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9/10
Raw on a Downfall.
Snowy_Hawk21 September 2006
Since most of the big names such as The Rock and Stone Cold have left to pursue movie careers, WWE has now slowed down. Championship titles never change hands between Main Events and Most title matches end in disqualification (Where a title cannot change hands.) John Cena and Edge Fueds, DX and McMahon feuds are good, the Short Jeff Hardy and Nitro feud with Jeffs' view on Nitro's interviews were like "watching Paint Dry" was hilarious. If Raw was still was like it was in 2000-2002 with the "Invasion" this would be much better, since now its just Heel and Face wrestlers mostly talking, if they're lucky like The Spirit Squad and have 5 members, matches are easier to win, as long as the referee is distracted. Also, "Escorts" such as Nitro with Melina and Edge with Lita see the referee distracted while a normally disqualifying offense is created.
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7/10
Mens wrestling need to step up
afiqueaziz24 May 2022
I see a lot of improvements on the womens side. Not just in terms of the wrestling, but also in terms of characters and image. The mens side, I guess the new guys are really good skill wise. But their character sucks. And it seems like everybody is so clean cut and mr nice that when they have to play the heel character, its not working well. Its also frustrating how somebody like Cesaro who the crowd love, never got pushed to the top of the company and they literally made him lose every single week. Like wtf. You have a big asset but you completely destroy it and never once utilizing it. Im still giving it a 7 star because I do enjoy whats going on in the womens side.

PS : Not trying to be sexist here. But we all know in wrestling the male wrestlers will always be a bigger attraction than the females. So while its good to push for womens wrestling, if the company wants to stay relevant. They need to step up with the men as well.
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7/10
Miss the good old days
calemiller-7554713 December 2021
Attitude era 10/10. Ruthless Aggression era 8/10. Now 5-6/10. So 7 is about right once you put it all together just is not as fun and entertaining as it used to be when they had Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, etc. Now it's just slow and can be pretty boring.
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Raw Really Was A War
Big Movie Fan5 January 2003
Back on March 10th 1997, WWF Monday Night Raw became Raw Is War figuratively and literally.

I believe 1997 was one of the best years for the WWF (now WWE). There were really heated feuds throughout such as The Hart Foundation VS Steve Austin, The Undertaker VS everyone, Triple H VS Mankind and so many others. Raw is War aired during the battle with rival promotion WCW (now defunct). There were PPV caliber matches throughout Raw Is War and there were some fantastic moments. 1998 was a great year too as WWF owner Vince McMahon became an authoritarian figure who feuded with the anti authority Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Rock was also coming into prominence as a wrestler as was Triple H. There were many other great moments such as the appearance of Mike Tyson, D-X 'invading' WCW, the Owen Hart tribute show and the episode from the 26th March 2001 where Shane McMahon betrayed his father Vince and brought WCW.

Raw Is War became simply Raw after a few years and is still a relatively entertaining program. However, the Raw Is War years really were WAR and worth tracking down on tape if possible.
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10/10
the show that made the NFL not so famous
ab-29 October 1999
This show is the best. RAW is one of the most highest rated shows on TV. Now that it is on UPN now it should even get more ratings. They've got everyone to People's Champ the Rock, to the deranged Al Snow, to the superheaveywights the Hollys. If you are looking for wrestling, watch RAw.
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10/10
best in sports entertainment today
ab-29 October 1999
Raw is war is the best and it always will be. Everything is excellent especially when the woman wrestle. This show is action packed. All the guys are here from The Rock to Stone Cold Steve Austin to Mankind. And if your not down with that I got one word for ya "SOCKO".
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10/10
Still top of their game
Danger-141 December 2007
Still the best form of wrestling entertainment out there.

But hey should find wrestling FANS (past and present) to be the writers, not a bunch of Hollywannabes.

With the return of Jericho, we're blessed with a familiar face and an incredible talent.

Hopefully, he won't have a hand in WWE's continued focus on entertainment over good, solid wrestling.

Time to take random INDY stars, offer them a percentage of what the "names" make, and promote ECW as a true Indy promotion.

A place were some talented peeps can get noticed.

Just a thought.
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10/10
1500 episodes, Wrestling every monday for 30 years
nicofreezer10 May 2021
Since January 1993 Raw has aired every Monday night, how legendary this is ?

So Many Epic and legendary moments , matches , superstars and legend created.

Wrestlemania is the Greatest Wrestling show ever created, but Raw is just THE show, you turn your TV monday night you have a great Wrestling show, thats it Thank you Vince McMahon. Forever thank you.
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10/10
Great but kinda bad at the moment, however could be improved
lukepurse13 January 2020
It has been great in the past but isn't too good at the moment. I don't have a problem with the current stars, however the storylines are uninteresting and it's strange because smackdown is great. The Superstars need freedom in promos. Overall though I love this show.
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6/10
A show that was once hip and cutting edge, but is now of little relevance
bh_tafe311 December 2008
Ah wrestling, I remember you.

