Raw this week was well I don't know odd!!! For the 1st time in Raw
history it opened with a steel cage match for the WHC. And as The King
stated at the begining "If there is a back door Jericho will find it. "
But I question this match up being 1st and I will give you my
explanation at the end of this blog. Jericho made a very early attempt
to leave the cage but CM Punk stops him. Punk still looked a little
taken back from the punt to the head from Orton at Unforgiven? Jericho
had Punk in the Walls Of Jericho which felt like a lifetime but Punk
slide his way to the door and attempted to leave the cage but he was
one leg shy as Jericho stopped him from escaping. CM Punk even at one
point attempted a GTS off of the top turmbuckle but Jericho escapes
that as well. CM Punk makes his way to the door to escape but Chris
just crawls right over Punk and the 2 start fighting at the door as the
Ref as the door wide open and it's Jericho and Punk butting heads and
Jericho lucks out and fall backwards to the door and gets the WIN!!!
What a crock!!!!!!
Kelly Kelly or K-2 is what Mike Adamle called her are in the back
talking about No Mercy and a new face comes up and introduces himself
his name is Doulph Zegller. Then Jericho comes up and Mike
congradulates Chris and tells him to get ready for No Mercy as he will
be defending the WHC! Chris starts crying about how he is too valuable
to Raw and he has taken so much to get to this point as Chris is
telling Mike he has a idea the 2 walk back to Adamle's office to
continue their talk.
Kane in the back talking about "I was forced to unmask" but he did
to be accepted and that didn't happen either. "People point and
ridicule me and the feeling for you people is mutal" "I was attacking
each and everyone of you when I attacked Rey" Then out of nowhere Evan
Bourne comes up and starts talking about how Rey is couregeous and made
it possible for someone like him to make it in the WWE.
Candice vs. Jillian: As Candice walked out Beth was right behind her
on the ramp. Jillian had a very impressive full nelson on Candice. And
what was that 1st dropkick from Candice supposed to be wow!!! But it's
Candice picking up the win with a move that looks like the unprittier
it's called "The Candy Wrapper" Beth attempts to get in the ring as
Candice is taunting her to come on in and Candice hits the dropkick
right this time and dropkicks Beth right off the appron.
JBL vs. Tommy Dreamer: Ok WWE if you are going to keep having Tommy
job all the time just let him go his leagacy deserves better than this.
And yes it's JBL with the clothesline from hell to pick up the win. But
JBL asked for the microphone and wouldn't leave untill Adamle made him
the new #1 contender for No Mercy? Then Randy Orton comes out "A few
weeks ago I gave my assements of all the Champions here on Raw and I
was not Impressed,JBL your not much of an improvement" Randy even uses
the word"Creditablity" Then Santino and Beth make their way down to the
ring Santino had this comment to Randy "Who do you think you are Randy
Orton,you insulted me and The Glamazon unlike you we are
Champions,unlike you we are healthy,your always injured like your daddy
how long did he have that cast on like 6 years."My Papa is always
healthy,sure he had the Herpes but he manged it very well, now pologize
to me" This is the kind of writing that makes Santino a loveable heel.
Then Batista comes out and adds his 2 cents to all this "Now before I
beat the the hell out of all of you" Batista wants to fight JBL to
determine the #1 contenders spot for No Mercy. Mike Adamle appears on
the Hi-Def Tron and says he will take it all under consideration and
have his announcement at the end of the show. Batista then attacks JBL
and Santino tries to take a cheap shot on the animal. But it ends up
being Batista and Beth with the stare down. Beth slaps him twice and
Batista spinbusters Beth right onto Santino face (ouch)
Rhodes/DiBiase/Manu vs. The King/Kofi/JH Jim Hass: Hass was funny
again this week as good ol JR with the JR bbq sauce cheap pop!!! Manu
was just dominating Kofi at the start of this match. J.H. Ross went and
did a little annoucing good ol JH even used the old Oklahoma Stampede
finisher but it was DiBiase with the combination Million Dollar Dream
into a leg sweep to pick up the win.
JBL and Jericho in the locker room. JBL saying that "just like wall
street crashing so are you Chris, Mike trust me more than you"
Jamie Noble vs. Paul Burchill: Poor Jamie looked so heart broken
this week. But this week he got to see that old pitbull come back and
with the arm bar submission move from Noble he picks up the very much
needed and impressive win. But Layla and Regal have to come out and rub
more salt into Jamie's wound. Regal saying that "It wasn't Noble she
was looking for it was Noblity". This one keeps getting better and
better.
Rey vs. Kane: Rey kept Kane down for a litle bit. But it was Kane
with total dominance throwing Rey out of the ring and a one arm slam.
Everytime Kane would swat Rey away Rey kept coming back. Rey then
started working on the knees and legs of the Big Red Machine. Rey even
got in a very impressive Inserguri kick. But it was Kane with the
thunderous clothesline and the brutal and unmerciful kicking on Rey
that the Ref had to stop this match. Evan Bourne comes down to help out
Rey and both men lead a very high impact ariel asault on Kane.
Jericho then comes out all nice and clean thanking Mike Adamle for
taking his advice. Chris suggested that Batista and JBL have a match at
No Mercy and the winner of that match would go on later that night to
fight Chris for the Title. Then Mike came out and said that both men
will fight at NO Mercy and it will be a #1 contenders match but the
winner would get the title match at a later date. Mike was approached
from someone else that had a idea for a match that he couldn't pass up.
And as we would find out it was HBK who had a Ladder match idea for No
Mercy. So it's Jericho and HBK in a ladder match at No Mercy. Hey WWE
let HBK walk away with the championship this time he has more than
earned this one.
So I was looking at the ratings for Raw yesterday and i found
something interesting!!! This is the 1st Raw in a very long time not to
get a 3.0 rating. The higthest rated segment was at 10:15 with a 2.9
rating. So yes I am questing the reasoning of putting your steel cage
Championship on 1st when it should have been the main event. I am
betting that everyone thought that the cage match was going to be the
main event and when they tunned in a liitle later after the show had
started and found out they had missed the Cage match it meant nothing
to them and watched something else.... Hey WWE it's called a bulid up
that's how you keep viewers for the 2 hours by putting that cage match
up as colleteral for keeping them to watch. It would have been better
if The cage match would have been last. Here Jericho just went throught
hell with CM Punk and narrowly escaping with the title and HBK comes
out with the ladder match idea Jericho could have sold that so much
better with the look on his face and it would have had more meaning to
this feud and the viwers would have been there. And what is up with
putting the World Champions on 1st Jericho on Monday and Matt on
Tuesday. What about buliding your show around the Champions you always
did with Hogan,Hart,HBK,Austin,and The Rock. Am not saying that the
whole show should be bulit around them but a good part of it should be.
And the sad part here is this show should have gotten a 3.0 they had
this show bulit up for a week ahead of time.
Untill next week if it's not cooked it's Raw!!!!