It was a mixed week of wrestling in the WWE. While Raw and Smackdown did have their ups
and downs this week, there are a few moments and matches that were good to
great that saved this week from being a complete and utter waste in my
opinion. We are a week away from
Summerslam and I honestly bared hyped for this PPV whatsoever other than being
excited to see Chris Jericho vs. Dolph Ziggler, but more on that later. It seemed like WWE put all their resources
into hyping Raw 1000 that they forgot to put any hype towards their second
biggest PPV of the year, Summerslam.
With one week left, let us see if WWE can pull out a miracle and make us
care about Summerslam this year.
Lesnar Is Coming to
Get You
Considering the main WWE Championship storyline repeated
what happened last week just with Big Show standing tall at the end of Raw, we
will have to look at the Brock Lesnar-Triple H feud for the biggest story of
the week. Seeing as Raw was in San
Antonio this past Monday, Shawn Michaels made a special appearance. The main reason Michaels was at Raw was for
Shawn Michaels Appreciation Night, which happened after Raw went off the air,
but WWE also decided to inject Michaels into the feud between Triple H and Brock
Lesnar. Shawn Michaels made his way out
to the ring and gave his take on the whole situation between his best friend
and Brock Lesnar. Shawn’s opinions got
the attention of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman as they made their way to the
ring to confront HBK. Paul Heyman’s
attempts to convince Shawn Michaels was the superior athlete were futile as
they only infuriated the Heartbreak Kid.
They infuriated Shawn to the point that he announced that he would be in
Triple H’s corner at Summerslam. This
announcement did not sit well with Lesnar as he made his move to attack Shawn
Michaels to only be stopped by Triple H.
Hoping to hold off the fighting for another day, Lesnar and Heyman made
their retreat. Before they left, Lesnar
told Michaels that he will see him before Summerslam. While I do think it was a good move for WWE
to hold off until the go home Raw before Summerslam for Lesnar destroys
Michaels, I personally did not like the execution. Why would you blurt out your plan to your
opponent and the whole world no less and completely destroy the element of
surprise? Now that Shawn and Triple H
know what you are going to do this week on Raw, so how does Brock think he will
be able to get away with it? WWE could
have easily had Brock make a gesture towards Michaels that insinuated that
Michaels would not make it to Summerslam instead of the overly cartoony and
unrealistic villain telling the heroes his plan. Still it is a good hook for the Summerslam go
home show, just the whole element of surprise is gone from an angle that could
have easily stolen the show.
Y2J is Back, Baby!!
Ever since Dolph Ziggler made the mistake of saying Chris
Jericho has lost his touch, the Show-Off has been made to eat his words. After delivering numerous Code Breakers to
the World Heavyweight Money in the Bank winner, Chris Jericho has gotten into
Dolph’s head. Case and point, Dolph
Ziggler spent too much time concentrated on Chris Jericho on commentary this
past Monday on Raw that Alex Riley rolled Dolph up to pick up his second win of
the 2012. This past Friday on Smackdown,
the Highlight Reel, Jericho’s classic interview segment, made its’ return. Along with the return of the Highlight Reel,
came the return of a side of Chris Jericho that everybody has missed for a long
time. Some of Dolph’s insults really
home with Chris Jericho as he has not been up to snuff in the big matches, so
Jericho has welcomed his Y2J character back with open arms. It did look like the WWE has been building
for this moment for a month or so now considering Jericho’s increased use of
his classic catchphrases. Personally I
love the return of Y2J as it gives an established face for the WWE to pull upon
as a challenger for Dolph Ziggler’s eventual World Heavyweight Title reign
especially with all signs pointing to their current feud ending at Summerslam. Once Y2J made his return, Dolph Ziggler made
his move, attacking Chris Jericho with the Money in the Bank briefcase. This attack got Dolph some much needed
payback on the man that has humiliated him these past few weeks. With their match finally set in stone for
Summerslam and the return of Y2J, this feud is easily the most interesting
thing on WWE TV at the moment.
Sheamus vs. Del Rio
Cancelled for Summerslam
In all honesty, I have not cared for this feud one bit. There have been little glimmers of greatness,
but things have gotten so drawn out and stop and go that it would be better if
Sheamus and Alberto Del Rio went their separate ways. I thought that until witnessing the events of
this past Smackdown. Back on Monday,
Sheamus stole Alberto Del Rio’s car and went on a joy ride throughout San
Antonio. While the fact that Sheamus got
away with grand theft auto with little to no repercussions is beyond me (logic
is sometimes thrown out the window in the WWE), it lead right into the main
event of Smackdown, which was suppose to see Sheamus defend the World
Heavyweight Championship against Alberto Del Rio. The match did not even start because these
policemen came out and surrounded the ring.
At first, Del Rio told the policemen to stop walking towards the ring
because he did not file that report with San Antonio police against Sheamus and
that he wanted his chance to win the World Title. As these supposed policemen got closer to
ring, Del Rio begged and pleaded them to stop until the Mexican Aristocrat’s
look of horror turned into a smile and he told his hired guns to attack Sheamus. At first, Sheamus beat off the horde, but
eventually the numbers became too much for the World Heavyweight Champion. Sheamus succumbed to the overwhelming odds
and Del Rio was left standing over a beaten down World Champion. As result of what happened at the end of Raw,
the Sheamus vs. Alberto Del Rio World Heavyweight Championship Match has been
removed from the Summerslam crowd. While
did like that the WWE has put more heat on Del Rio with this beat down, it
might be too late to do a whole cancelation angle seeing that Summerslam is
only a week away. If they go with entire
different match, there will be no time to build anything and it would kill
almost all the momentum Del Rio gained from this beat down. The wise decision would be to add a No DQ stipulation
to their match at Summerslam to capitalize on the heat generated toward Del Rio
by this entire angle and make it that much more satisfying when the fans see
Sheamus fight him at Summerslam. We will
have to wait and see what actually happens, but I do have to applaud the WWE
for getting me interested in Shemus vs. Del Rio again. Now hopefully they do not screw it up before
Summerslam.
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