Raw vs Smackdown (Week 2): Brock & Orton Everywhere
Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton attack each other on Raw and Smackdown, setting them up as the true main eventers for WWE SummerSlam in Week 2 of Raw vs SD!
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Category: Monday Night RAW
The WWE Draft Made NXT Stronger…Somehow
While there’s plenty of things to complain about following the WWE Draft, NXT is not one of those things.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (July 11) Results & Review
…*Deep sigh*.
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WWE Raw TV Review (July 4): Team USA vs The World
WWE Raw TV – July 4 – With the holiday, not a lot of new stuff was coming from WWE on Monday. We did, however, get a new match for Battleground.
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WWE Raw (June 20) Results & Review: Main Event for Battleground Decided
All three former members of The Shield are now involved in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship picture, and we continue their story on WWE Raw!
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WWE Raw TV Review (June 13): Final Push to Money In The Bank
It’s the final push to WWE Monday in the Bank, so what does this week’s Raw have in store for us? Jeff Hawkins look’s at June 13’s WWE Raw TV presentation!
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WWE Monday Night RAW (June 6) Results & Review
The AJ Styles/John Cena build continues to be strong while the Money in the Bank build is the WWE-standard “sports entertainment” build.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (May 30) Results & Review
A minor swerve, a good in-ring main event and the return of John Cena saved the Memorial Day RAW from being the worst show of the year.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (May 23) Results & Review
In the wake of Extreme Rules, the Architect returns and MITB qualifiers begin for the right to risk life & limb to carry a cumbersome briefcase through TSA!
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WWE Monday Night Raw (May 16) Results & Videos: Contract Signing Main Event!
Tonight on RAW, the go home build for Extreme Rules. Which means….more of what you’ve been watching the past three weeks.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (May 10) Results & Review
The Club, The Family. The Raw. The The (who had a great tune in “Dogs of Lust”)
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WWE Raw (May 2) Review: AJ Styles & Friends vs Reigns & Cousins
Another Raw in the New Era of WWE may look like any other Raw from the old era, as Jeff Hawkins takes you through three hours of WWE Monday Night Raw.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (April 25) Results & Review
The spectacular video packages and solid matches make this yet another easy “thumbs up” RAW in the post-Mania afterglow.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (April 18) Review: Raw is London
Monday Night Raw returns to London with another week of Shane McMahon in control. Jeff Hawkins looks at the chaos stemming from April 18 WWE Raw is London!
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WWE Monday Night Raw (April 4) Results & Review
The #RawAfterMania is traditionally the biggest Monday night of the year for the company. Could this year keep up the tradition?
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (April 4) Results & Review
The #RawAfterMania is traditionally the biggest Monday night of the year for the company. Could this year keep up the tradition?
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (April 4) Results & Review
The #RawAfterMania is traditionally the biggest Monday night of the year for the company. Could this year keep up the tradition?
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WWE Monday Night RAW (March 28) Results & Review
It’s Easter Monday, we get the return of a Deadman, the King of Kings, and in interesting juxtaposition, a crowd asking for a Roman Reigns to be crucified.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (March 21) Results & Review
The build for KO Mania, featuring Kevin Owens, with cameos by Vince, Stephanie, Hunter and Roman. Two weeks until the biggest event of WWE’s year, WrestleMania 32.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (March 14) Results & Review
Dean Ambrose starts a fight with a Beast, Roman Reigns returns and plenty more of the top two angles heading into WrestleMania 32.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (March 7) Review
This week’s Raw was aided by a really strong match between Neville and Owens, Team Y2AJ’s breakup and the HHH/Dean Ambrose go-home segment.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (February 29) Review
If you liked McMahons or those married to them, you got plenty of it at the top of all three hours of last night’s RAW.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (February 22) Review: Shane McMahon Returns
Shane McMahon returned to WWE on a newsworthy episode of WWE Monday Night Raw for February 22, 2016.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (February 15) Review
Last night’s Raw was the final stop on the fast lane to…well, WWE Fastlane!
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WWE Monday Night RAW (February 1) Review: Let’s Talk Iowa Caucus
Share the ride with Sean as he flips between WWE RAW and the Iowa caucus coverage.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (January 25) Review: McMahon Mania
The McMahon family has finally given up all pretense of trying to hide their opinions of the marks who follow this product.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (January 11) Review: Roman vs. The World
The lesson from tonight’s episode of RAW is that people like people wanting to fight each other.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (January 4) Review: Royal Rumble News!
New year, new attitude. Sure Raw’s main event scene has been like a tire fire with some elephant dung thrown in the flames. But the calendar has flipped, and it’s time to find the positive in Raw. We’re at the on-ramp to the Road to Wrestlemania. This car is bound to get going at some point. Right?
