Thoughts on 1/21 Raw

[Mat]

MR. KENNEDY vs. SHAWN MICHAELS Good tv match, tired of the feud though.

BETH PHOENIX vs. MICKIE JAMES Another good match for a wwe womens match :p

FINLAY & HORNSWOGGLE vs. THE HIGHLANDERS Hate Hornswoggle so next...

BRIAN KENDRICK vs. UMAGA Poor kendrick, deserves much better

HARDCORE HOLLY vs. CARLITO Basic match, nothing good, nothing bad. Glad Carlito won.

TRIPLE H RUNS THE GAUNTLET Time filler, nothing good. Knew HHH would go to the rumble.

Overall raw was a much better outting then last week. I am really impressed with Hardy more and more. WWE has built this match up well without making Hardy look like a rug to Orton.

[ReevesBeckett]

HBK vs. Kenneddy.... KENNEDDY!!! Good Match, but yeah, they need to do something else with this fued or else we will lose interest.

Beth vs. Mickie. The only reason I like this is because it has to end with Mickie as the women's champ or else the story doesnt make sense.

Finlay/ Hornswoggle vs. Highlanders. And the point of this was .....

Kendrick vs. Umaga. Sooo, they move London and Kendrick from SMACKDOWN, do nothing with them. AND they bring Ashley to RAW and dont put the three person team together. Did London and Kendrick piss off the same people as The Highlanders?

Carlito vs. Holly- Not bad, at least it gives these four something to do.

HHH vs. Snitsky, Henry, and Regal. Yawn. You knew HHH would win.



RUMBLE PREDICTIONS!

Orton wins
Edge wins
Flair wins
Jericho wins
Batista wins the Rumble.

[SMG Rules]

The HBK/Kennedy.....Kennedy match was really good as was the womens match. Tonight was much better than last week.

[SMG Rules]

Chavo is the ECW champ.

[rlm]

yeah they had to try and make this raw as great as they could make it. after all it was their first HD broadcast. expect future raws to go back to the meh they always seem to be. the kennedy/michaels match was the best thing of the night. after that i was kinda bored. by what i heard they are planning on giving the belt to ashley, not mickey. i believe thats why ashley showed up in the back where mickey was crying. maybe mickey needs to come back as the psycho chick.

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What You Didn't See On This Week's WWE RAW
After the show went off the air, Jeff Hardy started walking up the entrance ramp taunting Orton, and Umaga came out and beat him into the ring. Orton and Umaga were double-teaming Hardy until Jericho came down and made the save. Hardy ended up Swantoning Orton in the ring as Jericho was fighting Umaga outside the ring. Jericho and Hardy hugged and posed in the ring for a while. Jericho even got Hardy to teach him that weird dance he does when he comes out from behind the curtain; they both did that for a while in the ring as Hardy’s music played. Hardy and Jericho both shook hands with fans at ring-side well after the show was over, and Jericho was there signing autographs, shaking hands, and taking pictures for a good twenty minutes after Raw ended. Seems like a class act.

As for the Heat tapings, Vladimir Koslov killed some local jobber from Hampton. Hacksaw Jim Duggan squashed another presumably local guy. The last match was Charlie Haas vs. Super Crazy. Haas went under the ring during the match and put a mask on for no good reason. And he and Crazy kept pulling it off and putting it back on as the match went along. Haas ended up winning by submission. Terrible matches all around.

The crowd itself was very live.

Biggest Pop:
HHH
Hardy
HBK
Jericho

Biggest Heat:
Orton
Kennedy


Ron Killings is on his way to WWE. According to a report by Dave Meltzer in the most recent Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Killings has not finalized his contract with the company because he has to pass a physical and required drug test. However, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Killings will work in WWE under the name KWIK Ron Killings. Given Killings' problems with Gewirtz it is very likely that he will end up on SmackDown or ECW, not RAW.

john cena is rumored to be making his return to the wwe at wrestlemania. also wwe management have decided to tweak chris jericho's character a little.

[Mo]

I didn't like Raw this week it was so-so...
& what a joke that Chavo is the ECW champ i mean whats up with WWE & sucking up to that family...

[Mat]

^Oh wow Chavo won the ECW Title? HAHA, man I didnt watch it as that feud has bored me to death and I stopped watching ECW about a month ago. Thats just wacked. I wonder if CM pissed someone off?

Ron Killings to WWE is gonna suck. He sucked as K-Kwik and he will suck again. He'll be on heat then onto TNA by years end.

Ashley as womens champ, they mind as well burn the womens title and throw it in a trash can again.

And you guys wonder why I am not into WWE as much. TNA has major faults but to me its nothing compared to a ugly no talent waste like Ashley, a stupid leprechaun and putting a world title onto a cruiserwight who lives off his uncle's name.

