Super-McMahon

[Y 2 Jake]

He's back, the no selling, super tough, grey haired ninja. Shane McMahon returned to save Raw. How very noble of him. Along with Stephanie that show is effectively saved.

He came back and with relative ease he beat up the 2009 Royal Rumble winner and the rest of his new stable. He also took out Kofi Kingston while he was at it, that being the Kofi who's supposed to be a WHC challenger at No Way Out. He was then restrained by several superstars.

To dispose of Orton and his cronies he threw some of those worst punches this side of Cena. This is my bad punch throwing league, top being the bottom, see below.

1st: Shane McMahon
2nd: John Cena
-Rob Van Dam
4th: Diva's

So what must this return mean? Well it's obvious, Raw was holding out for a hero. They've got one in the shape of an overweight non-wrestler. It really is a shame Batista is injured.

 

[agentmichaelscarn]

Yeah I hated that whole finish especially how Orton ran with his tail between his legs. How are you supposed to take a guy as a serious contender when he gets his ass kicked and runs away scared from a guy that hasnt wrestled in forever and looks out of shape as hell? Same thing with the whole stable, you mean none of them could stop Shane? I know some people will say "well Shane's adrenaline was flowing and he was so pissed as hell" but still that isnt an excuse. That brought back memories of when Austin would end telecasts by taking out the entire corporation by himself.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

At least Austin was a full time wrestler and the biggest star in the company when he did that. Also the Corporation was made up mostly of nobodies. Shane McMahon beat Orton, who you'd assume will win the WHC at Mania. Along with Ted Dibiase & Cody Rhodes who'll be two to watch out for over the course of the year.

It's just McMahon ego boosting.

 

[andymcg]

Possibly the worst raw ending ever , having your biggest superstar and royal rumble winner , along with his legacy beaten up by the bosses son. This segment has made Randy and Legacy very very weak and im very dissapointed in this. A 40/50 year old man shouldnt be beaten up a 6ft 5ish , 240 profesinal wrestler and 2 of his friends that are roughly the same. Very bad raw ending and its made Legacy look very weak.

A bit of topic but in the long run i stil see shane of steph joining Legacy.

 

[Showtime]

The whole segment was awesome, right up until Shane threw his first punch. When Steph laughed and let Shane just casually walk into the ring with the most focused look in his eyes, I figured something big would go down. The whole time I figured Shane would crack a smile and announce officially a new era of McMahon with himself, Steph, and Legacy. Instead I got a fight. A pretty lame fight. The spear, I admit, was awesome, but beyond that when Shane started firing those little pepper punches that looked like they barely touched skin, that's when it really went down hill. Orton's a tough guy, let Shane actually look like he's throwing some real punches. Instead, Shane kept throwing those sissy punches, and Legacy appeared helpless and unable to stop them. Shane looked way out of shape and by the end of it all, looked worn out and exhausted, which made it look even more ridiculous cause he was still kicking Legacy's ass.

What I think should've happened (aside from Shane and Steph joining Legacy which I still say could happen after Wrestlemania) is after Shane speared Orton, the rest of the WWE roster that was standing on the ramp should've run down to lay waste on Legacy. During the ensuing chaos that was in the ring, Orton would somehow escape and watch as the rest of the roster lay waste to Rhodes and DiBiase, with Shane still staring those cold eyes at Orton the whole time. To me, that would've been a much better segment to close RAW than 40-50 year old out of shape Shane sluggishly trying to just graze Orton's skin with his punches and beating up Legacy all by himself.

 

[Captain Bean]

yeah i hated it aswel...shane is what 40ish? hes grey and hes out of shape and he runs down and throws these pathetic punches and orton suddenly has wobbly legs and his whole group is beaten? pahh pathetic.

it would have been ok if he tackled orton first off and punched him a few times only to be pulled off by legacy,...orton gets up and they all destroy him.....deepening the fued.
as it was legacy just looked weak.

 

[CCS]

First off, Randy Orton was gold last night. He did what he was supposed to do and he did it perfectly. Then we get to Shane O'Mac! When he was slowly walking to the ring his facial expressions was priceless. I really thought that the end of RAW was going to be awesome. THEN, he proceded to jump in the ring and kick 3 guys asses at the same time. Throwing the worst punches I've ever seen in pro wrestling. (I swear you could tell half of them didnt even connect) I would have believed it if Orton and Rhodes had bailed and Shane would have whipped Ted Jr's ass. But a overweight, almost grey headed, non-wrestler whooping up on three very athletic and young superstars is a bit ridiculous.

 

[Mr. TM]

I would have, and I believe the fans would have preferred an ending where Shane ended his night covered in his own blood, foolishly trying to fit three of the biggest stars on Raw. The fans would have gotten behind him, and booed Orton viciously as he punt kicked Shane's head off. Then they still had the possibility for Shane to come back in 2 weeks or so and actually join Legacy as he too needed the sense kicked into him by Orton.

