Welcome to the “farewell to Lillian Garcia” edition of The Wrestling List. If you didn’t know, tonight was Lillian’s last night on Raw as her contract is up and she is moving on other things. She has been with WWE since 1999 and has definitely made her mark in WWE over that time. She is greatly going to be missed.
Tonight’s Raw was guest hosted by Cedric The Entertainer. The show opened with Triple H taking on Cody Rhodes. Shawn Michaels and Ted Dibiase were at ringside. Cody ended up on the floor at one point and slapped Shawn. Shawn chased Cody and ended up battling both of Legacy on the floor and they hit him with the high/low. Cody got back in the ring but was about to get hit with a pedigree. Dibiase attacked with a chair to the back causing the DQ followed by a chair to the head. Dibiase hit the dreamstreet and Cody hit the cross-rhodes. Shawn then grabbed the sledgehammer from under the ring and jumped in the ring and Legacy bailed. Randy Orton and John Cena had their contract signing for their WWE title Cell match. Usual trash talking and it was told that this was Orton’s last shot at the title. There was no physicality allowed between the two of them so Orton brought out Show and Jericho. They both attacked Cena. Henry and MVP arrived to help out Cena. Cedric then made a six man tag team main event. Jericho and Show later went and talked to Cedric. A stipulation was added. If Cena, MVP, and Henry win, Orton has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match next week. However, if Orton, Jericho, and Show win, then Cena has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match. The match happened with the finish having Cena lifting Show over the ropes with the adjustment. Henry had Orton up but then Jericho took out Henry from behind. Orton hit a RKO for the win on Henry. That means that Cena will face Orton, Show, and Jericho in a gauntlet match next week. In other action. The stealing of the US title continues. Josh Mathews interviewed The Miz who had stolen the US title last week from Kofil. Kofi jumped in and attacked Miz and took his title back. The Miz defeated Evan Bourne in a match afterwards. Kofi defended the US title against Jack Swagger. Miz made his way out and took the title again. On his way up the ramp, Swagger attacked Miz and took the belt for himself. The match didn’t continue since Swagger left. Mickie James took on Beth Phoenix with the new number one contender for the Divas title, Alicia Fox, watching at ringside. Mickie nailed a press off of the apron to the floor on Beth. She then celebrated and took a swing at Alicia. The distraction led to Beth sending Mickie into the post. She then hit her finisher to pin Mickie. Alicia then made her way into the ring and nailed a scissors kick on to Mickie as she held up the Divas title. Santino Marella was made the comedy sidekick with Cedric. Chavo was sick of the guest hosts and challenged Cedric to a match. Santino helped encourage Cedric to make it happen. The match happened with Santino being assigned as special ref. Cedric was in an outfit that included a mask. Cedric changed places with someone under the ring in the same outfit. He did all the damage and crawled back under there. Hornswoggle crawled out in the same outfit and hit the tadpole splash. Cedric then returned and got the pin on Chavo. All three involved against Chavo then celebrated in the ring.
Other notes from Raw. Great to see Lillian Garcia get to give a big farewell speech and get a classy sendoff before the main event. It’s WWE so you tend to expect that most people won’t get a classy sendoff. She deserved one and got it as she gave a great heartfelt tearful speech. You’ll be missed Lillian!!! I thought Cedric did a solid job tonight. The Bellas got used again as valets for Cedric much like they were for Bob Barker a couple of weeks ago. Umm, wouldn’t you at least try to win the US title first before you stole it if you’re Jack Swagger? I mean you did get the title match after all. I just thought that didn’t make much sense. Just kind of an “ehhh” edition of Raw tonight for me anyway.
Rev. Al Sharpton will be the “guest host” for Raw next in Albany, NY.
Linda McMahon has stepped down as CEO to make a run at a US Senate seat representing Connecticut. This has gotten quite a bit of media coverage and had been talked about for several months now. You can check out her website at: http://www.linda2010.com
The Hulkamania tour in Australia has been making major headlines in the last week. Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are running the shows and have pulled some big talent on to the show. One of them is including Ric Flair who has agreed to wrestle Hogan two different times. Yep, Flair is coming out of retirement. The tour is going to include four dates with these stars appearing: DDP, Ken Anderson (formerly known as Ken Kennedy), The Godfather, Umaga, Brutus Beefcake, Sean Morley, Lacey Von Erich, The Nasty Boys, Heidenreich, Orlando Jordan, Jimmy Hart, and more. For more info on the tour, here is the link to the official site: http://www.hulkamania.com.au/
AJ Styles won the TNA championship at the No Surrender PPV.
D-Lo Brown announced on last week’s Between The Ropes that he is about to retire from the ring and appears to just be finishing up commitments at this point.
http://www.betweentheropes.com
I watched a match that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand over the weekend. It was a match from WWF Wrestling Challenge in 1990 between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart. I’m positive that I haven’t seen that match since the Saturday morning that it aired. It was a short little match which saw Neidhart and Jannety get involved but still it was a lot of fun for history’s sake. I had completely forgotten that they had wrestled a singles match during their tag team days.
Strange editing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand this week that I noticed. I'm talking about Bret Hart's music which was the music that he used upon his arrival in WCW. It has been edited out of the WCW Monday Nitro broadcasts but yet I heard it intact on his Hall of Fame profile section in his match between himself and Ric Flair from WCW Souled Out 1998. I'm not complaining obviously!!!
Have a great week. Take care and God bless!!
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