So last night’s show featured Mike Tyson as a guest host, which made this the second RAW show that I stayed up until the end to watch. Of course, next week’s hosts prove that this is going to be the last one until Shatner comes along a couple weeks later.
Continue reading “RAW (Jan. 11th, 2010) – Mike Tyson’s RAW… I Still Prefer Punch-Out!”
Only a couple noteworthy bits to comment on about last night’s RAW:
– Nice to see Sgt. Slaughter stick to his patriotic roots and completely vilify himself before the Calgary crowd. Nothing like a good ol’ US vs Canada cheap heat to make an instant villain for the night.
– Shawn as a chef? Not a good idea, not unless you want grease fires and little girls getting their teeth knocked in with a superkick… In any case, be glad it wasn’t Dude Love – that Sweet Shin Music might have done more damage.
(2019 Context: HHH was in the neighborhood looking for HBK, who was apparently out of action and retired. Hunter finds ol’ Shawn working as a cafeteria chef and after a bit of coaxing, Shawn decides to return to WWE by superkicking his old boss as well as a little girl. Fun fact: the little girl was played by Shawn’s actual little girl… so, insert jokes about Shawn being a bad parent and then rescinding them because I’m sure he’s a swell dad.)
(2022 Update: Gather round, kids. The long lost RAW musings on what may be one of the worst episodes of Monday Night RAW ever conceived and think about how many dull and terrible episodes of RAW you’ve seen over the years to be worthy of THAT lofty accolade. I wasn’t even remotely aware that I had this originally, but there you go.)
The first episode of Donald Trump’s RAW… turned out to be its last.
Might as well get it out of the way. There was no way in hell anybody was expecting this Trump RAW experiment to last longer than a week, especially after the news of WWE stock prices going way the fuck down when the news broke, resulting in WWE having to backtrack and sent out a presser saying that the purchase is part of the storylines and not a real, honest-to-god purchase that had a real, honest-to-god negative effect on WWE stock value.
But yes… Donald Trump “bought” RAW in storyline last week and declared that his first episode of RAW as owner would be commercial free… for three whole hours. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well…
Been a while, but might as well comment on this:
– Donald Trump “buying” RAW just HAS to be a desperate attempt at getting back the show’s sagging ratings… even though Trump probably won’t show up for the most part during the show’s run and will probably assign a general manager person, thus making the whole experiment pointless. Bottom line, expect this to last a few weeks before Trump sells it back to Vince for five dollars or something.
– Really enjoyed the Triple-Threat World Title match as well as the Jericho/Mysterio match, while I pretty much slept through the RAW portions of the show. Seems like Smackdown is finally starting to become the better show… it’ll be a while before it hits 2002 levels, but it’s getting there.
– Speaking of sleep, Triple H wins another title shot against the new champion… Randy Orton. Wow, I honestly don’t know what’s going to happen in their match next week.
– Commercial-free RAW? Probably not here. I expect a couple Molson ads and more “greatness” from Jack Korpella.
Anyway, enough waffle. I’m going back to bed.
Haven’t had the chance to comment on the whole debacle between WWE and Kroenke Sports Enterprises with regards to the duel between the RAW show that’s supposed to take place in Denver and the fourth game in the NBA Playoffs.
Now, as you probably already know, last night’s RAW show was moved to the Staples Center in LA and will hold a Denver show some time in the future. Apparently, the reason for the snafu was that the Denver show was booked under the assumption that the Denver Nuggets team would not make it to the playoffs or whatever. Turns out they did better than expected and the NBA game takes precedence over a silly sports-entertainment show.
I’ve got nothing to say… I really don’t. I think it says a lot about the sports organization when they book a wrestling show at their arena due to the fact that they don’t believe their home team would last long in the playoffs. So, um…
So, on to last night’s RAW show from LA, which was surprisingly good. Who would’ve thought that? Anyway, here’re my thoughts.
Continue reading “RAW (May 25th, 2009) – Them (Denver) Nuggets Are Fucking RAW!”
Randy Orton beats up Shane McMahon some more, RKOs Stephanie, and brings out Trips, who’s irate dammit! What a heel that Orton is… not for systematically taking down McMahons, but for bringing Triple H back on RAW.
Aw man, this show is gonna suck again, isn’t it?
(2011 Update: Funny how that works. Just this past summer, there was a pretty good story surrounding CM Punk and his then-expiring contract. On the guy’s last night, he beat John Cena and walked out WWE Champion. WWE had people talking about their product, which had been made relevant once again… and then they decide to bring back Triple H and put the focus on him… and indeed, the show did start sucking again to the point where I’m barely watching the current Johnny Ace era of RAW.)
Meanwhile, Edge gloats and Cena calls for a rematch. Cryme Time loses another match. Chris Jericho beats on Piper. I generally don’t care and go to bed. But seriously, this was a nothing show. I might check out the PPV replay, however.
So I’m going to bed now, but I just wanted to comment on a couple things before I ignore the rest of RAW.
– A message to Ric Flair: DON’T COME BACK. STAY AS FAR AWAY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE! You’ve had a great, graceful exit last year and one of the more classier endings to a long, significant career. Don’t fuck it up with another cheap payday that will result in a inferior comeback match. I’m begging you, man. Don’t prostitute your career like Mick Foley did. Merci et salut la visite… or something.
– For a brief moment, I was actually rooting for Randy to give Nipple H a punt before Shane ruined the whole thing. At first, I attributed this to my having issues, but I prefer to go with the logic that anything that gets Stephanie, her shill voice, and wooden acting off my TV for a good long time is perfectly acceptable. Alas, it was not to be.
– Another sidenote is this whole Jericho/Rourke thing. Here’s hoping Rourke doesn’t wrestle at Wrestlemania… alas, it’s still going to happen, isn’t it?
That’s it. I go to bed.
Randy Orton comes out with lawyers, reveals that he has IED, and threatens to sue if he’s fired. He also threatens to sue if he doesn’t get his contracted title shot that he won last night. He then apologizes to Mr. McMahon for punting him in the head…
…now if I’m making this sound drab, it’s on purpose. They’re selling this whole bit where knocking out Vince is this unholy thing that is almost sacreligious… and yet the main inductee of this year’s Hall of Fame is a guy who made a living beating the crap out of McMahon every chance he gets. How times have changed…
WWE.com would like to extend condolences to the family of Rey Mysterio for their recent loss. Meanwhile, DTM would like to extend condolences to anyone who actually bought that.
John Cena and Batista, one week after winning gold they didn’t need, lost it back to the other guys… then got into a fight. What a buildup to a bigtime match.
CM Punk (the World champ, you know) loses a drinking contest to JBL by tossing whiskey in Bradshaw’s face. Not very sporting.
WWE got honored by some award group. Considering what else is on these days, it’s a worthy choice… that WAS sarcasm.
Meh…
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