Say hello to the Summerfest guys. We start this list with a pair of guest hosts that really did try to make the best of things on RAW, but only managed to be slightly entertaining. For starters, Jeremy Piven made the now-infamous mistake of calling SummerSlam Summerfest. Then, to make thing worse, he made a match for the Miz, with the stipulation that if he lost, he would be banned from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, banned from the Summerfest Pay-Per-View, and banned from RAW for all eternity. Though that had an interesting hook, it was made completely irrelevant when the Miz won a contract match against Eugene the following week under the mask as the Calgary Kid, thus making the match against Cena completely pointless. It was very clear that his sole purpose for being there was to promote his new movie at the time, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. They openly admitted that their goal for showing up was to promote their own product, and John Cena probably praised it around five times in the span of five minutes. In hindsight, the film had poor reviews and made just over $15 million at the box office. Dr. Ken, meanwhile, came down to the ring dressed like a pimp (which for some reason also featured a pacifier), told bad jokes, kissed John Cenas hand, and yelled nonsensical garbage at the Miz. Though these jokes mightve been appropriate for The Hangover, they just seemed stupid, even for RAW. What was the worst, however, was the collective burial of the Miz as a superstar from all three of them. How was anyone supposed to take the Miz seriously as a rising star in the WWE when, one by one, both superstars and guest stars mocked everything about him, from his days in reality TV, to his matches? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTUqMXAgHbo The funny thing was, the Miz asked them if they were enjoying making a mockery of the show . To be honest, while that was meant for him to draw heat, it was more appropriate for that segment than most people thought. That said, Jeremy deserves credit for climbing the top turnbuckle and doing a dive, only to be caught by John Cena. It was probably the only truly funny part of an otherwise low guest host show.
Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.
