Tonight’s show is brought
to you via delayed viewing and minus commercials. I
have a sudden desire to go watch a bunch of old
Disco Inferno matches, since he was fucking awesome
if you ask me. Fuck everyone else’s opinion. Disco
never dies.
Raw 09.06.10
The show opens with Nexus coming out to the ring to
give a speech. If you would like to take bets on
whether or not the speech sucks really bad, you
would be a complete idiot to not go with sucks. Wade
claims they are awesome since they won the match
last week and he will be bringing the title “back
home” to Nexus, which makes no sense, since they
have never had it. He apparently wasn’t hired for
his grammar skills. He also claims they are awesome
for beating the Undertaker, with helps of special
lighting and Ultimate Warrior powers. Randy Orton
arrives to interrupt things and remind them he beat
two of their guys in thirty seconds. Wade invites
Orton into the ring to show off his RKO.
The
GM interrupts to make a match between Gabriel and
Cena. He also makes a match between Orton and
Barrett, saying that Nexus is banned from ringside
for these, which of course sends them into a frenzy
with Slater throwing a big ginger tantrum all over
the ring. I missed this bit of footage, but the GM
also apparently makes two matches in which Jericho
and Edge must win in order to stay in the six-pack
challenge match.
Jericho has his match right
away, and it’s against John Morrison. He seems
rather distressed with that idea. I would have liked
to see Jericho making a big fit in slow motion
though.
Chris Jericho vs. John Morrison
Jericho attacks right away and starts stomping
Morrison into the ground. Jericho slams him to the
corner and tosses Morrison against the ropes who
rolls under a clothesline into a schoolboy for a two
count. Jericho misses another clothesline and
Morrison swings around into another schoolboy for
two. Santino’s old finisher hard at work here.
Jericho gets two off of a running forearm shot and
tosses Morrison to the floor. Jericho demands to
know who the new GM is. There’s a break in the
match, and Jericho is working a headlock on
Morrison. Jericho delivers a back suplex for two.
Morrison rallies and hit’s a series of clotheslines
and a side dropkick. He delivers his one armed
backbreaker for a two count. That move needs a name.
Jericho catches a kick and goes for the Wall, but
Morrison kicks out only to run into an elbow.
Jericho misses the lionsault and Morrison hits the
flash kick for two. Morrison is dumped on his face,
and goes for a running kick
to a seated Jericho,
but it’s ducked and Jericho rolls him up for two.
Standing exiguities picks up another two for
Jericho.
Jericho misses a corner charge,
slamming right into the ring post. It never ceases
to amaze me how many wrestlers can’t seem to avoid
that big metal post.. Jericho dodges Starship pain,
but Morrison lands on his feet only to be scooped
into the Walls. Morrison makes the ropes and Jericho
breaks. Jericho goes for a superplex, and of course
gets predictably punched off and eats Starship Pain
for three.
Winner: Morrison
Jericho takes
an emo time out and ponders buying stock in Hot
Topic as he mopes around at ringside on the steps.
After that depressing aside, Melina comes to the
ring for a Diva’s title match. I hope they get rid
of this god-awful belt soon and replace it with
something that doesn’t suck. Preferably something
not quite as orange as the Tag Team Titles. Alicia
Fox shows up as Melina’s opponent for a match and
says she belongs as the “undefined” Diva’s Champion,
proving she’s a complete fucking retard and her only
redeeming trait is being incredibly hot. At least
the announcers eventually point out how stupid that
is.
Alicia Fox vs.
Diva’s Champion Melina (Diva’s Title Match)
Alicia is tripped up early and eats a running
sliding split kick from Melina sending her to the
floor. Alicia tries to leave and gets tossed back
into the ring, eating kicks. Melina hits a cross
body off the top for two. Melina Matrix dodges a
clothesline and seems to be going for her finisher
after a leap frog, but is dumped to the floor.
Alicia charges her back in the ring and instead eats
the Sunset Split, getting completely crushed and
saving us the torture of seeing Alicia’s scissor
kick.
Winner: Melina
Miz is in the back
gloating and talking about his Road to Awesome. Josh
tries to look under the black sheet he’s got and
gets his hand slapped like a little girl for his
troubles. I have to wonder also who would want to
see a sneak preview of another shitty Resident Evil
movie.
