Welcome to the “WWE woke up and realized that their second biggest PPV of the year is on Sunday and made tonight’s Raw better than the last month of boring Raw shows combined” edition of The Wrestling List. Shawn Michaels returns to Raw!!! Woo hoo!! DX Reunion!! HBK, HBK, HBK. Ok, just had to get all of that. LOL.
Here are the results of the WWE Raw house show in Cape Girardeau last night. I’m amazed that most of the advertised matches took place. The show opened with Santino defeating Chavo as Hornswoggle got involved. Kelly Kelly was introduced as the special guest host for the night who came out to appear for the crowd. Primo defeated Alex Riley with a rollup. The Miz defeated Jamie Noble. Evan Bourne defeated Jack Swagger with the Air Bourne finish. Kofi Kingston defeated Carlito with the trouble in paradise. I heard that was a really good match. Mickie James and Gail Kim defeatd Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes when Mickie pinned Rosa. Big Show defeated MVP with the chokeslam. After the match, Swagger came out and attacked MVP. The main event was John Cena, Triple H, and Mark Henry taking on Legacy of Randy Orton, Ted Dibiase, and Cody Rhodes. The finish had Henry running off Orton. Cena hit the attitude adjustment on Rhodes while Triple H hit the pedigree on Dibiase at the same time. Both made the pin and won the match. Funny story that I read about which compared to Orton cracking us up laughing at the last Cape show. One fan was giving it to Dibiase. Orton walked over and proceeded to calm things down. Orton then grabbed the guy’s hat and threw it way back into the crowd. This happened at least a couple of times. Orton was great at the Cape show back in February. He had that crowd in the palm of his hands and we were loving watching it.
Well, it looks like I should have thought about going to Raw tonight in St. Louis. Good show. The best show in many, many weeks. I really don’t have any complaints about it. The only thing that I would have complained about had a nice payoff so I’ll leave it alone. The big thing of tonight’s show was the reunion of DX. Shawn Michaels and Triple H back on Raw together. Really fun segment with them showing up. They walked through the back after getting out of a limo. They ran into Jillian Hall who started singing their theme song to them out of excitement. She got a trash can put on her head to get her to stop. Then, they run into Santino who is doing his acting rehearsal. I need to set this up. Freddie Prinze, Jr. was the “guest host” tonight. Santino wanted to get a role in one of his movies and proceeded to run through Freddie’s previous roles including him coming out dressed as the killer from I Know What You Did Last Summer. Freddie will be appearing on 24 so Santino was trying for that role. Santino jumped out behind DX holding up his weapon saying “where is the bomb?” Shawn then superkicked him. It was hilarious. They made their way to the ring to a huge pop. Lots of fun. They were about to go into their whole speech when Triple H said “are you ready?”. Then, they got attacked by Dibiase and Rhodes. Big time attack on them. They laid both out with the cowboy boot. Really convincing beating that they put on them and really built them up for the match on Sunday. Now, I expect them to get destroyed on Sunday but I’m hoping for it to be competitive. Regardless, they looked strong tonight laying out DX. As I said, Freddie Prinze, Jr. was in charge tonight. Randy Orton arrived getting a big hometown pop. Orton threatened Freddie that he wanted out of the main event match that Slaughter had set up last week. Freddie said that he wouldn’t do that and that Orton should want to wrestle in his hometown. Freddie wouldn’t back down to Orton and then Orton grabbed a hold of him. He then did that reverse neckbreaker move which left Freddie laying in the ring. The story for the rest of the night was that Freddie was taken to the hospital but returned in time for the main event. Cena and Orton teaming against Jericho and Big Show. Freddie said that he had now made this a lumberjack match with all of the lumberjacks being handpicked by him. All were enemies of Orton’s with the first being Mark Henry. Cena was thrown out at one point and they all left him alone. Jericho then landed right after him and they pounded on Jericho. Cena got in trouble early on and went for a tag but Orton wouldn’t tag him. Later, Cena made him tag and threw him in the ring. Orton got in trouble with Cena urging for Orton to make the tag. Orton did and Cena finished off the match. He won with the attitude adjustment on Jericho. Right after he got up, Orton hit him with a RKO. Henry jumped in the ring and Orton bailed. Jericho and Show then pounded on Cena and the lumberjacks. However, Cena battled back clearing the ring of Jericho and Show which ended the show. Kofi Kingston retained the US title by defeating Carlito with the trouble in paradise in a good match. Mickie James retained the Divas championship against Gail Kim when Mickie nailed a forearm for the win. After the match, Mickie looked concerned for Gail and helped her up raising Gail’s arm to the crowd. The finish was kind of odd. The Miz defeated Evan Bourne after hitting the reality check. Jack Swagger was DQ’d against MVP in a short match. Swagger wouldn’t break his kicking in the corner in time for the five count so the ref called for the DQ. MVP then jumped on him with punches after the bell and Swagger bailed. Short match. Hornswoggle took on Chavo in a falls count anywhere match. Hornwoggle took off and Chavo followed. Chavo kept trying to find where he went backstage. He opened a door and got blasted by a swinging bucket. Hornswoggle then came from the other direction and got the pin. Chavo got up and saw a smiling Mark Henry. Chavo accused him of doing it but Henry said he didn’t. Then, out of the room walks Macaulay Culkin playing off of the Home Alone bit. Ok, that was good stuff. Payoff was very nice there.
