Two Night of Champions Rematches!
A title change!
The Bellas!
Seth Rollins start fires he can’t put out!
Are their cracks in the Authority?
Night of Champions fall out.
Last week I bemoaned one thought constantly, “This is your Go Home show?” This week I have no such thought to bemoan. This past Monday’s broadcast was a little better than the previous week and was a decent follow up to Night of Champions.
In fact it may have been the best RAW since Summerslam. Don’t get too excited, the bar has been pretty low recently.
The one thing some people seemed to be upset about was the lack of Brock Lesnar. I wasn’t. So what, the Champ wasn’t on the show, neither was Heyman. This is just fine and plays into Brock’s persona. Remember Brock is the Prizefighter that only shows up when he wants to. Brock not being on the show, fuels his gimmick.
Also, it makes the title mean more, the less the Champ is on the show. Make the appearance of the Champ mean something. This goes for anyone who wears the title, not just Brock.
THE HIGH POINTS:
Seth Rollins and the Fires he has set.
Seth Rollins was the main driving point of this show. We opened up RAW Hot with Dean Ambrose in the ring, calling out Rollins. Cue Cena. Cena wants Rollins himself, and claimed he was to cash in his ‘kiss your ass briefcase’ on Rollins.
Needless to say, Ambrose wasn’t too happy with Cena stepping into his turf. Before these two could go at it, the Authority appeared and hell broke loose. Cena and Ambrose attacked, beating on Rollins two-on-one all the way to the garage, where Rollins made his escape by stealing some poor guy’s car.
This had a number of ramifications for the night. Hunter made two matches, Kane versus Ambrose and Orton versus Cena. Orton also voiced his displeasure with having to put out the fires that Rollins starts. Hunter himself later would try telling Rollins he can’t keep doing this.
The Ambrose/Kane match was one of the better matches of the night. Until Rollins returned, attacking Ambrose. The fight would continue in the back until Ambrose was locked in the Janitor’s closet by security.
Orton versus Cena wasn’t much of a match, just an angle. Rollins and Kane came down to ringside, just before Orton. Jerry pointed out a moment before that a ‘surprise’ was brought down to ringside, a small table with a black tablecloth.
What match we did get between Cena and Orton was pretty good. The typical Cena and Orton back and forth with neither man gaining total control. Rollin and Kane ended that by joining in on a Cena beat down.
Before the match, Rollins promised Orton a surprise. Orton got one, so did Rollins. Under the black cloth and table wasn’t a set of cinderblocks, it was Dean Ambrose!
Ambrose and Cena sent the Authority packing and Rollins scurrying off into the crowd to end the show.
All of this really sets up where the WWE is going. It looks like the main event scene from now on will focus on Cena, Ambrose and Rollins. How will this play out?
Is it going to be Cena versus Ambrose versus Rollins? Will Cena and Ambrose form a loose alliance against Rollins and maybe the Authority?
Could the Authority possibly dump Rollins because of the fires he started? The seeds for that were definitely planted.
Dolph Ziggler’s Title Win.
Dolph cashed in his rematch and reclaimed the Intercontinental Championship from the Miz. Mizdow wasn’t much help. I liked this. It shows that anything can happen, and how hotly contested the IC Title is.
THE LOW POINTS:
The Bellas. ‘Nuff said.
The Bellas did a Promo, bashing each other again. Then AJ made Nikki tap out in a terrible match. Paige was on commentary. Nothing worth watching.
Henry/Rusev.
This was just disappointing and sad. This feud has followed the same format as the Rusev/Swagger feud, only it took less matches for Rusev to dispatch of Mark Henry. Henry came out, apologized to the masses and was goaded into an impromptu match with Rusev, this lead to Henry being destroyed and passing out to the Accolade.
OTHER MATCHES
Bo Dallas versus Jack Swagger
Swagger destroyed Dallas and made him tap. Zeb mocked Dallas. Loved it.
Nattie (with Rosa) versus Summer Rae (with Layla)
Nattie looked good, but over all this was a waste of a match because Summer is nowhere near ready for this level, and it showed. Nattie won by submission. Once again, this was more of a Total Divas promo, than a match. JBL and Cole barely commentated on the match, just talked about Total Divas issues between Nattie and Summer.
Sheamus and the Usos versus Gold & Stardust and Cesaro
Jimmy pinned stardust to win the match and gain a little bit of revenge for losing the titles. It was a good match, if a little odd. Cesaro seemed way out of place with the Dust Brothers and acting uneasy as well.
#BunnyMania
Adam Rose and the Bunny defeated SlaterGator. The only reason this didn’t make the low points is because of how many times JBL said #BunnyMania while claiming he wasn’t going to say it.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Raw did a really good job of setting up the Rollins angle with Cena, Ambrose and The Authority. Unfortunately that is really all they did.This show was way to promo/scripted heavy to be a good wrestling broadcast. The matches themselves were not too good and there weren’t enough of them.
RATING: 6
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Sheamus and the Usos versus Gold & Stardust and Cesaro
WRESTLER OF THE NIGHT: The Bunny.
IMPACT OF THE NIGHT: Dean Ambrose saying that what Kane and Rollins did to him was ‘Pretty cool.”
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