I really liked, last night’s RAW, they went “Old School”. They went to their old style of WWE programming they had back in the 80’s and early 90’s. Back in the days when WWE used to be really good. A lot of people complain and whine about this PG rating, but if you seriously think about it, WWE started off as PG when they first started in the 80’s. The WWE brought out a bunch of old legends from the past, which was really cool and kids who didn’t watch WWE back then, got their chance to experience what WWE was like back in the old days. Vince wanted to remind us what WWE was like back in the day. When I was a child, I was obsessed with old school WWF. Used to wake up Saturday mornings just to watch WWF.

Legendary wrestlers that performed last night: Cowboy Bob Orton, Mean Gene Okerlund, The Brooklyn Brawler, George the Animal Steele, Harvey Whippleman, Howard Finkel, Mark Henry as the “Sexual Chocolate” gimmick, Yoshi Tatsu, Tony Atlas, Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Jimmy Superfly Snuka, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Mae Young, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Sgt. Slaughter, Tito Santana, Chavo Classic, Arn Anderson, Ron Simmons, Gerry Brisco, Tatanka, etc. You name it, most of them were there.

Of course, it would have been a better show if the important old school legends made a one time appearance. I wish Stone Cold, The Rock, Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man Randy Savage and especially Bret Hart came out, but none of them did sadly. It’s understandable why Hulk Hogan wouldn’t show up since he’s working for TNA and Hulk wants nothing to do with WWE anymore.

It was actually an exciting RAW but a slight disappointment. I didn’t like the ending. Yes, Rowdy Roddy Piper pulls off a really good promo and speech like he always does, but of course, John Cena ends up being the hero again by beating up Wade Barrett at the end. I’m so tired of RAW ending with Cena being the hero. We’ve been getting these type of endings week after week for the past several years. WWE can never come up with an original ending these days. I was hoping the entire Nexus group would come out and destroy Piper, but of course that didn’t happen. That’s why they had all those legends at the top of the ramp so they can protect Piper from the Nexus.

I actually thought the Mae Young and Lay-Cool  segment was very entertaining. I also loved the backstage skit with Randy Orton/Cowboy Bob and Kofi Kingston, Mean Gene Okerlund. They were filming that backstage interview old school WWF style, with that low budget background. Randy and Kofi were talking like old school wrestlers back in the 80’s which was kind of cool. It was very weird not seeing Bret Hart last night. You’d think the Hitman would be there for this with the Heart Dynasty. Not sure why Bret Hart wasn’t there, I’ll look it up.

It was a pretty good show, just wish they ended it better.

Kev