Raw 06/04/12: Top 10 talking points

Well, Monday night’s Raw was one of the shittiest Raws in recent memory. There wasn’t a lot of great things that happened, so please bare with me with this week’s top ten, because not a lot of these moments were really that great.

10. Opening Segment

For the love of God, stop involving announcers in storylines! There’s a difference between heel-heat and we-don’t-want-to-see-you-at-all-heat, and Cole has the latter. I’m not going to get into this too much, but the segment could be summed up with the following sentence: Cole got all worked up while Cena delivered the same old crap.

9. Sin Cara doesn’t botch

When Sin Cara’s music hit, I was a little worried. He was about to wrestle on live TV. Remember the last time that happened? That was why he was drafted to Smackdown. But after seeing his match with Hunico, I’m a little more confident that he has adapted more to the American style. To be fair, Hunico can speak Spanish (Sin Cara’s only language) and can wrestle in both the American and Mexican styles, but I’m going to give Mistico the benefit of the doubt here. Side note for Sin Cara: change your finisher.

8. John Cena vs. Michael Cole

Yes, it happened. And it was awful. It involved barbecue sauce (which Lawler oddly had a ringside with him. Hmmm, it’s almost as if this is preplanned…), Cole in his underwear, and a somewhat bully like Cena. Come on Cena, Be a star.

7. Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks

Ah, the IWC’s favorite Tag Team. Tonight, Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins got some much needed air time. Even though they lost, they still looked pretty good, and it just goes to show that you don’t need to look far to find good tag teams in the WWE. They should change their tights though, they remind me too much of the Hart Foundation.

6. Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler

After another impressive showing, Dolph Ziggler gave officials another reason to push him to the moon. The match wasn’t as good as their Smackdown encounter though, but they still managed to put on a pretty good show in the time they were given. I was a little disappointed that Ziggler didn’t do anything to further himself from Vickie even more than he has, because it almost looks like WWE canned the idea of him leaving her. Let’s hope that isn’t the case.

5. Tensai loses his first match

To the low-card you go! Tensai (who lost his Lordship a few weeks back) lost his first WWE match last night. Can we just all agree that WWE dropped the ball hard with this guy? Not like there was really much to work with in the first place. Like seriously, did you really think you could just stick a really white guy with an Asian gimmick and have the fans accept him?

4. Stan Stansky

I know, I know. Stan Stansky wasn’t that big of a deal, but if you were on Twitter (or had a heart) you would’ve know that the man captivated everyone with his pure awesomeness. How can you have a better name than Stan Stansky?

3. Vince McMahon announced for next week’s Raw

In the 456,674th time that John Laurinaitis’s job will be evaluated, Vince McMahon will be returning next week to do the job. Even though Vince coming back doesn’t make any sense (didn’t he get relieved of his duties last year), I am still looking forward to seeing the big boss man again.

2. Kane vs. CM Punk

Once again, Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, and Kane proved why they should be the main event, not Big Show and Cena. Kane and Punk put on another awesome match, while Bryan was just being awesome. But it wasn’t the match that made us more interested in the feud, it was what happened after…

1. AJ flirts with Kane?

Now who saw that coming? After his match, Kane was ready to take out Punk, but a cute little AJ all decked out in Punk gear came to ring, batted her eyes, and sent the Big Red Monster to back confused. What does this mean? Is AJ going to go after Kane? Is she going to snap soon? So many questions came out of a simple bat of the eye, and there are so many solutions to it.