Monday Night Raw - December 9th

gnfnrhead

As well as being the last Raw before next Sunday's TLC pay-per-view, it's also time for the annual WWE Slammy Awards presented by Booker T and Jerry 'The King' Lawler. Awards are as follows:

Superstar of the Year (Presented by Shawn Michaels)
Nominees: John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, CM Punk, Big Show, Brock Lesnar

Diva of the Year (Presented by Eve Torres)
Nominees: AJ Lee, Kaitlyn, Natalya, The Bella Twins, The Funkadactyls, Eva Marie

Double-Cross of the Year (Presented by The Shield)
Nominees: Triple H on Daniel Bryan, Shawn Michaels on Daniel Bryan, Mark Henry on John Cena, Paul Heyman on CM Punk

Match of the Year (Presented by Bret Hart)
Nominees: CM Punk vs The Undertaker (WM29), John Cena vs The Rock (WM29), Triple H vs Brock Lesnar (Extreme Rules), Cody Rhodes & Goldust vs Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns (Battleground)

Insult of the Year (Presented by The Miz)
Nominees: Stephanie McMahon towards Big Show, AJ Lee towards Total Divas, Paul Heyman towards CM Punk, Zeb Colter towards non Real Americans

"LOL" Moment of the Year (Presented by Road Dogg & Billy Gunn)
Nominees: The Rock Concert, Vickie Guerrero fired as Raw GM, Titus O'Neil throwing up, The Great Khali & Jinder Mahal charming Santino's cobra

Extreme Moment of the Year (Presented by Mick Foley)
Nominees: The Shield powerbombing The Undertaker through announce table, Ryback spearing John Cena through the stage, CM Punk's revenge on Paul Heyman at HIAC, The Wyatt's on Kane at Summerslam

Fan Participation Award (Presented by The Prime Time Players)
Nominees: Fandango-ing, Yes Yes Yes, Lets Go Cena/Cena Sucks, What's Up

Some of the awards are awful, but Raw has slowly been improving in recent weeks. With a PPV on Sunday, hopefully it continues this week.

CastorTroy

So The Bellas and the Funkadactyls count as 1 diva for each couple?

Poor Bryan being double crossed twice.

Big Show for Superstar of the Year?

GTR63

CastorTroy wrote: »

Big Show for Superstar of the Year?

Nah mate has to be Sinbad

Lord TSC

Be fun if The Authority blatantly fixed the awards in their favour...

The fact HBK is presenting the Superstar of the Year award though makes me think they reckon Bryan will win it if it's a fan vote...

Lithium93_

Superstar of the Year (Presented by Shawn Michaels)
Daniel Bryan - I hope they tease the tension between Bryan & Michaels

Diva of the Year (Presented by Eve Torres)
AJ Lee - Aj's been the only thing interesting about the ENTIRE Diva's division

Double-Cross of the Year (Presented by The Shield)
Mark Henry on John Cena - Mark Henry FOOLED EVERYBODY, he has to win in my opinion

Match of the Year (Presented by Bret Hart)
CM Punk vs The Undertaker (WM29),Cody Rhodes & Goldust vs Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns (Battleground)
- Shame WWE won't let us pick two

Insult of the Year (Presented by The Miz)
AJ Lee towards Total Divas - See my Diva division comment

"LOL" Moment of the Year (Presented by Road Dogg & Billy Gunn)
Nominees: The Rock Concert, Vickie Guerrero fired as Raw GM, Titus O'Neil throwing up, The Great Khali & Jinder Mahal charming Santino's cobra - Found nothing LOL worthy, if anything the mentioned were terrible

Extreme Moment of the Year (Presented by Mick Foley)
The Shield powerbombing The Undertaker through announce table - One way to make an impact, put The Undertaker through the announce table

Fan Participation Award (Presented by The Prime Time Players)
Fandango-ing, Yes Yes Yes, Lets Go Cena/Cena Sucks - Shame we can't pick all three

mrkiscool2

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Superstar of the Year (Presented by Shawn Michaels)
Daniel Bryan - I hope they tease the tension between Bryan & Michaels

Diva of the Year (Presented by Eve Torres)
AJ Lee - Aj's been the only thing interesting about the ENTIRE Diva's division

Double-Cross of the Year (Presented by The Shield)
Mark Henry on John Cena - Mark Henry FOOLED EVERYBODY, he has to win in my opinion

Match of the Year (Presented by Bret Hart)
CM Punk vs The Undertaker (WM29),Cody Rhodes & Goldust vs Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns (Battleground)
- Shame WWE won't let us pick two

Insult of the Year (Presented by The Miz)
AJ Lee towards Total Divas - See my Diva division comment

"LOL" Moment of the Year (Presented by Road Dogg & Billy Gunn)
Nominees: The Rock Concert, Vickie Guerrero fired as Raw GM, Titus O'Neil throwing up, The Great Khali & Jinder Mahal charming Santino's cobra - Found nothing LOL worthy, if anything the mentioned were terrible

Extreme Moment of the Year (Presented by Mick Foley)
The Shield powerbombing The Undertaker through announce table - One way to make an impact, put The Undertaker through the announce table

Fan Participation Award (Presented by The Prime Time Players)
Fandango-ing, Yes Yes Yes, Lets Go Cena/Cena Sucks - Shame we can't pick all three

You should totally add those votes to the Slammys page on here!

