No More War for Raw

This is the first time for me that I am writing the Raw blog, so I hope that I can do this justice for JCall. Now I do watch both TNA and WWE and if you haven't already heard, TNA is moving back to Thursday nights and they are going back to recording all of there shows. Boy that away TNA for admitting defeat only three months into being on Monday nights. I now give TNA about 6 months before its over. Now onto Raw for this evening.

Raw starts off from Jacksonville, FL with a good promo from Batista. He has to explain to the crowd and for the people watching at home how a "Last Man Standing" match works and he has to explain real slow for us. I really thought that he had to explain it slow to himself cause apparently he didn't understand the rules very well. He says that he didn't lose at Extreme Rules cause he was not beaten to a pulp to where he couldn't answer the ten count. Don't worry Batista, you may have not been beaten to a pulp during that match but we as fans were for having to watch that match. He then tells the fans that tonight he and John Cena are going to be having a beat the clock night where whoever has the better time, they get to choose the stipulation for there match at Over The Limit. (by the way who is the guy that is naming these PPV's cause this is a stupid name.) Then Sheamus comes out to interrupt Batista and tries to lay claim to the No. 1 Contendership. Sheamus is so heely with him using the word "Fella". I just hope that when WWE is writing these promo's for him that they don't overuse the word cause then the word will lose its greatness in two weeks. After Batista says that Sheamus lost the triple threat match last week he has no right to lay claim to it and he needs to leave the ring. Sheamus tells him that this is not over and leaves the ring.

Batista vs. The Miz
This match is supposed to be Batista vs. The Miz but for the second week in a row the WWE believes that we need really stupid props like the one that The Miz brings to the ring in an envelope that has "Doctors Note" written on the outside of it. Yeah cause we couldn't figure out that when Miz came out to the ring in street clothes that he wasn't going to wrestle. Miz starts to kiss Batista's ass about wanting to give him the match of his life (don't worry anything you do in the ring is much better than what Batista has done in the ring in his entire career Miz.) but the Miz has hand picked an opponent for him. At this point I get excited a little at the prospects of who Batista would have to face. Then Miz and the WWE disapoint me by bringing out Daniel Bryan the NXT Rookie to face Batista. Nice Job WWE!!! They really want to keep beating down Daniel Bryan cause of how much fame he had before he got there cause if you didn't know what was going to happen in this match then you need to have your head examined for any semblence of a brain. Of course Batista wins this match. They did give Daniel Bryan a couple of moves but they have Batista win in 5:06 with a Batista Bomb. Then the WWE punishes Daniel Bryan some more by having him take two more Batista Bombs. Yeah you looked so strong Batista, you beat a rookie. Congratulations you look like a bigger tool then you already are.

As we come back from commercial we have Eve taking pictures with the Diva's Title and then our Celebrity GM for the night Wayne Brady comes in and says that he loves wrestling and he is a big fan of Eve's. Then Jillian pops in and offers to sing Wayne's theme song. Yes WWE we get it already, Jillian can't sing. We don't have to have her show up every week to prove the point. Wayne did get rid of her in a funny way though by dancing with her and shoving her out of the door. When thats over, Eve tries to get back to her photo shoot and notices her belt missing. She then gets blindsided by Maryse.

We now go to Edge walking in with some actor that is posing as a producer as Edge is talking about what video's he would like to use during "The Cutting Edge". Josh then comes up to Edge and asked him if he thought that having Randy Orton on The Cutting Edge would lead to a physical retaliation. Edge then talks about how WWE is PG and that he is the Rated R Superstar and he is going to take us back to those days. Yeah right Edge. Nice try on getting me to think that you are going to bring back the Rated R days. This is not going to happen until Linda McMahon is done with her Senate Run if it happens at all. And two, I don't like that the wrestlers talk about the PG rating era that we are in. We all know that were trying to gear the shows to kids. Don't talk about in promo's, its just stupid to me. Also on another note here, what was the WWE thinking in turing Edge back to a heel or having him as a face when he came back. Why don't you make up your minds. Edge was doing just fine as a face and he was really starting to get the crowd behind him. Now that you finally were getting him over as a face you decide to move him to Raw and turning him back to a heel. Stupid writing WWE. I am going to pull a saying from Randy Orton here. "YOUR STUPID".

