Oh, Canada Wants Impact!

Raw last night was “Live” from Toronto Ontario Canada and was commercial free….. Except in Canada? Now although it was commercial free we did have a lot of “messages from there sponsors.” But anyway, the show was pretty mediocre, nothing to get to crazy about.
The show did have a couple of highs though so let’s look back.

It pretty much started with Brett sating that it is his final night on Raw. He then went on to say that he will not be competing for Miz’s US Title. During this little speech Brett let the letters WWF slip instead of WWE, but the sensors muted it for us watching at home.
Before he could move on Chris Jericho came out to make Brett change his mind and agree to compete still later in the night which he did.

We then moved to more Canadians as Edge comes out for his match. Now Randy and Edge was taking part in pick your Poison matches, in other words they pick each others opponents.
Once Edge was to the ring we had Christian’s music, he makes it down to the ring for a highly anticipated match between two former tag team partners. Unfortunately it was not to be that amazing partly due to the crowd just not getting into it and the match was slightly dull I must admit. In the end Edge won off a spear to a cheer of the crowd, they were most probably glad it was over. Personally I thought the match was pretty solid and I did enjoy it but the crowd thought differently. After that we did have a great moment. On the Titan Tron Randy appeared and said he was wondering why Christian was down there as he was not the person Randy selected, then the lights went out and a gong sounded. That’s right The Undertaker was there and ready to go. Unfortunately when that match got started Edge just got himself counted out. Christian (who was still on the outside) then threw Edge back in to be choke slammed, and that’s really all we got of the Deadman.

We then had Mark Henry coming out to the ring to be ambushed by Batista and a 2x4. We see Batista beat on Mark then Batista requested his spotlight.

After that we have a trailer to promote the R-Truth vs. Ted DeBiase match at Over The Limit. We then Have Ted come down accompanied by his father’s old body guard Vigil. Ted goes against Yoshi Tatsu and wins.

We then have a monolog from Miz as he heads to the ring, great mic work again. Brett then comes down and the bell is rung for the match to begin. By the way this is a no DQ no count out match.
Miz jumps out of the ring gets a microphone and says that he is already wise to Brett getting help from the Heart Dynasty and he has hired help. The Russian and The Brit come down but are soon met by Tyson Kid and DH.Smith. While they fight Chris Jericho comes from the other side so Brett’s stuck in a 1 on 2 situation. Then the lovely Natalya jumps in for support and ends up slapping Miz but doesn’t do much else and Brett is taken down to the ground with a punch to the gut. Already I was not overly impressed. The rest of the Dynasty return to help out and yes Brett does win the US Title one last time. This was pretty cool but once again nothing overly amazing about it.

Next was a 6 divas match with interesting attachments. On SmackDown! LayCool won the Women’s title off of Beth in a 2 on 1 Handicap match. Layla was the one who got the pin but for some reason both Michele and Layla had title belts this night. Is this the start of a tag team championship for Divas or just some storyline?
Anyway they teamed up with Maryse to face Eve and the Bella Twins. I actually saw some improvement in this match and it lasted longer than usual WWE divas matches. It ended on Maryse with her lame DDT.

We then had Randy Orton vs. Jack Swagger, Edges chosen opponent for Randy. This match was dull due to the presents of Swagger but it did pick up when Randy did what he does best and pulled out all his Viper moves and the crowd loved it.
Edge ended up in the middle and this ended with Randy being speared after Jack got RKO’d.

Now if you hadn’t noticed apparently Buzz Aldrin (second man to walk on the moon) was the guest host. He came down, spoke to the crowd, and had Zack Ryder come down with Rosa Mendes to interrupt him and blab. When that was done, Buzz set up the match of Zack and Rosa vs. Evan Bourn and Gail Kim. This was an ok match saw some good moves but not much structure.



We then had the nights final match Shames vs. John Cena. Once again nothing amazing bored the crowd and nothing special. This ended with Batista getting involved and the show closed with John Cena in Batista’s new submission hold.
Now there was one memorable thing to notice in this match, which was a crowd sign that had obviously been snuck by the security. It said “Toronto Need a Impact.” Now to most people you would think ok so what the sign said Impact which is the TNA show. But that was not all. The letters T, N and A was highlighted clearly in red, the rest was in black and the letters lined up in a downwards diagonal to from a clear TNA. I am shocked that WWE let that sign threw the cracks but hope it’s a good slap in the face for Vince.

That’s pretty much all that’s important at the moment. I will not be doing any mid week up dates at the moment due to going through induction for my new job but I should be back on track next week or by the end of this week.

Matty.D Signing off.