RAW(view)

HOLY HELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!!!!! A good show through and through. Three hour RAW shows normally drag the firs hour, so those who don't know it was on an hour early aren't missing anything.

Show opens with Orton coming out before this weeks host Jesse Ventura. Orton talks about how he doesn't care about rules or regulations and he demands Ventura put him in the title match against Cena at the next WWE pay-per-view. After a minute or so Ventura comes out and says he has three "revolutionary" ideas for RAW tonight.

1. Cena v. CM Punk: Never before happened match.
2. DX v. The Hart Dynasty: Never before happened match.
3. The Breakthrough Challenge: A wrestler who has never been world champion will be the new no. 1 contender for either the WWE Title or the World Heavyweight Championship. A series of matches over the night where the winners face in a battle royal, the winner of the battle royal is the new no. 1 contender.

WAIT... ROLL THAT BACK.... A title match not featuring Orton/Cena/HHH this is unheard of since like 2006 (not an exaggeration). This set the expectation bar high for RAW.

Match One (Breakthrough Challenge Qualifier = BCQ): Kofi Kingston v. Dolph Ziggler

This match was alot shorter than I would've liked to see from two of the company's youngest and brightest stars.Back and forth in the early opening, then Kofi hits his two signature moves for the win.

Match Two (BCQ): Sheamus v. Finlay

Finlay gets the first few shots in after that this match was all Sheamus. Guy truly is a beast (a pale beast albeit). Sheamus wins via The Outsiders Edge. Attacks Finlay after the bell which I nearly thought was gonna lead to a referee's reversal on who the winner would be.

Backstage Orton tries again to convince Ventura to put him in the battle royal tonight. Ventura says he likes Orton's style but still refuses to bend the rules to make him happy.

Match Three: Cena v. CM Punk

Punk cuts a pre-match promo about Thanksgiving and calls the WWE fanbase gluttons and drug users. It is pure promo gold when he dropped the "Straightedge means I'm better than you," line.

Cena has really impressed me with his past few TV matches. Him and Punk both brought their A-game, match prolly went on for between 17 - 20 minutes. A lot of near falls towards the end with Cena hitting his finisher for the three count. These kinda matches are great because even with Punk losing he didn't look weak.

Backstage with Jesse "The Governor" Ventura and Vince McMahon. They poke a little fun at each other before Ventura informs Vince that they will be reuniting their old commentating team later in the show and Vince will be in his classic looking tux complete with red bowtie.

Match 4 (BCQ): Mark Henry/MVP/R-Truth v. Masters/Chavo/Jack Swagger

Missed the whole match as I was in the bathroom.

MVP and company win.

I apparently missed a DX promo too.

Match 5 (BCQ): Evan Bourne v. Primo

Primo attacked before the bell by Orton, he hits the ring demanding he is Bourne's opponent now. Ventura gets on the big screen and says he admires Orton's persistence so if he beats Bourne, he is in. Less than a minute later Orton wins.

Match 6: Divas v. Divas
Supposed to be a three on three that just sees two women wrestle the entire match. Face divas win. Post match interview with Melina sees her getting attacked by a returning Maryse, hilarious segment follows with Maryse stripping out of a turkey costume, took nearly two minutes and no one cared.

Match 7: DX v. Hart Dynasty

HBK played the face in peril, the match broke down with all four guys in the ring. Really cool ending saw HBK super kick DH Smith while Smith was holding HHH in a bearhug.

Post match Jericho comes out and sets up DX v. JeriShow for the belts at the next PPV.

Match 8 (BCQ): Cryme Tyme v. Legacy

Had to take a phonecall. Saw the end with Dibiase pinning Shad.

Match 9: BCQ Battle Royal
Participants: Kofi, Sheamus, MVP, Mark Henry, R-Truth, Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, and Ted Dibiase

Pre-Match: Ventura and McMahon come down and get on commentary.

Order of elimination:
R-Truth
MVP
Dibiase/Rhodes (sametime)
Mark Henry
Orton
Kofi

Winner: Sheamus

After the break Ventura is in the ring for a contract signing, after Cena cuts a career burying promo on Sheamus. Ventura talks about how WWE is conspiring to keep Cena champ since he is a clean cut champ and so on and so forth. Sheamus attacks Cena and the show ends with him slamming Cena through a table and standing over him holding the WWE Title.


Thoughts: Wow, they finally put someone else in a title match. This match is not to make Sheamus champ, he is HHH's new boy since Jeff Hardy is gone, this match was made to see if he can carry himself in a main event match on a pay-per-view. If he can, Sheamus has potential to be a future champ, if not, well, can't be hard to bury the guy, they've been doing it to MVP for months now.

Next week Verne Troyer is the guest host. Oh joy.

Til then,

Suss