By Luke Parks on May 5th, 2008
Pre-Show Notes:
I’ve heard a lot about the cliffhanger angles from last week and how people didn’t like them & liked them and all that junk. I personally like them. I like RAW’s because it gives William Regal a legitimate role as the General Manager of RAW. People see the GM as an on-air role and insider know it’s just a figurehead. By taking RAW off the air, thus “ruining” the main event, it gives the impression that Regal is really in charge. As far as ECW is concerned, it was what was needed because Mike Adamle sucks. He knows he sucks and I feel that he’s not prepared. If they were going to make this move, they should have given him some time on Heat or just calling old matches backstage to get him experienced. To me, they just tossed him in the fire without getting him accustomed to calling matches. Now, tossing somebody in the fire works in sports or something else most of the time. But, a WWE Announcer is there to tell a story and call a match. It’s a totally different animal.
On that note, congrats to Jonathan Coachman who will now be working for ESPN. I can’t wait to see Coach on there!
With the stripping of the title from Undertaker, I honestly don’t know. It takes me back to the time when Undertaker and Kane both covered Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince grabbed the belt and hauled ass. It’s a good deal but if they’re going to give ‘Taker the belt back, why strip him? I know they’re trying to establish Vickie Guerrero as a dominant force as a GM and all. I just think they need to let Teddy Long run things for good. As far as crowning a new champion, I guess they’ll have a tournament of some kind. This could be a way to establish MVP as a legitimate contender by having him feud with Undertaker. This is why you need a draft. There are not very many contenders on Smackdown, unless we want to see the same ones over and over again. As much as I enjoy seeing Undertaker-Edge or Undertaker-Batista, I want somebody different. Now, let’s get on for what you’re here for. Then again, some of you probably don’t even read and just comment.
RAW is Blogged:
RAW comes to us live tonight from Toronto, Ontario, Canada…home of Smackdown star Edge and former WWE Diva Trish Stratus!
Due to last week’s overrun of RAW by General Manager William Regal, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon started off the show tonight! Before that though was a recap of William Regal’s rise to prominence over the past few weeks. I wonder who the new RAW GM will be. McMahon talked about Regal’s actions from last week. He called them innovative, daring, and visionary. He said he was there to endorse Regal as King and GM. YAY!
After all of that, Regal came down to some new theme music, which was totally better than King Booker’s music. He turned the lights on & off and said he would no longer tolerate being disrespected. KENNEDY!!! Mr. Kennedy said if Regal wanted respect, he needed to go one-on-one with him later in the night. Regal said he would by placing him in the main event against ECW Champion Kane, the WWE Tag Team Champions The Miz & John Morrison, Money in the Bank Winner CM Punk, Chavo Guerrero & Bam Neely, and pretty much the entire ECW roster. Didn’t they just bury the RAW roster a few weeks ago?
Before he could get started, WWE Champion Triple H made his way to the ring with the non-spinning spinner belt. He said Regal needed to learn not to make mistakes and turning out the lights during and ending his match was a mistake. Triple H got put into the “Bury ECW” match for the main event.
ECW has their 100th episode tomorrow night. I just can’t wait to see Colin Delaney! (Sarcasm intended.)
A Lumber-jill match for the Women’s Championship between Mickie James and Beth Phoenix was up next. This was a good match. Things broke down when Melina tried to hit Mickie with her boot. Mickie got the win via a rollup and Mickie’s run with the belt continues!
Backstage, Silly Willy Regal was talking with Chris Jericho about HBK’s knee “injury.” Regal announces a match between HBK & Y2J against The Miz & John Morrison. Yay! We get to bury the WWE Tag Team Champions!
Trish was shown backstage with Murdoch singing. Along with the returning, College Football Hall of Famer Ron Simmons, who said, “DAMN!”
Paul Burchill was out next with Katie Lea for a handicap match against John Cutler, who was announced from Toronto. That can only mean one thing and that means he’s going to job. Before the match started, Silly Willy came out and said that JR’s mic was to be turned off and Mike Adamle would call the match. WTF!? Burchill won but the highlight of the match was listening to Adamle argue with King about whether it was or wasn’t a handicap match. Basically, Adamle sucks. To put him with Lawler on the spot, I presume, just highlights how bad he sucks. To top it all off, King said, “I won’t complain about your announcing. The line’s too long.” That was flippin’ hilarious, mainly because Adamle couldn’t even come back with something. They showed JR sitting at ringside with the same look I had on my face: the “What the f*ck is going on?” look.
