WWE Raw Preview & Live Discussion (13/9/10)

[John]

WWE Raw Preview & Live Discussion (13/9/10)

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Less than one week before Night of Champions, John Cena and The Viper, Randy Orton - two longtime ring rivals - take up arms against one another, live on Raw. Relive these Superstars' 2009 rivalry in photos from their most grueling jousts.



Unpredictability. High stakes. The WWE Universe hits the jackpot on the next edition of Monday Night Raw when Raw Roulette returns! Tune in live as the wheel determines the matches and fates of Raw's competitors.

Discuss The Show Here!

[Altyrell]

couple things, i hope that the Raw Roulette has some actually good choices (i'm not holding my breath)

and the other thing is, is how can it be the Season premiere when they don't have Season Finale nor do they take breaks between "Seasons"?

[DarkDefender85]

Ok, they have kept Morrison away from Truth for two weeks in a row, am I getting my hopes up?

[DarkDefender85]

Morrison's match was a metaphor for his entire WWE career...So Close And Yet So Far!

[PRASANTH_RR]

Morrison got two great matches in a raw.. Great!! I hope WWE doesnt srew him again. His lading from the platform was amazing.. But The best part of the raw was.. Jericho just owned cole!! Ha ha

Cole: Can I have your attention please???

Jericho: Cuse you got that E-mail, you Idiot Just reat it..


Later on

Cole:: May I have your attention p....

Jericho:: Shut Up, Just read it.. Thanks god Finaly someone realised coles mouth to be shutted

[John]

Terrible ending. So disjointed and pointless.

The Nexus looked so weak (& This was their ONLY appearance throughout the broadcast). They just ran out to the ring and got slammed through tables.. This is the WWEs biggest threat? Then there is the finish.. Hmm.. What, on paper, appears like a fantastic idea, looked very sloppy in real life. I would prefer them to do this finish in a different style of match.

[Mark Bradford (U.K)]

Just watched the whole episode and I must say I was actually really impressed by this episode and thought it provided some good entertainment throughout & the Raw roulette wheel brought some unpredictability that we have rarely seen in recent episodes.
However one major problem I have with this show is the amount of time that was wasted in pointless matches.

Match 1. Submission: Daniel Bryan won Miz 2:00 via Forfeit.
Match 2. Submission: Daniel Bryan won Alex Riley 0:36
^^^^
These were pretty pointless affairs. The submission matches didn't work and just put over Daniel Bryan and having the Miz forfeit only 2 minutes into the match, I couldn't help but think that makes him look exceptionally weak (especially for a future world champion) having him submit to a so called "rookie"

Match 3. Body Slam Challenge: Edge won Evan Bourne 1:32
Match 4. Body Slam Challenge: Mark Henry won Edge 0:34
^^^^^
Again two very pointless matches, why not build up excitement for the NOC ppv by having a decent 7-10 minute match with Edge vs Evan Bourne and cut out the above matches and a useless backstage promo or two. Instead we get two totally pointless matches with no aim? Except for establishing the fact that Mark Henry is strong....

Match 5. Falls Count Anywhere: Sheamus won John Morrison 6:43
Really enjoyed this little beauty, John Morrison really surprised me in this and really excelled himself, loved his dive off the titon tron and landing on his feet after Sheamus threw him off the stage, really fantastic stuff.

Match 6. Steel Cage Handicap: Chris Jericho won Hart Dynasty 5:16
Didn't mind this either to be honest, however surely you could've allowed Y2J to get changed into his ring gear and had the match 5 minutes longer. Oh and Y2J owning Cole before the match was AMAZING!

Match 7. Trading Places Match: Goldust won William regal 0:25
Was very funny I thought for what it was worth. Also quite glad to see Goldust actually get a win on Raw! Hopefully more will follow as he can still go and is still quite over with the fans.

Match 8. Tables Match: Randy Orton won John Cena 12:42
Really good match, ruined abit by the numerous intereference of the Nexus et al. But was very entertaining and certainly a very solid main event.

Overall I really enjoyed this Raw and thought it was one of the strongest they've done all year. I'll give it a 7.1/10

[4 Gold Scorpio]

The whole sound effect & lights flickers followed by Michael Cole saying "Can I have you attention, I have an e-mail from the general manager" when we aren't dumb & can clearly see that based off the sound effect & noise so it's the most annoying thing in WWE today so hearing Chris Jericho PWN Michael Cole that entire time was the best guilty pleasure I had in WWE in a long time.

