David Damage: This Week In WWE


Raw Thoughts 15th August 2011

Triple H promos are so slow and boring

John Morrison Vs R-Truth
Great work by both guys in the match. I'm sure this will be the best thing on Raw all night. Thumbs up from me.

Miz & Jared segment? Complete crap. Waste of air time. Waste of my time, even though I fast forwarded past it.

Kelly & Eve Vs Bella Twins
For my own sanity I didn't really watch it, but I'm sure it was worthless

Punk / Kevin Nash Segment

I haven't said a bad thing about WWE bringing in old, broken down Nash to work with the most over guy in the company because at least I respect Nash and he can still outwork Cena, Orton, Wade, etc
Nash can cut a good, serious promo and he's an intelligent guy which is more than I can say for most guys on the roster.

I like Jack Swagger, but Alex Riley needs to be sent back to wrestling school, he's not ready for TV, it's embarrassing.

Dolph Ziggler was great on commentary. Nothing but good things to say about Dolph. Wish Vicky would disappear though.

Kofi & Evan Bourne Vs McGillicutty & Otunga
This was just a little filler match. Kofi and Evan are always great in the ring, but I think it took more time watching them come to the ring than they had inside it.

Alberto Vs Mysterio was okay.

Cena comes out and attacks Alberto.... so now Cena's chasing Alberto for the WWE Title. Damn WWE sucks in 2011.

WWE NXT Thoughts

Hornswoggle segments are so hokey

Why have WWE put blonde streaks in Maxine's hair? It looked fine before.

Tyson Kid's rolling half crab on JTG went a little wrong, but it's good to see it being used. Tyson has been working out with Lance Storm recently.

Darren Young and Matt Striker had a good little TV match

Derrick Bateman seems like a good young talent who needs more seasoning, but Titus O Neal looks completely lost out there. He's horrible.

Do we really need the last 15 minutes of every NXT showing the main event of Raw?
Isn't it enough for them to have "WWE Bottom Line", "This Week In WWE" and "WWE Experience" to recap Raw every week!?

WWE Superstars Thoughts

Trent Barreta Vs Wade Barrett
Trent has been having some great matches on Superstars over the last year, but I find Wade Barrett so boring. He’s one of the kick-punch-chin-lock guys I often refer to. When Trent Barreta was on the offence, the match was interesting, when Wade Barrett was in control, the match was boring.

Brodus Clay beat down a jobber. This guy reminds me of a new, greener Mable / Viscera. Like we really need a new one…

Santino Vs Primo
These guys could have a good match, but this was just comedy for the kids watching.

We have to watch / fast forward through yet another recap of Alberto / Mysterio / Cena from Raw again….

Drew McIntyre and Zack Ryder have an okay match, mainly built around kicking, punching, time wasting and a pointless arm bar for no reason. Typical WWE style. Not really the kind of match I enjoy watching. Good to see Zack Ryder picking up the win though.

WWE Smack Down Thoughts

Randy Orton promos so boring. I ignored this whole opening segment, just looking up when Cody came out.

IC Title: Cody Rhodes Vs Ezekiel
Cody continues to impress me. It is great that he remains Intercontinental Champion.
I don't know why they are trying to re-create Ahmed Johnson with Ezekiel - who isn't half as good as Ahmed was and his promos are even less tolerable.

Tyson Kidd Vs Justin Gabriel
Great work by both guys. It's unlikely WWE are going to have this match on a PPV, so I don't see why they couldn't be given more TV time to have their match here on Smack Down. Impressive 450 splash by Gabriel and I liked this match.

I'm recording SD from my Sky+ box to my DVD recorder hard drive, so I'm not able to fast forward Alberto Del Rio's entrance..... This all takes way too long... And then he cuts a really long-winded, boring promo recapping his match with Mysterio on Monday. The one we've all seen. The one they also showed on Nxt and recapped on all their recap shows.
Thankfully Daniel Bryan comes out and cuts a good short promo.

Daniel Bryan Vs Alberto
Daniel Bryan is the best wrestler in WWE, who is always a pleasure to watch in the ring.
A lot of the match revolved around Alberto having Daniel Bryan in varied arm bars and arm locks, but it makes sense that Alberto would work on Daniel's arm, considering Alberto's finish is the arm lock submission.
I can't stand it when WWE matches just have random rest holds for no reason other than to give the guys in the match a chance to rest and figure out the next spot, but that wasn't happening here.
Good match and in my opinion, Alberto's best match in WWE so far.
Alberto won clean with his arm lock submission and slapped it on again after the match before Sin Cara came to the ring to make the save.
I would have preferred it if Alberto somehow cheated or took as shortcut to win the match, to protect Daniel Bryan, who has the MITB for next year's WrestleMania, but that's just personal opinion.

Nattie & Alicia Vs AJ & Kelly
AJ and Kelly are useless and shouldn't be booked in any matches, but at least the booking of the match had Nattie no-selling most of AJ's offence. That's how it should always be when you have an experienced women's wrestler in the ring with someone who doesn't know what they are doing. Kelly is a danger in the ring, she messed up another face-plant bulldog... at least I think that is what it was supposed to be.
The useless Kelly Kelly (so dumb, they named her twice so she only had to remember one name) got the pinfall on Alicia. Nattie beat down Alicia after the match.

Battle Royal
I enjoy a good battle royal... but this wasn't a good one.

Booker T should be on the active roster. It's insane they have so many bad, boring and amateur workers on Smack Down like Mark Henry, Great Khali, Sheamus, Jinder, Wade Barrett, etc in the ring, yet they have a true headliner, great athlete, living legend and real superstar behind the announce desk. Booker T would be my favourite guy on either the Raw or Smack Down rosters if they let him compete. He's still in amazing shape and could out-work anyone in the company. He could sell tons of T-shirts and the crowd would be into everything he does. He's super over.

Mark F'n Henry won the Battle Royal. If that's not a big middle finger from WWE to all it's fans, then I don't know what is.

Orton Vs Henry at the next PPV? That’s much more than a middle finger to it‘s fans, that’s more like being sodomised by the company for watching.