Videos of The Undertaker & Triple H's 2011 return to Raw, John Cena's rap dissing The Rock, and Jim Duggan's Hall Of Fame announcement and career match

by Keith Harris on Feb 22, 2011 8:19 PM EST in WWE

Back in the WrestleMania main event this year - Triple H. (Wikimedia Commons)

After the jump (so as not to slow down main page loading times) you can check out YouTube videos of the three big news stories coming out of last night's flagship WWE TV show Monday Night Raw, namely:

Triple H interrupting The Undertaker's hyped return to Raw and staring him down to set up this year's WrestleMania main event, as had been rumoured for the past couple of weeks.
John Cena cutting an aggressive, gay bashing, battle rap promo dissing The Rock hearkening back to the time where hardcore fans still found him cool as an edgy heel eight years ago.
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, an awesome, kick ass, walking tall, patriotic, babyface brawler for Bill Watts' Mid South Wrestling/UWF in the mid 1980s who found greater fame and fortune as a popular upper mid carder for the WWF between 1987-1993, being announced as the second inductee for this year's WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony. He will be inducted by Ted DiBiase Sr., who was Duggan's tag team partner when he broke into the business and later had the best feud and matches of his career, including their legendary Loser Leaves Town, Tuxedo, No DQ, Coal Miner's Glove on a Pole, Cage match.

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Five gimmicks in one match

I am really surprised TNA has not some how tried to outdo the Duggan/Dibiase match gimmick wise.

by PhantomLord on Feb 22, 2011 9:34 PM EST reply actions

Thing was it worked and it was built up very logically.

by rovert on Feb 22, 2011 10:48 PM EST up reply actions

Never thought Cena would come up with a good response

But credit where it’s due.

Old school Rock vs. old school Cena in a REAL feud would generate some fantastic segments.

Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook

by Billy Gomila on Feb 22, 2011 11:31 PM EST reply actions

It seems weird to say this, but John Cena still has potential. I don’t like his gimmick now, but I could get behind him as a monster heel. Watching that video, I could be a Cena fan.

by xDieseLx on Feb 23, 2011 1:14 AM EST reply actions

I understand

Why most hardcore fans don’t like Cena — but you can’t question that the dude has amazing charisma. Honestly if WWE never goes PG I think he’d still be massively popular doing the Thuganomics shtick.

Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook

by Billy Gomila on Feb 23, 2011 10:22 AM EST up reply actions

Agreed.

Jericho even said in his new book that he thought Cena had good promo ability when he was doing the Thuganomics schtick. So I would assume hes being held back by his gimmick.

"A couple of years agoi was hitting 170 in 60 at bats and everybody was ready to kill me Guess what happened? Laser Show!

by BattleMoses on Feb 23, 2011 8:20 PM EST up reply actions

CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!

"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."

-Lao Tzu

by RoyalB on Feb 23, 2011 2:36 PM EST reply actions

See now

to all of you people acting like it was so terrible what The Rock said to Cena and acting like Cena was buried to the point he could never be dug back up, he went and did what you’re supposed to do in the situation. He slammed The Rock right back, just like in the old days when two faces could really go at it without either losing their momentum, and it only elevates his status to take vicious shots like that at an on-mic legend like Rocky. I couldn’t believe they were finally going there when Cena made the first comment about The Rock “blowing” him.

Sure the channeling Marky Mark thing he did was pretty lame (and honestly I don’t know if the promo was homophobic, or just plain homoerotic) but really Cena raised the bar for the verbal barbs to the point that you’re excited to see how hard The Rock will go on his next time.

I don't want to say he's dirty, but Forrest Griffin looks like directly after a workout his crotch might resemble a cajun swamp.

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by Fake Emcee on Feb 23, 2011 3:27 PM EST reply actions

Agree

with this entire comment. I knew there were ways for Cena to come back from that promo but I didn’t think they would go this route.

Now let’s hope they don’t just forget about it until Mania, which they’ve been prone to do in the past.

Forget it Donny, you're out of your element.

by Geno Mrosko on Feb 23, 2011 5:51 PM EST up reply actions

The reason why

People didn’t think Cena could come back from it is they didn’t think he’d be allowed to go as far as he did.

That’s why people are pleasantly surprised.

Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook

by Billy Gomila on Feb 23, 2011 7:48 PM EST up reply actions

Cena really pushed it there with the homophobic lines in that rap, has there been anything that edgy since this new squeaky clean era began? Cena’s act might be lame, but I was getting Attitude Era flashbacks, never expected that from him.

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by Kaleb Kelchner on Feb 23, 2011 5:13 PM EST reply actions

Apparently....

Raw got it’s highest rating in a while. But since I’m seeing just about zero buzz about Taker/HHH, my guess is that most viewers were expecting Sting.

by Anthony Steven Lewis on Feb 24, 2011 7:29 AM EST reply actions

Most viewers were probably expecting The Rock to make another appearance...

I don't want to say he's dirty, but Forrest Griffin looks like directly after a workout his crotch might resemble a cajun swamp.

http://twitter.com/FakeEmcee

http://www.unintelligentdefense.blogspot.com/

by Fake Emcee on Feb 24, 2011 4:24 PM EST up reply actions

Exactly. I do find it amazing that even after all these years The Rock in his big return is still playing Hunter’s set up guy. I don’t think that’ll be lost on Dwayne.

by Keith Harris on Feb 24, 2011 5:46 PM EST up reply actions