The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Monday Night Raw 09.06.2010
by John Lamb on Sep 6, 2010 11:30 PM EDT
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Quick Results
- John Morrison defeated Chris Jericho
- Melina defeated Alicia Fox
- John Cena defeated Justin Gabriel
- Edge defeated The Great Khali
- Randy Orton defeated Wade Barrett
The Good
- Chris Jericho vs. John Morrison - Not a bad little television match...it was slow at times but picked up significantly towards the end. Morrison looked like a star against Jericho as he got a ton of offense in on the Ayatollah of Rock 'N Rolla. I'm wondering if this result is a way to dance around what Jericho said last week about leaving the WWE if he didn't win the WWE Title at Night of Champions or if he will be giving the rub to as many people as possible on the way out. The crowd showed him some love with a pretty loud "Y2J" chant before they cut to a commercial break. It will be interesting to see exactly what Jericho will do with the time he has left with the company. I wouldn't mind seeing him try to figure out who the anonymous general manager is as that was what was teased before and during the match.
More after the jump!
- John Cena vs. Justin Gabriel - I was surprisingly surprised by the amount of offense Gabriel was able to hit Cena with. Despite picking up the loss he was able to showcase a pretty diverse moveset -- something that we really haven't have the luxury of witnessing up until this point (It was only a few weeks ago that Gabriel looked terrible in a "winning" effort against Randy Orton). The ending of the match was pretty cool as Cena having to use a top rope Attitude Adjustment to put away Gabriel made the South African look like a legit threat. I was VERY impressed with Justin Gabriel...I am looking forward to seeing more of him in the coming weeks. What was the deal with Cole calling the Attitude Adjustment the 'AA'? Really weird.
- The Miz Gives A History Lesson - Anyone who reads this feature regularly knows that I am a sucker when it comes to the WWE recognizing its history -- both recent and distant -- so I really liked this segment. It is truly impressive to see just how far The Miz has come over the past half decade. Great mic work by Daniel Bryan at the end of the segment. The guy has charisma but it's different than the type that guys like The Miz and John Cena exude. I think Bryan should roll with the everyman persona that he seems to be cultivating.
- Alicia Fox vs. Diva's Champion Melina - The rematch the internet wanted -- nay! -- DEMANDED! Just as bad as their other televised matches.
- Edge vs. The Great Khali pt. 1 - Pointless. It got Edge over as the Ultimate Opportunist and that is all well and good but this is the type of garbage booking that has set professional wrestling/sports entertainment~! back big time.
- Edge vs. The Great Khali pt. 2 - So the Anonymous GM wanted to stack the deck against Edge and he STILL came out on top? I don't understand the logic behind these two segments at all. Also, when was the last time that The Great Khali was relevant? It seems like the only reason he is still around is because he is super tall...the dude hasn't won a match in forever. I honestly thought I was watching TNA for a second based on the booking. Ugh.
- Wade Barrett vs. Randy Orton - A really blah match, especially considering it was the main event on a night that featured two VERY good television matches (Morrison/Jericho and Cena/Gabriel). I was wondering exactly how they would reintroduce Darren Young back into the Nexus storyline but his subsequent clowning by Randy Orton rendered him null and void already. I get that Randy Orton is the viper and can strike at anytime but having him RKO everyone immediately after finishing his match was a bit over the top. On the plus side we get to see Cena/Orton for the thousandth time next Monday.
- Legendary - Only a limited amount of theaters have the privilege of showing this masterpiece. I think it is safe to assume that a majority of movie theaters across the country said, "Thanks but no thanks." I'll probably download it, though.
- Michael Cole - So, what do you guys think about Cole ripping Khali during the match for supposedly eliminating himself? Do you think that was scripted or was that a legitimate response from Cole? Every week he has his moments where I can't quite tell exactly what his deal is. Shades of Tony Schiavone right there.
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I hope they brought back Darren to protect Barrett from doing a clean job to never to be heard from again.
Couldnt decide if Bryan’s corpsing was intentional with Miz.
Someone on the F4W board had the same idea as me
I really thought the NXT Season 2 guys were going to come out and join Darren Young.
I think Bryan was breaking character intentionally. Either way, it was funny. I don’t laugh at a lot of what the WWE tries to pass off as comedy anymore but I definitely chuckled at his cracks about his $10 haircut and generic rock music entrance theme.
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I’m sure Vinny Mac will have those rough edges sanded off in no time. How dare DB show some personality!
A creep from the cradle, but a hero's what I want to be
Better show this week then last not overly good but not terrible…
Props:
Gabriel – Cena: I continue to not like Cena in general but he actually did good work out there, I was under no illusion that he’d job for Gabriel but he sold for him pretty good I thought and Gabriel looked good. He’s still rough around the edges but Gabriel could have a higher ceiling then I initially thought.
Miz Promo: It really is something seeing how far pseudo-ECW “chick magnet” has come. Awesome work on his part, Bryant… I wasn’t so impressed with… self-depreciating humor just came off bland IMO, once he got to the physical stuff he looked fine and that’ll be his bread an’ butter anyways.
Questioning the E-GM: It’s a glimmer of hope that this gimmick might be ending soon. I like the suggestion that maybe Jericho could be worked to “unmask” the GM (Thereby providing a suitable motivation for “firing” him and explaining his soon to be departure). There’s a tour of Canada coming up… if they want to do a partial face-turn in the process that would be the ideal location for it.
Slops:
Cole: Look Michael… Khali fucked up, I know that, you know that, Lawler knew that, the ref and anyone watching the match knew that but it obviously wasn’t booked for Khali to lose via brainfart so why keep on talking about it? Shut up, suspend disbelief, and pretend it didn’t happen.
Barrett v. Orton: Continues killing the Nexus heat, Darren Young yapping at ringside shouldn’t be enough to cause Barrett to lose. On a side note I think WWE missed a golden opportunity to bolster Nexus with some of the runners up from season 2 of NXT, obviously not Kaval or Riley, but the could have done something like have the rest come out declaring that they’d like to join nexus but have Nexus plus say Henning and Windham circle and beat down the rest. Nexus functions better with the super huge group dynamic and with only 5 they’ve lost that IMO. Of course at this point I think they’ve squandered the whole angle so maybe they just ought to drop it… I dunno.
One comment I’d like to make on these Raw reports, and this is meant as constructive criticism: after I read the reports, I don’t feel like I have any idea what actually happened on Raw. These recaps are written for people who have already watched Raw, but for somebody like me who rarely watches the show, I don’t feel like I have any idea what happened on the show after reading the recaps. You might want to find a way to recap these in a way where folks who don’t watch the show can get a better idea for what they missed. Just a thought.
I hear that.
This feature is definitely geared towards those who watch the show. I find that text based recaps of a visual medium are pretty dull…I’ll definitely try to incorporate a little more play by play but that’s not really the point of this exercise.
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Since Summerslam, the quality of the episodes seems to be getting worse and worse.
Now, mind you, things got pretty good when Nexus was introduced, and they can’t keep that momentum going forever, but…I don’t particularly look forward to watching RAW, whereas, a month or so ago, I did.
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