RAW 900th Episode - LIVE Review

Pre show thoughts: I just remembered this show will feature talent from all shows. Never, in the 8 year history of the draft, has that caused me to groan as much as it does tonight. Anyone from Smackdown will either be a complete momentum kill for the show, particularly if it’s any of the newer, [...]

Raw Review - 02/08/2010

They played a video package recapping the trouble amongst members of Team Cena.
The Raw intro seems to have been changed around a bit and updated. Triple H is freakin’ all over it which is always annoying. An injured guy who’s not even on the show should not be featured so prominently in the intro. See [...]

RAW is No Buys 12/07/2010

Go home show for the ladder match PPV. Lets see how it goes. Although to sum up how uninteresting this show was, I’ll just note that the biggest talking point on Tuesday morning was Jim Ross being edited out of the WWE opening video package. Replaced by Michael Cole of course. Mr David Meltzer reported [...]

WWE RAW Review 28/06/2010

A video package aired recapping the beat-down on Vince by the NXT goons.
We open with Michael Cole telling us this shocking event got headlines the world over. LIAR. He says the group wants to be known as “Nexus”, and says the board of management (or some similarly ambiguous group) are discussing the matter.
The show kicks [...]

WAR DO YOU THINK OF THAT THEN? - The Return of Wrestling on Monday Nights.

Holy Balls, Wrestlemaniacs!!! For the first time in just about 9 years, the two biggest wrestling companies in America went head-to-head, and for one night only, the glory days of 1996-2001 were back. B when all the smoke was cleared (no thanks to one Jeff Hardy) and all the dust was settled, which company won [...]

The State of Raw #1 - 18/08/09

Introducing the first of many likely irregular and oft-forgotten roundups entitled “The State of Raw”, where we do not seek to exclusively detail the various spots, bumps, dives, chants, shoots and eye-gouging moments of absolute cringe that Monday Night Raw impotently serves us each week like a festering waiter’s dome of purest boredom, bile and [...]

Sympathy Sells - Why John Cena & Batista are not over as faces.

Selling in wrestling is the art of putting a situation or storyline over by portraying the situation as real, i.e. “Selling” it to the crowd. Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that selling is the way a wresler reacts to, say a punch or a chairshot.org (little plug for the site there), and the resultant distress. [...]