This recap and analysis of WWE’s Monday Night Raw are the personal opinions of the writer. The author of this article is a former promoter, writer, and referee in the wrestling industry. You won’t find analysis as accurate as this anywhere else on the internet.
WWE Monday Night Raw Results 5/28/12 from New Orleans
Raw begins with a patriotism video of Memorial Day. A video that probably got more time than the Diva’s will tonight. Then it’s Recap Video #1 of the evening. The all too predictable Cena vs Big Show feud is re-visited. It’s only a week old, but apparently it needs recapped. 5 minutes of Raw has been wasted before the show has even started. It’s going to be another long night.
The Big Show comes to the ring. He is wearing a suit and smiling. He comments on how he is smiling. He attempts to spin it into why being a face was bad for his career. I really haven’t heard a good reason as to why Big Show turned heel yet. It’s like they inevitably wanted to do it, so they feed him these same old “I’m a heel now” lines without any back story. He cried and then he helped Laurinaitis. How does that make any sense? It doesn’t have to. Because the writing staff doesn’t really need a good reason to make it believable. They say he’s a heel, so he now is. It’s pushed down our throat. And we have to accept it. So he’s a heel just because Laurinaitis made him beg. Why a massive giant would accept that kind of treatment befuddles me. So anyway, Big Show goes on to take a shot at “toothpick” NBA players, “so called UFC fighters”, and other wrestlers in the back. He shows a clip of Brodus Clay dancing minutes after he was fired by Laurinaitis. Why don’t they do a Big Show vs Brodus Clay feud then? That would be far more intriguing. Mainly because Clay has never had a legitimate opponent. We know that the Big Show heel turn will be pushed, so it would be unique to see that push collide with the face push of Clay. That would be interesting because it’s unpredictable. They have to put someone over on someone else. Who would they put over? I don’t know. It’s hard to tell when it’s two guys like that colliding. Instead we have to see them doing the same old predictable feuds with the guy who is constantly pushed being put over. Let’s hope for this feud.
Big Show continues on his incredibly long, boring, waste of time promo by showing the video of Cena impersonating and butchering Jim Carrey last week. He says “Cena hurt me when he decided he didn’t care.” Awwww really? He’s hurt? Is that why he turned heel? Still pretty weak. This promo has made sense of nothing and has progressed nothing. We are now 15 minutes in and nothing has happened on Raw. Big Show talks about beating Cena, or something like that. And then goes back to the “that puts a smile on my face” line. I see what he did there. He took a 15 minute promo and spun it back to his starting statement! He used the difference in smiling as a face and as a heel to be symbolic of his change in character! And it sucked. Boring ass promo. A graphic shows Daniel Bryan vs CM Punk tonight……YES YES YES YES YES YES YES…wait…I’m sure they will ruin it.
#ZackRydervsCatering is trending on Twitter. Why? Because Ryder announced on Twitter that he wasn’t booked tonight. So he did a question and answer segment with people on Twitter. They had to use that hash tag to ask their questions. This is trending and the WWE is not. I guess this proves what the people want to see more. It’s time for Ryder or Riot again. If this guy isn’t booked I’m about to stop watching. Why would you not put one of your highest grossing merchandise sellers on television? Just because he’s vocal about how you butchered his internet show? You were the idiots for butchering it, and now your the idiots for not using him. Go jump out of windows writing staff.
Alberto Del Rio vs United States Champion Santino Marella- Del Rio begins the match viciously attacking Santino. Yes! Destroy him! Del Rio charges him in the corner, but Santino moves. Hip toss from Santino, followed by a saluting fist drop. He puts on the Cobra glove, but Del Rio punches him in the gut. Cross Arm Breaker. Santino taps out. That was the opening match of Raw? So were 23 minutes in and we’ve had 1 minute of wrestling? Do you people understand that this is a wrestling show? Wrestling. Key word is wrestling. There is supposed to be wrestling. Not 500 pound pieces of trash spitting all over the mic for 15 minutes. Alberto Del Rio is trending on Twitter.
Alex Riley is in the back with Eve Torres. Apparently he has a crush on Eve. He is trying to tell her. Big Show walks up. Eve says that Big Show is allowed to pick his opponent tonight. Riley tries to talk him out of picking him. Big Show says he’s not picking Riley and throws his head into the concrete wall. OMG really? Your pushing a schoolboy crush from a grown ass DUI getting man? That’s the best that could be thought of to tie these two in? Why tie them in at all? No back story was needed. Just have Big Show toss him into a damn wall. Better yet, don’t even show Big Show. We already watched him for 15 minutes tonight. We don’t need to see him anymore. And instead of giving him a promo, a backstage segment, and a match, why don’t they just give him one of those three? That way the focus of the show can turn to the actual WWE Champion CM Punk. Because that’s who people want to see. These writers actually think that people want to see Big Show be the focus of the show? What they don’t understand is that people don’t want to see Big Show because he’s a good heel character…they don’t want to see Big Show because he’s been stale for 11 years. His boos are not good heel heat. They are boos of boredom. They don’t understand the concept of heel heat vs legit heat. They think that Big Show is over because people don’t want to see him. That’s not the way the industry works. That’s what they get when they make one of the requirements to be a WWE Writer “must have experience writing television drama.” How about they change that requirement to “must understand wrestling and industry psychology.” Alex Riley is the #1 trend worldwide on Twitter.
