The Worst Raw Ever?

[The Death Rattle]

Monday Night Raw for the night of June 4th ended with John Cena tormenting Michael Cole and leaving him covered in JR's sauce. Generally speaking, most people gave the show a negative review. Some hated the show, giving it the ever growing label of "worst raw ever". I too felt the show was pretty bad overall, but wouldn't label it the worst in the show's history. Which led me to the question, what is the truly worst Raw ever? I'll be honest, I don't have the answer. I can remember many nights that left me completely underwhelmed or moments that had me in disbelief at how poorly it was coming across. I do not, however, have the answer to my own question. So I turn to you for help. Thank you all in advance.

In your opinion, what is the worst episode of Monday Raw ever? Please give some kind of information or reasoning why.

 

[whoopin' ass]

it all depends on your criteria. easily the benoit tribute could be called the worse raw ever simply because of what we found out later.

 

[TheHorndogSays]

There are a few that should be given mention here. I do believe Monday's raw was horrible. You follow up Big Show destroying a huge Brodus Clay by having John Cena beat Michael Cole and Tensai (a man who hasn't been relevant since he beat Cena over a month ago)? Another would be the Fan appreciation night where fans picked the stipulations. Had it not been for the formation of Nexus in the last 10 minutes that entire show would be the worst ever so is the final 10 minutes enough to get it out of the worst ever slot? Another would be the Raw where the Raw superstars were stuck overseas due to the mist in Europe so it was an impromptu smackdown show with a few special attractions. Now WWEs fault necessarily but still a pretty bad show by current standards.

But those are the key words, current standards. I've talked in the past on how wrestling matches have slowly raised the bar over the years, the same holds true for Raw episodes. My pick for worst Raw episode ever would be any of the Raws in the first year when they were nothing more than a glorified Superstars packed with squash matches. Look at the VERY first Raw:

Shawn Michaels vs Max Moon
Steiner Brothers vs Executioners
Undertaker vs Damian Demento
Yokozuna vs Koko B. Ware

Nothing but complete squash matches. Nothing special about the first episode. Flash forward 2 years to the first Nitro and look at the card:

Bryan Pillman vs Jushin Thunder Liger
Sting vs Ric Flair
Bubba Rogers vs Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan (yes the world champion on the first telecast, WWFs champion at the time, Bret Hart did not even appear on Raw until its 2nd episode in an interview with his first match being 2 months later against Fatu)

I've said it once and I'll said it again, I happened to be in attendance for the 1 year anniversary of Raw (main evented by bastion booger pushing IRS's face in a cake) and after what we saw the first episode I'm shocked Raw lasted one year, let alone 19 years and 1000 episodes.

 

[Raiden46]

I've said it once and I'll said it again, I happened to be in attendance for the 1 year anniversary of Raw (main evented by bastion booger pushing IRS's face in a cake) and after what we saw the first episode I'm shocked Raw lasted one year, let alone 19 years and 1000 episodes.

You must not recall correctly, because it was the Macho Man shoving the cake in his face. I remember that vividly, because those two feuded in January of '94.

In any event, last week's Raw certainly takes the cake, no pun intended, for one of the worst Raw's in the history of the show. I could rattle off a bunch of underwhelming shows from 1996 which is right about when WCW started to beat WWF in the ratings.

 

[bestintheworld3589]

I would say some of the worst Raw's ever are the ones from Greenville, SC hence the reason last week's Raw was so bad. Greenville is the closest arena next to me that WWE goes to and every time they have a Raw there (or any wrestling event) it sucks. I don't know why, but it just does, the only one that was decent was in 2008 I believe where it was the 3 hour Raw where they held the King of the Ring Tournament where William Regal won. That one was ok, but the rest of them sucked.

 

[ProWrestlingFan]

Worst RAW was after TLC 2011 when RAW began with CM Punk,Daniel Bryan and Zack Ryder and ended with CM Punk,Daniel Bryan and Zack Ryder in the main event.

The RAW ratings for the Punk/Bryan/Ryder main event was 2.5 or 2.6 which was the lowest RAW rating since 1997.

 

[fuzz69]

here's a few of the Worst Raw's in WWF/E History was:
Mae Young gives birth to Mark Henry's HAND.
Triple H has Sex w/ "Katie Vick".
Some of the 1's in 2002-2005 when Trips was World Champ.

Them are the only 3 for now I can think of.

You must not know wrestling to much but anything in the attitude era was great. It couldn't of been too bad if the ratings were sky high just cause one thing happen don't mean the rest of the show was awful.

The katie Vick scene was classic because it has never been done before and we seen a storyline from kane that explained more of his demonic childhood other than the undertaker.

How was raw bad when triple-h was champ?? He was one of the greatest champions of all time and always performed 100% everynight. He is by far the greatest bad guy of all time.

I don't really remember any raw being bad until it moved to usa then it went to pg-13 or whatever it is now, it seems like pg-2. The worse moment I ever seen in raw was probably the part that had a black door painted on the wall and hornswaggle jumped through it and it made a sound like it did when hurricane acted like he was flying after a interview.

 

[MayorMcCheese]

Well it's hard to pinpoint just one episode, but ever since 2006, i'd say RAW more often than not, is Bad instead of Good. We all wait and wait for those epic moments that can interest us all like we used to be, Nexus and Punk of last summer being the last 2 examples and unfortunately WWE screwed both things up

 

[MizMark11]

The 900th Raw was pretty bad. The matches sucked and it had Slater pinning Sheamus. It was full of tag matches and the only good thing was Punk's promo before he got interrupted by Big Show. Honestly, there was nothing special about that Raw.