Growing up in the small Australian country town of Lithgow I had a friend down the road with cable television and every Tuesday night a group of about twenty of us would crowd into his house to watch a show called RAW.

And what a show it was! I mean, not many of us really cared about the wrestling matches, they just got in the way of the real point of the show, which was what trouble would Vince McMahon, or in 2000 Triple H, stir up for our heroes The Rock, Steve Austin, Mankind and Kane this week? People weren't watching this for wrestling, they were interested in the characters, they were connected to the characters, to the point where people who truly found the wrestling part boring still loved the show and would park their backsides in front of the telly every week to see what was going to happen to their favourites. Heck, we'd even throw some money in to watch the PPVs every month so we could see what our heroes would do. RAW, every week was an event. A social gathering.

But around 2001 something seemed to change. The WWF had bought out their competition. Good on them. Good job boys, but then for some reason they thought that we WWF fans actually cared about the WCW guys. Hello, if anyone had cared about them, wouldn't they still be in business? And so guys who I didn't care about and had no investment in started coming on the show in prominent roles, the guys we cared about went off to do other things and so did we. The magic, the entertaining portion of the show was gone and it was replaced by a straight wrestling show, the show becoming almost unrecognisable from the one I'd come to love in the late nineties.

I watch RAW occasionally these days and can't sit long without changing the channel. There is no reason to care about the characters and what they do from week to week. No reason to become emotionally invested in their story lines. The villains aren't evil enough for us to side with the heroes and the heroes are nowhere near interesting enough for people to side with them just for the hell of it.

Anyway seven years ago, I stopped going along on Tuesday nights, I was too busy, or more to the point, didn't care enough about RAW to make time to watch it. Not long after that everyone stopped coming.

Of those twenty plus people I used to watch wrestling with only two still watch. RAW used to be must see, now all I see when I turn it on is how laziness and a loss of focus has ruined a show I used to get a great deal of enjoyment out of.

Oh well, such is life.
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2/10
Worst move in WWE history - turning itself into PG candy-floss
sashank_kini-127 November 2009
Wow, even American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance have more adult stuff now than WWE ( at least the auditions has a number of people abusing the judges) and here is WWE, plodding with one of the worst moves in TV history, by changing itself into PG. Now when I switch sometimes to see what's going on, this is what I get:

1) Hornswoggle, the ugly midget sharing his space with the main eventers for apparently no reason except for thrilling the young fans and of course beating Chavo Guerrero, a capable wrestler, in every match

2) A guest host (arghh....!) every week to spoil the teaspoon of fun which was otherwise present. All these host are cheap B-grade celebs trying to catapult to fame again, by cracking horrendous, 5 year old jokes and making silly references.

3) Cryme Time and a female wrestler (forgot her name, most probably Eve) giving lessons on various "street" words (sob) which are neither street nor cool. They were fun before, stealing stuff and being loud mouths.

4) The divas are clad in unwatchable outfits, tying their best to look "sexy, smart and powerful (by the way, I hate this catchphrase) Remember when Torrie, Trish and Sable were there? Those were the times. Plus these divas are bad wrestlers, which adds to the misery. I have seen some old matches of WWE in Vintage collection and the divas over there were "professional" not amateur.

5) PG move restricts so many things: almost no blood during matches, DX being terribly irritating, John Cena doing even more of his patriotism act, crowd containing many children (who are so annoying), almost no "heels" etc

6) And yeah, why keep PPVs so often. One in every month, have they lost it? No actual feud or rivalry is ever created and the ones that are done look fake and just-till-the-PPV-gets-over ones.

7)Vintage Michael Cole and a few of his quotes:

" Ladies and Gentlemen, you are watching the longest running television show in history" (every week"

" The BRUTAL and VICIOUS assault by (he doesn't use it for anyone else) Randy Orton/Legacy"

" A vicious attack on Stephanie McMohan, Triple-H's husband!!!???"

WWE is now almost towards its demise. Hope Vince gets up from his slumber and does something ( bring back the TV-14 or attitude era) 2 out of 10 for the current state of WWE.
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9/10
The Best of It's Kind
anmolkohli016 January 2014
The McMahons have always been entertaining us with this hybrid TV show,which is always stuck in between the 2 roles of it as a wrestling program,or as it is referred to by non-wrestling fans-a "Soap opera for males"

Many of it's fans do not like the current era of WWE that we are in and they blame the TV-PG rating for it.They miss the days when WWE(or WWF,as it was called at that time.) had a TV- 14 rating and could freely say words that are now either being done with in the scripts or being beeped.

