Raw: The Good, the bad, and the ugly

Dr. Giganto

The good: The main-event was phenomenal. I was a little surprised when HBK's music hit at 10:30, and the show ran even a little longer than usual (until about 11:10), so that whole segment (intros, match, and post-match festivities) ran a good 40 minutes. The screw-job ending sucked, but at least it actually made a little sense. HBK's shoulders WERE down, and i looked carefully at the replay, and HHH's arm was on top of HBK's lege, so technically, HHH was simultaneously pinning HBK. Crowd was off the hook. Cheered for EVERY bit of HBK offense, including basic punches. Stayed hot throughout, which made the match more enjoyable to watch.

RVD vs Steiner was a good match too. I may be biased because i'm a fan of both these gentlemen, but i thought the match was very good.

Theodore Long. When he said "Holla" I just broke out laughing.

That guy in the third row who had a bunch of signs with peoples names and saying they suck, i.e. "John Smith sucks" and "Bill Jones sucks". He had like 5 different ones!!!

The bad: The show couldnt keep my attention. By the time Orton came out for his match, i flipped on my PS2 and played a game of madden.

The Austin thing was fucking ridiculous. How many times has Austin lost his job and came back? Even back to the Austin-McMahon feud (Remember when he wouldnt count a winner in the Kane-Taker title match, and Vince fired him?). Stop it already. Stop having people get "fired" and then bringing them back a week or a month later (Like JR). At least if the "Board of Directors" had ruled that the Survivor Series stipulation was nullified due to Batista's interference, that would make more sense. But instead, Austin put his job on the line, lost, and he gets to come back simply because he's popular. That would be like the Chicago Cubs saying "look, i know we lost to the Marlins, but everyone REALLY wanted us to win, so we wanna play in the World Series". and then Major League Baseball letting them play. It's stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid

The ugly. Mark Henry. That is one ugly man.

Matt S.

On Raw 2, I gave Mark Henry a Falcon Arrow through a table about 2 minutes ago on my new X-Box.

My entrance rocks. "Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman" by the Darkness starts to play, I walk out, and as I gesture, Justin Hawkins goes "Oooooooooaaaaaaaaah!", and the lights switch on, a big pyro goes off, followed by cool laser effects.

WWE Raw was not too bad at all. I liked the HHH/HBK ending. It made sense.

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