WWE Tag Team Championship: Kofi Kingston and R-Truth (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger w/ Vickie Guerrero- Kofi and Swagger start off with a tie up. Swagger pushes him to the corner, but it’s reversed. Punches and a dropkick from Kofi. Truth is tagged in as they do a double hip toss. Truth bounces off the ropes, does a bunch of splits and dancing, and hits a leg drop. Swagger throws him off the ropes, but he holds on and dances some more. This gives Kofi time to get back in the ring and dump Ziggler over the top rope. Truth and Kofi double team Swagger with running front drop kicks that send him to the outside. That takes us to commercial.
Back from break we see a spot where Kofi was knocked off the apron. It was incredibly uneventful. Definitely not worth Jerry Lawler’s line of “during the commercial break the titles were almost lost.” That’s called King not knowing how to segway. Ziggler uses an elbow drop on Kofi. He goes for a pin fall. Unlike with Orton, it’s fine for him. He has a showboat gimmick so he’s allowed to think all of his moves are more credible than they actually are. I expect him to do things like that with his gimmick. Hot tag to R-Truth. Truth comes in with clotheslines and a rollup. Swagger breaks it up. There are a couple double team moves followed by the “Lil Jimmy” by R-Truth. That’s the match. Kofi and Truth win. Ziggler and Swagger are jobbers. Ziggler gets angry and walks out on Swagger and Vickie. Finally. It looks like they are actually going to do something with him. A face turn seems likely. And it will work for him. Do it. “Kofi and Truth” is trending on Twitter.
Santino is walking with trainers in the back. They tell him that his arm is injured. Big Show walks up to him, grabs him by the face, and says he picks him. Brodus Clay comes up to Big Show and tells him to pick him. Big Show does. I couldn’t really take that altercation seriously because of his silly hat and the emergence of dancers in fiery red suits. Big Show vs Brodus Clay is trending on Twitter. It looks like people are as slightly intrigued as I am. I’m not intrigued however to see Big Show for a 5th time tonight.
John Laurinaitis comes to the ring. He is riding his awesome scooter that says “People Power” on the front. He is with Eve Torres and David Otunga. Otunga is wearing his bow tie and drinking from his coffee mug. Highlight of the night so far. Laurinaitis announces that Big Show vs John Cena will be inside of a steel cage. Don’t care. He has a big billboard with a curtain over it. He unveils the cover for the WWE 13 video game that comes out in October. It has Laurinaitis on it. He says it will be bigger than Pac Man. CM Punk’s music hits. He puts gum on Laurinaitis’ scooter chair on his way into the ring. Punk says Laurinaitis and Pac Man both have no balls. Not funny. Punk says that the cover of the video game is prestigious. It is? Punk shows the actual cover which falls from the sky on a gigantic banner. There are actually fireworks that unveils it. Of course, it’s Punk. God this is stupid. Punk tells Laurinaitis to take the Hoeski and Carlton and leave his ring. That’s funny. Steel Cage and #WWE13 are trending on Twitter. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII DDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTT CCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE. Punk destroys the cardboard with Laurinaitis on it. How can Punk go along with this crap? Raw might be worse right now than its ever been before.
#chosenone is trending on Twitter. Why? Because Drew McIntyre is also not booked. So he decided to do what Zack Ryder did. The people once again showed that they were more interested in the guys who are wrongfully booked than they are watching this awful show. Get a clue WWE. The people want Ryder. They want McIntyre. They want good wrestlers. They don’t want Big Show.