 

[Piss Bucket]

Last week's RAW was indeed, crap.

I normally buy every WWE PPV on Sky Box Office, but I won't be buying or even downloading No Way Out, purely because I know that Kane has next to no chance of winning the belt, because the Internet is in love with CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.

 

[Brewski]

I have watched wrestling for nearly 2 decades and while I can admit I have not always been a completely devoted fan at times, there was one Raw moment that really ruined it for me. January 8th 2007 featured the biggest waste of time on a professional wrestling program that I have ever seen and put me away from watching WWE regularly for about four years. Not kidding. I watched TNA until about 2010 but then went on a wrestling hiatus until 2011. The show overall might have not been that bad, but I don't remember. It's the 10 minutes of this 2 hour program that affected my perception of wrestling as a whole and really made me embarrassed to be a fan.

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I know i'm exaggerating, but this for me is my all time low point for wwe. It might not be the worst thing they have ever done, but considering how fucking good TNA was at the time this kind of stuff lost a lot of fans.

 

[IrishSpring]

The most horrible raw was the one after Owen hart supposedly gave Shawn Michaels a head injury where Michaels collapsed in the ring........That horrible tribute song that they gave Michaels was horrendous.

 

[BASSER911414]

Sometimes there is juts no satisfying people. While the past raw was nothing special it was far from bad.

what happened to the days when people cheered for stone cold to beat the crap out of every living person alive. Or when we cheered when batista beat up the coach, or stone cold beat up eric bischoff, or when the rock beat up vince mcmahon, shane mcmahon.

I was laughing like hell during the john cena vs michael cole match. It was something not seen in a long time and something i personally wanted to see. Michael cole humiliated and beat up. Hes one heel u love to hate and i loved to see him in that position.

WHY DOES EVERY MATCH HAVE TO BE A FRIGGIN JIU JITSU SHOWCASE FOR YOU PEOPLE TO BE HAPPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(for those who are confused, jiu jitsu is a form of martial arts which involves grappling and submissions. pro wrestlers these days incorporate a lot of jiu jitsu into their matches. the technical matches u talk about, like the daniel bryan cm punk and chris jericho matches showcases a lot of jiu jitsu skills from these wrestlers. )

That being said. The worst RAW imo has been a recent one. The last few raws in the recent months contains one such raw which had me thinking 'damn and i waited a whole week for this'. Cant remember which one but it was definitely before the john cena vs john l match.

 

[BigThunder]

Last week's wasn't so bad, Hornswogle's mockery of JR aside. Even I had to laugh when Cole said: "It's slobbernocker good."

But the RAWs when the Spirit Squad were main eventing were pretty awful, and the Rosie-Donald thing really was one of the most prolonged and painful viewing experiences in wrestling history.

 

[JaylisJayP]

In recent memory, the week before the Cena/Cole thing was the worst ever. 20 minutes of Big Show blah blah and then more recap was just torture, then the next 20 minutes were worthless matches. No Cena...I think the only good part was the reveal of the WWE 13 video game cover, you know Raw was awful if that was the highlight.

 

[JaylisJayP]

A lot of people are just throwing out Raw "moments" they didn't like..but does that kill an entire show for you? I remember those segments with Perry Saturn eye fucking his broom, but aside from those few minutes the episodes themselves were still during a very entertaining time...I wouldn't say they killed the whole episode.

The HHH/Katie Vick thing possibly being the exception since it was obviously a main event storyline and took up a decent amount of time.

 

[kokoBawesome]

The episode where all the heels were on strike and the show opened with Cena, HHH, Punk and Sheamus about to run the show by themselves... and than nothing happened. Almost stopped watching. So much potential wasted.

Also, around 2002 there was a big rumor going around that Vince was going to try to pull off a Raw with no matches. I heard this in 99' when I was in high school, but I almost bought in this time because I remember a Raw with 3 matches. I refuse to do research, but whatever Raw that was, it was the worst. I think it was during the Three Minute Warning storyline, which oddly enough I didn't mind.

 

[jbwphoto1]

Last week's wasn't so bad, Hornswogle's mockery of JR aside. Even I had to laugh when Cole said: "It's slobbernocker good."

But the RAWs when the Spirit Squad were main eventing were pretty awful, and the Rosie-Donald thing really was one of the most prolonged and painful viewing experiences in wrestling history.

BigThunder, just this morning on the way to work I passed a Baskin-Robbins' sign for ice cream cakes and thought how Carvel was better. Then I thought of the Fudgie the Whale cake and it brought back those memories.

Last week's RAW had me thinking the Rosie-Donald thing was kind of fun. Yes, it was that bad for me. I even Googled to find the name of the sexual fetish which involves food, sitophilia, just because of Cena using the bbq sauce.

The slippery slope is now covered in JR's sauce.

 

[HBsam31]

There have been to many Raws to remember, but this past Raw was up there as one of the worst. I am not even sure what they were thinking. Why now would they decide to do that to Micheal Cole. If it would have been during his big heel run it might have made sense, but not now. I was more disappointed with this past Raw than any I can think of for a long time.

 

[Coming4UNi66a]

I went to a Raw in Philly in 2010 when Nexus attacked some WWE Hall of Famers, including ricky steamboat. That episode to me was one of the worst, the whole show was boring, and Nexus beating up a bunch of old people didn't impress me one bit.