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Aye, it was the same crowd that started a "RANDY SAVAGE" chant just to get under Randy Orton's skin... probably because he thought, for that first first name, that maybe they gave a shit about him. They did not.

By turning... heel? Whatever, awesome RAW. Barrett won, Ziggler cashed in, Orton looked like he was about to cry, Jericho giving JBL his hat, and Fandango immortalizing himself in WWE history. Du DUH, du du da du duh duh DUH...

Best RAW since Nexus formed.

I love how hard this crowd is working to piss off Orton... because its working.

Barrett... Ziggler... if Justin Gabriel somehow actually appears on TV and does something awesome, I might have to change my pants (no homo).

Holyjesus****thatjusthappened

WWE don't so much have a "women's division" as they do a "big, fake boobies division". And yeah, I can't think of any names off the top of my head... though Snuka's girl, and that blonde from Texas have both impressed me.

I hate to say it to you, but I think Greg Jennings was a bad signing. Even with Aaron Rodgers throwing the ball, he's been incredibly streaky throughout his entire career. He might not be a bad WR, but whatever the Vikings paid for him is going to be too much. I don't think the key to turning Jennings into a 16-game stud at the position is a team that seems directionless at QB.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="3rdStringPG" data-cite="3rdStringPG" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Good point. Wonder what creative really has in store for Wade Barrett aside from those short-lived feuds. And what happened to Bo Dallas? He seems to have vanished off the face of RAW since his impressive debut and, at that time, sort-of interesting feud with Barrett.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Really feels like there's multiple ways they want to take Wade, and they're just muddling with his momentum by all these "flash" feuds, most of which don't get any real resolution. One week he beats Randy Orton clean (who, thankfully, seems to be taking a backseat... hopefully he'll stay there until no one cares about him anymore), the next he drops a match to a guy who was essentially a jobber before then. Somewhere in between, he puts on a stellar bout with Sheamus.</p><p> </p><p> And then he starts flexing his acting muscles against The Miz and Jericho. It really feels like there's some confusion there about what to do with him.</p><p> </p><p> At least his shirt has an anchor and some direwolves.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Raw wasn't all terrible. I enjoyed PTP taking the mickey out of Cena (even with Titus' dodgy gimmick). Rhodes vs ADR (botch aside) was good. The Triple Threat was decent until the predictable finish. Ricardo was a champ selling Swagger breaking his ankle. <strong>Punk tossing the urn around and swearing was cool (or distasteful depending on your perspective).</strong> HHH assaulting Heyman was good also. As was Ziggler winning his 3rd straight match.<p> </p><p> <strong>I've heard that since that Senior VP dude was fired Vince has gotten more hands-on, tossing out storylines he doesn't like (even if they make more sense) and generally making creative more nervous than usual. Not the best time for it.</strong></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It is interesting that they're so willing to use the guy who just passed away so liberally as part of the feud, especially with the implication his ashes are in the urn.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Then again, Moody was a career guy who seemed to love his part in the WWF/E. Part of me thinks he'd be delighted to know that even in death he's contributing to the show. From what I understand, him and Taker were actually pretty close friends backstage and if Taker is cool with it, and his family doesn't seem to have a problem with it, then I don't see any harm.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Guess that explains some of the odd shiftings of direction around a few wrestlers. Seems like just a couple weeks ago, Barrett was set to battle Bo Dallas... and that feud just sorta faded away. Then again, since the start of the year he's been quasi-feuding with Dallas, Sheamus, The Miz, and now Jericho. Seems like they need to make up their minds, Barrett is too awesome not to push.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That crowd was terrible. But it was fitting as most of Raw was terrible. The first half was wasted with squash matches and recaps.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I fell asleep halfway through or so (though I was really sick, still am a bit), and woke up long enough to see Wade Barrett win the triple threat.</p><p> </p><p> Really, that's all I needed to see, and nothing else could've passed it. Though I thought I remember hearing something in my slumber about Justin Gabriel, but maybe I was just dreaming that they were finally going to give him a push.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Yup, looks like I'm dreaming. I guess sick-sleeping with the WWE on me opens my mind to what an absolute mark I am.</p>

So Heyman said, after ruining the delight of seeing NAO back on TV for a brief moment, that they've now destroyed the "last vestiges of DX". And I found out, after joking about him, that Sean Waltman signed a Legends contract four days ago. Curious if they'll make any use of him, or if it's just a merchandise deal (even though he was already in the last video game...). In other news: push Justin Gabriel. Please?

That piledriver was absolutely sick. Obviously Vince isn't going to be pleased with it, but what's he gonna do? It was his two top stars who participated in it, after all. And can we please just have Barrett vs. Sheamus at WM? Pretty please?

