What up everybody this is going to be my raw review for July 29, 2013
The show starts out with a segment between Vince McMahon and Daniel Bryan. Vince tells Bryan that John Cena is lying to him and that Cena thinks Bryan is just an easy opponent to beat. He also talks about how Bryan is troll and he says that he doesn't want Cena or Bryan to be the champion and he hopes that at Summerslam they will spontaneously com-bust. I really liked this segment, it was somewhat humerus and Vince did a good job of establishing Bryan as the underdog and not being big enough. I was hoping that they would they would do that with the feud, make Bryan seem too small and that he's fighting against all the odds. Next Bryan says that it doesn't matter what Vince thinks, it only matters what the fans think, and he says that they wan't him to be wwe champion. It ends with Bryan and the fans chanting Yes Yes Yes.
Like I said before a very good opening segment, the one thing I didn't get though was Vince said that Bryan doesn't have ruthless aggression, and I posted on twitter ....umm have you ever seen him wrestle? One of the reasons that I'm such a big Daniel Bryan is fan is because I really like when he gets on fire in matches and he is going all over the place super fast, kicking people and jumping outside of the ring onto them. I would call that ruthless aggression. I think what they're setting up for is Randy Orton who hasn't been on raw for a few weeks to cash on Bryan at Summerslam. I'm going to be talking about that more in a different article soon about Daniel Bryan and things that could happen at summerslam.
Since we're on the topic of Daniel Bryan later in night there was segment with Triple H and Vince. Vince says that he just wants someone to beat John Cena someone like Triple H except 20 or 23 years younger. This made Tripe H mad but before he could say anything Stephanie came in and said that she thinks they should give Daniel Bryon a corporate makeover. Then Vince says good luck with that and walks away. Usually I don't like the McMahon segments these they've been having but this one was pretty funny. The way that Vince said good luck with that and the 23 years younger thing I thought was entertaining. As for Stephanie's big idea, it has me nervous but I think that if they do the right way it could be funny and it could be good for the storyline. Also I've learned never to count out Daniel Bryan because he's made some of the strangest gimmicks and storylines work perfectly. We'll just have to see what a corporate makeover entails next week.
Most of middle part of the show was similar to last week, not anything too special, it was just ok. We had two divas matches acually for the first time since...who knows but it was probably just to promote the Total Divas show. There was Brie Bella vs Natalia, I actually didn't watch this match because I was watching a different movie that I cared a lot more about than the match. It looks like the Bellas and Natalia are going to start feuding, maybe Natalia will find a partner and they'll have a tag team match at Summerslam, probably on the pre show.
Then we also had AJ vs Katelyn, when I heard that we were having this match again I wasn't very exited, I didn't mind the feud and the matches before but I'm done with it now and I hope that it doesn't lead to another match Summerslam. I would rather they do Katelyn vs the Bellas and then have AJ and Natalia have a match at Summerslam. I think that would be a much better match that a fourth AJ and Katelyn one.
Then Dolph Ziggler came out and congratulated AJ on her loss and said that he wants a match with Big E. This match was ok but nothing super special. It ended when AJ gets in the ring and starts attacking Dolph and pulling out his hair. Big E is mad at AJ for disqualifying him but then Ziggler gets back in the ring hits the zig zag on Big E. They been teasing a break up between AJ and Big E for a little while now but they've also been teasing them becoming a couple so I have no idea what they're going to do with them. I would keep them together because I think it benefits AJ to have a bodyguard and I bet Big E would just go down the card if they split up.
Another match we had was Rob Van Dam vs Fandango, this was ok. It ends with Fandango leaving and getting counted out. Then he got on the mic and said his name. It looks like they might be setting up a summerslam match but I'm really over Fandango at this point so I'd much rather have RVD face Wade Barrett.
Speaking of Wade Barrett he had a match against Cody Rhodes, this was an ok match with Cody winning. They also showed a video package of what happened on smackdown with Cody Rhodes throwing Damien Sandow's briefcase into the gulf of Mexico.
Then Damien comes out and yells at Cody Rhodes for throwing his briefcase into the water and he says that he has people searching for right now. He also said that for months he went around the world enlightening people and all Cody Rhodes did was grow a mustache. He also said something about Cody and his family being a bunch of circus freaks.
