I personally think that mixed tag match was awesome and Alicia and Gail really shined in the ring and their personalities did actually come out, like when Alicia jumped infront of Evan, or when Gail came in for the save, they just both shone.

Maryse & Lay-Cool vs Eve & The Bella Twins was a good match, the Bella’s surprised me and they showed that they can hang in the ring, Michelle….was Michelle, Maryse held her character very well as usual and jumped in for the win, Eve impressed me in the match mostly at the end when she went for the attack on Maryse, but i was surpised Maryse didnt back down and play coward, but i kind of liked that both divas were going at it. But overall in the match the womans champion….woops ‘co champ’ :| Layla impressed me the most, she has really come into her own and i believe she is good enough to be champion and personally in this match she was no doubt the best in the ring, i can see Layla (this year) really improving andd becoming a main event diva.

Cherry Bomb……well, though she is great in the ring, i still dont see this diva look but maybe thats a good thing break the mould, you know. But i personally wasn’t a fan of her hair the colouring and it seemed slightly greesy; im not sure about Cherry Bomb but i think wwe may aswell sign her to fcw and help her change and look and personallity

Gail & Alicia’s Mixed Tag Match was good as well considering it was a Mixed Tag Match, Its a shame these 2 Divas haven’t been used this often before. And the place in the match where Natalya got involved in the Miz & Bret match was great to see as well, I just wish she would of done more than just slap them, Like maybe a clothesline would of been nice.

2012 is approaching fast…..

The backstage segment was great, but I would have loved to see it be more scrappy and catfight-like ala’ Melina and Mickie circa 2007. The match was also awesome, and the spot with Michelle big-booting the hell out of Brie (?) was sick! LAyla really impressed me, and now I officially think of her as a ‘wrestler’ not ‘improving jobber’.

Maryse’s reactions were great, but it would be nice to see her get booed more once in a while. I’ll make an acception since it’s her home counrty and she got booed backstage.

Eve getting a pop was nice, and I love the whole Gail/Evan and Alicia/Ryder dynamic. Gail and Alicia have always had great chemistry, so it’s good to see it’s not being wasted. :)

The diva tag team match was great. To me, the standouts of the match were Layla and Nikki Bella. I still don’t get why Michelle and Layla were even on Raw but I am sure there was a reason.

The match between Evan and Gail and Zack and Alicia was awesome. I do think that this is not just some random pairings. I hope this is the beginning of a Gail/Alicia feud. I would love it if they feuded without the guys invovled.

I wish Natayla could have done more last night. Someday, I hope she competes for the diva championship. Jillian and Cherry’s promos were funny. I think Cherry has a undiva look to her. Which I love.

All in all, Raw was great and I hope Raw next Monday doesn’t disappoint.

This Gail/Evan vs Alicia/Ryder feud could be outstanding. I love the chemistry between Gail & Evan, they compliment each other so nicely.

LOVE Cherry’s hair!! The commercials were too funny although I felt sorry for Jillian getting spit on too. I mean, ew!

Very entertaining Raw last night. Solid wrestling, good storyline progression, and funny skits.

Eve is improving at a good pace and should stick to some power moves.

Layla and Michelle being co-champions pisses me off.
Layla has been waitng for one good moment in her wrestling career. All the jobbers in WWE have had numerous championships in the indies that they call their championship moment. And Layla’s had her crsshed last night. I heard though that WWE is breaking up team Lay-Cool. If so than this could be a good set-up for the feud. I hope Layla is the face.

As for Cherry Bomb I do hope WWE saw her matches on youtube. Some are iffy because they were from her first year but the lastest ones are great. If this was to show of her mic-skills since they know she can wrestle than fine by me.

(((I honestly think she just doesn’t want to look that weak. And even though she’s a nice lady on the surface, she’s also a very competetive one at heart. She’s got a huge ego and that’s both as a diva and a real life person.))) Those are my two cents on her. On the otherside of this, I still agree she’s a very good wrestler and works hard at her moves.

Anyway great review Erin. And just to clear things up from what I remember JR talking about this-The Mixed Tag Match((because its been pointed out several times)) works differently than an Intergender Tag Match. The Intergender Tag Match involves actual tags(I am a huge fan of the Team Xtreme Era) because the men and women are allowed to go at it. In a Mixed Tag Match you don’t need to tag to be the legal person. Men wrestle the men and women wrestle each other. That’s the structure of the rules, so no actual tag is needed. They’ve done this before.

And I also enjoyed the brief moment Natalya and Bret had against Y2J. It was good for Natalya. I’m eager to see her compete in the divas division.

I think the whole Layla & Michelle sharing a belt will lead to a LayCool feud. Possibly with Layla confronting Michelle, saying she’s not the real champion, etc! I hope it happens! :)

Evan/Kim vs Alicia/Zack was a great match. Everyone
did they part. I do kind of think that Alicia and Zack isn’t
the best couple because they look funy to gether, but
both of their have gray on so awwww. That match was
very fast.