 

[natecook59]

I agree that it was a weak ending. Plus, aside from the fact that it was absolutely horrible watching Shane beat up the hottest 3 villains on Raw all by himself, it didn't make any damn sense. Orton is out there threatening Stephanie with lawsuits and is standing next to his "lawyers". Who in their right mind would respond to that by having a fellow executive of WWE come out to assault the employee who is threatening the lawsuit.

 

[Zeitgeist]

I agree 100% with everything being said here, what an insult to one of your top stars to have him get beat up by Shane. It looked so awful.

I was almost expecting a swerve in the storyline where Steph would thank Orton for getting her father out of the way, or have Shane come out and disagree with Steph, but instead we had all the McMahons united.

Orton did his best to make the beating look believable but man it was awkward.

 

[Suneeboy]

I will also go on record as saying that was the worse ending RAW has ever had. Shane looked God awful with those terrible punches. Orton sold them well but he could only do so much. He won the Royal Rumble, but he is letting Shane beat him up? How is he expected to beat Cena at WM? I was vividly pissed at the end of the show. It was not entertaining at all.

I was expecting him to join Legacy, but instead we get that garbage. Complete garbage. I do not even want to watch RAW next week because of that trash ending. Orton's mic work was simply brilliant, and he took it to the next level, but that is all forgotten because Shane's weak ass punches that couldn't rip a wet paper bag are tatooed in my head. It overrides the whole episode which really wasn't that bad. Definately the worse ending ever for RAW and probably the worse "looking" segment in the WWE in the past 10 years.

 

[Dragonslayer]

Hmmm... now I didn't actually see RAW, but reading the about the ending segemtent alone made me cringe. I agree it is terrible to have technically your top star being beat up by a non-wrestler.

However... reading about how Shane beat up everyone and their mother... I couldn't help but feel - even without actually seeing it - that this smells like a set up. How could The Legacy, arguably the toughest stable around, get beat up by one out-of-shape old guy? Hardly possible... unless you count in the fact that Shane himself - technically - is a "2nd generation superstar" and thus could fit in well into the stable if they went into such a direction... and the whole thing was a hoax, maybe for a little program coming up down the road to WM 25.

Maybe it will not be like this at all - in that case, it was a REALLY bad segment lol. But if they do something interesting with it... who knows, it could just turn out to be the breath of fresh air WWE needs once again. So while I agree that the mere fact they had this segment right the next night after Orton won the Rumble, and should be presented as the toughes SOB in the whole company right now, was a bad move... I guess we should give it some time and see if WWE actually wants to go somewhere with this, or if they just screwed up. Wouldn't be a first either, heh.

 

[klunderbunker]

At first I liked it but after taking another look, I was botherd by it. As everyone has said, Shane looked terrible. His punches were that of a 5 year old girl and he sold nothing. Rhodes and DiBiase got thrown around as well but Orton got treated the worst. He had his ass handed to him by a guy that hasn't been in a physical altercation in years on tv. What was this supposed to prove? I get that Shane at one tiem was athletic enough to be a semi-full time wrestler, but he just beat up the best heel on the show. This is WWE's issue with heels: they are made to look so weak in ring. Orton can go in the ring and has an awesome finisher that comes out of nowhere. Why didn't he go for it on Shane last night? Even looking like you're attempting it and having Shane shove you off would have looked realistic.

 

[My$terio_Fan]

I agree last night's finish was horrible. Even if Shane's punches actually connected and looked "real" it still would have been lame. I mean a chubby, non-wrestler, son of a billionaire was able to easily, without any trouble beat the Royal Rumble and probably WWE's top heel, along with two of the fastest rising stars with great potential. That whole angle did nothing but make Orton, Dibiase, and Rhodes look horrible and weak beyond compare.

The only thing that I can think of that would maybe make the angle right again, if on next weeks Raw they announce it was a shoot and that they just wanted to make it seem like Shane had turned on Legacy but in reality he just did it to throw Steph off. It would be a swerve plus it would make Legacy not seem so weak. So hopefully in the next few weeks we find out that it was just a set up to throw everyone off and Shane actually joins legacy.

 

[RendarSelin]

The RAW ending had to be one of the worst fake fights I have ever seen on pro wrestling. Not only did the camera work kind of suck near the end (there were a couple punches as Randy and Shane worked their way up the ramp that Shane obviously was no where near Randy...plus Randy had absolutely no reaction to those lol)...the fans are really supposed to believe Shane can really take down Legacy by himself? Not only are you pasting the Royal Rumble winner as a weak coward, it makes DiBiase and Rhodes look extremely weak...you can understand their role was to simply hold Shane back and not wanting to fight much out of fear for their jobs...but honestly...this is Orton's Legacy group?! The same group who were 3 of the final 4 in the Rumble the day before?! They could have further played the IED (or whatever they called it) disorder by having Randy Orton overpower Shane and kick him in the head...or something...

