Choke's Smackdown 3/1/2013 Fantasy Preview / RAW Review
Posted by: choke Feb 28, 2013 | 1901 views | 3 comments
A look back at RAW, and a look ahead to tomorrow night's Smackdown in anticipation of the trade window opening
Raw had some good and bad, which in this current age of the WWE, I'll take any day of the week. You have Ziggler continuing to be BURIED each and every match he participates in, top cards beating the mid-card CHAMPIONS week in and week out, and other nonsense like the PTP match, Great Khali being involved in anything, and R-Truth's existence.
But then you have great things like the extremely brutal opening fight between Lesnar and HHH, and the absolute classic of a match between Punk and Cena.
Smackdown looks to be certain to be a worse follow-up. Here's a list of the matches (no spoilers). Again, as always, courtesy of http://www.ProWrestling.net
1. Big Show vs Randy Orton. With apparently nothing to gain for either. But hey, I'll take two top-card guys going against each other any day of the week instead of having each crush Cesaro and/or Barrett
2. Sin Cara vs Heath Slater. Oooooh. Sin Cara's "return" and Heath Slater's first match that I can recall in weeks. No clue who will even win this. Maybe it'll depend on the lights? Where the F is Mysterio?!
3. Kane (blindfolded) & Bryan (one arm tied) vs PTP: GOD MAKE IT STOP
4. Cesaro vs Miz in a best of 3 match for the US title: YES. As much as I think the Miz has been completely worthless in and out of the ring as of late, I'm excited to see how this goes. Does Miz have a chance here? I'll say no because I think I would have seen a spoiler, or hell, the WWE would have posted a spoiler by now if the title changed hands
5. Del Rio vs Sandow: I don't mind this, even though it's plain as day who will win. Sandow deserves an occasional win, but he certainly won't get it here
Now to this week's Rising/Falling
Rising:
1. Swagger/Henry: Dominant heels. Obvious, but again people could be sleeping. I wont be mentioning them here again, just a final warning type thing if you care about your league and haven't checked. Looks like Swagger isn't receiving any sort of punishment at all for that DUI thing.
2. Lesnar/HHH: Not 100% sold on drafting either, but the fact they're back on TV for the next month could lead to some points. The big question is how many? Will they get matches, or just brawl with each other leading up to Mania?
3. Undertaker: I mean, there's no WAY the WWE shows us the video of his house show on Raw, only to not have him EVER come out before Mania right? Plus he's damn near guaranteed that win. Who will it be against? Big speculation it'll be Punk
Also: All the other faces
Falling:
1. Fandango: I mean what's happening here? Is the WWE just trolling us (and Johnny Curtis?)
2. Bo Dallas: Milk Carton Alert Week 1
3. Sandow/Rhodes/Ziggler/PTP/Barrett: Can we get SOMETHING out of this group? SOMETHING meaning a win? It wouldn't be possible for me to put into words how disgusted I am with the directions the WWE has taken all of these individuals.
Also: All the other heels