tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24703137124874793172012-03-02T16:12:35.232-08:00Pro Wrestling Almanacpwalmanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01704604057931309188noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2470313712487479317.post-36780562289601556062012-02-21T16:13:00.000-08:002012-02-21T16:13:04.198-08:00Garett Bischoff- Why TNA Is Making A Big MistakeOne of the main storylines in TNA over the last several months has been Garett Bischoff against his father Eric Bischoff. On paper, it's easy to symphasize with Garett. He's trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional wrestler, but his dad is having none of it and is using Gunner, a monster heel, to try and eliminate him from TNA. However, there is one major flaw in regards to this storyline.<br /><br />Garett has been basically shoved down the fans' throats! I'm sure none of it is his fault, but think about it. Garett Bischoff has immediately become the main focus of a high profile storyline! Garett has yet to show that he can work even a passable match yet, hasn't shown much charisma or mic skills, and his look is well below average. This sends a message to everybody in the back who has spent years trying to get to that level that it doesn't matter if you work hard and pay your dues. It is also giving Garett absolutely no favors whatsoever, because while he is currently the main focus of a main storyline, Hogan and Bischoff are running the risk of ruining his career forever. David Flair underwent the same treatment in WCW in 1999, winning the US title and having many succssful title defenses despite barely knowing the absolute basics in the ring. Where is he today? Erik Watts was the subject of a big push in 1992, while being very inexperienced in the ring. How did that work out in the long term?<br /><br />I have nothing against Garett Bischoff becoming a pro wrestler whatsoever, but he shouldn't be pushed into the spotlight immediately without giving the fans a chance to relate to him and while leapfrogging over many wrestlers who are much more ready for his spot on the show. Garett should spend at least a couple years down in OVW, as he's clearly not ready for the bigtime yet, and continuing to push him in his current state and at their current rate will only turn more fans against him, because TNA has a bunch of wrestlers who are much more deserving of Garett's airtime right now, and that would be unfortunate because like I said, I doubt Garett himself is responsible for any of this. It just has to be said.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2470313712487479317-3678056228960155606?l=pwalmanac.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>pwalmanachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01704604057931309188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2470313712487479317.post-63401802607711995092012-02-10T17:58:00.003-08:002012-03-02T16:12:35.421-08:00Show Review<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4/29/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eddie Guerrero vs. Jeff Hardy: Decent opening match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Austin/Flair segment: Not a great segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Rob Van Dam: Solid...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Brock Lesnar vs. Shawn Stasiak: Squash...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Undertaker/Hogan segment: Very boring… Hogan’s still a draw but he’s simply not championship material in 2002.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jazz vs. Bubba Ray Dudley: Not a great match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spike Dudley vs. Goldust: Okay match but nothing special...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hulk Hogan vs. William Regal: Wasn't much of a match as Undertaker came in and beat up Hogan immediately. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Weak show. Bad matches and this continued the pushing of stale characters/gimmicks (NWO, Hogan) in top spots.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/6/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Jazz: Not a great match as Trish was still green. The hardcore title schenanigans after the match was good though.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">NWO segment: Very boring like usual as Big Show explained why he turned heel and joined the NWO.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">William Regal vs. Spike Dudley: Regal wins the title in an absolute squash and D’Lo Brown returns after the match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Brock Lesnar vs. Shawn Stasiak: Another squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hogan/Undertaker segment: Pretty bad segment where the focus of it was on Undertaker’s motorcycle, which Hogan destroyed later on.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam/Jeff Hardy vs. Booker T/Eddie Guerrero: Best match of the show by far.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Swimsuit competition: Pretty bad segment that started a feud between Molly and Terri.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Steve Austin/Bradshaw/Ric Flair vs. NWO: Very boring main event where Flair turns on Austin and Bradshaw to help the NWO win.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very weak episode of Raw. The wrestling was pretty bad and the booking continued to focus on stale characters.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/13/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Brock Lesnar vs. Hardy Boyz: Pretty good match and Lesnar/Heyman vs. Hardys is made for Judgment Day.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">NWO segment: This wasn’t very good as NWO 2002 was becoming more of a joke by the week and was just stale.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eddie Guerrero vs. Shawn Stasiak: Squash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Molly Holly vs. Terri Runnels: This was a pretty bad match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair: Another bad match and the finish was really overbooked.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus/Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Jazz/Steven Richards: Okay match at best that served to write off Jazz with the powerbomb through the table by Bubba.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big Show/X-Pac vs. Bradshaw: A very boring match here, especially when Show and Bradshaw were wrestling each other.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Undertaker/Hogan segment: This was entertaining in a trainwreck way with Undertaker attaching Hogan to his motorcycle and dragging him around the arena.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Steve Austin vs. Booker T: Pretty bad main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very weak show heading into Judgment Day… anything involving the NWO or Hogan was stale and the women’s match was very bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/2/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: HHH gets handed the WHC from GM Eric Bischoff. This was not a good segment as I always prefer the champion to earn his title and the title technically has no prestige either. It did set up a HHH/Flair match which was the only good part of the segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus/Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Molly Holly/Chris Nowinski: This was a tables match and was actually quite enjoyable as it had a lot of cool spots.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. William Regal: This was pretty disappointing as it wasn’t up to the standard of either man’s work at the time and felt like filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Ric Flair: This match was really good and HHH retained his WHC.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. UnAmericans: Kane singlehandedly beats the tag team champions in a handicap match CLEANLY… technically, why should he even have a partner if he can beat the champs by himself? And it devalues the titles too…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big Show vs. Tommy Dreamer: Not really a match as Dreamer beats on Show with a kendo stick, but it didn’t build to anything and was once again filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Crash Holly: Once again, no real match as 3MW attacked Jeff as Bischoff thought he was going to Smackdown, but Crash reveals that he is instead. MORE filler…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Terri Runnels vs. Stacy Keibler: Lingerie Pillow Fight… even more filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH/Chris Jericho vs. Rob Van Dam/Ric Flair: Solid main event with RVD pinning HHH making him the #1 contender at Unforgiven. This was the only good part of the second hour.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">VERY boring show as the second hour was a complete wash and the booking was just terrible.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/16/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: A HHH and RVD promo exchange… HHH was stale on the mic and RVD just isn’t good on the mic.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rico vs. Ric Flair: Decent match but moronic booking with Flair losing to Rico in around three minutes in a filler match and Flair gets pedigreed after the match too. That’s the epitome of a burial.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Test: Pretty boring match… not much else to say.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">UnAmericans vs. Bubba Ray/Spike Dudley: This was decent at best, nothing special.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Rob Van Dam: Really good match with Jericho winning the IC title from RVD. A good match with smart booking… Raw needed more of this.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">William Regal vs. Kane: A squash pretty much until run-ins from the UnAmericans took place.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bischoff segment: It was a good promo although it hyped up Billy/Chuck vs. 3MW, a match I had no interest in.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Jeff Hardy: This was pretty much a squash and it was the main event. Weak…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was a mess as the booking and anything involving HHH was just bad on this show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/14/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho/Christian vs. Kane/Hurricane: A decent opening match and Jericho and Christian won the tag titles. Smart move.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Storm vs. Al Snow: This was pretty disappointing as it wasn’t up to the standard of either man’s work at the time and felt like filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Rico: Pretty bad match as Hardy was his unmotivated, sloppy self and the match was pretty pointless too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane segment: Very bad segment where HHH reveals that Kane is a murderer and a drunk driver. Why they thought this angle would work, I don’t know.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jacqueline/Trish Stratus vs. Victoria/Molly Holly: Okay match but the finish didn't involve either of the two who are wrestling at the PPV. Makes no sense considering that this is the show before the PPV...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pat Patterson/3MW segment: Very predictable... the 3MW attacks got stale a month ago.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Nowinski vs. Tommy Dreamer: Meh... very dull match and was heatless too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton segment: Randy Orton turns heel before taking time off due to injury. This was one of the highlights of the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big Show vs. Booker T: Not a great falls count anywhere match and Big Show actually won. Ugh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Rob Van Dam: Very substandard lumberjack match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was a debacle due to bad booking and bad storylines and subpar wrestling action.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 1</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/21/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: A very boring HHH promo, however it gets worse later in the show unfortunately.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Nowinski: The first match of the night, and it wasn’t very good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">William Regal/Lance Storm vs. Bubba Ray/Spike Dudley: This was an okay match, nothing special.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bischoff segment: He announces a new match type for Survivor Series, the Elimination Chamber.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test vs. D’Lo Brown: Not a great match at all but the stuff after the match with Stacy aligning with Test was quite interesting.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian/Chris Jericho/Victoria vs. Booker T/Goldust/Trish Stratus: Pretty good intergender tables match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH segment: He shows a video of himself dressed up as Kane screwing a mannequin in a coffin representing “Katie Vick”, Kane’s storyline dead girlfriend who he killed by driving under the influence. The worst segment in Raw history and the worst storyline in WWE history.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tommy Dreamer vs. Al Snow: Not a great match as it was a Singapore cane match and was total filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big Show vs. 3 Minute Warning/Rico: Big Show squashes a tag team where both members are huge and their manager. A really bad squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH/Ric Flair vs. Kane/Rob Van Dam: Okay match that was ruined by the absurd Kane/HHH storyline.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Terrible show… just terrible. Matches sucked and anything involving HHH/Kane was just absurd.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 1</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/28/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Hurricane shows footage of stuff removed from "HHH's ass" and a casket match between HHH and Kane is announced. It was pretty bad...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam/Tommy Dreamer vs. Lance Storm/William Regal: This was a pretty good match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho/Christian vs. Bubba Ray/Spike Dudley: 3MW attacked Spike before the match even started.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test vs. Goldust: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho/Christian vs. Bubba Ray Dudley/Jeff Hardy: Good tag title match and the right team won.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bischoff segment: This was pretty good as he went more in depth into the Elimination Chamber concept by explaining that it is a mixture of the Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and War Games...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Chris Nowinski: This was a pretty boring match as their styles didn’t mesh too well...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Jacqueline vs. Molly Holly: Pretty good women’s title match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Kane casket match: It wasn't good but I liked the ending though with HBK popping out of the casket and costing HHH the match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was a vast improvement over the last two debacles but it still wasn't good. Still too much Katie Vick crap and a lot of the matches were uninspiring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">12/2/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dudley Boyz vs. 3 Minute Warning: Pretty boring match... not a good way to start the show at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Ivory: Okay match at best, nothing special.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tommy Dreamer/Jeff Hardy vs. Lance Storm/William Regal: Okay match but short and I felt like I saw this match many times before.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Batista vs. Hurricane: Boring squash match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Booker T: Pretty good midcard match to advance the Booker/Goldust vs. Jericho/Christian feud.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jacqueline vs. Victoria: Wasn't bad except for the result with Jacqueline winning.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Victoria promo: Yikes, that was bad! But Steiner saved it a little.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Rob Van Dam #1 contender's match (HBK special referee): This was pretty good although HHH winning was really predictable and made me fear that he’d get the belt right back at Armageddon.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show, while it had a lot of wrestling, was very mediocre. The first hour was a wash pretty much and the booking was pretty bad. Very by the numbers and boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">12/9/02 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T/Goldust vs. Lance Storm/William Regal: A pretty good opening match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Steven Richards vs. Jacqueline: A pretty boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Batista: Another nothing match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Nowinski/D'Lo Brown vs. Al Snow/Maven: Another pretty boring match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Jeff Hardy: Squash. A guy as over as Jeff is, no matter how badly he’s letting himself go, shouldn’t be squashed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Flair promo: A very good promo on Shawn Michaels.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. 3 Minute Warning: Complete handicap squash...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus/Dudley Boyz vs. Victoria/Christian/Chris Jericho: This was a pretty good tables match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ending segment: This was good hype for HHH/HBK although I worried that they’d put the belt back on HHH, which they did.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another weak show. While this did hype Armageddon decently, there wasn’t much good wrestling and the booking was very questionable.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4/21/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Hurricane: Pretty good opener...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">White Boy Challenge: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test/Scott Steiner vs. 3 Minute Warning: Very boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rock Concert: Very good... Rock continues to be the best part of Raw.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spike Dudley/Trish Stratus vs. Dudley Boyz: Pretty boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rock Concert 2: Very good as well...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Booker T: Just like WM 19... okay match with a bad finish. They really screwed up with Booker as he had tons of momentum and was good in the ring too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If it weren't for Rock's segments and the opener it would have been awful. With them, it's mediocre.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/12/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Hyped the IC title battle royal at Judgment Day. Pretty good segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/Rob Van Dam vs. Legion of Doom: Pretty bad match... luckily the right team won.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">White Boy Challenge: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Freddie Blassie segment: Good until 3MW attacked him. The 3MW attacks were SO 2002…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Christian cage match: Not bad...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair vs. Hurricane: Decent even though the winner was pretty obvious...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test/Scott Steiner/Goldust vs. La Resistance/Chris Nowinski: Pretty boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Victoria hardcore match: Pretty good match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Nash: Really bad main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show wasn't good at all. The matches weren’t anything special, the show was boring, and Nash as #1 contender just wasn’t working.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/26/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Test: Boring and bland.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Val Venis vs. Steven Richards: Decent yet very pointless too as neither had anything going on at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Austin/Lillian segment: Decent at best.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldust vs. Christian: Decent but Goldust winning, especially with a powerslam, made Christian look pretty weak since Goldust was a jobber pretty much at this time.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rodney Mack vs. Bubba Ray Dudley: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sylvan Grenier vs. Rob Van Dam: A flag match, and not a good one.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Pretty solid.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Ric Flair/Shawn Michaels: Okay at best... Flair back with HHH was pretty disappointing while Orton's return was good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very bland show as nothing stood out, the wrestling sucked, and nothing really happened.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/30/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Not bad except for the Jericho/Test vs. Steiner/Stacy match announcement. Ugh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Lance Storm: Didn't even start as Rodney Mack attacked Goldberg only to get squashed. Felt pointless...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Women's title battle royal: Okay but the booking was bad. Giving the title to Gail Kim in her first match?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian vs. Booker T: Good until the finish, which got annoying as the show went on.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho/Test vs. Scott Steiner/Stacy Keibler: Bad and lasted like forever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rico vs. Maven: Okay but very pointless.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Tommy Dreamer: Wasn't a very good match at all...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Spike Dudley: This sucked and was complete filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Rob Van Dam: This world title match was okay at best and ended with a DDT on the ramp of all things. Very anticlimactic and HHH as champ was getting very boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This whole show felt like filler and was filled with annoying match stipulation changing.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/14/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Wasn't bad...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test/Steven Richards/Victoria vs. Kevin Nash/Scott Steiner/Stacy Keibler: Very boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maven vs. Lance Storm: Okay match but bad storyline and bad result. I still have no idea why they thought the “boring” angle would work.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dudley Boyz/La Resistance segment: God, this was terrible... the Dudleys sang the national anthem before their match and they don’t exactly have beautiful voices despite them being good promos.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Evolution vs. Dudley Boyz (elimination match): The focus was on Randy Orton, who scored all three eliminations. This is fine and dandy except that he wasn't ready at the time for such a huge push as his ring work still needed a little work.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rodney Mack vs. Rosey: Ugly match that served little purpose.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Christian: Decent match but also a repetitive match too...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gail Kim vs. Molly Holly: Not a bad women’s title match at all...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/JR interview: Two weeks and they already screw up Kane by having him set JR on fire. Kane's a big man and shouldn't have to resort to such stuff to be scary.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The typical 2003 Raw… weak matches, bad storylines, and questionable booking decisions.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/28/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T/Scott Steiner vs. Test/Christian: This was pretty boring and by the numbers... not the best way to start Raw.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Steven Richards: Typical Goldberg squash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg/Evolution segment: I liked this since the Summerslam main event was announced well in advance.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Val Venis vs. Rico: Even though it was pointless I always liked watching these two wrestle each other and this was no exception.