Raw & Smackdown Thoughts & More - July 13, 2009

Welcome to the “that has to be the biggest babyface reaction that I can remember a celebrity getting in quite some time” edition of The Wrestling List.

Here is the recap of last week's Smackdown. Rey Mysterio defended the Intercontinental title against Chris Jericho. It took up the last half hour of the show. Rey won with the 619 and splash. After the match, Edge showed up and was about to go for Rey. Rey saw him and avoided him. As Rey backed up the aisle, he was hit from behind by Dolph Ziggler. Dolph attacked him and then threw him to Edge for a spear. Edge set up Jericho to hit the codebreaker on Rey. Edge and Jericho left leaving Dolph to land another move on Rey to make his impact. Earlier in the night, Dolph had gotten a win on John Morrison with a hand full of tights. Jeff Hardy and CM Punk continued their war of words. Hardy opened the show talking about how he was upset that Punk didn't check on him with his eye injury last week. He pointed out that it was almost like Punk thinks he was faking it but that his eye injury was just as bad as Punk's. Hardy took on Kane following his comments. As Hardy was going for the swanton, Punk's music hit. Hardy was distracted on the top rope watching Punk which gave time for Kane to grab Hardy. He chokeslammed Hardy off the top rope for the win. Later in the night, Punk wrestled The Great Khali with Jeff on commentary. Punk showed Hardy his prescription eye medication to prove the injury while continuing to talk about the difference in their lifestyles. Hardy eventually got up to confront him but then Khali's music hit to start the match. As the match went on, Khali hit the Punjabi plunge. Kane's music hit and he walked out with a chair. Singh threw a chair to Khali and the two faced off with chairs. Kane dropped his momentarily which led to Khali doing the same. Kane then hit Khali with the chair. On the next attempt, Khali punched the chair out of Kane's hands. Kane tried to beg off from th e chair but Khali hit him with it anyway which then led to Kane leaving the ring. Melina and Eve defeated Michelle McCool and Layla. Melina landed a shot on Michelle on the apron. Layla went to nail Melina from behind but Melina moved. Layla ended up catching Michelle with it. Melina then rolled up Layla for the win. Michelle attacked Melina after the match and the fight went to the floor. Melina got back on offense clotheslining Michelle into the crowd. The two would fight more around ringside before Michelle bailed out of there. The Hart Dynasty evened up with Cryme Tyme this week by defeating them. Natalya was the distraction getting the attention of JTG. The Hart Dynasty then hit the high/low on Shad for the win. Other happenings on the show had Maria and Dolph apparently becoming a new romance. R Truth is now doing a new comedy type character that was just kind of out of nowhere. I guess WWE is trying to come up with something to freshen up the character a bit.