CSF

If Mark Henry doesn't win the doublecross award, I just give up. It was amazing. One of the best things I've seen in WWE.

The whole thing will be rigged to the max though so expect HHH to win, because that's what we are supposed to care about and if we don't, they're going to pretend we do in the hope that it will convince us that we do and just never realised we did.

Lord TSC

Oh, just noticed....EVE TORRES!

Yeay!

gnfnrhead

CSF wrote: »

If Mark Henry doesn't win the doublecross award, I just give up. It was amazing. One of the best things I've seen in WWE.

The whole thing will be rigged to the max though so expect HHH to win, because that's what we are supposed to care about and if we don't, they're going to pretend we do in the hope that it will convince us that we do and just never realised we did.

There are three nailed on awards (assuming it isnt rigged again) and that's one of them. The others are AJ for Diva and the Shield for Rookies. If those three dont win, it's rigged.

Reebrock

That Mark Henry double cross was great to watch, and somebody spoiled it for me ahead of time. Watching it live, I imagine I would have fell for it as being one of those legit little moments wrestling sometimes brings us.

CSF

gnfnrhead wrote: »

There are three nailed on awards (assuming it isnt rigged again) and that's one of them. The others are AJ for Diva and the Shield for Rookies. If those three dont win, it's rigged.

Yeah I'd nearly say Bryan too, but I suppose Cena would have his followers too

BMMachine

ugh, slammies


actually - if they get tony atlas back it wont be so bad

JP Liz V1

I thought Christian was back as a presenter?

DM_7

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I thought Christian was back as a presenter?

Probably injured again Liz.

Charisteas

The Daniel Bryan double-crosses were more significant because they actually cost him the WWE Championship. Whereas I don't think Mark Henry even won the gold (open to correction there, mind like a sieve).

Anyway, who else is looking forward to seeing Eve Torres more than Christian? Hopefully wearing a short-skirted business suit with those sexy glasses. I don't mind what Eve wears though :pac:.

CSF

Charisteas wrote: »

The Daniel Bryan double-crosses were more significant because they actually cost him the WWE Championship. Whereas I don't think Mark Henry even won the gold (open to correction there, mind like a sieve).

Anyway, who else is looking forward to seeing Eve Torres more than Christian? Hopefully wearing a short-skirted business suit with those sexy glasses. I don't mind what Eve wears though :pac:.

Just because something has an impact on the WWE title doesn't make them good, almost everything that has happened to do with the WWE title in 2013 has been terrrrrrrrrrrrrrible

Lithium93_

I say after the 1 millionth match between John Cena & Randy Borton, have CM Punk challenge the winner, and let Punk be the Unified Champion, and have him stick it to The Authority, that's what's best for business

SureYWouldntYa

Charisteas wrote: »

I don't mind what Eve wears though :pac:.

Personally if she wear nothing i wouldn't complain

gnfnrhead

The awards in the first post are on the main show. The rest arent. Wasnt aware Raw had a pre show now.

"What a Maneuver" of the Year WWE.com
Daniel Bryan's Running Knee Strike
AJ Lee's Black Widow
Roman Reigns' Spear
Antonio Cesaro's Cesaro Swing

Faction of the Year WWE.com
The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns)
The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)
The Real Americans (Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro and Zeb Colter)
3MB (Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre)

"You Still Got It" (Best Superstar return) of the Year WWE.com
Rob Van Dam
Goldust
The Bella Twins (Nikki and Brie Bella)
Bruno Sammartino
Chris Jericho

Couple of the Year WWE.com
Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
Fandango and Summer Rae
Tyson Kidd and Natalya
Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella
John Cena and Nikki Bella
Naomi and Jimmy Uso

Tag Team of the Year WWE.com
The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns)
The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neill)
The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Usos)
Cody Rhodes and Goldust
The Real Americans (Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro)

Feat of Strength of the Year WWE.com
Antonio Cesaro swings The Great Khali
Ryback Shell Shocks Mark Henry
The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) triple powerbombs Big Show
Mark Henry pulls two Trucks with his bear hands

