RAW by Scott. (also see: Bad Blood and TUESDAY)
Ultimo Gail is just great. Well, not in the good match sense, the “which wacky submission will she use next” sense. It’s even better when the people taking them have no idea how they’re supposed to sell them. I think it was TomK who correclty wondered what the point of pushing – I guess the JR tease which went nowhere (and so, they shouldn’t have bothered) about pushing a heel female tag team when your champ is a heel, so I guess one of them turns face between now and the next PPV.
Since Gail’s winning and is the more important of the duo right now, I’d guess Molly would be person flipping sides to serve as a building block. Which could’ve been another fine angle post-haircut, as sympathy for her could’ve worked to get the personality shift over. But that would mean they plan these things out in advance.
I thought the Highlight Reel was one of their better talking bits in quite some time. Four different characters got motivation – which isn’t the word I really want but it’s 2 AM so I’ll go with it – setting up the match next week, while drawing in some history. Jericho got a reason to be drawn into the anti-Evolution forces, which makes me happy because that surely means the end of Jericho/Christian for at least now.
Triple H did put over Angle (though there were shennangins) when he was going the undefeated streak, which makes me think he’s going to do the same here. I don’t see anyone reporting it so it’s probably just a red herring (because it was only explicity a #1 contenders match for Triple H), but I was wondering if they might actually main event Eugene this month, for lack of a better thing to do. It’s a pretty safe arguement that he’s got more momentuem than Edge at this moment, and if it was a face/heel match, I’m sure they’d think about doing it. Eugene’s probably never going to be as interesting once the novelty wears off (see: the Hurricane), so they might as well mine it for all it’s wroth.
Main event would’ve been great if anyone who taped it would’ve gotten the whole thing. Since they obviously had to be planning the Joe Schmoe 2 stuff in advance, they probably knew they were going to get extra time to make up for it. If they did, they could’ve just adjusted the schedule that’s distrubted to all the DVRs out there, and no one misses the main event because taping cut off too soon.
I liked RAW – the second hour non-Lita stuff, mostly – but it wasn’t the super duper Great RAW Rick Scaia saw, and I’m thinking he’s underestimating the effect being there had on him. I also disagree with him on his Chavo Classic piece, but I want to disagree with more than thrown off sentence so we’ll try that later.
It must really suck to be Matt Hardy this week. Every mark and smart guy in the world coming up to tell you about Lita’s pregenacy, and have to continunally smile and laugh it off. Forget about being stuck in a stupid storyline two hours a week, try having to talk about it to everyone you meet for the next month, and everyone pretending like they’re the funniest person in the world by making incredible obvious jokes. That’ll cause a sore spot.
Other stuff took longer than I’d like, so I’ll catch up on comments tommorow. I’m tempted to count Rosey/Hurricane vs La Resistance matches too, but we’ll see.