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WWE Monday Night RAW (December 28) Review
Last night’s episode of WWE Monday Night RAW tries to answer the age-old question: Can you make a new John Cena while the old John Cena is still around?
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WWE Monday Night RAW (December 21) Review
WWE had 1.34 million Slammy votes. At this rate by 2018 they will have more Slammy votes than people watching Raw.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (December 14) Review: Roman Finally Reigns
Vince returns, Roman reigns…
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WWE Monday Night RAW (December 8) Review
This week on RAW we have dancing unicorns, a sighting of snowflakes, and the emergence of the best heel in the company, working as a face.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (November 30) Review
Monday Night RAW was so bad last night, even four segments from The New Day couldn’t save it.
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WWE Monday Night RAW (November 23) Review: Rusev Returns
After a polarizing pay-per-view the night before, Monday Night RAW returned with a thumbs up show highlighted by the return of Rusev.
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WWE Monday Night Raw (November 16) Review: Paige/Charlotte Contract Signing
Sean Flynn returns to his post to review a crazy episode of Raw culminating in a Paige/Charlotte contract signing
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WWE Raw (November 10) Review: WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tourney Begins!
This was supposed to be a newsworthy show with the launch of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament but it ended up feeling like just another Raw
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WWE Raw (November 2) Review: The Road to WWE Survivor Series 2015 Continues!
Raw doesn’t feel like a show with a lot of star power. With that said, this was a solid show with a clear direction to WWE Survivor Series 2015
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 26) Review: Fatal Four Way #1 Contender’s Match
Monday’s episode of Raw was a better show than usual with a high-stakes Fatal Four Way #1 Contender’s Match main event
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 20) Review: The Force Awakens
Overall, this was a memorable episode of Raw as WWE pulled out all the stops going head-to-head with The Force Awakens trailer, MNF and the MLB Playoffs.
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 12) Review
Cena/Ziggler was pretty damn good. Otherwise, WWE Raw (October 12) was the Kane show.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (September 28) Review: This is Not How H.R. Works
This show was not a good show. Another huge miss for WWE Monday Night Raw.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (September 21) Review: John Cena’s Modern Dance Hour
If the best wrestling is a life vs. death struggle, John Cena has been in a ten year struggle against a stubborn piece of food in between his teeth.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (September 14) Review
Sting appears on Raw. The Bella Countdown reaches zero. And YOU have a chance to decide the future of this column.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (September 7) Review
A holding pattern show with faces getting one over on the heels.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (August 31) Review: Sting Explains It All
There are favorite albums, missing statues, free programming ideas for WWE Network, and the moment when you can pinpoint the death of a revolution.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (August 24) Review
This show was not the kind of thing to give me hope that this show is going to be fun to watch the next few months.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (August 17) Review
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (August 10) Review
A review/recap of Monday’s episode of Raw woven with the great poetry of Ryan Collins.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (August 3) Review: Rollins, Brock, Piper & more
WWE Monday Night Raw for August 3, 2015, features a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match, the big push for Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam, and more of the Divas Revolution!
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (July 27) Review: Cena vs Rollins, Owens vs Orton
This week: We talk about appreciating the Big Show, John Cena vs. our mortality, and Maynard G. Krebs. Also, the World Champ goes against the US Champ and Randy Orton meets Kevin Steen for the first time.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (July 20) Results & Review
Tonight’s review is an experiment in real time. When Raw ends, review ends. Also the Undertaker has all the feels.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (July 13) Review: NXT Divas Have Arrived!
This week saw Air Ryback, a really good triple threat between Kevin Owens & Rusev & Cesaro, and possibly one of the most important moments in recent WWE history.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (July 6) Review: John Cena vs Cesaro Epic
WWE Raw for July 6, 2015, featuring Cesaro vs John Cena in an epic main event! Plus, Brock Lesnar, Rusev drama, and the CAR!
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (June 29) Review
My mind is not on RAW as much as it could be. There is a three day weekend in the shimmering distance that promises grilling and sunshine and not being at work.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (June 22) Results & Review
Will anything make any sense in the Authority storyline? Kevin Owens is getting punked tonight isn’t he? When does someone come help Paige?
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (June 15) Review
We’re all friends here, right? Then you won’t mind me admitting I didn’t give a damn about Raw this week. It’s all about the Cup here tonight.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (June 8) Review
It’s WWE Monday Night Raw. It’s Sean Flynn. It’s Sean Flynn watching and discussing WWE Raw while suffering through the Chicago Blackhawks NHL Finals meltdown. SO MUCH FUN!
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (June 1) Review
Will John Cena act like anything at all important happened on Sunday? What’s going to happen with Dean Ambrose – Wacky Thief? Answers to these questions and more!
