I have to say I am feeling pretty bummed tonight. I was looking forward to a great weekend. I had 3 days off. College football was starting. Then it happened. No secret I am a sooners fan and when Bradford went down, I turned into a Patriots fan of a year ago. But I have to shake off what happened over the weekend and have fun watching Monday Night Raw! Nothing better to cheer a guy up then Bob Barker. Come on down you're the Raw GM on a special Labor Day Raw. I loved The Price is Right ever since I was a little boy. I dreamt that one day I would be Bob Barker. Tonight, I am hoping he has fun and we get a great wrestling show. Raw is live from one of the great wrestling cities of the United States, Chicago, Ill.
I have a few comments about Smackdown before I write on Raw. First, Thank you CM Punk. You pulled off one of the best promos you have ever done. You came out to gloat about taking out Jeff Hardy and the best way to capitalize on that is to dress up like him and mock Hardy. Bravo man! John Morrison and Rey Mysterio had one of the best all around contests Smackdown has had in a long time. What a contest! Sadly, Rey is suspended so we won't be seeing him for a while. I hope its Morrison, Ziggler and Rey when he comes back. Smackdown keep it up because it has been great!
Howard Finkel announces the legendary game show host, Bob Barker! I miss the Fink. Bob gets a huge ovation. How can you not love Bob Barker? Bob says we are really going to party tonight. Bob has been working in television for over 50 years. Now that is impressive. We have a pricing game to start Raw. Howard starts to announce wrestlers who come out of the crowd. Santino runs like hell towards the stage. Jillian Hall is next. IRS, Irwin R. Shyster, no clue on the spelling. Last but not least Y2J Chris Jericho. He takes his sweet time and comes from the back. They bid on the new Smackdown DVD. Santino bid 1,465 dollars. Jillian starts to sing and sings her bid, which was 75 bucks. I.R.S asks about taxes and bids 50 bucks. Jericho leaves the podium and comes up to Bob. They are eye to eye. Jericho starts to speak but Bob interrupts. Jericho starts to rant about nobody calls him Chris and should be called Mr. Jericho, cuz he is the best in the world at what he does. I can't agree. Jericho almost says he is one half and Bob interrupts and says he heard 1 which turns into Jericho's bid. Y2J wins the DVD and a chance at a trip to Hawaii if he wins his match tonight against MVP. The match starts right now.
MVP and Jericho start with some technical mat wrestling. This match is adding fuel to the fire for the MVP and Henry vs JeriShow match at Breaking Point. The match continue with MVP hitting a few moves and Jericho counters flipping MVP on the apron. Y2J goes to kick him off and MVP ducks as Jericho crashes to the floor. 1st commercial break of the night. I like what the WWE did in the first segment. I enjoyed Bob coming out and doing his old shtick from The Price is Right. Jericho played the perfect heel in the entire segment before the match. We come back and MVP goes for a big boot and gets dumped to the outside. Jericho gains the upper hand while MVP tries to retaliate. Small package for 2. Jericho hits a huge clothesline but only for 2. Crowd starting to get into it..finally, MVP chant. Running enziguri is missed and MVP starts to pick up the pace. Bulldog by Jericho followed by a lionsault but missed. MVP nails a few of his signature moves. Ballin elbow is countered into the Walls of Jericho. Reversal into another small package for 2. MVP with a vicious big boot for 2. MVP countered the Codebreaker by holding on the ropes. He flips over for the 1,2,3 and the win. I like that a lot. MVP and Henry need to look like they can beat the tag champs on Sunday night.
Bob is in the back with Kelly Kelly plugging his book. DX show up. They start to talk about Happy Gilmore. DX gets to spin a wheel you press a button and it picks who their opponents will be tonight. HBK lands on Chris Masters and Triple H gets Randy Orton. I believe it will be a tag team match. They never really said. The only question I have is why Chris Masters?
I guess if we can waste a segment a week on Hornswaggle why not a match with Masters. Chavo is in the ring and Bob announces he can win a new car if he wins his match against Evan Bourne. Thank god, we may not see Hornswaggle. I actually signed an online petition to stop the Chavo Hornswaggle segments. Match begins with what I expect fast pace action. I have to say that these two men should have a good match. Evan starts flying around the ring hitting a big kick off the second rope for a 2 count. Chavo goes for a tornado DDT but gets a knee to the face. A sick fall by Evan. Both men on the top Evan went for a hurricarana and Chavo leaped off the ropes and Evan crashed to the mat. The little bastard shows up after Chavo hits the three amigos. Hornswaggle gets in the ring and distracts Chavo. Rollup by Evan for the victory. Chavo losing streak is now at 212 matches.
Cody Rhodes comes to the ring. He is speaking tonight. Wow, there is a shock. He starts to talk about what happened last week on Raw. He says his dad didn't make him a main eventer Randy did. Cody says Dusty is an excellent father, but wasn't his choice. Family or Career. Cody chose his career. Cody says there is nothing he wouldn't do for his career. The huge Chicago crowd gives John Cena a huge ovation. A little different than back at Wrestlemania 22 when he faced the game Triple H. I remember that night being an anti Cena crowd. Cena goes for the FU quickly but Rhodes reverses into a ddt attempt that Cena throws Rhodes off him. Cody rolls to the outside as we head to another commercial. As a fan, you have to know Legacy is not going to stay together for more than a few more months. I have loved the group when they are shown together which is rare. I think last week was a test to see how the crowd would react if Rhodes turned face. Dibiase has been rumored to turn face for a few months now. I think its smart to see which one will get the bigger following before you turn either one face. Back from break, Cena with his fisherman suplex. A bulldog leads to a 2 count. Rhodes baits Cena to the outside and trips Cena into the announcer's table. Action is back in the ring now. Rhodes starts hitting Cena with boots and right hands in the corner. Cena gets trapped and Rhodes goes after the legs. Russian leg sweep by Rhodes for a 2 count fall. Rhodes locks Cena in a chinlock. Cena powers out but Rhodes gets an arm bar applied. Rhodes is trying many submission moves to get Cena to tap. Cena lifts Rhodes from the mat on his shoulders, guy has crazy strength. A few shoulder tackles and Cena heads to the top. Rhodes moves out of the way of the leg drop. WOOOOO!!! Figure Four is blocked into the STFU but Orton runs down to save his buddy. Orton runs away. FU to Rhodes! Randy stares down Cena to lead into the break. The match wasn't great but it served its purpose. Cena needed to face one of the Legacy members.
