Excuse Me!!

Sorry that there has been no in depth look at some of the pieces from SmackDown! But I have been busy recently.
I will make it up to you on the next blog with an update of the latest things going on in the wrestling world and some of my thoughts about recent events after this run down of Raw.
I may make this the last time I do a full run down as they take so long to write, but I will keep up with the news and thoughts from other blogs.

Anyway lets move on to Raw.
It starts off with a look back at Edge and Randy’s stories to our current point, really showing how they are pushing these two men and there storylines.
I do love these flashbacks WWE do the best work on them.

Once we come off the look back we have Randy making his way to the ring. Randy starts off by telling us why he didn’t join back up with Edge last week, but for some reason is interrupted by Meat Loaf.
Once Meat Loaf is to the ring he starts giving Randy praise and then plugging his new album. He says that one of the tracks should be Randy’s new theme song. Meat Loaf asks if he would like to hear it. Randy agrees but doesn’t look impressed what so ever. As Meat Loaf starts to sing Randy becomes annoyed and goes to walk away, Meat Loaf keeps calling at him and talking about his songs in attempt to impress the Viper and to stop him from leaving.
After so long Randy finally shuts him up with an RKO which some of the crowd was calling for.
After that Edge comes out and he asks if Randy has a problem with Celebrities since he likes to RKO them all. But Edge agrees with him in the dislike of Celbs.
Edge then says that he has “tweeted” the WWE and from now on the guests have no power over matches. He moves on to announce that he felt that Raw should have a permanent general manger and introduces his ex wife, Vickie Guerrero as new GM of Raw.
She comes out to her usual “excuse me” then leads on to reprimand Randy.
Randy gets called a bully and that he will find out what it feels like, so later in the night Randy would meet Edge and a partner of his choice in a handicap match.
This was an interesting opening segment and does it mean the end of guest hosts?

After the ads we have Chris Jericho coming to the ring for a match and if he wins it, he and Miz get a Unified Tag Title match at Over The Limit.
David Heart Smith comes to the ring accompanied by the lovely Natalya who was carrying one of D. H .Smith’s belts.
This was a short match with nothing to special, Chris winning after a Code Breaker, this means that Jericho and Miz will be going for the Tag Titles at Over The Limit.

We then cut backstage to see Edge talking to Batista, we don’t hear any talking but Cole and King are wondering whether or not Edge is trying to recruit him.
We then hear about Cena and Batista, and the stipulation being reviled later in the night. A clip of our guest host, Flavor Flave, before cutting to the ads.

After the Ads we have R-Truth coming out with Flavor singing “What’s Up!?!”
Already I’m thinking what a mug this guy is. There is some typical guest host chat and plugging of endorsements before we move on to R-Truth vs. William Regal who was wondering back and forth by the ring while R-Truth and Flavor spoke to the crowd.

Just as the match started it was interrupted by the recently reunited team of Carlito and Primo, as a heel team. When they were done they left the ring and headed up the ramp. We find out why they attacked R-Truth, as they got to the top of the ramp they are joined by Ted DiBiase, they shake hands with him before leaving and Ted looks on pleased with what’s happened.

After the Ads and we have a scene of Maryse learning some Jujitsu to match up with Eve’s skills but doesn’t do well and slaps the trainer, this all seems boring and un needed and badly performed.

We then cut to Randy back stage being questioned by Josh Matthews. He asks the Viper if he is concerned about whom Edge picks as his partner. He says he is not concerned, but would like Vickie at ring side as tonight will be a night she will never forget.

After another ads break we have Zack Ryder talking to us and Divas sitting by the ring again.
His opponent this week would be Evan Bourn. I thought this would a good contest as Evan is one of my favourite superstars on the Raw roster, I just wish he was pushed into bigger and better storylines instead of wasting time with people like Zack Ryder.
Nothing overly interesting happened in this match though. Near the end we see one of the Divas who was at ring side, Alicia Fox, decided to jump up and try to stop the Shooting Star Press, but Diva number two, Gail Kim, stopped her. After Evan takes the win he walks off with Gail on his arm.

