Are you Tough Enough for Raw?

Tough Enough Review:

Live final review here. We got a little back track of who had been there and the history of Tough Enough for this series. From this i'm pushing for Andy to win, I was upset to see he came from FCW (WWE's development) to go into Tough Enough but silent rage is finally kicking in.

Andy went home and got to meet his child and his pregnant wife while trying to win back what he already had. Andy is well prepared for the final and his wife is a great supporter of him.

Luke now and he is just a party guy. If anything he believes he will be living the Ric Flair style. His training is really intense like he said and was good to see him and his brother use a wrestling ring to train while waiting to go to FCW. That was fake just then crying to his mom and then when he walks out the door he is smirrking.

This is epic that the tough enough winner will be announced just before Raw starts.

To see the guys are training with Ricky Steamboat and Steamboat's crew that will be great. Steambot is such a legend in wrestling and part of the WWE Hall of Fame. Andy and Luke wil l face Bill DeMott in the 5 minute, exhibition match.

So i've missed a bit of the show due to the internet cutting out. But seeing these two guys training it will be intense with Steambot training them and being in FCW. As said beforehand FCW have helped launch guys into the WWE such as Sheamus, Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler and more.

OK so Luke and Andy are both having their matches air at the same time, kind of. The matches are in montage style to the Tough Enough theme song, "Champion" by Chipmunk and Chris Brown. From what we were able to see i'd say Andy looked well but lets really see what overall, Stone Cold and the rest of the officials say.

We are introduced to the trainers and then they bring out the guys who didn't make it to the final. Trish introduces Andy and Luke out as they are the finalists. Thank god for the fact they allowed Stone Cold to be himself and swear on live tv. Nice to see all the trainers decided that Andy is the stand out. The two finalists just give their thoughts on each other and then Vince arrives.

What did i know Andy won the contract. Quite ironic how the guy who already had a contract in the WWE and was part of FCW has now won a contract for the WWE. Vince welcomed him with a slap and then just then he got a Stone Cold Stunner. Nice that Stone Cold gave him a handshake when he was out the ring though.

Raw Review:

R-Truth comes out while Vince and Stone Cold are in the ring. His public apology was very comical. R-Truth brings up his conspiracy theory again. Thank god the Miz comes out which is awesome. He cuts a little promo about how he was the best champ until A-Ri got invovled with the business. A-Ri comes out now and then John Cena. This sets up for the main event of Cena and A-Ri Vs R-Truth and The Miz.

I've noticed a lot of segments like this happen when someone big is in the ring like, Vince McMahon, Stone Cold, The Rock, Bret Hart, etc. Nice to see, Stone Cold is the special referee for that main event though, but not many days after Smackdown where Christian was special guest referee? Oh and when Bret Hart was special guest referee the previous time on Raw in a tag team match?

So since Superstars we got Santino Vs Michael McGillicutty who is one half of the tag team champions. Very much a normal match from Santio who won via the Cobra. Upsetting that they lost on Superstars to the champs yet only one of them beat one half of the champs on Raw.

Kelly Kelly is in action next teaming with Beth Phoenix. They will be facing The Bella Twins. Nice work from Kelly Kelly to start the match off. I've noticed a lot of diva tag matches recently as well. The match hasn't lasted long enough yet in my opinion and Beth Phoenix wants to tag in. Nice for Beth Phoenix to win the match with the Glam Slam.

So Swagger set up a match against Booker T by saying he doesn't have it any more.

CM Punk is facing Rey Mysterio, yet again. Mysterio gets the victory this time in what I will be calling a pay per view quality match. It had the fans from start to finish and wanted something to happen to Mason Ryan so Rey can get the victory, and that did happen when Rey used a spinning DDT to take out Ryan with his feet. Rey then went to the top to hit a spash (which I always thought was a diving/dropping headbutt).

We got a new Capitol Punishment preview where R-Truth was part of the interviewers with Barack Obama. That press conference was better than previous ones. Cena is talking to A-Ri backstage. Next Monday is going to be a 3 hour All Star episode of Raw. Does that mean everyone is going to be massive and smashing each other out of the ring, or does it mean former stars come back for one night?

Alberto Del Rio comes out now. He brings up what happened 2 weeks ago to The Big Show and says it was an accident. Trust Del Rio to poke fun at The Big Show even more while he is at home injured. Ricardo Rodriguez came out dressed as The Big Show to allow Del Rio to say what he wanted to The Big Show and end with how he isn't threatening The Big Show he is making a promise to him.

Zack Ryder is on Raw now due to the internet revolution. Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero are on commentary for the match as Ryder faces Kofi Kingston. Ziggler is just awesome on commentary and tweeting while doing commentary as well, way to multi-task. Such a decent match from Ryder and Kingston and from this i'm hoping Ryder gets more time on Raw.

R-Truth and Miz are backstage just talking without us being able to hear. It will bascially be about them teaming together. Booker T is seen walking backstage in his gear to face Jack Swagger. Swagger got counted out the match making Booker T the winner and then Evan Bourne came to attack him from behind.

Main Event time and what a special guest referee as he isn't wearing the black and white stripes. So just like how Bret Hart screwed CM Punk; Austin now screws The Miz out of the match as he allows Riley to use the breifcase, hits Miz with a Stone Cold Stunner and then gives the three count after an Attitude Adjustment from Cena. John Cena and Alex Riley get disqualifed due to the order of the Raw GM. Austin is Special Guest GM on next weeks Raw and Stone Cold then trashed the poduium of the anonymous Raw GM.

Raw Rating = 5/5

This is my first rating of 5 for the weekly episodes. This is due to how Raw had me watching from start to finish and was just gripping. Even the divas match was decent. PPV's are rated out of 10.