RAW(view)

A day late and for that I apologize.


RAW came to us here in the states on tape delay emanating from Sheffield, England. Show opens with this weeks guest host, English boxed Ricky Hatton (whoever that is). Standard break down of Jeri-Show coming out followed by DX shortly after setting up the main event tag team match for the end of the show.

Womens match: Alicia Fox v. Kelly Kelly
Fox is the no. 1 contender for the RAW womens title and no one cares cause she isn't built up at all. They put her over Kelly Kelly in this match to try and get her some amount of heat but I can't seem to care about her no matter how hard they try and push her.

Speaking of people I don't care about, look its Sheamus.....
Sheamus v. British indy wrestler
Squash match, only point of note is that Sheamus took Scott Hall's finisher.

Backstage segment with Hatton, the Bella twins, Santino, and Chavo. Pretty fun and sets up a boxer v. wrestler match for later in the night between Hatton and Chavo.

Match three and finally something worth watching....
Evan Bourne v. Jack Swagger
Both of these guys got traded from ECW earlier this year and have put on some really good matches since then. Good back and forth seeing Bourne using his speed to stay off the power moves of Swagger. Right as Swagger starts to get the upper hand The Miz (YAY!!!) comes out and antagonizes Swagger about not being the captain of their team at Survivor Series and distracts him long enough to let Bourne hit the Air Bourne for the win.

After the match Miz reminds us all he is the Survivor Series captain cause he's awesome.... I'm inclined to agree.

After the break we have MVP and Mark Henry in the ring for the VIP Lounge with their guest/Survior Series team captain: Kofi Kingston. After a little bit of fun between the three we are interrupted by Orton and Legacy. Orton lays into them calling them thugs and saying they are all from the hood.... Congratulations WWE writers, you offically made me feel uncomfortable with your terrible writing as you had three white guys who grew up in the business calling three black guys thugs and trash. So uncomfortable. Segment thankfully ended shortly into all that with Kofi slapping Orton as we went to commercial.

Back from break Orton and Henry have started their match.... I spent most of it in the bathroom and came back only to see Orton hit the RKO and win. I'm told it was a pretty solid match for the two.

Ricky Hatton and Chavo had their "match." Chavo collects a paycheck which is great. But if they wanna honor Eddie's memory, why are they having his ex-wife parade around Smackdown with a different guy every few months and having his nephew run around RAW getting humiliated every week.

Backstage we have Hornswoggle and Cena arguing cause Hornswoggle refuses to get out of the DX gear as he was ordered to do. Cena hears DX coming and orders the Leprechaun to run and hide. Hilarity ensues between DX and Cena as they all make jokes about their upcoming triple threat title match and DX accuses Cena of knowing where Hornswoggle is. Cena orders him out but only now he is in Cena gear which causes DX to leave but not before they suspect something is going on. After they exit Hornswoggle is back in DX gear to send us to break with a crotch chop.

Main event: Jeri-Show v. DX w/ John Cena on commentary.
This match had something from DX that hadn't been seen in a very long time. HHH not Shawn Michaels played the face in peril. Standard match not alot to say about it, Cena added even less on commentary than HHH/HBK did last week as he apparently left his sense of humor backstage and was all business on commentary. Finish to the match saw Big Show accidentally hit Jericho with the knock out punch instead of HBK. HHH clotheslined Show outta the ring while HBK picks up the pin.

Before we close the show the next week main event is announced to be a triple-threat-tag-team-extravaganza: Jeri-Show v. DX v. Cena/Undertaker. I'm ok with this.

Fun fact about the match listed above: John Cena is the youngest person in the match by seven years.

Next week we are live again from Madison Square Garden with Rowdy Roddy Piper as our host. I'm expecting a good show for the first time since I started this blog.

Til then.

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