I disagree and say that WWE does not need a TV-14 rating to make the feuds more compelling than they are right now.Good dialogs and catchphrases do not need abusive language in them to put them on every fan's mouth,and shirt.We don't need blood in every single match.We only need them in the most epic matches.

I think the WWE knows what it's doing,which is,hopefully,finding a balance.A way in which they can keep the PG rating and still improve the feuds,the storytelling,and,of course,the quality of wrestling.A way in which it can appeal to the "Let's go Ce-na!" chanting kids and to the Attitude Era remembering "Ce-na Sucks!" chanting adults.

Right now,in early 2014,we are in what is a transitional period between the kiddie era that everyone loves to hate and the forthcoming possible balance.Or maybe the WWE could surprise us by delivering something unexpected,as it always has.

For everything that the WWE has done to entertain us and thrill us,I will give it an amazing 9/10.

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6/10
Not so great
turnbullrobert9 August 2019
I've been watching wwe for years sense probably 2006 I loved it I remember undertaker slamming edge with a tombstone it was the best and having triple h run thru randy orton home these moments is what wwe lacking nowadays I miss the old days
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1/10
Furious
teebear8178 December 2020
Non stop commercial breaks, leaving in the middle of matches, waaay too many breaks. When you cut out the commercials you realize half the show is commercials. Add to that, the nonstop talking, and acting skits we have to tolerate. I am watching Raw. December 7 2020. Its at the 40 minute mark and there has been ONE match. ONE!!!! It has deteriorated into a commercial and talkfest. The wrestlers are actors doing skits now. No respect for fans!!!!
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I absolutely LOVE this show!
Therod4 August 2001
I know it's cliche now to poke fun at "professional" wrestling. It's contrived, choreographed, and phony as hell in some respects, but you know what? That's exactly why I love it!!!! How can you not get goosebumps when one of your heroes is being pummeled in the ring and then down the ramp comes another superstar ready to lay the smacks down on their roodey-poo, candy . . . well you know the rest. Anyway, "redneck soap-opera," "poison for the mind," "phony sports," etc. Call it what you will but it's still pure sports entertainment and it never pretends to be anything more. Besides, the superstars on there are some of the most athletic people alive today.
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10/10
WWE Is Red Hot In Chicago
greg_tingle26 March 2024
CM Punk returns to Raw again in Chicago

"Shoot" and edgy interviews and promos by Punk, Drew McIntyre, Cody Rhodes and Dwayne Johnson

Raw commentators Pat McAfee and Michael Cole on fire! Yeet!

Jey Uso vs Shinsuke Nakamura. Yes Yeet!

The Rock attacks Rhodes backstage and takes it to the car lot!

"The Final Boss" shows his "Mama Rhodes" blood splattered belt to camera!

Ricochet the daredevil vs JD McDonagh of Judgement Day

Women's Champion Rhea Ripley mixed messages to Dirty Dominik Mysterio

Rhodes, Rollins and The Bloodline throw the rulebook out the window!

Poison Pixie Candice LeRae using her magic tricks to fool pocket powerhouse Ivy Nile

Judgement Day not playing around with The New Day. Judgement is served!

Wild crowd and action.

One of the greatest episodes of Raw in the current era under the creative leadership of Triple H.

This is pro wrestling says Media Man.
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10/10
These are not spoilers by any means
NEPFan200510 August 2006
Here are the names of the diva search finalists who have appeared on raw & smackdown since july 10th 2006: JT Tinney (Herself) Rebecca DiPietro (herself) Amy Zidian (Herself) Milena Roucka (Herself) Jen England (Herself) Layla El (Herself) Maryse Ouelett (Herself) Erica Chevillar (Herself). Also I have watched Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story starring Vince Vaughn and I happen to notice that Candice Michelle & Jennifer England were list under the credits. They were listed under the cheerleaders spot in case anyone is wondering. I thought I'd pass that along and hope they get added to their filmography as being credited in the movie even if it was a small role for both of them. - Kevin Moberg
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9/10
I love it ever since I was a kid
rafiqueadzam25 June 2017
There will always be occasional shockers in this TV series that makes it awesome.The wrestlers are always interesting as well as the role they play and the story they are in.The wrestlers are superbly talented and they put up great and realistic matches occasionally.It's amazing.You should try watching wrestling.
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9/10
9 Stars For What it was 3 stars for what it is today
jasegraber26 June 2020
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Back In the day 2003-2014 This Show was Great Just Like Smackdown It was fun to see the exclusive characters and stories to this show Like Shawn Michaels vs Triple H is One of my Favorite Rivalries of all time It started with a shocking twist and Hunter introduced His Faction EVOLUTION was awesome and The story ehrn Randy got betrayed was good and batista betrayed Hunter after winning the rumble in 05 that story made Batista and Orton a star Edge vs Cena was great too but the best thing out of this show Was CM PUNK's PIPEBOMB

