The first show of the new "season" of WWE wraps up and it's time to see if there will be any differences this time around.
The show opens up with Shane driving into the arena. I really liked the tracking shot they did with it as it created a sense of urgency. It was funny to see Shane give Ziggler his coat as he walked by.
Surprisingly enough, this talking segment between Shane and Stephanie didn't bother me like most talking segments. Probably because it wasn't as long as most of them and a match started right after in the same segment.
I am a little bothered that they're going with the same sibling rivalry story between the two of them. Especially since there wasn't much build up for it. It just came abruptly.
The first match of the evening sees The Miz and John Morrison versus Shawn Michaels and Rey Mysterio in a rematch from last week. As good as this match was last week, they shouldn't have done a rematch or at least not this quickly.
The match was more or less the same as last week. Good spots and nice pacing, which sadly made it boring because we just saw this match.
The end sees Rey hitting a sunset flip power bomb for the win. I didn't understand the point of having Miz and Morrison job. Why push these guys as the best tag team in the company and have them lose big matches or take away big wins from them?
After the match, Morrison relentlessly attacks Shawn. JBL comes to the ring and it was blatantly obvious that he was going to attack Morrison. The WWE is getting too predictable.
Backstage, JBL tells Todd Grisham that he made a deal with Shawn and leaves it at that. Sounds like another convoluted story is about to begin.
Mr. Kennedy makes his return to promote his new movie and run a strange and pointless video about Barak Obama. This segment really could have been cut out.
The first match in the Intercontinental Championship Tournament is next seeing Kofi Kingston versus Kane. This match was decent at best.
Kofi was all over the place like you'd expect him to be. There really wasn't anything special about this match. Kane gets himself disqualified by not breaking a hold.
Kane continues to attack and Stephanie comes out and shows why she shouldn't be allowed to talk. She gave Kane two choices. Beat up Kofi or fight John Cena next week on RAW. How does anything she just said make sense? Kane already beat up Kofi and the match next week is non title. This was the most pointless thing of the night.
Also, after looking at the bracket, I'm very disappointed that Jamie Noble isn't involved in this. The WWE just completely dropped the story between these two, which is terrible because this was the best feud they had on RAW.
Chris Jericho versus Batista versus Randy Orton for the number one contendership is next. I don't understand why Jericho doesn't automatically get a rematch clause. He just lost the title to someone who didn't earn a title match. Jericho should be given a rematch.
This match was the typical triple threat with one person out so the other two could work. They did have some good pin breaks and reversals but other than that, not exciting.
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