WWE Raw results and reactions from Night of Champions go home show on Sept. 12 in Canada

WWE Raw Supershow, which was anything but that tonight (Sept. 12), emanated from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and marked the first night the company was up against the juggernaut that is ESPN's Monday Night Football. Did they bring the heat like we were hoping? Oh hell no.

Before we get to the reactions to the show, I'd like to give a shout to Cagesider commenter Ruben Tisch, who wins the coveted "Comment of the Night" award with this gem from the Raw live blog thread following the opening segment: "Is Vince Russo mailing scripts? Seriously?" Well done, Ruben.

If you want full results click here. Time to get to all the reactions from the show.

• Remember when we tried to figure out if Triple H would bury CM Punk once he got involved in a feud with him? That officially happened tonight. If there was any doubt that would be the case, they were removed with the final segment of the show. I was glad they closed with those two squaring off verbally but Trips let his ego take over and he SMASHED Punk on the mic. Not just got the better of him, he literally killed him. Punk came off as nothing more than a whiny child who wished he could have gotten famous sooner and if that wasn't the intention, and I can't imagine it was, they failed massively somewhere in the delivery. Probably when Triple H made successive points that it was on Punk, no one else, that he didn't get over with fans. While that's not totally the case and even the biggest superstars needed hot angles to jump start their careers, it was such a solid argument that fans are siding with Triple H instead of Punk. Is that the point here? His ego has seemingly taken over and Punk is being led to the slaughter, looking weaker and weaker each week. Hell, they even aired a Triple H highlight package during the show to hype his return match at Night of Champions. It was the most unnecessary video ever played and vanity at its finest.
  
• Having buried the entire angle the way I did, you'd think I hated everything about it. This is not the case. I actually loved the way they ended the show. As Punk went into shoot mode, by using his own and Triple H's real names, his microphone was cut. Triple H played like he didn't know what was going on and gave him his microphone, which was still working. That microphone was promptly cut, as well. This was great because it provided an extra bit of intrigue heading into the pay-per-view on Sunday and assures us that Triple H isn't the one who is running the show. There are other powers at play here and at least that's something to look forward to in an angle that has been all but taken out back and shot dead.
  
• This show, on the whole, was garbage. It was the weakest effort from WWE in months, which is surprising considering it was both the go-home show to Night of Champions and the first night they were up against Monday Night Football. It felt like everyone was buried and very few guys looked good by the time it went off the air.
  
• Speaking of burials and making everyone look bad, I thought it especially egregious that both Mark Henry and Alberto Del Rio, the heels in their respective feuds against Randy Orton and John Cena, were made to look like, well... wimps. Henry, at one point, literally ran away from Orton and only ever attacked when Cody Rhodes had laid Cena out. This would be fine if you want to book a heel like a coward but for consistency's sake, he's been portrayed as a monster that destroys all. And this guy is running away? Really? Same for Alberto Del Rio. He spends the entire night throwing Ricardo Rodriguez under the bus, even sacrificing him to John Cena so he can cower to the top of the ramp. This is a guy that had fantastic matches with Daniel Bryan and John Morrison where he looked very strong just weeks ago. Both feuds were also booked to look very clear how the matches will play out this Sunday. Not the right way to head into the pay-per-view.
  

Follow along after the jump for reactions to the rest of the show ... if you dare.

• Bret Hart being involved in the show is fine and dandy due to it being in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, but giving him a promo up against Del Rio and then inserting him into a match just to get him a glorified sharpshooter submission win was cheap. Posing him around was too. Do that shit at house shows, not on Raw. Plus, he already had that nice little nostalgia run.
  
• An extension of that was the crowd. What was wrong with everyone in that building tonight? Normally the folks up in the Great White North are rowdy and put American fans to shame. At times tonight, I literally wondered if they were napping. 
• David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty absolutely cannot continue to tell us they aren't boring while simultaneously being aggressively bland and monotone. How did they go from being tag team champions to getting buried week after week by a man over 60-years-old and whoever he decides to bring out to whoop ass on any particular night? I suppose I shouldn't complain too much, as Sheamus, a Smackdown star, got to come out and look strong ... against jobbers that are being booked like they made a pass at Stephanie McMahon. But let's not split hairs.
• I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this Dolph Ziggler vs. Jack Swagger feud. Apparently so is WWE, as the match added to Night of Champions for the Untied States championship is a fatal four-way that will also involve Alex Riley and John Morrison. Useless and a waste of time. That U.S. title needs to be merged with the Intercontinental title as soon as possible. Neither of them mean a damn thing at the moment and that's not the way it should be.
  
• R-Truth yelling at the crowd during the Miz vs. Kofi Kingston match was the most entertaining aspect of the entire show. Take that for what you will.
  
• Here was my major problem with the Kelly Kelly vs. Vickie Guerrero match: Why did Kelly have to win via snake roll-up on a distracted Vickie? This wouldn't be a problem under most circumstances but Kelly was dominating the match and making a mockery of Vickie. I know they wanted to advance the Ziggler vs. Swagger storyline but this was the wrong way to do it. It's fundamentals like this that WWE just ignores that makes fans hate the product.
  
• Remember this day, my friends. Randy Orton was pinned by Cody Rhodes. He was actually defeated on the last Raw before Night of Champions. Sure, it was under nefarious circumstances but the very fact that he laid down for the 1-2-3 on the last Raw before the big pay-per-view shocked the hell out of me. I expect that the receipt is coming at the Smackdown taping tomorrow night. 

That does it for us. Now it's your turn to sound off in the comments with your thoughts on tonight's show. I thought it was lackluster ... actually, it was downright dreadful. Agree or disagree? And why?