WWE RAW Rewind: The Sinking of The Flagship

After Cyber Sunday, we all thought that the WWE was moving forward. But it's clear that they don't know what to do with RAW. And it's obvious that they will do anything to keep someone happy...even at the expense of everyone else. And they thought they were happy when Triple H was drafted to SmackDown?

Here's the recap of a historic RAW.

Two Words: You're Jealous!

Despite their constant slandering of the pioneers of The Attitude Era, The Dirt Sheet still had to finish the job by defeating the real DX on RAW. But as always, their egos cost them when it mattered the most. Though The Sheet had complete control throughout the bout, it was their arrogance and mocking that helped DX recover from Morrison's Sweet Chin Music and Miz's attempt at The Pedigree to show the two young bucks how it's done.

Even though it's been 11 years since the original DX invaded Canada, WCW and the Corporation, Triple H and Shawn Michaels continue to be the measuring stick that young factions and tag teams have to live up to. Following a delivery of Sweet Chin Music from HBK, The Game dropped Miz with the Pedigree to pick up the victory.

The Deadman Cometh, Someone Walks...and The Legend Killer Turns

On a night where anything and everything could happen, RAW saw the return of The Phenom for one night only. Thanks to his brown nosing to the McMahon siblings, JBL got stuck in another showdown with The Deadman. Ironically enough, not much has changed since Taker's first appearance on RAW on the very first broadcast.

But JBL wasn't in the mood to fight Taker, and just when it looked as if Layfield was going to be taking a dirt nap, he bolted out of the ring in the hopes that he was free from the grasp of The Undertaker. But he was thrown back into the fight via Shawn Michaels. On this night, JBL joined Chavo and Big Show as the latest victims of the Undertaker's wrath.

But the anarchy didn't stop there for anyone. Randy Orton made it clear last week that it was either him or RAW GM Mike Adamle. On Monday, Orton got his wish...but not in the way he expected. Before Shane McMahon could decide on the fate of either man, Adamle came out and gave his walking papers to Shane. But Orton wasn't satisfied with just that from Adamle and demanded an apology from the former GM. But unfortunately, Shane had other plans for Orton. It turned out that Mr. RKO failed to inform the WWE that he was medically cleared to compete weeks ago.

With that, Shane put Orton in a match against CM Punk, the man that got screwed out of his chance to defend his World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven. But before Orton could prove his worth in every way possible, the former tag champs came out and ambushed Punk for last week's upset victory that saw The Kings of Punk become Tag Champions. In response to their interference, Orton punted Ted Dibiase in the skull. In the back, he dared Cody Rhodes and Manu to take a shot at him for doing what he did.

A Waste of A Good Title Reign

This is as small as I'm going to make this part: The Main Event was byfar the worst act of ignorance that the WWE had ever displayed. On the historic 800th episode, we saw highlights of Austin's most off the wall moments, The Invasion of DX to WCW, the final appearance of Ric Flair on RAW and even an appearance by Senator John McCain and President-Elect Barack Obama.

But of all the things that happened on Monday night, there were two big surprises from Monday night. The first one was Chris Jericho becoming World Champion for the second time, less than a week after losing the gold at Cyber Sunday via Stone Cold and a Batista Bomb. Jericho as champion? Don't understand the logic considering what will happen at the end of November. With Survivor Series around the corner, Shane McMahon announced that the next World Heavyweight Championship match will be at Survivor Series as Chris Jericho will face...in Boston...the returning John Cena!

Again, don't understand what makes Jericho so special that having him as World Champion going into Survivor Series is a good idea. Since it was Batista that put Cena on the shelf, it would make sense to have the two men settle their differences from Summerslam at SS with the gold on the line. But I guess they're not thinking the way we think, are they Bleacher Nation?