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Just how bad is Raw right now?

  • It's as good as it's ever been

    Votes: 10 1.3%
  • I'm still enjoying it

    Votes: 73 9.7%
  • It's watchable

    Votes: 142 18.9%
  • I'm struggling through

    Votes: 299 39.9%
  • It's as bad as I can ever remember

    Votes: 226 30.1%

Just How Bad Is Raw Right Now?

39K views 515 replies 306 participants last post by  Matt_Yoda 
#1 ·
Honestly, to me, this shit is becoming intolerable.

I love wrestling, and for this reason and what must be simply blind hope I continue to find myself watching WWE's product each week, but the level of quality that the show has dipped to is genuinely an absolute disgrace and it has been since ER. Barring Punk and DB everything about the show is terrible beyond comprehension at the moment. The booking, the feuds, the promo's, the amount of recaps, everything. It's just all becoming unbearably awful and, in my opinion, Raw is at the lowest point I can ever remember.

Considering the amount of people saying similar things EVERY week in the Raw thread, I'd be interested to see how it shapes up in a vote.
 
#504 ·
It's as bad as I can remember, and I've been watching Raw pretty much since it started.

Anyone who says it was even worse back in the mid 90's than it is now is either deluded or wasn't watching back then. Whether people care to admit it or not, Raw's been mostly bad since the re-introduction of the PG rating...say what you will, but the quality of Raw noticeably declined in 2008 for the majority of long term fans...I don't see that at as a coincidence. And now, with shit like Santino and his glove puppet as US Champion, and Super Cena (who's act hasn't changed for well over 6 years now) stripping a commentator to his boxers and covering him in BBQ sauce...the shows are no better than when WCW nearly put them out of business.

I honestly think that Stephanie McMahon is to blame for a lot of the current state that the product's in. No disrespect to her but she's the Executive Vice President of Creative and the show's become very child orientated in line with her having kids. She's probably not somebody Vince will argue too much with either. She needs to go and be replaced with somebody a bit more old school who understands what the fans will react to better.
 
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#512 ·
It really is terrible. The WWE has gone downhill since they decided to revitalise super Cena once again.

We just come off a great Wrestlemania and Lesnar returns, things were looking good, that's until the WWE decide to have Cena go over and completely ignore the character progression over the last 3 months. Ever since then the WWE has just been atrocious.
 
#514 ·
I'm not usually prone to hyperbole, but this was absolutely the worst episode of Raw I've ever seen. Ever.

WWE should be ashamed of themselves. Yes, they're still making money, but to tread water like this with both a PPV and the 1000th episode on the horizon, and they wonder why their ratings are dropping like a brick?
 
#516 ·
WWE has got to love being positioned as a monopolistic entity. No matter how crappy some episode of RAW can be, doesn't matter in the slightest as they'll retain their core audience while getting that advertisement money. I can only the imagine the absolute hilarity sitting in on a creative meeting with Vince and Co. week to week.
 
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