Morrison and Miz were out next to get buried. Miz even got the “slow mo” entrance that Morrison uses. JR called them the best tag team in the company today. Well, since we haven’t seen London & Kendrick lately, that would be correct. The Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho was out next for the match while King was so glad to have JR back. Shawn Michaels came out next, with a small limp and some booing. JR mentioned the Montreal Screw Job and I wonder when Canadians will get over that. I’m just kidding, my Canadian readers! HBK was hopping around like he was really hurt. I’ve had hurt knees before and you can usually walk without a really bad limp a few days afterward, unless you’ve really f’ed it up. I have to admit, Miz has improved a hell of a lot since his days as the host of the Diva Search, when he was f’ing up his lines. HBK hit Sweet Chin Music, fell down, and Jericho hit the Lionsault to finish out the burial of the WWE Tag Team Champions.
Randy Orton was out next to face Mr. Money in the Bank CM Punk. As this match went on, I wondered why you would have your Money in the Bank winner against the #1 Contender for the WWE Championship. Before that question could be fully answered, Regal came out and turned off the lights, thus ending the match. Well, as much as I like that, too much can get on your nerves.
Backstage, Orton was looking for Mr. Regal to whine. Carlito was in the ring for the Cabana with Rowdy Roddy Piper. The segment was decent but not as good as Striker’s Classroom from last week’s ECW. Santino & Carlito were about to jump Piper before Cody Rhodes came out to get him some. He said he had some guys that wanted to meet the Hot Rod and Cryme Tyme came out. They cleared the ring and said it wasn’t about the, “money, money, yeah, yeah.” It was about that “rowdy, rowdy, yeah, yeah” and Piper proceeded to do a little dance. Glad they’re building up that tag title match at Judgment Day.
After they run down the card for the PPV, we have a JBL inside look at his stretch limousine as he rides to the ring to bury DH Smith. I’m so glad John Cena is there, building up his match in a few weeks. Wait, he isn’t! I know he’s filming a movie but damn, at least film a vignette or something.
They plugged the 100th ECW show again. Funny, they keep plugging a show that has no good set matches on a network a lot of the country doesn’t get. Wait, wasn’t that December to Dismember?
Silly Willy rallies the troops from ECW to bury his champion and Mr. Kennedy. Must be great to work for a guy that wants you buried. JR & King talked about the abuse of power by the GMs, especially the abuse by Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero. In case you missed it, she stripped Undertaker of the World Heavyweight Championship because of his use of his unnamed gogoplata or in her words, a chokehold. Good to see Edge sell his injuries. (Sarcasm intended).
The ECW Roster came out and after Morrison got off the turnbuckle, I swear I saw Tommy Dreamer call him a jackass. ECW Champion Kane came out by himself and what’s funny is Bam was just standing right there. I guess they put their differences aside for the common cause of the ECW brand. The funniest thing had to be when Stevie Richards gave a funny look to Mike Knox, who kicked his ass a few weeks ago. Mr. Kennedy came out first and apparently, he’ll never do his own intro again. Triple H was out last for the “Bury ECW” match. Elijah Burke started out things against Mr. Kennedy. It wasn’t a complete burial as ECW got the win before Triple H destroyed everybody with a chair. The lights went out and when they came back on, Orton hit the RKO.
I give this RAW:
3 out of 4 ring posts
Decent RAW that helped further Judgment Day more but it seemed more about the 100th episode of ECW.
I have finals this week so I won’t be on the Blog Spot that much. You guys try to hold it down and be civil towards each other.
“RAW is Blogged” Power Rankings
1. The Undertaker
2. Kane
3. Triple H
4. Randy Orton
5. Matt Hardy
6. William Regal +4
7. CM Punk -1
8. Shawn Michaels -1
9. Chris Jericho -1
10. MVP -1
“RAW is Blogged” Match of the Week
Summerslam ‘06
WWE Championship
Edge vs. John Cena
“RAW is Blogged” YouTube Clip of the Week
Austin & Booker T Fight in a Market - http://youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxqhCumGJs
RAW - Mondays at 9PM on USA Network
Judgment Day - May 18 - 8PM - Only on PPV!