It was a great show If your a wwe fan that has never seen this stuff I recommend RAW 1996-2014 you are in for some good stuff
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7/10
It sucks now, its awful as WWE, it was better when it was the WWF
sopranosfan8827 December 2003
This is turning into a really overrated piece of crap that I shoulda stopped watching two years ago, I was starting to grow out of wrestling anyway, so I stopped watching it for a while. Then one night, I turn the TV on and decide to watch RAW and I am amazed to see Shawn Michaels wrestling, my all-time favorite wrestler, then I just starting watching it again soon after. I'm watching for a few months and I'm seeing people that really bored the hell outta me then and now, Eric Bischoff, Christian, The Dudleys, Ric Flair, that Randy Orton punk, and of course Triple H. But people like HBK, Booker T, Goldberg, and Rob Van Dam save the business because people like Kane and Goldust and Val Venis are so overrated. I just watch it because I need something to watch, but it's way better in the old WWF days.
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1/10
WWE has fallen HARD
ruizjaime9 June 2017
I remembered watching the now WWE as a kid and loving it and never could stop watching. Now almost 20years later I haven't watched the WWE since they went "PG". Why I stopped watching was because I'm a grown man and I don't like my intelligence insulted, I LOVED the ATTITUDE era, liked the RUTHLESS AGGRESSION era, but Despise this era and generation. I hate that the WWE caters to kids and women, their lack of star power and not building up new talent. Forcing roman reigns and john cena down our throats don't please us either. With their TV network deal coming up for renewal in the next few years I hope WWE does something drastic To change the course of their sinking ship, with their continued low ratings, and lack of creative writing and soap opera writers. I have a bad feeling that WWE doesn't really care as they will continue to give people this mediocre product and will be off TV for good. Oh well so much for professional wrestling.
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7/10
What has become of the WWE...?
xxeddieizzlexx5 October 2009
WWE are no way near doing good enough at the moment. The PPV's are just average and aren't up to scratch, the matches put on the shows each week are mostly basic and boring to watch as well. The rivalries and story lines going on are good, but aren't as exciting and aren't as heated up as they are supposed to be. Top superstars on all three brands are being pushed to hard and over-worked, and are becoming continually boring and stale. The title matches are mostly the same all the time and don't have a lot special about them, and you can't feel the excitement and buzz in the title matches anymore that much. The prestige of the title have dropped majorly, and the competition on all three brands is decreasing and we are seeing the same old boring matches all the time. There is also not enough passion and heart shown by a lot of the superstars anymore, and there is nothing drastically new about anything in the WWE anymore. The fans don't seem to be into WWE as much as they have been, and WWE don't seem to be doing a whole lot about it. This is a lot of stuff that is wrong with WWE and it needs all changing quickly or WWE will end up going further down the pan.
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1/10
How The Best TV Show In The World Killed
FilmMan4731 July 2012
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let me be honest here i am a 90s kid when there was attitude era till 2003 i was a huge fan of wwe then after then these stupid wrestlers like randy Orton & john cena ruined it the pg era killed wwe.

and my most favorite stars like undertaker & Kane omg what have the done to him.made the most evil guy tuned into a clown.he looses every match. i am not gonna talk about his mask even now with or without it the guy should quit its embarrassing to see him.

even the rock is coming these days on the show but lets face it his time is gone..he cant even insult someone right.

wwe sucks now.i have seen this show for more then 12 years i skipped hundreds of episodes but see a lot of them since 1999..wwe weather raw or smack-down or any big event like wresltemania has become a TV drama or a cheesy film that never ends.its also looks fake now no real action & fixed matches..

people like Vince McMahon & Donald trump makes me sick.too much money these guys have & still don't do good for the world.

1/10..wwe is dead..i wont be watching this show anymore.
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WWF is fun
Maniac-923 January 2000
Watching WWF wrestling is just pure fun. People look at wrestling in the wrong context. They act like it's wrong that it's all fake and the matches are staged. Well I say who cares it's entertainment, television shows are all fake too. You don't watch wrestling for the sports degree of it. WWF has the best characters. WWF has great characters like Stone Cold, The Rock, Cactus Jack, Kane, The Undertaker, The Big Show and others.
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7/10
Really RAW Fun And Entertaining
RECB330 November 2023
I have always been a fan of WWE. Watching it every time exciting and fun. I am a fun of multiple WWE Superstars. The officials truly know what they are doing when they are setting everything up and coming up with the original ideas. I have been to multiple WWE events in person and it is so great. All the big names and fans. The combination is truly terrific. The atmosphere is always amazing and huge. All the huge events are spectacular. It is a brilliant thing that WWE travels around the world for everyone to enjoy and witness. It is always great and never ends. The skills that are seen are incredible.
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