Reverend Al Sharpton cost RAW a 3.1 in ratings, the lowest since the start of the celebrity guest hosting.The show started off with a segment of MVP's VIP Lounge along with his tag team partner, "The World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry. - Business has picked up at the VIP Lounge.
They started to introduce Sharpton until JeriShow interrupted and wanted the honor of welcoming the Reverend to Monday Nights. However, despite both teams trying to hype him up, the RAW crowd and apparently everyone at home could not stand the sight of Al Sharpton as we can sense from the overwhelming "boos."
Yet, Sharpton won them over, for a second, by agreeing to set up a Unified Tag Team Title Defense right on the spot against MVP and WSM. Honestly, that was careless of the host to put JeriShow in a second match, after already having to compete in a gauntlet match later that night.
And just like the Mayweather "hosting" skills, MVP pretty much made the match up as Sharpton stood their as the puppet he is and said yes.
The night consisted of five matches: Chris Jericho and The Big Show defended their Unified Tag Team Titles against MVP and WSM. It appears that WWE built up Cryme Tyme and MVP and WSM just to crush them in the end. Cryme Tyme was wiped out of the picture after being defeated by The Hart Dynasty 2 weeks ago, and now MVP and WSM lost in their 2nd pursuit for the titles. However, JeriShow may have won tonight, but will they recover in time to face Batista and Rey Mysterio for the titles come this Sunday?
The next match was a one-on-one match between the Divas Champion Mickie James and Rosa Mendes. Honestly, why is Mickie James proving herself in the ring? She easily disposed of Rosa Mendes. Last week, Mickie was pinned by "The Glamazon" with no help from Alicia Fox. Shouldn't that be the point of these matches? To have Alicia Fox interfere and have Mickie lose matches? As of right now, there is No Chance in Hell that Alicia Fox will win on merit alone.
Then there was the contest of Jack Swagger and Evan Bourne. So far Bourne has an awesome high octane entrance that gets the fans pumped, but he's been turned into a jobber - much like the early career of Jeff Hardy. Jack Swagger entered with a fourth of July pyro and bearing the United States Championship. Now, Swagger didn't win the title last week, he just stole it from The Miz who stole it from Kofi Kingston (the rightful champion). After the match, Swagger proclaimed that he would become the next champion and be known as The All American-American United States Champion. But of course, The Miz foresees another outcome where he's the United States Champion. The two started scuffling inside the ring - impressed that Miz could even knock down Swagger. The sad thing is, these two have a better feud than any one of them have against Kofi Kingston. And a side note: Kofi Kingston is now being billed from Ghana, West Africa his true birthplace as opposed to his storied birthplace of Kingston, Jamaica. So eventually, it would make sense that he would change his gimmick. You cannot be a Jamaican Superstar from Ghana, it just doesn't make sense.
The fourth match was a tag team match: Chavo Guerrero and Chris Masters def. Santino Marella and Hornswoggle. As of late, Chavo, in story line, has been disgusted with facing off against Hornswoggle in no-win situations so this week he decided to team up with Masters, but it was Santino Marella that named his partner Hornswoggle. Marella assumed that he could take either one of them on single-handedly, but that just didn't work out as he passed out from The Master Lock. Now, the twist in the match was when Masters locked the move on Hornswoggle as added punishment. But it was Chavo Guerrero who decided to knock out Masters on his back, protecting Hornswoggle? What has caused this change of events? The leprechaun has been humiliating Chavo for months and it's now that he decides to be friends with him? Only time will tell why Chavo did this, but honestly, these three have to much potential to be messing around with a leprechaun. WWE wonders why they don't have enough main event star power... well this is why!
John Cena. Except Cena was prepared for the match as he called for the Hell in a Cell to drop down, enclosing the two combatants in the ring. This of course was a hype up for the match this sunday as the battle took place outside of the cell and scaled the 20ft structure, where Cena tossed Orton with the Attitude Adjuster on top of the cell. As Cena said before, this Sunday will be Orton's last chance at the Title, after this there are no more title shots. Can Orton defy the odds and defeat Cena in Hell in a Cell?
Another build up was between Legacy and DX, as Legacy spoke in the ring of how they are the new dominate force in the WWE and they will win this sunday. DX off to their old pranks started cracking jokes at them and compared themselves to The Hulk, sure when they joke around they are Bruce Banner, but when the monster unleashes, well... they like it when the monster unleashes and this Sunday they will see a darker more ruthless side of them. Can Legacy continue to cement their Legacy or will DX prove to be the Greatest Tag Team of All time?
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