[™S. nay-rappeX taMmeT]

here's a great writeup i found, and thought i'd share:
credit: ********************.com, chris fitzpatrick

I, for one, enjoyed Monday Night Raw this past week. I thought the show was exciting and fun, well-paced, and did a nice job hyping this Sunday's Night of Champions pay-per-view. Though the main event featured well-established stars John Cena and Randy Orton, it was what I saw from the undercard that really made me stop and take notice.

Hometown favorite Chad Ochocinco did a nice job with the crowd at first, but it was The Miz who really set the tone early as the one who interrupted the Bengals wide-out and layed some zingers on both Ocho as well as the crowd, drawing some nice heat. This is the same Miz who was talked about as being a "reality star reject" while he toiled in ECW just a couple years ago. Miz was interrupted by the mystery General Manager (an angle I'm enjoying and has my interest piqued) and forced into a submission prelude to Night of Champions against Daniel Bryan. Miz scurries away and then sends his errand boy, NXT2 finalist Alex Riley in to face Bryan instead. Riley is soundly defeated by the US Title contender, who then makes Miz tap out afterwards.

So we're almost 30 minutes in, and so far we've gotten Miz, Bryan, and Riley to open the show. And a hot crowd for it. Three rookies, zero vets. The ratio is 3:0.

Edge is out next, goes through his usual "I'm funny but somehow I'm still a heel" act, and draws a bodyslam challenge against Evan Bourne. To be fair, this match wasn't given the time is could have gotten, but any time Bourne gets TV time against a multi-time World Champion like Edge is progress. After Bourne loses a match he is designed to lose, Edge is squashed by Mark Henry in a match he almost can't lose.

So that's another segment down, and the ratio of young guys to veterans is 4:2.

I take one positive out of the Ted DiBiase Jr. / R-Truth sing and dance off. At least Jillian Hall didn't get involved. And as much as I saw this as a waste of Maryse's talents, this segment featured two more younger guys in DiBiase and Truth. Neither have been main eventers yet. DiBiase's tag-team gold and Truth's US Title are the only legit, recognized belts either have to their credit.

6:2.

We get past the Seamus / Ocho and Edge/ Zack Ryder stuff, and arrive at John Morrison and his impressive display of strength and agility. I found this very effective, because if more casual fans got to see the athleticism these guys were capable of outside of the ring, I think there would be a greater mainstream respect for wrestlers overall. JoMo's spread in Muscle & Fitness was facinating, and I love where they are going with him.

Well, sure enough, JoMo is paired against WWE Champion Seamus, who despite being a 2-time champ is not really even a 2-year vet. He's a young rookie too. So here, the match of the night (and one of the best Raw matches in a long time) is contested between John Morrison and Seamus. Brilliantly done. Jericho's peice was great too, but it didn't take away from the contest between Seamus and JoMo.

8:2.

Fast forward - the cage comes down and Jericho, a veteran, has to fight a handicap match against the youthful Hart Dynasty. Here, you have probably the best singles wrestler in the last 10 years against the only legit tag team in the WWE. Oddly enough, when Hart-Smith was out of the cage leaving Jericho to face Kidd, I do believe that means you had the last two Hart Family Dungeon graduates in the right one on one. The rules of the match were not explained properly and executed poorly, but as he does with everybody, Jericho helped Kidd look great. Two young kids vs one vet brings our ratio to...

10:3.

In all fairness, Goldust vs Regal blows up the youthful theme we had here. Not sure why we needed it. It was quasi-funny, at best. But it affects the ratio. At least it was short.

10:5.

We finally arrive at the Main Event featuring John Cena vs Randy Orton. Their usual solid work, no doubt, but the real story was the attack by Nexus (yes, predictable, but still...) as Wade Barrett set up for his role in Sunday's 6-pack challenge. So the match is two veterans, and the run in is 3 rookies. Final ratio for the night?

13 young talents : 7 veterans.

That means that for every veteran in action Monday night, two rookies / young talents were in action as well. Couple that with the advent of Alberto del Rio, Kaval, and Drew McIntyre on Smackdown, and I think you can safely assume one thing...

The youth movement in the WWE is here. And it's here to stay.

never would have realized how raw was like that, with the rookies outweighing the vets, if not for reading this. very cool, and very good, imo

[BOOG]

IU liked Raw and was even entertained by the trading places match. but I think the tables match was a little bit of a cluster fuck. overall I thought it was a good raw