Top 5 Worst of the Week: Santino, AW and More!

No Rock, No Brock, No Undertaker this week.

Time to get back to normal.

Except the new normal is now an extra 60 minutes of Raw every week.

With an extra hour, that leaves plenty of opportunities to have more dancing segments, more Brodus Clay matches, and matches that used to last two minutes (Del Rio vs. Santino) now inexplicably last seven!

Overall, though, Raw was okay this week.

The extra time made the show drag a bit, but it could have been worse.

That doesn't mean it was all fine, however. Raw, SmackDown and Impact still had their share of blunders.

Lucky for our friend Tensai, he didn't post his Tout on WWE TV. Otherwise he'd take his shameful place on this list.

Don't feel too bad for him, though, as a fellow colleague of his said something even worse on TV!

Here are the top five worst moments of the week, July 29th-August 4th.

No. 5: Santino vs. Del Rio

Why do I keep getting the feeling that we've seen Santino vs. Alberto Del Rio before?

Could it be because WWE airs this match every couple of weeks?

Naw, that couldn't be... wait...no, that is why.

Just go to Google and type in "Alberto Del Rio vs. Santino."

Let's see, looks like the two faced off at least on May 28th, June 18th, July 2nd, and now the July 30th Raw. 

Amazingly, Del Rio won every single one of those matches.

Why did General Manager AJ book that match? Doesn't she watch the television show? That was very unprofessional of her.

The best part is with three-hour Raws, this former squash match between the two lasted five minutes longer than it used to.

Did Santino become a better wrestler these past few weeks? No, he quickly jobbed to Antonio Cesaro (again) on SmackDown.

When you heard that Raw was going to three hours, and you thought "all right, now I can watch longer matches between Alberto Del Rio and Santino every other week!" you were probably happy.

The rest of us, not so much.

No. 4: Booker T. Named General Manager

Why do I suddenly feel like a "Suckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"?

Oh yeah, Booker T. is the new GM of SmackDown!

If there is anything that WWE needs, I think most fans can agree that it was another authority figure. There just isn't enough of them.

Sure, we have Vince McMahon, Triple H, and AJ, but that's an uneven number. WWE fans demanded a fourth, and then a fifth when Teddy Long became Booker's assistant.

We can only hope that AJ takes an assistant to make this an even number again.

In the end, I'm kind of torn on this making the list, as it does get Booker out of announcing.

Shucky ducky quack quack indeed.

No. 3: Kane's "Super" Powers

Poor Kane.

He used to shoot lightening out of his hands and start desks on fire. Now he's reduced to the powers of a red light bulb.

Shortly after Daniel Bryan finished his psychiatric evaluation, the lights in the room suddenly turned red, and Kane emerged out of nowhere to attack him!

Well... not really out of nowhere, he just kind of opened the door and came it.

Yes, Kane and Undertaker have done a lot of silly mystical stuff in their time, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

Watching wrestling makes you suspend your disbelief to a certain extent, but when someone somehow makes a room turn red right before he appears, it makes you wonder.

Sometimes it makes you wonder not how Kane did it, but why you're watching the show.

No. 2: Claire's Party

Christopher Daniels has been one of the most entertaining men in wrestling since his heel turn, but even he can't come close to saving these Claire/A.J. Styles segments.

I'm not sure I understood the point of this last skit.

The crowd was waiting for Kaz and Daniels to give Claire a present that was... I don't know... interesting or relevant to the story?

Instead, she opened up diapers, memorabilia and an AJ Styles baby doll.

That was it?

Claire then cried again and told A.J. to do the right thing.

It was painful. It was even worse than an actual bridal shower.

No. 1: AW's "Joke"

How could this not be No. 1?

Whether AW's joke offended you or not, it had no place on a PG program.

The problem with AW's microphone gimmick is that it distracts from the matches that are going on in front of him.

This time it really took away from what was going on in the ring.

With WWE targeting their programs to kids (remember John Cena saying the average Raw viewer was nine years old?), a character shouldn't be making jokes (and really dated jokes at that) about a man forcing sex on a woman in a motel room.

Maybe AW should have been the Raw GM after all.

It would have made more sense than Hornswoggle and, better yet, kept him off a live microphone.