Hopefully it all gets answered this friday =)

Good match, Nikki continues to surprise me

I also loved, even though the title seems to be split, Layla did get a ton of time in the mactch & even got to start it. She should be taken seriously in the ring instead of just jobbing until she tags in Michelle.

Michelle is on outside so much these days that I forgot how much I love to see her in the ring! She always has those surprise moves that send the divas down hard. She’s an amazing athlete & I can’t believe people still say that she can’t wrestle.

I also think it’s funny how Maryse & Michelle still don’t like each other. PUT THEM ON THE SAME SHOW AGAIN, WWE!!

something else i agree with you on. unfortunately, i don’t think people even realise michelle no-sells most of the moves done on her. look at the feud she had with maryse back on smackdown, it took maryse having beth as an opponent during survivor series for people to actually realise maryse could do well, michelle did nothing for her. she literally gets straight back up and marches on, move after move. =\

overall, it was a great night. it was nice to see all divas featured, too, and it didn’t come off in the desperate way it usually does.

i do hop vicke somehow sticks around as GM though.

Maryse/Eve segement: Maryse played her ‘oh look at me, I’m better than all these canadians cause I’m a FRENCH-Canadian! Plus the fact I think Eve’s a tramp which is the most over way I would like to say to her!’ character well. And the actual fight… I lol’d at Eve honestly pwning Maryse in the desk but adding to that both made the fight look believable and both shown a lot of anger and frustration, which is a must in make-up brawls. First Eve on Layla now Eve on Maryse, Eve’s a natural at fighting with make-up thats for sure. xP

6 Diva Tag Match: I was plesantly suprised by this, normal 6 diva tags are like Erin said, clusterfucks, but this one was good because it had more than 43 seconds, even 2 minutes, let alone it being 5 odd minutes! =O Still Layla was coming to her own in the ring, nice to see her in the match the most, plus she remained to be that comedic English muffin we love to adore ever so. =-) McCool was a natural as she usually is in the ring, and slightly funnier with that ‘GET HER OFF ME!’ bit in there. xD Eve was decent as she tends to be, nice Samoan Drop plus nice selling from Layla might I add there about her as well. =-P Brie was average, as she tends to be, but Nikki was better.. as she usually is, I cringed at the DDT sell she did for Maryse, it was like a replay from… 2 weeks ago on Raw was it? =-\ Nikki better wrestle more against Maryse, so I can see more of that! >=D … in the positive way of course, and I was on about her selling. xD Maryse was… what was she besides ugh! Meaning shes in the match for a few seconds yet the once French hating Canadians cheered her on… why? Sure she smoking but again, WHY?! Also to add nice to see not just the 1 brawl from earlier, not a second at the begin of the match… but a THIRD BRAWL at the end of the match between Eve & Maryse! This really makes their match for OTL that much more anticipating for us, cause we wanna see Eve & Maryse go at it. However knowing how Maryse has been for the past year, we know she’ll do ANYTHING to get out of a wrestling match, so I won’t keep my hopes up too much until I see an actual match from them both. =-P

Mixed Tag Team Match: Nice work from the girls definetly, Gail & Alicia really do have good chemistry together, kinda makes us forget about the semi-finals match before… damn it! x___x Either way Gail was great, Alicia was fierce as she usually is, the guys were great (site’s not called Dude-Dirt I know xD) And also, do both of those couples seem really sweet together or is it just me? Evan & Gail are like paralell to each other in everything (besides popularity where Evan’s more than Gail & age where Gail is more than Evan xD), plus Zack & Alicia seem … k together, they looked funny together but we’ll have to see more from them in the future to get used to it more I guess. Already better than Ryder & Rosa thats for sure, never a fan of them together tbh. x____x

Cherry Bomb Skit: Like I said before, WWE would be daft in the head not to sign this woman. She has camera skills, comedic, and seems to play one mean be-yotch if given a heel role. Plus I heard shes one great wrestler so thats a bonus. Plus that hairstyle is different in the cool way and she has a cute face, just draft her to SmackDown and your all set! =-P

Jillian Skit: … Poor Jillian, got spat in the face with the Horny Goat elixer! =-( Wouldn’t been worse if she opened her mouth as he spat that onto her then said that it was like Goat Urine, I would’ve lol’d then. Btw why the hellz would he know what that taste like?!?!? 0.o rofl

Overall… did that Scott Damore guy who used to work for TNA secretly shift himself onto WWE or or did they actually get someone who gives a crap about the divas?! Cause it seems like anyway. I bet someone from Diva-Dirt is doing double duty, maybe Me-Lay-Ne, she’s already got 2 jobs now, maybe a third is in order? ;-) (Btw no one take that from me, thats MINE to call her from now on!! >=-P) Seems like it, either way GREAT RAW and if we’ve learnt ANYTHING from this experience… Commercial Free = GREAT Diva involvement, keep that in mind. ;-)

