By Mark Gessner

- I was glad to see John Morrison and Dolph Ziggler infused into the title picture. Great line by Morrison about us all seeing John Cena and Randy Orton fight over who should be champion before. Whose brilliant idea was it to include R-Truth though?

- The Bella Twins can't wrestle, are they really the most attractive twins WWE could find?

- There were a couple botches but still a really entertaining TV match in Sin Cara's debut. The top rope flip bottom finisher was cool, but Paul Burchill doing it without needing to be on the top rope was more impressive. Hopefully Primo is not on the soon to be future endeavored list.

- Forget Mark Henry and Santino Marella, the thought of Bryan Danielson and Matt Sydal (a.k.a. Daniel Brian and Evan Bourne) as a tag team would be a phenomenal concept if WWE gave a shit about tag team wrestling.

- Jim Ross rocking the Cole Mine was awesome. J.R. working The King's corner was also awesome. You can tell he is a MMA fan because it was legit advice you'd hear during a fight.

- Does Jack Swagger turn face at Extreme Rules? Expect next week for the stipulation to be in J.R. and The King win, J.R. takes Michael Cole's job as play-by-play announcer on Raw.

- What a phenomenal video package recapping Triple H vs. Undertaker with Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena, C.M. Punk, Christian, Edge, Big Show, and Pat Patterson breaking down the match.

- While I joked on Twitter as Edge came out that it was time for the announcement twenty minutes in the making, I originally thought the retirement talk was a work, but it proved to be legit. Edge is one of the smartest men in the business for walking away while he still can.

- As for the speech, it was a phenomenal retirement speech. It was Adam Copeland, the wrestling fan, talking about fulfilling his life time dream. I remember hearing in either a DVD or in a video package hyping a match how he was voted in his high school year book as "Most Likely to be in the WWF" or something along those lines. You really saw the fan in him on display and he will be missed.

- Apparently Husky Harris got kick so hard that he couldn't kick the weight in time to be TV ready by WWE standards. At least Batis-Two didn't completely take Batista's finisher as he just powerbombed Orton and it wasn't a sit-out powerbomb.

- I guess R-Truth is out of the doghouse for not having a GPS satellite feed to let him know where he is. Is there money in Ron Killings that I'm missing? Ziggler is the future of the WWE, Killings is an upper mid-card wrestler at best. Truth wouldn't have lost anything by jobbing to Ziggler.

- Truth beating Ziggler and Morrison in the same night? I blame Melina. All joking aside, Morrison being in the ring with Cena in the main event of Raw would be big for him and would gain a lot. Truth vs. Cena to close out the gauntlet eliminates any curiosity as to who was going to win.

- So let me get this straight, R-Truth goes from being off of Raw for a month because he didn't know what city he was in, to the main event of Extreme Rules? MVP never recovered from making a dick joke to a drug testing agent. Jack Swagger got a short title reign and now works a program with announcers and is no where near as relevant as he should be because he took a nap. Truth gets to main event. Fingers crossed for Morrison getting the same treatment after the office gets over him being immature and unprofessional towards Trish Stratus at WrestleMania.

- To close out on a non-wrestling topic due to the commercial hype it got throughout the show, I can not wait to see Scream 4 this Friday. Who wouldn't want to see a movie with Monica Gellar/Bing from "Friends" (Courtney Cox), Sookie from True Blood (Anna Paquin), Annie Wilson from 90210 (Shenae Grimes), Veronica Mars/Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), and Julie Taylor from Friday Night Lights (Aimee Teegarden)? Hopefully Impact doesn't produce to long of a rant after covering it live for the first time so I can catch the movie at midnight. On that note, after being able to make a wrestling tie-in and promote my live coverage debut with a non-wrestling thought, take care everybody

Thank you all very much for clicking the link that brought you to my "Mark Out Moments" for Monday Night Raw. If you have any thoughts, questions, comments, or critiques, feel free to email me at kliq4life28@gmail.com or tweet me at Twitter.com/MarkGessner. I'll be back later this week with my coverage of The Ultimate Fighter and I will be covering TNA Impact live for the site for the first time this Thursday night.

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