Other notes from Raw. Lots of good action tonight. Much better than recent weeks. Great crowd!! The St. Louis crowd is always awesome. That crowd made the show even better. I’m of course thrilled to have Shawn back on Raw. Wow, has he ever been missed!! I thought Freddie was good as the host. He is a lifelong WWE fan and also a former member of the WWE creative team. The stuff with Santino was funny. I figured it was either Santino or Miz under that costume. Santino saying that Freddie was married to the “werewolf killer” was funny referring to Freddie’s wife who played the “vampire slayer”. As a Buffy fan, I did like hearing that reference and hearing Seth Green’s name in the same show. Seth, of course, played a werewolf on Buffy as well. I figured that Orton would get a good pop when he came out and he did. It didn’t take long for WWE to make the mention that it was his hometown explaining the reaction. They just totally freak out when a crowd does something that they don’t want to. Hey, I’m just glad that Lawler didn’t say wow, St. Louis is bizarro land. The DX stuff was great. Definitely added a lot of fun to the show. Ok, the only thing that I was going to complain about on this show was the continued Hornswoggle/Chavo rivalry. That was until the payoff at the end with Macaulay Culkin. Now, that was funny. Funny moment when the fans started chanting “let’s go Blues” during that backstage part of the match. Did you see the guy dressed as Hogan flexing as the camera was pulled wide waiting for Hornswoggle and Chavo to return out from under the ring? That was funny. What was up with the new DX music that played during the promos? We didn’t hear it for the entrance. Maybe it will debut on Sunday at SummerSlam.
Floyd Mayweather will be the “guest host” for next week’s Raw in Las Vegas.
Last week’s Smackdown continued the Hardys/Punk saga. The show opened with CM Punk continuning to talk about the fans buying into Hardy not knowing what is good for their own good. Punk said that he had figured out that the only way to stop it was to end Jeff Hardy but said that he had heard that Jeff wouldn’t make it to SummerSlam due to the injuries from last week. Theodore Long made his way to the ring saying that Hardy would be at SummerSlam and also be there at Smackdown. He also added that Punk would once again face John Morrison on Smackdown. Jeff then came to the ring obviously showing he was hurting. Jeff said that he was hurt but was there anyway and would face him at SummerSlam. Vince McMahon gave a phone call to Long saying that he wanted Hardy back in action tonight. Long said that Hardy was in no condition to be in action but Vince added that Long is on probation. Vince wanted Jeff to face The Hart Dynasty in a handicap match so Long had to make the match. This match was in Albert, Canada so interesting that they were put in the main event. CM Punk did face John Morrison and got the win. Punk countered Morrison’s starship pain in the corner and then had Morrison hung upside down. He kicked him in the corner and then picked him right up into the GTS for the win. The main event had The Hart Dynasty getting a nice pop from the home fans. Jeff Hardy did face them but did little in the match selling the injuries from last week. Even on offense, he would end up down. The Harts ended up winning the match following the old Hart Foundation clothesline except it was hit by Kidd in a springboard fashion. Looked really sweet. Harts get the pin!! WOW. Crowd popped for it. Punk made his way to the ring and was ready to continue the assault on Hardy. Morrison ran out and attacked Punk. The Harts jumped in too and Morrison battled them as well. Punk nailed Morrison with a chair from behind. Punk then was about to do the same thing to Jeff that he did last week but was then attacked from behind by Matt Hardy. The Harts got back involved and then Matt and Morrison fought off everyone. Matt got a big pop from the crowd. Matt went over to Jeff and offered his hand. Jeff accepted and Matt helped pick him up out of the corner. They nodded at each other and then talked as well. Long was shown backstage and Vince walked in. Vince asked him what he had in store for next week with Long saying it will be Jeff and Matt Hardy teaming with Morrison to take on Punk and The Hart Dynasty. Vince was happy with the match and said that Long was still