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Pro's from the Palace (#205) - Some Post Raw Thoughts (Not a Full Recap) |
» Reported by Mike Siciliano of WrestleView.com
» On Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 12:18 AM EST
This column is by no way meant as competition to my friend and colleague Hunter Golden's recap of Raw. If you're looking for results and full show analysis from Raw, I invite you to check his column out. This piece below is a rare opportunity for me to be able to comment on Raw as it happens on television, and share those comments with my readers. Thank you for your understanding.
I set up this week to be able to watch Raw, a rare chance for me to get to watch one of the shows I enjoy as it happens, and what transpires? I fall asleep mid show. I wake up to Cena coming to the ring for the so called surrender ceremony. I guess I missed the tag match with Cade & Murdoch vs. London & Kendrick, and I missed the declaration of Vince vs. Trips for next week. Apparently, I also missed this "3 second video" that came on that has reports already surfacing about a potential Chris Jericho sighting in the near future. However, with all that being said, I did manage to write some notes I'd like to take a minute or two of your time to go through. Hell, you could spend half the column just talking about the first damn segment, because it was that peculiar to me, and appeared that contrived and thrown together at the last minute.
In no apparent order, during the first segment, Randy Orton gets suspended indefinitely, Triple H gets a handicap steel cage match with Carlito and the Boss, the Boss accepts Hornswoggle as his son, and sets him up on a date with Melina, which we find out later was basically "prostitution" to ensure Melina gets a shot at the women's title, and Cena's year plus long reign as WWE Champion was left in the hands of a man who couldn't outwrestle me who is threatening to strip Cena of the title for laying his hands on supposed "authority" figures.
Now, let's go through the obvious one first. I guess WWE wants to throw "credibility" around like a weapon itself as well, because I defy any human being on the planet to sit here and tell me that when they heard Randy Orton had been suspended indefinitely for the use of handcuffs on Cena last week, that it truly was for the drug scandal, and this was WWE's way of finally writing Orton off the show. I mean, hell, I was sitting here waiting to find out what sort of changes were going to be made for the No Mercy main event. I was prepared for virtually anything.
Then Orton appears on "pre-recorded" comments. And he mentions No Mercy. So its apparent that he's "not" suspended as the world thinks, and that he's just not in Millwaukee tonight. Peculiar, for a man in a main event feud of epic proportions that basically has the entire brand riding on it.
I have read since that Orton got married, and the company let him have time off to celebrate his honeymoon. Now, I'm not going to sit here and dispute sources, but as I have said repeatedly, Orton's credibility is damaged, as well as WWE's, so if that report is true, I can live with that, and so be it, Orton's out for a week or two, and WWE makes up the time lapse with some dumb ass ideas like what took place tonight. But, we'll get to the 'surrender' ceremony a bit later.
The Boss puts himself in a steel cage alongside Carlito against the Game. Can I ask you something? Was this truly to try and make Triple H look weak? Because in my eyes, this only did one thing, it made Carlito look like an absolute pile full of stinking trash. Carlito barely could keep the Game at bay, and this match literally ended by a whisker when McMahon fell from the side of the cage. I would not be the least bit surprised if the ending was conjured mid match as most of the show appeared to be, from the first segment throughout the portions I stayed awake for, it all appeared to me as patch work television at best.
Let's move on. The Boss accepts Hornswoggle as his son, and sets him up on a "date" with Melina. Melina asks "Horny" to go for a beer, and ends up doing the horizontal bop with the little runt on the mat, (lucky bum). The follow up here is when Jillian Hall corners Melina, and Melina states that she agreed to this to get a shot at the women's title. Two schools of thought here. One, from a literal sense, we're condoning prostitution, which is just down right ludicrous. But, this is WWE, and something like this is down right normal, so let's shut up, accept it, and chuckle at the fact that a midget in a leprechaun outfit got to roll around the mat with a smokin' hot diva like Melina in the ring. So be it. I gotta admit, though, Hornswoggle did get his assemblance of "revenge" as it were at the end of the night.
Coachman is out running his preverbial mouth AGAIN, man, he's worse than Jeremy Borash, screaming at Cena to hand the title over. Just as this is about to end, Lilian Garcia, ever peaceful Lilian interrupts, and says by order of "Mr. McMahon", Cena is not stripped, and there's a tables match, Coach vs. Cena, right now. Cena then annihilates Coach, and thanks the little bugger when he shows up on the stage. I gotta admit. It was a nice twist to the illegitmate son angle, and it's bound to have some nice insanity ensue when Vinnie Mac loses his effing mind come next week on Raw.
All that, literally, came out of the first segment on the show, and the segment seemed awfully contrived to me. It didn't feel smooth at all. I guess that's why the whole show felt kind of off tonight, and why I managed to squeeze a nap inside the two hours of time I was supposedly trying to watch one of my favorite shows.
Ah, the price of being a vampire. Ok, let's move on. Some more things to consider...
Cody Rhodes gets indoctrinated in to the WWE Raw locker room the hard way by the returning Hardcore Holly. Now, don't get me wrong, I am glad to see Holly back, and he's definitely a guy I can get behind. But, there's one thing I gotta know. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE DRAFT? Holly was supposed to be on Smackdown! Talk about a cluster...anyway, Cody got some shots in, but Hardcore looked like he was close to 100%, and if that's the case, there's an awful lot of guys in the locker room who's going to be hurting once they sign their names on the dotted line, no matter which brand Holly ends up on.
Santino Marella. I was emailed by a friend of mine, and I'm sorry I don't remember who you are, but this email said that Marella should be sent back to OVW. After this week, I AGREE WHOLE FREAKIN' HEARTEDLY. Jesus H. Caroumba, that match with Ron Simmons was absolutely putrid. There's not thing one that can be said positive about that match from Santino's perspective. Change that, one thing. Maria. Maria in his corner is positive. Outside of that, the ONLY THING that was worthwhile throughout that entire match and segment of the show was the patented quote of the Florida State all american. But, can we at least, if we're going to have to have him wrestle because of the lack of depth on the roster, can we at least have the man talk outside of one word? He's a good speaker, and can cut a promo pretty damn well, (no pun intended), as seen during his days with the APA, so let the man do his thing. Hell, Simmons could carry Marella in to a decent enough program to keep him on the roster, and God knows WWE needs NAMES to stay on the roster, now more than ever.
The vignette with the Highlanders and Cade & Murdoch makes no sense if the champs are still involved in a program with London & Kendrick. While I am not at all upset about the involvement of tag team wrestling on Raw, it just seemed to be TNA-booking style decisions tonight, and this vignette, while dumb, made no sense in an overall show standpoint from where I sat.
Lastly, tell me something. The beatdown on Carlito in the cage after the match, did that seem like a way for WWE to write Carlito off? I don't know about you, but a pedigree on a steel chair after having your face turned in to hamburger on a steel cage kind of looks like to me that this person, whoever has the chop meat for a kisser, is looking at some assemblance of down time in the near future. Which, as I said earlier, makes no sense to me, as the company needs BODIES on all three shows, more than ever before, and if they are truly writing Carlito off, it must have been for something pretty damn significant.
Now, as I said, I did fall asleep, so I missed parts of it, but what I just went over is what I wrote notes for. With all that being said, there's one thing that I have to say in conclusion.
I should've went to work.
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Take care, everybody.
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