"Say What" Quote of the Year WWE.com
"Paul, say somethin' stupid" - Brock Lesnar
"Rise above THIS" - Damien Sandow
"One stipulation: I'm in my boys' corner and I'll be your huckleberry pie all night long." - Dusty Rhodes
"The "Paulcano" eruption" - Paul Heyman

Best Dance Moves of the Year WWE.com
Fandango
R-Truth
Summer Rae
The Funkadactyls (Naomi and Cameron)
The Great Khali
Miz-co Inferno

Favorite Web Show of the Year WWE.com
WWE Inbox
30-Second Fury
The JBL and Cole Show
WWE Top 10

Best Crowd of the Year WWE.com
Raw after WrestleMania (East Rutherford, New Jersey)
WWE Payback (Chicago, Illinois)
SummerSlam (Los Angeles, California)
Raw in England (London, England on April 22)

Catchphrase of the Year WWE.com
"YES! YES! YES!" - Daniel Bryan
"That's What I Do" - Mark Henry
"FAAAAAHHNNNN...DAAAAHHHHNNN...GO" - Fandango
"Follow the Buzzards" - Bray Wyatt
"We the People" - The Real Americans (Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro and Zeb Colter)
"Believe in The Shield" - The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns)

Trending Now (Hashtag) of the Year Cody Rhodes and Goldust (Pre-Show)
The Authority's #BestForBusiness
The Shield's #BelieveInTheShield
The Wyatt Family's #FollowTheBuzzards
The Real Americans' #WeThePeople

Beard of the Year Santino Marella (Pre-Show)
Daniel Bryan
Damien Sandow
The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)
Zeb Colter

This is Awesome! Moment of the Year Christian (Pre-Show)
Dolph Ziggler cashes in Money in the Bank on Alberto Del Rio and captures the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw
Big Show knocks out Triple H on Raw
Kofi Kingston saves himself from elimination by using JBL's chair at Royal Rumble
Daniel Bryan win his second WWE Championship from Randy Orton at Night of Champions

Breakout Star of the Year John Laurinaitis (Pre-Show)
The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)
Big E Langston
Fandango (with Summer Rae)
The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns)

Loughc

Christian bumped to the preshow. Christian is to WWE what Matt Damon is to Jimmy Kimmel

Blatter

Any word on when Lesnar will make an appearance again? His feud with CM Punk isn't over yet, is it? Likely Wrestlemania match?

JP Liz V1

Loughc wrote: »

Christian bumped to the preshow. Christian is to WWE what Matt Damon is to Jimmy Kimmel

Christian should be on the main show :mad:

gnfnrhead

Blatter wrote: »

Any word on when Lesnar will make an appearance again? His feud with CM Punk isn't over yet, is it? Likely Wrestlemania match?

Hopefully it is. Their match was pretty poor and the feud itself was awful.

Charisteas

CSF wrote: »

Just because something has an impact on the WWE title doesn't make them good, almost everything that has happened to do with the WWE title in 2013 has been terrrrrrrrrrrrrrible

Well even though from an entertainment standpoint I enjoyed all the double-crossings, I would just assume that the more significant crossing is likely to win the award. And it would also be a bit weird for Henry to win now that he is a babyface.

Cue Mark Henry to win then so :pac:

CSF

Charisteas wrote: »

Well even though from an entertainment standpoint I enjoyed all the double-crossings, I would just assume that the more significant crossing is likely to win the award. And it would also be a bit weird for Henry to win now that he is a babyface.

Cue Mark Henry to win then so :pac:

I just don't see why it shouldn't be the best one. Which was surely the Henry one no? In that, he had us all fooled, nobody suspected a thing. I mean who didn't suspect a HHH doublecross?

Charisteas

CSF wrote: »

I just don't see why it shouldn't be the best one. Which was surely the Henry one no? In that, he had us all fooled, nobody suspected a thing. I mean who didn't suspect a HHH doublecross?

I don't think anyone expected the Triple H double-cross until about 60 seconds before it happened, when he was loitering behind Bryan in the ring. Perhaps the most unexpected one was Henry, but it had no significance, he tapped out to the stf a week later, and turned face the next night. So in the end it meant pretty much nothing apart from an extremely well acted 10 minute speech.

Whereas Triple H at Summerslam cost Bryan the WWE Championship, was the beginning of a several months long feud, and the ramifications has put Bryan ahead of Cena ad Punk as number 1 face in the company.

So for that, Summerslam gets my vote.

CSF

Charisteas wrote: »

I don't think anyone expected the Triple H double-cross until about 60 seconds before it happened, when he was loitering behind Bryan in the ring. Perhaps the most unexpected one was Henry, but it had no significance, he tapped out to the stf a week later, and turned face the next night. So in the end it meant pretty much nothing apart from an extremely well acted 10 minute speech.

