Hey everyone!
So RAW this week was an interesting one and I’ve already expressed how I feel about it but that certainly won’t stop me recapping it!
The show started off with a flashback to Kane’s speech last week. Why on earth they’d want to recap that I have no idea. It was boring enough the first time around. Anyways, we had the awful Nickleback song followed by the usual fireworks and things.
Then it was Cena time as he made his way to the ring. With it being New Year, John decided he’d change for 2012. He said first of all he was going to wear less underwear and next time he wears something it’ll be interesting. Erm, first of all… I am TOTALLY on-board for underwearless matches but I wonder what he means by interesting. I don’t want to start any rumours but his wife best check her knicker drawer. The second resolution was to ban his Dad from WWE TV. I think everyone should follow suit. The Dad segments are the worse (I’m looking at you, Ryder).
Cena continued by saying that there was one thing that wouldn’t change. He then hammered on about how he loves the fans and they deserve to chant what they want to chant and that he doesn’t care if Kane hates him and his attitude. Then Kane’s music and pyro hit but Kane didn’t appear. Instead, we got Kane’s voice. It was like he was streaming live from Mordor. Kane said that Cena had no clue and that, eventually, he would embrace the hate and that he’d soon personally witness hate. I feared Kane was about to commit a hate crime. Come on Kane, Be A Star™.
We then had a match between Daniel Bryan and my future husband-even-though-he-doesn’t-know-it Cody Rhodes. It was actually a pretty good match and it’s nice to see Cody play with the World Heavyweight Champion as, hopefully, he’ll end up winning it. I think WWE missed a trick with this champion vs champion match though. The match ended up when Bryan displayed his small package (HA!) and surprised Cody with the win. Bryan then paraded around the ring, jumping on the announce table and everything. I’m with Michael Cole, it’s totally not necessary to celebrate is such a manner every time you win.
Our first glimpse backstage was with my new BFF John Laurinaitis who was texting as always. I bet he uses all the lingo and everything (TTL JOHN XO). Anyways, Miz walked in and said he wasn’t happy with R Truth beating him up and then hitting him with a bottle of water. John said he understood and didn’t agree with it. Miz wasn’t happy and wanted more repercussions for Truth but Laurinaitis said he brought it on himself. Then, I shit you not, he said “here, look at this video”, pointed to the screen and a video played. Laurinaitis is so awesome he doesn’t need a DVD player or a remote. Shit just happens. He’s like Bruce Almighty. Miz got mad and stormed out saying he wouldn’t be a sitting duck. R Truth then appeared from the shadows and quacked. I swear to God I’m not making this up.
We then had look back at the 1988 Royal Rumble. Was good.
Next up was my sort-of hero Wade Barrett who turned up ready for his match against Santino Morella. Barrett spoke about taking out Randy Orton and how the Barrett Barrage was here. I mean, I don’t think Barrett can take all the credit for his attack on Orton because the flight of stairs really played a huge part. Again, don’t want to start rumours but I hear that Orton is actually going to be facing The Stairs in a Wrestlemania grudge match. Ssh though, top secret info. Santino Morella turned up to stop Barrett speaking and said that he actually nearly won the Royal Rumble last year and will win it again because the Santino Morella Choo-Choo Train was much better than the Barrett Barrage. The two had a match. Barrett won.
Backstage once more, this time to the Bella Twins who were talking about Del Rio. Miz appeared and asked them if they’d seen R Truth to which they replied “no but we saw Little Jimmy” HA! That’s so funny. The irony is that playing with Little Jimmys was how they got their jobs. Miz said that he was glad Del Rio got injured and sulked off, nervously looking over his shoulder. Miz made his escape and R Truth, once again, appeared from the shadows and told us to shush. Fourth wall? What fourth wall?
TOO MANY LIMES. TOO MAN Y LIMES. AHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH. I adore Sheamus’ entrance music. Sheamus made his way to the ring for his match against The Miz. It wasn’t a bad match well, it wasn’t a match at all really as the bell never rang. Sheamus had the upper hand pretty much throughout and even tied Miz up in the ropes where he was beaten on the chest by Sheamus like a gazillion times. Miz tried to escape into the crowd but R Truth appeared with a microphone saying it was time for Miz’s beating. Miz attempted to retreat back to the ring but was met with a brogue kick from Sheamus instead. With that R Truth jumped the barrier and beat on Miz and delivered another WATER BOTTLE TO THE HEAD. That’s right, hardcore. Miz was knocked out and Truth went back into the crowd where some kid yelled “HAPPY NEW YEAR, MIZ, WHAT WHAT!”. Uh. Kids. They ruin everything.
