Jericho vs Owens was basically a reminder that the most entertaining feud for months on end never got an actual pay off. Great build. Great storytelling. Great matches. Great moments. Great foreshadowing. Great climax. Spear. Jackhammer. Say goodbye to the feud that got the biggest reactions and always delivered a show that you had to catch. It's okay though, because on the way out they let in something that equals it in disappointing. A shell of what was in consideration to be the best run of a legend and deserving hall of fame inductee named Chris Jericho and a platform a young talent could run with for ages dragged out in mediocre matches and painful segments. This was a slowburn, but they lit the fire too early and then proceeded to watch it as the flame slowly dwindles to a halt. It would be pretty decent, but that would involve the entire past between the two not existing. It was okay.
AA Vs Neville. Another chapter in a book that had a great cover and introduction. Then you get invested into, and you keep reading. The only thing is you slowly start to realize through all the action and moments there isn't much for you to really care about. So you slowly lose interest as time continuously goes on, and there is no rebirth in sight for the foreseeable future. Then you eventually see how many pages are left and feel bad for the guy who wrote it. He had all the potential in the world in regards to both the hero and the villain. The battles they fought in and out of physical and mental worlds they resided in. All of that potential gone to waste. So it is appreciated from a gander and can still be recognized, but it will never live up to the name it could of easily had. It was okay.
Matt & Jeff Hardy vs Cesaro & Sheamus. A great tag team that has had great matches consistently for the past couple of years vs two very good pro-wrestlers in a tag match for titles. The only flaw being it literally had zero purpose or real build outside of two random singles matches and a previous interaction with 2 other tag teams in the mix. This established that future, and provided an okay match with okay storytelling. It was okay, did it's job. Better than the first 2 that literally did nothing.
Alexa vs Bayley. Bliss hasn't wrestled a single great match since she has been in NXT. I just want one match that is on par with peak Bayley and I will be completely fine. She isn't good in ring, and people say she has great character work yet there is hardly any development and quite a lot of the time her playground insults lay flat. She doesn't get a crowd reaction like at least 5-6 women on the WWE roster, and won the championship off someone who can actually wrestle. If you want to watch a 5 foot blonde girl with a cartoonish snarky attitude watch a number of MTV shows or Total Divas. I watch pro-wrestling, because I like pro-wrestling. Not good. Bad.
Wyatt vs Orton. I mean. It's exactly what I expected if that goes for anything. It was cool to see Randy hit Bray with a chair, and Mahal randomly pop up with the WWE championship. Bray also won, I guess. Also, okay. Glad they ended this feud. So, so glad.
Rollins vs Joe. Cool hype package. So personal. So edgy. So cool. Then you watch the match and remember ROH prime Joe no longer exists. Also Rollins's move set has been altered to the point where a majority of stuff people really enjoyed even just before the first injury no longer exists. Best match probably. Felt kind of empty, but I mean at least it was entertaining match wise and progresses this absolutely mind numbing HHH v. Rollins stuff. It was decent.
Strowman vs Reigns. Ok. Exactly what I expected. I feel like I saw this match the first time these two interacted. Reigns can be carried through a good match, but christ when he is with a green dude it is absolutely copy and paste. Painful and felt phoned in. Whatever I guess, it was okay.
Wasn't a let down, because I'd be an idiot to expect something great 3 hours through from WWE. Especially from RAW at that. It was okay, and had several low points. It was still more entertaining than an episode of RAW, but I can honestly say I have seen episodes of Smackdown that were more entertaining than this entire PPV put together. So that is not really a good thing. Smackdown isn't even some god tier pro-wrestling program, but somehow their television destroys a RAW PPV with solid talent on it. Less reason to watch RAW, more to watch Smackdown. Nothing surprising.
Alexa still can't wrestle, and yet another awful title change for the Women's Raw Championship. Hardyz / Cesaro / Sheamus are good pro-wrestlers overall. Wyatt has been booked to low brow meme level. Orton has peak potential, and no product to match it. Mahal is kind of a sore thumb, but sticks out in an interesting way at least. Owens vs Jericho are great pro-wrestlers trying to uphold a destroyed feud. Rollins and Joe have hardly anything to work off of besides a mutual buddy Rollins literally had one match with. Still put in work. Enzo & Cass belong on the pre-show. Strowman is strong, and Grr. Monster. Reigns still can't carry people, and often needs it himself. Aries and Neville are good wrestlers. RAW is worse than Smackdown. House of Horrors was going to be ridiculous.
Knew all that prior, and feel the same way but a bit more negative coming out. At least it accomplished that, I guess.