WWE Raw results and reactions for Oct. 31 Halloween show featuring the Muppets
by Geno Mrosko on Nov 1, 2011 12:15 AM EDT
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WWE Raw Supershow tonight (Oct. 31, 2011) emanated from Atlanta, Georgia, featuring the Muppets on the Halloween episode.
Before we get to the reactions to the show, it's time to give a shout out to the Cageside commenter who delivered the "Comment of the Night" in the Raw live blog thread. And that honor goes to bensix, who dropped this gem when Jack Swagger showed up -- "Oh, poor Jack Swagger. The man's pushes are shorter than Kim Kardashian's marriages." Well done, my friend.
If you want full results from Raw tonight, click here for the running live blog. Time to get to reactions from the show:
- Let's get the obvious out of the way -- this show sucked. Not just because it had entirely too many segments that fell flat and couldn't recover, not just because they had no clue how to properly use the Muppets and not even just because the crowd was deader than a door nail. It sucked because it actually made me want to avoid Survivor Series instead of plunk down my hard earned cash to watch it. That's the benchmark for what's known in the wrestling business as "the shits."
- Let's break down the biggest reason Survivor Series is no longer a must watch pay-per-view event. The biggest match on the entire card, The Rock and John Cena vs. The Miz and R-Truth, is now the most pointless match in the history of pointless matches. Why? Because WWE made the inexplicable decision to have Cena go all "Superman" and dominant both guys in one fell swoop in the main event of tonight's show. What the hell does Cena need The Rock for at Survivor Series if he can just smash both guys on a pointless Raw weeks before the pay-per-view? This had to be the dumbest booking since "The Finger Poke of Doom" back in 1999. Not only did Cena blow through both Miz and Truth, they actually made it to where Cena won despite a surprise run-in from Truth, who was a plant in the crowd. So not only are Awesome Truth weak, they're incompetent. And this is the big main event at Survivor Series? That buyrate plummeted tonight, Rock or no Rock.
- Speaking of "The Great One," his promo was uncharacteristically devoid of any emotion and, sadly, entertainment. Normally, he electrifies. Tonight, he lulled fans to sleep. This could be because the live crowd in Atlanta treated the show like it was held in a library during business hours or it could just be that Rock was off his game. Still, his big return, taped or not, was a major disappointment.
- So does anyone want to dispute my point that the Muppets on Raw was a horrible idea now? Anyone at all? Even you contrarians have to admit, WWE botched a guest appearance that was actually highly anticipated. They weren't funny, it felt awkward and it made the show look silly. That's the trifecta of trash.
- Furthering my earlier point that the booking on the show tonight was horrendous, Alberto Del Rio, the WWE champion, and Dolph Ziggler, the United States champion, and Air Boom, the tag team champions, all jobbed clean in non-title matches. Del Rio lost after a back-and-forth affair against Big Show, Ziggler went down at the hands of Zack Ryder and Air Boom couldn't hang with Wade Barrett and Cody Rhodes. Heel or babyface, no champion was safe tonight. Everyone looks weak as champion, which makes the victories by Show, Ryder, Barrett and Rhodes look lesser, which is the complete opposite of what they (hypothetically) want. Plus, it makes things like Punk's chase for the title look even worse since Big Show is just punching Del Rio's lights out on Raw. What a totally unnecessary mess. Even Mark Henry wasn't safe, as he won on a silly and even more unnecessary disqualification finish. It's like the writing crew got together and brainstormed every way they could think to make every champion look bad tonight.
- One good thing about tonight's show was the lack of John Laurinaitis. Sounding like someone just punched you in the throat at all times is annoying on a level that makes me want to change the channel.
- This show was bad enough and full of enough crap that it doesn't even warrant a jump break.
This show grades at a solid F for me. Very few redeeming qualities and it actually killed my enthusiasm for Survivor Series, which I was greatly looking forward to before tonight. That's very frustrating. What makes it even more maddening is that this was all so avoidable.
