RAW Retort – I don't have Kool Aid in my veins

Then there’s Daniel Bryan. Is there anything that man can’t do? Just when you think you’ve seen his best, he steps into the ring with the likes of Swagger and manages to walk out unscathed. It was a short match, but Swagger’s been playing by a whole other set of rules lately.

The fans sure ripped Swagger apart with some of the loudest and most hateful chants of the night. That Swagger stopped dead in his tracks at the sound of the chants showed that he still doesn’t have what it takes to be a top guy. Bryan stepped in the ring with Ryback, the one man stupid enough to question Bryan’s ring skills the last time they faced off, and Ryback is still standing – though the fans pretty much chewed him up and spit him out with the ‘You can’t wrestle!’ and ‘Goldberg!’ chants.

I will say he came back well with a perfect suplex, but one perfect suplex doesn’t make a great wrestler. But the best moments of the night came between Bryan and Cesaro. Hopefully Cesaro’s stock improved from his time in the ring with Bryan. Cesaro is one of the best on the roster, and it’s nice to see him able to show his skills.

He’s by far the strongest person Bryan has faced in the ring recently – both physically, and the skills he possesses. Those two men had the fans on their feet and riled up for the better part of twenty minutes. Few matches do that, even Iron Man Matches. Hopefully we’ll have more between these two men, maybe not soon, but at some point before too long.

Either way, Bryan worked the ring for over thirty-two minutes of the last hour of RAW, and carried it like it was nothing, punctuating it all by being powerbombed through a table. Bryan really is an impressive man, and will be carrying the WWE before too long, and for years to come – no matter how much hair is on his face.

After all that, I’m continually brought back to that Miz TV segment shoved into the middle of RAW. What a glorious clusterfluffle! As if Miz’s corniness wasn’t bad enough, all the Divas looked either too stiff to be sexy, or too bored for me to care about watching them.

The two best segments of the night ended the show. Actually, it was most of the last hour of the show, proving that the flow of RAW was again utter crap. I think McMahon really needs to step back and keep from over-thinking every little detail of the show, and let creative get some work done without the nit-picking that throws the entire show into such upheaval. Hopefully they will be able to reign McMahon in, before he really messes with RAW in a way that hurts the WWE.