BRM Reviews the 6/4/2012 Raw (HORRENDOUS)

[Big Red Machine]

OPENING SEGMENT- not very good. Cena wasn’t at his best tonight and Cole saying “you can’t beat a giant” can easily be proven wrong by any number of examples from history. Hogan vs. Andre at WM 3, Angle vs. Big Show at Armageddon, Cena vs. Big Show at WM 20, Cena has beaten Khali multiple times... hell… a few months ago, Cody Rhodes (who is smaller than Cena) beat The Great Khali (who is larger than the Big Show) CLEANLY… IN THREE MINUTES. Anyway, this angle was used to set up a match between John Cena and Michaels Cole. Snore. Odds are Show will show up anyway and jump Cena.

SHEAMUS vs. DOLPH ZIGGLER (w/ Vickie Guerrero)- 4.5/10.
Why do they keep having Dolph lose so quickly? He is the best worker in the company aside from Dragon and Punk. They should be pushing him.

DEL RIO AND RODRIGUEZ ATTACK SHEAMUS- AWESOME!

VINCE WILL BE COMING BACK NEXT WEEK TO GIVE JOHNNY ACE A JOB PERFORMANCE EVALUATION- this is the second job evaluation he has had in a few months. And when did Vince get his kayfabe pweor back?

SIN CARA vs. HUNICO (w/Camacho)- 4.75/10
The first time I have actually been excited to see Hunico be someone’s opponent. Cole’s claim that Sin Cara is “Mexico’s most popular superstar of all-time” is ridiculous. He is nowhere close to El Santo’s level.

HANDICAP MATCH: Ryback vs. Arthur Rosenberg & Stan Stanksky- squash
This crap is getting old. And the two-on one squash looks a lot less impressive when the two guys your are facing look like, if you add them together, they came just short of outweighing Spike Dudley.

DANIEL BRYAN PROMO- waste of time

CM PUNK vs. KANE- 6.5/10
The aftermath here with AJ could lead to some interesting things, but at this point I don’t trust WWE to do anything with it.

JOSH MATTHEWS INTERVIEWS AJ- well. That confirms it. WWE has official f*cked this up big time. Can you say “character assassination?”

KOFI KINGSTON & R-TRUTH vs. CURT HAWKINS & TYLER REX- 4.75/10

JOHN CENA vs. MICHAEL COLE- dumb tease

JOHN CENA vs. TENSAI (w/Sakamoto)- 4.5/10
Tensai didn’t take anywhere near enough offense before going down.

NO DQ’S MATCH: John Cena vs. Michael Cole- no rating- WRETCHED segment.
John Cena helps us revisit a feud that ended over a year ago (and that was after it went on for two months too long). Lawler just happens to have bottles of JR’s BBQ sauce with him at the commentary desk. Tensai gets up just for the sake of creating a nearfall… this was just utter sh*t.

This episode of Raw was absolutely horrendous.