Mysterio-us RAW

So, after weeks of speculation about what Kane has been carrying around in that little brown bag of his (I didn’t care enough to speculate on it) the answer was actually one that took a few people by surprise. The general consensus had been that it was Kane’s old mask and that Kane had been referring to the monster inside himself when asking ‘is he alive or is he dead?’. RAW General Manager Mike Adamle was certainly of that opinion when he demanded to be shown the contents of the bag following Kanes defeat by Chris Jericho (a defeat that barely seem to register with the announcer team despite it being a big scalp for Jericho). However while it did indeed turn out to be a mask inside the bag it was in fact that of Rey Mysterio, noticable by his absense (due to legitimate injury although that hasn’t been mentioned) since being drafted to RAW from Smackdown. The crowd reaction wasn’t what it could have been, largely I think to Adamles total undersell of the situation but I think this could make for a really decent storyline, although it will probably have to wait until after Summerslam.

Rey Mysterio

As expected Batista and John Cena dropped the tag titles straight back to Rhodes or DiBiase, although needless to say the writers couldn’t resist insisting Cena and Batista got to dish out a beating afterwards. They then brawled between themselves as the show went off air. Great. I just can’t get myself pumped for this match…as I said before it just seems so wasted with such a weak build up, and putting it above two world title matches on the card is just stupid. I did love Batistas mocking of Cena at the start of the show, and his comment that a lot of people over the age of 15 want to see Cena get his ass kicked was one of the best quotes of the year so far. Never a truer word spoken my friend.

CM Punk was relegated as ever to midcard duty, this time in a farcical ‘drinking contest’ with JBL. Needless to say the straight edge Punk declined the challenge and instead laid out JBL (admittedly only after throwing a drink in his face). This was a frustrating segment though as it was largely dominated by JBL who has been inexcusably over-exposed recently, although when Punk was given a chance on the mic he didn’t disappoint, and summed up by feelings to perfection when he said all this talk about Batista vs Cena to decide who’s the main man on RAW was stupid because HE is the main man. Damn right. The champion should always be the main man and no amount of Vince and the writers trying to force feed me John fucking Cena will ever change that.

So what do you make of this new Kane/Mysterio angle? Who will you be cheering on when Cena and Batista go at it? And will Summerslam be the night CM Punk finally makes it as a true champion? I wanna hear it y’all.