A RAW Opinion
Welcome to another edition of A RAW Opinion, I’m Joe and as always I take you through WWE Raw, we are one day removed from WWE Money In The Bank, and one week away from the big 1’000th episode. WWE is teasing a big announcement by John Cena, my guess is he’ll announce when he’s cashing in his briefcase. It’s announced that tonights main event is CM Punk VS Big Show.
CM Punk comes out from the back to start off the show, he says that one year ago in the same arena, he sat on the ramp and dropped a huge pipe bomb, he has beaten everyone that has been put in front of him, he talks about Raws 1’000th episode next week, saying that when the show started, someone that looks, talks and acts like him, wouldn’t have even been on the show. Big Show interrupts him, he says that they both know Big Show was inches from winning that MITB match, Big Show says if he would have won, he would cash in tonight and walk out WWE Champion, CM Punk interrupts him and says he comes out, beats everyone up, breaks everything and then loses. Big Show says nobody respects Punk and that if he left the WWE tomorrow the fans would give it a week before moving on. Big Show then says that after Punk is knocked out by him and loses against Big Show, he might just lose his WWE Title afterward if and/or when Cena cashes in tonight, Big Show then dropped the microphone in a pipe bomb motion and left.
Up next, R Truth and Kofi Kingston defend the WWE Tag Team Championships against the Cryme Tyme wannabes (Prime Time Players) AW is the ONLY entertaining thing about this horrible team, and I’m not a big fan of AW either. Kofi and Truth got the win in a decent match, AW blasted the referee afterward.
AJ is backstage texting when Daniel Bryan walked up, they go back and forth, Eve walks up and says that after Daniel left her last week she protested to the Board of Directors and tonight Eve gets to pick her own partner, and they’ll be up against AJ and Daniel Bryan.
ZACK RYDER IS ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW!!! Sadly this won’t last long, his opponent is Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio squashes Ryder. Ryder deserves so much better then this crap.
After the match Del Rio keeps the attack going and REY MYSTERIOS MUSIC HITS! Rey runs into the ring and Alberto attacks him, Rey gets the upper hand and delivers the 619.
Up next, Heath Slater jobs out to another WWE legend. Tonights legend is RIKSHI!!!! Rikishi squashes (no pun intended) Heath Slater.
After the match Riksihi was about to dance, the lights came on and The Usos were next to him, they all danced. Very entertaining.
Up next is the mixed tag team match. Daniel Bryan and AJ VS Eve and her partner, The Miz. I will say, I do like his new look, getting rid of that terrible faux mohawk was LONG overdue. AJ and Daniel get the win, Miz was drop kicked off the apron by AJ, Miz tried to get inside, Eve rolled AJ up in a small package and Bryan turned it so AJ got the pin. After the match Daniel got on the microphone and said that there was something that AJ always said to him that he was too stupid and scared to say back, he tells AJ that he loves her. AJ looks confused, Daniel gets something from someone at ringside, Daniel gets on one knee and asks AJ to marry him, he has a ring this week. AJ cries and says yes.
Jack Swagger comes out for job duty against RyBerg. That was stupid, the referee never rang the bell, but he let RyBerg destroy Swagger.
Dolph Ziggler is out next. He says that everyone who has held that briefcase has cashed in successfully, so we’re all looking at the next World Heavyweight Champion, Dolph says that when he does win, he’ll be the best world champion ever. Chris Jericho comes out next Ziggler interrupts and says not tonight, for once this isn’t about him, It’s his time, so he better not try and steal his spotlight, he said he won his MITB match and Jericho didn’t. Dolph asks when the last time Jericho won anything. Dolph Ziggler is OWNING Jericho. Jericho gives Ziggler a Codebreaker out of nowhere and leaves. Great segment.
Brodus Clay is next, his opponent is JTG. Yeah, we all know who won this one lol. Next. On a side note, I’m surprised JTG got as much offense in that he did.
Up next is our main event, CM Punk VS The Big Show. Pretty good match, Big Show got DQ’ed after shoving the referee, Show continued the beating and Cena comes running from the back, he chases Show off, he says that he has a big announcement regarding the briefcase, Show says he’s not stupid, he says he knows Cena is going to cash in now. Show tries to talk Cena into cashing in now, Cena says next week Cena is cashing in.
GREAT show this week! I loved it for the most part, I cannot wait until next week. I’m giving it a 4/5. Great show all around with only 1 or 2 parts I could have done without.
I’m here!
Rey!!!
Eh…okay? lol
Rikishi!
Great moment with the sons.
That was awesome!
Miz and Eve? I wanted a Miz face turn!
DB face turn?
Idk what they’re doing, but why turn Bryan face already? they don’t have a huge number of heels as it is.
Unless this will end in a swerve?
I wouldn’t expect anything else lol
Ambrose?
I guess the ref stopped the match?
He never even started the match lol. Made no sense.
