Why is it that every single week seems to be an exact duplicate of the last Raw week? How many times have we said that? Too many, and I for one am beyond tired of it. McMahon and them must sit around scratching their heads saying "why are our ratings sliding dramatically when we've got showcases like Lashley/Coachman and Khali/Cena?" Matches like Venis/Carlito and Coach/Lashley are unbelievable wastes of airtime and we've been seeing them for too long. SD has its problems, like sticking random people in tag matches every week, but even they have more variety than Raw does right now, as evident from this week and the past year's worth of shows. Things that are actually decent on Raw are being outweighed by mindless, nonsensical bullshit that has been shoved down our throats for years, and matches no one wants to see and really, are degrading this tattered company even further.
Raw was at one time, a show where you would be excited to watch, to see what was going to happen, but ever since Cena came in and began his seemingly-endless reign as champion, McMahon has made Raw less interesting and indifferent every week. Now, we get ridiculous segments with Khali yabbering on in some language and getting some guy to make up a promo for him on TV, which is laughable. Compound that with a Coach match that took up about 20 minutes of airtime, backstage promos included, that went for a minute. It's way past the time when we could say that Raw is running out of ideas, because whatever brains there are behind the show is definitely not evident right now. Raw is meant to be the A-show, but when SmackDown is showing better wrestling and looks more stable, you've got to wonder what the hell is going on with this show. All these comments come from seeing one show you may think, but really, these thoughts have been plaguing the minds of everyone with an idea of how truly awful the WWE has gotten. Did we even get anything out of this week's Raw? I couldn't find it, because most was just stuff we've seen for months, and the 'feud developments' were just stuff we saw last week or the week before that.
The biggest problem I found with this week's Raw was the booking in the main event. Whoever had the brains to put Michaels over needs a good, hard kick in the nuts as Kasey would say. We prayed week after week that Cena would lose to someone when the odds were stacked against him or he had some 'injury' or something, yet they put him over against the odds week in and week out, and they wonder why no one with a right wrestling brain despises him. This was the same with Michaels this week. Everyone would rather see Michaels go over someone than Cena, but it was the fact that it was Edge, a man who needs as much credibility as possible right now and deserves it. He's going to be carrying a show for months, yet he jobs pathetically to Michaels, a man who a. 'had a concussion', b. is not going to be in the main event or champion c. only has a match with Orton at Judgment Day and d. Doesn't need the fucking win in the first place. Sure, making Edge look like a weakling is what they've been doing for years, but this was just the limit for me. At least a God damn DQ loss would have been decent, but the match was all about Michaels fighting the odds and winning with an easy Superkick in a boring finish, when it should have been all about the new World Heavyweight Champion's final match on Raw. While I doubt that will be his final match on Raw as they seem to be spreading the wrestlers to all different brands a lot lately, it still should have all been about Edge, yet the face goes over, crushing a guy who damn sure does not need that happening to him. What harm would it have done if HBK lost? Much less than it did for Edge to lose.
Enough about that match and onto the rest, which I will heap into one big part, because utter garbage deserves to be heaped together. It's honestly like the WWE is just wasting time on TV right now. There is so many breaks between matches, yet the actual matches are 3 minute rushes. Make sense out of that. I like the direction that the Hardys and Cade.Murdoch are going in and it has got a little focus back on tag team wrestling, and I am sure that after Cade jobs to Matt Hardy next week, we will see the beatdown we've been expecting. Murdoch has got some skills, but he just doesn't know how to use them effectively in matches. He needs to learn to get some variety into his matches, not just elbows and headlocks coming every minute. 3 minutes is too short for me, and they could have gone 5 or maybe 7 to make it credible, and cut out some 5 minute backstage segment we don't need. That's something the WWE need to work on, among many other things that are ridiculously out of whack right now, and that is the match length. Other than that, I thought that absolutely no match had purpose or interest from me, and I honestly don't want to recall much of what I saw. A truly terrible, terrible Raw, and it's so boring now that I think I'm going to turn more attention to SmackDown. Hopefully, Edge can get a win over there because it doesn't look like he will ever get anywhere on Raw when Michaels and Cena are around.
This Raw gets a D average for me this week, nothing more, nothing less.
