Cedric made his presence felt as he cracked some jokes on, aside from Legacy, wrestlers who are possible second generation superstars. The offspring of Andre the Giant and King Kong Bundy bore The Big Show; The Kool Aid Pitcher bore Mark Henry; and a jackass bore The Miz.
But the joke was on Cedric as Chavo Guerrero challenged him to a match and Santino Marella accepted on his behalf. Cedric is not a wrestler, but if Chavo is losing to Hornswoggle, maybe Cedric has a chance. Chavo’s challenge is in response to his unhappiness with how all the guest host keep putting him in matches against Hornswoggle with the stipulations always stacked against him.
Cedric also issued a six-man tag match between John Cena, MVP, and Mark Henry against Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, and The Big Show. The match wasn’t really unique because just last week we had a six-person tag match with Trish Stratus and Beth Phoenix fighting alongside the rival tag teams. However, Cedric – with the persuasion of Jericho and Show, of course – enforced that if the team of Orton loses, then Orton will face in a gauntlet match, next week, against John Cena, MVP, and Mark Henry. But if the team of Cena loses, then Cena will then face in a gauntlet match against Orton, Jericho, and Big Show.
The Cedric-Chavo match was a bit frustrating and entertaining at the same time. Cedric, being accompanied by the Bellas, entered the ring in white tights, red cape and underwear, with a top hat. And if that were not enough to get into the wrestling spirit, he dawned on a luchadore mask. Chavo could not stop laughing at Cedric’s get up, but the joke was on him when Cedric fled under the ring and a tougher Cedric wrestler came out to fight. King shouted, Cedric must have worked out under that ring. But in all honesty it was Ezekiel Jackson in the get up, and after a tadpole splash from little Cedric (Hornswoggle) – the real Cedric ran into the ring for the cover, counted by Santino Marella, the guest referee.Towards the end of the program, Jerry “The King” Lawler announced that tonight’s RAW would be Lilian Garcia’s final night with the WWE. It was a bit anti-climatic, because all she gave was a farewell speech and that was it. I was hoping that after 10 years with the company, she would at least have all the Divas come out and chant, Thank You Lilian – similar to what they did for Ric Flair. Jim Ross wrote on his blog of what Lilian Garcia plans to due with her life now and how vital she was to the WWE: Lilian told me that she was going to be forming a band and I can see her staying busy with, potentially, a multitude of music oriented projects plus she's getting married next month, as I understand it. Lilian has traveled thousands of miles for WWE and was a fixture on the "Tribute to the Troops" broadcasts over the years. I wish her the very best and she has been preparing for this exit from Monday night for quite some time. WWE does not have a permanent plan for Lilian’s replacement, but word has it that Howard Finkel will resume the post until a more permanent replacement comes along. Seeing as ECW once had Courtney Taylor as the backstage interviewer and then was replaced by Savannah for the past two weeks… it’s possible that Taylor may be considered for the role as ring announcer.
Lilian Garcia will be missed. Who’ll sing the National Anthem now?
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