A RAW Opinion
Welcome to A RAW Opinion, I’m Joe and ya know what? We’re still 6 hours our from WWE Raw, but we’re at a HUGE milestone this week, episode #1,000 so why the hell not get the party started early? I could go on and on talking about all the things the WWE has lined up for tonight, and I will!
First off, our huge main event, John Cena cashing in his Money In The Bank briefcase tonight against CM Punk, a huge match for a huge show, I’m putting my money on CM Punk to walk out STILL the WWE Champion, I do think there will be some interference.
Legends, legends and more legends, rumor is there are a TON of people backstage for Raw tonight, Vader is apparently in the house, as is Sycho Sid, The Rock (I’ll be nice since It’s a milestone show) is in the house tonight live! And tonight we find out who the new General Manager will be. (My money is still on Flair)
Also, there’s a picture floating around about a new Raw logo, here it is…
And we are LIVE! Raws 1’000th episode is on the air! New opening screen, pretty cool. Great video package highlighting the past 999 episodes. WWE as always going an AMAZING job on the video. Nobody does a better video package then the WWE production staff.
We have a new theme song AND set for WWE Raw. First out Vince McMahon is out there to a HUGE ovation. Huge “Thank you Vince chant” Vince introduces D-Generation X! Shawn Michaels & Triple H come out from the back to a huge ovation, Shawn gets on the microphone and says he’s digging all this but he’s “missing something” HHH asks if there used to be “more of them” the fans go insane! The music hits and out comes X Pac. Billy Gunn and Road Dogg! GREAT opening segment! Damien Sandow came out from the back to interrupt DX, not a smart idea. Sandow tried to get smart with DX and ended up being left on his back in the middle of the ring.
Our first match of the evening is a 6 man tag team match. Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara and World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus against Chris Jericho, Dolph Ziggler and Alberto Del Rio. Pretty interesting to see if Ziggler and Jericho can coexist. Ziggler took a cheap shot on his own teammate Jericho and Sheamus takes out Ziggler before Jericho gets his head kicked off. Sheamus, Rey and Sin Cara win.
I am VERY pissed that Jim Ross was only out there for that one match, he deserves better.
Up next, Charlie Sheen is on Skype with Lawler and Cole. I really could do without seeing him.
We see a video of AJ and Daniel Bryan getting engaged last week on Raw. AJ says that tonights ceremony is gonna be great, AJ wants to know why everyone calls her crazy, she opens the locker room door and Jim Duggan is outside, then R Truth and Piper are playing jump rope with Lil Jimmy, and finally Mae Young and her son (the hand) are outside. GREAT stuff, especially the hand being all grown up.
Jack Swagger is in the ring his opponent is Brodus Clay, we all know what’s gonna happen, thanks for coming Swagger. Brodus clay brings out DUDE LOVE!!!
Backstage Trish and HHH are talking, Trish is trying to get HHH to do yoga when DX walks in and pretty much laughs at him. I thought they were gonna repeat it and Steph would walk in and this time Trish would be behind him.
The wedding is up next. SLICK is the reverend for this ceremony!! Slick gets to the part where he asks someone to speak out if they oppose… We don’t get a wedding, instead Vince comes out and says the new GM is AJ!
Daniel Bryan is still in the ring seething mad when CM Punk comes out from the back with a microphone, Punk says he didn’t come out there to laugh at his face, even though he was left at the alter, Punk then said it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, Bryan starts screaming about how he’s the greatest superstar of all time, this brings out The Rock. Rock says Bryan doesn’t get to say who the greatest of all time is, the fans do. Rock and Bryan go back and forth after Bryan cuts him off. Rock says he’s out there to talk about the WWE Championship. He says that whoever the champion is at Royal Rumble will defend the title against The Rock. Not going to lie, if The rock wins the WWE Title at the Royal Rumble, I might be done with WWE.
Bret Hart coming out to be special guest ring announcer, this is for the Intercontinental Championship, Christian going against The Miz. In a very surprising decision, The Miz wins the Intercontinental Championship, I am very surprised!
Another Charlie Sheen segment, eh, I don’t really care about him lol.
Triple H is out next, thankfully they’re getting the Lesnar thing over with early. HHH says he called Lesnar out and he wants an answer now. Paul Heyman comes out first, Heyman says that Lesnar gave him the authority to answer for him, Heyman says Lesnars answer is no. HHH says if Lesnar is there and won’t come out there like a man how about HHH goes back there and finds him, Heyman says there are already 2 lawsuits against WWE, does he really wanna go for a 3rd, HHH said he doesn’t care at this point. Paul Heyman talks about HHH’s kids, Stephanie is here and she looks pissed! Stephanie slaps Heyman across the face, Heyman then accepts the match with HHH on behalf of Lesnar. Stephanie attacked Heyman and Brocks music hit again, Lesnar comes out and gets in the ring, Lesnar and HHH fight a bit until HHH throws him from the ring.
I have a feeling I’m going to hate Tout more and more every week lol.