Ted DiBiase vs. John Morrison

I have some really high hopes for this match as it pits two of there younger talents that are really pushing for main event status in the WWE. Now with all of that being said the start of the match was ok as Morrison got in a majority of the offense. Then Morrison clotheslines Ted over the top rope. Morrison then performs a front flip dive onto Ted. I know that I really love Morrison's in-ring ability, but this move was FREAKING AWESOME LOOKING. I wish that I could have half of the talent in the ring that Morrison has. Back to the match. Ted looks like he is going to break the ten count by climbing into the ring, Ted then decides that he is going to run away more like a wounded son than the fortunate son that he claims to be. As the winner is getting ready to be announced, John says that he, "The Monday Night Delight" does not want his debut on Raw to end this way. So he offers to Ted that if Morrison loses that he would become Ted's new Virgil. As soon as John said this, I was sure that the WWE in a move to somehow punish Morrison more, was going to have him lose this match. We come back from the break, and we see Ted really gain the upper hand here and it is looking more and more that Morrison is going to become Ted's Bitch. But as the match goes on and on and there is a pin attempt on Morrison and he kicks out, Michael Cole the stater of the obvious keeps reminding us that Morrison is so close to becoming the new Virgil. STOP IT ALREADY!!! We know the stipulation, you don't have to remind us every 25 seconds. Towards the end, Ted sets up Morrison for the CrossRoads near the corner, Morrison gets his feet up on the top turnbuckle and pushes backwards and gets the 1-2-3 on Ted and surprisingly gets the win. This is a good match. We really didn't get to see the vast aray of what Morrison is about but a good match nonetheless. Ted attacks Morrison after the match and then RTruth comes out for the save. Great ending as both guys got a good push from this match.

John Cena vs. Chris Jericho

Here is the other match in the beat the clock challenge. John Cena comes out to a loud pop of the crowd. Then it is Y2J's turn to come out. As I am waiting for Y2J to come out it starts to dawn on me that Y2J is not going to wrestle in this match. And I was right once again as Y2J comes out and says that he is pulling himself out of this match and in his place is his NXT Rookie Wade Barrett. Gee I wonder who is going to win this match and in less time than Batista. Of course, John Cena wins the match with the STF. After the match, Cena grabs the mic and is getting ready to tell us what the stipulation is going to be, when the greatness of Sheamus comes out and just murders Cena with a Big Boot. WWE has done a great job of putting Sheamus over in most situations. This was definatly one of them as he knocks Cena into next week.

Maryse vs. Nikki Bella

With all of the Diva's that they have on there roster that can actuall wrestle, the WWE decides to put out this match. Maryse was obviously going to get the win cause neither of the Bella's can wrestle and will never get any kind of push. All they are good for is looking at and valeting the celebrity GM. Maryse hits a really ugly looking French Kiss which is her DDT finisher for the 1-2-3. Great waste of about 5 minutes of time. This time could have been better used for anything else than this match. Now after the match was when the comedy happened cause Eve tried to slide into the ring to attack Maryse she ran and jumped straight into the bottom rope. Nice Job Eve!!! Congratulations for screwing up something so easy and looking like an idiot that can't enter into a ring.

Mark Henry vs. Zach Ryder

There was again no point to this match as Zach came out and claimed that he was now single (WHICH NOBODY CARES) because of Rosa Mendes being traded to Smackdown. So he had Alicia Foxx and Gail Kim out to ringside so they can be impressed by him and his dominence in the ring. So he thinks that he is going to wrestle and kill Primo like he did on Superstars on Thursday. Guest GM Brady comes on the TitanTron and says that he should beat somebody more impressive. We now shoehorn in Mark Henry. Again I really wish that they would have taken the time from this match and the match before to put on one more better match that everybody would have cared to see more than this crap. Please give me something better. I don't think I am asking that much.

