Hornswoggle was the opening part of the show. Well, at least his role was very short.
Hahahaha! Short! Geddit?!
My opinion on this week's RAW seems to differ from what's been said so far. I didn't think there was a bad thing on the show. Next week's matches look okay, so hopefully the rest of the night keeps this standard going as far as I'm concerned.
Carl Edwards is so much more charismatic and entertaining than the other NASCAR hosts. He can come back any time.
Great reception for Christian, even if Michael Cole couldn't have sounded less excited to see him. And he had a good opening match with Sheamus, probably earning some new fans before he signs with one of the two main brands.
but the ending bothered me, not because Sheamus won but because he won cleanly. I felt that really stepped all over what was left of ECW despite that's where Sheamus came from. If there was a dirty tactic or three, it would have looked better.
Sheamus is the champ on RAW and he's the one heading into a big main event at the upcoming pay-per-view. It made sense for him to get a convincing win (he certainly needed one), and being a big guy, I don't think it hurt Christian at all. The announcers were putting over the ECW Champion throughout the match, despite what I said about Cole when he arrived.
there should be some type of match that unifies the ECW title with the WWE title or the World title and just let it get absorbed into one of those belts.
Agreed on this. If not for having another episode or two of ECW left to air, this match could have been title versus title and moved higher up the card to reflect that. Maybe we'll still see it happen on the final show.
Back to this week, I like how RAW showed the very same "exclusive footage" that SmackDown aired last week. How ridiculous to still call it that.
Missing: The Miz's head. Last seen being clotheslined off his shoulders by Triple H. Which is ironic, as The Game's usually more concerned with cutting midcarders' legs out from under them...
Good backstage segment with DX and Teddy Long. I'd wondered why the SmackDown GM was there, as Punk/Gallows seemed like a weak cover story all along.
By the way, what the hell did Maryse say in French?
Well, I read one translation of what Maryse said in French, tonight. Apparently, she said:
"Gail, I just wanna say that you smell garbage at a 100-feet around...seriously, you stink ! You look like a poor little girl, I have pity for you. You're miserable."
I had a feeling that Maryse's French wasn't as complimentary as her English.
The Million Dollar Man in the Hall of Fame is a no-brainer. He should have already been in there.
Jerry Springer looks a good ten years older since I last saw him. Which was probably about a decade ago.
Good stuff with the Legacy tension as always.
Another excellent scene between Vince and Cena. Bret going on a tipping-things-over rampage was a bit awkward though. I was holding out for him to say something when he headed back towards the ring, but we just got more tipping over of things. I'm assuming they were trying to play off his immediate reaction to what happened in Montreal, but I agree with earlier comments that it came off rather flat. It's perhaps partly down to the crowd's unfamiliarity with Bret, as they didn't give the pop you'd expect when the WrestleMania challenge was made and accepted. Not that I believed for a second it was going to take place, and maybe they felt the same way.