Daniel Bryan vs WWE Champion CM Punk- YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. Heaven. Tie up to start. Shoulder block by Byran, leap frog by Punk, arm drag by Punk. Punk applies an arm bar. Bryan fights up and Punk reverses it into a hammerlock. Bryan works his way out of it and reverses the hammerlock into a bridging german suplex. Beautiful. Bryan applies an arm bar and throws his elbow into Punk’s shoulder to keep the pressure applied. Punk works his way out, gets out with elbows to the face, shoots Bryan off the ropes, catches his leap frog with a slam, and kicks him hard in the gut. Punk uses multiple knee drops into the torso of Bryan. He keeps him grounded with a scissor hold on the mat. Punk pushes Bryan’s head to the mat, uses his momentum to pull himself off, crosses Bryan’s legs, and works him into a Bow and Arrow. Bryan flips out, but Punk gets into a pin fall attempt for a two. Bryan flips out into a bridge pin. Punk attempts a backslide, but Bryan counters out. Punk hits him with a back breaker. He throws Bryan’s torso across the top rope. Bryan falls to the apron and guillotines Punk’s arm. running drop kick by Bryan sends Punk to the outside. Bryan goes for a running suicide dive, but Punk side steps. Bryan lands on his feet as Punk uses an awesome springboard turning cross body from the apron to the floor. AJ makes her way down the ramp. That takes us to commercial. I could punch a baby because of this commercial break. I hate you WWE. CM Punk is trending on Twitter.
Back from break, Bryan reverses a suplex, leap frogs Punk in the corner, and ducks a flying springboard cross body by Punk. Bryan uses a running front dropkick to Punk’s face. He uses an amazing arm submission where he bends back the wrist, elbow, and fingers of Punk. Amazing submission hold. Punk works his way out, but Bryan guillotines Punk’s arm over his own body. Punk powders into the corner but Bryan comes running with a front dropkick. Bryan yells YEEESSSS the whole way into the turnbuckle. Bryan twists the arm of Punk again and hits a bridging german suplex. Beautiful. Back into another arm bar with pressure being applied to Punk’s face as well. Punk gets to his feet and breaks the hold with forearms to the face. Again Bryan guillotines Punk’s arm over his own body. That’s his go to move to stop Punk’s offense and continuation of working the arm. Amazing psychology. Bryan charges Punk, but he’s hit with a knee lift to the gut. Bryan charges again but is hit with a spinning neck breaker. Punk charges in the corner and hits the knee to the face. Bryan comes back strong with a kick attempt, but Punk rolls through with a schoolboy rollup for a two count. Bryan uses multiple kicks to the chest of Punk. Punk runs away from him, up the turnbuckle, and hits a flying sit out clothesline. Two count from Punk.
They continue to show AJ throughout the match. Punk goes to the top rope for the Flying Elbow Drop, but Bryan jumps up and knocks him off. Bryan climbs the ropes and hits a superplex off the top rope. A lot of elevation on that one. Two count by Bryan. Bryan gets up and removes the turnbuckle cover. He is distracted by AJ. When he turns around he’s hit with a Yakuza Kick to the head. Two count for Punk. Punk charges Bryan but he’s sent head first into the exposed turnbuckle. Byran covers and gets the 3 count. Bryan wins. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. Amazing match. And then they ruin it. Here comes Kane. He beats Bryan with a chair and choke slams him. Punk makes the save and beats Kane with his own chair. CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, No Way Out, and Kane are all trending on Twitter. They actually give people what they want to see and WWE finally dominates Twitter. For the first time tonight. What more do those idiot writers need to see??? Speaking of the idiot writers…
It’s time for another WWE Writer Discussion- So the people online seem to like Bryan vs Punk. So let’s do it again tonight. Good idea. But those two alone don’t cut it. We need to add something else. How about AJ? Well, that’s a given. She’s already going to be involved. How about Kane? Perfect. Kane will make this feud much more exciting. That way we won’t have to watch them roll around the ring doing boring counters and doing all that psychology garbage. Wait, isn’t that called scientific wrestling? Because that’s what Vince used to call it when he was on commentary. That’s exactly what it’s called. Whatever Vince says is law. So anyways, let’s take the attention off Bryan vs Punk and put it on Punk vs Kane for a Smackdown title match. Good idea. Kane needs to be the focus of that show anyways. Bryan isn’t a good enough heel. He isn’t big enough. He needs to be more like Kane. Actually, tell the agents to hold a meeting with Bryan later and tell him to be more like Kane. Good call. So does this match main event? (Everyone laughs.) The WWE Championship is not as important as Big Show right now. So Big Show needs to main event. Let’s put this match at the 10 o’clock hour. That’s where it deserves to be. Because it fails in comparison to the big men. Little guys have to be on the under card. Big guys have to be in the main event. That’s how the industry works. We proved that at Wrestlemania 3. Hogan vs Andre was much better than Savage vs Steamboat. Steamboat was so bad in that match that we made him dress up like a dragon and breathe fire after that. Hey, maybe we should make Bryan breathe fire? Nah, we’ve already done that. Let’s make him juggle to the ring. That would be unique. Great idea! I like that. All in favor say I. IIIIIIIII.