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Very good except for the match that resulted from it (Nash/Jericho).</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kevin Nash vs. Chris Jericho: Typical Jericho bumping his ass off for Nash and looking weak in the end.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance vs. Mark Jindrak/Garrison Cade: This match was pretty boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gail Kim vs. Molly Holly: Not bad and Molly wins the belt in a match that wasn't hyped in advance.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ending segment: This wasn't very good as it was another promo involving non-wrestlers except for Kane and Shane attacks Kane and knocks him off the stage...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This wasn’t a terrible show at all although it was pretty boring. This was a good show to build to Summerslam but the excitement just wasn’t there.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/4/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Really bad segment with Austin, Bischoff, and Shane Mcmahon involved, none of which are active wrestlers, and Shane vs. Bischoff is announced as the main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Rene Dupree: Not a great match here.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Scott Steiner: Another lackluster match here that furthered the neverending Test/Steiner feud.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian vs. Hurricane: Pretty solid midcard match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Ric Flair: Okay match but was booked terribly with a DQ finish.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Molly Holly: Decent match until run-ins from Victoria (which made little sense) and Gail Kim, who rescued Trish from the heels and then turned on Trish.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Rob Van Dam: Best match of the night, easily.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eric Bischoff vs. Shane McMahon: A very bad main event that advanced Kane/Shane.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was pretty bad... the first hour was a wash aside from Christian/Hurricane and while the second hour picked up, the main event was just terrible.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/11/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Once again featured no wrestlers whatsoever and Bischoff vs. Kane is made for later tonight. Yay.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Scott Steiner/Stacy Keibler vs. Rico/Miss Jackie: Pretty bad opening match and the heels won as a result of Test getting Steiner's attention and Steiner chasing him into the crowd.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dudley Boyz vs. La Resistance: No real match as the DQ happened around 20 seconds in and La Resistance drank French wine afterwards. Meh.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian vs. Spike Dudley: Pretty solid midcard match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Eric Bischoff: Not much of a match and Kane turns full heel here. Not much of a segment either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Molly Holly vs. Gail Kim: Decent match with a well-booked finish.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hurricane vs. Rodney Mack: Not a great match here and it was strictly filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: This was an okay at best edition... it hyped Jericho vs. Nash hair vs. hair for next week, which was sure to be a bad match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Ric Flair: Decent main event due to the carrying ability of Ric Flair.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was pretty weak, especially in the first hour. The second hour did pick up however but I just can't give it a good score as the wrestling was bad and not much happened either. Very dull show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/18/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was really good and hyped the elimination chamber very well with all the participants hitting their finishers on each other.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Molly Holly vs. Trish Stratus: Decent match which ends with Gail Kim attacking Molly for the finish of the three way women's title match the previous week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shane segment: He cuts a promo on Bischoff and Kane. Yawn. Neither match interested me that much.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test vs. Scott Steiner for the services of Stacy Keibler: Pretty boring match which ended with a faked injury by Test that didn't fool me in the slightest. And this means that Test/Steiner will continue too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance/Dudleys segment: The most notable thing about this was the debut of Rob Conway, as he swerved the Dudleys and aligned with La Resistance. Okay segment but didn't get me interested in the feud either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Nash hair vs. hair: A gimmick match that gets hyped up weeks in advance gets around three minutes of TV time. It wasn't very good and Jericho wins.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rosey vs. Rodney Mack: Bad match that served very little, if any, purpose.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Linda/Bischoff segment: This segment was in between boring and bad and the theme of the segment was rape. And worse was this didn't involve a single wrestler whatsoever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian vs. Rob Van Dam: Decent match that got cut short by idiotic booking. Christian, the IC champion, was made to look like an afterthought as the whole match was a backdrop to Kane hitting RVD with a chair while RVD did a dive, and carrying him backstage to try and set him on fire but fail. Setting somebody on fire is scary in reality but on a wrestling show it comes off as very goofy.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Randy Orton: Not a great main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show built Summerslam really good but it still wasn't a good show. The wrestling was very bad as were the storylines and some of the booking, such as the length of Jericho/Nash and the finish of RVD/Christian.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/25/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was very good and the Goldberg/HHH main event at Unforgiven is announced in the first segment after Summerslam.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Gail Kim: Not a great match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rodney Mack/Mark Henry vs. Mark Jindrak/Garrison Cade: Very boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance/Rob Conway vs. Dudley Boyz/Spike Dudley: For a tag match this was WAY too short as it lasted around two minutes. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Theme of the night right here... this segment showed tons of potential at the start then it became the usual segment focused on the McMahon family, which resulted in Jericho vs. Shane booked as the main event tonight. Okay...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Maven: This was not a great match as both these guys were very bland and inexperienced in the ring. However, this started the build to Orton/HBK, which was actually a very solid build.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Employee Of The Month Award ceremony: Coach was definitely more interesting as a heel than as a face, but it doesn't make much sense for a heel to award somebody employee of the month when his interference didn't win him the match, and this booked a Christian vs. Jerry Lawler match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Christian vs. Jerry Lawler: Not much of a match AND Christian needed the ropes to beat a retired wrestler and a current announcer.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Shane McMahon: Once again, not much of a match as this was only used to further the Shane/Kane feud, and Shane threw Kane into a flaming dumpster to end the show. Not only was that stupid but that whole feud was booked backwards with Shane getting the upper hand on Kane most of the time.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was not a good show at all... the wrestling was pretty bad for the most part and the booking was very much focused on non-wrestlers as it built feuds around Shane McMahon and the Raw and Heat announce teams. Can you believe that?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/1/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jerry Lawler vs. Jonathan Coachman: Terrible match and an even more terrible choice for an opener.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Austin segment: He destroys the Highlight Reel and books Jericho and Christian against each other. Not a bad segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Christian: Pretty good match here with both playing the heel role.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gail Kim/Molly Holly vs. Trish Stratus/Ivory: Typical formulaic tag match here. wasn't bad, wasn't great.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/Shane segment: Here's where it starts to go downhill... Kane attaches a car battery to Shane's testicles and electrocutes them. That is just goofy and not how you build a monster heel. His power moves should be more than enough to get that same message across.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hurricane/Rosey vs. La Resistance: Blah to this... Hurricane was the only solid worker in this match as the rest are either inexperienced (La Resistance) or just plain bad (Rosey).</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test/Stacy Keibler vs. Steven Richards/Victoria: Another bad match here with the only redeemable parts being the heel antics of Richards and Victoria. The Test/Steiner feud continues after a one week hiatus...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Evolution vs. Goldberg/Maven/Shawn Michaels: A really good main event that continued to build momentum for Goldberg/HHH.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">While this was easily the strongest show in the build to Unforgiven I can't say it was really good either. For every main event or Jericho/Christian there was a Lawler/Coach or Shane/Kane segment to kill the momentum. It wasn’t boring at all but the storylines were just SO BAD that it gets a just below average score.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/8/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Rob Van Dam cage match: Match was okay at best (disappointing for a cage match), but the booking... Kane destroys RVD pretty much yet can't destroy Shane McMahon the same way?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bischoff segment: He makes matches for Unforgiven in Kane vs. Shane and the Raw announce team vs. the Heat announce team, and makes tonight's main event in HHH vs. Goldberg with mystery partners of Bischoff's choice for each. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Storm vs. Rico: Pretty decent match here when you look past the stupidity of Lance Storm dancing. It felt so forced as Lance doesn't have Michaels/Jericho/Cena-esque charisma at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gail Kim/Molly Holly vs. Trish Stratus/Jacqueline: The standard formulaic tag match here. Wasn't bad but wasn't great either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">State of Raw address: While it did run a bit long and end in the obvious Stunner on Jericho, it was not a bad segment at all and was actually quite entertaining.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance/Rob Conway/Mark Henry/Rodney Mack vs. Dudley Boyz/Spike Dudley/Hurricane/Rosey: A 10 man tag where the length wasn't even half as long as the number of guys in the ring. It was mainly a finisher fest and the most notable part was La Resistance injuring Spike's neck on a table spot.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Scott Steiner vs. Steven Richards: Once again, blah. Even with Test interference Steiner prevailed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Coach segment: He shows some doctored photos of JR and JR punches him in the face. Bad segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH/Ric Flair vs. Goldberg/Randy Orton: No match obviously and the angle lost its effectiveness due to how predictable Orton being Goldberg's partner would be.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not a great show, especially in the second hour. No feuds were really advanced except for the women’s feud (as well as the tag title feud but that was unintentional) and the match quality was subpar as usual.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/15/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was pretty good with Jericho and Christian protesting about Steve Austin in the ring. Jericho wants an IC title match at Unforgiven and Austin makes a match with Jericho against RVD, who also wants a PPV match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Rob Van Dam: Pretty good match although the finish was obvious before the match even started. Jericho and RVD were not going to be left off a Raw only PPV.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Conway vs. Spike Dudley: If you blinked you'd probably miss this one as Conway beat an injured Spike with a neckbreaker very quickly and the Dudleys and La Resistance brawled after the match. The whole thing felt very rushed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Victoria vs. Fabulous Moolah: This was short and bad with Moolah actually winning against the psycho heel of the women's division. The segment with Moolah and Orton afterwards was good though.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rodney Mack/Mark Henry vs. Goldust/Lance Storm: A boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/Shane contract signing: Pretty bad as the storyline was ridiculous and Shane got the upper hand on Kane before their "epic" encounter at Unforgiven. Ass backwards booking.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Gail Kim/Molly Holly: The match was pretty good and Lita returns and takes the heels out, which was also well done.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Test vs. Val Venis: Meh. Not much of a match and Val actually wins due to interference from Scott Steiner. It did not get me hyped up for their PPV match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jerry Lawler vs. Al Snow: Once again, blah. I still wonder why they thought fans would pay to see announcers wrestling on PPV, much like Santino in drag and Vickie Guerrero in a freakin' hog pen match this year.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg going away party: Man, what a letdown. Very boring, HHH's mic died, and it killed all the momentum the feud had going.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This wasn't as bad as the show after Summerslam as the handicap match and anything involving Jericho/Christian/RVD was good, but the WWE really tried. The matches were bad for the most part, the booking was worse, the show had a boring feel to it, and the storylines were just terrible. Kane/Shane, Raw vs. Heat, Test/Steiner, and Dudleys/La Resistance were all either bad or repetitive and that's half of the PPV matches!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/29/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Was okay but the announcement of Coach vs. JR was ridiculous.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dudley Boyz vs. Test/Scott Steiner: A pretty boring match with the only notable part being Steiner’s heel turn after the match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane segment: It wasn't that good (he cuts a promo on Shane meaning the feud's still in progress although Kane beat him at the last PPV) although they tease a Hurricane push... maybe.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance vs. Maven/Mark Jindrak/Garrison Cade: It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be but it still wasn't very good as 66% of the wrestlers weren't very good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jonathan Coachman vs. Jim Ross: This was atrocious and JR and King are the Raw announce team again with his win.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita promo: Started out terrible but thankfully got better as it progressed thanks to the heels.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Hurricane: So, they build up a SQUASH? Come on...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg/Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair/Randy Orton: Good except for the end with Henry and Mack attacking HBK.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Christian: GREAT match... definitely top 5 in terms of Raw matches that year.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was some good stuff on this show like the last two matches but there was still the usual Raw crap like the announcer match and anything involving Kane and Mark Henry as #1 contender to the WHC when guys like Jericho, Christian, and even Randy Orton are on the same show as him is just dumb. One great match does not make it a good show, especially when the rest of the show was as dumb as it usually is.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/6/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Rosey: Basically a squash but the real story was Kane chasing Shane after the match into a limo, where Shane crashed the limo, which had Kane inside, into a trailer. It came off as REALLY lame and the show was focused on this for the rest of the night.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Gail Kim: Not a great match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Scott Steiner vs. Spike Dudley: A very boring squash that kept being interrupted with coverage of Kane being tended to.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jericho/Christian/Coach/Storm segment: This was pretty good and made the next match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho/Christian vs. Rob Van Dam/Lance Storm: Pretty good match with Storm pinning Jericho.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Evolution vs. Mark Jindrak/Garrison Cade: Decent match though it felt like complete filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maven/Trish Stratus vs. Steven Richards/Victoria: Same as the previous match pretty much.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Mark Henry: This main event was pretty bad and Mark Henry as the top heel in the absence of HHH is just stupid.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A better show than last week but it was still very boring and not much happened except for the limo crash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/27/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Wasn't bad as it capitalized on Batista’s momentum from returning and collecting HHH’s bounty...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rico vs. Booker T: Squash...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mark Henry vs. Lance Storm: A squash until HBK comes in and attacks Henry...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hurricane/Jon Heidenreich vs. La Resistance: Was pretty good until Heidenreich came in...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shane McMahon vs. Test: This was STUPID... Test's foot was broken and they put him in a match with Shane involving WEAPONS? That is just wrong!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Trish Stratus vs. Gail Kim vs. Victoria: This was a mess and Lita's #1 contender to the women's title.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair/Randy Orton vs. Mark Jindrak/Garrison Cade: Okay match until the embarrassing finish of Maven completely missing a clothesline on Flair, who actually SELLS it and gets pinned for the win.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Chris Jericho (IC title match): Jericho wins the belt until Austin orders an impromptu steel cage rematch with RVD winning it back. That sucked.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was below average as there wasn’t much quality wrestling and the storylines were still quite bad. Oh, and having a guy with a broken foot compete in a match…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">11/10/03 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was the typical stale HHH heel promo, nothing more.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Christian: Okay match… this wasn’t up to their usual standards.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Rosey: Boring filler match as neither were doing anything at Survivor Series whatsoever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita/Terri Runnels vs. Molly Holly/Gail Kim: Terrible tag match, as you would expect with any match involving Terri.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels: The highlight of the night, even if it wasn't up to par with their Unforgiven match. Built up Survivor Series very well.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/Shane dinner segment: Absurd way to hype a PPV match... have two enemies, one of which is a monster, go out to dinner! Who honestly thinks stuff like this works?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dudley Boyz vs. Mark Henry/Scott Steiner: Very bad match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker T vs. Chris Jericho: Pretty much the same thing as RVD/Christian.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldberg vs. Batista: Very bad main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very wrestling-lean show focused on bad storylines. The show felt like an absolute trainwreck.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3/29/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good minus HHH getting traded back to Raw. Made the main event which is good. <br /><br />Nidia vs. Molly Holly: Decent enough match, despite it being complete filler. <br /><br />HHH segment: Meh... he attacks Hurricane and cut his second promo of the night. <br /><br />Rhyno vs. Lance Storm: A complete squash. <br /><br />Batista/Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels/Chris Benoit: Good match. <br /><br />Tajiri vs. Kane: Very meh. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. HHH: Great match and great surprise win for <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city>. <br /><br />Good show. Not much happened as a lot of the show was pointless but it was better than the vast majority of Raws last year and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city>'s win over HHH was a complete surprise. <br /><br />Score: 6 <br /><br />4/5/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good as it made a Shelton/HHH rematch for later. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Rob Conway: Solid match, despite it being filler. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Matt Hardy: Solid match. <br /><br />Foley segment: Great promo as it made Foley vs. Orton for Backlash. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. HHH: Very good match, though not as good as last week. <br /><br />Women's title #1 contendership battle royal: Meh... most of it happened during a commercial break. <br /><br />Tajiri vs. Christian: Solid match. <br /><br />Kane vs. Rhyno: Boring filler... <br /><br />Final segment: Pretty good as it made next week's main event. <br /><br />Good show. There was still a fair share of filler but this was a stronger effort than last week as it built towards the PPV very well and the matches were good. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />4/12/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good build towards the main event and Foley/Orton. <br /><br />Kane vs. Grandmaster Sexay: Boring filler squash... <br /><br />Tajiri vs. "Shinobi": Another squash and Shinobi was revealed to be Al Snow afterwards. What was the point of this Coach/Tajiri feud anyway, since it put COACH over in the end? <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Pretty good build towards <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> vs. Christian/Trish at Backlash. <br /><br />Trish Stratus vs. Lita: Another nothing match! <br /><br />Hurricane vs. Sylvan Grenier: ANOTHER filler match. <br /><br />Chris Benoit/Mick Foley/Shawn Michaels/Shelton Benjamin vs. Evolution: Great match. <br /><br />Not a good show. The main event was the only good match and WAY too many squashes. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />4/19/04 Raw <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Christian: Very good opening match. <br /><br />Benoit/Michaels segment: Very good and made a match between the two for the title in two weeks. <br /><br /><state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state> vs. Molly Holly: Decent match. <br /><br />Orton segment: Pretty good segment with Orton spitting on Harley Race. <br /><br />Garrison Cade vs. Tajiri: Filler but it was good filler. <br /><br />Val Venis/Lita vs. Matt Hardy/Gail Kim: No match as Lita is Kane's sacrifice. Hmmm... <br /><br />Edge/Chris Benoit vs. Batista/Ric Flair: Great match. <br /><br />Good show. I can’t say anything really sucked about this episode at all. