Raw Revelations: Floyd Mayweather's Flop

If you were to rank the celeb guest hosts for Raw so far, Shaq is easily the top dog, Seth Green and Freddie Prinze did well, but looking at the bottom of the barrel. you'd have to place Floyd Mayweather above ZZ Top and possibly tied with Jeremy Piven (won't mention Piven's sidekick). That isn't saying much for Mayweather. Floyd was late to Monday Night Raw due to legal troubles that one of his associates had involving a shooting at a skating rink in Vegas. So that's why we were "treated" to a 30 minute DX and Mr. McMahon in-ring birthday bonanza. It featured everything Vegas (showgirls, cirque de soleil guys, Elvis impersonator), and everything that fans at home probably could do without. But WWE didn't have a lot of choice when their star host was late. When he did show up, he was acting like the star of the show, yet wasn't embraced by the live audience right away. He arrived out to the ring with an entourage of 10 guys wearing t-shirts to promote his event.

You'll notice Mayweather's only real involvement with the show was his interaction with Big Show and Jericho, and to promote his upcoming boxing match against Marquez. He slid a gold weapon, brass knuckles to MVP during a tag match against Jericho/Show to help them win the match. He also got into the ring to get a bear hug from Henry and celebrate with MVP. Besides that, he wasn't really much of a host and was more of a guest. He sat at ringside and yelled some things during the tag match as well. I'm going to guess Nancy O'Dell outshines Mayweather when she hosts. If she wrestles Beth Phoenix, I'll give her 2nd best hosting job to Shaq.

The Miz is getting a nice push towards the United States Title. He seems to be doing good promos on the mic, and his "Because I'm the Miz, and I'm Awesome" just might be the next "If you smell what the Rock, is cooking"..ok let's not get carried away.

The main event on Raw was a six man tag match, No DQ, as a birthday gift to Mr. McMahon. He got the winning pin on Orton, despite Rhodes being legal. If you think about it, just about all of Randy Orton's recent matches are No DQ, especially his PPV title defenses. In the Summerslam PPV, a fan rushed in and tackled the ref, but the match wasn't stopped, nor was it stopped when Orton shoved the ref. Same thing at the PPV where Orton faced HHH and Cena. Both men had a submission hold locked in, and since the ref didn't make a decision, Legacy was allowed to come into the ring, break the holds and the bell didn't sound.

On a side note, I've noticed a trend in WWE matches lately with DQ's being called as one wrestler continues to pound away on the other, and doesn't heed the ref's warning. Still, Orton manages to get away with murder in the ring. Very interesting.

I'm not a big fan of DX, although I admire both Michaels and HHH's work in WWE. It's just too childish a gimmick. I really believe if Batista were not injured, we probably wouldn't see DX at all, rather Michaels and HHH as singles wrestlers.

So what did Chavo do wrong? His Aunt Vickie is no longer Raw GM, but he's been a jobber for Hornswoggle for week's now. He hasn't violated the Wellness program in months! Looks like we'll get a Chavo vs Evan Bourne match now, but I'm sure Horney will be involved somehow. Get ready to see Evan Bourne do the Irish jig...

Nice divas boxing match, and Mickie James definitely was showing off. Alicia Fox took the pinfall on her though. Are we headed for Mickie vs Alicia, or Mickie vs Beth?