RAW 9-26-11

[swarm]

Not much to say.

HHH buries 3 heels in the opening segment and looks "cool" doing it. According to Trips, Ziggler is a pussy, Cody is a pussy, and Christian is an "idiot". Oh, and HHH is a total bad ass who kicked Randy Orton's ass all over his front lawn. I guess that makes Orton a pussy too? Point is HHH is the man and don't you forget it!

More abuse of power from HHH. Yawn.

Mason Ryan along with Dolph and Swagger had a ton of potential. So of course they turn him in his very first match. I don't know who is writing this shit, but they need some damn Ritalin asap.

what else happened...Cena said some dumb shit. I swear I'm trying so hard to watch this show like a fan of the wrestlers and not a critic of the writers but when Cena comes out, I can't. He is so bad. I feel like he has regressed. I don't remember him ever being this grating on the mic.

Mark Henry is the best thing they have going right now. He looks real. He looks motivated as hell. I really hope they keep the belt on him for a long time.

All the CM Punk buzz is officially dead. Dude is just another guy now. It's absolutely mind blowing that only a few weeks ago Punk was raising up the WWE Title and arena's were going crazy for him, while Cena held his up and got booed out of town.

Fast-forward a few weeks and all the focus is on HHH, Punk is now the 4th or 5th face on the totem pole, and Cena is the champ again.

I mean, what else is there to say.

[Crimson Cross]

I didn't watch Raw ( I watched Terra Nova, a Cool new series ) because they've pretty much killed the good they had built up and are now forcing HHH on us again and who is not good at all as the Mr.McMahon character he is portraying. I agree with Rob that Mark Henry is the best thing going and let's hope the WWE braintrust will allow him a long push as the World Heavyweight Champion...

It sounded like HHH wanted to bury both Ziggler & Rhodes two younger stars and I like Cody Rhodes since he put the face guard on and thankfully for now he still has the IC Strap and maybe HHH's plans wont kill Rhodes push...

The last time I truly looked at wrestling as just a fan was when TNA debuted on Spike in 2005 till early 2007 and before that was during the Monday Night Wars. I try to watch like I once did but the writers and the ADD style they have now just sours things, but then I'm more now of a casual fan who'll watch one week and skip two or three weeks because it's not much of a loss...

[the_faction]

Yeah the Punk Gimmick got me back into the WWE after a 5 year absence and now I've missed the last two shows and don't care to see them anymore. The buzz is definitely gone, they missed the window.

[Sickman]

Like CC, I watched Terranova but I did dvr RAW. Pretty underwhelming show except for Mark Henry, who is the best thing going in WWE right now.

I have little hope that they can salvage what they had in Punk. It's almost as if they said, "Hey, we'll resign you and give you more money but then we will treat you like we always did. Because we are the WWE damnit!"

[wildfire]

I watched Terra Nova too, but I did tune in for the 2nd half.. pretty boring.

I guess they built the 3-way a bit, but eh. At this point, I'm not even sure I'd bother trying to find a feed for the PPV, never mind paying for it.

I agree they've 100% killed Punk's momentum... so he'll probably win on Sunday.

[Justin Case]

Yeah, I fell asleep during it, so that should tell you right there how captivated I was with it. YAWN!

[Shon Maxx]

In addition to Punk, I really got into watching Daniel Bryan again when he won MITB. Now he jobs over and over again to Sin Cara while taking a back seat to that feud. I officially hate both SC's and hope they injure each other!

I change the station whenever Cena is on. I just don't care about him. I'm not going to cheer him; I'm not going to boo him. I just don't care. He could snap his ankle in half, and I wouldn't miss him. I know that sounds cold, but again, I just don't care anymore.

Unless Punk, Bryan, Sheamus, ADR, or Miz are pushed, I'd rather watch a lame SciFi horror film.

Oh, and 11-26, Rob?

[swarm]

The disappearance of Daniel Bryan seemed really intentional last night. Not only did he not get an entrance, they made no mention of the MITB briefcase or his plans to cash it in at Mania. He got zero camera time, no eliminations (that I saw) and when he was thrown out by Zeke is wasn't made to be a big deal.

I can't believe we got CM Punk as WWE Champ and Daniel Bryan as the MITB winner only a couple of months ago and now things are same old same old. At the time, I really felt like that PPV was a major turning point. Now it's not looking that way at all.

[Crimson Cross]

I can understand Daniel Bryan not winning every match or pushed into the Main Event picture till WrestleMania or close to it, but he seems to lose more then he has won and pulling duty for the NoC dark match just points to strange booking. Maybe the lack of push is so they can stretch out the year and use DB sparingly till WrestleMania, but I just don't know with how the WWE books if they really know what they're doing...

@rob CM Punk not only winning the Gold & getting Major Fan support and now falling from that great Buzz seems to me that HHH or someone else is playing Politics who doesn't want CM Punk at the top or incase of HHH truth is he wants no one else in his spotlight. I know that it's said HHH has a passion for the biz & history of wrestling, but I'm thinking his ego is so big he is more important than anything else in his mind...

[Phoenix]

yeah i mean i agree with all this. They turned Punk into Cena's buddy all of a sudden. what a joke. I actually flipped onto Pawn Stars when Cena came out to do his usual spiel and TALK REAL LOUD TO FIRE UP THE CROWD. i guess that's what he did anyway.
And they put HHH in the middle of everything....and yet the deal with Lauranitis is just kind of meandering along.

WWE seriously needs competition to fire them up.