Last week I wrote that anytime Raw starts with Chris Jericho it is usually a good thing. That was proven true tonight as we kicked off Raw with Chris Jericho versus Bray Wyatt inside the steel cage.
Yes, even I who does not like Bray Wyatt will give him some credit for a good match tonight. Of course, it was with Chris Jericho. The match was good, well timed and played out. Both guys dominated at different times and the flow went back and forth.
Jericho had the match won at one point when he climbed over the top of the cage, but didn’t drop down because Harper and Rowan were there. Instead he did a cross body from the top of the cage! Spectacular crash and burn, he took out Wyatt and himself. Jericho injured his knee and that played a part in the ending.
I loved how the match ended, with Jericho and Wyatt fighting on the edge of the ring, inside the open steel frame doorway. Jericho trying got crawl out, Wyatt stopping him. Wyatt eventually rolled over Jericho to fall out of the cage and get the win.
This may have been Wyatt’s best match to date.
A good opening to Raw
Backstage, Randy insulted Kane and Seth Rollins and asked Hunter for permission to do something to Reigns that will make what Rollins did to Ambrose look like Sunday School.
Dolph Ziggler gets one over on the Miz and Mizdow by showing pictures of The Miz that are quiet embarrassing – but Miz claims were for medical purposes.
I wonder, what medical purposes are covered by Mizdow spraying tan on Miz’s naked rear end?
Score one for Ziggler.
AJ Lee and Paige team up for a match against Rosa Mendez and Nattie. Not much of a match, just a set up for more issues between AJ and Paige. Paige dominated most of the match. AJ tagged herself in, on Paige’s chest, and got the quick tap out on Mendez. Then both AJ and Paige took turns making out with the belt before AJ skipped off.
Not much, unfortunately.
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a big Paul Heyman guy; I am also less of a Cena fan. I’m part of the Cena sucks crowd. That said the segment with Cena and Heyman was the highlight of Raw to this point.
Both guys were on point perfectly, this was Paul Heyman’s best promo to date and worked great since Cena was in the ring with him. It was somewhat reminiscent of both Kane and Bray telling Cena to embrace the hate/monster, but in a unique way.
Paul was telling Cena that the only chance Cena has is to go dark, tell the fans to shut up, be the Thug again. Cena responded by given a passionate promo of why he is John Cena and won’t change. Cena’s promo was great, he did what he has needed to do for a long time, explain why Cena is Cena, and he did that.
Cena then told Paul he is ready to fight. If Brock shows up next week, he’ll fight Brock. If he doesn’t, Cena will fight Heyman.
Well done by both guys.
I’m a little in shock here. Sheamus, Seth Rollins and Cesaro are three of my favorite guys in Pro Wrestling, period. Not just the WWE. That said, I was not expecting a Seth Rollins victory, even when Cesaro came out.
That is what we got, off a distraction caused by Cesaro with Sheamus’s belt, Seth Rollins got in a drop kick and a curb stomp for the pin. Massive win for Rollins!
After that, Cesaro mocks Sheamus with a ‘FELLA,’ then neutralizes him.
Okay match, but nice segment to build up the Cesaro/Sheamus feud.
Lana and Rusev comes out and the escort cuts a promo on the National Anthem, singing it with words praising Russia, then having the Russian national anthem played as the real anthem.
Disrespectful segment. There’s getting heat, then going too far.
NXT match on RAW? Awesome. By that I mean that it is Awesome having NXT on RAW and that the match was AWESOME. Adrian Neville, Sami Zayn, Tyson Kidd and Tyler Breeze stole the show. Main roster now please.
This is how you promote the WWE Network, not with creative ways of saying $9.99.
Jerry Springer intervention or utter waste of space on an otherwise decent Raw. Uh, utter waste of space. This didn’t do anything other than promote Total Divas. If Springer was injured, then I guarantee he is still better off than those of us who watched this segment.
We go from Bad, too Weird with Gold and Stardust. This was great. The Dusts put on a clinic on how to dismantle a tag team by destroying Los Matadores. While celebrating their victory up the ramp, the USOs attacked the Dusts!
Good for the Usos! Show some fire and anger, you need it.
Adam Rose versus Titus O’Neal, following up the Rose/Slater match from last week. The bunny was hyper at ringside, and even super kicked Slater! This distraction lead to Rose pinning O’Neal.
Uh, the bunny did a top rope splash onto Titus? What the hell?!
Main event time! Summerslam Rematch!
Roman Reigns versus Randy Orton . . ., Seth Rollins . . ., Kane . . ., and the steel cage?
Yes, what started out as an actual match, degenerated into a three on one beat down inside the steel cage. The match ended when, right after a superman punch on Orton, Kane, Rollins and the ringside crew came running down. This lead to the cage being lowered.
Initially, Reigns turned the tables on Kane and Rollins, and it was just Reigns and Orton in the cage. This changed after a Rollins cross body off the top of the cage (better then Jericho’s earlier in the show. Sorry Chris).
After a choke slam by Kane, curb stomp onto a chair by Rollins, Orton pummeled Reigns with a chair, leaving him down at out.
This is what Orton said would be worse then what Rollins did to Ambrose? Disappointing.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that we almost saw Rollins impaled when the cage came down. I’m sure that was fun for Rollins.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Good edition of Raw, better than last week’s, but not as good as the two before that. I am hoping that next Monday’s Go Home show before Night of Champions will be better.
RATING: 6
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: NXT MATCH
WRESTLER OF THE NIGHT: Chris Jericho.
IMPACT OF THE NIGHT: NXT MATCH
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