WWE RAW Reaction - The Kevin Owens Show?
I been off for a few weeks, and as much as I enjoyed last week and the crowning of Kevin Owens as the new champion, I absolutely HATED this show. Pathetic!!!
Check out my great, good, bad, and pathetic from last night's RAW.
Check out my great, good, bad, and pathetic from last night's RAW.
Great
- The main event match between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn was the best thing on the show, hands down. These two can't have a bad match, but they had to go out their and bust ass to try to save the worst 3rd hour of a wrestling show I can recall seeing since WCW in 1999. Owens as champion will deliver great promos and great wrestling, no doubt.
- Rollins vs Jericho was the second best match match in the show and these two didn't have near the best match they could have. But considering the rest of the show, they I couldn't out them anywhere but in the great section.
- I like the fact that HHH didn't come out and just give us an explanation for why he screwed Rollins. First, if you are viewer who pays attention, you should already know why. Second, why give it away the next week. Monday night football starts next week, and you have a PPV to build to. Leave something to be revealed later. Build some intrigue for once. Everyone wants to know everything now, right away. Wrestling was at its greatest when things built.
Good
- Bailey defeated Charlotte in a non title match that sets up a future title match for her. I liked this. Plus given the fact that Sasha is coming back and getting her rematch, it adds another element where Sasha and Bailey may have a dispute over who deserves the next shot. Again, something they can build off of. No sense of rushing a story-line.
- Owens and Jericho had some funny lines on the mic tonight, especially the one Jericho said about Owens being the longest reigning Universal champion in history. Then when Owens popped in with 7 days, I howled in laughter.
- One more good thing was Sasha's announcement that she was back.
Bad
- The rest of this show sucked.
- The way Sasha announced she was back was HORRIBLE. That promo was sooo bad and terribly scripted. Another bad fake retirement segment weakens the effect when someone really retires. It just smelled of over-scripting by a writing department that is designed to appease the McMahons and their fake history of wrestling. I love you Sasha, I'm glad your back, but this sucked and it wasn't all your fault.
- I get that they want to get the Shining Stars some credibility, but to have them beat one of their hottest teams in Enzo and Cass was just dumb.
- So out of all the wrestlers to give a showcase squash match to, they choose the guy who was arrested and taken off the road a few weeks ago, Bo Dallas? Really? Smh.
- I don't like this best out of 7 between Cesaro and Sheamus at all. Sure, Cesaro will come back to when the next four matches, but to me, they have hurt his star power terribly by having him loose week after week. This is just stupid. The guy cut that great promo after the draft and they have done nothing with him since but have him lose. Wasted talent that would be way better served on Smackdown in the title picture.
- Too many squash matches in a row man. Just too many on one show really.
Pathetic
- The 3rd hour of Raw was one of the worst hours of wrestling I can recall, and would have been the worst had it not been saved by the main event. Just horrible show planning, as it was one dud after another. If you were not watching the college football game before, I'm sure you were after 30 minutes of that bullshit.
- The Club segment with the terrible New Day parody, was perhaps the worst segment of the year. I just have no words to explain how this bullshit made TV. I'm sorry that I'm cussing a lot today, but I'm disgusted at this trash.
- I'm tried of Nia Jax and Braun Strowman squashes. But to place them both in the same half hour is just stupid booking.
- I hate to say this about two brothers, but fuck it. Fire Titus and Darren. Useless. Just pathetic.
The Kevin Owens era has begun and the WWE bookers and writers congratulated him by presenting one of the worst Raws of the year. Of course if ratings are down, KO will get the blame. But he doesn't deserve it. He was one of the only positives on this shit show and tried his best to save that horrible 3rd hour of garbage.
Clearly they still don't know what they want to do with Seth Rollins. He could be a big baby face, and they are showing glimpses of going in that direction. But they still book him like a crybaby and present him in a way that would not get him over as the top face for the long haul. Cause in the end, HHH would be the face in that feud between them, if the booking stays on the course they appear to be on now.
And not to mention, ultimately we still no who the company cares about the most as the top guy. It was evident by the final segment and why they kept him off all night until he could look like a star in the final spot. That right, Roman Reigns. Smh. Let it go idiots. It will never get over at the level of the push you keep trying to force.
Roll with KO. He's the only answer.
Clearly they still don't know what they want to do with Seth Rollins. He could be a big baby face, and they are showing glimpses of going in that direction. But they still book him like a crybaby and present him in a way that would not get him over as the top face for the long haul. Cause in the end, HHH would be the face in that feud between them, if the booking stays on the course they appear to be on now.
And not to mention, ultimately we still no who the company cares about the most as the top guy. It was evident by the final segment and why they kept him off all night until he could look like a star in the final spot. That right, Roman Reigns. Smh. Let it go idiots. It will never get over at the level of the push you keep trying to force.
Roll with KO. He's the only answer.