Josh Matthews was backstage with Dolph Ziggler who started the interview doing a handstand. He’s so sexy. Anyways, Dolph went on by saying how dumb and fat Americans were and that he was better than them because he has everything. Everything, except the WWE Championship. Dolph then said everybody better keep their ticket stubs because they’ll want to remember the time and place they saw Dolph become WWE Champion. Oh Dolph… you’re just the total package.
Backstage further where Zack Ryder was unsuccessfully hitting on Eve who looked like she’d just climbed out of a box of Quality Street. They were joined by Jack Swagger who said that an imposter had the US Title. After that whole dumb joke finished, Swagger said he was going to steal Ryder’s title and his girlfriend. I’m sorry, what? Is this WWE RAW or Grease? So dumb. My new BFF Johnny Ace turned up and made a 6 man tag match. Kane/Swagger/Mark Henry vs Ryder/Cena/Big Show in the Main Event.
Then it was the WWE Title match. I’m not going to sit here and tell you how amazing it was and you should go watch it. Oh, whoopsie, I just did. It was a really good match. The match was just heating up but, after a turnbuckle pad came off, John Laurinaitis appeared. He told the ref that the pad had fallen off and that he needed to put it back on. What a guy! Being the nice guy he is, Laurinaitis decided he’d put it on himself. The problem was, the silly referee wouldn’t leave him to it and missed Dolph Ziggler tapping to the Anaconda Vice. Silly referee. Anyways, poor John ended up getting knocked onto the apron after Punk pushed Ziggler into him. Punk then went for the GTS but Dolph threw him towards John Laurinaitis who just happened to grab the top rope at that moment to help himself up. This caused CM Punk to go flying to the outside, hurt his arm and get counted out. I mean, the real victim here is poor John Laurinaitis. For some reason, Dolph thought he was now WWE Champion and ran off with the belt. Again though, the real victim is Laurinaitis. I hope he didn’t hurt his texting arm.
We were then given a look back at the 1995 Royal Rumble. ‘Twas also good.
Then it was time for some Divas action with The Bella Twins taking on Eve and Kelly Kelly. Despite Eve looking ridiculous, Kelly Kelly decided to adopt similar colours to her BFFL and well, they looked like they were about to star in a porno version of Finding Nemo. The match itself was truly terrible and it was botch city. I mean, The Bella Twins just cannot wrestle to save their lives and they made Eve look back when, actually, she really isn’t. The Bellas were about to lose when Eve hit the Moonsault. However, Eve fell victim to Twin Magic and, with a botched roll-up, The Bellas won the match.
Backstage once again where CM Punk stormed into John Laurinaitis’ office and started yelling at Laurinaitis. Laurinaitis said that Punk was actually angry that he lost to Ziggler AGAIN and that this meant Ziggler deserved a title match again. At Royal Rumble. Yey! There was a twist, however, and Laurinaitis revealed that HE would be the Special Guest Referee! I’m happy about this because if there is anyone in WWE who is fair and balanced… it’s my Johnny Boy. Punk went crazy and said that if Laurinaitis screwed him out of the title he would beat him like a bitch. How rude!
Then finally the moment arrived. We had waited a long, long time for “It” to begin and it began. The person behind it? Chris Jericho! Jericho spent a good 10 minutes working the crowd in his flashing jacket and smiled from ear to ear. The crowd waited with baited breath for him to talk and… he didn’t. The entire thing was stupid. The crowd began to boo Jericho as he exited the stage. As much as I dislike how it happened I guess it’s keeping people talking. Jeritroll indeed.
Then it was main event time. Kane didn’t show up so Johnny Ace sent out his stooge David Otunga to announce that the match would be a handicap match instead. The match went on and, for some reason, it turned out that this was actually an elimination handicap match. I don’t know either. Basically, Big Show beat on Mark Henry outside and they were both counted out. That left Zack Ryder and John Cena against Jack Swagger. Swagger actually did well on his own until Ryder tagged in Cena allowing Cena to hit the AA for the win.
After that Kane’s pyro hit and Kane smashed through the middle of the ring. It was complete and utter bullshit and the next 10 minutes had to be seen to be believed. Kane went to beat on Cena but instead turned his attention to Ryder. He grabbed Ryder by the leg and tried to drag him back into his hole. Because, y’know, Kane is now a fucking supernatural being. Anyways, Cena jumped in and rescued Ryder and then fire burst out. The entire spectacle was ridiculous added further by the sound of a fire extinguisher after the hole exploded.
So the first RAW of 2012 ended stupidly.
I so hope this isn’t a sign of things to come.
XO-WB