Intercontinental Champion Christian vs. The Miz- Cody Rhodes is on commentary. They actually reference the Jericho situation. Jericho was suspended for kicking a Brazilian flag during a show in Brazil. He is out 30 days. I now officially hate Brazil. I want to see Jericho. Screw their laws. Miz attacks Christian to start the match. Chrstian leapfrogs and uses a sunset flip off the top rope. Miz stomps his head and takes back over on offense. He punches Christian down into the corner. Running clothesline through the ropes by Miz. He goes to the top rope and uses a diving axe handle smash. Chin lock to slow down the pace. Decent start to the match. Cody Rhodes calls Christian old on commentary. Miz uses a reverse backbreaker/neckbreaker combo. Standing senton to the back. Christian again fights up but is pushed into the corner. Christian kicks Miz away and hits a missle drop kick off the top rope. Miz rolls to the ropes. Christian jumps over the top rope, down to the floor, and uppercuts him. I hate that spot.
Back in the ring he uses a reverse DDT. Christian sets up for a spear. A spear? Really? Last week he did a Frog Splash and now he’s trying a spear? Is his arsenal nothing but a bunch of old finishers that his friends used? Miz boots him in the face on the spear attempt. Christian goes to the top rope and uses a reverse elbow. Cody Rhodes gets up from commentary and walks towards the ring. Christian is distracted which results in a rollup. 2 count. Miz goes for the Skull Crushing Finale, but Christian reverses it into a Kill Switch attempt. Miz pushes him out and into the corner. Miz charges and misses. Christian hits the Kill Switch. He goes to the top rope and uses the Frog Splash for the win. Ugh. Terrible finisher. Good match though. Except for The Miz jobbing thing.
Laurinaitis, Otunga, and Eve are in the back. Eve asks Teddy Long to get her coffee. Laurinaitis says he’s disappointed in his staff. Otunga didn’t beat Cena and Eve didn’t make Sheamus apologize to him. Otunga wants to face Sheamus and beat him. Laurinaitis says he may want to retire in 10 or 15 years and needs people to have in place. Teddy brings Eve coffee. She spits it on him and says it’s cold. He says it’s supposed to be cold because it’s iced coffee. Was that a joke? Because I didn’t find it funny. Michael Cole laughed. But what doesn’t he laugh at? Teddy Long is the #1 trend worldwide. Who wants to see Sheamus vs Otunga?????!!!!! Nobody? Me neither.
The Miz is still in the ring. He wants that match stricken from the record books. Miz says he got the deciding pin fall for Team Laurinaitis at Wrestlemania. He wants a championship match. He’s not leaving until he’s treated right. Good for you Miz. I fully support you. Randy Orton’s music hits. He walks right into the ring and hits Miz with a RKO. That’s it. Then he poses. Where the hell do I start on this one??? First of all, for a split second there I actually thought that they were about to do something with The Miz. I was literally thinking, “it looks like they are going to push Ziggler and Miz.” I thought they were actually realizing their mistakes and changing things up. Instead this whole thing was used to give Orton something to do. Then I thought, “maybe they will start a Orton vs Miz feud.” But then this happened….
Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero are in the back. Ziggler tells Vickie he wants out of the tag team. He wants to be out there by himself like Orton. Then it cuts back to Orton again. So it appears as if they are going to start a Orton vs Ziggler feud. Which of course is the direct result of Chris Jericho being suspended. It really sucks to not see Jericho, but its good that Ziggler will actually be used. Unless they use this feud to put Orton over. Which doesn’t need to happen. Orton doesn’t need to win a feud like this. But Ziggler does. He has to win it. They have to put him over. But they won’t. Ziggler will be a Jericho placeholder just like Miz was tonight. In the end they will just continue to put Orton over. This will probably kill Ziggler even more. Will they even spend the time to build him to make him look credible? Doubtful. “Randy Orton” and “Miz” are trending on Twitter.
Promo for Smackdown. CM Punk defends the WWE Championship against Kane. Ugh.
David Otunga vs. World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus- Otunga starts the match with punches. Sheamus powers him into the corner with his own punches. Otunga attempts a hip toss after an Irish Whip, but he’s caught and clotheslined. Sheamus goes for his chest pounds through the ropes but he’s guillotined by Otunga. Otunga rolls down his back, sends him chest first into the turnbuckle, and hits a running clothesline. Grounded punches to the head by Otunga. Running shoulder block to a sitting Sheamus. He goes for 3 pin fall attempts. Otunga powers Sheamus ino the corner with more punches. He is clotheslined when he tries to whip him again. Running axe handle smashes by Sheamus. Chest pounds through the ropes. White Noise. Brogue Kick. 3 count. Sheamus wins. Decent match, though it was too short. Otunga was very physical. Good showing for him. Sheamus’ current angle with Del Rio isn’t very attractive. David Otunga and WWE Championship are trending on Twitter.