After the break, Edge is complaining
that Jericho got knocked out of the Six Pack
Challenge (because somebody hates him). Edge
complains he could lose his spot and demands he get
to fight Ryder who he is talking to and keeps saying
he’s a #1 Contender. Edge pleads his case for this
to the god of a GM.. Edge makes a Djinn mistake by
saying he demands Zack Ryder’s music play as his
opponent tonight. Edge calls him a tool and Ryder
says that really hurt his feelings. Edge just leaves
as we should treat all douche bags. We cut to Ted in
the back on the phone with someone saying he loves
spending time with them….and it’s not Maryse who
walks in. He says it’s his mom….who he was flirting
with. She implies she got a note, saying he wants
her so bad. He implies the note wasn’t his and might
be for him instead. There are Diva rookies? God, I
haven’t been paying a bit of attention to this crap.
Just what we need, even WORSE Divas. Oh yay. She
rants
him out in French.
We cut to Justin
Gabriel on his way out to face John Cena. He doesn’t
stand a snowball’s chance. Poor guy. We’ve yet to
see a single thing he can do BESIDES his 450, and I
refuse to accept anyone’s merit on their ability to
perform a single move.
John Cena vs. Justin Gabriel
Cena
actually mat wrestles Justin right away, getting him
with something close to a triangle choke. After
getting a shot in, Cena lets him out. Gabriel comes
back, rocking Cena to the corner who powers back on
him, only to get dumped to the floor. Gabriel tosses
him back in the ring and flips in with a senton for
two. So he does have a moveset after all. Justin
Gabriel’s moveset grew three sizes this day. Gabriel
wraps around from a cross body in the corner to the
apron and springboards off the ropes into another
cross body that picks up two.
Gabriel works
an Octopus Stretch on the ground, a move I haven’t
seen in forever. Cena powers to his feet with
Gabriel wrapped on him, but Gabriel slips free and
hits a gut wrench power bomb for two. Gabriel sets
Cena up and takes his time before spring boarding
off the rope into a moonsault that he bombs. Cena
ducks a clothesline and goes to his offense. Gabriel
manages to put a stop to it with a kick before going
up top for the 450 but Cena meets him up top for a
top rope FU. Cole calls it an AA and I got to say
that if it’s supposed to be more kid-friendly,
references Alcoholics Anonymous is probably not the
best route.
Winner: Cena
They force us to
watch a preview of Legendary again because only a
select few theatres get to have it! This is because
it’s TOO FUCKING AWESOME for most theatres, not
because it’s shitty and bad or anything.
Later, we get the Miz in the ring with his covered
object. He says nobody thought he belonged here
since he was a reality TV star. Point still stands,
Chuckles. HE recaps his entire career, including
that people claimed he needed Morrison to be
successful during his tag team career. He points out
he became a champion on his own and it still wasn’t
good enough. After getting to Money in the Bank, he
unveils his greatest achievement yet…being on the
cover of the new WWE Magazine. This is stupid. He
says this is good because as a child he would buy
every issue and put them in his bedroom….and then
just pauses awkwardly. Uh…what? Did you jack off to
them or something? He demands everyone get up and
declare themselves wrong about him. I like how much
applause he’s getting through this hate rant.
Daniel Bryan comes out and says he didn’t know if he
would ever make it either. Miz says he still doesn’t
while Cole throws a shit fit. Daniel says he comes
out to generic rock music he can’t identify, and has
to show ID to even get in the ring. Daniel basically
says the only thing he knows is that he can beat Miz
for the US Title. He makes a mock magazine cover of
him making Miz tap out. He says he can win and
become champion, but isn’t threatening to destroy
him. Miz says he’s never liked him and that he can
annihilate him. Daniel tells him to shut up and
decide on whether or not to take the match. Miz
deliberates and agrees. Daniel starts licking his
lips like a jackal. Miz tries a cheap shot, but
Daniel catches him with a crossface (Label Lock?)..
Alex Riley makes the save and just gets kicked in
the head. Miz is tossed to the floor when he tries
to use the briefcase. Daniel then puts the hold on
Riley to taunt him.
THE ULTIMATE INSULT as it
seems to be implied by Cole soon follows as Bryan
kicks the poster board down. Oh no, not a kick to
poster board. What will Miz ever do now? We then get
a recap of the WCW and WWE battles on Monday nights.
Of course, it’s not in the least bit biased or
anything….
