville and i thought MNM ( Matthews, Nitro, Melina ) were the future of tag team wrestling. I miss them, but life goes on, and Melina doesn't look nearly as hot now in my opinion.
Big suprise! John Morrison vs Sheamus was an awesome match!!! Tonight might have been similar to when HBK threw Jannetty through the glass (or glass ceiling in this case) as Morrison was allowed to show what he can do. Smart finish of Jericho nailing Morrison with a chair. Great stuff.
Jericho was super heel ( contract in negotiations ) and a real team player. GM tells him he has to work with The Harts! Gotta be tough to focus for Nattie Neidhart with her old man going thru so much shit? Another good match in a cage. Jericho is working like a vet should. I guess he learned what not to do when he was coming up, and guys didn't want to lose their spot.
"Legendary" the movie Promo after an awful box office debut. I wonder who's doing worse from Lethal Weapon? Mel Gibson has buried his own career, and Danny Glover is doing movies with Cena? I think Gibson has a better chance on a comeback!. Just joking, I like Cena as a wrestler and a person
My man Pete Rose is in the house! Best heel ever who was not in the business.
Time for Cena vs Orton. Cena's been doing a bunch of chain wrestling lately and looks to be stretching the young guys which is cool if it's limited. Of course, the people that hate him would never notice. most of them don't even know why they dislike him. Guess John didn't feel like taking the Garvin stomp as he no sold and rolled away? Decent match, nice hype for Night Of Champions. I've been a big fan of The Nexus thing since the start. DVR cut off, but I assume Orton RKO'd somebody? He's super over.
Favorite Raw in a while.
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