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/26/04 Raw <br /><br />Lita/Victoria vs. Gail Kim/Molly Holly: Solid opening match. <br /><br />Tajiri/HHH segment: Pretty good as it made a match for later. <br /><br />Rob Conway vs. Rhyno: Decent match. <br /><br />Christian vs. Grandmaster Sexay: Decent at best as it still felt like complete filler. <br /><br />Tajiri vs. HHH: Good match actually as it was well-worked and put Tajiri over well. <br /><br />Kane vs. Matt Hardy: The angle was stupid and this was pretty one sided. <br /><br />Orton segment: Really good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Batista/Ric Flair vs. Edge/Chris Benoit: Great match. <br /><br />Good show. Lots of good wrestling and the pushing of new stars continued. <br /><br />Score: 8.5 <br /><br />5/3/04 Raw <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin/Tajiri/Edge vs. Evolution: Very good opening match... <br /><br />Hurricane vs. Rob Conway: Not bad, despite it being filler... <br /><br />Kane vs. Steven Richards: Squash... <br /><br />Highlight Reel: This was okay... it just advanced the Kane/Matt/Lita stuff. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. <state w:st="on">Victoria</state>: Gail's best match in WWE at that point... <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> training video: It was funny but not a classic... <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels: Very good... <br /><br />Overall, a very good show. Only the Kane squash and the angle surrounding it was bad. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/10/04 Raw <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. HHH: Very good... not as good as it was a couple months ago but it’s hard to be as good as the original. <br /><br />Batista vs. Tajiri: Squash... oh wait, Tajiri got in a lot of offense and Batista still looked like a monster. Why don't they do these types of matches like that anymore? <br /><br />Women's segment: I thought it would be just pointless rubbish but it ended up making a 6 woman tag later in the show. <br /><br />Edge vs. Randy Orton: Pretty good... <br /><br />Stacy Keibler/Victoria/Nidia vs. Gail Kim/Molly Holly/Jazz: Pretty good tag match... <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Val Venis: No match, just an angle advancing the Kane/Matt angle. <br /><br /><city w:st="on">Eugene</city> vs. Rob Conway: <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> proved that he is a good wrestler but the match was just decent as it was pretty short. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Christian cage match: Great main event once again... <br /><br />Another really good show although no Benoit was quite stupid... leaving your champion off the show altogether is never a good thing. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/17/04 Raw <br /><br />Lita vs. Trish Stratus: This wasn't a very good match as it was rushed and pretty sloppy too. <br /><br />Orton/Benjamin promo: Pretty good and it made a match between the two next week... <br /><br />Kane vs. Val Venis: Boring squash match... <br /><br />Edge/Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton/Batista: Very good match... <br /><br />Eugene segment: Very good comedy... "Who's your favorite wrestler?" "HHH!" <br /><br />Battle Royal for WHC #1 contendership: Was pretty good with Kane winning. <br /><br />Not as good as previous weeks but it was solid. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />5/24/04 Raw <br /><br />Edge vs. Ric Flair: Really good match to open the show. <br /><br />La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Rosey: Decent at best. Nothing special... <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Very good and made the next match. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin/Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton/Batista: Good match. <br /><br /><state w:st="on">Victoria</state> vs. Molly Holly: Good match even though this was known for <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">Victoria</state></place> debuting some new dance music instead. <br /><br />Chris Benoit/Eugene vs. Jonathan Coachman/Garrison Cade: Decent match at best but a TERRIBLE use of the World Champion. Teaming with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> against a Heat jobber and an announcer? <br /><br />HBK/HHH segment: Great segment to build towards their HIAC match at Bad Blood. <br /><br />Good show. Parts were quite flawed, but this show was far from bad as the PPV build was great and the matches were pretty solid. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />5/31/04 Raw <br /><br />Chris Benoit/Edge vs. La Resistance: Pretty good tag title match with La Resistance winning to get the titles off the world champ. <br /><br />Eugene/Coach segment: Not very good as it makes the main event of Kane vs. Eugene... <br /><br /><state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state> vs. Jazz: Decent match though complete filler. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Shelton Benjamin: A pretty bad match that <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city> wins to become #1 contender to Orton's IC title. <br /><br />HHH promo: This was good build towards the HIAC match at Bad Blood. <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Garrison Cade: An average filler match. <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Very good segment to build the Jericho/Tonko match at Bad Blood. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> vs. Kane: Not a good main event. <br /><br />An average show across the board. Nothing too terrible but nothing that made me go "wow!" either. <br /><br />Score: 5 <br /><br />6/7/04 Raw <br /><br />Lita vs. Gail Kim: Pretty solid outside of the stuff before the match with Stacy hyping the Diva Search and Gail cutting a terrible promo on her. <br /><br />Batista vs. Shelton Benjamin: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. A-Train: Decent enough because <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> carried it. <br /><br />HHH/HBK segment: Pretty good build towards their HIAC match at Bad Blood. <br /><br />Chris Benoit/Edge vs. Kane/La Resistance: Pretty good match (Don't count the Benoit vs. La Resistance handicap match as it didn't have a pinfall/submission finish and got restarted as this). <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> vs. Johnny Nitro: Very quick match that saw Nitro get "fired". <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels: Really good main event. <br /><br />Good show. Solid wrestling and PPV build throughout the show. <br /><br />Score: 8.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6/14/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: I actually didn't mind it at all as it put over the HIAC match very well, despite HBK being carried from the ring taking a while. <br /><br />Trish Stratus/Tyson Tomko vs. Matt Hardy/Lita: This match was very sloppy. <br /><br />Joe Schmo infomercial: This had nothing to do with wrestling whatsoever and lasted forever. <br /><br />La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Rosey (flag match): Short, uneventful, pointless, and did you really think the superheroes had a chance of winning? <br /><br />Highlight Reel: This was very good and pure comedy. They really followed up on <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> saying that HHH was his favorite wrestler a few weeks ago. <br /><br />Gail Kim/Molly Holly vs. Nidia/Stacy Keibler: Complete filler match... it was pretty bad too. <br /><br />Evolution vs. Chris Benoit/Edge/Chris Jericho (elimination match): This match was VERY good. <br /><br />Overall, a great main event and a great Highlight Reel but a ton of stupidity and bad storylines (Lita’s pregnant!) drag this down. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />6/21/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty solid Rock promo. <br /><br />Trish Stratus vs. <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state>: Not much of a match as it felt very rushed. <br /><br />William Regal vs. Kane: Lasted 14 seconds. <br /><br />Evolution vs. Chris Jericho/Edge: Solid match. <br /><br />Kane/Lita/Matt segment: Very bad and advanced a really stupid storyline. <br /><br />HHH vs. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city>: Not a great main event. <br /><br />Very boring show full of Diva Search hype, dumb storylines, and very little in terms of actual wrestling. Oddly paced show as well... <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />7/19/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty boring HHH promo... his typical “I’m the game, I am the greatest” promo. <br /><br />Tajiri vs. Sylvan Grenier: This was very bad.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />Tyson Tomko vs. Hurricane: Boring squash match... <br /><br />Batista vs. Chris Benoit: Had potential to be good, but lasted only a couple minutes and just had terrible execution. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Kane: This match was very boring... these two didn’t click at all. <br /><br />Edge vs. Randy Orton: Pretty good IC title match and the finish with Edge putting his feet on the ropes teased an Edge heel turn. <br /><br />Overall this show felt mailed in... everything except for the main event was either a bad match or fell flat. WAY too much stuff with the Diva Search too. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />8/9/04 Raw <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring but it was interrupted with a decent Orton promo so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. <br /><br />Stacy Keibler/Victoria/Nidia vs. Molly Holly/Gail Kim/Jazz: This was pretty solid... <br /><br />Kane/Matt Hardy contract signing: This wasn't good... the storyline was just too dumb for words at this point. <br /><br />Diva Search 2: Boring... <br /><br />Edge vs. Chris Jericho: Pretty good... <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> segment: This told a great story actually... <br /><br />Rhyno/Tajiri vs. Brent Albright/Chris Cage (two minute challenge): This was stupid... <br /><br />Diva Search 3: Diva Dodgeball is announced for Summerslam... <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton/HHH: Good main event with the LOGICAL outcome... the two beating the one! <br /><br />This could have been a good show if the Diva Search didn't have three segments but that's not to be... Dodgeball on one of your biggest PPVs of the year? <br /><br />Score: 3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">8/16/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good for an Orton promo then. Made the main event as well. <br /><br />Rhyno vs. Sylvan Grenier: Decent match. <br /><br />Lita Baby shower segment: Entertaining segment, albeit poorly acted by everyone. Mainly because the jokes were funny. <br /><br /><state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state> vs. Gail Kim: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Edge vs. Kane: Another good match. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Batista: Solid match. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Chris Benoit: Great match but the aftermath was middling. Would have worked better if HHH turned instead of Orton because it would have been more interesting and made more sense. <br /><br />Pretty good show... outside of the Diva Search and the Orton face turn everything was good. <br /><br />Score: 8.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8/23/04 Raw <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring but it had The Rock so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been... <br /><br />Edge vs. Chris Jericho: One of TWO matches on this show... good but not what it should have been. <br /><br />Orton/HHH segment: This was very bad outside of Orton spitting in HHH’s face... <br /><br />William Regal vs. Ric Flair: This match was subpar and ended abruptly. <br /><br />Kane/Lita wedding: Outside of Trish this was boring. This also lasted forever and had a bad ending. <br /><br />Overall, a complete waste of two hours. <br /><br />Score: 1 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9/6/04 Raw <br /><br />Chris Benoit/Rhyno/Tajiri/William Regal vs. Ric Flair/Batista/La Resistance: Very good match... <br /><br />Trish Stratus vs. Nidia: Meh match with a botched finish as you could clearly see Nidia chewing gum while being pinned after the chick kick. <br /><br />HHH vs. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> cage match: Very boring... <br /><br />Tyson Tomko vs. Chris Jericho: It was alright... <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city>’s good but Tomko was still learning though. Didn’t agree with Tomko winning either. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Kane: Meh... <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Kane cage match: Lame and Orton as a face really wasn’t clicking... <br /><br />This Raw wasn't awful but it was pretty boring and some of the booking decisions were quite questionable... <br /><br />Score: 3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9/13/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical HHH promo with the most notable thing being Orton coming out of the cake in the ring, which was obvious from the get-go. Middling segment. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Rob Conway: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Stacy Keibler/Nidia/Victoria vs. Molly Holly/Gail Kim/Trish Stratus: Pretty good women's tag match outside of the booking with Stacy pinning Molly. What? <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Pretty good segment with HBK as the guest and it made the next match too. <br /><br />Shawn Michaels/Chris Jericho vs. Christian/Tyson Tomko: Pretty good tag match. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />Kane vs. Gene Snitsky: Not much of a match but more of a segment to continue the Kane/Lita stuff. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Evolution: Pretty decent main event match. <br /><br />Good show, mainly due to the in-ring action as the storylines still left a lot to be desired for the most part. <br /><br />Score: 6.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10/4/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Flair/Orton promo exchange… <br /><br />Shawn Michaels vs. Christian: Very good match and best of the night... <br /><br />Snitsky/Lita/Kane segment: Very bad and advances a storyline that was full of logic holes. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Batista: Match lasts for around two minutes until Randy Orton comes in. <br /><br />La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Rosey: Another boring two minute match that advances an angle that was dropped out of nowhere. <br /><br />Stacy Keibler vs. Molly Holly: Bad match with a bad result. <br /><br />HHH vs. Chris Jericho lumberjack match: Was good for what it was until the end and the aftermath of Randy Orton RKOing all the lumberjacks. This rubbed me the wrong way as it was way too obvious they were trying to make him like Steve Austin. <br /><br />This show started off really strong but ended up falling flat with weak matches and questionable booking. <br /><br />Score: 3.5</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/18/04 Raw <br /><br />Eugene vs. Gene Snitsky: Boring... <br /><br />HHH/HBK/Edge debate: Wasn't too bad actually. The mic work wasn’t bad and it made the main event too. <br /><br />Stacy Keibler/Nidia/Victoria vs. Gail Kim/Molly Holly/Trish Stratus: Decent match. <br /><br />Batista/Ric Flair vs. Randy Orton/Chris Jericho: Good match. <br /><br />Vince segment: Vince interacting with midcarders was a very refreshing change. Made the next match too. <br /><br />Hurricane vs. Tajiri vs. Christian vs. Coach vs. Rhyno vs. Shelton Benjamin: Decent match. <br /><br />Christy/Carmella segmnt: Very bad. <br /><br />Edge vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Benoit: Good main event match. <br /><br />Solid show. Great PPV build and the wrestling quality was very solid. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/25/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment as it made the main event of Orton vs. Flair where Orton will get a title shot if he wins but never again as long as HHH is champ if he loses. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Jericho: Good match. <br /><br />Edge/HBK segment: Really good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Batista vs. Maven: Not much of a match but an attempt to put Maven over... a surprise result but unsurprisingly it didn't work. <br /><br />Gene Snitsky vs. William Regal: Not much of a match as Snitsky squashed Regal in no time. <br /><br />Trish/Lita segment: Pretty good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Ric Flair: Decent match, GREAT angle with all the faces surrounding the ring after the match. <br /><br />Good show. Solid wrestling and great storyline progression throughout. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">11/1/04 Raw <br /><br />Gene Snitsky vs. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city>: Boring hardcore match. <br /><br />HHH promo: Pretty good as he says he'll be taking the night off. <br /><br />Bischoff/Evolution segment: Really good and made the main event. <br /><br />Christian vs. Hurricane: Decent match. <br /><br />Simon Dean segment: This was pretty funny actually. <br /><br />La Resistance vs. Edge/Chris Benoit: Solid match. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Viscera: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Trish/Lita segment: Pretty good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Evolution vs. Maven/Randy Orton/Chris Jericho: Like last week's main event, decent match, GREAT angle during the match with the faces playing dirty throughout the match. <br /><br />Good show. Solid wrestling and great storyline progression throughout. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/6/04 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> vs. Maven: Not a good match. <br /><br />Divas limbo segment: Really bad. <br /><br />Simon Dean vs. Hurricane: Okay match. <br /><br />Orton/Edge promo: Really good. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Christian: Solid match. <br /><br />HHH/Batista vs. Chris Jericho/Chris Benoit: Good match. <br /><br />Lita vs. Trish Stratus: Good women's title main event. <br /><br />Good show. Started off slow but ended very strongly. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/27/04 Raw <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Christian: Pretty good opening beat the clock match. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Maven: A pretty good beat the clock match. <br /><br />Lita vs. Molly Holly: This match was pretty much an extended squash. <br /><br />Simon Dean vs. Rosey: Pretty boring match... <br /><br />Edge vs. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city>: Solid beat the clock match. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Viscera: Benoit carried Viscera to a barely decent beat the clock match. <br /><br />Hassan segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Batista vs. Rhyno: This beat the clock match was an extended squash. <br /><br />HHH vs. Shelton Benjamin: Solid beat the clock main event match. <br /><br />Good show. Lots of good wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2/7/05 Raw <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho: Great match. <br /><br />Batista vs. Maven: An absolute squash... the atmosphere during it was great though. <br /><br />William Regal/Tajiri vs. La Resistance: Really good match with Regal and Tajiri winning the tag titles. <br /><br />Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels: Very good match. <br /><br />Simon Dean/Divas segment: Pointless. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Tyson Tomko: Very dull and boring match. <br /><br />Edge vs. HHH: Really good main event. <br /><br />This was a very good show from <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Japan</place></country-region>. Three really good matches, one solid one, and a great atmosphere. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2/28/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good HHH promo. <br /><br />HHH vs. Hurricane: Nothing more than a squash. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Muhammad Hassan: Decent match outside of the finish. <br /><br />Gene Snitsky vs. Shelton Benjamin: Decent match because <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city> carried it. <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. John Walters: Boring... <br /><br />HHH/Batista segment: Really good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Maven: Solid match. <br /><br />Trish/Christy segment: Really good as Christy gets “SLUT” spraypainted on her back. Great build for their women’s title match. <br /><br />Edge vs. Shawn Michaels: Awesome street fight. <br /><br />Good show. Not the greatest wrestling show but all the feuds were advanced in a logical manner and the street fight was awesome. <br /><br />Score: 7.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3/7/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment to build the Angle/Michaels WM match. <br /><br />HHH vs. Rosey: This was basically an extended squash match, nothing more. <br /><br />Kane vs. Christian: Decent match at best as it was pretty short and it didn't make Christian look like a threat to win MITB at all. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Edge: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Orton/Bischoff segment: Very good segment to build the Orton/Undertaker WM match that ends with Bischoff getting RKO'ed. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Benoit: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Christy/Trish segment: Pretty good segment to build towards their women's title match at WM. <br /><br />Batista vs. Ric Flair: Pretty decent main event match due to the Flair carryjob. <br /><br />A very solid show to build towards Wrestlemania. Wrestling was solid throughout and all the talking segments were entertaining. <br /><br />Score: 8.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3/14/05 Raw <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Very good... Jake the Snake and Randy Orton were the guests and Orton RKO'ed Jake to build to his match with Undertaker. <br /><br />Kane vs. Christian/Tyson Tomko: Good but I can't call handicap matches with the one beating the two decisively a <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">high point</place></city> when you're supposed to believe that one of the guys, Christian, has a chance at winning MITB. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Edge: Good match. <br /><br />Rockers vs. La Resistance: Very good... <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. HHH: Very good match... <br /><br />Hassan segment: Decent segment. <br /><br />Batista vs. Gene Snitsky: Boring main event... <br /><br />Overall, a really good show. Good wrestling, great storyline progression, and a few great surprises. <br /><br />Score: 8.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4/11/05 Raw <br /><br />Christy Hemme/Victoria vs. Trish Stratus/Molly Holly: This was a pretty bad opening match. <br /><br />HHH promo: Very boring... <br /><br />HHH vs. Hurricane/Rosey: HHH squashes a tag team... yipee! <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. Seth Skyfire: Boring... <br /><br />Shawn Michaels vs. Daivari: Ridiculously short and SHAWN MICHAELS loses to a low blow? <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Pretty good segment to build the Shelton/Jericho feud... <br /><br />Michaels segment: He names his tag partner... Hulk Hogan. Wasn't terrible and the crowd loved it so... <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Christian: Very good match and Christian gets the surprise win. <br /><br />Batista segment: It was okay until the announcement of HHH vs. JR next week. What? <br /><br />Very weak show with only one good match and lots of bad booking, like HBK losing to a low blow and HHH vs. JR next week. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />4/18/05 Raw <br /><br />Edge vs. Chris Benoit: Pretty good opener... <br /><br />Trish/Lita segment: Was pretty bad... <br /><br />William Regal/Tajiri vs. Heart Throbs: Okay match but a poor way to debut a new team with a loss in an unspectacular match. <br /><br />Muhammad Hassan vs. Shawn Michaels: Pretty good match until the screwy finish... <br /><br />Masterlock Challenge: Boring... <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Simon Dean: Pretty much a squash and the stuff before the match was lame. <br /><br />Christian/Vince segment: Very good... <br /><br />HHH vs. Jim Ross: This was the main event and consisted of HHH beating up JR for 10 minutes until Batista came in, gave him a spinebuster, and put JR on top for the win. Just terrible. <br /><br />This show had a lot of good things but the "main event" completely overshadowed them. It was just THAT bad and the show itself was already lackluster before it. <br /><br />Score: 3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5/2/05 Raw <br /><br />Kane vs. Christian: Solid match. <br /><br />Hassan/Daivari segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Viscera vs. Simon Dean: Boring squash match... <br /><br />Shawn Michaels vs. Shelton Benjamin: Great match. <br /><br />La Resistance vs. Hurricane/Rosey: Okay matchat best... nothing special. <br /><br />Edge vs. Chris Jericho: Good match. <br /><br />Masterlock Challenge: Boring... <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. HHH: Great match with Benoit actually winning. <br /><br />Good show. This show had some low points like the Masterlock Challenge and Viscera squash but most of the rest was really good, especially the HBK vs. Shelton MOTY candidate. <br /><br />Score: 7.