Promo for a new ECW DVD. This surprised me. A new ECW DVD? Didn’t they already bury ECW with their own WWECW version of it? Guess they want to try to milk some more money out of it. #ECW is trending on Twitter. So is Brodus Clay. His match is next.
The Funkasaurus Brodus Clay w/ The Funkadactuls vs. The Big Show- Big Show grabs a mic. Another Big Show promo!!! That’s exactly what I wanted to see….. He tells Clay that he embarrasses himself and that he was like Doink. But Doink had talent. Really? Big Show hits a running spear down the ramp. He chops Clay against the barricade on the outside. Next he throws Clay’s head into the steel turnbuckle. He kicks Clay on the outside. Kofi Kingston comes running out of nowhere. He jumps and is caught in mid air. Big Show throws Kofi into R-Truth. Big Show breaks the commentary table with his boot. He picks up the side of the table and beats Clay with it. He hits him multiple times and it takes multiple minutes. Big Show turns his attention to R-Truth and throws him into the ropes from the outside. Then the Emergency Alert System popped up on my monitor with that beeping sound. Thank god for that. That was the best 30 seconds of air time I’ve seen in the last hour. Much more entertaining than Raw. So Big Show must have torn up Kofi. Then he delivers the Weapon of Mass Destruction to Brodus Clay. Big Show walks up the ramp and raises arms with Laurinaitis who appears on the ramp. #Funkasarus, “Cameron and Naomi”, Doink, Brodus Clay, and Big Show are all trending on Twitter. The action was so slow that people had a lot of time to Tweet.
That was terrible. Tell me again why this push couldn’t have gone to someone else? Why Big Show? Is this 1997 again? Why would it be believable to me that he would dominate again after all those years of being a comedy act? So just because he turns heel he automatically becomes a monster? It doesn’t work that way. You can’t just push someone to the moon because of a heel turn unless it has back story. And this turn had zero back story. The whole turn still doesn’t make much sense to me. And where was John Cena? As annoying as he can be, the show is boring without him. It’s also boring without Ryder and Lord Tensai. Those guys can actually wrestle. With the exception of Bryan vs Punk, that was a worthless Raw.
Speaking of Daniel Bryan….everyone should tweet at him and demand that he be in my wedding next year. @WWEDanielBryan I am one of the big reasons why the YES chants got so big. I was pushing them in this article months before the trend caught on. Actually, the very first night he did them, I commented on them. Thousands and thousands of people read this article. So I do give myself some credit for the success of the YES chants. The proof is in the history of these articles. So tweet him and tell him to be in my wedding. And thanks. Leave comments.
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The only bright spot of Raw tonight was Punk vs Bryan although I’m shocked it got 15 minutes. The rest of the show lacked that luster that Raw was known for.
Yes, I am going to tweet Daniel Bryan. On a side note you should get Howard Finkel to do the introductions at the reception that would be priceless.
Punk vs Bryan was amazing. I’m going to watch it again tomorrow. I was so drawn in that I didn’t realize it was 15 minutes. That’s awesome.
And lol at the Howard Finkle. I’ve seen videos of him doing that before. I’ve actually joked about getting him, but I have other plans.
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Mark Brown for head of WWE Creative…All in favor say “I.” IIIIIIIIIII. Wow what another awful Raw. Too much Big Show. plain and simple. I actually really do like the Big Show. I met him in person, and he really is a nice guy. So Ive always respected him. But he should never be the focus of an episode of Raw. Punk vs. Bryan should have main evented, minus Kane. Because thats the storyline focused around the WWE championship. Duh. Oh yeah…and because they are the 2 best wrestlers in the world. Show vs Brodus should have been the 10:00 segment. It was Big Show overload. His opening promo was just horrendous. Soooooo long and boring and pointless. All 15 minutes of it. Waste of freaking time. I think the point of the tag team match was a) to begin to distance Ziggler from Jack Thwagga and b) try and give the tag champs credibility for later on when they jobbed to Big Show after the main event…all in an attempt to make Show look more powerful.
I thought the Laurinaitis/Punk video cover game thing was aiight…mostly because it involved Punk. If it was anyone else on the cover I would have changed the channel. But, as pointless as that segment was in terms of storylines, Punk made it entertaining…sort of. Punk vs Bryan was great, like always. This match really should have just went to 11:10. And screw the stupid commercial break. Oh yeah…I was pissed the stupid camera kept showing freaking AJ during the match. Yes..she is hot. Yes…she is relevant in the storyline…Yes..she is still hot. But COME ON!!! I want to freaking watch Punk vs. Bryan. The constant showing of her made me lose focus on the psychology of the match…But hey, thats not really important is it?
