Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Monday Night Raw April 1, 2013 - Review

So this is the final Raw before WrestleMania 29 and WWE have to convince the fans that aren't Interesting in buying the card this year. So they have to push the storylines between HHH/Lesnar, Taker/Punk and Rock/Cena. The question is did they succeed? Let's find out...



John Cena vows to beat The Rock this Sunday

John Cena comes out to huge boos from the crowd. WWE must take notice that It's turning from mixed reaction to 90% of boos. He cut a passionate promo about his match against The Rock at WrestleMania 29 for the WWE Championship. Cena believes Rock is the greatest WWE Champion.. (Happy April Fools Day). I know this feud has no heel but I'm tired of both keep giving so much respect to each other. You have a match at WM29 for WWE Title, build your feud not How much you two respect each other. Cena got "boring" chants from the crowd, It wasn't a good promo but I thought It was better than President Rock's promo later in the night. 





Big Show, Sheamus, Randy Orton vs 3MB - Big Show knocked Jinder Mahal out to an easy win. Rule 90# of wrestling is that If you have a six-man tag team match? You got 3MB ready to job anytime. Show, Orton and Sheamus has a match against The Shield this Sunday and they build their match by having them compete against 3 jokers known as 3MB. The Shield's promo after the match was fantastic as usual. Expecting Shield to win Sunday with a Randy Orton heel turn. 




Zeb Colter and Swagger cut a promo in Washington and I thought It was the same old crap they've been saying since last few weeks. This angle never got the main stream attention that WWE were ever looking for anyways. Del Rio's response after their promo was okay, It seems like crowd isn't really treating him like a babyface.



AJ Lee hands the Tag Team Champions to Big E and Ziggler
Daniel Bryan vs Dolph Ziggler was an excellent match. It looks like WWE throws one match to wrestling fans once in a while and this was that match which you know will be awesome. Another wonderful match by the two but always knew that Bryan had to lose to build the match Sunday. Ziggler pinned Bryan after He was distracted by AJ and Big E. After the match, Big E crushed Kane which was expected to make these two look strong heading into their WM match sunday. Great stuff. 



Shawn Michaels returns to Raw

Shawn Michaels promo was good. You want to know why He was there? Well because his best friend HHH is competing in a retirement match and Who knows better about retirement matches than HBK who retired Ric Flair and retired himself against The Undertaker. HHH Interrupted and told him that He knows what he is doing and HBK told him that He isn't here to stop him but to tell him that He needs to kick Brock Lesnar's ass (yes ass yay). Heyman comes out along with Brock Lesnar. Paul Heyman cut another awesome promo while all Brock Lesnar did was stand there doing nothing, at least He should've tried to get physical with one of them. That segment didn't do anything for me to order WM, their build up has been just as bad as some other matches on the card. 



Wade Barrett vs Zack Ryder - You know something? Zack Ryder got a entrance last night and I'm not joking bro. Barrett won as expected with Miz on commentary. It's disappointing that their match at WrestleMania will be on the pre-show but Brodus Clay and Lord Tensai's match is on the card. It was funny to see Miz act like He is happy to be on the pre-show. 



Santino Marella pulled a April Fools joke on Vickie Guerrero by telling her that Vince McMahon was in the house. His punishment was a match against Mark Henry. Great squash match. Ryback comes after the match with so much anger but He can't touch him because of the "No contract" crap by of course Booker T. Mark Henry's promo was the return of Sexual Chocolate. Ryback used Santino Marella to batter Henry, so technically not touching him. 



CM Punk's Interview backstage was about How everyone will talk about him after WM and He said and I quote "Undertaker is more concerned with Paul Bearer's streak of waking up every morning and that streak is over". 


Jack Swagger  and Zeb Colter destroys Alberto Del Rio

Zeb Colter vs Alberto Del Rio wasn't even a match basically. The match was over within one minute. I was expecting a upset victory over Del Rio with help of Swagger thus far setting doubt if Del Rio can win sunday but It was booked well because after the match Del Rio got attacked and Swagger got the upper hand. 



The Rock returns to Washington

The Rock's promo seemed weak to me to be honest. Everyone were talking about How Cena's promo was boring but at least He was trying to build his match with Rock and was serious but Rock's promo wasn't that good either. His whole promo was mainly about him becoming president and about Washington. I have to say, Last week's promo between Cena and Rock did much for the build up of their match than on Raw this week. They should've had another stare down or promo together. 



Fandango attacks Chris Jericho

Great match between Antonio Cesaro and Chris Jericho babay! Jericho got the win with the Walls of Jericho but Cesaro was Impressive as always. Fandango's attack after the match was very well done. The crowd are still chanting You can't wrestle to him and then He does Leg drop from the top rope and then crowd were quiet. Sad thing is the build up to this match has been way better than Rock/Cena. 



Funkadactyls vs The Bella Twins was a great Divas match. Naomi has some great wrestling skills which she never gets to show cause of lack of matches. The Bellas winning surprised me but It was a great match. I still don't understand How this match is in the WM card but Barrett vs Miz isn't. 


Has Punk got in Phenom's head?

Undertaker came out to cut a promo about How he feels about CM Punk and the way He has disrespected Paul Bearer and How he has made this personal. The druids came out and Paul Heyman who was dressed as Paul Bearer. As Taker gets angry, He walks there and Punk attacks him from behind and then beats him up with the urn. Say what you want, Once again CM Punk proved to be a great heel but I'm not sure if WWE were looking for a reaction like that for Punk as the crowd were chanting for Punk, Instead of boo'ing him which was why these angles were planned in the first place. WWE has build this match the right away and has got everyone talking about It. I'm still wondering if this will be the main event but we'll see in less than a week at WrestleMania.



Overall, Raw wasn't that good as we all expected to be. It's the last Raw before WrestleMania 29 and It didn't feel like that. Not saying It was 'worst' but It really wasn't better than last week's show. They did nothing to build Rock and Cena's match, Nothing much for Lesnar and HHH but the only and probably the only good thing was CM Punk and Undertaker's storyline. WM is this sunday and I'm excited nevertheless. 





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