Howard Finkel!!!! Heath Slater out next. He says everything that happened on Raw in the past doesn’t matter, the only thing people will remember will be his victory tonight, he challenges any of the Raw legends to a No DQ, No Count out match. Out comes LITA! Lita says she has something to say to Slater, she hired some protection, THE APA!!!! Slater books ass out of the ring and heads up the ramp, LOD music hits! Animal, Vader, Sid, Doink, Rikishi, Backlund, Slaughter, DDP all come out and throw Slater back in the ring, Lita hits a Twist of Fate, Bradshaw hits a Clothesline from hell, Lita hits the moonsault, uno, dos, adios. Ron Simmons has a mic, he looks around… “DAMN!!!” GREAT STUFF!!
Shawn Mooney is interviewing Daniel Bryan!! Bryan talks about how tonights show has been tarnished by what happened with Rock and Charlie Sheen talking about him.
Up next, Kane walks to the ring, he comes out and before his opponent can be announced Jinder Mahal, Drew McIntyre, Tyler Reks, Curt Hawkins, Hunico and Camacho come out and get ready to attack him when, THE UNDERTAKER IS BACK! They both clean house. GREAT STUFF!
Charlie Sheen again, yawn.
Up next is the WWE Championship match between CM Punk and John Cena. The referee got taken out and Big Show came out, he took Cena out with the WMD, CM Punk looked conflicted, he eventually went on to pin Cena but Cena kicked out at 2, Punk went for the GTS and Cena countered into the STF, Big Show came back and attacked Cena while CM Punk watched on, The Rock comes running out from the back and goes after Big Show. Rock went for the peoples elbow but CM Punk attacked him. CM Punk delivered a GTS on The Rock!! CM Punk turning heel!? I HOPE SO!! WHAT AN ENDING TO RAW!!
My final thoughts, GREAT SHOW!!! I wish they didn’t have so many commercials but you can’t do much about that. I’m kind of bummed about no Stone Cold, but all in all, AMAZING show! I’m giving it a 5/5! Loved it! I cannot wait until next week!
Awesome, Joe!
I will be on/off until Raw starts. The new logo is good IMO, better than the previous one. None of the glitz and glamour bullshit. I’m looking forward to the show and will stay up until 4AM at least for it. I will comment on here every ad break and see what everyone else is posting when the show starts. I hope it’s not a clustered fucked with all these legends here and hoping it’ll all pan out creatively and efficiently.
To me the RAW logo is missing something. Maybe if the edges where rounded off or something?
That’s a rough version more than anything else IMO.
I’m going with a Cena victory. I hope Scott Steiner is the GM but I doubt it, lol.
I’m going with a double pin/ref thing.
I hope to be here as well!
My pick for G.M.: The Shockmaster!
Scott Steiner as GM would be hilarious. I still think i’s Stephanie, though. Punk to retain!!
Mae Young for GM! “Alright, there’s only one way to solve this issue between Layla and Beth…..put these sluts in the ring right now!”
haha. But I hope they do something to make Diva’s at least watchable again!
This is your Captain speaking…
Mae young as GM, the word slut will be used every other sentence lmao.
I wonder if they will mention the shooting tonight.
That video package just caused me to mess my pants.
Was a pretty cool video. I don’t think anyone can top WWE for their video montages.
Sandow probably thinks this is an honor.
Vintage DX, entertaining open segment. Gotta give credit to WWE production team! Their intro is EPIC!
Rock is gonna address the WWE Title situation… In NO shape or form does he deserve to be champion again.
It would probably give the WWE title the prestige it deserves though, even if he doesn’t win it.
He shouldn’t win it.
Plus, he did mention it during his last run.
Well I doubt he’ll win in when his acting career is so busy with his schedule.
The Hand!! My life is complete!
Jump rope with Little Jimmy!
That was fucking hilarious!!
Mae Young and her son!! EPIC!
I guess Mark Henry wasn’t the real father.
Dude Love baby!!!!
Jive Soul Bro!
Was not expecting that.
Same here, quite surprising!
Not ONE PERSON saw that coming!
AJ and Vince did.
AJ being the GM came WAY out of left field!
Oh, shit…
Frodo! lol
Great promo by the great one. Good to see a more edgy CM Punk promo again, Bryan did good too.
Congratulations Miz! I don’t dislike him as much as I used to!
Damn, Steph!
I love Stephanie.
I can’t believe there is only like 45 mins left, this episodes gone by pretty fast.
APA!!!
DAMN!!!
Mooney!
We need Todd Pettengil back now!
You get the house!
At last…
Taker uses the same tailor as The Shredder.
I loved the jacket, pretty funny it took him 3 tries to take off the hood though lol.
Got caught on his mohawk.
Bastard!
I am fuck tired, will be on in the afternoon tomorrow. Glad Punk turned heel….EPIC!
CM Punk is going to OWN The Rock SO HARD as a heel on that mic!
Cena’s stale as a face. I’ve got the answer chaps, let’s turn Punk heel!!!
When are WWE going to learn that people are bored of Cena full stop, regardless of who he’s feuding with!
Smarks are board.
I would much rather have heel Punk then heel Cena.