More Miz jobbing makes me sad. Very sad. Almost as sad as using Ziggler to job to Orton in place of Jericho. If Ziggler were to beat Orton, that would definitely help in making him credible. Orton could lose at the next 9 PPVs and would still matter. He doesnt need to win over the up and coming guys. He’s permanently over…like Cena and Punk.
The Big Show beat down at the end was kinda ok. It was kinda refreshing seeing Brodus get an ass woopin rather than his usual 48 second squash match over JTG or Curt Hawkins. Still….the fact that Show both opened and closed the show makes me sick.
Oh well. Gotta get ready to play Booker T bingo on Friday. Over or under 106 times he says “Lemme tell you sumthin”…in the first 10 minutes. Anyway, I digres..good article as usual, my man. Keep the WWE writer discussions coming. They are freaking hilarious. And Im gonna tweet at Daniel Bryan right now!
IIIIIIIIIII. I know Big Show is very nice in person. And I liked that idea of him turning heel. That was all fine and dandy with me. I don’t want to see him 6 times in one night and watch him squash an undefeated face in one night though. That’s waaayyyy too much. Who thought that was a good idea? Big Show and Punk’s match should have definitely been flipped. What you said about the tag match is 100% correct.
I thought the video game segment was horrendous. Punk didn’t even make it good in my eyes. Complete waste of time. I do like AJ in that storyline though. Her character is great. Less shots of her would have been nice though.
Orton is in limbo. He’s done it all. Nothing left for him to do. And he isn’t as charismatic as Cena so he can’t be in revolutionary storylines like Cena is. Ziggler would certainly benefit from beating him.
I hated the ending. I don’t want to see a 10 minute squash. No thanks. Maybe at 10 pm, and maybe if that was his only assignment of the night.
I’m taking the over on Lemme tell you sumthin. I’d also take the over on oh my goodness. I cut the writer discussion back to 1 just because I haven’t gotten a lot of feedback either way to know what to do with them. Thanks for the Daniel Bryan tweet!!
Oh man.I was actually hyped for the f*cked up “revolution” campaign!
No reason to ever get hyped up about anything. Of course it was a stupid video game.
Keep up the writers discussions they are awesome. Love your recap every week. It is a top read and really helps me to decide whether I need to see the show or not, as I live in Australia we get it a day later and if you tell me it was a crap show then I don’t need to waste my time watching it. Keep up the good work.
Awesome comment. I will do. Thanks for the feedback on the writers discussions. I’m hoping that sometime soon there will be a show worth watching! You need to watch last night’s show just to see Bryan vs Punk. You can turn it off after that.
Why is Alex Riley constantly having short segments? I don’t see how Riley having a crush on someone is supposed to push him. The only push he got was Big Show pushing him to the concrete wall.
I’ll be honest. I’m a massive fan of WWE video games so seeing Punk (my favorite wrestler) on the cover got me excited. It was funny Laurinitis was comparing WWE 13 to Pac-Man. Pac-Man is on a league of it’s own as far as I’m concerned.
I can’t believe Jericho is suspended for kicking a flag. The way I see it, it’s great for his heel gimmick. But what do I know? I’m not a WWE writer. So does that mean Orton doesn’t have a match at No Way Out? Ah who cares? He’s robotic at the ring anyway.
An Orton vs Miz feud would have been good but obviously Raw crapped on that idea. And I don’t see the point in having a month long feud. Everyone’s going to forget about this sooner or later. Please let Jericho come back WWE!
I can already tell the ending and the aftermath of Punk vs Kane. Bryan interrupts at SmackDown, Punk vs Kane for championship at Raw, Bryan interrupts again, Triple Threat match for WWE Championship is scheduled at No Way Out. Check if I’m right. I think the Raw writers know they’re doing terrible so they’re trying to bring down SmackDown with crappy match-ups as well.
Hope your wedding goes great. Bryan should come. He won’t be busy anyway with the writers trying to bury him and everything.
Riley has no purpose. He’s overly confident on the mic for the little ability he actually has. He’s that stupid jock in highschool that you wanted to punch in the face because they didn’t have as much talent as they thought they did. Now they are probably working at Walmart somewhere. Same with Riley. He finds himself on Superstars.
I don’t care about video games too much, but I do care about wrestling. Do that segment online only or something. Someone actually marked out for Pac Man! I’ll leave that comment alone haha.
Orton will likely face Ziggler at No Way Out. Jericho wrote on Twitter that he’s done with WWE. I assume that’s a joke. Ridiculous if it’s true. He needs to come back and turn face.