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (May 25) Review
Will things get totally cray between Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose? Is John Cena’s U.S. Title Open Challenge going to be the stage for another Kevin Owens appearance? These answers and more in our Raw review!
Read MoreWWE Monday Night RAW (May 19) Review
At least they seemed focused this week and tried to build towards Elimination Chamber and we get a fantastic Owens/Cena segment out of this week’s RAW.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (May 11) Review
A recap of last night’s Raw and a look at what’s next for Daniel Bryan
Read MoreWWE RAW (May 4) Review
A good-to-great Raw highlighted by a major debut and huge ramifications for WWE Payback.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (April 27) Review
I’m getting kind of tired of having to deal with the aftermath of reckless and violent police officers on Monday nights. This stuff is hard enough to enjoy on a good day.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (April 20) Review
This show wasn’t terrible. It was okay.
Read MoreWWE Raw (April 6) Review
That show was…okay. Some good things, and not too many bad things. I fear in a month or two I will be longing for shows like that.
Read MoreWWE Raw (March 30) Review
One of the most anticipated Raws of the year certainly didn’t disappoint
Read MoreWWE Raw (March 16) Review
Time for the continued slow drive in the right hand lane through Nebraska towards WrestleMania. Boy, there sure are a lot of cows.
Read MoreWWE Monday Night Raw (March 9) Review
Did it run long? Yep. Was it repetitive at times? Yep. Did Paul Heyman try to do the labor of 6 months of programming in one deranged promo? You damn right. He’s giving a feud between a guy who’s never there and a guy no one wants there everything he has to try and get it over. Every tiny trick of getting the crowd in that he’s learned in 30 years is being used right now. Nothing is being left on the table, no matter where it may lie on the kayfabe spectrum. Paul Heyman has a bucket, he’s on the Titanic, and he’s trying to bail water so hard that even the ocean cannot conquer him.
Read MoreWWE Raw (March 2) Review
Everyone hates Newark!
Read MoreWWE Raw (February 16) Review
A Raw review like no other with a trip down memory lane with some of the worst wrestling themes ever… what could be better?
Read MoreWWE Raw (February 9) Review
Sting, Rikishi, multiple Kane/Big Show matches!
Read MoreWWE Raw (February 2) Review + State of WWE
It’s been a while since we last met, weary travelers on the dusty and dangerous Road to WrestleMania — There was still a chance Daniel Bryan would win the Rumble, Seth Rollins was assumed to be cashing in his briefcase at the Rumble, RAW was going to be live from Hartford on 1/26, I was a WWE Network subscriber, Pete Carroll wasn’t known as the dumbest man in the world and the Ascension were incapable of standing up to old dudes. As The Flaming Lips said, Suddenly Everything Has Changed.
Read MoreThe Joy of Indy Wrestling: #RAWlternative Recap
Welcome to the joyous world of independent wrestling.
Read MoreWWE Raw (January 20) Review: The Alternative to #RAWlternative
So while you were watching some excellent matches as part of #RAWlternative, this was happening tonight. I was doing neither at the time they aired. I was eating my weight in meat at Fogo de Chao, a Brazilian churrascaria. In honor of this fact, tonight we shall be ranking the different meat options throughout the report.
Read MoreWWE RAW (January 12) Review
I suppose after watching the John Cena master class in thespianic studies last week I had to come back and see what happens. Maybe he’ll volunteer to sacrifice his career for the good of his friends who he put in such a bind. Maybe he’ll make a deal with the devil to help Seth Rollins win the title. Or maybe he’ll come out and do exactly the same thing he does every week, only this time with 4.7% more Serious Voice.
Read MoreWWE RAW (January 5) Results & Review
So I didn’t burst into flames after last week’s report, nor did I break my TV. And even though I’m an excellent quitter I’ve decided to keep watching at least through the Road to WrestleMania. Since even if it sucks, at least stuff might happen.
Read MoreWWE Raw (December 29) Results & Review
Did Raw close out 2014 with a bang? Well…
Read MoreWWE Raw (December 22) Review
Christmas gifts, Christmas songs and some Christmas Raw along the way… Sean Flynn reviews Raw as only he can.
Read MoreWWE Raw (December 8) Review
I don’t know if this show is making me insane, if I have Stockholm Syndrome, or if the show wasn’t actually that bad. Any answer sounds plausible right now.
Read MoreWWE Raw (December 1) Review
Last week I was in a foul mood. So this week, still full of turkey and good feelings I am going to try something different this week. For every match or major promo segment I will find something to be genuinely thankful for. Not just “thankful that’s over!” or anything of the sort. But real genuine positive feelings. I figure if I say enough happy things, I might even like the show by the end.
