Official RAW is NASH Thread 15/08/11

[parkmania]

Finally had a chance to watch:

1. After a month of building a "new" WWE, it feels based solely on promos that we're back to mid-card Punk and Super Cena. Punk never once mentioned getting a rematch, and Cena was all "I'm coming after you, Del Rio!"

2. I've read that there are 5 or so different directions they've considered taking the Nash storyline. It showed during his segment. Ambiguous statements are ambiguous.

3. Anyone else notice that while they gave Truth back his music, the intro changed from "The truth shall set you free" to "The truth has set me free"?

4. When they first came back from break for the Swagger match, it felt really awkward to have Vickie and Dolph just kind of muttering somewhat quietly as the first sounds from commentary. I thought there was a random backstage mike left on picking up a passing conversation.

5. Not really sure if Mysterio is off tv or not. Usually if WWE is writing someone off in an injury angle, they stretcher the guy out, or at least show refs/EMTs helping the guy to the back. We didn't even get a "Rey with the trainers" moment. (On a related note, TO ME, Rey is less entertaining than Cena. Rey has his own "5 Moves of Doom" and is constantly coming back from extreme beatings. Rey sells better than Cena, but the "Little Big Man" syndrome gets to me much worse.)

6. For a company trying to endorse an "anti-bullying" campaign, someone desperately needs to tell Lawler to stop directing fat jokes at a now much slimmer Vickie.

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by parkmania 5. Not really sure if Mysterio is off tv or not. Usually if WWE is writing someone off in an injury angle, they stretcher the guy out, or at least show refs/EMTs helping the guy to the back. We didn't even get a "Rey with the trainers" moment. (On a related note, TO ME, Rey is less entertaining than Cena. Rey has his own "5 Moves of Doom" and is constantly coming back from extreme beatings. Rey sells better than Cena, but the "Little Big Man" syndrome gets to me much worse.)

The difference generally is that even with "5 moves of doom", Rey can still lose after hitting them. It's not "automatic I win this." It took the last two matches with CM Punk for Cena to job to someone for the first time in a long time (albeit not cleanly either time, but still). There wasn't that "overcoming the odds" SuperCena that can take finishers to concrete and still hop up at the 9 count to slide back in the ring and kick ass. Rey doesn't always do that.