I fear that Kane will be in a triple threat at No Way Out. If that’s the case, I won’t be watching it.
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Just like I predicted, AJ going after Punk and only to find out later on it was a setup by AJ and Bryan. Hope the storyline continues longer. I agree with Big Show trying to look the most dominant, I am guessing he has taken the role of Mark Henry now. But I am glad somebody finally beat some sense into Brodus. Do you think he might change his gimmick now? I really want Bryan to beat Punk but doubt whether it will happen. What is your opinion in 3 hour raw? I think it is neither a bad or good idea. I just hope they use more wrestlers and we can actually get to see more wrestling and less talk. I hope they give descent feuds to guys like Ziggler, The Miz, Ryback, Brodus and use guys like Mason Ryan. We finally get to see Ziggler competing alone and not with anyone else. He really needs a good push. Give push to Cody as well. I hope WWE 13 isn’t the new revolution that they were promoting about. I just hope 3 hour Raw doesn’t end up like WCW. What’s with everyone thinking Lesnar is going to UFC? Definitely not anytime soon though. He is in contract with the WWE for a full year and will compete at Mania. Have you met Daniel Bryan? And congratulations on your coming wedding bro! I really hope Bryan shows up at the wedding and goes…YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!YES!
Holy shi*, just found out “The revolution is coming” video promotion was for WWE 13. That is so disappointing. I really thought some big star was returning or some kind of stable would be coming back. This news is pretty depressing.
The AJ swerve is very obvious. At least it means a Bryan title reign in the in. The title reigns don’t really mean anything right now since they are on the undercard. I was actually thinking last night at one point that Big Show is the new Mark Henry. Makes more sense with him. And I’m fine with it. I just don’t want to see him 6 times. Once is fine. If they wouldn’t have over killed him I may have been intrigued to see how his heel turn goes. I do not think Brodus will change his gimmick. There was some talk that the 1st hour of the 3 hour raw would be a pre show. If that’s the case it’s a waste of time. If they legitimately do 3 hours I hope that means they are adding more wrestling time. The same amount of promo and backstage time is fine, they just need to extend the matches. I don’t want to see extra short segments extended an hour to fit more people in. Same amount of people, same amount of segments, longer matches. I’m not sure what the Lesnar UFC talk is all about. He is under contract for a year. I have not met Daniel Bryan personally, but I have spoken to him online in the past. When I was a promoter I had a few internet conversations with him inquiring on booking him. He was great through email. Very nice. I definitely want him to YES on the way in to my wedding reception. Would be great. That revolution thing was the video game. My hopes were never up.
all wwe fightning looks like script writing, I don’t know about others but I am convince after the fight of cena and big johny, all is drama.
But its all very intresting that al around the world peoples like me love WWE, when all America is crazy then who am I to stay behind, after all we have to follow the big brothers childrens.
But big show will change for few months after that he will be the same,
First of all, you have an awesome name. Everything you watch on television is scripted. Whether you watch Entourage, or CSI, or Walking Dead, it’s all scripted. WWE just adds physicality, athleticism, and drama to the script. People watch the Olympics just to see athletes. The wrestlers in the WWE are better athletes than they are.
all wwe fightning looks like script writing, I don’t know about others but I am convince after the fight of cena and big johny, all is drama.
But its all very intresting that al around the world peoples like me love WWE, when all America is crazy then who am I to stay behind, after all we have to follow the big brothers childrens.
But big show will change for few months after that he will be the same,fight between cena and big show according to script big show will win, belt will go to bryn, and next belt will be lost by shamus.
HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THE SCRIPT
Hey Mark,great article as usual n congrats btw for ur wedding nxt year.I really hope he attends your wedding because like you said,you did a far better pushing the “yes!” chants than WWE are doing right now in pushing their top talents.
It seems all of us so-called “internet fans” end up complaining about the same problem each and every week.So,just to have something new,I’ll actually try and make some sense out of the nonsense that has been prevalent at Raw for the past few weeks(P.S. Please don’t think I’m crazy.)
Alright,here goes…………………………………………
I actually think the much maligned WWE creative have some good ideas indeed,but their implementation is just terrible.WWE put all its marketing prowess and more to push Cena-Rock to the hilt and put reasonable amount of spotlight on Miz and Ryder.Then post WM,they pulled off a brilliant move by bringing back Lesnar and had him feud with Cena to retain most of the viewership.The feud culminated very aptly in a hellacious and “bloody” fight(something which we haven’t seen in an eternity),which actually helped Cena get over the fans to a great extent(his boos have died down remarkably).Then,they decided to book the much anticipated Bryan vs Punk……….so far so good.But,ever since Extreme Rules,it seems they have taken several steps backwards.The WWE Championship has been pushed to the mid-card and they are mindlessly wasting time on stupid feuds and giants,instead of focusing on the really talented prospects.Though,I saw a ray of hope this week as Ryder has started his mutiny all over again,Miz finally seemed desperate to be taken seriously & Ziggler is finally gaining some prominence after featuring in some back-to-back PPV’s and Raw episodes,still,Tensai was missing & I fear Kane might ruin this awesome Bryan-Punk feud.Cena has his hands full with his divorce,so he probably didn’t make it,but at this point,I feel,Raw just can’t afford to air without Cena.
