Welcome to another edition of A RAW Opinion, I’m Joe and as always I bring you through this weeks edition of WWE Raw, tonight is a very special Raw, tonight is the 20th anniversary of WWE Raw! My only wish however, was tonights show was taking place where it all started, New York City. Obviously it would have to be held at Madison Square Garden instead of the Manhattan Center. I also wish it was there so I could be there live lol. But tonights show is taking place from Houston, Texas.
We open the show with a really cool opening video, highlighting the past themes from the last 20 years.
We go live and Vince McMahon is in the ring, he welcomes us to the 20th anniversary of Monday Night Raw. Big Show interrupts him and says the 20th anniversary is going to have to wait because they need to address the travesty of what happened on SmackDown! on Friday. Alberto comes out and tells Big Show if he wants to keep complaining then how about a rematch tonight, Big Show says no, he’s not dressed to compete and challenges Del Rio for the Royal Rumble. Slight brawl breaks out after Ricardo throw confetti at Del Rio, Del Rio sends Big Show from the ring ending the segment. Eh, not awful.
Wade Barrett VS Randy Orton is our first match. I have to say I am VERY surprised, Wade Barrett gets a CLEAN win over Randy Orton! Shocked!
Kane VS Damien Sandow is up next. Kane gets a pretty quick win over Sandow. Surprising.
Up next, we find out the first inductee into the WWE Hall Of Fame. The first inductee is Mick Foley. No surprise since it was announced the other day. Mick Foley is talking until he gets interrupted by The Shield. Before anything can happen, Ryback comes out and saves Foley, followed by Randy Orton and Sheamus. I’m sensing a 6 man at the Rumble.
Eve Torres defends her divas title against Kaitlyn up next. Very good match, Kaitlyn gets the win and becomes the new WWE Divas Champion.
CM Punk takes on Brodus Clay next. All I have to say about this… Wow. CM Punk wins with the Anaconda Vise, surprised Brodus got as much offense as he did.
There is an over the top rope challenge up next, Sheamus VS 3MB. 3MB wins. I hate this company sometimes.
MizTV up next, his guest is Ric Flair. Pretty brutal until Antonio Cesaro interrupted, made this segment bearable. Cesaro owns Miz and Flair, he attempts to leave and gets attacked by both Flair and Miz.
Daniel Bryan VS Cody Rhodes up next. Another short match, Daniel gets the win.
John Cena VS Dolph Ziggler, same result as all the other times, Cena overcomes and wins. Yawn.
Dwayne Johnson comes out next for his little concert that will be nothing like last years I’m sure. Awful. I don’t even know how to write how bad that really was.
This was a bad show in normal terms, but considering this was a 20th anniversary? 1.5/5 I considered leaving this half finished it was so bad.
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Did anyone hear Cole say that Kaitlyn started in NXT two weeks ago? I can’t believe it’s been only two weeks since Kaityln made her debut in NXT and she’s already champion. Doesn’t take long to move up the ladder in the Divas division…lol.
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Unless, she was on NXT 2 weeks ago?
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No…Cole clearly suggested she started her WWE career at NXT only TWO WEEKS AGO!! I think he meant 2 years.
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Oh, I thought she had a match with Eve a couple weeks ago on NXT. I don’t watch it.
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I thought that was hilarious.
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Brodus really losing weight!
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I thought the 20th Anniversary of RAW would have more legends. No SCSA. No Taker. No HBK. No HHH. No Y2J.
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Might be spacing them out?
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With less than 40 minutes left in the show?!
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No, on different weeks.
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I think the RAW anniversary episode is only one episode. They made this episode feel really important and the only guy they bring back is Ric Flair and he was just on RAW a few weeks ago…wow.
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It does seem like there would be more. I know 2 HOFers can’t due to family issues.
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Eve quits…no one saw that coming.
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Eve just pulled a Batista!
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Or a Brock Lesnar for fans with a short memory.
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Eve pulled a JBL too.
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I wonder if E will break the cage?
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YES!!! Now I can’t wait for the smark bitching!
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Everyone adjust your DVRs…there’s no way the Rock Concert will be only five minutes long. RAW is going 15 minutes over tonight.
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Rock Concert off to a bad start…that song did not flow very good.
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That akward momnet when ur about to tell themem about a very good caw but they already uploaded it .Theres still a VERY good RVD one tho on ps3
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Daniel Bryan’s dad is in the audience.
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Ok, this Vickie song is just great!
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Terrible show. The booking of Ziggler has been nothing less than a disgrace.
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The column gets shorter every week, lol. Can’t really blame you though.
Not a great Raw, one or two memorable moments for a special show and that was it. I agree with Tony’s comment about having no Y2J, SCSA etc.. I don’t think you can celebrate 20 years of Raw without them there. They went all out on Raw 1000 and didn’t put much focus on this.
WWE have too many special edition Raw’s and stuff they would be better off just sticking to storylines and not worrying about stuff like Rock entertain the fans by jeering Vickie. Like stick solely to the WWE title and CM Punk, make The Rock’s appearance only about that.
I’m glad to see Mick in the Hall of Fame. He deserves it but WWE didn’t really appreciate him tonight IMO.
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Rock’s Vickie song was great!
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Honestly, it seems like I’m finding less and less to like about the show. Making it 3 hours seemed like a good idea if they were going to use the 3rd hour to showcase guys who, otherwise wouldn’t be getting TV time, but they don’t even do that.
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Since the extra hour the only thing that improved was the tag and diva division IMO.
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Eve quits and no fucks are given.
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Actually I care lol. She was a very good heel and she was getting better in the ring.
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Correction: Eve quits and one fuck was given.
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Can people “take a fuck”?
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Probably not.
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