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5/30/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Outside of Victoria's heel turn it was boring... <br /><br />Hurricane/Rosey vs. Heart Throbs (tag title match): Heatless match and only one of these guys could work so... <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Rob Conway vs. Sylvan Grenier (IC title match): Not a great match.<br /><br />Highlight Reel: It was alright... the fact that it hyped up a potentially crappy storyline hurt it. <br /><br />HHH promo: Okay at best but he gets ANOTHER shot at Batista? When he lost his rematch? <br /><br />Masterlock Challenge: Boring... <br /><br />Christian promo: Highlight of the show. <br /><br />Batista vs. Muhammad Hassan: Boring match but a cool finish. <br /><br />Pretty boring show overall. The wrestling was pretty bad and there was WAY too much filler. <br /><br />Score: 3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6/6/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> announces Raw's first draft pick on the Highlight Reel... John Cena. Very good segment. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Muhammad Hassan/Daivari: A pretty solid IC title match despite the one guy beating the two. <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. Val Venis: Pretty decent match actually due to the Val carryjob. <br /><br />HHH/Batista contract signing: Very good segment to build their HIAC match at Vengeance. <br /><br />Hurricane/Rosey/Christy Hemme vs. Heart Throbs/Victoria: Not that great as it was pretty much filler and Hurricane and <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state> were the only good workers in the match. <br /><br />Kane/Lita/Edge segment: Okay at best. <br /><br />Chris Benoit vs. Gene Snitsky: Pretty solid ECW rules match due to the weapons and Benoit carrying Snitsky. <br /><br />Final segment: Great segment to build the One Night Stand PPV with the most notable part being several ECW originals coming out of the crowd, such as Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, and Rhyno. <br /><br />Not the greatest wrestling show but a damn good storyline show. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7/4/05 Raw <br /><br />Carlito's Cabana: Wasn't bad and made tonight’s main event... <br /><br />Big Show/Kane vs. Edge/Snitsky: VERY boring match... <br /><br />Viscera vs. Heart Throbs: Boring AND had a terrible ending in the Heart Throbs getting DQ'ed for sending Viscera's crotch into the ringpost. <br /><br />Highlight Reel: Was pretty good... started a Cena/Jericho feud for the WWE title. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />Rene Dupree vs. Val Venis: This was pointless and boring... <br /><br />Carlito/Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels/Hulk Hogan: Good match, great aftermath with the SCM on Hogan. <br /><br />Overrated show because of the superkick on Hogan but the Diva Search and poor wrestling quality really hurt this show. Barely below average. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7/11/05 Raw <br /><br />Carlito's Cabana: A very good segment to build Piper's it for later in the show and Carlito and Jericho argued over which of their shows was better until Piper came out. <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. Tajiri: Decent match because of the Tajiri carryjob. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Carlito: Pretty good IC title match. <br /><br />Cena/Jericho segment: Pretty good segment to advance their feud. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Search: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Angle Invitational: The best one ever since it actually led to something and the outcome was in doubt a little. Stuff like that is important...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge vs. Kane: Not much of a match but a great angle in Matt Hardy's return, which was treated like it was a shoot which made it even better.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Piper's Pit: Very good segment with HBK hitting sweet Chin Music on Piper to end the show. <br /><br />A very good storyline-based show despite the lack of wrestling for much of the show. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">8/1/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment to build towards the WWE title main event. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin/Big Show vs. Chris Masters/Snitsky: Pretty bad match due to <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city> being the only good worker in the match. <br /><br />Eugene Invitational: This was pretty decent due to the nostalgia involved with Tatanka as the challenger. <br /><br />Matt Hardy promo: A pretty solid promo from Matt expressing his reasoning for returning to WWE. <br /><br />Val Venis vs. Rob Conway: Pretty decent match despite it being filler. <br /><br />HBK Larry King Live skit: A HILARIOUS segment with HBK impersonating Hulk Hogan on Larry King Live. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />John Cena vs. Carlito: Not a great main event due to both Cena and Carlito needing work on their in-ring skills. <br /><br />A pretty good show, although once again due to the promos pretty much. The Larry King skit was a classic. <br /><br />Score: 6.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8/8/05 Raw <br /><br />Eugene Invitational: This was a decent build for a questionable feud. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Masters: This match was okay except for the result with Masters winning... <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city> was the IC champ two months ago and is now doing nothing at all. <br /><br />Rob Conway vs. Viscera: Terrible match with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Conway</place></city> winning. <br /><br />Hurricane/Rosey/Stacy Keibler vs. Victoria/Heart Throbs: This match was pretty much a nothing match as nothing interesting happened. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Chad Patton: Pretty bad “match”… the only time wrestler vs. referee worked was with Earl Hebner, and that was because HHH was THAT good of a heel then. <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring… <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Snitsky: This match was pretty decent because Matt carried it. <br /><br />Hogan/Michaels segment: VERY good segment. <br /><br />This was not a good show at all. Not much in terms of quality wrestling and parts were poorly booked. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8/15/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: VERY good... the HBK/Hogan feud is the best thing going on Raw and this segment showed that HBK can be a great heel and still be entertaining. The Hogan entrance tease was excellent! <br /><br />Big Show vs. Heart Throbs: Pointless squash that buries the tag division even further... <br /><br /><city w:st="on">Eugene</city> vs. Rene Dupree: Didn't even get underway as Angle attacked <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city> when the bell rang. Can't say I was too upset either as the Angle/Eugene build was more interesting than a proper Eugene/Dupree match... <br /><br />Diva Search: Boring... <br /><br />John Cena vs. Chris Jericho/Carlito: Cena beats his challenger and his lackey CLEANLY in a boring match... if he can beat his challenger when the odds are against him, why even have the PPV match? <br /><br />Diva Search 2: Boring... <br /><br />Edge vs. Val Venis: Squash... <br /><br />Hurricane vs. Rob Conway: Finally, a decent match! It was filler but quite enjoyable. <br /><br />Hulk Hogan vs. Kurt Angle: Wasn't a bad match as Angle was there to carry it and neither guy could afford to lose, especially Hogan, so the screwy finish was fine... <br /><br />Second straight lackluster show... barely any good wrestling and some of the booking was very bad. <br /><br />Score: 4</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8/22/05 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good HBK promo although it started a feud with Chris Masters, who was not ready for a high profile feud like this. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Shelton Benjamin: Very good match as expected. <br /><br />Rob Conway vs. Matt Hardy: Pretty solid match though poorly booked with Hardy losing CLEAN to a guy just getting pushed despite feuding with the current MITB holder, Edge. <br /><br />Carlito's Cabana: Very good segment that started a feud between Carlito and Ric Flair. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Snitsky: Pretty bad match which resulted in a feud between the two. <br /><br />Torrie/Candice/Ashley segment: Not a very good segment as it means a feud between some of the worst workers of the Divas and it's not like the mic work was much better either. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. John Cena: Very good WWE title match with Cena obviously winning and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city>'s "firing" was very well done. <br /><br />Very good show as the promos remained good and the wrestling quality was good as well. <br /><br />Score: 7.5</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9/5/05 Raw <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Eugene</place></city>: Decent match albeit a short one and Cena attacks Angle after the match only for Tomko to give Cena his big boot finisher. Quite bizarre… <br /><br />Val Venis/Viscera vs. Heart Throbs: A very pointless match that wasn’t good at all. <br /><br />Carlito’s Cabana: This was an excellent segment due to the mic work of Carlito and Flair. <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Snitsky: Not a great match but the booking behind it was even worse as Bischoff booked this match as punishment for Matt… even though he beat Snitsky fairly decisively a few weeks ago and the stuff afterwards was bad with Big Show saying “don’t you do it!” when Snitsky was going to hit Matt with the bell… and he did it anyway. Ugh… <br /><br />John Cena vs. Tyson Tomko: Very boring and predictable match and Angle attacks Cena from behind on the ramp after the match. <br /><br />Torrie Wilson vs. Ashley: Probably the worst match on Raw in 2005… HHH/JR in MSG is the only reason I say “probably”. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Rob Conway: Decent match although <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Shelton</place></city> feuding with Kerwin White is quite the step down from where he was three months ago. <br /><br />Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch vs. Hurricane/Rosey: Not a great match as Murdoch’s offense was WEAK in this match… luckily it got a lot better quickly. <br /><br />Masterlock Challenge: Masters broke the hold, hit HBK with a chair, put the hold back on, and STILL managed to win. A very confusing segment, and it was the main event. <br /><br />Very poorly booked Raw with a bunch of nothing matches and the Masterlock Challenge in which the booking made no sense whatsoever. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />9/12/05 Raw <br /><br />Edge/Snitsky vs. Matt Hardy/Big Show: Boring opening match... <br /><br />Michaels interview: Pretty good... <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. Kerwin White: It was an alright match at best. <br /><br />Women's segment: Even though Trish returned I still didn't care too much. <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. Ric Flair: Total carryjob by Flair. <br /><br />Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch vs. Tajiri/Eugene: Not a great match.<br /><br />Edge promo: Was decent although I hated Edge's character then since it blatantly turned a real life situation into an angle. I hate that... <br /><br />John Cena vs. Kurt Angle/Tyson Tomko: Once again, Cena beats his opponent at the PPV with the odds against him. Why have the PPV match when it's established that he can beat his opponent when he has a partner with him? This one was worse than last month.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />A decent show for hyping the PPV, yet it was very boring and parts were VERY badly booked, like the main event. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />10/24/05 Raw <br /><br />Big Show vs. Kane vs. Shawn Michaels: This was pretty sloppy as it felt like all three were wrestling separate matches... <br /><br />Coach/Stephanie/Foley/Carlito segment: It was pretty stupid, boring, confusing, and lasted two segments... for analysis, Lawler interviewed Coach on the titantron, Coach came out to talk Trash, Stephanie came out in a Stone Cold truck, Foley came out to tell her that she was full of crap, she kicked him in the balls, and Carlito then beat Foley down. <br /><br />HHH vs. Viscera: No match and it ended up only being HHH/Flair hype instead which is good. <br /><br />Smackdown Invasion segment: Pretty good... remember when the brand split felt like a big deal? <br /><br />Mickie James vs. <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Victoria</place></state>: Wow, a match! It was decent, nothing more. <br /><br />Vince McMahon segment: He pulled stuff out of "JR's ass"... full of juvenile humor, none of which was funny in the least, and had an AWFUL punchline (he has his head up his ass!). Probably the worst Raw segment ever if it weren’t for HHH dressing up as Kane and screwing a mannequin. <br /><br />Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch vs. Rosey: Very boring handicap match and Helms’ heel turn was poorly executed as Hurricane and Rosey had no momentum whatsoever going into their breakup. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. John Cena: Was a pretty good match despite an overbooked finish. <br /><br />Overall, this show was pretty bad. There was some decent stuff on this show but just as much bad, if not more, and I just can’t justify giving a show with a segment like THAT an average score at all. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />10/31/05 Raw <br /><br />Masterlock Challenge: Luckily it was a segment to hype the Raw vs. Smackdown feud instead... <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Tajiri: Was a pretty good match even though the winner was quite obvious. <br /><br />Ric Flair promo: Very good Flair promo to sell the HHH/Flair match for Taboo Tuesday <br /><br />Eugene vs. Rob Conway: Was a decent match except for the aftermath... <br /><br />Carlito segment: Couldn't really get into it that much as it hyped up his feud with Foley... it didn't really click as Carlito wasn't ready and they have a huge contrast in styles. <br /><br />Coach segment: This was way too illogical for words with Goldust and Vader being Coach’s lackeys for no good reason... wrestling is supposed to be kept simple. Sure they were surprise appearances but they made no sense whatsoever. None of this would have happened if they didn’t plan to put Coach over <city w:st="on">Austin</city> at the PPV (and I understand why <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Austin</place></city> walked out on that one… they were planning on having one of the biggest babyfaces in WWE history put over an announcer on PPV!). <br /><br />HHH vs. Viscera: HHH squashes him in a matter of seconds. This wasn’t really necessary at all. <br /><br />Heart Throbs vs. Big Show/Kane: Another squash match and it blatantly showed who’d be in the tag title match tomorrow night and who’d win it too. <br /><br />Halloween costume contest: Very boring... <br /><br />John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels: This was a pretty good match that hyped up the Taboo Tuesday main event. <br /><br />VERY bizarre show... the start was good but the middle portion was full of illogical stuff and squash matches... some decent Taboo Tuesday build but the lack of quality wrestling and the nonsensical booking and writing overshadow it though. <br /><br />Score: 4</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/8/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: It was pretty lame. The typical Cena promo although this made the main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Chris Masters vs. Charlie Haas vs. Shelton Benjamin (IC title match): Pretty good...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Matt Striker: Was nothing special. Very disappointing match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge vs. Mick Foley vs. Tommy Dreamer: This was all about Foley's heel turn, which was executed like shit.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James vs. Maria: Pretty bad match and Beth Phoenix goes after Mickie after the match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Kevin Martinson/Tommy Wilson: Another squash to establish Umaga...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Big Show: They did chain wrestling in this match... it was pretty entertaining because it was different and showed that they knew how to work.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spirit Squad vs. John Cena/Shawn Michaels: Pretty good main event...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was pretty lame. The wrestling was bad once again and much of the storyline progression in the episode came off quite flat.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/22/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty good and advanced the ECW angle really well...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rob Van Dam vs. Shelton Benjamin: Pretty good IC title match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vince segment: Boring... this continued the build to the reunion of DX but man, was the build boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Chris Masters: Boring filler match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Trevor Murdoch: Boring squash match and the silly Kane angle continues...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James vs. Torrie Wilson: Boring filler match... and Beth goes after Mickie again.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga/Viscera segment: Boring... Umaga/Viscera looks hardly like a good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spirit Squad vs. Shawn Michaels: Entertaining although the match concept was middling with no referee involved...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very uninspiring effort. A bunch of nothing matches and the majority of the storylines were either boring or dumb.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/5/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Decent and good hype for Cena/RVD but contract signings are SO stale...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin: Not bad... quite short but unfortunately it was the best match of the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Big Show: This was the definition of a nothing match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eugene vs. Matt Striker: Total filler and ridiculously short.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Angle segment: Pretty good. Angle announces he’s going to ECW and Orton attacks him.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Lance Cade: Boring and the fake Kane angle continues...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Johnny Nitro vs. Charlie Haas: This match had no energy to it at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix vs. Victoria: Ditto the previous match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kiss My Ass club: Awful outside of the ending. I was looking forward to DX’s return but the mic segments involving Vince, HHH, and HBK were all either boring or lame.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dreadfully boring show. The wrestling was awful (and much of it was absolute filler) and the storylines were the same lame or boring crap.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/3/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very good segment involving Edge, Cena, and RVD to set up the WWE title main event, which was booked because of RVD being caught with drugs.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Torrie Wilson: Atrocious match that went on for WAY too long.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spirit Squad vs. Val Venis/Viscera/Eugene/Snitsky/Hacksaw Jim Duggan: This was another filler match, and it wasn’t very good either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlanders vs. Matt Striker/Rob Conway: The Highlanders’ debut match, and I wasn’t impressed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vince/DX segment: This started out funny but then started to drag and become really dumb with DX messing with Vince’s mic causing him to sound like a chipmunk and Darth Vader as well as an animated drawing of a rooster on the screen with a rooster sound in the background as well. Pretty bad segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Johnny Nitro: This was one of the more decent things on the show but once again, stupidity arose after the match with DX constantly replaying Trish running to the ring. Ugh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Scott Wright: Complete squash and once again, DX made their presence felt by making belching sounds come out of the microphone whenever Estrada tried to speak on the mic.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton segment: He cuts a promo on Brooke Hogan… this was pretty boring and the concept of Orton/Hogan didn’t interest me as Hogan was way past his prime, wasn’t going to lose, and Hogan/Orton isn’t exactly Hogan/Michaels.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge vs. John Cena vs. Rob Van Dam: Very good main event and Edge wins the WWE title.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Outside of the main event and opening segment, this show blew. Very light on quality wrestling and lame comedy throughout.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/10/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Shelton Benjamin: Really good opener where Cena wins and Edge attacks afterwards and he and Lita go to a hotel room afterwards to escape from Cena, where it would be obvious that Cena would attack there.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus vs. Melina: This match was pretty decent although nothing spectacular. Advanced Nitro/Carlito in the process.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlanders vs. Matt Striker/Rob Conway: The Highlanders’ second match on Raw, and it wasn’t any more impressive than their first as it was also really boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Foley/Flair/ECW segment: This was really good, which is the case with almost any mic segment involving Foley, Flair, and Heyman. The ECW angle being interesting helped too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Viscera vs. Charlie Haas: Not much of a match as this was all about turning Viscera heel again by inadvertently giving Lillian a Samoan drop. Very poorly executed turn too…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Search: Not much to say about this except it was very boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Val Venis: A “match” that was over in the blink of an eye and Orton cut a promo on Brooke Hogan after the match. Boring promo…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eugene vs. McMahons: A pretty bad main event where Eugene wins due to DX distracting the McMahons and a net missing them on the ramp from the ceiling. Yeah…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first hour was excellent aside from the Highlanders match, the second hour was a complete wash as the wrestling was bad and it focused on boring or dumb storylines.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/31/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: A DX segment that was actually funny! Oh wait, it was DX showing pictures of babies with Vince and Shane’s heads photoshopped onto them. The McMahons then come out and they broke kayfabe a few times in the process.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Johnny Nitro: This match was pretty good and Nitro retains the IC title here.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton Knows Best: Very lame segment that mocked Hogan’s reality show and booked Lawler vs. Orton for next week too which didn’t exactly interest me.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trish Stratus/Candice Michelle vs. Mickie James/Victoria: This match actually wasn’t bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Foley/Flair segment: This was a great promo exchange between the two and their feud was the best thing on Raw by far at the time.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Matt Striker: A complete squash with Cena obviously winning and Edge attacks Cena after the match. This feud was made to be a complete afterthought in comparison to DX/McMahons…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Search: Boring…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rory McAllister vs. Johnny: Very slow and plodding match here and neither was over either which also hurt this match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shawn Michaels vs. Umaga: Really good match that put Umaga over really well and also advanced the DX/McMahons feud.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">VERY boring show here. There was a fair amount of good in the IC title match, Foley/Flair segment, and HBK/Umaga but the rest was either boring or lame.