Interesting promo between Jericho and The Miz in the back talking about how they were knocked out by The Big Show. They also talk about how they carried the Big Show when they both had the Unified Tag Team Titles. Jericho then gets an idea and they both walk off together. I really wish they would quit teaming up The Miz in tag teams. He has improved so much during the last few years that he deserves to have some US Title defenses and be a singles wrestler. I don't like where this is heading.

Another bit backstage where Kozlov is thanking Wayne Brady for giving him a match with matched superior talent to his. First of all Kozlov does not need to be wrestling cause he just doesn't have that much offense and we get that he is big. Santino then enters the backstage area where his comedy comes in as he is dressed up as a 70's fro wearing man. He then says that he is glad that they were both apart of The Brady Bunch. To steal a line from Jericho, Santino is the best in the world at what he does. And what he does is great comedy. We then find out that the next match is going to be a tag team match featuring Regal and Kozlov. REALLY!!! WHAT!!! WHY!!!

The Hart Dynasty vs. Regal and Kozlov

This match is another reason why the WWE needs to build up there Tag Team Division cause we get the weird pairing of Regal and Kozlov. I guess WWE needs to some how justify paying both Regal and Kozlov what they are paying them. Also sitting at ringside doing guest commentary is The Miz and Y2J. And again I don't like the pairing of these two guys. During this match Kozlov pulls Tyson Kidd of the top turnbuckle by his arm so hard that I really thought for a minute that Kidd hurt his arm. Thank god he wasn't hurt by that blundering Russian Kozlov. In the end, I think everyone also knew the outcome coming as D.H. Smith locked in the sharpshooter for the win. This is a good match do get The Hart Dynasty over cause they did beat two bigger men. After the match Y2J and The Miz come in and decimate the Tag Champs. I guess this is our next Tag Team Feud. I'm not feeling this fued cause it just feels like they are forcing people to tag and not having actual teams being made.

The Greatest part of the night as we finally get to The Cutting Edge with Edge coming out to explain his actions from last week. Then the WWE tries to shoehorn Wayne Brady in one last time as he gives us the worst attempt at being a WWE superstar. Thank God that Randy's Song interrupts and he hits the ring. There is an akward stare between Orton and Edge as the Viper is ready to strike. By the way, Randy's new shirt is so cool looking with the Snake eyes and the big chains running all around the shirt. Anyways, Wayne Brady tries to walk up to Randy Orton to either hand him the mic or shake his hand, but gets an RKO for his troubles. Wayne takes this really horribly and it almost looked as if he was trying to die in the ring. This makes no sense cause if Orton is supposed to be a face, then he should have never even touched Brady. Then Edge tries to intice Orton into reforming one of the better tag teams from a while ago, Rated RKO. Randy doesn't go for it as he sits there in silence and doesn't say anything. Edge asked Orton if this was all registering, and no answer. Orton tries to hit the RKO but gets shoved away and Orton eats a boot from Edge. Good looking boot from Edge. Now Orton is getting up in the corner while Edge sits like a guy waiting for the voices to stop in his head. Orton looks up at the TitanTron and can notice out of the corner of his eye that Edge is set up for the spear. Orton then hits the RKO as Edge is running at him. This ends Raw as we see a triumphant Orton standing over Edge.

They have done a much better job in setting up there matches in time for the PPV and I can't wait to see Edge and Orton at Over the Limit.

Make sure that you read Wasp's TNA Blog to hear what happened on the last episode of Monday Night Impact. Also Email me at Eric@bigbadsportsdaddy.com and let me know what you think about the first Raw blog that I wrote.

Eric Ringel