RAW Retort – Triple H loses control

We’re getting the horns

I’m already over Los Matadores. Honestly, the creativity of character, and the ring work they’ve been showing has been stronger than I expected from them, and I wouldn’t be this annoyed by them if they were facing anyone but 3MB. This was their third RAW, their fifth televised match, and all of them have been with 3MB. We get it, they work well together, it’s time to move on and do something interesting with Los Matadores, if they’re able to.

Bosses are all heels

It’s about time Steph and Trip are all out heels. There was nothing riding the fence about this segment. Steph showed her heel side when she was talking about how she’d been too nice and it was taken as weakness. Then Trip really stepped things up with his growling, yelling, and then deeply calm voices. He played all the emotions, and they were all a bit scary. They took things to a whole new level after ADR beat up Bryan outside the ring with Steph’s calm, “Oh, Bryan, you were saying something? I guess you’re finished.” And then Trip starting the “YES!” chant himself. Brilliant moves, both of them.

What wasn’t brilliant was ADR blatantly slapping his own leg to get a wonderful noise when his book landed on Bryan’s face, except that the leg slap and the boot to the face were not timed well and the sound wasn’t at the right time. Also, Bryan appeared with quite the bruise later in the show, and that’s not something that should have happened from a move that ADR has used so regularly in the ring.

5:44 on the clock

Just recently Trip has decided that he wants the WWE to move away from scripted matches and more toward matches being called in the ring as they go. The biggest moves and the ending will still be decided, but he thinks that when the moves are called by the wrestlers in the ring, the matches have more spice, spark, and excitement to them.

He knows that he can’t force the wrestlers who don’t know how to call matches to suddenly start calling them in the ring, but he’s pushing that the younger wrestlers learn how to do this so that the WWE will eventually all be back to being called in the ring. Obviously, like everything else, there’s some who will be better at this than others.

Stone Cold Steve Austin has bad hearing in one ear, and has all of his wrestling career, so he learned that he needed to be the one to call the matches in the ring, or he can’t hear what the other person is saying, and makes a hash of it.

The reason I’m bringing this up is because Ryback very obviously called this match with R-Truth. The problem was that it was obvious that he was calling the match. It’s almost an art form to call a match so the fans can’t see it, but the way he called this match, my ten year old daughter who hasn’t been watching wrestling for very long would have noticed how obvious and bad it looked.

A good friend of mine was called out by Ryback this week on Twitter for the things he wrote about Ryback not being a main event wrestler, but then the tweet was edited to remove my friend, and correct his spelling, when Ryback got to the arena for RAW. It’s obvious that Ryback got in trouble for what he wrote, and was told to change it. This is just one more of those things that Ryback has done to prove that he’s not very professional, and surely will never be a top player in the WWE.