WWE Raw 9/26

Overview:
Raw opens up to WWE COO Triple H, explaining why he fired Miz and R-Truth the previous week after Raw's Main Event. Triple H, then goes on about the fine and firing blaming it on themselves along with Mark Henry's attack on Jim Ross and Jerry "the King" Lawler. Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler then interrupt Triple H, their reasoning is the "sucker punch" from last week. Dolph Ziggler even goes on to say he's everyone's hero, and I agree with it completely! Triple H, jokes about maybe Ziggler needs protection from even the Muppets as Cody Rhodes shows up. Triple H, then goes to screw with Rhodes about the old days and Christian hits the ring. Guess what Christian asks for another match, leading to Triple H making matches for Christian such as at Hell in a Cell he'll face Sheamus, at Smackdown it's Randy Orton and tonight it's John Cena. Then Triple H gives, Zac Ryder a United States Championship match against Ziggler and Rhodes to defend the Intercontinental Championship match against 9 other guys in a Battle Royal.

The Intercontinental Championship Battle Royal, has Cody Rhodes, Sin Cara, Ted DiBiase, John Morrison, Ezekiel Jackson, Daniel Bryan, Alex Riley, Sheamus, Justin Gabriel, and Drew McIntyre who went out first. Hunico replaces Mystico and he's eliminated by Daniel Byran leading to the two Sin Caras' battling. Sheamus eliminates both Gabriel and A-Ry as Jackson takes out Morrison and Bryan. Sheamus and Jackson brawl about leading to Rhodes eliminating DiBiase. Rhodes, eliminates Jackson and soon after takes out Sheamus with Christian's assistance. Rhodes retains the Championship, while Christian assaults Sheamus.

Next we got the commentary team talking about last week with Mark Henry attacking "the King" leading to King's injury. Backstage John Lauriniatis chats with David Otunga about random crap before jumping to a Kelly Kelly promo. That's followed by a Divas' Tag Team match with Kelly and Eve facing Beth Phoenix and Natalya once again. These rematches are now getting old! Anyways, the match goes as is Phoenix beating Eve before tagging in Natalya. Kelly gets in an just beings to use her speedy style while Eve and Natalya get thrown outside aiding Phoenix in reversing Kelly for a Glam Slam/Pin Combo. Following the match, Mark Henry shows up and makes his way to the ring. His opponent is Great Khali, and Mark just destroys Khali in minutes making the match a no contest.

After a commerical break, we got Cena against Christian. But before the match, John Cena cuts a boring promo all about the Hell in the Cell match. That's followed by Alberto Del Rio and CM Punk joining commentary while Christian finally re-enters the arena. The match starts with Christian taking to the man, he just jumps on Cena. Christian, is soon countered by Cena leading to them spilling outside the ring. As the match ends with Del Rio interrupting the match making it end in a DQ. Then Del Rio proclaims he'll beat CM Punk and Cena this sunday.

Finally we get to the United States Championship match with Zac Ryder and Dolph Ziggler who's accompanied by Vickie Guerrero and Jack Swagger. Ziggler, takes down Ryder fast and just beats him down. Ryder, makes a break hits a Broski boot before being blindsided by Swagger aiding in Ziggler retaining the Championship. Following the match Swagger and Ziggler attack Ryder, while Air Boom comes to the save. Shortly after Ted Long makes a 6-man Tag Team match with Ziggler, Swagger and Mystery Man to face Air Boom and Ryder. The match starts as a Handicap, while Vickie still looks for the other teammate. Ironically Swagger and Ziggler aren't being screwed up by the Handicap. Eventually, when Air Boom and Ryder begin to make a comeback Vickie shows up with Mason Ryan, Batista V2! As Mason Ryan is tagged in he instead turns on Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler, leading to Ryder hitting another Rough Rider along with the pinfall.

After another break we get the Hell in the Cell promo that we've seen for weeks. Then we cut to Otunga talking with other Superstars about Triple H running the company. Lauriniatis is truly setting up to over throw Triple H, by pissing in other Superstars' ears. Following that we get to the Main Event, Alberto Del Rio vs CM Punk, while Cena joins commentary. The match opens with CM Punk, going after Del Rio's arm. Eventually Del Rio counters out, and begins really beating down Punk. Del Rio goes after Punk's arm for the rest of the match to set-up for the Cross Armbreaker, but Punk counters with a roll up pin for the win. Following the end of the match the Hell in a Cell cage lowers and Cena joins Del Rio, Punk and Ricardo in the ring. Punk and Cena attack Ricardo, while Del Rio jumps them with a steel chair, leaving him the last man standing for the night.

Review:
Well Raw was pretty freaking awesome tonight! We had two title matches, and the Hell in a Cell lowering on the WWE Championship Match opponents. Just starting from the beginning, the whole Intercontinental Championship Battle Royal was great. I really was hoping the match was going in Sheamus' favor just it didn't end that. Hell even if Ted DiBiase won it'd be better than Rhodes. Then the match is a Divas' match that sucked for like 5 to 7 minutes, even thou I enjoyed that Kelly got caught in the Glam Slam. The Cena/Christain match sucked, just due to the finale of the match so that completely sucked. As for the United States Championship match it was a let down to not see Zac Ryder become the new Champion, but the whole 6-Man Tag Team match that followed was great as Batista V2 returned! The end of Raw was good but could've been played out alot better and end with more hype for this half-assed match leading into Sunday. Things that would've been greater for this Raw is some title changes, and Cena or Christian getting some sort of end without the DQ end like it had. Even thou there where some really bad points to the night this still ended great leaving it at a 4-Star Rating!