Too Much Nonsense

Even by professional wrestling standards, the dialogue by some of the wrestlers and Michael Cole during Monday’s episode of Raw was an utter joke. Listening to The Miz talk about how his reign as champion will be remembered is too much, even for a hardcore mark. Truth be told, the guy was a good United States champion, and should have been allowed to grow into a real contender, possibly feuding with Daniel Bryan, who holds the strap now.

Instead he’s the champ and he’s not ready for the spotlight, creating a haphazard feel to a show already beleaguered with problems.

Even worse was the words of Alberto Del Rio, who said something along the lines of, “I descend from Mexican royalty, therefore it is my destiny to be WWE Champion.”

Come again dude?

While it’s commonplace for promos of wrestlers to make absolutely no sense at all. This was border line retarded and was enough to make any reasonably intelligent fan change the channel.

Word to the wise as well, a rolling armbar submission is not the type of finisher a guy that the WWE has named its number one athlete to succeed in 2011 should have. This alone is proof that the company has no idea what it’s doing.

However, what took the cake was how Wade Barrett returned to Raw, with little explanation of his absence. There could have been a serious angle between he and CM Punk as well, with control of the Nexus being held up for grabs at the next pay per view, but the WWE rushed through this dilemma faster than an obese male teenager in their first sexual encounter. As a result, CM Punk is the new leader of the Nexus and Wade Barrett will quite possibly be retooled. Maybe the WWE will give him a decent finisher and let him brush up on his mic style during that process.

Because anyone who would dare say that the Nexus has been running rampant over the WWE since June [Barrett said something like that to Punk before the three-way steel cage match was announced] needs some time to get his or her head straight.

This wasn’t the worst part though. That trophy of sorts belongs to Michael Cole, who called The Nexus, “The most dominating group in WWE history,” not once, but twice during Raw.

Wow…wow.

See, this time, saying something twice to try and get a point across actually works.

I know the WWE hasn’t prided itself on any sort of tradition or nostalgia lately, but real fans remember everything. They know that groups like Degeneration X, the Corporation and even the Alliance, heck even Right to Censor, were tougher than the Nexus is right now. The fact that they’re even trying to push this angle of these green youngsters being anywhere near the top shows they’re desperate for some kind of fan response to them.

Aside from those disasters, the overall matches were solid, aside from the asinine idea to have the World title defended as the first match. While the match was good, it again prematurely ended a Miz angle, as John Morrision is no longer number one contender.

The problems in the tag team division are also growing every week as Santino Marella and Kozlov are easily the worst tag champs the company has had in quite some time. Breaking up the Hart Dynasty seems like a bigger mistake every episode of Raw, as Tyson Kidd lost to Mark Henry last week and David Hart Smith lost to William Regal on WWE’s secondary programming in December. The Usos, another decent team with potential, can’t buy a win even if it was on sale at Payless. Because of this, the WWE tag team division is as thin as ever.

As a result, a few good matches aside, Raw again is proving it needs to get its act together, and fast.