Tonight's Raw Promises To Be the Same As Every Week, Predictable

Senior Analyst Written on June 22, 2009

NEW YORK - MARCH 28: Donald Trump, wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon attend the press conference held by Battle of the Billionaires to announce the details of Wrestlemania 23 at Trump Tower on March 28, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

(Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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Trump will stand up to Orton, and announce that the new General Manager is none other than Ric Flair, most likely, and Orton will jump around, whine, cry and plead for Trump to reconsider.

Flair will then come out, cut one of his classic promos (no sarcasm there), say something to the effect of Orton will be fighting HHH, and that is that.

Since that will eat up a good 15 minutes of the opening of Raw, they'll probably have a match or two scattered right after this.

Sometime, backstage, I would presume we'd see a meeting of Vince and Trump to discuss how Vince feels about Trump's decisions so far, and boy can I not wait to see more of Donald Trump try and be valid in wrestling (plenty of sarcasm there)!

The high point of Raw will be probably be somewhere near the top of the second hour, and most likely come from one of the following people(s), MVP, The Oddities 2.0 (Santino, Goldust, Festus, and Hornswoggle), or, well I think that may sum up where the high point may be.

The bulk of the second hour, I will guess, will be the match between HHH and Orton version 3.14^937464e3. Since it's supposedly going to be a Last Man Standing Match, I would bank on this being a lengthier match.

Don't get me wrong, it'll be a long match, but it won't be stellar.

What we've seen from these two is, they cannot carry a big match. Vince just simply feels safe in using them, and he feels that he can count on them to "deliver."

What matches Vince thinks he sees I will never know!

In the end, I'm guessing we'll see Legacy get involved to take out HHH, and somehow Flair comes down to join the fray. Ultimately I don't see this match having a decision so that they can push the actual outcome over to The Bash.

The Trump angle I don't see going on very many weeks. It won't boost ratings like Vince hopes, and it won't garner the reaction he is hoping for either.

I honestly am not holding out much hope for the "positive reviews" of Raw tonight. I sincerely hope I'm wrong in a lot of these predictions, so that maybe I'll begin to see that Vince is finally starting to change things up, but I doubt it.

So please, let me be wrong!

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written on June 22, 2009 Opinion