WWE RAW Retort – Say Hi to Dusty for me

The return of the Canadian Italian cobra!

It was great to see Santino return to the WWE ring! I’m not thrilled that Cesaro had to lose a match to Santino, but it was nice to see Santino actually use a small portion of his ring skills.

I know Santino is a riot, the funny guy on the roster, the one who can make everyone laugh, but when he does it, he’s sacrificing his arsenal of skills in the process.

Santino has ring skills that few can touch, but because he’s the funny guy, we don’t get to see them. I guess we should be happy that he gets the TV time he does, and not worry that he’s not showing what he really can do, especially since he and his business partner just recently opened their MMA and pro wrestling school in Ontario, Canada.

He’s passing on his knowledge, and that’s a great thing.

Fandango distracts Miz, again!

I have to admit that I love that they keep teasing us with the feud between Fandango and Miz. It started at SummerSlam, and the teasers keep growing, but it hasn’t exploded yet.

Now, I do wish Fandango was feuding with someone better than Miz, as it’s a huge step down from working with Jericho, but not every feud can be with a top legendary wrestler!

Fandango and Miz are fun, and maybe it will help them both in the long run. Sadly, the one who needs the most help is Sandow. With Cody Rhodes gone, Sandow seems to be a bit lost and without direction.

It’s too early for him to go after the World Heavyweight Championship, but they need to figure out something to do with him in the mean time, because he’s floundering!

Goldust proves himself

Goldust was impressive

I was quite impressed with how Goldust looked physically. He looked thin, but not too thin. Some of his returns were marked by how chunky he looked in his jumpsuit, but not this time.

He didn’t look overly thin, but he looked leaner than we’ve seen him in years. Further, the way Goldust worked the ring was better than I remember during his past couple runs in the WWE and TNA.

He went to that ring and left it all out there for almost a quarter of an hour, and carried the WWE Champion with his work. Goldust looked strong, technical, and dedicated. I was very impressed, and I hope the WWE thinks hard about bringing Goldust back to the company to work against Cody when he returns.

Cody needs to feud with Goldust, it’s something the fans really want to see, and since Goldust is in the best shape we’ve seen him in, when better than soon?

I know they will have to come up with some sort of storyline to explain it, they could even pit the brothers against each other, and one of them gets a job over the other, but the brothers need to feud in some way and soon – both showed that they’re ready in their most recent two matches.

Steph was really quite obnoxious to Goldust after he lost his match. Even when she started off sounding somewhat sympathetic, I knew she was going to turn nasty, but Steph stepped even further than I thought she might. That last shot for Dustin to say hi to Dusty for her after blaming absolutely everything on Dustin’s loss was almost painful to watch, especially after Goldust put on such a wonderful match.