03/14/05 RAW Review
Okay, here we go. First time I will review Raw and what a show it was. Let's go . . .
Show opened to the Highlight Reel with Jericho on top of a ladder in the middle of the ring talking about the money in the bank ladder match at Wrestlemania. Then he introduces his first guest, Randy Orton.
Orton comes out and say how he is gonna beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania and leave his legacy and then out comes JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS as Jericho's second guest. It was fucking awesome to the Snake back in a WWE ring and even though he looked pretty bad due to his drug addictions it was still a treat to see him and kudos to the WWE for this surprise. The Snake tells Orton about knowing when to shut his mouth and not bite off more than you can chew and stuff. Orton says he doesn't care and is gonna make an impact. Jake says he is gonna make and impact as well and goes to get his snake out of the bag when Orton grabs his arm. Jake turns and clotheslines Orton down then picks him up and sets up the DDT while the crowd goes frickin insane. Orton gets out of it and RKO's the Snake, thus killing another legend and ending this fantastic opening segment. Orton got some major heat in this segment and got booed crazy when he RKO'ed the Snake, heres hoping the WWE turns him soon as the seeds have definitely been set well.
Next up was a short handicap match with Christian and Tomko vs. Kane. Match was pretty bad and not needed on this show. It made Christian look like a pussy when he ran from the match to leave Tomko get easily beat by Kane. Kane hit Tomko with a ladder after the match busting him open. Bad hype for the ladder match at Mania as it made one of the opponents (Christian) look below all the others.
Flair is pumping Snitsky up for some reason in the back to attack Batista.
HBK is shown in the back when shocking blast from the past 2 for this show comes in in the form of MARTY JANNETTY. Yes, the Rockers back on TV after all these years and HBK says they will reunite tonight to face La Resistance. Well Fuck Yea, and thanx again WWE.
Next was a good match between 2 more of the ladder match competitors in Edge vs. Shelton Benjamin. Edge attacked Shelton before the bell rang and had Edge beating up Shelton when they went to commercial. A little after commercial Shelton turned the match around and then we had a fantastic match between these two. Great spots and reversals from both men but Shelton looked especially great and showed why he should be on top of this business someday. Match ended when Edge was about to hit Shelton with a ladder after the ref went down but Y2J came down and hit Edge with it instead, letting Shelton hit the T-Bone and win the match. Great match and some good hype and interaction between the ladder match combatants. This match is looking to be fantastic and just one of the great things I'm looking forward to Wrestlemania 21 for.
Next up was the Rockers vs. La Resistance. Another great match here which let Marty and HBK shine and had La Res get some offense in. Marty looked in great shape and both him and Shawn had the crowd in their hands with their tandem offense. The end saw Marty hit the Rocker Dropper to end this great nostalgia trip and leave me with a smile on my face. Marty should put in a good effort against Kurt Angle on Thursday and I feel WWE should keep Marty around afterwards as he can still go and be used more than just hyping what should be the Match of the Year at Wrestlemania between HBK and Kurt.
Trish vs. Christy was hyped but not in as good as segments as in the past. One had Christy training with Tajiri on her kicks and one had the great Trish Stratus do some good mic work and then attack the generic loser diva Maria. Oh wow. Still, the previous hype for this bout has been perfect so a little lapse is alright. I just hope Christy has trained some and doesn't embarass herself at Wrestlemania.
More of Ric pumping up Snitsky for a match tonight with Batista. Batista shows up and doesn't speak much but at least looks cool doing it.
Nest up was another great match. Wow 3 damned good matches in one night, hell yes. It was Benoit vs. Triple H again and they did some good work. Benoit looked strong throughout and hit 9 Germans, 1 flying headbutt, and 2 crossfaces to punish the Game. The match ended badly tho when all it took was a ref distraction, a low blow, and a pedigree to put Benoit out and give HHH his first win against the Crippler exactly one year after losing to him at Wrestlemania 20. Oh well, I'm not gonna let a bad ending ruin and otherwise great match.
Hassan came out and bitched about not having something to do at Wrestlemania. I hope he has something decent to do if they are gonna spend time on this guy. Segment didn't accomplish much more than to let us know Hassan is still around.
Slow boring match next between Batista and Gene Snitsky. Sad main event considering what was previous. Batista didn't look to good against Snitsky so that doesn't bode well for him being the main event guy if he wins at Mania. Still, the crowd were into him and we almost finally had a beatdown by HHH, Flair, and Snitsky on Big Dave when Kane ran in to help. HHH told Batista he picked the man right behind him to face him next week. I guess he meant Kane and hopefully the Big Red Machine can put on something good with Batista. After Batistas turn his momentum has been slowly going down so I hope some excitement can happen for this feud next week.
