Raw Thoughts.

Raw kicked off with the entrance of one Triple H who was coming out to give his reasons for wanting to face The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Triple H looked jacked, nothing like the flabby man we saw defeat Alberto Del Rio at the WWE Fan Appreciation show back in October. Triple H stated that he wanted to face The Undertaker because that's all he and Taker have left to do - in writing that sounds validated but the way Hunter put it across seemed to bury the entire WWE locker room, he later stated that when they meet at Wrestlemania nothing else matters. Again he was obviously trying to state how important this match was, but maybe it somehow managed to put down every other match at Wrestlemania. After he put his point across Sheamus came out, now in my opinion this was a great thing at least WWE wasn't going to ignore the situation like they seemed to do last Monday, yet for some reason Sheamus got destroyed by the jacked up Triple H. The angle didn't look good, Triple H has lost a lot of pace and seemed to move awkwardly very similar to the way he was back in 2002 when he was too jacked. Unless Triple H can get some decent time in the ring on the build up to Wrestlemania I think the Undertaker match could be a repeat of the King Of The Ring disaster in 2002.

After the break Sheamus was still trying to recover from his beat down when the General Manager said he was booked for a match and was then slated to face the returning Evan Bourne who won in about two minutes. It was good to see Bourne back, hopefully he will get a Wrestlemania match this April.

Lawler vs Michael Cole was made for Wrestlemania as long as Cole got to have a guest referee of his choosing and also have his trainer at ringside, his trainer was revealed to be Jack Swagger yet the guest referee is yet to be revealed. Swagger beat down Lawler. At this point any affiliation Swagger can have with Cole is good for him, I never thought I'd say this but Michael Cole could have more heat than anyone on the Raw roster and Swagger desperately needs heat and an elevated status at a Pay Per View.

Punk versus Orton was also made for Mania, the weeks leading up to the event will see Orton face off against the other members of Nexus and if he wins the individual matches said Nexus member will be banned from ringside. He faced Michael McGillicutty and won the bout afterwards he punted him much to the chagrin of CM Punk. Now something I found funny after the match was Orton ran into the fans and away from Nexus who were charging down the ramp however the camera angle WWE used showed Punk running down yet failed to get the rest of the Nexus members in the shot so it made Orton look like he was running from Punk.

The Rock replied to Cena's rap last week and seemed to completely undermine anything Cena can say back by claiming he went into movies to help other wrestlers, which is complete crap but still what are the kids to do, right? He then rapped a bit and called Cena a bitch, how very PG. One could be led to believe that after Linda's failed campaign they have slightly (and I mean slightly) loosened the the choke hold at least for this angle, and Punks busted nose the other week.

The main event pitted Cena against Riley in a Cage match if Cena wins Riley gets fired as being Miz's right hand man and if Riley wins Cena must proclaim Miz as AWESOME!... Cena won. What I did find entertaining was Miz tweeting pictures of Cena as the match took place, that was rather cool.