The Heel Turn: Cole's man-crush act wearing thin

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WWE Night of Champions Results:
Dolph Ziggler defeated Kofi Kingston to retain the Intercontinental belt.

Big Show defeated CM Punk

Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes outfought four other tag teams for the Tag Team title.

Michelle McCool won the Lumberjill match to become Unified Divas Champion.

Daniel Bryan took the United States Championship away from The Miz.

World Heavyweight champ Kane beat the Undertaker in a No Holds Barred match.

In the main event, Randy Orton moved past John Cena, Edge, Chris Jericho, Sheamus, and Wade Barrett to be awarded the WWE Championship.

On RAW the following night, Randy Orton came out to celebrate his title win, only to have the moment ruined by Sheamus. The Celtic Warrior marched to the ring and demanded that Orton hand the belt over immediately, as it "belonged" to Sheamus. The only thing that the Viper handed over though, was a devastating RKO to the former champ. With Sheamus lying motionless, Orton charged at him to deliver a vicious punt to the skull, but Sheamus rolled out of the ring just in time to avoid having his brains scrambled. A match was then made by the General Manager to have Orton defend the title in a couple of weeks against Sheamus in a Hell in a Cell match.

The Miz also did some complaining, stating that he had a preexisting injury, and did not actually tap out to Daniel Bryan. He later sat at the announcers table with Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler, and Cole asked The Miz to autograph his copy of WWE Magazine, which The Miz is on the cover of this month. It's embarrassing to witness how much attention Michael Cole seems to pay to The Miz. Bryan came out for his match against Edge, and he had The Ride Of The Valkyries as his new entrance music, which The Miz and Cole seemed to think was Star Trek or Star Wars music. Leave it to these guys to insult what is probably the most epic piece of classical music ever!

After watching the announcing team of Cole and Lawler, I have to say that 10 years ago I never thought Lawler would ever be the babyface announcer. Michael Cole's nasty comments do make for some laughs, but in my opinion the whole deal with him getting emails from the General Manager is kind of annoying the more it happens. Makes me wonder though, exactly who the GM will end up being? Vince? Triple H? I hope we'll find out soon.

In TNA news, I've heard through the grapevine that Christina Von Eerie could soon be a TNA Knockout. She's an extreme punk rock hellcat and you should check out some of her matches on YouTube if you don't know who she is already. Plus some really big news about Mickie James possibly signing with TNA, which would be a huge coup for them. This isn't written in stone yet, but if TNA can capitalize on WWE's mistake of firing one of the only Divas who could actually work, then she would be a welcome addition to the Knockouts roster.