RANDY ORTON vs. DOLPH ZIGGLER- Did Super Randy really have to win here? We couldn’t have had a DQ? Then the heels beat Randy down until Kofi makes the save. Then Teddy Long comes out and does his lame, played-out schtick of making it a tag team match. Teddy can do this because this is a “Supershow” and thus there are Smackdown wrestlers here, so he has power (I’m not quite sure why Smackdown isn’t a supershow because Raw guys are on Smackdown all of the time, too), and apparently the AJ thing is now getting in Vickie’s way so she can’t run the show. Sure… whatever.

RANDY ORTON & KOFI KINGSTON vs. DOLPH ZIGGLER & ALBERTO DEL RIO (w/Ricardo Rodriguez)- 4/10
Here’s an idea: JUST BOOK A TAG MATCH! Then maybe this thing will get adequate time.

AJ & VICKIE SEGMENT- yeah, I am 100% certain that most of the crowd reaction for this segment is canned.
Also, no matter whether these message are real or not, Vickie seems to have hacked into Cena’s voicemail, which is a grievous violation of privacy. Shouldn’t the WWE Board of Directors do something about the fact that an executive has committed a major violation of the privacy of one of its top employees?
Anyway, this angle is just plain boring.

AJ & CENA BACKSTAGE- DEAR LORD! AJ has been in the WWE for just over two years now, during which time she has show romantic feelings for Dragon, Kane, CM Punk, Primo, Hornswoggle, and now John Cena. Can the writers please think of something for her to do that doesn’t involve a romantic relationship?

WILLIAM REGAL vs. THE BIG SHOW- no rating. Decent segment, although I wish they could have given this match more time so that Regal didn’t wind up looking like a complete and total chump

WINNER GETS A DIVAS TITLE MATCH AT SURVIVOR SERIES: Kaitlyn vs. Layla El- 1/10
Well… that was short. Even more problematic here is the fact that Eve is absolutely correct. There is no reason whatsoever for either of these women getting another title shot.

LAWLER & PUNK STUFF- WHICH IDIOT THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?! This was entirely unnecessary and all it does is piss a lot of people off. You want to get heat on Punk? Have come out and say “like it or not, I’m the guy who ended Ryback’s streak!” THAT will get heat on Punk. This sort of sh*t gets heat on the company. Once we got into the Punk-Foley stuff it got better until Foley went off talking about Lawler. It felt like it got completely derailed.

THE PRIME TIME PLAYERS, PRIMO & EPICO (w/Rosa Mendes) vs. SIN CARA, REY MYSTERIO, JUSTIN GABRIEL, & TYSON KIDD- 4/10
Well… at least the Rosa-Del Rio stuff is going somewhere

MIZ, ZIGGLER, & MICK FOLEY SEGMENT- Well... someone is going babyface.

WWE UNITED STATES TITLE MATCH: TENSAI vs. R-Truth- 2/10
Tensai is now officially a joke. I like Ron Killings, but he isn’t big enough to believably beat Tensai with that little offense without a flash pin of some kind.

IF MADDOX WINS, HE GETS A ONE MILLION DOLLAR WWE CONTRACT: Ryback vs. Brad Maddox- no rating. Eh segment. I was dead certain the post-match beatdown would wind up in Maddox winning via reversed decision.

DAVID OTUNGA vs. SHEAMUS- DUD!
This was a pointless squash with a pointless angle after it. Show didn’t need to assault Regal here BECAUSE HE’S ALREADY DONE THAT ONCE TONIGHT!

DRAGON & KANE SEGMENT- entertaining

TEAM RHODES SCHOLARS vs. KANE & THE MIZ- 4.25/10
Dragon was fun.

SINGLES MATCH WITH MICK FOLEY AS SPECIAL GUEST ENFORCER: John Cena vs. CM Punk (w/Paul Heyman)- 6.5/10
Not good enough for a main event. Ryback and Cena have a staredown afterwards.

Overall, a bad episode of Raw.

Big Red Machine wrote: AJ & VICKIE SEGMENT- yeah, I am 100% certain that most of the crowd reaction for this segment is canned.

If you're referring to Vickie's heat, I was at the UK RAW last week, and her heat is legit that loud. I couldn't hear her speak, and had to rewatch it on TV just to make out what she said through most of it.

If you're referring to the "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh YAY" during the 'evidence' recaps, that's just the crowd noise from the UK RAW, not a canned crowd for this week's RAW.

kiel297 wrote:

Big Red Machine wrote: AJ & VICKIE SEGMENT- yeah, I am 100% certain that most of the crowd reaction for this segment is canned.

If you're referring to Vickie's heat, I was at the UK RAW last week, and her heat is legit that loud. I couldn't hear her speak, and had to rewatch it on TV just to make out what she said through most of it.

If you're referring to the "ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh YAY" during the 'evidence' recaps, that's just the crowd noise from the UK RAW, not a canned crowd for this week's RAW.

No, I was referring to the reactions to most of what Vickie said and to most of what AJ said. You Brits are always awesome crowds. Some US crowds are not. I am also fairly certain I heard WWE attempting to cover up a "Same old sh*t!" chant during this segment.