Okay, this show was great. Surprising nostalgiac returns, a few segments, plus 3 fucking fantastic matches completely cancel out what little bad there was and this show gets a very strong grade of:
A
Show opened to the Highlight Reel with Jericho on top of a ladder in the middle of the ring talking about the money in the bank ladder match at Wrestlemania. Then he introduces his first guest, Randy Orton.
Orton comes out and say how he is gonna beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania and leave his legacy and then out comes JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS as Jericho's second guest. It was fucking awesome to the Snake back in a WWE ring and even though he looked pretty bad due to his drug addictions it was still a treat to see him and kudos to the WWE for this surprise. The Snake tells Orton about knowing when to shut his mouth and not bite off more than you can chew and stuff. Orton says he doesn't care and is gonna make an impact. Jake says he is gonna make and impact as well and goes to get his snake out of the bag when Orton grabs his arm. Jake turns and clotheslines Orton down then picks him up and sets up the DDT while the crowd goes frickin insane. Orton gets out of it and RKO's the Snake, thus killing another legend and ending this fantastic opening segment. Orton got some major heat in this segment and got booed crazy when he RKO'ed the Snake, heres hoping the WWE turns him soon as the seeds have definitely been set well.
Next up was a short handicap match with Christian and Tomko vs. Kane. Match was pretty bad and not needed on this show. It made Christian look like a pussy when he ran from the match to leave Tomko get easily beat by Kane. Kane hit Tomko with a ladder after the match busting him open. Bad hype for the ladder match at Mania as it made one of the opponents (Christian) look below all the others.
Flair is pumping Snitsky up for some reason in the back to attack Batista.
HBK is shown in the back when shocking blast from the past 2 for this show comes in in the form of MARTY JANNETTY. Yes, the Rockers back on TV after all these years and HBK says they will reunite tonight to face La Resistance. Well Fuck Yea, and thanx again WWE.
Next was a good match between 2 more of the ladder match competitors in Edge vs. Shelton Benjamin. Edge attacked Shelton before the bell rang and had Edge beating up Shelton when they went to commercial. A little after commercial Shelton turned the match around and then we had a fantastic match between these two. Great spots and reversals from both men but Shelton looked especially great and showed why he should be on top of this business someday. Match ended when Edge was about to hit Shelton with a ladder after the ref went down but Y2J came down and hit Edge with it instead, letting Shelton hit the T-Bone and win the match. Great match and some good hype and interaction between the ladder match combatants. This match is looking to be fantastic and just one of the great things I'm looking forward to Wrestlemania 21 for.
Next up was the Rockers vs. La Resistance. Another great match here which let Marty and HBK shine and had La Res get some offense in. Marty looked in great shape and both him and Shawn had the crowd in their hands with their tandem offense. The end saw Marty hit the Rocker Dropper to end this great nostalgia trip and leave me with a smile on my face. Marty should put in a good effort against Kurt Angle on Thursday and I feel WWE should keep Marty around afterwards as he can still go and be used more than just hyping what should be the Match of the Year at Wrestlemania between HBK and Kurt.
Trish vs. Christy was hyped but not in as good as segments as in the past. One had Christy training with Tajiri on her kicks and one had the great Trish Stratus do some good mic work and then attack the generic loser diva Maria. Oh wow. Still, the previous hype for this bout has been perfect so a little lapse is alright. I just hope Christy has trained some and doesn't embarass herself at Wrestlemania.
More of Ric pumping up Snitsky for a match tonight with Batista. Batista shows up and doesn't speak much but at least looks cool doing it.
Nest up was another great match. Wow 3 damned good matches in one night, hell yes. It was Benoit vs. Triple H again and they did some good work. Benoit looked strong throughout and hit 9 Germans, 1 flying headbutt, and 2 crossfaces to punish the Game. The match ended badly tho when all it took was a ref distraction, a low blow, and a pedigree to put Benoit out and give HHH his first win against the Crippler exactly one year after losing to him at Wrestlemania 20. Oh well, I'm not gonna let a bad ending ruin and otherwise great match.
Hassan came out and bitched about not having something to do at Wrestlemania. I hope he has something decent to do if they are gonna spend time on this guy. Segment didn't accomplish much more than to let us know Hassan is still around.
Slow boring match next between Batista and Gene Snitsky. Sad main event considering what was previous. Batista didn't look to good against Snitsky so that doesn't bode well for him being the main event guy if he wins at Mania. Still, the crowd were into him and we almost finally had a beatdown by HHH, Flair, and Snitsky on Big Dave when Kane ran in to help. HHH told Batista he picked the man right behind him to face him next week. I guess he meant Kane and hopefully the Big Red Machine can put on something good with Batista. After Batistas turn his momentum has been slowly going down so I hope some excitement can happen for this feud next week.
Okay, this show was great. Surprising nostalgiac returns, a few segments, plus 3 fucking fantastic matches completely cancel out what little bad there was and this show gets a very strong grade of:
A
posted by The White Falcon at 12:59 AM
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