My Raw, October 17th Recap

The show began with the dull John Laurinaitis teasing the crowd in Mexico by promising the return of Mysterio (who's still out) and bringing back JR to team with John Cena to face Michael Cole and WWE champion Alberto Del Rio in a tag team match to determine the stipulation for their match on Sunday at Vengeance for the title. Why JR and Cole? We already had to suffer the awful feud between King and Cole earlier in the year and now this? Here's an idea, how about some younger up and comers with a future participate in the match up?
The first match of the night, coming from Mexico, was a six man tag team match featuring Sheamus, Orton and Morrison versus Cody Rhodes, Mark Henry and Christian. The match had some decent moments but it was mostly average, although there was a very lively crowd behind it. Things began to break down as Randy and Rhodes started to tussle outside the ring which led to them leaving the match entirely as they went backstage. The best part of the match was probably the exchanges between Morrison and Christian, who both looked solid out there. Henry did his usual boring, slow routine and ended up pinning Morrison with his World's Strongest Slam. No sign of his opponent at Vengeance Big Show though. Their match has 'dud' written all over it.
Next we had Eve Torres versus Natalya. Considering Eve is facing Beth Phoenix for the Divas title on Sunday it wasn't hard to figure out who was winning this one. The match was decent enough for a Divas bout nowadays, Eve is without a doubt a step up from Kelly and she showed it here. I still believe that Natalya deserves more then just being Beth's right hand woman, she's the best female wrestler they currently have.
CM Punk versus The Miz was again another all right match, both guys looked decent enough but it didn't really get me hyped for their match on Sunday. CM Punk came out to a huge ovation from the crowd in attendance, probably the biggest since Money In The Bank. Before the match began Miz and Truth put down Punk by claiming that he talks too much and how much they hate it. Punk didn't really take it to heart (it's hard to take R-Truth seriously). Triple H also joined Punk in his corner for the bout, that was until Laurinaitis arrived and claimed that there were some errors with Triple H's immigration papers and that he must leave immediately. Punk scored the win after quickly rolling Miz up for the three count after throwing him into his partner Truth at ringside. 
Afterwards Miz and Truth began to beat down Punk until the referees (why is this their job now?) separated them and they began to leave down the ramp, but changed their mind and ran back to the ring to each apply their finishers to Punk for good measure.
Vickie Guerrero and her two clients Ziggler and Swagger announced their tag team title match on Sunday against Air Boom. Ziggler looked great on the mic here I thought, he's proving himself more and more as a possible headliner in the future. 
Zach Ryder beat Jack Swagger in approximately 33 seconds after hitting him with the Rough Ryder. Didn't Jack once hold the World Heavyweight championship or did I imagine that? Straight after we had Ziggler versus Mason Ryan in a match which yet again showcased how limited Ryan is in the ring, but he is getting a positive reaction from the audiences. The match ended after Ryan got disqualified for refusing to stop beating on Dolph in the corner.
Next John Cena and JR beat Michael Cole and Alberto Del Rio in the usual Cena routine. After having the majority of the offense over Cena during the bout Del Rio was forced to succumb to Cena's awful come back routine where he pops back to life after playing dead and reminds everyone so obviously that pro wrestling is fake. A great match has your belief suspended as you're watching it and you loose yourself in it, like Michaels versus Undertaker at WrestleMania 25. Cena decides to ignore that and sell for virtually no one in his never ending quest to ruin a wrestlers chance at becoming a believable main eventer. This is why we very much dislike your wrestling John, you portray a cartoon character and ruin it for us. And the thing is, he's shown that he can put on an entertaining match on rare occasions but he decides to phone it in most weeks and give us the same thing over and over again. Anyway, after Cena applied the Attitude Adjustment to Cole he tagged in JR who made him tap to an ankle lock for the win and for Cena to choose the stipulation for his championship match.
Cena carried on attacking Del Rio afterwards and grabbed a mic to start counting up to ten in his obvious teaser for his choice of a Last Man Standing match at Vengeance, although we still had the fool Lawler on commentary asking himself "I don't know what John's doing." All the while the crowd who had been firmly behind Del Rio during and after the match were booing Cena as he smacked the steel steps into Del Rio's head. He carried on counting once again, this time to ten and officially announced that it will be a Last man Standing match up. It could be a decent match if done correctly, so in other words nothing like their match at Night Of Champions which Del Rio is still having to recover from. Del Rio must win this match, even if it means having someone interfere on his behalf, which I see as the most likely road they'll go down. If Cena wins again then I don't see how Del Rio could possibly be considered a worthy World champion again, it would take a hell of a lot for him to recuperate from that loss.