BRM Reviews the 7/11/2011 Raw

[Big Red Machine]

CM PUNK PROMO- GREAT. I popped for Punk using some of the old ROH lines about the microphone being power, etc.

PUNK-CENA INTERACTION- GREAT!

JOHN CENA vs. MCGILLICUTTY & OTUNGA- 5/10. Not a bad match… but the finish was all wrong. Cena should have won by DQ after interference from Punk. For Nexus, this should have been about hurting Cena, not about winning.
This is a bad idea. Cena cannot beat the tag team champions. It would make them look like a joke… but a HANDICAP MATCH… why is the GM going heel on Cena?

DOLPH, VICKIE, & MCINTYRE BACKSTAGE- moronic. Everyone saw Vince coming up behind them from a mile away. And Vince’s ‘’punishment’’ of them was ridiculous.

KELLY KELLY vs. MELINA- 3/10. Nice finishing sequence, but that was half of the match.
And the aftermath… ugh. THIS is what people hate when they talk about “comedy writers’’ in the WWE. The Bellas try to be insult comics and utterly fail.

MITB HYPE SEGMENT- HATE IT! I know that I usually like cliché segments like this, but I just HATED this one. First of all, I HATE IT when they set up the ring with all of the ladders all over the place. It feels so overly-produced. Then R-Truth came out and sucked. More of the “comedy” bullsh*t that just killed a character.

THE MIZ, R-TRUTH, & JACK SWAGGER vs. EVAN BOURNE, KOFI KINGSTON, & ALEX RILEY- 5.75/10
AFTERMATH- GENIUS! It just makes me hate Del Rio even more!

HANDICAP MATCH: The Big Show vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler (w/Vickie Guerrero)- DUD! This is what jobbers are for. Not rising stars! The thing with Mark Henry worked well.

PUNK & VINCE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION- HOLY SH*T! I F*CKING LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS! This was AMAZING! I actually hated the rest of the show aside from this angle, but this was so good that I don't even care.

[kiel297]

The Money In The Bank segment was just so damn sloppy it's unreal! I hated it so much.

The Big Show/Mark Henry bit was good, but I was left more concerned about Drew McIntyre! He flew off onto the concrete and apparently hit a lighting rig on the way down! Also, did anyone else catch Drew's "OH MY GOD, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" after Big Show's chop xD

EVERYTHING TO DO WITH CM PUNK WAS GOLDEN! He manages to hype a PPV, cut a smashing promo, AND make John Cena look good ALL IN ONE SEGMENT! Words can't describe how happy I am that MITB falls into the half of WWE's shows that is shown Sky Sports 1 instead of Sky Box office!