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/14/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Edge brags about attacking Cena’s dad and then shows a video of it. While it looked good on paper, it wasn’t very good unfortunately.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Mickie James: Really bad match with Lita winning the women’s title from Mickie.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Alex Sage: Your typical Umaga squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair vs. Johnny Nitro: Very rushed match as Foley ran down to attack Flair a minute or two in when he had Nitro in the figure four.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Search: Boring…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">DX/McMahons segment: This segment featured more of the lame DX cock jokes and this feud just wasn’t interesting, especially after the Spirit Squad got buried for weeks.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hacksaw Jim Duggan/Eugene vs. Spirit Squad: Okay match and Eugene pins one of the members after the Highlanders perform their finisher on him.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge vs. Carlito: The lone good match of the show and the ending was booked well with Cena attacking Edge before the match was even over.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton/Hogan segment: Very lame and poorly executed as well as Orton mocked Hogan with a midget impersonation, the real Hogan comes out, and puts on a terrible beatdown on the midget to end the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Outside of Edge vs. Carlito this show was a complete wash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/25/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Candice Michelle: Nothing match as Edge speared Candice for Lita to win quite easily.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cena promo: Pretty lame as it was full of his typical jokes about Lita...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Johnny Nitro: An IC title match that's way too short due to Umaga's interference.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair vs. Mikey: Boring. It ended with a punch too…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">DX tag gauntlet: Very boring and advances a feud with Cade/Murdoch that everybody knew DX would win.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Shelton Benjamin: Pretty good and best part of the show...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton/Chris Masters vs. Carlito/Super Crazy: Not bad although Orton looked REALLY out of place next to the other three seeing as how he’s a former WHC.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bischoff segment: Decent promo promoting his book Controversy Creates Cash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Lita: Cena has one arm tied behind his back and wins in no time. A beatdown on Cena by King Booker’s court occurs afterwards.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">VERY boring episode. Almost NOTHING happened and the wrestling was pretty bad for the most part.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/30/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made Orton/HHH (AGAIN) and the main event and built Cyber Sunday very well.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Johnny Nitro vs. Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin: Pretty decent match between Jeff Hardy's possible Cyber Sunday IC title match opponents.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Maria: Pretty bad women's match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. HHH: This was a good match but when your PPV match's build is the exact same match three weeks in a row, it's a very weak build.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Eugene/Hacksaw Jim Duggan: Absolute squash with Eugene cowering at ringside pretty much the whole time.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Flair/Legends segment: This was basically Flair and his possible partners to go against the Spirit Squad for the tag titles in Sgt. Slaughter, Roddy Piper, and Dusty Rhodes. Okay segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. Viscera/Charlie Haas: Pretty decent filler match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Jonathan Coachman: Pretty bad match as expected.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This wasn't a terrible show but it was pretty boring though as some of the matches were very weak and the PPV build felt mailed in (Orton/HHH three weeks in a row?).</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">11/6/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty good segment involving Bischoff and Rated RKO and he makes Rated RKO vs. Flair/Piper for the tag titles and Hardy vs. Nitro for the IC title… next.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Johnny Nitro: Pretty good match although Nitro winning was baffling since he got less votes than Shelton Benjamin who wasn’t used much and he was about as over as Shelton too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">K-Fed promo: He challenges Cena to a match on New Year’s. Two months of this?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spirit Squad vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan/Eugene: Not a great match and Duggan and Eugene break up due to the stipulation. Eugene turns heel afterwards as well.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maria vs. Umaga: Pretty boring and it takes Cena literally forever to come out for the save after she already took the running butt splash and Samoan drop.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Masters vs. Jerry Lawler: Very boring and pointless match as Lawler was handcuffed to the ring rope the whole time.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin: Pretty good match and Cryme Tyme steals Shelton’s jewelry and shirt after the match too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Mickie James: Another boring match where Mickie had an arm tied behind her back.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair/Roddy Piper vs. Rated RKO: Okay match but the aftermath killed anything positive about this as HHH pedigreed Bischoff after the match and DX held Bischoff so they could shove him into the ass of Big Dick Johnson, who had “DX” painted on his butt cheeks. A very embarrassing segment to end the show and just another reason for non-fans to look down on wrestling in general..</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show started a lot of angles but the wrestling was really bad and there was A LOT of stupidity.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">11/13/06 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Typical DX segment and Coach sends out the heel tag teams to take out DX. Pretty boring…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">DX vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch/Charlie Haas/Viscera: Very boring handicap match with DX winning of course.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlanders vs. Spirit Squad: Another “meh” match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cena/Umaga/Big Show segment: Was pretty good and good at hyping the elimination match at Survivor Series...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Johnny Nitro: Really good match although it makes me wonder why they had Nitro win it last week to begin with as Hardy won back the belt in this one.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lita vs. Mickie James: Very bad match with Mickie’s legs shackled together and full of DX cock jokes.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Roddy Piper/Ric Flair vs. Rated RKO: Not a great match and wasn’t a fan of Rated RKO winning the tag titles as it meant that the real tag division would be held up even longer.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was almost as bad as last week. Tons of stupidity and weak matches all around.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/1/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Kevin Federline: Not much of a match obviously and Cena loses due to a belt shot? That’s just weak.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme/Highlanders vs. WGTT/Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: Not much of a match and felt like complete filler.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Rob Conway: Hardy wins in under a minute and Vince comes out to fire Conway. Pointless match and when a guy isn’t on TV much like Conway was, it isn’t necessary to need a storyline reason to write him off.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">DX segment: This was actually a really good promo although it had its fair share of subtle shots, mainly at the Voodoo Kin Mafia in TNA at the time who kept calling out DX by their real names, which was pretty lame.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina vs. Maria: Very sloppy match that was made because Melina slapped Maria after the opener. Victoria tried to attack Lillian after the match until Mickie made the save.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair/Carlito vs. Chris Masters/Kenny Dykstra: This was the best match of the show by far, and it wasn’t anything special either, just decent.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Johnny Nitro/Coach/Umaga/Estrada: Very bad main event as Cena overcomes four guys yet couldn’t kick out of a belt shot.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was not a good show as all the matches were bad except for one, the Cena/K-Fed match really failed to deliver, and a lot of filler like Hardy/Conway, the 8 man tag, and the women’s match. The PPV build was good but that’s about it.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/8/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Coach introduces the Great Khali as Raw’s newest acquisition and he faces Cena in the main event tonight. Not a good start to the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Kenny Dykstra: Really good match with Hardy retaining his IC title… too bad this was as good as the show got.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina/Victoria vs. Mickie James/Maria: This match was pretty sloppy.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Donald Trump” vs. “Rosie O’Donnell”: One of the worst segments in Raw history… very dumb, reeked of something from WCW 2000, and got “TNA” chants from the live crowd. A terrible way to start a big storyline.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Chris Masters: Very boring match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rated RKO promo: Edge was good in this while Orton stumbled through his lines a lot. This did make HBK vs. Rated RKO next week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: Another boring filler match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Great Khali: As bad as you’d expect and Estrada interferes for the DQ when Khali was in control. That made no sense whatsoever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Terrible show with Hardy/Kenny being the only good match and the Rated RKO segment being just decent.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 1</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4/9/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very boring promo exchange between Lashley and Shane McMahon and Lashley vs. Shane is the main event...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James/Candice Michelle vs. Victoria/Melina: This wasn't a bad match actually...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito/Ric Flair vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: BORING match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shawn Michaels vs. Randy Orton: Good until the confusing double pin finish.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hardy Boyz vs. WGTT: Good match despite the obvious outcome.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge/Cena/Orton/HBK segment: The only noteworthy part of this was the Make a Wish kid. No offense to him but much of the material in this segment was either boring or corny.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shane McMahon vs. Bobby Lashley: If Shane loses he gets his head shaved (if he wins he wins the ECW title)... well, he loses in two minutes by DQ and no shaving.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was very mediocre... the wrestling was okay but the booking was either dumb or uninspiring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4/16/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was very boring and lasted for a half an hour… Vince called out a fan to answer a challenge to face Umaga for the IC title, he wins the title due to help from Lashley, and an in-ring promo after the match introduced him as Santino Marella. Putting a title on somebody in their first match has never been good long term booking, ever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito/Ric Flair vs. WGTT: This match was pretty good though not nearly enough to redeem the first 30 minutes.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Johnny Nitro vs. Eugene: A very pointless squash match as Nitro wasn’t being pushed nor did it lead to a push.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Fashion Show: VERY boring and about as boring as the opening segment. Luckily it was much shorter though that isn't saying much as it lasted 10 minutes…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Cade vs. Jeff Hardy: This match was very dull and boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Masters vs. Super Crazy: The match was decently worked (although mainly due to Super Crazy) but what was the point? Same thing as Nitro/Eugene…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Rated RKO: Decent main event although not as good as it should have been.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very boring show with long, boring segments and pointless filler matches.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/7/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very dull and boring like all Vince/Lashley segments and HBK/Khali was made for later on...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Candice Michelle/Mickie James vs. Melina/Victoria: This wasn't bad actually.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino Marella vs. Chris Masters: One of Santino's best matches although it was nothing special at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Highlanders: Just a squash to reestablish Umaga...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Great Khali vs. Shawn Michaels: One of Khali's best matches by far...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hardy Boyz vs. WGTT: This was a pretty good match as you’d expect and Cade/Murdoch continue to hint towards a face turn...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito promo: Half of it was in Spanish so I couldn't understand it… if I can’t understand what they’re saying, it doesn’t work for me.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edge vs. Mr. Kennedy (MITB match): Why this was booked I have no idea... Kennedy got injured but the storyline was that he'd cash it in at WM next year, why drop it when the injury wouldn't keep him out anywhere near that long?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Randy Orton: When they lock up Khali takes the WWE title and nails Cena at the top of the ramp to end it. What a waste.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very dull and boring episode of Raw… the pacing was erratic throughout, the wrestling was below average, and the booking was substandard.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/18/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: God, that was bad! All the guys in the Vengeance main event talked about Vince’s “death” more than their title match. I know the Vince angle was supposed to be a big deal but it shouldn’t overshadow a title match!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul London/Brian Kendrick vs. WGTT: Pretty good match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito/Sandman segment: I didn't care for this segment as Sandman is terrible when there's no weapons involved.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Daivari: This was a pretty sloppy match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Mick Foley: This didn't even get underway and was a brawl. Letdown...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kennedy promo: This was boring and he didn't even mention the MITB at all. Shouldn't he be mad about it seeing as how he was screwed out of it?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina/Jillian Hall vs. Mickie James/Candice Michelle: Better than most diva tags and Melina got a much needed pinfall win after weeks of jobbing to Candice.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton/King Booker vs. John Cena/Bobby Lashley: This was a boring main event match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ending segment: This was pretty bad... Stephanie’s acting was terrible and this should have switched places with the opening segment or come on before it, which would have been the preferable option.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was very weak as there wasn’t enough Vengeance promotion as Vince’s death got a bigger focus and it was a pretty wrestling-lean show as well.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/9/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bobby Lashley vs. King Booker: Very “meh” until Kennedy runs in and Coach makes Booker/Kennedy vs. Lashley/partner of his choice as the main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Santino Marella: Umaga squashes Santino to retain the IC title… VERY predictable.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch vs. Highlanders: A very boring filler match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Snitsky vs. Super Crazy: Boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton/Dusty segment: This was a very good segment to hype Orton and Dusty’s Texas bullrope match at GAB.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul London vs. Shelton Benjamin: Solid match despite a silly stipulation where Shelton and Charlie had to kiss each other if Paul won.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Candice Michelle/Mickie James vs. Jillian Hall/Beth Phoenix: Very short match that wasn’t good and the Candice/Melina feud continues.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sandman vs. William Regal: Very boring match as their styles didn’t mesh at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bobby Lashley/Jeff Hardy vs. King Booker/Mr. Kennedy: This match was pretty decent but not as good as it should have been.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A very boring show with unimaginative booking and a lot of filler matches, especially in the first hour. I think they phoned it in because Cena was on Larry King Live instead of at the arena for the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/16/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Booker/Lawler segment: Meh… this was nothing more than a placeholder feud for Booker until HHH returned at Summerslam, the winner of the feud was obvious, their styles didn’t mesh, and this kept the actual Booker/HHH match from being built. The segment itself was pretty boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. William Regal vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Santino Marella: I couldn’t get into this match as Jeff was obviously winning and it was below what all these guys are capable of outside of Santino.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Snitsky vs. Val Venis: Boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes: A very long and boring squash that just wouldn’t end.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina vs. Mickie James: This match was pretty decent.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. Sandman: Another boring match that advanced a pretty pointless feud.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy vs. Super Crazy: Okay match although I feel that they really dropped the ball with Crazy here after his surprise win against Kennedy two weeks before… he was very charismatic and could work a good match yet never advanced from jobber status.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cena/Lashley debate: Terrible segment as Cena was his usual self and Lashley is very bad on the mic in general. Also, a debate didn’t fit the storyline as politics weren’t a part of this.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A VERY boring Raw as Melina/Mickie was the only good match yet it got around three minutes and the storyline progression was VERY boring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/30/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito’s Cabana: This was typical corny Cena here with lame jokes and worked shoot comments on Carlito and Kennedy. Not a good start to Raw.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jillian Hall/Melina/Beth Phoenix vs. Mickie James/Maria/Candice Michelle: This wasn't very good and actually quite sloppy...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cody Rhodes vs. Daivari: This match was pretty good and showed that Cody’s a good worker in the ring.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy vs. Bobby Lashley: This was much better than I thought it would be as it was quite good and Kennedy winning was a big surprise.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">King Booker vs. Jerry Lawler: Bad match with a DQ finish, meaning that the feud will continue. The feud should have ended here and the build to Booker/HHH should have started the next week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. John Mason/Brandon Gatson: Squash match and they sell one of the jobbers' boots in a segment that lasts forever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Sgt. Slaughter: Another nothing match pretty much. Did nothing to build Orton’s match with Cena for the WWE title at Summerslam either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito vs. John Cena: Very dull match with Carlito getting the surprise win, which was good although they NEVER followed up on it at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very boring show with the first hour being average and the second hour a complete wash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/17/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: The typical Cena promo full of lame jokes and Orton vs. Cena’s dad is the main event. Meh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Shelton Benjamin: This was a pretty good match and the best of the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Daivari: This was a pointless flag match as neither guy had anything going on nor did anything come out of it. Match was a wash too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vince/Hornswoggle segment: This segment is where Hornswoggle officially jumped the shark. Hornswoggle bit the ass of the male imposter parent and went under the skirt of the female imposter. Not to mention that the whole angle was dumb too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: HHH beats the tag champs cleanly and attacks London and Kendrick for no reason after the match. Way to make that tag division important!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James/Candice Michelle vs. Melina/Jillian Hall: This was actually a decent women’s tag match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Santino Marella: Not much of a match and since Cena won by DQ instead of pinfall/submission, Orton vs. Cena’s dad is still on.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Cena’s Dad: Not much of a main event obviously and Cena’s dad gets RKO’ed and Cena checks on him while getting a “you can’t wrestle” chant which was the most notable part of this.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very boring show here… the wrestling quality was below average and the booking and writing were both bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">9/24/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very boring as Hornswoggle hooked up with Melina and Cena attacked Coach through a sea of security after Coach said that he may have to surrender his title.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hardcore Holly vs. Cody Rhodes: Very solid match in which was probably the best storyline on the show with Cody trying to win Holly’s respect, and it was an undercard TV feud!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ron Simmons vs. Santino Marella: This was not a good match and involved a screwy finish which meant that the feud continues. The promos in the feud were good but the matches were anything but.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Carlito/Vince McMahon: Very boring cage match in that while the heels won, Carlito was still made to look really bad once again.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul London/Brian Kendrick vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: Decent match that was hurt by the Highlanders’ heel turn. They said that they wanted a title shot yet attacked the challengers instead of the actual champs. And they didn’t make good heels either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix/Shelton Benjamin vs. Candice Michelle/Jeff Hardy: This was a pretty good mixed tag match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Jonathan Coachman: A very dumb table match main event made by Mr. McMahon… Hornswoggle McMahon. Very clever… ugh!