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8/22/01Raw Thoughts
Raw was hit and miss on Monday night. The first 90 minutes were mostly miss, but the show
ended with something that is destined to be a classic Raw moment. Does a hot ending make an otherwise weak show good? Maybe. The show focused a lot on comedy skits, opening with a 6 women tag match. Yawn. Then The Rock brought out a midget pretending to be Booker T. I’m sure we all know that midgets = comedy, but the timing was off on the whole segment. Long awkward pauses really dragged out what could have been a quick, funny, 5 minute thing. Then Booker whipped Tajiri for 5 minutes followed by The Rock easily beating Lance Storm. What good does it do for Booker and Rock to so easily beat two very popular mid-card stars? DDP got beaten by Sara. I told you to go to the bathroom during that match during my Monday preview, didn’t I? We saw the return of the Stephanie-Test angle. While I like that the WWF takes steps to create some kind of continuity for long time fans, do all the explanations have to be so lame? Finally we hit the final segment of the evening.
The Alliance was all in the ring singing to Steve Austin about how much they appreciate them when Kurt Angle drove a milk truck to the ring and hosed everyone down with milk. Now, long time fans will know that this is a complete parody of the Austin vs. McMahon feud of a few years back when Austin drove the beer truck to the ring and hosed down The Corporation members. The beauty of it was that you didn’t need to know that in order for the bit to work. A lame show topped off with a brilliant ending. Viewers must have agreed because the ratings were the same this week as last (5.2).
Rey Mysterio Jr. Rumor Killer
Rumors swirled around the Internet last week when someone discovered that ReyMysterio.com redirects to the WWFE owned WCW.com. Since Mysterio met with Jim Ross a few weeks ago to discuss a contract, people assumed that everything went well and that Rey would be joining the WWF soon. Well, wrong. Reymysterio.com was an asset of WCW and thus one of the things that the WWF got when they bought them. Other WCW star websites, such as KevinNash.com, also redirect you to WCW.com. While I’m killing rumors: Elvis is dead, Paul McCartney is not, and I never had sex with Jami Fisher in High School. (Sorry for starting that one, Jami.)
HHH Speaks
WWF.com features an interview with Triple H updating the status of his injury (a torn quadriceps muscle in his left leg ) and with his thoughts on SummerSlam. Here are the highlights:
- HHH was backstage at SummerSlam but has been trying to avoid travel since it slows down his recovery.
- “I'm hoping another four weeks from now, I can start to be able to move quick enough where I can start to jog lightly and start to increase my movement. Then in four to six weeks, I can run so that I can start to get back into doing stuff that I'm going to have to be doing when I get back in the ring.
- “I sleep naked. All the way nude. Nothing. No skivvies. No nothing. Buck naked. Yeah, my knee's naked too. Everything's nude.” (That was more than any of us really needed to know!)
- Why was he at SummerSlam? "Well, it's like if I would have stayed in Birmingham I would have had to pay to see the Pay-Per-View. This is a way for me to see it free, without having to pay or anything like that. Plus, they always have sweet catering” My Mother always said that no one likes a smart ass. See, Mom, I was listening.
- On making his PPV debut at SummerSlam 1995: “Yeah, against Bob Holly. He hit me so hard with a dropkick I can't remember any of it. Bob's pretty stiff you know.” (He means that Bob hits hard, you perv.)
You can read the rest of the interview by clicking on these colored words.
Larry King with Chyna Delayed
Due to ongoing CNN coverage of the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy situation, Joanie Laurer's appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live" has been rescheduled for next Wednesday, August 29 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. West Wing is a rerun tonight as well, so feel free to get s***faced after King of the Hill.
Storm on Southwest
This isn’t really news, but I found it funny. Lance Storm’s latest update on his website is really just a two page rant against Southwest Airlines. Go read it and have a good laugh.
See you party people on Friday.
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