Raw - 11th June 2012
So Raw on a whole was okay this week, surprisingly enough. Considering it was 3 hours (or rather 2 hours for me), I expected it to drag a lot more like it usually does... But it didn't so much.
I didn't really see the point in Tensai attacking Sakamoto after losing to Sheamus. I care about Sakamoto but not everyone is quite as affectionate as I am so somehow I doubt many people actually gave a crap about that.
All our current champions made an appearance tonight. This whole thing between Santino and Ricardo, whilst entertaining at times, is a little bit irrelevant. I mean, if Santino's a champion, why engage with someone like Ricardo? Beth Phoenix pinned Layla though so I'd assume she's taking on Layla on Sunday or at least in the following weeks.
For someone who doesn't like four-way matches, I really liked the elimination match between Ziggler, Swagger, Khali and Christian. As expected, Khali was eliminated first. Jack Swagger looked surprisingly decent in this match with his exchanged with Christian. Those two seemed to gel together pretty well but Christian's always been a versatile performer so perhaps that's no surprise. Ziggler eliminating Swagger was great and carried on pushing towards him breaking off from Vickie though in a sense, I feel like they're gone backwards in that aspect. Two weeks ago, he was being less dependent on Vickie and yet now it's like he's gone back to letting her speak for him etc. Ziggler won the match and he'll be facing Sheamus on Sunday so we can expect at least one awesome match.
Daniel Bryan cut a promo and dropped quite possibly one of the best lines I've ever heard, "Once you go Bryan, there's no point in trying. AW YEAH!". Or something. Well, whatever it was, it was hilarious. I swear, Bryan just looked like he was going to start laughing throughout that. Bryan's reaction to Kane's pyro is also brilliant. That is how everyone should react.
AJ was put in a tag team match with Punk against Daniel Bryan and Kane. This is just too fucking much because Kane's face every time AJ's around has me in stitches. So AJ mounts Kane and makes out with him while Punk is outside the ring and Bryan's watching, like, "holy shit". Fucking hell. What a fucking weirdo. I love AJ though. I hope to God she screws over Punk and Kane on Sunday and Bryan wins the title. That would be A+.
If Punk drops that "I dig crazy chicks" line one more time, I will go insane. It's awful. Never use it again. When AJ kissed him and he's facepalm-ing and yet he's constantly (intentionally or not) flirting with her... God, you manslut. Make your mind up!
It was no surprise Laurinaitis didn't actually end up getting fired. Unfortunately, Big Show and Cena crashed the party and everything went downhill. Can I get some "BORING" chants?
And... I don't have much else to comment on. Except R-Truth's promo was fabulous and Little Jimmy needs to avenge him.
All in all, decent Raw considering it was three hours. However, I'm not looking forward to this permanent switch to three hours. Despite the extra time, we still got the same guys we see every week featured and I just don't think that's good use of time. There's also far too much time being spent on Smackdown stars. I realise Raw has more viewers but less time on Smackdown would be great. The more you feature Smackdown on Raw, the less likely people are to actually bother watching Smackdown.
Whatever~
