Vince, get a blog. Yes we know you are trying to be controversial by saying God every five words. It might actually rile people if you put it in the right hands. However nobody cares about it coming from you. Those boring chants during your opening monologue? They really meant it. Pay attention please. Stick those wonderful stylings of yours online instead, where nobody will read them. Blogging is for you Vince.
After far too long, too many "gags" that you saw set up a mile before, he gets kicked in the face by Shawn out of nowhere. For good measure, Shawn comes back to give the "suckit" sign. All is right once more.
Rob Conway vs Kane? Hmmmm. Could this be a squash match? I think so. Kane is beastly, Big Show teaches him a lesson, ho hum.
Then a complete and utter change of pace. Chavo interviewed by Jim Ross about his retirement. Completely out of the blue, just a deeper, darker, harder interview. Face to face almost in armchairs, recalling the classic Mankind interviews. Why haven't they used this style more? The serious deadpan Jim Ross works perfectly here. Good segment, appearing to answer questions, but leaving more unanswered.
Shelton vs Charlie Haas? Brilliant :) Former partners and World Tag Team champions, and good ones at that. Neat little match, Haas shows off a neat one arm suplex a couple of times (sort of drops a shoulder then throws), RVD disses from Shelton with a Rolling Thunder of his own, surprise rollup for the lose, so RVD gets a shot at Shelton's title.
Shawn vs Umaga, fairly forgettable, but he can move a bit. Is the point of Umaga to remind Samoa Joe what he could have? DQ to keep up his monster push, then Vince almost gets to get his own back, before God or someone stopping him from doing so. Ouch.
Matt Striker and Carlito promo against each other. Really good stuff. Don't know if I want to see them wrestle, but I want to see them talking with each other more, nicely done. Chris Masters runs in to steal some heat he doesn't deserve.
RVD vs all of Spirit Squad. He gets squashed by all five of them, this serves no real purpose. A shame, because there could have been a quality match somewhere here.
Trish and Mickey serve up yet another well-written segment. If they could only wrestle, but hey.
And then, a Raw main event that doesn't suck. Cena & Edge vs HHH. Cena gets the monster boos, HHH gets the DX chop (where is that going I wonder?) and the sledgehammer, Edge plays possum in the classic Bret Hart style, and gets the win. Everyone (and yes I include HHH here) does the job perfectly. HHH throws Cena for one of the best and convincing ref shots I have ever seen. And at the end, Edge gives HHH a wonderful told you so glance that I think he stole straight from the Blues Brothers. Nicely done.
3 comments:
So is RAW worth watching again then, particularly for someone like myself with a passing interest in wrestling?
my sister has found our old vhs taping of the 1989 royal rumble. i for one cannot wait to watch it this evening.
also flotsky, did i see shawn michaels do the 'dx' hand symbol after almost kicking vince's head off? could it be time for a return to sub-factions to make things a little more interetsing?
milks, shawn did indeed do the dx sign. He also did it at Wrestlemania atop a ladder, as did HHH seperately. Both have done it again since. HHH is starting to play it cool heel style. Speaks for itself I suspect.
assassin, I would have said yes until this week ;) I reckon it will be worth checking in next week, it is always value for money after a PPV, and they have got better recently in general.
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