Next week Batista returns to Raw. I guess he has some special announcement he has to make. Bob comes back out for another bidding contest. We need another player. It turns out to be Chicago White Sox catcher, A.J. Pierzynski. The crowd loved that pick. The prize is a Wrestlemania trip package. A.J bids 1000, I.R.S 2000, Jillian sings 5000 and Santino 1200. Santino ends up winning and gets a chance to win the hot tub. Santino is in the ring asking if the Bella twins comes with the hot tub. Bob announces a bodyslam contest. The opponent turns out to be the largest athlete in the world, The Big Show. Santino has to bodyslam the Big Show to win the hot tub. Santino tried once but failed and Show picks him up to win. Bob announces we have another bodyslam contest opponent, Mark Henry. I have no idea if Herny can even pick up the Big Show. Both men make an attempt to pick each other up but can't do it. Show and Henry are trying to wear each other down so they could pick him up. Show goes for it again but falls down. Show hits an elbow and goes for it but Henry reverses and slams Show for the win. MVP comes out to embrace his tag team partner. Both men pick up victories over their opponents leading up to Breaking Point. I told you it only works if MVP and Henry look like legit contenders to win the tag team belts.
Batista is returning next week and the greatest women's champion is the GM next week. Trish Stratus will be coming back to the wrestling world. WOOHOO! Lawler and Cole in the ring run down the Breaking Point card. I usually do a prediction blog. If you recall I was 8-0 on my Summerslam predictions. For Breaking Point, I am teaming up with ShowStoppers on BBSD Radio. If you want to know what I think is going to happen at Breaking Point, you will have to listen to ShowStoppers (you should be anyway if you are a wrestling fan).
Bob is in the back with Chavo who whines about losing his chance at a car. He says Hornswaggle and Evan cheated him out of his match. Chavo continues until Bob throws a right hand in the gut and Chavo goes down. He says he had a great time and does his signature have your pets spade and neutered line.
Are you ready? The two sure fire hall of famers Triple H and Shawn Michaels, aka DX, come down to the ring. Main Event Time! Crotch chop pyro is followed by a little mic work from The Game. The whole DX schtick of Lets get ready to suck it and if you're not down with that suck it. Masterpiece Chris Masters gets a chance tonight to show he can hang with the big boys tonight. I hear voices in my head they council me they understand. They talk to me. Orton holds the gold for everyone to look at. I am a little perplexed at this match up. Where the hell is Dibiase? He makes sense in this match more than Masters. Last commercial break is over with. Currently its Triple H and Orton. Tag to HBK who lands a double axe handle followed by a stiff boot. HBK keeps the momentum with a neckbreaker. Another tag back to Triple H. The history between Orton and HHH is well documented. RKO attempt block and HHH hits a suplex and a knee drop. Faces are making the tags in the early going. HBK back in. Masters gets tagged in and starts landing some offense. Inside out throw to the turnbuckle by Masters and then a backbreaker. The viper back in now. Knee drop for a 2 count on HBK. Now the heels start to dominate with a few tags back and forth. Masters dumps Michaels to the outside and Orton lands the cheap shot. Good tag work going on in this match. I am seeing some double team moves, ref distractions and quick tags. Randy stalks Shawn and hit a perfect and I mean perfect dropkick. Right hand on Orton, Chops by Shawn. Flying burrito by Shawn. Nip up by Shawn to tag Triple H. Orton tagged Chris. Triple H starts to hit all his signature moves even the double a spinebuster. Shawn hits the elbow drop. Orton comes to stop it. Masters with enough time from the distraction to put HBK in the masterlock. HHH breaks up the masterlock. Sweet chin music on Masters. Orton comes in put HHH takes him down. Sharpshooter by HHH? WTF? Figure four by Michaels and Masters taps out. Legacy comes to the rescue of Orton. DX and Legacy are beating the hell out of each other in the back. Orton escaped everything and stayed by the entry way. Rhodes and Dibiase high tail it in a car.
Orton is in the ring now with microphone in hand. Randy says this Sunday Legacy will make DX submit and he will retain the title because that is the only thing he considers important. Cena rushes to the ring and the fight is on. Outside the ring Cena throws Orton into the table. Orton slides into the ring and Cena gets caught. DDT off the ropes and Cena is out. Orton grabs a chair and sets it up. RKO on to the chair and I start to hear some cheers from the Chicago crowd. Raw ends with Orton towering over Cena. What does that mean heading into Sunday? You will have to listen to ShowStoppers to find out what we predict. I will be back with an NFL blog Thursday morning to tell you who will win the MVP, Rookie of the Year, Conference winners and most important the Super Bowl winner.
J Call
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