Oh one more thing, about the whole ‘Lay-Cool Co-Champions thing’, it better NOT be true, it’d be kinda daft if it were, I mean sure McCool could do that just to make herself feel better on the outside while she’s secretly jealous of Layla and dead on the inside, fake title so what? But just leave Layla shine on her own, I mean come on, the woman deserves that much doesn’t she?? =-\

and Gail & even vs Zack & Alicia was great aswell (i especially like that Gail got the pin)

did cherry have a dark match or anything, it wasn’t much of a try out lol

Lately, the WWE has given their belts to people who have passable ring skills/credibility but they need to develop a personality. Layla, on the other hand is a weird case. She needs to develop some wrestling credibility and she has the most personality of the divas. Being good in the ring is different from people thinking you are good in the ring. lol

I loved that she did that cradle/float over move again. It has been too long! She also showed some real intensity that Eve just didn’t have. You felt she wanted to kick some a** and take some names. Though I hated that first pinfall move. haha

Brie really ate that kick from Michelle, didn’t she? Damn. I wonder what she was going to do if she didn’t get kicked.

And you can faintly hear the crowd almost get into the match when Nikki was going to town. I just thought it made Michelle made her look weak. Nikki had to play the “How many moves can I do in 30 seconds?” game just to get her no sellin’ self down long enough for a pin attempt.

I know a lot of people praise for Michelle because “she makes everyone she wrestles look good” but I just don’t see it. If Molly or Trish could see for a VERY VERY green Christy, why can’t Michelle sell for someone who can at least execute a dropkick properly? Part of making someone look good is making what they do look like it fazes them.

It made sense for Maryse to be the one reading the magazine. For a character as arrogant as her, it would take somebody of Trish’s beauty and fame to make her jealous. That’s good writing for once, even if it was obvious. I don’t understand why they let heels get so personal in their attacks on other wrestlers though. Having Maryse say Eve is boring and has no charisma is no way to get her over, especially when Eve showed up a few seconds later and proved that she is lacking in the personality department. Or the way they let Jericho just bury Bret in the beginning, saying he was washed up and was hanging on. Bret really had bad comebacks, and his match with Miz proved Jericho right.

I think that this has to be the best RAW in a while & not just for the divas, overall.
I really liked everything about the divas tonight, from the Natayla slap to Jerchio to the 6 Diva tag to the Mix tag match.

So, im in the mood for making this comment very long & im ill so nothing better to do. So here goes..

Natalya segment: First the little bit of Natalya we got to see, she does get a crowd reaction which is nice to see & i love to see Natalya getting the rub off of Bret & Jerchio which is nice. That slap, i felt that myself. I just want Natalya in the Diva division, but maybe they are getting the crowd behind her first and then move her in the division so that she will be the top babyface of Raw & the entire WWE which would be something different as she deserves it much more than any other diva on the roster.

The Cherry Bomb Skit: I’ve seen a few matches of her in and shes actually ok as a wrestler, i would compare her to someone like Natalya. I just hope that WWE take advantage of her but i also hope that they don’t turn her into the resident jobber like Jillian and Katie lea are/were.

The Maryse/Eve backstage segment: First we see Trish, which is always nice to see and since its her hometown, i was thinking that she might of made a cameo apperance or something with Vickie. Eve comes up and then puts powder in her hair (didn’t we see that last year with Eve and Layla?).. oh well. When Eve pounded Maryse into that table, i actually thought that this was real :/ just b’cos of how much effort she put into that head pound.

Eve/Bellas vs Maryse/Laycool: First of all, Laycool as double champions? seriously?just when i thought that Layla was going to get an actual title run, we then see Michelle with a second-rate women’s title belt that she problary just brought off of WWE.com (tried to get a joke in there but problary didn’t work). I loved Maryse’s outfit, it suits her very much, but that extentions, its gotta go quick, or straighten it. I also loved the Bellas outfit, the colour suited then with their hair. I DID NOT like Eve’s attire tonight, it was a complete hot mess, she needs to get a new attire completely. Layla was the star for me in this match, she was on point for every move, i love Layla very much and has done since she was on the Diva Search in O6′. Its nice to see the Bellas wrestling more now, its fresh as we dont get to see them that often. The Bellas sell the French Kiss the best, it looks more effective, they have always sold it that way. But Maryse doing one move, it doesnt make her look good, she needs to be on superstars in a one on match so that she can improve abit and give someone else like Alicia or Jillian at the title.

Finally, the Mix tag match: Is Alicia the new Rosa? b’cos if she is, then i bet we wont get to see her wrestle as much anymore which will be shameful on Diva fans as she can actually wrestle a very good match. The match overall was brillant, the team of Gail and Evan (which i have dubbed as ‘The-little-people-that-can-wrestle’) Alicia wore my favourite outfit again tonight. I want these two to have a match on superstars this week or next week as divas matches over there get extra time.

Overall, i loved Raw and cant wait for next week as well as Smackdown this week and as well as the PPV, but as they always say, their is room for improvement.

STARS: 4.5/5