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another dumb and boring Raw although this was a slight step up from last week… not much though.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/15/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy: A pretty good match here in the fisrt of Orton’s three matches that night.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino Marella vs. Val Venis: This match was surprisingly quite decent and competitive. Santino obviously won because he gets more airtime than Val.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Mr. Kennedy: Very boring match that was mainly punch/kick the whole way through.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga Cyber Sunday Demonstrations segment: This just dragged as Umaga destroyed a local named Andy Simmons in a streetfight, first blood match, and a steel cage match. I’m sure most of the people watching knew how each match goes.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Candice Michelle vs. Jillian Hall: Candice squashes Jillian in around 15 seconds… blah.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rory McAllister vs. Brian Kendrick: Meh… Rory is not a good singles wrestler and controlled the match seeing as how he was the heel.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hornswoggle/Coach segment: Coach kept chasing Hornswoggle backstage until they came to the ringside area where Hornswoggle went under the ring and Coach tried to blow him up under the ring, which failed. Coach went under the ring and Hornswoggle went to blow up Coach and it worked. This was VERY stupid as it brought stuff from cartoons into a non-cartoon, and Coach came out from under the ring with what was obviously a messy makeup job on him. Just another reason for non-fans to look down on wrestling in general.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hardcore Holly vs. Cody Rhodes: The same match they’ve always had together, which isn’t a bad thing by the way as it was a much needed good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels: This match was pretty good although it isn’t smart to give away the PPV match for free.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very bad show as the whole middle portion was atrocious and the Hornswoggle/Coach thing was one of the stupidest segments on Raw ever, which is really saying something.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/29/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Halloween battle royal: Very boring and pointless…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Michaels/Vince segment: I wasn't really feeling this as Vince on TV was getting stale as hell and the Orton/HBK feud wasn’t interesting at all. The main event that came out of this didn’t interest me either.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hardcore Holly/Cody Rhodes vs. WGTT: Wasn't bad at all...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hornswoggle vs. Jonathan Coachman: Very boring and stupid match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul London vs. Lance Cade: Decent at best... not bad though.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy/DH Smith vs. Carlito/Mr. Kennedy: Pretty good match and best of the night...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino segment: Really good... the typical stuff from him and he calls out Steve Austin again as well as rip on his film The Condemned.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diva Search: Boring…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Umaga/Randy Orton: Nothing match like I expected.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pretty mediocre show... nothing really happened at all and I was expecting Jericho’s return all night, which obviously didn’t happen.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">11/12/07 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: A good Undertaker/Batista promo exchange to hype the Smackdown main event...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Undertaker/Batista vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: Taker and Batista squash the Raw tag champs... terrible booking that makes the tag belts look like even bigger jokes. Were Deuce and Domino unavailable?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix vs. Maria: Squash! And the aftermath gives us Lawler vs. Santino later.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rey Mysterio/Matt Hardy/Jeff Hardy vs. MVP/Finlay/Mr. Kennedy: Very good match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Michaels/Orton faceoff: Pretty boring segment...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina/Jillian Hall/Layla vs. Mickie James/Michelle McCool/Kelly Kelly: Very sloppy women’s tag match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jerry Lawler vs. Santino Marella: Another boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hornswoggle training session: Very stupid... pinning Coach dressed as Khali is hardly good training for the real thing.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Umaga: Was a pretty good lumberjack match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show just dragged... the matches were very bad for the most part and the mic work wasn’t much better.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/14/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between Orton and Jeff Hardy.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melina/Jillian Hall/Beth Phoenix vs. Mickie James/Ashley/Maria: Very sloppy match, nothing else to say.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shawn Michaels vs. Trevor Murdoch: Decent at best Rumble qualifier.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Snitsky: Decent enough match although the stuff after the match with HHH destroying the titantron with the sledgehammer came off really bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL segment: Very boring promo from JBL and the stuff with the balloons lasted for what seemed like forever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mini Royal Rumble: Pretty amusing in spots but still nowhere near a great match and the hornswoggle storyline was dumb.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair vs. William Regal: A career threatening match that only got around two minutes of airtime. Brilliant.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton: No match thankfully as it would be stupid to give away a PPV match for free and the swanton off the titantron onto Orton was just awesome.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The beginning and end were just awesome but the rest left a lot to be desired as Flair/Regal only got two minutes of TV time, the JBL segment was boring as hell, and the women’s match was very sloppy.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">2/4/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: This was a good promo exchange involving Cena and Orton until the announcement of an arm wrestling match between Cena and Mark Henry. Meh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James/Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix/Victoria: This match was pretty good for the time given.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6 man segment: Good segment where everybody in the Elimination Chamber will be in a six man tag tonight… and Snitsky too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy vs. Super Crazy: Not much of a match but Kennedy’s promo afterwards on Ric Flair was just AWESOME.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito/Santino Marella vs. Paul London/Brian Kendrick: This match lasted just under a minute and the cruisers were squashed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vince McMahon/Hornswoggle Kiss My Ass Club: The previous match lasted 59 seconds whereas this segment lasted around 15 minutes. It was pretty lame and boring too and made Vince vs. Hornswoggle next week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch vs. Hardcore Holly/Cody Rhodes: This match was pretty short with nothing interesting happening at all.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy/Chris Jericho/Shawn Michaels vs. JBL/Umaga/Snitsky: Really good 6 man tag match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena/Mark Henry arm wrestling: Not only was this boring but Cena almost won until the typical arm wrestling finish and Cena FU’ed Mark Henry two weeks after returning from a torn pec. The World’s Strongest Man can’t beat a guy who just recovered from a torn pec?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was a lot of good and bad on this show… there was more bad though and it was poorly booked too.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">2/18/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between HHH, Orton, and Cena and set up the main event. Works for me.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Snitsky: A MITB qualifier that lasted 10 minutes. Not a great match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul Burchill vs. Super Crazy: Just another squash to establish Burchill.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Show/Mayweather segment: Not a great segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy vs. Val Venis: Pretty decent MITB qualifier although Val Venis as Kennedy’s opponent made this WAY too obvious.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hornswoggle vs. Vince McMahon cage match: Not really a match but actually JBL beating on Hornswoggle in the cage. This was pretty bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maria vs. Beth Phoenix: Pretty bad match with Maria winning due to her Playboy angle.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Randy Orton: This was a pretty good main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was pretty weak as the wrestling was mostly uninspiring and the midget beatdown was just bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">3/17/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: This was a pretty entertaining segment outside of the Big Show/Jericho match as it was confusing as to who was the heel and face.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. Carlito: Pretty good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Paul London/Brian Kendrick: A squash match where London and Kendrick hinted at a breakup. Like they’d have an actual feud or a push as singles wrestlers on Raw…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL vs. Colin Delaney: Very boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ric Flair vs. Vince McMahon: Quite a good streetfight actually.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Candice Michelle/Maria vs. Victoria/Jillian Hall: Not a good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big Show vs. Chris Jericho: Not a good match and it still left me confused as to who the face and heel were.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena/Randy Orton vs. Raw roster: Mildly entertaining but was it worth burying the entire roster to put two guys over?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show wasn’t boring at all but it’s hard to call it good either. A lot of weak matches and some of the booking was quite confusing actually.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">4/7/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty boring and HHH will wrestle a handicap match against JBL and Orton later to qualify for the WWE title match. VERY boring booking.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga vs. Val Venis: A complete squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James/Ashley vs. Jillian Hall/Melina: This match was pretty bad and very sloppy at certain points.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Paul London/Brian Kendrick vs. Lance Cade/Trevor Murdoch: Pretty good match and London and Kendrick win two in a row… wow.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. JBL/Randy Orton: HHH predictably wins a boring match and John Cena comes out, cuts a very lame promo, and wants in the main event. The result: Another handicap match! Ugh…</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Carlito/Santino Marella vs. Hardcore Holly/Cody Rhodes: Pretty boring match with nothing notable happening.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix vs. Maria: Pretty bad match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Best part of the night by far as it featured the awesome HBK/Batista feud...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. JBL/HHH: Cena predictably wins this boring handicap match to also qualify for the WWE title match making it a four way.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very boring show… not much in terms of quality matches and unimaginative booking throughout.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/9/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 1: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy vs. Paul Burchill: Wasn't bad...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 2: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James vs. Beth Phoenix: This was a pretty good women's title match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 3: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 4: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. JBL: This was a pretty good match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 5: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Very good as Jericho turned heel on HBK in this one...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Umaga/Snitsky vs. Hardcore Holly/Cody Rhodes: Pretty boring match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 6: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. Carlito/Santino Marella: A bit pointless but a solid match nonetheless.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 7: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. HHH: Just HHH beating up Hardy for 9 minutes. He did a damn good job of it but that doesn't make it a good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 8: This actually closed the show... VERY anticlimatic ending.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This could have been a great episode if it wasn't ruined by the million dollar mania as the wrestling was quite good for the most part.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">6/16/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Typical Cena, typical HHH.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Umaga street fight: Really good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 1: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bikini contest: Haas was the only redeeming factor. Other than that, very pointless.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 2: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 3: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jeff Hardy vs. Carlito: Pretty good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 4: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jericho/Flair segment: Good albeit confusing at times.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. Hardcore Holly/Cody Rhodes: Let's see here... no point whatsoever, "match" only lasted 5 SECONDS, finish was illogical as hell, and who were the heels?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 5: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr. Kennedy/Mickie James vs. Paul Burchill/Katie Lea: This was a solid mixed tag.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 6: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 7: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">MDM 8: Boring...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HHH vs. Chris Jericho: Solid although Lance Cade interfering was SO random.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show may have been WORSE than last week! At least last week didn't have a pointless 5 second tag match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/7/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Pretty bad due to Vickie and Cena's toilet jokes. This did make the Raw main event though.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rey Mysterio vs. Santino Marella: That's what last week built towards? A squash? Ugh.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kelly Kelly/Mickie James vs. Layla/Jillian Hall: Not a great match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL limo segment: This was ridiculously immature. "JBL is poopy"?</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. Snitsky: Pretty good match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Michaels/Jericho segment: Awesome promo exchange between the two...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kofi Kingston vs. Charlie Haas: This was like a minute long with Kofi dominating.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Batista vs. Kane vs. JBL vs. John Cena: This was actually good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was a pretty bad show... the wrestling wasn’t very good once again and this show was full of Cena at his worst with all the poop jokes.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">7/28/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: It was VERY corny... typical Cena. Cena/Batista vs. JBL/Kane is the main event tonight.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix/Santino Marella vs. Kelly Kelly/D'Lo Brown: Not much of a match as it was more of a comedy match as Santino pinned Kelly... </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase vs. Jerry Lawler/Michael Cole: Two rookies</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">against a past his prime wrestler/announcer and an announcer who has never wrestled in his life in a tag title match, with no commentary on the side. You do the math... </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kofi Kingston vs. Jamie Noble: Squash...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. William Regal: Not bad but Regal was made to be an afterthought after having a big storyline before getting suspended by losing in under five minutes.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Highlight Reel: Good as usual. Jericho’s been even more awesome since turning heel.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mickie James vs. Jillian Hall: Borderline squash match and Katie Lea gives Mickie her finisher after the match in front of Mickie’s dad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL/Kane vs. John Cena/Batista: Boring man event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">GM announcement: It's Mike Adamle and he blows off Cena/Batista way too early and it gets no reaction. Phew!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Very weak show. Quality wrestling was almost non-existent as was storyline progression, and while Mike Adamle was an out of the ordinary choice for GM, he’s not good on the mic at all and the announcement of a HUGE money match received crickets in the crowd, which can’t possibly be a good thing.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 2</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/11/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Corny... typical Cena. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix vs. Kelly Kelly: Basically a squash...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino Marella vs. Mickie James: This wasn't much of a match and made me worry that they’d job Kofi to Santino at Summerslam...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme vs. Highlanders: The Highlanders' last match, and it was their usual match. Not good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Drinking Contest: This wasn't bad... hyped Punk/JBL really good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Kane: Good match, disappointing aftermath in the start of the Kane/Rey feud.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">William Regal vs. Jamie Noble: This lasted 90 seconds!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena/Batista vs. Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase: Good match but the second tag title switch in two weeks! Cena and Batista never should have won them in the first place.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show was very mediocre. The first hour was a wash and while the second hour improved, it still started a very stupid Kane storyline and the tag title stuff was VERY rushed.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/18/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Really good Jericho promo.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Batista vs. Paul Burchill: Burchill gets squashed just weeks after being #1 contender to the IC title...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jillian Hall/Katie Lea vs. Mickie James/Kelly Kelly: Decent match, nothing special.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL vs. Jamie Noble: Boring... another squash obviously.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adamle segment: Not that good as it featured Adamle’s mic work and the scramble concept reeked of something TNA would come up with.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Cena vs. Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase: Solid match but I can't call a match where one guy defeats the tag champs cleanly a high point.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino Marella vs. D'Lo Brown: Boring... another nothing match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho: Good match, terrible booking. Your WORLD CHAMPION shouldn’t be putting people he’s not feuding with over in random matches!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Terrible show. Not much in terms of quality wrestling and what was good was booked terribly.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3.5</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">8/25/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. JBL: Not a bad match at all, albeit a bit slow.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adamle segment: He announced that Cena was injured. That’s pretty much all this was.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix vs. Kelly Kelly: Mediocre match, bad result.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Primo Colon vs. “Charlito” Haas: This reeked of 2000 WCW... this was more than the typical Haas impersonation as they took shots at Carlito as well. They wasted time taking shots at a unhappy employee when they could have done something WAY more productive or just plain released Carlito. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jericho/Michaels segment. Very good promo exchange from two excellent mic workers... </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase vs. Jerry Lawler/Hacksaw Jim Duggan: Very boring and bland tag title match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kofi Kingston vs. Santino Marella: Not a very good IC title match and killing Kofi’s momentum for a few months so they could do an angle with the title involving a comedic jobber wasn’t the smartest move although it isn’t anywhere near the worst thing they’ve done.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adamle segment 2: This was pretty boring and made no sense... Rey's in the scramble although Kane tortured his soul? Come on, at least try to make it look real!</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Batista: Very dull main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was a poor showing… the show was pretty boring, especially in the second hour, Punk/JBL was the only good match, and Jericho/Michaels was the only entertaining mic work. Oh yeah, and the “Charlito” stuff was just uncalled for in my opinion.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 3</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/13/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jericho/Michaels segment: Good and made a match...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane/Mark Henry vs. Matt Hardy/Rey Mysterio: Pretty much the exact same thing as last week with the faces bumping their asses off to make the heels look good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL vs. Charlie "Haas Hogan": Impersonation funny, match bad.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orton promo: I wasn't feeling this. He asks us not to vote for him because he needs to stay out of the physicality but if he doesn't want to get physical why is he on the show before he's medically cleared? They've been giving a wrestler who isn't wrestling airtime for a month...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Batista vs. Shawn Michaels (lumberjack match): Ugh, a bad HBK match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bizarro World segment: This was Santino calling out Johnny Knoxville, Beth giving him a weak slam to the canvas, Hornswoggle giving him the "tadpole splash", his buddy Chris Pontius checks on him, Big Dick Johnson comes out, Pontius strips down to his underwear and dances with him, receives a mouthful of worms from the Boogeyman, Knoxville recovers, cuts a promo, and then gets slammed to the mat by Khali. Very bad segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cryme Tyme/Kelly Kelly vs. Miz/John Morrison/Jillian Hall: Good when the men were in, REALLY bad when the girls were in.