Tonight’s Raw was all about the guest host of the week, Seth Green. I really enjoyed him as guest host. The fans loved him. I’m a Seth Green fan anyway and it’s nice to see a celebrity who is a fan get to be involved in such a role. Triple H opened the show and introduced Seth Green as the guest host. Seth started making matches and they promoted his new Robot Chicken episode which will feature Triple H. They started running down Randy Orton which brought him out. Triple H and Orton talked some trash back and forth. Orton was sick of Seth already but Seth made a six man tag main event. Seth Green teaming with Triple H and John Cena against Legacy. Funny segment later where Seth was in his office looking very nervous. Cena and Triple H walked in trying to pump him up a bit. They then started to argue with each other. The decision was then made to quit arguing cause they both knew that “Seth was going to get killed anyway”. Seth had really good timing tonight in every segment that he was in. The main event took place. Seth did get tagged into the match. Cena held Cody while Seth landed a punch. Seth started to show boat until he realized that Cody had recovered. Seth ran around the ring with Cody right behind him. Triple H then hid and nailed Cody with a clothesline. The finish had Triple H going for the pedigree but Priceless stopped it. Cena stopped the double team. Orton hit a RKO to Triple H and went for the pin. Seth jumped in and broke the count. Orton went for Seth and had him down in the corner. He went for the punt but Cena tackled him to stop it. Legacy all piled on Cena and went to grab a chair. The chair was countered by Triple H grabbing the sledgehammer. He swung around a bunch and then took a wild swing which almost landed on Cena. The two stopped and just looked at each other. Things were all right between them and the two posed with Seth. BIG Seth chants during this match. Other action had Chris Jericho talking about how he had put a clause in the contract allowing him to pick a new tag team partner for Night Of Champions and allowing him to remain tag team champions. His reasoning was that he knew Edge was injury prone and put that in the contract adding that Edge was the weak link of the team. Mark Henry came to the ring and Jericho thought that Henry would be his tag partner but Henry was there to wrestle him instead. He ripped Jericho’s clothes off of him and then Seth made the match official between them. Jericho had words with Seth earlier in the night which was the reason why Jericho was put in the match. Henry put a beating on Jericho and then Jericho bailed taking the countout loss. Jack Swagger defeated MVP after hitting him with the gut wrench power bomb. Maryse, Alicia, and Rosa defeated Mickie, Kelly, and Gail in a swimsuit six diva match. Maryse put Mickie into the post and then hit a DDT for the win. The story was pushing how Maryse was finally able to beat Mickie James. Primo called out Carlito over what occurred last week but instead got The Miz. The two went at it in a match. Carlito’s music hit and Carlito then caused a distraction. Miz nailed a knee to the back of Primo and the reality check for the win. After the match, Carlito kicked Primo and spit an apple in his face. Hornswoggle defeated Chavo Guerrero in a match where Seth had ruled that Chavo had to wrestle with one arm tied behind his back. Hornswoggle pinned Chavo with a small package with the story being that he couldn’t kick out due to his arm being tied. Big Show took on Evan Bourne with Kofi at ringside doing commentary. Show nailed a NASTY spear on Bourne which had Bourne landing on his neck. Show then hooked the camel clutch for the win but wouldn’t let go of the hold. Kofi got in the ring and stopped it. Show was knocked from the ring. It was announced that ZZ Top will be the guest host for Raw next week.

Other notes from Raw. Like I said, I thought Seth Green was fanastic tonight. That Robot Chicken episode looked really funny. It is a funny show if you’ve never seen it especially the Star Wars episodes. Did I really hear Buffy The Vampire Slayer get a plug on Raw? Loved that!! How much did it cost WWE to get to use Welcome To The Jungle for Seth Green’s theme music? I thought the action figure segment was funny with Santino imitating himself running off The Iron Sheik. Then, the Trish Stratus figure walked in and he made out with her. It was really funny. Why does WWE always have to book the quicker guys against the big monsters to where they can’t work like they should be able to? What a bummer to see the Edge surgery footage knowing that he is out for a while.

Edge had surgery done last week as expected and will be out of action for several months. He is going to be missed big time!!

Ted Dibiase has gotten rave reviews for his appearance last week as the “guest host” of Raw. He was great and his promos were great as well. He just made everything look so easy. The roster and the entire WWE needs to look at what he was able to do and take notes.

Ricky Steamboat wrestled recently overseas against Chris Jericho at a house show. Isn’t it amazing just how good that Steamboat is after retirement? Some guys just never lose it. The fans over there got a treat for sure.

The WWE: Allied Powers – The World’s Greatest Tag Teams DVD will be released in stores tomorrow. I’ll get a preview lineup in next week’s List. It is a strong one though.

I mentioned last week about the WWE name changes for PPV’s. Well, WWE brought the Cyber Sunday name back instead of Annihilation and have it back on their schedule. That is until today. WWE has now changed the name to WWE Bragging Rights. They are really having trouble picking a name.

Jerry Lawler is once again talking about throwing his hat into the political ring. He is considering running for Mayor of Memphis. He has run before back in 1999 and lost to who is the current Mayor of Memphis. The current Mayor is about to retire.

Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!