It protects both guys. In the long run, it may help Swagger out in the back. So many people didn’t want to wrestle Ryback due to fear of injury, but Swagger stepped up.
After Hawkins & Reks anyway lol.
It may help them.
Dolph Ziggler is absolute GREATNESS!
He is ready.
Ziggler wasn’t “owning” Jericho. Jericho never said anything.
That was partly because Ziggler never gave him a chance, that and because Ziggler was right.
Jericho doesn’t have to say anything. All he needed was the Codebreaker. Loved the grin Ziggler had as Jericho was leaving.
I’ll say this. JTG has a ton of charisma.
I’ve always thought JTG was underrated.
Hard to think CT never won the tag titles.
I can’t wait to see Y2J/Dolph
Next week is going to be huge!
4/5? That’s the highest in a while. You should keep a ranking system of like the previous 10 weeks or something!
I enjoyed it too. Ziggler had time to shine which was awesome. I’m guessing him and Jericho will have a match next week on Raw.
Punk was awesome. Anyone else notice Big Show calling a fan ”fat boy”? haha it was hilarious! Great for both Cena and Punk ending the show. Hopefully their match next week will be the main event. It probably will. Hopefully Punk will retain. For some reason, I sense someone will get involved and cost Cena the match next week, but who?
Really looking forward to next week!
Maybe Rikishi was in the crowd? lol
I enjoyed the show…granted I DVR’d the show.
Ziggler vs. Jericho, YES YES YES please!
Though the last time he was active I didn’t like him, I am happy that Mysterio is back; probably bc I”ve spent quite a bit of time watching old matches of his.
Was expecting to see a Rikishi/Funkasaurus dance-off, but the Usos work too.
Looking forward to seeing Punk vs. Cena live next week; definitely expect some Rock interference. As long as it’s a good match, and Punk retains I’ll be happy. The fact that it’s been mentioned more and more lately, that Punk has held the title for so long, though, worries me.
6 more, agonizingly long, days; think I’m going to EXPLODE!
I already have. I’m a ghost.
I’m really expecting an interference, but not sure if it’ll be from Rock.
I don’t know, I’m pretty sure Rock is making a movie around SummerSlam time, so if he got involved on Raw Monday it would be to set up a SummerSlam match, which he apparently won’t be able to be at.
I’m thinking Big Show will cost Cena the match. The new RAW G.M. will make a Triple Threat ar SS.
Thanks the Lord the show this week was 100% better than last weeks epic fail! Cannot wait to see what unfolds between Y2J and Ziggler! Ziggler was right, Jericho needs a big win.
I don’t really know what to say about Bryan and AJ and the wedding. It will be amusing if nothing else, though surely it can’t top Stephanie and Triple H!
Fair do’s to Cena for waiting to cash in. Hater still gonna hate
About time we had a set MITB cash-in.
Thought was a great Raw!
Great to see almost every main player on a new storyline, many of which we can look forward to. Dolph, Jericho, Bryan, AJ, Mysterio all good things can come.
While i thought Cena should cash his briefcase in on a PPV at least they are making the title relevant at such a star studded Raw… New title to be unveiled?
Even Big Show wasn’t that bad tonight, even his match was decent, but then that’s Punk for you.
I really could see a new title being unveiled, but only if Punk retains. The reference about the current design being “Cena’s title” by Big Show, and then the flashback to Rock/Austin and his Smoking Skull title. Plus, it’s just RAW1000.
I’m a sucker for old school, I would MARK OUT if they brought back the old Winged Eagle World Title.
Nah, it needs to be a Cena win with the Fruity Pebbles logo on the new belt.
No General Manager on RAW this week. So if the WWE doesn’t find a guy to run RAW, they just pretend their General Manager angle doesn’t exist? Was William Regal not available? That’s lazy by the WWE and we shouldn’t let them get away with it.
And we know where they work!
IDK if it’s lazy or was there any need for one to be there. This Raw was just to give us a taste for next week.
I thought they were going to have a former GM for every RAW before #1000. I was assuming they had a GM booked for each week ahead of time. I should have known better when they were forced to bring back the Anonymous GM because they were already out of names. I don’t know why William Regal or Johnny Ace weren’t available.
They say Vince doesn’t remember things and thinks most fans don’t either.
Clearly Vince hasn’t met me
I’m reading that John Lauranitis is coming back soon so they probably want to just keep him off TV until then. Wonder what Mike Ademle is up to? haha
He’s supposed to be having mental issues. No joke.
I reckon Stone Colds gonna show up, they’ve put no hint or anything to him but as they’ve already promoted various big names they could be holding him back as a surprise… Maybe interupt The Rock for old times sake?
I also hope a new set is unveiled, not necessary next week but at least the following, as a new beginning.
I think The Rock will solely focus on the WWE title and not get involved in anything, hopefully I’m wrong!