Tags: Match of the Week, Power Rankings, William Regal, YouTube Clip of the Week
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May 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
lol i am canadian.
anyway yeah this RAW was an 8.5/10 for me but Regals constant “abuse of power” is starting to get on my nerves.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Iv seen better shows when wwe are in toronto… tonight was an okay raw but Toronto Raw’s have been so much better. for the most part im sure us canadians don’t give a crap about ECW especially since it plays at a horrible horrible time. Smackdown in London Ontario tomorrow! Watch smackdown and friday and listen to by far one of the loudest even though smallest canadian crowds for a wwe tv show.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
What will the main event be at One Night Stand? Also will the Undertaker go to Raw?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Line of the night, Piper telling Santino he needed a designated driver XD I read this at the ECW blog I think, a comment on maybe Adamle actually being some sort of angle, acting bad on the mic, after tonight, who knows…? And I reaaally hope HHH doesn’t hold the title more times than Flair did =( Good luck with those finals, btw.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I too think Adamle is being bad on purpose now. His blunders tonight seemed very intended. Hard to tell fully given I plugged my ears during that match. The ride along with JBL was neat but I’m taken back by how damn small it is in the limo. And any moment with Piper is bound to be funny.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I asked about the Adamle thing last week’s Guilty As Blogged because usually when the mistakes are this regular,and acknowleged by the other commentators and wrestlers,it is an act.And I don’t think Vince would put up with it.I like the”abuse of power”angle,it is very annoying,but it is doing what it is intended for…gaining heat on Regal.Good blog Luke.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Raw was decent Judgment day has 3 matches announeced for it wwe title hhh v orton inside the cage, jbl v cena & hbk v y2j. All those matches are from raw. I expect some matches to be added to the card tonight at the sd/ecw tapings.
Davey you said what will be the main event for ONS. Well i dnt know but One night stand will be 2 weeks after judgment day an thats not long at all to build up a ppv but all matches will be contested under a extrmee stipulation. So judgment day is basically a ppv to set up big gimmick matches at ONS. so dnt expect any more gimmcik matches besides the cage match to be added to Judgment day they will be saved for ONS.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
AHHAHAHAHAH
Mike saying
“We don’t know much about John Culter, except his last name rhymes with Butler”
That basically sums up Mike all over .
What a Dog-Turd commentator he is .
May 6th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
good! blog!
May 6th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Being a fan since the early 90’s and seeing the good,bad and ugly of WCW,WWF/E,ECW,and TNA, the past few weeks of WWE programing has been reminiscent of the Attitude Era.Which is great.Good thinking HK-47,I didn’t even think of mentioning that.We can only hope this continues.It is such a pleasuring not seeing the same thing week after week.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
im not watching raw no more till they get rid of regal everyone do the same
May 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Are they really gonna keep that “non-spinning spinner belt”? I feel like they should replace it…its too “cenaish” It really doesnt feel as prestigious as it should be.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:45 am
I hate Kennedys new music, you can barely hear it, but his old music sucked to, but his new theme sucks.
I’ve wondered this for awhile, and is every match that somebody loses considered getting buried? I just don’t like the word buried, it sounds alot like squash to me, which I really do hate in wrestling. I mean the Miz and Morrison had a good showing against HBK/Y2J. They had control over most of the match and HBK just got that one shot in to give his team the win. I actually hope they keep Miz and Morrison together for awhile, like a few years.
People all over the net talk about Punk getting buried left and right. I think they are keeping it even and not making him run wild on everybody.
Adamle has promise, you see when he was going to give a high five to a fan that had his hand out he withdrew it at the last moment and just gave him a thumbs up? That was funny.
I don’t see anything big at all happening at JD since ONS is right after it. I hope I’m surprized 2 weeks though.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I guess they’re going to run with Adamle sucking all of the time. I guess it would be cool to have a heel play-by-play guy and a face color guy for a change.
Too much of Regal turning off the lights will get old in a hurry and will get him the wrong kind of heat. Just let him make matches that stack the deck against faces and stuff like that. Turning off the lights will get people pissed for the wrong reasons.
Kinaj, you’re right. Punk won’t run over everybody like Cena. When the time comes for him to get the push to cash in and get the belt, he’ll start runnin’ wild.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
If someone dvr’ed ECW can you do me a favor? Can you watch the end of Colon’s(sp) match cause I swear to god I saw the ref do a 4 count. Speaking of blunders http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Maffew&p=r This guy has a ton of vids full of mess ups.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Luke, vid of the week for next week:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwnDyoz3fs&feature=related
May 9th, 2008 at 11:53 am
You know what will be funny, if Regal comes out during the Orton/HHH match while HHH has Orton in the pedrigree and turn the lights out and a minute later it comes back on and Orton stands in the ring as the new champion!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Wow its been a while! Wrestling going to the shitter I thought raw was good. Me personally liking smackdown more than raw these last couple of weeks,kind of shocked smackdown got a 2.2 and raw 3.2 or something like that. WWE needs to do something. I remember when this comment board had over 100 people every week, now its 30. People who use to comment on this site all the time don’t even come on hear anymore.