The show stared with a very battered looking Batista who came to the ring to moan. He was interrupted by the ring announcer who introduced the new Raw GM, Bret the Hitman Heart.
The Hitman spoke about Fatal 4 Way and that to decide the competitors in the Fatal 4 Way for the WWE championship, there would be a set of qualifying matches that night.
Batista was of coarse out raged by this. Bret then said if Batista wants a shot again at the title he must compete for it. Batista then shouted and screamed like a baby about being hurt and not able to wrestle and threatens to quit. Bret says that Batista would go up against another injured superstar being that Randy Orton and if Batista doesn’t want to wrestle then he will for fit and Randy moves on to F4W, which of coarse was the result and Randy is placed in the match at F4W. After Bret went backstage Batista moaned like a baby again until he quit and then left with the help of the Refs again.
We then had the first of the qualifying matches with an obvious winner before it even gets going. Sheamus vs. Mark Henry. Simple match nothing to get crazy about and Sheamus takes the win.
A back stage promo from guest host Jon Lovitz and Maryse followed by a promo from Bret, Edge and Chris which reviles the last qualifying match. Instead of a one on one match between Edge and Chris it’s a triple threat between the two and John Cena. If Cena wins they get nothing if one of them wins they go through to F4W.
Next was a limp Divas tag match that didn’t wow anyone but was longer in length than we are used to. The match was Maryse and Alicia Fox vs. Eve and Gail Kim. Maryse and Alicia being victorious after a vicious looking kick from Alicia and the French kiss from Maryse.
We then head into a great contest for the vacated United States Championship between R-Truth and The Miz.
I really did enjoy this match R-Truth is becoming such a great superstar, although during the ad break he almost broke his neck jumping over the ropes out of the ring.
We saw some great moves from both superstars, one counter that really stood out for me was when R-Truth was in the tree of woe and was able to throw Miz off the turnbuckle. The match went on with great two counts really getting the fans on the edge of there seats.
R-Truth ends it with his spinning elbow, now known as The Lie Detector, and gets the pin becoming the US champion and it being the first singles title he has held with WWE.
John Cena talks back stage now, yadda yadda yadda.
When we return Jon Lovitz has his skit with the Bella twins, the Great Khali, Jillian Hall and some random guy out the crowd. This is soon interrupted by Ted Dibiase and Virgil followed by Santino. I didn’t think much of this, some of these skits are good but they are just becoming boring and demeaning to the superstars who should be wrestling not dancing in top hats or singing badly.
We then have a match between the Heart Dynasty and Regal and Kozlov. The match was mediocre mainly because Regal and Kozlov are just used as a beat up team to push bigger tag teams.
After the match The Heart Dynasty was attacked by a brand new faction, and not a faction of superstars we already know, but a complete new team. They consisted of two men with long braided hair and a woman who looked like Awesome Kong if she lost loads of weight.
Now I thought this was brilliant other than the fact that that one of the guys had a total fail when getting on the top Turnbuckle.
Fans have wanted WWE to start pushing tag teams and it maybe what they are doing. With this new tag team and the other two new tag teams on SmackDown! As well as the S.E.S, it looks like we are getting a bigger tag team division.
This new faction came in the ring and attacked all the members of the Heart Dynasty. Once they had them laid out on the mat all the members of this team climbed the turnbuckles (although one almost fell right off) and then did simultaneous body presses to the lifeless Heart family. This should be very interesting and it was a great way to introduce this new team and get them right where they need to be with huge impact, I also love the fact that we have a new wrestling Diva not just one that’s going to stand around and look pretty.
Backstage again we have a talk with the NXT rookies, and then we have a look at Daniel Bryan and Michael Cole’s little tiff at the last NXT. Cole says how he will be calling Bryan out on the next NXT and wants him to apologise for the incidence or he will sue him.
Backstage again Chris and Edge chat, then we head to the ring for the last F4W qualifier.
This match went well but if you know WWE you could tell who was going to win when the match was made.
There were some great moves during this match, there was one point when Cena had Edge in the STF and Chris was doing the Walls of Jericho on John all at once.
The match came to a close with a Code breaker to Cena followed by a Spear to Chris getting the pin for Edge. So at F4W we will see John Cena vs. Sheamus vs. Edge vs. Randy Orton.
As Edge was leaving Sheamus came out but stopped so far down the ramp, Randy then walks out and stands at the top of the ramp, making and awesome shot.
This was a great Raw and I thought it was much better than Over The Limit the night before. I am looking forward to seeing what SmackDown! Will have to offer and what next weeks Raw will have in store, but I really hope Fatal 4 Way is not a Fail like Over The Limit was.
Matty.D Singing off.
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