Damien Sandow is just amazing, he's someone like Daniel Bryan that can make any gimmick work. Most people in his gimmick would have come across as silly and dumb but he plays his character to a t and he's one of my favorites in wwe. Whenever he holds a mic it's super entertaining and I can't wait for him to be world champion.
The one thing that this feud is missing though is a face promo from Cody Rhodes. The announcers said that on smackdown that Cody will explain himself so then maybe we can get a feel for if his face character will actually work. I'm guessing they'll have Cody Rhodes vs Damien Sandow maybe with MITB contract on the line. Hopefully in a ladder match.
Another match on raw was Christian vs Alberto Del Rio. This was a very good match with Del Rio getting the win with the killswitch. I think Christian is going to face Del Rio at summerslam that way Del Rio can get revenge for his loss.
Another match was Mark Henry and the Usos vs The Shield, The Shield ends up winning but after the match Henry single handedly takes out all of the Shield. This was a very enjoyable match but it did leave the Shield looking a little bit weak.
One thing about the middle part of raw though was that they gave away what will probably be almost their whole summerslam card for free. Henry and the Usos vs The Shield, RVD vs Fandango, Christian vs Del Rio, AJ vs Katelyn, and Ziggler vs Big E Langston. I could see maybe doing that with one or two matches but that's like 70% of the card, can't they think of a better way to build feuds. Also if they are going to do that the matches darn well better really good to make people want to buy them again and the only match was good enough was Christian vs Del Rio and maybe Mark Henry and the Usos vs The Shield. If people have already seen the matches then why would they want to buy summerslam, especially if most of the matches weren't all that good.
We also had a match between Curtis Axel and R-Truth, the crowd was chanting for CM Punk and that's what they ended up getting. Punk came out and attacked Axel and then tried to make good on his promise of getting Paul Heyman. He got his hands on Heyman a little bit but Axel was able to fight him off long enough for Heyman get away. This was an entertaining segment but it wasn't as good as the stuff that we've been getting recently from Punk and Heyman. In a feud that goes on for two months though I guess you can't have a super news worthy segment each week and this one wasn't bad it just wasn't as good as some of the stuff we've being seeing lately.
Daniel Bryan vs Kane
This wasn't too bad of a match, it was no Daniel Bryan vs Antonio Cesaro but it was still enjoyable. Bryan wins the match with a roll up and afterword Kane chokeslames him. After that the Wyatt family came out and layed out Kane. So it looks like we'll probably be getting either Kane vs Bray Wyatt or Kane and two other people vs whole Wyatt family at summerslam.
John Cena vs Ryback (Tables Match)
This was a decent match but there was some strange things going on in it like when Cena and Ryback were both holding steel steps and they had kind of a stand off and then they threw the stairs at each other. That was a little strange but still a decent match. In the end Cena ends up winning by throwing Ryback through a table.
The thing that I didn't like about this match was Ryback, his character had been so jacked around these last few months that when he's in an important match it's hard to take it seriously. One week he's Cryback and the next week he's supposed to be some kind of bully, they even had to do a segment backstage where he throws some random guy through a table to try to build him up. The announcers kept talking about how he's a bully and how dangerous he was but am I really supposed to buy that after his feud with Chris Jericho? Ryback's character should be similar to Mark Henry's heel character where he's just this monster that destroys everything in his path but when you compare the two, Mark Henry when he was heel was on a completely different level, a completely different planet compared to Ryback.
I think the original plan was for Big Show to come out last week instead of Ryback but for whatever reason they didn't do that and they picked Ryback instead. It's probably a good thing though because than Big Show would have lost one of first matches since coming back. Now Ryback has another loss and I think he needs to just leave for a while and then come back as a face or a repackaged heel.
After Cena won Daniel Bryan came out and it looked like he going to give the wwe championship to Cena but he pulled it away, then Cena grabbed it from him and said that he has to earn it first. I really like this feud between Daniel Bryan, John Cena and Vince McMahon so far. Vince doesn't want Bryan to become champion because he doesn't fit the mold of what a typical top star usually is and there's also some tension between Cena and Bryan as well.
Overall this was an ok episode of raw but nothing all that special. I wish that they would have announced at least one match for next week so that people would really have a reason to tune in, the only reason they announced the two for this week was probably just because the episode was taped last week.
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