8/11/10
WWE Monday Night Raw
We started Raw with Randy Orton recording a promo about believing that no one could take his title away from him, but if they did, he could accept it; however, what he couldn’t accept would be if he lost the title from him due to a corrupt referee. He calls out John Cena and demands to know if he’s going to get screwed over at Survivor Series. Cena gives a lame excuse that earns him a big reprimand. Cena defends himself by speaking ill of Wade Barrett and how he has no respect. Nexus walks out and we see Barrett and Cena arguing before Cena tells him that he’s going to beat the crap out of him after the pay-per-view. Orton challenges Barrett to go down to the ring alone, but they are interrupted by the GM’s email.
The email states that both Orton and Barrett would each choose a tag team partner for what would later become the main event with Cena as the referee. We later learned that Randy would pick R-Truth and Barrett would pick David Otunga. Our first match of the night is Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater taking on the Hart Dynasty. Once again we have a short game but still something good. Gabriel and Slater get the win after a miscommunication by the Hart Dynasty. We see R-Truth and Cena backstage and John gives his friend the same answer he’s been giving everyone else regarding Survivor Series. Sheamus comes out and challenges Santino Marella to face him in a rematch from last week’s Raw. Santino comes out and makes up a bullshit excuse before Vladimir Kozlov comes out to fight in Santino’s place. In fact, he has the audacity to say that Sheamus talks weird. I find this hilarious considering you can’t understand Kozlov at all, you can barely understand Santino, and Sheamus talks weird because of his Irish accent.
After the horrible match is over, Sheamus stalks Santino down the ramp as Santino pulls out everything in his wallet to try and bribe Sheamus before pulling out a checkbook. John Morrison comes out and saves Santino with a kick to the ribs followed by a sick kick to the head from Sheamus that knocks him off the stage. We see R-Truth tell Orton that he thinks Cena will knock him out of the title at the pay-per-view. Orton says that tonight we will see how Cena treats his friends and Truth agrees to be Randy’s partner. Next we have some silliness between Pee-wee Herman and Mark Henry. This is followed by diva twister and the only good thing about this segment was the surprise appearance of Lita. Next up is Zack Ryder facing off against Ezekiel Jackson in a match where Ryder dies in about forty-five seconds tops. We see even more crap with Pee-wee Herman and for once I was glad to see The Miz. Note that the crowd was completely dead when Pee-wee was doing the secret word and Michael Cole was acting like a fan when Miz and Alex Riley walked out. Herman taunts Miz and Alex Riley before Big Show walks out dressed as Pee-wee Herman. After knocking Miz and Riley out of the ring, the GM sends an email informing us all that right then and there that Miz would have to fight Big Show.
The funny part of this match was that Cole was insulting Big Show during the beginning of the match, but then he goes and promotes Big Show’s movie Knucklehead. We got a pretty good match out of them, but we ended up screwing up when The Miz used the Money in the Bank briefcase. We received a package of videos from previous guest hosts standing up for WWE as part of the Stand Up for the WWE campaign. Then we have Barrett degrading Cena by telling him that he will clean the locker room and rub his back after the match. Otunga tells him that he won’t be rubbing Barrett’s back after the match and that he will be raising his hand in victory, not Barretts, so we see some dissension in Nexus. We have Ted DiBiase facing Daniel Bryan, so we have Cole talking to him again.
This was a good match but once again too short. Up next, we have LayCool upset as usual before announcing that if Natalya beats Michelle McCool, she’ll get a title shot at Survivor Series. We see Natalya win what was a pretty bad diva match. We have some weird stuff with Vince McMahon in a coma only to find out that Stephanie was dreaming. I will say that he was funny that out of any of the superstars Vince named Daniel Bryan and it wasn’t because he didn’t like the guy but to give him a boost. It’s time for the main event and it’s the aforementioned tag team match between the teams of Wade Barrett and David Otunga and Randy Orton and R-Truth. Orton pulls out a quick one by hitting an RKO on Otunga while Cena was busy forcing Barrett back into his corner. This allowed R-Truth to pick up the win in what was a pretty good match to close out the Raw show.
WWE Friday Night Fight
Smackdown starts with Edge taking on Alberto Del Rio. We ended up screwing up what was a really good match when Nexus came out. They said they were taking over Smackdown but that didn’t work as they were eliminated thanks to the combined efforts of Kane, Big Show, Edge, Del Rio and Rey Mysterio. Next, we hear Teddy Long say that Nexus would face Kane, Del Rio, Big Show, Edge and Mysterio in a ten-man tag. Next up was a non-title match between JTG and Dolph Ziggler. It’s not a good fight and we see the issue between Vickie and Kaitlyn leading to a fight later in the night.
In backstage we see Nexus hitting Rey Mysterio and for that he is replaced in the main event by Kofi Kingston. During a brief interview we learned from Otunga that Wade Barrett left for the UK early to be with family and that he took over Nexus at night. Up next is a triple threat match where the winner would get a title shot next week against Dolph Ziggler. The participants are MVP, Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre, which was a good match in which MVP got the victory.
Next up is the match between Vickie and Kaitlyn and this was one of the worst matches I’ve seen in a long time. We see the same video package about defending WWE that was shown on Raw. We see another beating from Nexus, but this time they attack MVP and Kaval. The next match was not as good as Tyler Rex beat Chris Masters after a few minutes. Not a bad main event as we see Edge, Kane, Big Show, Alberto Del Rio and Kofi Kingston beat Nexus after Edge hit David Otunga with a spear.
