Monday Night RAW – 12/21/09

Here’s what went down on RAW last night:

Justin Roberts announces the guest host, New York Yankees star, Johnny Damon.  During his time in the ring, he announces a secret Santa will grant a wish to a WWE superstar.

• While this goes on a guy in a tiger suit comes over the rail with a woman chasing after him with a golf club.

Santa’s Little Helper Match
Melina, Kelly Kelly & Gail Kim vs. Maryse, Jillian Hall & Alicia Fox
WINNERS: Faces via pin fall; Melina drop kicked Kelly while Maryse was going to slam her.

Video Package: DX is put on trial in Little People’s Court underneath the ring.  Exhibit A is shown of them beating up and terrorizing Hornswoggle.

Legacy (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase) vs. Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry & Evan Bourne
WINNERS: Faces via pin fall; Kingston hit Trouble in Paradise on DiBiase

Backstage: Damon with Santa, Eve Torres & The Bella Twins.

• Carlito approaches Eve under the mistletoe and tries to kiss her.  Chris Masters intervenes and they start to argue.  Santa (Sgt. Slaughter) breaks up a fight and Damon makes a match for later tonight.

Video Package: Little People’s Court continues.  Exhibit B is shown, Triple H hitting a Pedigree on Hornswoggle.  Shawn Michaels freaks out when they give a guilty verdict, and they run!

Jack Swagger vs. John Cena
WINNER: Cena via submission due to the STF.

Backstage: Damon talking with Santa (Dusty Rhodes) about baseball.

• MVP comes in to ask Santa about getting in the title picture for Christmas, and Guest Host Damon makes him a match versus Sheamus.

Carlito vs. Chris Masters with Eve Torres
WINNER: Masters via submission due to the Master Lock.

• After match, Eve breaks out some mistletoe and plants a kiss on Masters.

Video Package: A look back at Tribute to the Troops

Backstage: The Miz is talking to Santa (IRS) saying that he better make up for the Christmas when he was nine and spouts off a crazy list.  Santa calls him a tax cheat!

• The Bella’s are back there sitting with the tiger suit guy and the crazy woman sees him with the Bellas and tries to hit him with a golf club again!
• Damon walks back in the room and doesn’t realize he’s under the mistletoe and is attacked by Mae Young who plants kisses on him!

Sheamus vs. MVP – Non-Title Match
WINNER: Sheamus via pin fall after hitting the Razor’s Edge.

• After the match, Cena comes to the ring and demands his rematch.  Sheamus walks out!

Backstage: Vince McMahon approaches Johnny Damon and asks him if he’s going to do anything about the challenge.  Damon makes the match for next week!

• Damon asks Mr. McMahon about Bret Hart hosting RAW, and Mr. McMahon says, “That’s a Scrooge thing to ask!”

The Miz vs. Santino Marella (dressed as Santa)
WINNER: The Miz via pin fall after hitting the Skull Crushing Finale

Backstage: Josh Matthews catches up with the Big Show who’s headed to the ring to call out Santa for his wish for Christmas.

Video Package: Recap of how Little People’s Court went down for DX.

Big Show comes to the ring and calls out Santa.  He asks for his partner, Chris Jericho, to be allowed to come back to RAW.  Santa grants him this wish.  Hornswoggle (In DX gear) runs in the ring and pulls off Santa’s beard to reveal that Santa was really Chris Jericho!

• All of the little people from under the ring come into the ring wearing DX gear and look like they’re going to throw down on Jericho.  JeriShow clean house!  They then get their hands on Hornswoggle who hits Sweet Shin Music on Jericho, but Show looks to choke slam the little guy.  DX comes to save the day!
• Trips says he wants to squash Hornswoggle, but HBK is the voice of reason!  HBK asks Trips, “Can we keep him?”
• They say “if you drop the court thing, we will make you the official DX mascot?”  Hornswoggle is pleased!

QUICK THOUGHTS:

Wow!  Little People’s Court was absolutely ridiculous and a big waste of time!  The ending with JeriShow was sort of funny, but doesn’t make up for the lost time of the court segment.

What was with the tiger running through?  It had no bearing on anything.  It’s like they just wanted to take an SNL like stab at the golfer’s problems.

Cena vs. Swagger wasn’t a bad match.  Cena’s not as bad as people make him out to be, and Swagger is improving.

Bret Hart coming back to RAW soon… I’m excited.  McMahon has neither confirmed nor denied it, so it’s still a legit possibility!  Hart’s keeping quiet for now, but in a few weeks we may see it with our own eyes.

Why does WWE love to torture us with Mae Young all the time?  Hell, I feel bad for Johnny Damon!