BRM Reviews the 11/14/2011 Raw

[Big Red Machine]

MICHAEL COLE CHALLENGE- Wow. This actually went very well. Good opening segment.

FOLEY SHOWS UP- Good, but it would have been much more awesome and Foley-ish if he drove up in a minivan.

SIN CARA & KOFI KINGSTON vs. CODY RHODES & HUNICO- 4.75/10/ I wish these guys had more time.

RYDER & SANTINO SEGMENT- Brilliant!

DOLPH ZIGGLER PROMO- Great

MASON RYAN vs. DOLPH ZIGGLER (w/Vickie Guerrero)- good segment

THIS IS YOUR LIFE, JOHN CENA- good stuff. I marked out when they brought back Bull Buchanan (I remember thinking that Buchanan was going to be important and wasting one the 12 Create A Wrestler spots in SD: Just Bring It on him- joke was on me). Anyway, until this moment, I never realized just how over The Rock is. He is so over that he could walk down the ramp, not saying or doing anything, and give MICK FOLEY a Rock Bottom, then walk away… and the fans never even stopped cheering.

SHEAMUS vs. JACK SWAGGER (w/Vickie Guerrero)- 5/10

DEL RIO, THE BELLA, & RYDER- waste of time, but at least it didn’t waste much time.

NATALYA (w/Beth Phoenix) vs. KELLY KELLY (w/Alicia Fox & Eve Torres)- 0.5/10. The only thing saving this from being a DUD is the fact that the Small Package actually did look pretty tight. What is the point of having Nattie constantly lose! Everything that WWE did right with the Punk angle, they are doing wrong here in this Dvias of Doom angle! It bothered me, from a kayfabe POV, that they showed the Kelly Kelly in Maxim feature after already showing both women in the ring and ready to go.

AWESOME TRUTH “PROMO” umm… okay…

DEL RIO JUMPS PUNK- good

THE BIG SHOW & CM PUNK vs. MARK HENRY & ALBERTO DEL RIO (w/Ricardo Rodriguez)- 6.5/10. Good tease of the Survivor Series title matches

SANTINO & KEVIN NASH- Good stuff.

WADE BARRETT PROMO- okay

RANDY ORTON (w/Team Orton) vs. WADE BARRETT (w/Team Barrett)- No rating. Obligatory schmoz with the babyfaces coming out on top.

FINAL SEGMENT- AWESOME!

Overall, this was a great go-home episode of Raw. It built everything for Survivor Series perfectly.