I’d at least like the opportunity to see heel Cena!
Eh, as soon as he turned heel, many of the people booing him would start to cheer him.
Despite my best wishes Steiner wasn’t revealed to be Raw GM either. Smackdown still has a vacancy though right?
Unless WWE expects us to forget lol
Well I mean they think we’re all 9, so it wouldn’t surprise me. Least I’ve got TNA to catch up on tomorrow! (Yes, that’s where I’m seeking solace after an event that is supposed to shape Raw for the forseeable future).
AMAZING! And that’s all I have to say about that.
Oh, but it took Taker well more than 3 tries to get that jacket off. At least 3min, the ref had to assist him, and the crowd started to laugh. Lol
That’s his new gimmick: The BlooperTaker!
Great show and I NEVER would’ve expected the ending to go the way it did.
I thought they would’ve waited until Punk lost the title to turn heel but so happy they did last night! Wonder what type of heel he’ll be?
A bad heel. He’ll still get cheered.
A lot of people hate The Rock now so Punk attacking The Rock probably made him more popular than hated.
But Punk attacking Rock to prevent Show from getting The People’s Elbow?
So what Cena did is okay because he waited for The Rock to finish his people’s elbow on The Miz?
No, it’s not okay. But faces doing moves on other faces to send a message has been going on for quite a long time. I’d say it started around the Attitude Era.
A face attacking another face after the second face takes down a heel in order to send a message is one thing(Both Rock and Cena did that during their build.). A face attacking another face, preventing the first face from taking down a heel altogether is another.
Just seen raw after sky plushsing it
1000th edition and no stone cold? Hmmm, although Austin did say he’d rather face punk when he was a heel rather than a face.
Glad they turned punk, his speech last year came from a heel persona so hopefully we will see more of it again. Hope they turn Bryan face though.
All in all didn’t really excite in such a way, DX was good, the rock, punk and Bryan were good. Triple, Stephanie, Lesnar and Heyman really brought, Lesnar is an animal and his ferocity in the ring really stands out.
Where was this ‘Major Angle’? And I bet THQ are ecstatic now their cover boy is a heel, that should really shift extra copies lol
Regarding Stone Cold – http://brokenskullranch.com/archives/1142
I don’t think Bryan will be turned face, WWE need heels. When Orton returns, they’ll probably keep him as face.
The big angle was Punk turning heel.
THQ won’t be worried, Punk is so interesting it doesn’t matter if he’s face or heel.
The big angle was the hand is back and Mark Henry is not the father.
I’m still laughing at that, it was genius! haha
If the hand is signed to a contract, how long until the hand has to start doing jobs in the ring? What did I say?
Apparently he applied to be a Referree, only there was difficulty when asked to perform a ’10 count’
Or he could be called “The Walking High-Five!”.
What a show! Gutted not to see SC or Edge, but all in all was a top show!
Highlights – Bret Hart, Mae Young’s son, legends, legends, ledgends, Brothers of Destruction, DX and the Stephanie kicking the shit out of Heyman. For the love of spandex, bring back the Attitude Era!
Punk? New super heel? Love it! Probably has upset some teenage fan girls somewhere. If you’re all hating on him, surely that means he’s done a good job?
Most smarks will still be cheering him.
So CM Punk hits his finisher on The Rock on RAW and now he’s heel, but Cena hits his finisher on The Rock on RAW last year and Cena stayed a face? That doesn’t make sense to me. If Punk is heel because he attacked The Rock, then Cena should have been heel after he FUed Rock during the WrestleMania 27 go home RAW last year.
The Rock told Punk that he’s gonna win the WWE Champion at the Royal Rumble. Punk is the champ. Why wouldn’t he send a message to The Rock?
Because he not only gave him the GTS(That alone won’t turn anybody heel. It’s been going on for quite a long time.), but he cheap-shotted Rock as he was about to do the People’s Elbow on Show. If he had let Rock do the elbow, then do the GTS on Rock, it would’ve come across as a message and not him helping Show.
He was teasing the heel turn throughout the whole match, watch it again and you’ll notice it. I think on Raw next week he’ll open with a very heel-promo which will 100% clarify he is indeed a full fledged heel!
Or he could apologize to Cena and Rock, and give Cena another shot at SS.
But it just seems Punk has been teasing this heel turn for a while now, I think they will certainly have him that evil heel again. Like look at his face expression as Raw goes off the air. It just gives off that evil mastermind vibe.
Should’ve done an evil laugh and twirl his ‘stache.
I hope he doesn’t come out and just slag the fans off.
I don’t think Punk will do that. I think he will probably play a tweener for a few weeks. Something like Macho Man.
Cena should have turned heel…not Punk. THAT would have been a good Summer angle, but the WWE isn’t smart enough to do something like that.
Eh, many of the people booing Cena would start to cheer him if he turned heel.
Remember the Raw after WM 28 when Cena said something like ”would this finally be the day John Cena turns his back on the WWE Universe”? The crowd started cheering for him to do so. I know if I was in attendance at a WWE event and Cena was heel I would probably cheer for him, lol.
Hipster!