on probation though. Dolph Ziggler defeated Finlay. Mike Knox made his way to the ring during the match. Knox hit Finlay with the shillelagh in the leg. As Finlay turned his attention to Knox, Ziggler hit a reverse bulldog on Finlay for the win. After the match, Knox attacked Finlay and hit a sidewalk slam on to the steps on the floor. Big Show took on JTG. Shad was in the corner and Jericho was on commentary. During the match, Jericho ran Shad into the post. Show hit the chokeslam. Show won with the camel clutch submission. Jericho got a last kick in on Shad as he went in the ring. Shad jumped in the ring moments later and dumped Show over the top rope. Melina defeated Layla following the splits legdrop finisher. Before the match, Layla delivered a message to Melina that Michelle would be back next week. Also, she warned Maria about dating Ziggler. Khali and Kane continued their deal. They showed Kane with a camera backstage where he had captured Singh. He kept telling Khali to come and save Singh. Khali did show up and Kane ended up pounding on him. Ehh, whatever to that stuff. Big guy feuds don’t do a thing for me.
The Rise and Fall Of WCW DVD is released next week. I will be picking this up and am interested to hear the biography portion of it. I’m curious to see if and what kind of spin that WWE puts on things. I saw how they portrayed WCW on the Monday Night Wars DVD which I wasn’t crazy about so we’ll see what happens here. They did interview a lot of interesting names for it so we’ll see.
I couldn’t have been the only one that loved Freddie Prinze Jr. mentioning the old Coliseum Home Videos and then the old ice cream bars tonight on Raw. I loved those ice cream bars!!!! There was one store in town here that sold them and I would stock up on them there when I was a kid. I have heard that they still make them but they are hard to find. I would love to find some just for retros sake. Plus, I always thought they were good. Come on, you have to love hearing about Mean Gene hosting Coliseum Video tapes as well. So many great videos over the years. I would always be so excited and be at the video store on the day of releases to make sure that I got them to rent. Geez, the video store would hold them for me cause they knew I wanted to see it. When they got a new release, they expected to see me that day cause I kept up with the release dates of the Coliseum Home Videos. I still laugh at looking back on the “fan favorite matches”. Do you remember this? Fans would write in on matches that they wanted to see and then they would put them on the videos. Looking back on it is hilarious cause what fan would write in and want to see, for example, Rugged Ronnie Garvin vs. Rick The Model Martel. I doubt that was ever one but it was similar matches like that. LOL. I’m thinking that I want to see something like an all babyface match like Hogan and Savage vs. The Legion Of Doom or something like that. LOL.
Hulk Hogan has a book set to come out this fall called “My Life Outside The Ring”. The topic of the book is basically in the title. It will cover his life outside of wrestling and the troubles of recent years.
Want to know some of the future “guest hosts” appearing on Raw? Here are some confirmed names in a Variety article. Bob Barker, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nancy O’Dell of Access Hollywood, LeBron James, and Floyd Mayweather. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007339.html?categoryId=14&cs=1
WWE will be airing a WrestleMania 25 special on NBC on Saturday night, August 29 at 8pm central time.
Hope you got a good look at Eugene last week cause Nick Dinsmore has already been released by WWE.
This is a TNA Impact spoiler but I’ve already heard that Taz has replaced Don West on commentary on the show.
SummerSlam is this Sunday night on PPV. Here is the lineup for the show. CM Punk defends the World title against Jeff Hardy in a TLC match. Randy Orton defends the WWE title against John Cena. DX reunites to take on Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Unified Tag Team Champions, Chris Jericho and The Big Show defends against Cryme Tyme. Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio defends against Dolph Ziggler. Kane vs. The Great Khali.
Wishing you a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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