WWE: RAW Review for 5th August

Welcome everyone to yet another RAW Review. Tonight, Monday Night RAW rolled out from Green Bay, Wisconsinnnnah (Mr. Kennedy style!), and going in, it felt like we had a great episode in store for us.

Daniel Bryan

We kicked things off with Stephanie McMahon in the ring! She said Vince wanted Bryan to be more ‘presentable’. She showed Bryan getting groomed.

Out came D-Bry in a suit, as the crowd chanted ‘No!’. He said this wasn’t the real Daniel Bryan. Bryan said WWE needs someone like Cena to be WWE champion, who sells things that no one really needs. He said he was a wrestler, and has crawled out of every imaginable hole. He called Cena an entertainer, and said he will go back to his mansion if he’s fired. He said he will beat Cena at SummerSlam because the fans want a wrestler as the WWE champion.

This brought out the chairman himself, Vince McMahon. Vince insulted Bryan, saying he looked like a gargoyle. Vince wanted Bryan to shave his beard off in order to become the WWE champion. Vince ordered the crew to bring a barber’s chair, and asked Wade Barrett to shave Bryan’s beard off. At least this way Barrett got some air time!

Barrett came down and tried to shave Bryan’s beard off, but Bryan retaliated and shaved off half of Barrett’s beard! Bryan threw Barrett into the crowd, as Vince looked as if he was about to explode in the ring! Bryan said he will be who he always was, and he showed the new “The beard is here” T – shirt! He said he will be the WWE champion.

It was an amazing opening segment as Bryan cut an almost Punk-esque promo about WWE wanting a specific type of champion. Yet another amazing promo by Daniel Bryan to kick off RAW.

Rob Van Dam vs Alberto Del Rio (With Ricardo)

ADR came out with a returning Ricardo to take on RVD. The match went for 7 minutes, and ended when Ricardo’s attempt to help ADR backfired, and ADR went head first into Ricardo’s sweat bucket, enabling RVD to roll him up for the victory.

Post match, ADR viciously attacked Ricardo, and rammed his head in between the steel steps and dropkicked them! An official split between the duo, and we have to see if this will affect ADR during his match against Christian at SummerSlam.

Winner: RVD

Rating: * ½

Cody Rhodes stood in the ring, and he recapped what happened in the past two weeks, with Cody throwing Sandow’s Money in the Bank briefcase into the Gulf of Mexico and Sandow attacking Cody last week.

Cody had a present for Sandow, and it was the damp Money in the Bank briefcase. Cody lured Sandow out, and pretended to give him the briefcase, but attacked him and sent him out of the ring. Cody opened the briefcase and showed Sandow the damp contract papers.

As I previously predicted, this might lead to a match at SummerSlam with the Money in the Bank contract up for grabs. I for one am excited about this feud, as these two are the future of the company.

Ryback vs Mark Henry

This was the rematch of their WrestleMania bout. Mark Henry went on the offence, but Ryback fought back. Henry got the upper hand once again, but Ryback slid out of the ring and gets counted out within 2 minutes! That was an odd ending, and The Shield didn’t even attack! That was a waste of 5 minutes.

Winner via count out: Mark Henry

Rating: Dud