The Bad
Well, this is going to be a longer section, as most would probably guess. With the exception of the above isolated moments, last night’s Raw show fell mostly flat in total, especially considering there wasn’t an ounce of interesting or worthwhile wrestling in 3 hours. I felt like I was watching a partly funny parody of the Grammys or the Oscars, as opposed to what should have still been, overall, a wrestling show.
As I said above, there was some fun and interesting Slammy winners last night, but on the whole, most of them were absurd.
Why did Sheamus win breakout star of the year? Was this simply to put him over further? I would suppose so since the only thing he did on last night’s broadcast, one night after shocking the world by beating John Cena for the WWE Title, was come out and cut a 30 second promo. The rest of the night, yep, you guessed it, was centered around reminding everyone that John Cena is still the man in WWE, and he needed to be rewarded with a 3 hour show built entirely around him because WWE still feels the need to protect him dearly.
I said it in my TLC review and I’ll say it again,. STOP PROTECTING CENA SO MUCH! He isn’t a fragile old man with brittle bone syndrome, he’s the company’s top baby face, so leave him be and allow some of the other talent to grab the spotlight.
WWE managed to pull off a very clever and misdirected task when they crowned Sheamus The WWE Champion: they played into Carlito’s Raw speech about giving someone else the spotlight, but only 24 hours later they put the spotlight right back on Cena. And that light shined brighter and more annoying last night than ever before.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