 

[eldentista]

This had to be a set up for a Shane turn because no way would they expect people to believe this. What should have happened that would have put orton over huge is:

Shane spears him and starts punching him, but legacy gets the better of shane, they hold him down for a punt and orton gets on the mic and gets his lawyers and stephanie to sign something that the WWE will not fire him and he gets to be in the main event at wrestlemania, if they don't he will punt shane's head off. The lawyer quickly writes something up and stephanie signs it. Orton looks at it and smiles and calls off legacy, when shane is starting to get to his feet orton punts him anyways.

I am sorry but the crowd would freakin love it and orton would be over as hell.

eldentista

 

[tyler.durden]

the raw ending completely sucked... crappy fight between shane and legacy... so that was stephanie's "big plan" for orton? i thought when all the wrestlers came out, steph was gonna order them to beat up legacy, to which i thought "ok, that's pretty cool, steph got even..." then shane came out and i was like "holy smokes, legacy's gonna have a mcmahon on their side!" it would be nice for shane to join legacy, but i guess it's good that the wwe is focused on orton instead of using him as a tool for a mcmahon feud.

 

[Harthan]

What shocks me even more is that, essentially, Shane McMahon was just put over Triple H, indirectly.

Think about it. Triple H faced the whole of Legacy in the Rumble, and couldn't win. He got put out by Orton. But, Shane McMahon can come in and just suddenly destroy them all? Shane McMahon is officially being put over harder than Triple H, and that in itself is terrifying.

The crowd popped big for Shane at first, but when the fight started I think we were all hoping Orton would kick his ass. I think everyone around me was hoping that Legacy would gangrape him. Figuratively, of course.

I don't know what the plan for a McMahon in Legacy is now, but one has to be joining, you'd think. Orton has now fought two of them, and Stephanie is all grrr angry at him. I think Stephanie remains the best option now, however, as she hasn't gotten into a fight.

But all in all, this segment was a bit ludicrous. Orton had an excellent promo running and then Shane going over the lot of them was crazy. Hopefully Orton kicks Shane's ass in their inevitable Raw match.

 

[DDPK7]

i think the endin should have been, shane comes to the ring and when he squares up to orton, he then turns and hits steph (which would draw major heel heat) and then some of the superstars run down to the ring as the legacy all run out leaving steph in the ring outcold and making the legacy a lot stronger

 

[Tastycles]

To be honest, Shane looked awful. However, I think that this segment could still have been ok if either commentator made it clear that Legacy couldn't attack Shane for fear of losing their contracts or something. That way, Shane could have hit Orton and Orton would have been able to do nothing except push him off, which is what happened, but without the explanation, it just lookedlike the worlds shittest fist fight.

As for a McMahon joining legacy, I can see Stephanie doing so after the inevitible Orton vs. Shane match at No Way Out, but I'm really not sure which one it'll be. That being said, it's definitely going to happen now, I'm sure of it.

 

[Shocky]

I'm not bothered by this, because Randy Orton is a heel, and Legacy are heels, and when push came to shove, the bully got punched in the mouth. Now I'm pretty sure Randy Orton is going to do something overly drastic in the next week to return the uber heel hatred back onto himself, so that's all good.

It's looking like a Shane O'Mac vs. Randy orton match at No Way Out, and the one thing that Shane is good at, taking huge bumps, is what will make this all worth while. In the end, it's going to look like Orton killed Shane, giving him monster heel heat going into mania, and all will be forgotten.

 

[f_roEDGE]

This is my bad punch throwing league, top being the bottom, see below.

1st: Shane McMahon
2nd: John Cena
-Rob Van Dam
4th: Diva's

RVD doesn't punch. Punching is (well.....was) illegal, so he uses his elbows. Look closely.

 

[BDOG]

I must say it was a let down, the promo by orton was unbelievable, i can't get enough of this guy! i would've much preffered a massive beatdown of Shane-O-Gay-Mac, proving that Orton is untouchable and can pretty much do whatever he wants on Raw.. every fued that involves the McMahon's is boring, I think all this will end when Austin makes a surprise appearance and stunners all the legacy... cant see that coming

 

[CDR]

The ending to last night's Raw was horrendous. I thought that the only person who could beat up three people at once was John Cena. I guess I was wrong. Anyway, I think the writers envisioned the ending segment differently than what really happened. And mostly, it's the crowd's fault. When Cena comes out and does something unrealistically amazing, the crowd eats it up. That didn't happen for Shane last night. This proves two things. One being the fact that Cena really is better than some people think. He's great with the crowd and the crowd's great with him. Two being the fact that the crowd isn't dumb. They really see what's happening, and they showed it. By reacting with distaste, they showed that the WWE can't just do whatever they want and get fans to cheer faces and boo heels. The ending to last night wasn't all because of what happened, but how the crowd reacted to it.

 

[Lt 0reo]

So apprently what Triple H couldn't do Shane O Mac can. Thnk about it at the rumble when HHH was held down by Rhodes and dibiase he stayed down but shane not only broke away once but twice. He beats up the 09 rumble winner and his two stable mates, with the worst punches ever.