Around the Ring: Audience confusion reigns on Raw
This edition is also going to be in a quick-jab format.
Poor Jeff Hardy. If problems with drug abuse getting him suspended for 60 days wasn't bad enough (including the WM payday), losing your house and dog to a fire sucks even more. It's reported that he didn't even have house insurance. I feel bad for the guy and hope he doesn't go even further downhill from this.
What the hell was with Raw this week? First off, the opening segment with the Big Show and Y2J even confused a long time viewer — ME! So, it seemed like last week WWE was heading in the right direction making The Big Show the face and Floyd Mayweather the heel. Now this week, Mayweather isn't around, so Show comes out and insults the crowd and Chris Jericho enough for the fans to boo him and cheer Y2J in their match. Out of nowhere, Y2J does a heel thing and smokes Show with the belt and gets himself disqualified. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Who is the face? Who is the heel? Who is writing this crap?
Poor WWE tag teams. It seems that these guys are just around so a duo like John Cena and Randy Orton can get easy pins on them (in one of the most ridiculous matches I've ever seen on Raw) or for Umaga to plow through them to make the crowd think he's unstoppable (something they took away from him when they let Cena get easy wins). If I was a tag team (or actually in the lower half of the Raw or Smackdown roster) I'd just be thankful I was getting a paycheque at this point.
We saw Brian Kendrick leave his partner in the ring after the decimation by Umaga but the announcers hardly hyped it, they didn't show a replay and then WWE wants us to buy Kendrick's injury by HAVING HIM COME OUT WITH THE OTHERS ON THE ROSTER AT THE END OF THE NIGHT TO FACE ORTON AND CENA?!?!? Goddamn...
I have finally decided that after the awful steel cage match and 50,000th MVP/Batista match on Smackdown, alongside with this week's Raw I'm actually NOT one bit excited for this year's Wrestlemania. To see what my predictions are (alongside Publications Manager for the Interrobang, John Said), tune in next week. I think we'll have a pretty easy time this year.
Best thing about wrestling this week (notice there's nothing here about TNA?) is Santino Marella. His line when he was trying to direct Snoop Dogg's anti-Maria/anti-Playboy message was great: “listen Mr. Snoopy the Dog...” HAHAHAH! Awesome. The whole Subway sub/drink incident with Lawler was mint as well. Someone give this guy his own half hour sitcom: “Santino comes to America”
Poor Jeff Hardy. If problems with drug abuse getting him suspended for 60 days wasn't bad enough (including the WM payday), losing your house and dog to a fire sucks even more. It's reported that he didn't even have house insurance. I feel bad for the guy and hope he doesn't go even further downhill from this.
What the hell was with Raw this week? First off, the opening segment with the Big Show and Y2J even confused a long time viewer — ME! So, it seemed like last week WWE was heading in the right direction making The Big Show the face and Floyd Mayweather the heel. Now this week, Mayweather isn't around, so Show comes out and insults the crowd and Chris Jericho enough for the fans to boo him and cheer Y2J in their match. Out of nowhere, Y2J does a heel thing and smokes Show with the belt and gets himself disqualified. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Who is the face? Who is the heel? Who is writing this crap?
Poor WWE tag teams. It seems that these guys are just around so a duo like John Cena and Randy Orton can get easy pins on them (in one of the most ridiculous matches I've ever seen on Raw) or for Umaga to plow through them to make the crowd think he's unstoppable (something they took away from him when they let Cena get easy wins). If I was a tag team (or actually in the lower half of the Raw or Smackdown roster) I'd just be thankful I was getting a paycheque at this point.
We saw Brian Kendrick leave his partner in the ring after the decimation by Umaga but the announcers hardly hyped it, they didn't show a replay and then WWE wants us to buy Kendrick's injury by HAVING HIM COME OUT WITH THE OTHERS ON THE ROSTER AT THE END OF THE NIGHT TO FACE ORTON AND CENA?!?!? Goddamn...
I have finally decided that after the awful steel cage match and 50,000th MVP/Batista match on Smackdown, alongside with this week's Raw I'm actually NOT one bit excited for this year's Wrestlemania. To see what my predictions are (alongside Publications Manager for the Interrobang, John Said), tune in next week. I think we'll have a pretty easy time this year.
Best thing about wrestling this week (notice there's nothing here about TNA?) is Santino Marella. His line when he was trying to direct Snoop Dogg's anti-Maria/anti-Playboy message was great: “listen Mr. Snoopy the Dog...” HAHAHAH! Awesome. The whole Subway sub/drink incident with Lawler was mint as well. Someone give this guy his own half hour sitcom: “Santino comes to America”
