Another surprisingly decent RAW despite still being in the Johnny Ace era. Some quick bullet-points:
– Show opens with a Piper’s Pit segment, where Roddy slaps John Cena in an attempt to cull out some anger from Cena over fans’ reaction. Pretty interesting if they go anywhere with it, but it will most likely be forgotten in a couple weeks and Cena will continue to smile at losing matches. On the other hand, it’s always cool to see Roddy Piper… as long as he’s cutting promos and not wrestling matches.
– So let me get this straight; John Morrison can survive a limo explosion without a scratch, but is unable to fend off against the Miz? I would understand if it were the “When The Fuck Am I Debuting” Brodus Clay (the fat NXT guy) doing the deed, but Miz?
– Another decent Orton/Ziggler match… let’s have Ziggler drop the U.S. title to Zack Ryder or whoever so that he can move on to bigger and better things. Maybe a WWE Title shot… or even a World Title reign that lasts more than ten minutes.
– Nice promo work from Daniel Bryan Danielson to hype up tonight’s steel cage match for the World Title. Nice touch with the leg kick too.
– Solid TV main event between Punk and Del Rio. Happy to see that Punk has managed to retain his title and not have to drop it back to the cartoon.
That’s all I got… decent show.
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