WWE RAW Retort – A night full of surprises

Kane

Kane confuses the fans

Miz didn’t have chance against Kane here, and it made him look like a total mess. Makes me wonder how he was WWE Champ if he could get destroyed by anyone in one minute thirteen seconds. I know it was Kane, but still, it made Miz look bad.

On the other hand, Kane looked trimmer, slimmer, and more fit than I’ve seen him in years. I guess working on a movie set is good for Mr. Jacobs, because he came back looking much younger than his years.

What I don’t understand is the swerve he threw at us. I hope this doesn’t mean that Kane is again unmasked. He’s so much better as a masked monster, and emotes better than most from under there.

I don’t know why he’s aligned himself with Steph yet, but hopefully handing over his mask was symbolic and Steph holds his mask for when she needs him to do her dirty work, then he will come out masked? Only time will tell, but it was a shocking twist!

CM Punk-Ryback

Ryback goes out without a bang

Punk took out Heyman at Hell In A Cell, and took out Ryback on RAW. I would like to say that it’s sad how quickly Punk took out Ryback – under five minutes – but it wasn’t really shocking to me, as Ryback just doesn’t have the skills to be a top guy.

I will say that I cringed when Ryback slammed Punk down on the mat as hard as he did. Ryback worked more than stiff against Punk, and that was showing his bruised ego. That Punk got right back up and took Ryback out proved who is the top guy between the two, and why.

Not only did they finish blowing off Punk’s feud with Ryback, but they started his next one in one fell swoop! I love the thought of both Bryan and Punk working against The Wyatt Family. I don’t know who the third might be, and I’m worried it’s Miz, but beggars can’t be choosers. I’m so excited at the possibilities brought up by The Wyatt Family on RAW!

Rhodes lose?

I am shocked that Cody and Goldust lost a match, but we will have deal with them losing one now and then. It will happen at some point, and it wasn’t for the gold, so it’s not a real biggie. I was a bit bummed that Cesaro didn’t continue with his possible face turn, and didn’t hit the giant swing in this match. If Cesaro is going to hit 100 at WrestleMania, he needs to pick up the pace and start hitting it every week.

ADR flops

I don’t know if I’ve heard the crowd as dead as when ADR was on mic. Hopefully the powers that be in the WWE actually listened to the fans and do something about the fact that ADR is not drawing in any way.

Big Show again crashes the party

Trip, Steph and Orton all sold their too good for everyone else on the roster thing quite well, but it was Big Show who really brought the segment to a crashing halt, and made it so much more than it could have been on its own. The problem is that Big Show has crashed the end of RAW for how many weeks now?

They need to change things up in some way. I will say that this was the best episode of RAW the WWE has given us in quite a long time, but it ended on a low note. I can understand that they’re going somewhere with this Big Show thing, but the need to rework some of it so that it doesn’t drag down the end of the show.