Bad First Impression

June 7, 2011 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

After the first 20 minutes of RAW this week, if there were another wrestling show on television, many hardcore fans would have changed the channel.

After the finale of “Tough Enough” ran a few minutes over, the WWE decided to have what felt like half it’s RAW roster in the ring for meaningless promo and meandering. 20 minutes later, a tag team main event between Alex Riley, John Cena, The Miz and R-Truth was announced.

The only thing that came out of this was a hilarious spot by R-Truth, who continues to grow into a great upper-mid-card heel.

Aside from that, this segment was a big waste of time.

The rest of the show was nothing special either, as the majority of it was promos and short matches, with no new storylines pushed.

Overall, if you were going to miss an episode of RAW, this was the episode to do it.

Matches:

Santino Marella vs. Mike McGillicutty: The opening match that didn’t help the lull after the 20-minute in-ring nonsense to start the show. Quick and void of any drama, Marella got the win with the Cobra. What a joke.

Beth Phoenix and Kelly Kelly vs. The Bella Twins: A much better match than the opener, with a much better pace. While it was rushed, the divas entertained and Phoenix delivered her Glam Slam for the win.

Rey Mysterio vs. CM Punk: The “re-visited” rivalry is a waste of time on RAW. No doubt that these two can have a great pay-per-view match, but for the sake of RAW, this angle is a complete dud. While the match these two had wasn’t horrible either, most of it was spent on the mat void of high-impact offense. It was surprising the match went more than five minutes and even more surprising, things did pick up towards the end. However, a pair of sloppy moves [a powerslam by Punk and a swinging DDT by Mysterio] took the air out of it. Ironically, it was the best match of the night.

Zack Ryder vs. Kofi Kingston: A match that did nothing for Ryder or his cult fan-base, as he jobbed out to Kingston. Rather than push him, he’s fodder in the Dolph Ziggler/Kingston angle. To think for a second the WWE would allow the two of these guys to have a decent match would be ridiculous.

Jack Swagger vs. Booker T: A match that will be remembered more for Evan Bourne’s shooting star splash afterward than anything done in the ring during the actual match. Booker T ultimately got the win via-count out in an otherwise time-filler of a match.

Alex Riley and John Cena vs. The Miz and R-Truth, w/ Stone Cold Steve Austin as guest referee: Riley took a beating throughout the match, as R-Truth and The Miz delivered an assortment of offense. Cena got the hot tag and cleaned house. Add in a Stunner from Austin and an Attitude Adjustment from Cena and the match was over. However, the anonymous General manager not only reversed the decision, he appointed Austin the guest general manager next week for a special three-hour RAW.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13861 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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