Choke's WWE RAW Rant 10/13/2014: Hell in a Cell takes shape. Big Show disappoints America. Ambrose climbs a pole.
Posted by: choke Oct 14, 2014 | 1408 views | 0 comments
Another disappointing episode of RAW, though I can admit it was better than it has been recently mostly due to the decent Rollins/Swagger and Orton/Ziggler matches, and then it felt somewhat "important" with Rusev/Big Show and Ambrose/Cena in a ridiculous pole match.
I was surprised they gave us a match with Brie pinning Nikki as I expected a much bigger "event" before that happened. They did just announce a stip for a solo match between the two at Hell in a Cell where the loser must be the winner's personal assistant. I like Nikki's odds there, and she needs the points. The Cena/Ambrose vs Authority bits have been so old lately, so it was nice to see it mixed up a bit with them vs the Usos and D2D. It's annoying to see the tag champs pretty much not win once in the month since they've had the belts, but you've got to think they'll be defending the titles at HIAC and it's tough to see them losing them so quickly. Rusev vs Big Show was better than I expected and the crowd is really eating up this Rusev stuff. I predict Mark Henry to eventually turn on Show and maybe cost him a match as Rusev moves onto a bigger and better opponent (Cena? the Rock?)
No Adam Rose which we all can appreciate, and the AJ vs the World storyline has some promise but right now it's not translating well on TV IMO.
For Smackdown this Friday they announced a Sheamus with Usos vs Miz with Dust2Dust. So we should definitively get those matches for HIAC locked up soon. Then next week on RAW they already announced a match it feels like we've seen 10 times in the last month, Cena and Ambrose vs Rollins Orton and Kane in a street fight. Someone wake me when it's TLC...
I'll try to be back tomorrow for a Smackdown preview!