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk (Batista special referee): Good match that gave Punk a good rub, or at least I thought it would.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This wasn’t terrible but it was very boring and there wasn’t much storyline advancement. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">10/20/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Candice Michelle/Kelly Kelly vs. Jillian Hall/Katie Lea: A very boring match to open the show.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">JBL vs. Charlie “Stone Cold Steve Haastin”: Good impersonation, match was a squash.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rey Mysterio vs. Snitsky: Rey squashes Snitsky right before his match with Kane, who’s a similar size to Snitsky. Terrible booking.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Morrison/Miz vs. CM Punk/Kofi Kingston: Good match except for the booking where Miz pins Punk after Punk beat Jericho the previous week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Santino/Duggan segment: Not very good as Santino was getting stale and this lasted for what felt like forever.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase vs. Cryme Tyme: No match as Rhodes, Manu, and DiBiase attacked Cryme Tyme before the bell. This made no sense as these teams weren’t feuding anymore.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Batista/Chris Jericho double gauntlet: Batista squashes Henry, Kane, and Regal, one of which could be in the ECW title match and the other facing Rey and needs to look like a threat, and Jericho, the champion, looks really weak getting pinned by a big boot from Kane. The champion got pinned by a guy’s non-signature move... bad main event.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just a terrible show all around. Bad matches, bad booking, bad writing, bad pacing, bad PPV build, bad everything.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 1</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">11/24/08 Raw</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening segment: Very boring as it hinted at yet another feud between the McMahons. </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">John Morrison/Miz vs. Shawn Michaels/Rey Mysterio: A good match but not anywhere near as good as the previous week.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kennedy promo: This was basically making fun of Barack Obama with "humor" only Vince finds funny. Very, very pointless.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kane vs. Kofi Kingston: Okay until the stupid ending.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton vs. Batista: Really good #1 contender match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Goldust vs. Santino Marella: Very boring squash match.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CM Punk vs. Snitsky: Very boring and Punk, a former WHC, having a 6 minute match with Snitsky, a jobber, makes him look very weak...</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beth Phoenix/Jillian Hall/Katie Lea vs. Mickie James/Candice Michelle/Melina: Melina’s return match and it was pretty good.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cena/Jericho segment: A segment hammered by many but THIS is how Cena should be booked. Very well-written segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This show had its share of bright spots but had more bad parts though, like the booking of Punk, the McMahon feud tease, and the Kennedy segment.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Score: 4 </div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5/4/09 Raw </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />Randy Orton vs. Shane McMahon: This was a bit rushed although it was much better than it would be in the main event. Rhodes and DiBiase will have singles matches later in the show and if they win they get to join Orton against Shane in the main event. <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Kofi Kingston: Pretty good match although Matt losing in three minutes after being put over Jeff the way he was is just dumb. <br /><br />MVP vs. Cody Rhodes: These two just didn't click and the booking was VERY weak. <br /><br />Singoff/Miz/Cena/Show segment: Miz and Cena were the best part of this as the singoff was just a waste of time and the Cena/Show feud was very boring. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. Maryse: One of Maryse's best matches due to Mickie carrying her throughout the match. <br /><br />Batista vs. Ted DiBiase: A very boring match with more weak booking as Batista got DQ'ed for not stopping on the 5 count. <br /><br />Carlito vs. Brian Kendrick: Didn't even last a minute. <br /><br />Shane McMahon vs. Legacy: Shane got in a lot of offense and came close to winning several times against Orton AND his lackeys! That is just TERRIBLE booking. They "break" Shane's ankle and Batista comes out for the "rescue" after what seems like ages. <br /><br />A pretty bad show that was badly booked throughout, especially in the main event, and the wrestling wasn't that good either. <br /><br />Score: 2.5 <br /><br />5/11/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very boring as it made a handicap match between Batista and Legacy where if Batista lost he'd face all three members of Legacy and if he won he'd get Randy Orton one on one. <br /><br />Batista vs. Legacy: Very boring and uneventful handicap match as expected and my prediction was right in that there'd be another one in the main event. <br /><br />Maryse/Jillian Hall vs. Mickie James/Kelly Kelly: Very boring and uneventful women's match. <br /><br />Carlito vs. Brian Kendrick: This was a pretty decent match as it lasted much longer than 30 seconds this time. <br /><br />Miz vs. John Cena "exhibition match": This was very boring as they just did moves on each other with no story because there was no referee. The Spirit Squad versions of this were entertaining because at least there were trampoline spots and Kenny did a great hang time guillotine leg drop. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix vs. Santina Marella: Terrible match and the crossdresser beats the dominant heel of the Raw women's division, thus making the whole division look bad. <br /><br />VIP Lounge: Probably the worst edition of it ever as it really showed that MVP's face character just wasn't working. At least it made a match though. <br /><br />MVP/Kofi Kingston vs. Matt Hardy/William Regal: Best match of the show although the booking of Matt Hardy on Raw after he beat his more over brother three times continued to baffle me. <br /><br />Batista vs. Randy Orton: This became a singles match due to Batista taking out Rhodes and DiBiase backstage after his earlier match... this was not much of a match and teased a Batista heel turn. <br /><br />Very boring show with by the numbers booking and the wrestling quality wasn't much either. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />5/18/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: This was actually pretty good because Flair's an excellent promo, although this did make yet another handicap match in the main event. <br /><br />#1 contendership battle royal: Pretty boring and Kelly wins making Maryse vs. Kelly for the Divas title next week. Yawn... <br /><br />Santino Marella vs. Chavo Guerrero: Pretty bad match here that only served to bury Chavo. <br /><br />Colons vs. Brian Kendrick/Goldust: While it looks like a good match on paper, this was completely secondary to Kendrick's "THE partner" angle as Kendrick and Goldust couldn't work with each other at all and the match was pretty short. <br /><br />Miz/Lawler/Show segment: Really good with Miz coming out to Cena's old "word life" music and rapping about Cena until Lawler tries to show him how stupid it is to say he's undefeated against Cena when they never had an official match together. Big Show then attacks Lawler to end the segment. <br /><br />MVP vs. Matt Hardy: Good US title match despite the stupidity of Matt losing once again. <br /><br />Vickie Guerrero vs. Santina Marella: Vickie wins the "Miss Wrestlemania" crown in what was more of an angle than a match. Pretty bad as it isn't Wrestlemania anymore, makes the whole Miss Wrestlemania thing more pointless than it already was, and starts a feud that nobody wants to see. <br /><br />Batista/John Cena vs. Legacy: While Rhodes and DiBiase looked more credible in this match than they have in a while it was still pretty slow and plodding and the handicap match has been done for three straight weeks now. <br /><br />This show started a lot of angles, but very few were any good and the wrestling was bad once again. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />5/25/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: One of the worst segments this year, easily. It involves Vince and a fake Stan Kroenke in the ring and Vince makes fun of his middle initial by saying it stands for "Enos", which of course rhymes with "penis". All this did was make Vince come off as a jackass and gave non-fans a reason to look down on wrestling. <br /><br />Maryse vs. Kelly Kelly: A very bad Divas title match that ends with Maryse throwing Kelly into the announce table for the DQ. WTF? <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. William Regal vs. Kofi Kingston: Best match of the show by far as it actually stayed as an actual wrestling match without any BS thrown in there. The action wasn't bad either. <br /><br />Flair/Orton segment: Pretty disappointing as it wasn't up to Flair's standard of excellence when it comes to promos and Orton's character was getting less interesting by the week. And revealing Kennedy as the mystery partner for the "Lakers" one hour before the match took place was very anticlimatic. <br /><br />Santino Marella/Mickie James vs. Beth Phoenix/Chavo Guerrero: Okay match but the stuff afterwards destroyed anything positive about it with Vickie vs. Santina in a freakin' HOG PEN match being announced for Extreme Rules. <br /><br />Goldust/Hornswoggle vs. Brian Kendrick/Festus: A pretty bad match that was solely about Kendrick's "THE partner" angle, which led to Kendrick being pinned by Goldust. <br /><br />"Nuggets" vs. "Lakers": This actually wasn't a bad match when you look past the stupidity of the jerseys and the reason why the match took place. <br /><br />A terrible show filled with bad wrestling, booking, and a whole lot of stupidity. The purpose of this show was to make Stan Kroenke pay for booking the Nuggets in the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Pepsi</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place> instead of Raw that night, and seeing as how this show sucked and was hammered by nearly everyone and the Nuggets won their playoff game that night, I'd say it failed big time. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />6/1/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very boring with Orton flipping a coin to see who would get squashed by Batista in the cage. <place w:st="on">Rhodes</place> wins and the cage match is next. <br /><br />Batista vs. Cody Rhodes: This was a complete squash with Batista Batista Bombing Cody after he was near the top of the cage. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix/Maryse vs. Mickie James/Kelly Kelly: Boring and uneventful women's tag match here. <br /><br />Colons vs. William Regal/Matt Hardy: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. MVP: Very good US title match although MVP handing the title to Kofi after the match completely goes against his character. <br /><br />Vickie/Santino segment: The worst part of the show with Regal and Hardy attacking Santino and Vickie pouring pig slop all over Santino with an evil laugh. <br /><br />Orton vs. Flair brawl: Pretty bad as Orton getting his ass kicked by a retired wrestler didn't make me want to see his match vs. Batista at all. <br /><br />A very boring show here... the wrestling was okay but the non-wrestling was just brutal! <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />6/22/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Really boring Trump promo... <br /><br />Cena/Miz segment: To take a page out of Michael Cole's book, Vintage Cena. He was TERRIBLE in this segment which made it bad overall. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Great Khali/Rey Mysterio vs. Edge/Chris Jericho/Dolph Ziggler: Really good match, and none of these guys are Raw regulars. <br /><br />Cody Rhodes vs. Primo: This wasn't a good match as it was pretty slow and there wasn't much of a story either. <br /><br />HHH vs. Randy Orton Last Man Standing: While it is moronic to give away your PPV main event for free in a gimmick match, this was a VERY good match. <br /><br />Vince/Trump segment: NOTHING's more entertaining than two non-wrestlers talking about real estate in a wrestling ring. Note the sarcasm. Terrible segment and the angle with Trump is over just like that. <br /><br />Mickie James/Bella Twins vs. Maryse/Beth Phoenix/Rosa Mendes: Terrible women's match as the worst wrestlers got the majority of the ring time. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Big Show: Better than their matches a few months ago but still not a really good match and a feud as underwhelming as this one getting a main event slot was not a good idea. <br /><br />Outside of the Smackdown tag and LMS the whole show was a wash with bad in-ring segments and even worse skits with Vince throughout the show. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />7/13/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: This wasn't very good as Seth came across as very nerdy with all the Robot Chicken stuff and it made a six man tag main event that involves Seth himself so it technically was yet another handicap match. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Mickie James/Gail Kim vs. Rosa Mendes/Alicia Fox/Maryse: This actually wasn't bad (the best of the night even) considering the lack of talent on the heel side as Mickie and Gail carried the match pretty much. <br /><br />Miz vs. Primo: These two just didn't click here. <br /><br />MVP vs. Jack Swagger: This wasn't bad although booking a match between them and having Swagger win clean one week after their VIP Lounge segment which started their feud was just moronic booking. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Mark Henry: The promo exchange between them before Seth announced the match was good, but the match itself wasn't and Mark Henry wins by countout once again.<br /><br />Hornswoggle vs. Chavo Guerrero: Hornswoggle wins a brutal match where Chavo had an arm tied behind his back. This storyline was SO pointless and stupid it isn't even funny. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Evan Bourne: Bourne gets squashed by the Big Show.<br /><br />HHH/John Cena/Seth Green vs. Legacy: Very boring main event with the majority of the focus being placed on Seth Green, a non-wrestler who wouldn't be there next week. I don't understand that logic. <br /><br />A lot of people liked this show but it was very weak. The wrestling was pretty bad, Seth wasn't a great host, and he got more focus on him than the PPV Night of Champions did. No wonder The Bash and Breaking Point got such terrible buyrates... <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />7/20/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty bad as it was poorly written and full of lame jokes, Cena's promo felt very forced, and it made yet another handicap match main event. <br /><br />Big Show/Jack Swagger/Carlito vs. MVP/Primo/Kofi Kingston: The best match of the show by far and did a decent job of hyping the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> title match at Night of Champions. <br /><br />Jerry Lawler vs. Brian Kendrick: A bad match that was pointless and only served to bury Kendrick even further. <br /><br />Maryse/Mickie segment: This wasn't that good as the mic work in this was pretty boring and it being on the stage wasn't really justifiable as it wasn't really a legit feud until this segment. <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. Chris Jericho: Not much of a match here with the most notable thing being <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> getting DQ'ed. <br /><br />Hornswoggle vs. Chavo Guerrero: This was a "sharp dressed man" tuxedo match and Chavo's pant legs were sewed together so he'd waddle like a penguin. Worst match of the year and gives another reason for non-fans to look down upon wrestling in general. <br /><br />Gail Kim/Kelly Kelly vs. Alicia Fox/Rosa Mendes: Not a good match as nothing interesting happened. <br /><br />ZZ Top segment: This was pretty much pointless and bad. <br /><br />Legacy vs. John Cena/HHH: Pretty much the same match as last week... very boring and the only difference was that no celebrity was involved in the match. <br /><br />Worst Raw of the year. The ZZ Top backstage skits and Hornswoggle/Chavo match were just brutal and only the six man tag was a good match, and even that was just decent. <br /><br />Score: 1 <br /><br />8/3/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Absolutely terrible with Piven and Dr. Ken being VERY annoying and Piven calling Summerslam "Summerfest" making the whole company look bad. <br /><br />Evan Bourne vs. Jack Swagger: Bourne gets very little offense here as Swagger wins in under two minutes. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix/Jillian Hall vs. Gail Kim/Mickie James: This was a pretty good match and the best booked part of the show. <br /><br />Legacy vs. HHH: A really boring match that Legacy actually won until HHH cut a very damaging promo that buried Legacy and killed the effect of their win. <br /><br />Carlito vs. Primo: This was a pretty good match despite it being a very anticlimatic way to end the "feud". <br /><br />Chavo Guerrero vs. Mark Henry: Piven made this match because Hornswoggle was sick and instead gave him "Markswoggle". This still sucked. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Kofi Kingston: Pretty good match until the lame DQ finish. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Miz: The match wasn't bad but the booking sucked and the celebs' heel turn was stupid since they were hated already and weren't going to be on next week, making it completely pointless. <br /><br />The wrestling was okay but the booking and the entertainment of this show were just awful! <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />8/24/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: This had a few moments but was mostly stupid, especially Big Dick Johnson coming out of the cake. Legacy vs. DX and Vince is made as the main event which doesn’t really interest me. <br /><br />Miz vs. Santino Marella: This was pretty much a squash and Miz announces that he’s going after Kofi and the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> title after the match. <br /><br />Mickie James/Gail Kim/Kelly Kelly vs. Alicia Fox/Beth Phoenix/Rosa Mendes: This match was really boring as it was short and nothing interesting happened. <br /><br />Mayweather/MVP/Jericho/Show segment: Not very good as Mayweather is bad on the mic and MVP’s just not good as a face as everything that made him so popular was taken away from him. <br /><br />MVP/Mark Henry vs. Big Show/Chris Jericho: Good whenever Big Show wasn’t in the match… unfortunately that was only half the match. <br /><br />Hornswoggle vs. Chavo Guerrero: This was a boxing match and it was as bad as usual with Chavo having to wear giant rubber boxing gloves instead of the real thing. <br /><br />Legacy vs. DX/Vince McMahon: Very boring main event where Vince pins Orton after HHH pedigrees him. I didn’t see the point of the finish except that it was Vince’s birthday so he wanted to pin the WWE champion. Not good business… <br /><br />Very boring show void of any highlights whatsoever. <br /><br />Score: 1 <br /><br />8/31/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good and Dusty made Orton vs. Cody for the title to give his son a title shot. <br /><br />6 diva battle royal: This was an okay match but the booking was very disappointing with yet another Beth vs. Mickie match coming out of this and they could have really followed up on the stuff between Mickie and Gail over the last month if she won instead of Beth. <br /><br />MVP vs. Chris Jericho: This match was really good and probably the best part of the show. <br /><br />Hornswoggle vs. Chavo Guerrero: This was brutal as usual as it was a bullrope match where Chavo had to wear a cow head so he couldn’t see anything. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Mark Henry: This was booked pretty well but the wrestling itself was pretty bad actually. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Carlito vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Miz: This was almost as good as MVP/Jericho and Kofi retained the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> title. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix vs. Mickie James: Not only was this match overdone but these two didn’t click in this match either. The pacing was off and Mickie won too. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes: The good thing about this is that the heels came on top at the end of Raw, which was a big surprise. The bad thing is that they hyped this match up more than they built up Orton vs. Cena at Breaking Point. Hey, that show got the lowest buyrate this year… <br /><br />This show was liked by many but it was another poor showing as the booking involving the women fell flat, crap was still prevalent in Hornswoggle/Chavo and the DX/Dusty segments full of insider references and typical DX comedy, and a non-match in Orton/Cody was hyped up more than Orton/Cena at Breaking Point. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />9/21/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Cedric and the Bellas come out of a limo as well as various other people and this lasted almost forever. <br /><br />HHH vs. Cody Rhodes: Best match of the night and the DX promo wasn't as bad as usual. <br /><br />Cedric The Entertainer segment: He wasn't as bad as ZZ Top, Seth Green, Jeremy Piven, or Floyd Mayweather so it was better than expected but still not good. A few lame WWE jokes, Santino coming out, Chavo coming out, and Cedric/Chavo is officially made for later because Santino accepted for Cedric. Isn't the GUEST HOST supposed to make it official? <br /><br />Miz vs. Evan Bourne: Solid match. <br /><br />Cena/Orton contract signing: This wasn't that bad... Cena was corny but not to his usual annoying level and a 6 man match was made as the main event. I like it when matches are built in advance. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix vs. Mickie James: Mickie gets squashed in a minute. Not the way to treat your "divas" champ. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger: Ugh, another one minute "match" and Swagger steals the title from Miz when his title match wasn't officially over. TERRIBLE booking. <br /><br />Cedric The Entertainer vs. Chavo Guerrero: Terrible match.<br /><br />Lillian segment: This was a great segment and the best part of the night... even though she messed up A LOT the last few years she deserved this segment. <br /><br />Chris Jericho/Big Show/Randy Orton vs. John Cena/MVP/Mark Henry: Not a bad match although I'm not interested in seeing Cena run the gauntlet after the debacle that was the Batista/Jericho double gauntlet last year. <br /><br />Not a good show. The show had its fair share of redeemable qualities but also a lot of stupidity and the booking was atrocious. The wrestling wasn’t that good either. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />11/2/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very bad with Ozzy screwing up wrestlers’ names and the “really” stuff being very annoying. This did make the main event though. <br /><br />Miz vs. Evan Bourne: Solid match but VERY repetitive as is Swagger/Bourne. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Jamie Noble: This was better than last week’s version of this match but still a low point of this show as there wasn’t any real standout match. <br /><br />Legacy vs. Kofi Kingston/Mark Henry/MVP: Pretty decent tag match. <br /><br />Raw’s Got Talent: Outside of Santino biting off the head of a bat… man, this was very bad as the only thing it accomplished was giving Masters a lame pec dancing gimmick and Chavo and Jillian get humiliated by Hornswoggle dressed up as Jack Osbourne. I can’t believe I typed that. <br /><br />#1 contendership battle royal: The only good worker in the match being eliminated first and Alicia winning again means this sucked. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. Big Show vs. John Cena: Not a bad match despite DX’s lame commentary filled with insider remarks and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> finally beats Cena. <br /><br />A very weak show… no real standout match and too much of a focus on goofiness rather than PPV build. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />11/30/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good as it featured good mic work from <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> and DX of all people. They’re good when they’re serious but brutal when it comes to being funny. <br /><br />Melina/Gail Kim vs. Maryse/Jillian Hall: Was not much of a match as it only lasted around two minutes and nothing interesting happened. The only good thing is that it wasn’t sloppy. