Category: RAW Bytes

Well, it’s the RAW After Mania. And no doubt it was a stupendous RAW After Mania.

My thoughts on the show after the break.

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Bare with me, kids. It’s story time.

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So here’s the deal… I wasn’t going to comment on this show because I don’t watch RAW. However, I had to bring up a couple quick points regarding this show, which I have seen some of. I’m going to largely bounce ideas around, so don’t expect anything elaborate.

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Every year, WWE likes to do a tribute video to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day festivities. It’s usually a touching tribute and this year’s video is no exception. I bring up this point because following this wonderfully-crafted tribute to one of the most influential figures in human history, we would get one of the worst editions of Monday Night RAW ever conceived.

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And so, my friends, we’ve come to the end. The last of the two-hour RAWs, as this would be the year where RAW would permanently bloat itself to THREE HOURS OF TEDIUM that continues to this very day. As I’ve stated in the past, this is as far as I was willing to go and given the sad state of the past couple entries, it’s probably for the best.

For what it’s worth, I actually enjoyed watching these RAW after Mania shows. It’s neat to be able to go back and see what they were kicking off and reflecting on how badly they bungled things… case in point, today’s show.

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So Wrestlemania 27 was a thing… touted as one of the worst Wrestlemanias of all time, and considering the scant number of shows with stakes to the claim, that’s saying quite a bit.

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So Wrestlemania 26 saw Undertaker beat Shawn Michaels in what ended up being HBK’s retirement match, as per the stipulation. And to give credit where credit is due, Shawn stuck to his guns and opted not to make a comeback between then and now, rightfully believing that he went out on a high note and wouldn’t want to sully that moment in much the same way Ric Flair did when he had his “retirement” match in 2008, only to sully that by wrestling on TNA.

And then in 2018, Shawn Michaels came out of retirement for a Saudi payday to team up with Triple H in a tag match against Undertaker and Kane in a match that was a complete and utter disaster… because as it turns out, not everyone ages gracefully and can go as well as they did in their younger years… and apparently, Shawn, despite being out of action for years, was still the best worker on the card.

So the show ends with Shawn giving the big ol’ retirement speech and that’s the focus of the show, but there was some fun stuff here. Christian and Ted DiBiase Jr had a match featuring a bunch of legends as lumberjacks. John Cena & Randy Orton defeated Batista and Jack Swagger in an alright match, and even the multi-person Divas match wasn’t so bad… because it didn’t last long and my brain was spared the misery of bad Divas booking.

A fine show, all things considered. Not much to say there.

So, there were a bunch of multi-person matches that seemed liked they were tossed together to give people something to do, capped off with a Randy Orton/Vince McMahon match that ended in a No Contest and gave us Batista giving Orton a powerbomb, causing Vince to book a match between the two at the following month’s Backlash show. Much like a Survivor Series PPV of recent years focused on the battle between red shirts and blue shirts, a lot of the show was largely forgettable fare and honestly, didn’t do much for me.

Sorry, folks. Maybe next year.

So, for reasons that escape me, I watched some bits of last Monday’s edition of RAW. I didn’t watch all of it because I’m still getting a headache from that Thunderdome stuff and I can only stomach a bit of it before I have to turn the show off. However, I was able to watch a couple major bits and figured I’d share my thoughts.

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