Adverts roll then we come back to have John Cena come out to a crowd that’s happy to see him.
John starts off by thanking Shames for interrupting him last week as it gave him a week to think about the stipulation at Over The Limit.
He runs down the things he could chose for the match but there cowardly matches.
After some blabbing he finally announces that the match at Over The Limit would be, an I Quit match.
He then thanks Shames again and asks for him to come out so he can thank him in person.
Shames appears but doesn’t come to the ring, he says that if he comes down Cena wont live to see Over The Limit. Cena calls him down anyway and Shames obliges to this but before he gets to the ring Batista runs out the crowd. After a beat down he throws Cena to Shames who gives him a Big Boot. Just as Batista is setting up a Batista Bomb Cena gets a hand from the world strongest man Mark Henry, he clears the ring and checks on Cena as Batista heads out.

We then cut to Edge and Vicki chatting back stage, they talk about being friends. Edge moves on to ask Vicki to be at ring side tonight, Vicki refuses but Edge brings her around and she agrees to do so.

We move on to the other half of the Heart Dynasty vs. The Miz. If Tyson wins a member of the Heart Family gets a shot at Miz’s United States Title.
This was short match again and nothing special, Tyson wins via a quick roll up. The Miz then says that Tyson shouldn’t be so happy as he didn’t personally win anything and the stipulation is that Miz decides who he will defend his title against out of the Heart Family. He says it won’t be Tyson, it won’t be David, and it won’t even be Natalya, you can all see what’s coming next, he picks Bret Heart, so next week on Raw we have Miz vs Bret for the US title.
We then cut to Batista backstage who gets told by Josh Matthews that he has a match with Mark Henry later on in the night.

After the ads we have the NXT rookies in the ring for a 8 on 4 tag match against the crazy team of, John Morrison, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella and Golddust.
This match was done under typical tag rules.The match was nothing special again, we saw Yoshi and Morrison face off against a few of the Rookies, then it all came to an end when Daniel Bryan got tagged in and so did Santino, Daniel picks up the win by a quick roll up. We didn’t even see half the Rookies in action nor did we see goldy boy take to the ring.

We now move on to a plug from our guest host again who gets interrupted by the Russian and the Italian, Kozlov and Santino we then soon add a Brit to the mix, William Regal. This is quite funny as Regal is enticed into a little rapping segment.

A quick run down of the matches for Over The Limit before we move on to Batista vs. Mark Henry. Once in the ring Batista gets a chair and sits down in the ring as we head to a break.
When we return, Batista is still sitting comfortable in the ring as Mark heads down. Just as Mark goes to get in the ring the Animal pounces he then takes the chair and goes to work on him.
Batista locks in a very painful looking submission hold on Mark, a load of refs try to stop him but can’t, Batista holds it until the point that Mark passes out.
Once done Batista leaves Mark in a heap in the ring, and heads out.

When we return we have Randy come to the ring for his match. We then have Edge accompanied by Vickie come out; they stay at the top of ramp as they introduce his tag team partner, Ted DiBiase.
This match was nothing to get overly excited about, we saw Randy do what he does best like we all want to see. Randy wins after R-Truth comes down to distract Ted. Once all over Randy locks sights onto Vicki.
He falls to the mat and coils to strike. He slithers out of the ring eyes not leaving Vicki. Vicki try’s her best to talk him down but just ends up breaking into cries until she shouts that she resigns and runs away, an RKO is planted on Edge who was about to attack Randy. I’m guessing from this, that the guest hosts will continue on.

Final thoughts of this show are low. I didn’t think much of this show as the matches were to short, and just seemed to bore me. I think they need to work on doing some longer more gripping matches again like on SmackDown! Friday and cutting down on the promos and backstage segments as they take up to much time.

Next weeks Raw will be commercial free, I believe it will be from Montréal and if that is so it should be Bret’s last appearance on Raw before his contact is up.

That’s all for now Matty.D Signing out.