BRM Reviews the 12/19/2011 Raw (bad)

[Big Red Machine]

OPENING SEGMENT- Great segment. Punk puts over Dragon & Ziggler. I just hope he didn’t get himself in trouble with anything he said. Good set up for the main event.

RANDY ORTON vs. WADE BARRETT- 4/10. A DQ for a thumb to the eye? Really? No warning first or anything? Come on. And they should have had the ring announcer announce the result! Otherwise it seems like the bell just rang for no real reason. Barrett putting Orton through the table was eh. Lawler did a good job of explaining it away, but the vow Lawler was talking about is the sort of thing that should take place ON TV before the PPV!

BETH PHOENIX vs. ALICIA FOX-1/10. The champ gets pinned clean in forty seconds. WTF?

SHEAMUS vs. JINDER MAHAL- 3/10 How do they expect Mahal to ever get over if he keeps jobbing.

CENA & MARK HENRY- Good.

KANE ATTACKS CENA- Kane rips off Cena’s “Rise Above Hate” t-shirt, then walks away. This could be interesting. Kane needs to ditch that stupid outer mask, though.

THE USOS vs. PRIMO & EPICO (w/Rosa Mendes)- 4/10. Not given anywhere near enough time.

CODY & SANTINO- dumb.

CODY RHODES vs. SANTINO MARELLA- YAY!

JOSH MATTHEWS INTERVIEWS THE BIG SHOW- AWESOME! Show did an amazing job making it seem like he was just barely containing an emotion below the surface, but you couldn’t tell whether it was anger or sadness. You got the feeling that, at any point, he might break down in tears… or he might snap and go on a rampage.

DANIEL BRYAN, CM PUNK, & ZACK RYDER vs. THE MIZ, DOLPH ZIGGLER, & ALBERTO DEL RIO (w/Vickie Guerrero)- 6.5/10. Whoever made the decision to only give this ten minutes should be shot.

Overall, a very bad episode of Raw. The quality of wrestling on WWE TV is slipping back down to what it was before the awesomeness of this Summer.