Maybe the RAW crew being stranded in Europe is a good thing. Last night’s RAW was a nice change of pace and ended up being a pretty good show overall. Yeah, color me surprised. TNA Impact pulls out a wonderful effort (for once) and RAW invaded by Smackdown turns out to be a much better show than it had any right to be. As much as the three of you would like to have seen a 2-hour Ironman match between Triple H and Lillian Garcia (came back for one night only – welcome back, Lil!), what we got was actually better than that.
HHH got beat up by CM Punk’s posse. Think about that for a minute – HHH on the weak end of a skit. That rarely happens on RAW these days. And the six-man tag-team main-event that followed… a nice change of pace. HHH won, sure, but he had to win in this case – he’s the only RAW guy there.
The MacGruber bits… some might find awful and unfunny, but I’ll admit that I got a couple laughs out of it. I find no amusement in the fact that he blew up Ron Killings, but other than that, it was good, clean pee-pee fun.
Undertaker beat Jack Swagger in a really good match. Yeah, not too happy about the guy who’s the World Heavyweight Champion losing all that often, but still it was a pretty good and actually entertaining match. You’d rarely get something like that on RAW these days.
Heck, there’s even a good match between the IC Champ Drew McIntyre and Matt Hardy… well, nowhere near as good as RVD/Jeff Hardy, but hey… they didn’t make me want to take a break, so they earned marks.
So yeah… all in all, good show.
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