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How do you rate an episode of Raw that only had a handful of passable moments, several questionable ones, and an absolutely shameless attempt to use someone’s stellar image to control company-wide damage?
This was not the worst Monday Night Raw in recent memory, much less. But while Raw wasn’t horrible, it was far from good. The positive aspects highlighted here are not bright moments. They are silver plated items. And the negatives, well, some of them were marginal, but there was no room for movement with two moments.
WWE has been left with the allegations facing its (former) president Vince McMahon and has been trying to project a more positive image. His response was to launch Titus O’Neil to open Raw and talk about all the goodness the WWE stands for. You might think the WWE was the Food Bank, the Salvation Army, and Mother Teresa, all listening to that opening.
Later, we saw that Raw’s women’s division became a focal point for the long-fun little “joke” that is the 24/7 Championship, which shows how far this company has gotten to the bottom of the barrel. It’s amazing how a show that one week can be entertaining as hell can produce something like that. “Very inconsistent” would be a polite term.
Let’s go…
Published on: July 19, 2022