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September 13, 2010

WWE Raw house show report from Peterborough, Ontario

Here is a report on Sunday's WWE Raw house show from Peterborough, Ontario, courtesy of reader Michelle McKague:

Ted DiBiase (accompanied by Maryse) and Evan Bourne was the first match. Justin Roberts announced that by order of the GM there’d be a dance contest first, decided by the fans. DiBiase cut a quick promo about how he’s the best at everything and then did a terrible dance routine, which was mostly Maryse shaking her a** and slithering against him. Evan Bourne did a few moves and then dipped Maryse, much to her horror. Bourne won the contest. It was pretty bad. Followed by a really quick match, DiBiase got in some quick offense, but Bourne quickly turned the tables and hit the Shooting Star Press and then got the cover. The whole thing took less than five minutes. Bourne got ok pop and DiBiase got decent heat.

After the match Nexus (Wade Barrett, David Ortunga, Michael Tarver and Heath Slater) showed up after the match was over and beat down Bourne, while DiBiase managed to escape to the back with Maryse. Wade Barrett then did a quick promo insulting Canada.

Zack Ryder vs. Primo was next. Ryder started wailing on Primo, but Primo quickly turned it around and was able to get the win. Crowd was pretty indifferent. I thought Primo looked really good in the ring, better than he has in the past, he also looked like he was in better shape.

Randy Orton vs. Sheamus for the WWE Championship. Huge pop for Orton. It was actually ridiculous how into him the crowd was. Sheamus got pretty amazing heat as well, people were booing him like crazy. Match was about 20 minutes and there was lots of back and forth between Orton and Sheamus as to who had the momentum. Orton went on the offensive and dominated the last five minutes, then Sheamus hit the ref and got himself disqualified. Orton hit the RKO on Seamus and then left. Seamus held the belt and taunted the crowd for a minute or so, getting huge heat.

Bella twins came out and announced a special bell ringer for the mixed tag match. A kid from the audience got chosen. Mixed tag match was Goldust and Gail Kim vs. Tamina and one of the Usos (they were both there though). Gail Kim got a big pop, but then she’s a Toronto girl. Goldust and the Uso brother started the match, but the women quickly tagged in and wrestled for about five minutes, with lots of back and forth. Then the men were back in the ring, lots of interference from the other Uso. Golduust was fantastic in the ring, he really is a great worker. After a couple minutes of defence, he gained the upper hand and got the pin. There was some creepy celebrating in the ring.

The Bellas came back in and threw some t-shirts and then Justin Roberts announced intermission.

Melina vs. Alicia Fox with Santino as special referee. Neither woman got much of a reaction at all from the crowd, but Santino got a huge pop. Again, though, he’s a Toronto boy. Match was quick and Alicia Fox looked really sloppy. Melina got the pin. Santino stuck around for a moment to pose for the crowd. Huge pop for Santino.

The Miz vs. John Morrison was next. The Miz came out first and cut a long promo on how awesome he was. Got a lot of heat, but a few cheers mixed in there (including from me). Interacted with the audience a bit, as well. Morrison came out, bantered with The Miz for a while, called him a jackass. Decent pop for Morrison. Lots of offense in this match. The Miz took the cover off the turnbuckle and there were a lot of great spots with both The Miz and Morrison trying to avoid the exposed turnbuckle. After about fifteen minutes, The Miz won. Morrison hung around to mug for the crowd, though he was selling a leg injury.

Main Event was Nexus vs. The Hart Dynasty (accompanied by Natalya), Chris Jericho and Edge. Huge, huge pop for team Raw. They spent a few minutes cutting a promo about how awesome Canada was and how Nexus was about to get their a**es kicked by four Canadians. Jericho and Edge were totally playing the face role and the crowd loved them. Good pop for the Hart Dynasty to and the crowd took turns screaming “Edge”, “Y2J”, “Dynasty” and “Canada”. It was announced that it was an elimination tag and if any member of Nexus interferred once they were eliminated then Wade Barrett would lose his title shot at Night of Champions. Long match, about 25 minutes. Tyson Kidd started it off for team Raw against Heath Slater. Huge heat for Nexus and lots of “Wendy” chants for Slater, after Edge remarked that he looked like the girl from the logo. Nexus dominated the first fifteen minutes, working well as a team. Nexus eliminated both DH Smith and Tyson Kidd after delivering brutal beat downs, but Jericho was able to turn the tables on Nexus and eliminate David Ortunga and Heath Slater. Then Edge took over and eliminated Michael Tarver and Wade Barrett. Huge cheer from the crowd.

After the match, Jericho and the Hart Dynasty headed back and Edge stayed and talked to the crowd for a few minutes. Talked about how awesome Canada is, how he’s only an hour from home and threw in a cheer for the Peterborough OHL team, then did a lap around the ring, shaking hands. Definitely acting like a face and crowd was so into him, it was sick. Edge definitely got the biggest reaction of the night, the crowd loved him.

Really good show all around. The crowd was really into it and it seemed to move very quickly (lasted a little over two hours). We were fifth row back and got a great view of the action, so that was an added bonus. Sound system sucked, but that wasn’t the WWE”s fault.

Posted by Kevin Eck at 1:40 PM | | Comments (6)
        

Comments

Great review - well written! Cool that you posted this Kevin!

I sincerely hope that the Dibiase / Evan Bourne dance off never makes it to tv. That would be worse than William Regal's attempted rap off with R-Truth on Superstars. Oh my god. Did I just admit to watching WWE Superstars?
Anyway seems like Orton is getting major heat from the crowd. Funny I always saw him better fit to play a heel. Guess I was wrong again. Getting sick of the Jericho / Edge tweener thing by the way. But obviously they have to play Face in Ontario.

Glad to see that WWE allowed Gail Kim to wrestle in Canada on this trip and be part of the winning team. Love the fact that Goldust knelt and kissed her hand at the end and also hoisted Gail in the air to the thunderous applause. About time too. :)

This was great to read. Thanks for posting it!

Also, for what's it's worth, your blog is by far my favorite source for wrestling information on the internet.

RESPONSE FROM KE: Thanks for the kind words.

dude i was there front row center and i agree the sound system did sound terrible

You think that maybe Bourne is Maryse's admirer?

Seems like it might be possible.

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