That's enough from me, though. Time for you Cagesiders to sound off with your thoughts. Let us know how you felt about the show. Your live blog comments were actually more entertaining than Raw tonight, as well, so take a bow and make this thread just as funny.
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The Muppets were the best part of Raw if you ask me.
Majority of their segments went well e.g. Kermit making fun of Vickie, Beaker running into Sheamus, Statler and Waldorf burying Cena and Cole, Rhodes bagging Kermit, Animal ringing the time bell, and of course Fozzie and Gonjo.
BTW, did anyone notice Punk take a shot at Jericho tonight when he mentioned about frosting one’s hair and wearing cheap suits? That was funny.
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I have to agree, the Muppets were funny
and btw, the problem with putting the divas in a costume battle royal these days is that so few of them get air time that we don’t always recognize them in the usual wrestling gear, let alone disguised.
by Patrick Eakin on Nov 1, 2011 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I was personally entertained by the show tonight.
I have to agree with you that the booking of their champions was horrible, Punk vs Del Rio has no steam and Cena killed all interest for Awesome Truth tonight.
But i found the muppets segments to be quite amusing, i had my good share with laughs with them and i read a lot of positive comments on them on twitter.
Dolph Ziggler, to no surprise was once again the highlight of the night, his match with the Main Broski was quite decent, tho i don’t understand where are we going with this.
Man, Air Boom’s theme is terrible, their match in enjoyed but again it didn’t make much sense.
All in all, it was an horribly booked show which in my appreciation was saved by stellar performances by some of the superstars and special guests.
This gets a very Low D in my book.
I was disappointed.
That is as nicely as I can put it. I can’t help but think, that if Jim Henson was still alive, the segments with the Muppets would have been better. Especially Statler and Waldorf.
Also, is it possible for a Muppet to get herpes? After that kiss from Kelly Kelly, they need to have Kermit dry-cleaned ASAP, and his puppeteer, or handler, needs to scrub the shit out of his hand.
Statler: There’s no telling where Kelly’s mouth has been.
Waldorf: Probably not many places where it hasn’t been.
Both: Buhahahahaha!
I was hoping Statler and Waldorf would get announcing duties for the night
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 1, 2011 2:14 AM EDT reply actions
my favorite part of the show
was Santino saying John Laryngitis.
Maslow's theory of higher needs does not apply to Patrick Willis. He only has two needs: tackling people and finding people to tackle.
I laughed for a little bit at that one.
by davidhamilton83 on Nov 1, 2011 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Well done, my friend.
Thank you!
What the hell does Cena need The Rock for at Survivor Series if he can just smash both guys on a pointless Raw weeks before the pay-per-view?
It’s ridiculous. It’s like the USA declared war on Panama and Costa Rica and thought, “Boy, I’ll need the help of China for this one…”
by bensix on Nov 1, 2011 7:48 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Totally disagree about the Muppets. The only reason I was still watching at 11:00 was to see if there would be a run-in by Sweetums or something similar. The segment with Sheamus and Beaker was the best thing on the show. Of course, when the guest stars are the only thing you’re watching for, that means the rest of the show sucks.
The only good match was Del Rio vs. Show. It made ADR look competent, capable of taking on a much larger man, and it made Show look dangerous, capable of knocking a man out with one punch. Of course it would have been better if Lawler and Cole hadn’t said “just eight days ago, the ring collapsed” every ninety seconds. Nonetheless, the non-title matches are incredibly dumb. Either put title matches on the show or limit the champions to promos-only on free tv.
Raw is a terrible program. The booking sucks, and as a result the matches are terrible. I don’t know why I am even bothering to type this. It will never change unless some huge private corporation buys the WWE, fires anyone related to any McMahon, and gives total control to JR, Heyman, Cornette, or some similar person. I suppose this will sound dumb, but if WWE wasn’t the biggest wrestling company, no one would watch it. I mean if my local indy fed tried to sell me this garbage I wouldn’t waste a second on it. RoH’s low-budget hour show on Saturday was far better than this Raw.