Read MoreWWE Raw (November 24) Review
Sometimes the real world is just too damn real and even wrestling isn’t enough of an escape from it.
Read MoreWWE Raw (November 17) Review
Sean Flynn takes a unique approach to reviewing Raw and drags his wife along for the ride.
Read MoreWWE Raw (November 10) Review
So, I’m in a bit of a foul mood leading into this week’s review of Monday Night Raw. I know you’re dying to hear all the details on this so I promise not to disappoint any more than usual.
Read MoreWWE Raw (November 3) Review
We’re back again. I’ve officially hit the over on the predictions of my time as Raw Reviewer. For the love of God share this with your friends. If I don’t get enough pageviews Rich will reassign me to weekly reviews of Jimmy Jacobs compilations.
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 27) Review
This ends another week of Raw. A lot of dreck with a few high level performances scattered about. Stephanie was absolutely superb. HHH was solid as well. Nikki Bella and Paige both showed some sparks tonight.
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 20) Review
Of all the episodes of Raw that I’ve seen, that was the most recent.
Read MoreWWE Raw (October 13) Report: The End.
John Cena and Randy Orton will headline a PPV in 2014. The epitome of who gives a fuck. The show itself was slightly better than previous weeks, but the boredom. The tediousness. The worthlessness of everyone. I give up.
Read MoreWWE Raw Report (October 6)
This show was another tour de force on how to make absolutely nothing matter.
Read MoreWWE Raw (September 29) Report
Ambrose stuff was neat. Beyond that, I don’t even have the words to express how boring this show was. WWE continues to amaze me with the way they make things not matter. It’s an artform at this point. Their lazy, uninspired writing has never been more apparent. Ever.
Read MoreWWE Raw (September 22) Report
Fast forwarding through most of the long matches, this was fine. I liked the bunny’s comeback and also like the focus on Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, since they’re new guys who aren’t getting the midcard treatment push. Everything else on this show…hmm…there’s two words here I can use, but I’ve seemed to have forgotten them. Oh well!
Read MoreWWE Raw (September 15) Report
I guess in the end this was a mixed bag show. Nothing extremely appalling, just some dumb stuff throughout, some bad matches, tons of filler (save for the Rollins/Reigns match…which I still have no idea why they needed to do it right here, right now) and some great segments hyping the main event for Night of Champions
Read MoreWWE Raw Report (September 8)
A million times better than the last two episodes. Seems this week WWE wants to care about what they actually want to air on TV, and I’m assuming that’s because the NFL is back in full force and thus needs to step up their game.
Read MoreWWE Raw (September 1) Report
A bad, bad show. 1999 Nitro levels of terrible. Uninspired to the max. The terrible crap they’re doing in an attempt to garner interest is failing on all levels. The fall slump has begun, all we can do now is ride it out and hope it’s not as bad as it was in 2011 or last year.
Read MoreWWE Raw (August 18) Report
Pretty good show. There’s no real direction for Night of Champions right now other than some rematches, and maybe Henry/Show and Swagger/Dallas, but that’s cool. They have a few weeks.
Read MoreWWE Raw (August 11) Report
The birthday bash and anything involving the world title match was great. Sheamus/Orton had a great TV match. Everything else was some of the worst booking and storytelling imaginable.
Read MoreWWE Raw (August 4) Report
It’s shows like these that make me wonder what the wrestling world will be like come October. TNA will probably be out. Ustream will drop iPPVs. I don’t even want to fathom it. Be prepared, people. You thought post-2001 was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Read MoreWWE Raw Report (July 28)
I liked this show a lot. It was the first week where you really get the idea that they have a solid direction of where they’re going for SummerSlam, and it sounds like a fun show.
Read MoreWWE Raw Report (July 21)
This felt like a really long show. BUT, it was also pretty newsworthy and interesting, going in a number of new directions. They definitely have ideas for SummerSlam, and they seem to be sticking to them, so that’s cool. SummerSlam sounds like a hell of a lot better than Battleground, and it should be packed with a number of great matches. Let’s see how the build is leading to the big show.
Read MoreWWE Raw Report (July 14)
The good news is that they pushed Battleground this Sunday. The bad news is I am sure not one person’s interest was gauged after watching this show. A lot of filler guised as build for the battle royal, other filler that was just plain bad, incoherent storytelling in the midcard with zero direction and a dull main event made this show pretty lame. The Rusev/Swagger segment was good, though. So at least there’s that.
Read MoreWWE Raw (July 7) Report
It was alright. The Ambrose/Orton match was a highlight. The Usos/Wyatts had great heat as well. Really nothing more than a show building towards Battleground. But hey, that’s a good thing. Most weeks they don’t build towards anything. They definitely have ideas set in stone for the rest of the summer, so we’ll see how things build up from here.
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