Overview:
Raw starts off with WWE COO Triple H, coming down to the ring to cut a promo for the upcoming Main Event at Summerslam this weekend. The Main Event in which John Cena will face CM Punk to decide who is the Undisputed WWE Champion. Triple H, talks of change in the WWE and his take over, this gets the crowd popping. Triple H, then calls for a special guest enforcer/referee for that Main Event which is himself. Next he goes on about the official contract signing, and the matches for tonight. The opening match: John Cena vs Mystery Man, as we go to our first commerical!
We return to Raw with the announcement of who Cena's opponent is, which is Jack Swagger?! Yeah, Cena vs Swagger is the opening match on the card, who booked this crap? Anyways, the match opens with Jack Swagger going collegiate wrestling lead on Cena before it turns to several Suplexes from Cena. Then transitioning to a game of power between the two. Swagger eventually "over powers" Cena, then out of nowhere Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment for the win. Following the match a promo for Rey Mysterio vs the Miz is played.
Scott Stanford tries to hold an interview, then get interrupted by Albert Del Rio. Del Rio calls out CM Punk to a match. Following the interview, they recap the Morrison/R-Truth rivalry leading to R-Truth having an interview with Josh Matthews. R-Truth responds by ranting about random ass things! His gimmick is like if you're really tripping on acid or lsd. Coming up next, is the match promoted earlier!
Match two begins, with Rey Mysterio getting blind sided by the Miz. Miz beats him into the WWE Logo on the entrance ramp, he then goes to the ring and complains about being in a match at Summerslam. He then, wants to be claimed the winner of the match by forfeit. Triple H, tells a referee that the Miz will be in another match against Kofi Kingston. The two brawl it out, leading to commerical break following a suicide dive from Kingston onto the Miz.
They cut back from the break and the Miz is now dominating Kofi, with a headlock. Kofi breaks out and the match flips back and forth for awhile, mostly leading to Miz continuing to dominate the match. They try to hit several signatures on each other for sometime leading to multiple reversals. Miz, finally locks on the Skull Crushing Finale onto Kofi and picks up the win. Backstage, Punk runs into Josh Matthews for a quick interview on the Summerslam match and declaring Del Rio is his opponent tonight.
Del Rio, makes his entrance followed by CM Punk's entrance, the crowd explodes for Punk as shirts and signs are all about the crowd. Del Rio, overtakes Punk fast soon leading to a quick counter. Del Rio fights back and works on Punk's arm, before Punk gets Del Rio out of the ring. Punk lands the Knee & Bulldog combo, the clothesline followed by Del Rio reversing the GTS. Del Rio goes for the Armbreaker before falling into another GTS and losing the match to WWE Champion, CM Punk!
We come to a Divas match the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix vs Eve, debuting a new edition of her theme song. Beth trys to overpower Eve, while Eve bouces about for awhile. After a few minutes Beth gets Eve down throwing her into the guard rail, then slamming down by her hair. Eve boches at one small point and it's noticed, leading it her gaining the up hand before heading into a Glam Slam. Beth takes the match, followed by a talk of how Kelly Kelly and Eve ruin the Divas division. Soon Kelly, hits Beth from behind with the Divas Title and runs to check on Eve. Followed by the promo for Morrison vs R-Truth.
Before we can even get to Morrison vs R-Truth, we get Perfection! Dolph Ziggler, with Vikki Guerrero faces Alex Riley, a battle with Downstait themes, yea! A-Ry quickly goes for a cover, until Dolph takes him down a peg. Ziggler goes for a Sleeper Hold, and A-Ry gets out countering with a Spinebuster before getting the win via DQ. After the match he sucker punches Ziggler into Vikki leading to them arguing.
Following the short lived match of A-Ry and Ziggler, we come back to a recap of the Cena/Punk feud for the WWE Championship. The recap is pretty commical cause they added a narrator that made it seem like something for the NFL. Leading to the commentary cast going over the card for Summerslam, with the John Morrison vs R-Truth match beginning shortly after. We cut back from the break with John Morrison's entrance and the match itself. Morrison quickly puts a beating on Truth. The fight goes outside the ring, almost costing Morrison the match. R-Truth finds away around the assault and lands a Shut Up for the win.
For the last segment of Raw, we learn Rey Mysterio will face the WWE Champion at next weeks Raw for the Title. Then followed by a short interview with the World Heavyweight Champion, cutting to the contract signing. Triple H and John Laurinaitis already stood in the ring, awaiting for CM Punk and Cena's entrance. We quickly cut to Punk dissing Triple on movies, then a video on Facebook from The Rock. It's another great moment where the Rock trashes Cena again and then talks about people who hate Cena. The crowd just eats it up, along with Triple H and Punk. Cena then responds with BS about how he loves entertaining the fans and gives a shout out to the new G.I. Joe movie. Cena even goes on about being the modern day Hulk Hogan, which he freakin' is and he admits his defeat!
Then Cena rants about him and his fans, how he never turns his back on them and how Punk "changed" his persona. This is where Triple H comes in, along with Laurinaitis and recent fired employees. Now the crowd really got behind Punk, as he talked how Cena is raised above everyone else. That's where we learned about the entire grudge Punk had for Cena. Punk shortly after declares how he'll take the WWE Championship away from Cena at Summerslam, leading to him signing the contract. Cena then talks on how alot rides on Punk, for if he loses at Summerslam. That now Punk needs to back up everything he says, or everything is over for Punk while Cena signs the contract. Eventually Cena, wants to brawl and Punk agrees until Laurinaitis steps in and is kicked by Punk with then Triple H forcing Punk out of the ring.
Review:
Alright well this Raw had ok matches, they were short and sweet. The promo at the end was great between CM Punk and Cena again. I mostly enjoyed the Divas Match and Del Rio vs Punk match. The Miz vs Kofi along with the Morrison vs R-Truth were mostly one-way fights, just the end of Morrison/R-Truth was out of the blue sort of. The best parts of the Del Rio/Punk match were Del Rio's quick work on Punk's arm and the double-counter into the GTS. However the Diva's match is the shortest on the card to have an official pin fall finish, along with that I love how they're turning Beth back into the Glamazon. Having Beth return to being the dominate Glamazon again is a great marketing device to the Diva's Division. Also the ass shot on Eve was good which lead into the final minute of the match.
Now as for the end segment with the Contract Signing! The Rock, clip was good it's always a great thing to see Cena trashed. Then as for Punk's grudge with Cena was great too. The character they're building for Punk is the new age Austin by going against the management. Hell the way he finally made Cena call himself the modern day Hogan was great, I mean it admitted the reasons why Cena is hated now! So as for my rating this was a good 4-star Raw leading into Summerslam. CM Punk is becoming the crowds new fan favorite, he points out how the system is just keeping C-Nation onto top like Hulkamania was. So just keep marketing Punk and I'll be happy. Stay tuned for this Friday Night SmackDown!
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