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I think they had Punk drop the title so he could fued with Egde. Punk might win the Rumble and go on to challenge The Rated R Superstar, you never know. While Chavo is a decent wrestler he is not as good as Eddie and he never will be.

Rumor is that Bobby Lashley is leaving the WWE. If it's true I won't miss him.

[Mat]

It looks likely that Lashley is gone. Good Riddence.

Taker is suppose to win the rumble

[rlm]

i could never stand lashley. he had this huge body, a small baby face, and no mic skills. he wasn't even a great performer in the ring. he will not be missed.

i've found myself getting drawn to TNA more and more. vince thinks that he knows what we all want. whatever they're putting out appeals to some, mainly kids nowadays, but to those who've been watching it for a long time, vince is practically slapping us across the face. i tune into tna cuz at tna i get to see moves that i will never see performed in the wwe. it's like every wrestler in the wwe performs the same moves. nothing great. that's why when you see something insane, like jeff hardy swantoning off that rig people go nuts.

[Mat]

i've found myself getting drawn to TNA more and more. vince thinks that he knows what we all want. whatever they're putting out appeals to some, mainly kids nowadays, but to those who've been watching it for a long time, vince is practically slapping us across the face. i tune into tna cuz at tna i get to see moves that i will never see performed in the wwe. it's like every wrestler in the wwe performs the same moves. nothing great. that's why when you see something insane, like jeff hardy swantoning off that rig people go nuts.

Couldnt have said it better myself. Like I said before TNA has its faults, some pretty major. But over the past few months I have enjoyed it to much higher level then WWE lately. I have stopped watching ECW now. Chavo as world champ? Holy crap that sucks. Hardy is the only good thing going right now but after jobbing to Orton once or twice he will be stuck in the IC world I bet. Real waste.

WWE really needs to move away from garbage like Hornswaggle, stupid booking like Chavo and make the womens division mean something again.

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In that interview that RVD did he said back when they put the title on him Triple H tried to talk Vince out of it. He told vince "Rob just doesn't have a connection with the crowd". If that's true it proves once again that Hunter is an ass plain and simple.

Vince needs to stop listening to HHH and get back to putting on a great show for the fans. Back in the 90's Raw was great and people couldn't wait until the next show. Now people are bored to daeath with pretty much everything. Guys like Jeff Hardy are the only thing worth watching for the most part.

[SMG Rules]

PPV Results




Ric Flair beat MVP
JBL beat Y2J by DQ
Edge beat Rey Mysterio
Randy Orton beat Jeff Hardy
The winner of the Royal Rumble is........John Cena. Thats right John Cena.

[rlm]

i don't expect john cena to do much of anything until wrestlemania. i think this is just the wwe's way of hyping him up until that day. i was hoping that cena would never come back. word was it that cena would return at wrestlemania but the wwe decided to pull the wool over our eyes and throw him on us early. i see him doing some small stuff mostly alot of talk which will fit fine on raw, since that's all we see on that show. you know i think i'm going to stop watching raw , i'll give it a few more weeks. if something makes me keep watching it, well i'll stay. if not, that's it. another raw viewer gone. but that's ok, i'll stick to ecw, smackdown and tna.

[Mo]

WTF Cena well okay never saw that coming...
what number did he join in??/

[Mat]

Originally Posted by rlm

i don't expect john cena to do much of anything until wrestlemania. i think this is just the wwe's way of hyping him up until that day. i was hoping that cena would never come back. word was it that cena would return at wrestlemania but the wwe decided to pull the wool over our eyes and throw him on us early. i see him doing some small stuff mostly alot of talk which will fit fine on raw, since that's all we see on that show. you know i think i'm going to stop watching raw , i'll give it a few more weeks. if something makes me keep watching it, well i'll stay. if not, that's it. another raw viewer gone. but that's ok, i'll stick to ecw, smackdown and tna.

I doubt cena will do anything either but chit chat. Thats what makes raw to annoying. All the promo time as well as hornswaggle. I tune into raw each week eitherway though. If I find it too boring like 2 weeks ago with the midget match, I just shut it off.

I no longer give ECW my time. Smackdown hasnt gotten it in over a year.

[SMG Rules]

Originally Posted by Mo

WTF Cena well okay never saw that coming...
what number did he join in??/

#30

[rlm]

Originally Posted by SMG Rules

#30

how conveniant. wow. #30. huh. what a surprise we'll have for everyone out there. i'm surprised triple h actually lost to him. they were the last two remaining by what i've read. then again cena has been one of the lucky ones that triple h doesn't seem to be threatened with.

i'm watching the rumble right now, i'm on the rey vs edge match. after i watch the whole thing i'll watch raw, which i had to tape. i swear if they overdo it with cena in some way, i'm going to puke.