To be quite frank, for a go home show, the Slammy awards and ROH putting on a barnburner of a PPV the night before, Raw sucked. It was a boring 3 hours, that the only must see thing to happen was Ambrose entrance into the arena.
1. The Slammy awards fell flat
The Slammy awards are a good way to help a struggling talent with a new gimmick. Remember how great Owen Hart was with his 2 time Slammy award winner gimmick? The closest we got to allowing the Slammy become a gimmick for someone is Mizdow won a Slammy but Miz accepted it and talked. Miz even thanked his money maker instead of Mizdow. Also the winners were so obviously rigged from the start. The first award given out on Raw so happen to go to Sting while Rollins was out there, so Rollins took it. Match of the Year went to Team Cena vs Team Authority, now I follow a lot of wrestling fans on Twitter and I didn’t see anyone picking that as MOTY. Which brings us to the most obvious one, Roman Reigns has missed nearly half the year and won Superstar of the Year. That is a joke. We all know Roman is being pushed as the next guy, so WWE put this award on him when he didn’t deserve it.
2. Winging the Divas Division
After last night I truly believe that the WWE has no idea what it’s doing in the Divas Division. Since they so obviously fixed the Slammy’s why have AJ win Diva of the Year? It does nothing for her career and doesn’t help anyone else’s, example of that would’ve been Paige’s. Furthermore with the exception of the short shot of the Divas lined up waiting to see who won, Nikki, Brie and Paige weren’t even on the show. AJ was twice, and your champion wasn’t, guess that falls in line with the men’s champion not appearing. I thought this whole thing was a set up to slowly get AJ out of the title picture and lead to Nikki vs Brie at Wrestlemania for the Championship, now it doesn’t look like the case. They’d rather have the same promos and matches they’ve got with AJ for last 2 years. Someone should let AJ know that we get it, she doesn’t look like the typical diva and she isn’t the typical diva, she needs a new shtick!
3. TLC Build
The one thing I do believe the WWE did right last night was the build to all the main attractions to TLC. From Ambrose arriving in an ambulance filled with tables, ladders and chairs, to putting in a small hint of doubt to the “experts” who think Cena is obviously going to win. Let’s start with the Stairs match between Show and Rowan. Rowan is being booked extremely strong against Show, getting the advantage in most of the one on one encounters with Show doing everything he can to keep Rowan off him. On top of that last night Rowan took out Harper after a one on one match that Rowan won by DQ. Rowan is being booked perfectly, as long as they stop calling him Big Red and explain to us what a stairs match is. Ryback needs a quality match for his first big 1 on 1 feud and insert one of the most consistent and dependable wrestlers of the last 16 years, Kane. Kane brings out the best in everyone and Ryback is no exception but again what exactly is a Chairs Match? On to the Ladder match which I think should close the show. I understand why it won’t but the way Dolph has been pushed the last month, hes been the MVP of the main event scene and a title match to close the show would be nice to see, its been a while. The seeds of doubt in the Tables Match were planted last night, first with Paul Heyman getting in Seth Rollins head in the back, then Seth with the help of J&J security putting Cena through a table. The Heels stood tall to end Raw, I wouldn’t expect this to be the case on Sunday, as I see all the faces in the main event picture getting wins.
Very lackluster and boring Raw. WWE can be better and has to be better. C-
Results
Seth Rollins defeated Dolph Ziggler via Curb Stomp
Sting wins this is Awesome Moment Slammy, Rollins accepted
Kofi Kingston defeated Star Dust via Cross Body
Warrior wins Surprise Return of the Year Slammy. A video for warrior is shown
Natalya defeated Charlotte via Small Package in a non title match
Streak conquered wins Shocking Moment Slammy, Heyman accepts
Bray and Dean get into an altercation
AJ Lee wins Diva of the Year, she accepts
Erick Rowan defeated Luke Harper by DQ
Mizdow wins LOL moment of the year, Miz accepts
Swagger and Rusev get into an altercation
Uso’s/Ryback defeated Miz/Mizdow/Kane via Shell Shock to Miz
Team Cena vs Team Authority wins Match of the Year, Ziggler accepts
AJ Lee defeated Summer via Black Widow
Chris Jericho wins Extreme Moment, Fandango accepts
Roman Reigns wins Superstar of the year, Roman accepts
John Cena def. Big Show via DQ
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