Basically,the thing is,all of us fans spend all our time voicing our opinions only because we all really love this show & want it to get so much better.I really hope they start having more matches in the Punk vs Bryan mould & be smarter in the time allotment on feuds.Otherwise,Smackdown is a much better show to watch these days.
Finally,Creative,if u r listenin’,then——————-
‘PLEASE SAY “NO!” TO BORING ASS PROMOS &
“YES!” TO GOOD WRESTLING’.
Thank you for the congrats. I also believe that I do a better job pushing than the WWE does.
I say amen to your paragraph. Highly accurate. That is absolutely what happened. Don’t get your hopes up on that ray of light though. It’s probably not going to get much better in the short term though. I often wonder if the WWE is oblivious to how bad their product can be? Do they understand that this isn’t what the people want to see? Or do they think anything they pump out there will be successful just because they are the WWE? I ask this because of their record low ratings the last two weeks. To us it’s obvious that things are at an all time low. And the ratings prove it. Do they understand that though? Or are they oblivious? You’d think a billion dollar corporation with all the assets in the world would have the right staff to figure out why their product and marketing are failing. Us internet fans see it clearly. I’ll probably repeat this same thing in next week’s article. You get a preview lol.
As far as Cena goes…I’m not sure why they decided to keep him off tv last week. He wrestled the dark match following Raw, so he was there.
Your right that we love this and want it to be good. I’m highly unbiased and have been praised for being so. I don’t want to write bad things about Raw. I really don’t. Some internet columnists will find the bad in everything they do. I want to write positive reports. I want to be entertained.
ARy doesn’t have a crush on Eve you fucking idiot. He was just flattering her.
He was doing the school boy gimmick. That usually constitutes a crush. Is there a difference?
I’ve been hearing rumours and looking up at different sources that says Lesnar will face Taker at Mania. I am so psyched for this! This match could be great. These two have great history in the past, had two matches both in which Lesnar was the winner. If Taker is retiring soon I want Lesnar to be the man to end his streak.
Also is CM Punk going to deliver his second shoot promo in the 1000th Raw episode?
I predicted Lesnar vs Taker weeks ago for the next Mania. I actually predicted that at last year’s Mania. I complained for awhile about how I wanted Lesnar or Foley to face Taker. Anyone but HHH. Undertaker’s streak won’t end though. I’d expect him to win.
They won’t be ballsy enough to let Punk shoot on their milestone. Honestly though, the best way for them to do a complete 180 is to have Punk stop the show, break kayfabe, and shoot. I’m going to tweet him that now lol.
OK cool, although I am sure I read somewhere that if Taker is going to retire then he wants somebody to end his streak.
Also did you use to work for the WWE as a creative writer and promoter in the past. If so, no wonder you have so much knowledge on the company!
Just out of curiosity how long did you work in the company for?
Mark Brown. I have been watching WWE,WWF forever. I basically stopped about 6 months to a year ago. It got to where I couldn’t watch the same story lines and the same run-ins and the same heel turns as I had been watching since I started watching for the last…i don’t know how many years. Lets just say I watched guys like Bob Backlund turn heel and Shawn Micheals go from rocker to heel, to Heart break kid, to heel, to shawn micheals, to DX, to face to heel…lol. Back starting in the Ivan Putski and Tony Atlas days.
Anyhow, you have a good idea what you are talking about, the WWE is all about making money with the story lines. Nothing makes anyone want to buy merchandise or PPV’s anymore. And the WWE’s stock is slowly falling because of it.
I hope you do someday get a chance to be cretive consultant.
The Rock and Stone Cold and Cena are the last big things to come along in the WWE. It worked for a reason, you loved to love them, and you loved to hate them.
I watched a few weeks back to see if anything had changed…it hadn’t.
Sheamus and Cena are about what the company has left. At least from a charisma stand point.
I hate to say this, but it’s probably about time to start another coalition.
DX is about to be featured for the 1000th episode of Raw (I read tonight). Some evil coalition should come out and dominate for 3 months or so, but I think for the first time in WWE history, there should be a face coalition to defend against the evil coalition. Just for a short spell. It would be interesting to see, just for once, the “bad guys” getting run in on for a month or two.