I didn’t watch a whole lot of RAW last night. I caught the opening promo with CM Punk (extra points with the Super Shredder name drop, by the way), and tuned out on the Divas match to play some BPS Tetris and never looked back. Fortunately, the Score replays RAW a couple more times and thus I caught the replay. Honestly, I kinda wished that I hadn’t, because this show was horrible.
Just some quick notes…
– So it turns out that Kevin Nash sent HIMSELF the text message to stick the winner at Summerslam… and then HHH fires him. WHO THE FUCK WRITES THIS SHIT?!
– And even worse, HHH changes the match between him and Punk to a No-Holds-Barred match (after the contract is signed, of course, rendering that piece of business to be a colossal waste of fucking time!!), with the added stipulation that HHH must resign from his COO position if he loses the match, thus telegraphing the obvious result of HHH going over Punk at Night Of Champions and killing whatever good will WWE might have built with CM Punk’s story. Isn’t it bad enough I have to sit through another sleep-inducing HHH borefest? Must I see him kill another guy’s heat to sate his own ego?
– A question to the supposed WWE Universe: What the fuck is wrong with you people? You had a chance to give Coffee Kingston and Evan Bourne a cool tag-team name and you go with AIR BOOM? Are you fucking me, bro?
– Divas match? No thanks… and speaking of which, I don’t care for the Diva Drama taking place online. By the way, insert Bella here, to paraphrase a Simpsons episode from years past; You’ve got no attitude, you’re barely outrageous, and I don’t know what you’re in, but it’s not my face. NEXT!!!!
– Just a stray thought that came to mind and it’s one that has been floating around my brain for the longest time possible, but why did the brainfarts at WWE decide to rechristen Joe Hennig (son of Curt “Mr. Perfect” Hennig) with the name Michael McGuilicutty? Seriously, I keep thinking that he’s somehow related to Beulah… oh well.
– Okay, I gotta admit. The video package re-introducing Zack Ryder… rather nice job they did with that. The tag-match he was in? Not so much…
– No, Hunter. I don’t want to see your fucking pickle movie! Can’t you see what it did to poor Foolkiller over there?
– Oh goodie, another eight-man tag-team elimination match which features John Cena overcoming the odds (I’m surprised WWE didn’t trademark THAT phrase) and making the heel WWE champion look like a complete and utter tool. With that having been said, it was a rather enjoyable match. Nice variety of talent there… I suppose. Seemed hastily put together, but at the very least, there was a nice bit of wrestling there, so that’s fine.
Seriously, what the fuck happened here? This is like the fucking Nexus all over again! You had a really hot storyline going on, it actually garnered you some media attention, and then you start to fuck it up! Nobody asked you to bring Nash into this, nobody asked you to book him in a match with Punk, only to switch up to HHH. And then before Punk is allowed to even have his chance to get back at Nash, Nash is fired?! What the fuck? Who the fuck wrote this shit? Am I watching fucking Impact all of a sudden?
It’s this kind of “let’s tease change, but just go back to the same shit we usually do” booking that has me hesitant to invest so heavily into any major angle that WWE churns out these days. They manage to reel you in with its “new” and “different” style of storytelling and then they revert to the same old complacent style that they’ve stuck with for years – just ask TNA how well that’s been working for their growth or lack thereof. All the things they could have done to roll with their newfound relevancy and build on that relevancy in hopes of reaching a higher level… and they proceed to do absolutely NOTHING with it. What a heartbreaker.
Maybe I’m assuming too much. Maybe they’ll surprise me at Night Of Champions and Punk will defeat HHH. And then what? That’s the thing. My hopes… such as it is… are not so high right now…
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