Zeb is half of what he needed. The other half was a character/gimmick/anything to make him more interesting than just "Jack Swagger, Bland Interchangeable Heel #248". Clearly, the WWE is at least trying that as well, but it'll be interesting to see if this gimmick catches on and can help Swagger show some sort of personality for a change. I'll temper my expectations, I've been an ardent "Swagger is booooorrriiiiiing" guy for a long time, and I'd say for good reason. But I'll keep an open mind, and maybe Swagger can do what the Miz did once upon a time and go from one of the guys that makes me turn off the TV to someone I usually enjoy seeing. Though in all fairness, The Miz is trying to pull a 180 as he's absolutely atrocious as a face. He's a prime example of a guy that in TEW terms can play a heel strong, but struggles to be a face. He needs to go back to being the cocky heel that proclaims he's better than everyone, even though he blatantly cheats at every turn, because that was actually awesome.

Reminds me of this: (warning: NSWF)

Even if they don't fire Swagger, they should job him down the card. And replace his spot in the Upper Midcard with Justin Gabriel.

If that's true... Then yay. Jack Swagger sucks, and I want to change the channel nearly any time he's on TV. Guess he'll be in TNA soon, thus making them even crappier (if such a thing were even possible).+

Hmmm... maybe. Been busy, so its possible I completely forgot and got sidetracked with the whole life thing. But I'd be glad to help out... maybe insure my vision for 2005 Australia is alive and kicking.

Wait, you're trying again? Why didn't you tell me.

You shouldn't be shocked: he proved his dance skills years ago on WWE television while teaming with Scotty 2 Hotty as "The Hip Hop Hippo" Albert. It is an interesting team, though its odd to see a monster duo that are comedy faces. I have to wonder if they'd have more long term success as heels, but I guess we'll see. It is fun to see that they actually remembered Tensai is on the roster... would've been weird if they brought him back after all these years to regulate him to quasi-monster jobber status.

The Cesaro big swing spot was just too awesome. I'd feel worse for the Miz, who I'm a mini-mark for, but he sucks ass as a face soooo.... meh. Miz is a pretty awesome heel. He just looks and acts too much like a collar-poppin' douche bag for me to ever see him as a "good guy".

I just want to say, the way the Kofi/Barrett match ended tonight was one of the niftiest finishes I've seen in a while. Also interesting to have Barrett the victim of a backstage attack before his match, then go on to win cleanly. If I didn't know any better, I'd say they're setting him up for a face turn.

Yep. Shit happens, and it looks like Punk wasn't seriously injured. That, and I don't think Punk is the type to bitch over something like that, unlike other WWE stars. Best part of that house show results is that Justin Gabriel picked up a win. I still really, really, really want to see him and Daniel Bryan face off in a 20 minute match. But it's becoming apparent the WWE isn't ever going to do much with Gabriel, so I'm not gonna hold my breathe.

The difference is, HHH has proven he is capable of being entertaining. Roode is like, a step above Randy Orton in my books in terms of entertainment.

He (and his almost equally ridiculous tag partner) got in because they were buddies with the guy who ran it. Thankfully there was a three person panel to determine winners, so he didn't give them un-deserved wins (which most of em' would've been... I'm not exagerating when I say his RPs were basically bad Heath Ledger Joker fanfiction.) The fun part was, my character at the time was my beloved Ash Darkstone, who was a walking, brooding parody of all the super-darky dark dark gritty characters. He played an over the top Goth gimmick (including arriving at a PPV match in a coffin in the back of a hearse, rising out arms crossed Dracula style, complete with fog machine), though in actuality was from upper class parentage and the son of one of the UK's legends of the 70s, Gerald "The Toff" Dunstan. His style could best be described as "European Brawler", I suppose, as he mixed super old school grappling with forearm-based brawling (having been trained since a kid by his world class dad, but rebelling against him with such "uncouth" things like punches!)... and a few more "hardcore" tendencies. So to actually face off with the type of character that had inspired my Dark Prince of Darkness, and have their silly, silly moveset lose to out European Uppercuts and leg grapevines... that was fun. ... I need to bring Ash Darkstone back. I regularly teamed with GruntMark's character "The Spider" Ricky Stevens (the youngest brother of Jman's (in)famous "The Scorpion" Scott Stevens) as the Burning Blood Ravens of Perdition, and it was just glorious fun. Chupacabras, a guest spot on Ghost Hunters, gay dance club at Area 51 ("The Probe"), an RP I wrote in ten minutes where Ash ate at McDonald's that won RP of the week, "The Big Crawdaddy" George Stevens re-telling his tale of how he hasn't wrestled since he botched and crippled a guy...