Whereas Triple H at Summerslam cost Bryan the WWE Championship, was the beginning of a several months long feud, and the ramifications has put Bryan ahead of Cena ad Punk as number 1 face in the company.

So for that, Summerslam gets my vote.

So its the most meaningful doublecross rather than the best one? ****e idea for an award if you ask me. Mark Henry executed his to perfection, you could see HHHs coming, as you've admitted yourself. Scratch the awards and just throw them all out to the people at the top of the card so since those are the only storylines that WWE make any effort to develop longer than a week at a time.

CastorTroy

Bryan will probably win at least one of the awards only for either Cena or Big Show to make it about them.

beakerjoe

Charisteas wrote: »

The Daniel Bryan double-crosses were more significant because they actually cost him the WWE Championship. Whereas I don't think Mark Henry even won the gold (open to correction there, mind like a sieve).

Anyway, who else is looking forward to seeing Eve Torres more than Christian? Hopefully wearing a short-skirted business suit with those sexy glasses. I don't mind what Eve wears though :pac:.

I personally like the Mizark Double cross as I didn't see it coming at all, where as I saw both HBK and Hunter possibly turning. Henry just reeled me in and hit me over the head with an ore. That's why I liked it anyway.

The more unpredictability in WWE, the better the product!

beakerjoe

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Hopefully it is. Their match was pretty poor and the feud itself was awful.

I really enjoyed that match, thought the feud wasn't as good as it could of been, but the match itself was great IMO.

I think the Brock effect has worn off and its not a big thing now if he returns.

Professional Griefer

Shield are hashtag winners.

CSF

beakerjoe wrote: »

I really enjoyed that match, thought the feud wasn't as good as it could of been, but the match itself was great IMO.

I think the Brock effect has worn off and its not a big thing now if he returns.

I'm still like a kid at Christmas whenever he does. You have your Mark Henry, and I love Mark Henry, you have your Big E Langston and you have your Big Show, but nobody does the monster thing like Brock Lesnar. Heyman is also always at his best when working with Brock too which is a lovely bonus.

gnfnrhead

beakerjoe wrote: »

I really enjoyed that match, thought the feud wasn't as good as it could of been, but the match itself was great IMO.

Guess we'll agree to disagree. I thought it was dull, slow, boring and predictable as hell. The result was never in doubt.

I think the Brock effect has worn off and its not a big thing now if he returns.

He has been wasted. He started great with the Cena feud. Looked a monster despite the loss (he dominated 95% of the match before getting too cocky) and was still a very real danger. The Triple H stuff went far too long and Triple H got in far too much offence for a semi retired wrestler. The Punk feud was done backwards (starting with the biggest and then facer the lower Heyman guys) and again Punk got in far too much offence.

With the exception of the Cena match, WWE seem to be afraid to let him dominate. Personally, I think he needs a return in the Rumble match and eliminating five or six guys before someone sneaks him out like Maven did to Undertaker in 2002(?). Just have Lesnar go mental afterwards and he is suddenly a danger again along with a potential Wrestlemania match depending on who eliminates him.

J. Marston

That opening was....cringey.

gnfnrhead

No Lawler is a good start

andyman

I'd love to see Sheamus and Brock go at it. Just an all-out brawl.

In other news, Eve Torres makes an appearance tonight. andyman likes this.

gnfnrhead

A very random match. Is Fandango already in Kofi territory?

Kankan14

I really like that Wyatt lights out candle thingy.

Fandango didnt get a lot of offense in there did he
On the plus side Summer Rae;purple becomes you!

mrkiscool2

Absolutely loving Bray Wyatt at the moment, he is on fire with his promos. Hopefully that translates to some good in-ring work this Sunday!

gnfnrhead

Outlaws raiding Bad Influence's closet :pac:

gnfnrhead

The Rock didnt show?! :eek: :pac:

Agent Coulson

Vickie is Awesome

Deadlie

That's Big E's voice?! Seriously?
It's like Eddie Murphy's impression of a white man

andyman

The Shield in suits?? The fudge is this?? I hate the Slammys.

gnfnrhead

Come on, Mizark!

J. Marston

The state of Kofi...

gnfnrhead

J. Marston wrote: »

The state of Kofi...

I've been trying to think of a description for him for a few weeks now. Best I can come up with is a bad cartoon character.

gnfnrhead

I demand a recount :mad:

A Brad Maddox Guy

The Double Cross of the Year award should go to Mark Henry for not winning the Double Cross of the Year award.

Deadlie

Shawn Michaels? The only one that wasn't really a double-cross.

ricero

Im starting to enjoy the miz and kofi feud