WWE RAW Thread

Originally posted by John The Baptist I like this Raw, Cena's promo was terrible

Cena: "I'm not superman"
Me watching:

Jericho did indeed save that promo.

The strife v teamwork aspect has been spoken about in the thread already, as has the great booking of Orton.

My 2 favourite aspects of Raw were:
1) Jericho is being built to fued with Cena. I was worried that Edge and Cena would be the  "top 2" in the 7, with Jericho and Khali below. But putting Jericho in this position against Cena is new, and somewhat fresh (i choose to repress and ignore the squash at last year's PPV for Cena to take his title)

2) The Miz is really being built up well as a future Main Event Heel. If this continues I have a feeling he will be able to cash in MITB, LOSE the match (becomiing the first to do so) and still be a credible Main Event Heel.

From the photo's on WWE.com

Originally posted by MariaS I agree with that but the only thing about it is they do this to Jericho and everybody starts getting into him again and then they deflate the balloon, so to speak, and knock him back down a peg.  He is so good that he deserves to always remain in the main title picture but he gets which I think is done dirty so often that when they do stuff like this, it's hard to really get into him.  Now he may like doing things this way and not mind always being in the title picture but I like watching him and know he is good enough to be a main champion.

I couldn't agree more and I'm not sure I was even aware of it until just now.  I found myself in recent months being like, "has jericho lost a step?"  "Is he as good as he once was, or is he not into it anymore?"  I was never vocal about these feelings mind you, then last night happened and I was of course singing the praises of Jericho once more.  Maybe it's the way he wants to roll, but down the road I predict it will be hard for Jericho to be a heel.  Much like HBK, he will (and to a point is now) be so respected that a heel reaction might be tougher. 

However, the great ones, no matter how popular though can always get that heel heat if they have to.  Rock did it with his last stint, HBK did it in 2005 vs. Hogan, Jericho can do it, hell even that geriatric goofball Ric Flair can get heel heat, because he is still very good at doing it, regardless of how much respect he garners.

One other thought I had about RAW, that crowd was ultra hot!  San Antonio has always been a great crowd, and if you're going to tape next weeks show, I think San Antonio is a great selection.  It feels weird watching a show from there though without HBK on it.

they usually don't do a double taping unless they are doing an overseas tour during the following week so I don't know. 

I just looked on the site for live shows and they have no listings for the dates August 2 through the 6th in the States so they must be going overseas.  That's an odd number of dates to not be doing shows.  You'd think since they taped RAW, they would do a two week stint overseas if that is what they are doing. 

I wrote up a full RAW Acey review, but I'm not sure if I should post it because 1. I was very sleepy when I wrote it so it is of poor quality and 2. RAW wasn't very good anyway...