We get a replay of Edge getting
Disqualified last week against Nexus to prep us for
the match. Apparently they decide to not go with the
easy route of making his opponent enter to Ryder’s
music. Edge had promised to destroy the computer if
he didn’t get his way so he ponders this
choice…..This angle just clearly revealed there is a
piece of paper in the computer with Cole’s lines
written on it. Amazing.
Edge vs. The Great Khali
Edge stands at ringside and mocks Khali by
pretending to be Frankenstein while the ref counts
him out, but he does comes back in…to restart the
count and do more Frankenstein. Edge goes after
Khali’s brother and gets grabbed by the hair from
over the ropes by Khali. Khali chases Edge down the
aisle now who trips like a woman and attacks the
knee before running in to the ring. Khali gets
counted out like a tard.
Winner: Edge
The
GM decides to have words about this. Go ahead and
read your paper, Cole. HIGH TECH COMPUTER MY ASS.
The GM refuses to acknowledge his cheap count out
victory and the match is restarted as no
disqualification, and an over the top rope
challenge. Damnit.
Edge vs. The Great Khali
There’s a break before the match restarts in which
Edge is getting annihilated in the corner now and
slapped on the chest, which as we all know is
incredibly devastating. Edge slides under the ropes
to take a breaker and Khali goes over the top rope
to get him…eliminating himself. Cole is the only
person who realizes Khali just lost. That’s a pretty
big gaff actually. King tries to say you have to be
thrown over the top rope, which is stupid because
that doesn’t happen all the time. Khali tosses Edge
to the floor when he tries a spear, but Edge pulls
Khali over the rope when he steps over by his leg.
Winner: Edge
I have to agree with Cole. Khali
eliminated himself and the crowd seems legitimately
confuse by this ABOMINATION of a match. Maybe it
will fight the Hulk of a match. We get a rundown of
Night of Champions with the announcers actually
rolling with Kane claiming to have “Undertaker’s
Powers” now. Really? Can he appear in mirrors on TV
then and make Randy Orton’s dad look bloody?
Elsewhere, Jericho is staring blankly into the
aether when Josh tries to interview him. He’s asked
about his claims he would quit if he didn’t win the
match, but makes no reply at all. Morrison replaces
Matthews at his side and asks him if he had a bad
day. He tells him things will get better and gets a
glare of hilarity from Jericho.
Here’s
Sheamus. He has a green shirt now? Now if he could
just get pants. He’s going to commentate on things
with Edge and Cena before we learn the winner of the
match next will face Cena next week.
Wade Barrett vs. Randy Orton
Orton takes control and chases Wade to the floor
where he is slammed into the announce table several
times and hammered even more at the ring apron
before getting back in the ring. Orton demands an
actual challenge and starts stomping on Wade. Wade
rallies back and pounds on Orton, choking him out on
the ropes. Wade picks up a two count. Sheamus
hilarious brings up that his old Irish Granny is
doing fifty “Hail Mary” chants a day because of the
odds are stacked so much against him. Cena tries to
put Wade over as credible for hanging in there with
Orton as he seems to be botching a move as he says
this. Wade goes to some boxing for….some reason? He
knocks Orton down and is apparently signaling
Wasteland. Orton elbows free and counters into the
backbreaker.
Orton slams Wade down when he
tries to come back and catches him on the apron for
the DDT. Wade escapes and dumps Orton to the floor.
A musical score interrupts things, apparently being
Darren Young who isn’t happy with being kicked out
of Nexus. He says he wasn’t the weakest link, just
the “missing” link….so the missing link was fucking
Buckwheat. Orton of course strikes with an RKO from
behind, with this obviously being Young’s plan, who
was fucking obvious of this.
Winner: Orton
Orton invites Darren into the ring with a smile…and
RKOs him. Sheamus gets on the apron and Edge tries a
spear, but gets an RKO. Sheamus misses the kick and
eats an RKO as well. Cena comes into the ring to
stare down with Orton after Orton celebrates for a
bit. They just glare at each other to waste a couple
of minutes of air time as we go off the air.
Highlight of the Night:
Morrison and Jericho really had the best match.
Also, I’m looking forward to Miz/Bryan.
Lowlight of the Night: Khali.
Just….Khali.
WWE
“Creative” Award: Also Khali. Why do that
over the top rule confusion? That was Russo level
annoying.