Sheamus and Beaker was great
Besides that it was just a big pile of fail.
Before Monday, I thought Survivor Series would do between 500-750K buys thanks to Rocky. Who knows what it’ll do now.
by Jonathan Loesche on Nov 1, 2011 9:24 AM EDT reply actions
It may not have been good
but this wasn’t the go-home show. In this day and age it doesn’t take 3 weeks to build to a PPV. With The Rock coming in a couple of weeks to Raw I have no doubt it’ll get better.
I also think this is setting the stage for Cena joining Miz/Truth at Survivor Series and finally turning heel so we don’t have a face vs. face main event at Wrestlemania.
Actually it takes two or three months to build to a PPV, but WWE abandoned that kind of quality writing a long time ago.
If there was no
internet then sure, take your time building to PPVs. but really, in this day and age i don’t think people have the patience to sit through a build that long. there are no squash matches anymore so there are only so many ways to get the two people involved over the course of 3 months. besides this is still a business so they’re going to do 12 PPVs a year and you can’t build to all of them.
by TheCrow4Life on Nov 1, 2011 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s a business to Vince McMahon and John Cena. To me it’s entertainment. The insiders’ perspective is not the only one, or the only important one. There is nothing stopping them from doing six PPVs a year, or four. The WWF/WWE made money when there were two PPVs a year, and it would make money now with four or six PPVs a year. Nothing — not greed, not profit — justifies putting out a low-quality product. People’s brains now are the same as people’s brains were in the 1980s and 90s.There wasn’t some sudden turn in our evolution when the Internet was invented. If WWE went to four PPVs a year, built to them properly, and put on quality matches throughout the year instead of the incoherent garbage they put out now, people would pay attention just fine.
by Finian1 on Nov 2, 2011 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I loved Sheamus/Beaker segment. It was very funny, which is the route you have to go when you have muppets.
In my book, Santino stole the show with his John Laryngitis comment because it was a humorous show and that is his element.
I am on the same page with the booking. I was especially not happy with the way they set up the CM Punk/ ADR match. It really made ADR look week. I would have liked to see it stretched out a week or two more. The build that they are going to do now would not be near as good as it would be if CM Punk had to do more than put ADR in a hold for a few seconds to get him to agree to the match.
by davidhamilton83 on Nov 1, 2011 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
How about
Someone else running in and stopping Punk? Then Punk would have the next couple of weeks to try to get ADR alone, but he keeps slipping away. The idea was great and shows Punk’s relentlessness, but could have easily been stretched out.
by C. J. Bradford on Nov 1, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Watched wrestling for the first time in 5 years yesterday due to the muppets
Won’t watch for another 5. That was 5 minutes of muppet promos, some of which made no sense (wtf did kermit get stuffed in a paper bag with eyeholes?) and 2 hours+ of mostly snoozing and flipping back and forth between the Monday night football game and food network.
Sorry rasslin, despite me wanting to tune in, you couldn’t bring back another long-time fan.
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by Cory Braiterman on Nov 1, 2011 11:31 AM EDT reply actions
Of you actually watched the WWE
It would have made perfect sense in context
by C. J. Bradford on Nov 1, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
If you give it about a month or so,
you’ll still be disappointed, but you’ll have more of a context of what’s going on, so you’ll come back week after week hoping that maybe something good happens, when you know damn well it isn’t.
It’d fit in very nicely with your Mets fandom, actually. Very similar.
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 1, 2011 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I had to work, so I watched it on DVR....
Goddamn was this a silly show. Everything fell flat and killed the heat. When you’re jobbing because of a MUPPET, you know your career has hit a valley.
I’m really getting sold on Ziggler. Everything he does is credible and sound.
That bitch slap by Show was the worst I’ve seen. Followed by that failing microphone, ADR looks like a bitch…..so i guess that does make sense.
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Cena should have had his ass handed to him to close the show.
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by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Nov 2, 2011 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
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