WWE RAW Coverage: A History Lesson and New United States Champion

March 6, 2012 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

“It pains me to look at you as a loser. That’s why I’m going to do it, Shawn,”

-Triple H,  in response to Shawn Michaels as to why he accepted Undertaker’s challenge at this year’s Wrestlemania.

The opening promo for this week’s Monday Night RAW was painful to watch, but the end of it all was worth it. Shawn Michaels will be the guest referee for the Triple H/Undertaker encounter at Wrestlemania. That will be fun to see.

That was essentially the key to everything in this episode. Aside from a series of hilarious Rock promos, every match and promo felt a bit drawn out and tedious, but it built up what appears to be a solid Wrestlemania less than a month away. With a new United States Champion crowned as well, the show was unexpected and fun when it had to be.

Matches:

United States Champion Jack Swagger w/ Vicki Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler vs. Santino Marella: Swagger hit a sloppy version of his diving powerbomb and nearly got the win after Ziggler’s interference early on. John Laurinaitis, David Otunga, Teddy Long, Aksana and Kofi Kingston were all ringside. The company definitely took away from the match, but the interference was fun. Marella, caught in the Ankle Lock, countered it into a roll up to win the United States Championship. After the match, Laurinaitis tried to reverse the decision, but got escorted out of the building instead.

Alicia Fox vs. Eve Torrez: A quick match that Torrez won after a quick counter and leg sweep. After the match, Zack Ryder came out and shot a quick promo on her. A few minutes later, they kissed backstage. Explain that.

WWE Champion CM Punk and Sheamus vs. World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan and Chris Jericho: A quality wrestling match with plenty of in-ring psychology. All four of these guys are trying to build momentum going into Wrestlemania and this contest did an ample job keeping all of them hot. Of all of them, Sheamus may be the hottest right now. The pop he gets with every move is significantly louder than anyone else right now. Good teamwork between Jericho and Bryan took Sheamus out of the equation though and the pressure was on Punk once he got the hot tag. Punk was on even-footing with Jericho, but Y2J was able to roll him up for a questionable, yet sneaky win.

The Miz vs. Big Show: Miz took advantage of more nonsense from Cody Rhodes before the match started, but Show countered with a spear and a big punch for the win.

Kane vs. R-Truth: Kane Chokeslam after two minutes of routine offense. Done. Randy Orton hit the ring afterward and caught Kane with the RKO. Could these two be gearing up for a Wrestlemania encounter?

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 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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