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Santino Marella: This was more of a beatdown than a squash as there was no official decision. <br /><br />Miz/Troyer segment: Started out okay then kept getting worse… Henry/Miz for later in the show was made… yay. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston: This was probably the best part of the show as it was more of an angle than giving away a big match yet there was a lot of wrestling involved in this too. <br /><br />Cena/Carlito segment: Very boring as it’s hard to take Carlito seriously next to Cena as he hasn’t been on Raw in ages and this did nothing for Carlito either. <br /><br />Henry/MVP/Troyer segment: Henry and MVP start singing something straight out of Soul Train. I thought this was supposed to be a wrestling show? <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. Miz: Pretty boring match and Henry and Troyer dance with Kelly, Eve, and the Bellas afterwards. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. HHH: A solid main event but a disappointing one too. <br /><br />A pretty bad show here as it was very wrestling-lean and the stuff involving Henry and MVP was just ridiculously stupid. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />12/7/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: This was basically Cuban welcoming the fans to Raw… <br /><br />John Cena vs. Carlito: Just a squash... and a pointless one with no action whatsoever in the middle as Cuban had security block Sheamus from Cena, which took around a minute. <br /><br />Cuban/Legacy segment: This was actually pretty good and I'm surprised that they mentioned Survivor Series 2003... considering that they said Jack Swagger was still undefeated after getting pinned by Matt Hardy in a tag match that's quite an accomplishment...<br /><br />Legacy vs. Evan Bourne/Primo: Decent match and the obvious winners won. Legacy get ejected after their win. <br /><br />Maryse vs. Gail Kim: WAY too rushed and an anti-climatic ending. <br /><br />DX/Hornswoggle segment: The worst part of Raw. Hornswoggle being in the box was obvious and outside of it being another skit that shows why non-fans look down on wrestling in general, this made NO SENSE. Didn't Hornswoggle want to sue them last week? UGH! <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Randy Orton: Good match although the fast count win makes me worry that Orton will win on Sunday. Unless they want to continue the feud, it's a bad move as a fast count win isn't a convincing win. <br /><br />Miz vs. Mark Henry: Better than last week but still not enough Miz offense and too much Henry offense to make this good. <br /><br />Hornswoggle/Eve Torres vs. Chavo Guerrero/Jillian Hall: Obviously not a good match and the stuff after the match was lame. Masters/Chavo doesn't interest me... <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> promo: This was pretty bland. <br /><br />DX vs. Chris Jericho: Decent for what it was and the aftermath was good but all of DX's interaction with Hornswoggle hurt the build to the actual PPV match. <br /><br />Sheamus/Cena faceoff: Pretty boring and focused more on Cuban going through a table than promoting Cena/Sheamus. <br /><br />Very boring show. A LOT of stupidity, weak matches for the most part, and poor hype for the already unconvincing main event. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />12/14/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty bad as it was full of lame political jokes. <br /><br />Slammy 1: <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> and Big Show win tag team of the year and they cut a promo. Not bad… <br /><br />Christian/Great Khali/Kane vs. William Regal/Vladimir Kozlov/Ezekiel <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jackson</place></city>: Very short and boring match. <br /><br />Slammy 2: Sheamus wins breakout star of the year and cuts a promo. Eh… I still don’t buy him as a top guy. <br /><br />Legacy vs. Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne: Solid match although I’m worried about Kofi’s push now. They need to make new stars… <br /><br />Slammy 3: CM Punk wins shocker of the year and cuts a good promo. <br /><br />John Cena vs. CM Punk: Cena squashes Punk in unde two minutes, which is absolute BS, and cuts a very forced promo afterwards. <br /><br />Slammy 4: HBK wins MOTY (for HBK/Undertaker) and makes a challenge for a rematch because he can beat Undertaker. Not bad… <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Undertaker: Decent match while it lasted but booked very lazily with the countout win. <br /><br />Slammy 5: Bob Barker wins guest host of the year and cuts a promo in front of his house. This made these awards look VERY predetermined. <br /><br />Vince/Miller segment: This was pretty lame with Vince shooting on the crowd although the Bret Hart mention was quite interesting. <br /><br />DX vs. Chris Jericho/Big Show: This wasn’t even a match as HHH shoved the referee a few seconds in and it was a very lame segment with various babyfaces dressed in DX merchandise forcing <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> out of the arena. <br /><br />Slammy 6: Matt won extreme moment of the year but this was a lame segment as it involved Masters and Carlito. <br /><br />Yoshi Tatsu/John Morrison/Mark Henry vs. Drew McIntyre/Zack Ryder/Miz: Decent for what it was but a very rushed match unfortunately. <br /><br />14 diva tag: VERY bad “match” with all the girls wearing dresses. Absolutely pointless. <br /><br />Slammy 7: Maria wins diva of the year… meh. She wasn’t even involved in much this year! Batista cut a promo afterwards. <br /><br />Slammy 8: Michael Cole wins the “oh my” award in a terrible segment featuring Abraham Washington, Tony Atlas, and ugh… Big Dick Johnson. <br /><br />DX/Hornswoggle segment: Not as bad as last week but still bad and the lawsuit’s on again next week. I don’t care, just stop this stupid storyline. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Randy Orton: Best match of the bight and Cena’s superstar of the year. Hey, there’s Sheamus! Good to know that the champ only got 3 minutes of airtime in 180 minutes. <br /><br />Awful show… no real storyline advancement, lame “comedy” throughout, terrible booking decisions, and quality wrestling was almost nonexistent. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />12/21/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: The most notable part about this was some girl chasing a guy in a tiger suit with a golf club. All the energy that was put into that should have been put into making a good show. <br /><br />Melina/Gail Kim/Kelly Kelly vs. Maryse/Jillian Hall/Alicia Fox: Not a great match at all. <br /><br />Little People’s Court 1: As dumb as you’d expect. <br /><br />Legacy vs. Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne/Mark Henry: A pretty good match. <br /><br />Little People’s Court 2: Just as dumb with the most notable part being DX running away from the midgets like they were a swarm of hornets. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Jack Swagger: Another good match. <br /><br />Chris Masters vs. Carlito: Very short and not a good match at all. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. MVP: Decent match though MVP deserves MUCH better than jobbing to Sheamus in three minutes. <br /><br />Miz vs. Santino Claus: This was not a good match at all. <br /><br />Final segment: Very bad with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> appearing on Raw one week after he was banished from the show and Hornswoggle being DX’s mascot now. SO, they wasted two months just to build to THAT? Ugh! <br /><br />This wasn’t as bad as last week but they tried their hardest. The only difference was that some of the matches were good and the bad was like a trainwreck in that you had to watch to see how bad it would get rather than it being just BAD like last week. Still nowhere near good though. <br /><br />Score: 2.5 <br /><br />12/28/09 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good as it set up the main event. <br /><br />Ted DiBiase vs. Evan Bourne: Decent match. <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. Cody Rhodes: Ridiculously short match. <br /><br />Maryse vs. Kelly Kelly: Very short and bad. <br /><br />Vince/HBK segment: This was good although it dragged a bit until HBK came out. Too bad Bret coming back isn't enough to make me forget all the Hornswoggle and guest host stuff lately. <br /><br />Miz vs. Kofi Kingston: This lasted under a minute. <br /><br />Miz vs. Kofi Kingston: This US title match barely lasted a minute until Orton came in for the DQ. The booking was fine but why such a short match? <br /><br />DX vs. Big Show/Chavo Guerrero: The best match of the night... and it lasted only 5 minutes. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Sheamus: This WWE title main event barely lasted two minutes until the screwy finish. <br /><br />This show was pretty bad. The match quality was WAY below average, both the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> and WWE champs looked ridiculously weak, and the backstage stuff with Timberland was just terrible. <br /><br />Score: 3.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/11/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good as it made a match for later in the show. <br /><br />Alicia Fox vs. Kelly Kelly: Very bad match. <br /><br />Legacy vs. Mark Henry/Evan Bourne: Okay match at best... not that great. <br /><br />Santino Marella vs. Jack Swagger: Another really weak match and Santino won very quickly... Swagger looks weak against Raw's biggest babyface jobber after being on the verge of a breakout star a few months ago. Not a great booking decision... <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston vs. John Cena: Easily the best match of the night although Orton winning was pretty questionable because it means Orton vs. Sheamus, which is a heel vs. heel title match, and Kofi loses to Orton for the third straight time. <br /><br />Miz/MVP segment: Pretty good segment although I really do feel MVP should be built up a bit more as he lost nearly every match he's had until he won #1 contendership last week. <br /><br />Eve Torres vs. Katie Lea: Ridiculously short but the second best match of the night by this show's LOW standards. <br /><br />Vince promo: Very boring... Vince/Bret isn't that interesting as their match will probably be really bad at WM and the Montreal Screwjob took place when I was in 4th grade so it isn't very relevant anymore. <br /><br />DX vs. Chris Jericho/Mike Tyson: Worst part of the show as the match was pretty bad, pointless, and the booking was ridiculously obvious with Tyson wearing a DX shirt underneath and KO'ing Jericho to make him lose. <br /><br />Not much of a show as it felt like it was WWE going back to the formula for the shows between the Thanksgiving episode and 1/4 (all of which sucked) with a lack of quality wrestling, putting Hornswoggle and the guest host over more than anything, and nothing much happening at all. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />1/18/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Decent enough… dragged when Vince was talking but once it was HBK and undertaker it was real good. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Evan Bourne: Squash. <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. Jack Swagger: Swagger gets tossed over the top rope in a matter of seconds. Like Bourne, I have no idea why they’re making one of their future stars look weak as hell. HHH, HBK, Batista, and Undertaker aren’t getting any younger… <br /><br />Miz/Big Show/guest hosts segment: Pretty bad as it was filled with lame comedy and made a really bad main event. <br /><br />John Cena/Kofi Kingston vs. Legacy: Best match of the night, though it was only decent at best. <br /><br />Maryse/Alicia Fox vs. Gail Kim/Eve Torres: Shockingly decent. More matches like this. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Chris Masters: VERY boring filler match. <br /><br />Big Show/Miz/John Heder vs. DX/Hornswoggle: Terrible main event that didn’t really have a point either, like last week’s main event too. <br /><br />Once again, it wasn’t a great showing. While more stuff happened, lots of lame guest host and Hornswoggle stuff throughout and younger talent continued to have no real direction. Oh, and the matches sucked too. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />2/15/10 Raw <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Sheamus: Decent match though Sheamus still only has one convincing win since winning the title. <br /><br />Bret promo: This was pretty good... until the car crash. Just very poorly done as the whole scene with Bret being put into the ambulance lasted forever and the announcers said that it was the worst day of Bret's life (did they forget about the stroke that ended his career and the day that Owen died?). It cancelled out the whole in-ring part of the segment. <br /><br />Mark Henry/MVP vs. Big Show/Miz: This match was very "meh". <br /><br />Springer segment: Utterly pointless segment that wasn't funny at all. The whole thing was a rib and involved stuff like Kelly being pregnant with Hornswoggle after Jerry read the paternity test results, Brie being a man, and Masters cheating on Eve with Kelly. Who thought airing this was a good idea? <br /><br />Ted DiBiase vs. Kofi Kingston: Another "meh" match where Kofi loses to one of the lackeys of the guy he feuded with a couple months ago in under three minutes. Once again, not the way to make new stars. <br /><br />Cena/Batista promo: This was a pretty good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />John Cena vs. HHH: Pretty good main event, and Sheamus was finally put over decently against Raw main eventers, but it was a few weeks too late as having him as champ for the road to WM wouldn't be the smartest idea. <br /><br />Some of the wrestling on this show was good, but was poorly booked and the EC build left a lot to be desired. Don't even get me started on the Springer segment. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />3/1/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good HHH/HBK promo exchange. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase: Not a great match. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Cena/Batista segment: Very good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />MVP vs. Zack Ryder: Squash. <br /><br />Eve Torres vs. Kelly Kelly vs. Alicia Fox vs. Maryse vs. Jillian Hall vs. Gail Kim: Terrible pillow fight match. <br /><br />Vince/Bret segment: Dull Vince promo until Bret showed up, then it got good. <br /><br />DX vs. Big Show/Miz: Okay match, nothing special. <br /><br />Not a great show. Both MITB qualifiers were squashes, a pillow fight, and bad guest host skits outweighed the good. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />5/10/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty bad segment due to the guest hosts despite the main event being announced and Vickie announced as the new GM. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. David Hart Smith: Pretty decent match. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. William Regal: Lasted 30 seconds before the Colons attacked R-Truth, which ammounted to nothing because of Carlito's release soon after. <br /><br />Evan Bourne vs. Zack Ryder: What should have been a good match lasted two minutes at most. <br /><br />Cena promo: Pretty good promo to build his I Quit match with Batista. <br /><br />Tyson Kidd vs. Miz: Kidd won in under a minute before Miz announced that he'll face Bret Hart next week. Underwhelming considering that Miz looked weak here. <br /><br />NXT pros vs. John Morrison/Santino Marella/Goldust/Yoshi Tatsu: Eh match due to a lot of the NXT wrestlers being VERY green. <br /><br />Batista vs. Mark Henry: More of an angle to put over Batista than a match. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Edge/Ted DiBiase: Eh main event and Vickie resigns the same day she starts as GM. Rushed! <br /><br />Very rushed show with bad matches and the show's main angle being over during that same show! <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />5/24/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment with Batista announcing his retirement. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Mark Henry: Not a great match. <br /><br />Maryse/Alicia Fox vs. Gail Kim/Eve Torres: Very rushed one minute women's match. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Miz: Very good US Title match with Truth winning. <br /><br />Raw Superstar Search: Very lame guest host skit. <br /><br />Hart Dynasty vs. William Regal/Vladimir Kozlov: Absolute squash. <br /><br />NXT segment: Absolute filler. <br /><br />Edge vs. John Cena vs. Chris Jericho: Good main event with Edge winning and qualifying for the Fatal 4 Way main event. <br /><br />Two very good matches and Batista's retirement but the rest was either lame or filler. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />6/7/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Good segment to make Orton/Edge in a LMS match. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Chris Jericho: A lame bodyslam challenge match. <br /><br />Hart Dynasty vs. Great Khali/Hornswoggle: A lame one minute match. <br /><br />Santino/Kozlov danceoff: This was pretty funny due to Santino's charisma. <br /><br />Diva Battle Royal: Maryse wins in a rushed 3 minute battle royal. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Kane: First good match of the show. <br /><br />R-Truth/John Morrison vs. Miz/Zack Ryder: Very rushed tag match. <br /><br />Edge vs. Randy Orton: Edge has one arm tied behind his back and the match the opening segment made lasted ONE MINUTE. <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Drew McIntyre: Another very rushed match. <br /><br />A-Team skit: Very lame guest host segment. <br /><br />John Cena vs. CM Punk: Solid main event notable for the debut of Nexus which was very well done. <br /><br />While this show will be remembered for Nexus' debut, the show itself wasn't very good with rushed matches and lame guest host skits throughout. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />7/12/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Typical Cena promo that made Cena vs. Nexus as the main event. <br /><br />Alicia Fox vs. Gail Kim: A glorified squash unfortunately. <br /><br />Usos/Tamina vs. Hart Dynasty/Natalya: Pretty decent mixed tag match. <br /><br />DiBiase/Morrison promo: Not a very good promo exchange. <br /><br />Edge vs. Randy Orton: Very good match. <br /><br />Miz vs. Mark Henry: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Santino Marella/Vladimir Kozlov/Goldust/Great Khali vs. William Regal/Primo/Zack Ryder/Doink The Clown: Very lame comedy match with the "Santino bunch" winning. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Nexus: Pretty decent match due to Nexus making frequent tags. <br /><br />Very weak show to build the MITB PPV. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />8/16/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Typical Cena promo with him making bad jokes about the Nexus. <br /><br />Wade Barrett vs. Chris Jericho: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Segment: Hart Dynasty get the NEW tag titles, which look bad, and a bad guest host promo. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan vs. Michael Tarver: Easily Bryan's worst WWE match. <br /><br />Justin Gabriel vs. Randy Orton: Very rushed match. <br /><br />Skip Sheffield/David Otunga vs. John Morrison/R-Truth: Squash. <br /><br />Melina/Eve Torres/Gail Kim vs. Maryse/Alicia Fox/Jillian Hall: Not a great match with the most notable part being that Jillian actually pinned Eve. <br /><br />Edge vs. Heath Slater: Very bland match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Darren Young: Very bland main event with Young losing and being the only one kicked out of Nexus. <br /><br />VERY boring show with minimal story progression and one good match. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />8/30/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Not a great segment as it made Undertaker vs. Bret for later. <br /><br />Miz/Alex Riley vs. Kofi Kingston/Michael McGillicutty vs. Daniel Bryan/Kaval: Decent match. <br /><br />Melina/Eve Torres vs. LayCool: Not much of a match at all. <br /><br />John Morrison/R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes/Drew McIntyre: Completely pointless as it hardly got started. <br /><br />Bret Hart vs. Undertaker: Thankfully this never got started as Nexus beat down the Undertaker. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Evan Bourne: What should have been a good match was completely focused on Alberto Del Rio. The ultimate disrespect to the guys in the match. <br /><br />Punk/Big Show promo: Decent promo though the lack of wrestling was starting to wear thin at this point. <br /><br />Nexus vs. John Cena/Randy Orton/Chris Jericho/Sheamus/Edge: Decent main event though all the eliminations were very rushed. <br /><br />A VERY oddly paced episode that was severely lacking in wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />10/18/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Not a great segment though it made the main event battle royal. <br /><br />Cody Rhodes/Drew McIntyre vs. Hart Dynasty: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Goldust vs. Zack Ryder: Squash. <br /><br />John Cena/Randy Orton vs. Michael McGillicutty/Husky Harris: Not a great match. <br /><br />Vickie/Dolph segment: Bad segment which resulted in Gail throwing confetti at Vickie and Bryan dancing with the face divas afterwards. <br /><br />Natalya vs. Alicia Fox: Squash. <br /><br />Smackdown/Raw battle royal: Decent battle royal. <br /><br />Very boring show. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />11/1/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good Orton/Cena/Barrett promo exhange. <br /><br />Heath Slater/Justin Gabriel vs. Hart Dynasty: Pretty decent match. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Vladimir Kozlov: Glorified squash. <br /><br />Ezekiel Jackson vs. Zack Ryder: Another squash. <br /><br />Pee-Wee Herman/Miz promo: Lame guest host promo exchange that made Miz vs. Big Show, AKA "Big Pee". <br /><br />Big Show vs. Miz: Not a great match. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan vs. Ted DiBiase: Decent match though it was one of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bryan</place></city>'s worst in WWE. <br /><br />Natalya vs. Michelle McCool: Pretty good women's match. <br /><br />Vince skit: Very lame skit to promote Linda's election. <br /><br />R-Truth/Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett/David Otunga: Pretty boring main event. <br /><br />Not a great show. Weak matches and the Vince skit was the perfect way to make people NOT vote for Linda. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />11/8/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Bella Twins/Eve Torres vs. Maryse/Alicia Fox/Tamina: Very bad women's match. <br /><br />Usos vs. Hart Dynasty: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Goldust vs. Ted DiBiase: Very dull match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. David Otunga: Very boring match. <br /><br />Sheamus/Santino "Tea Time with Santino" sement: Very funny segment that also made the next match. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Santino Marella: More of an angle than a match with Santino acting heelish by stalling and then lowblowing Sheamus despite being the face. <br /><br />Nexus vs. Randy Orton/Mark Henry/Daniel Bryan/R-Truth/Miz: Not a great main event. <br /><br />Very weak show heading into Old School Raw. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />12/6/10 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Good segment with Orton RKO'ing Cole. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan/Brie Bella vs. Ted DiBiase/Maryse: Not a great match. <br /><br />Tyson Kidd vs. David Hart Smith: Very disappointing match. <br /><br />Santino Marella/Vladimir Kozlov vs. Usos vs. Mark Henry/Yoshi Tatsu vs. Heath Slater/Justin Gabriel: Very boring elimination match with Santino and Kozlov winning the tag titles. <br /><br />Sheamus/Morrison segment: Pretty good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Natalya vs. Melina: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Alex Riley: Not a good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Very confusing segment. <br /><br />Not a great show. <br /><br />Score: 3.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/24/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Not bad outside of the one minute mini-Rumble where Edge eliminated McIntyre, Swagger, and Tyson Kidd all in that timeframe. <br /><br />Sheamus/Alberto Del Rio vs. John Morrison/Mark Henry: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Natalya vs. Melina: Not as good of a match as their match last month, despite the awesome sharpshooter. <br /><br />Edge vs. Miz: Very good match. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan/Bella Twins vs. Ted DiBiase/Maryse/Alicia Fox: Lasted absolutely one minute. <br /><br />Husky Harris/Michael McGillicutty vs. Santino Marella/Vladimir Kozlov: Not a great match. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Wade Barrett: Not much of a match at all as it was an angle. <br /><br />Very mediocre show with weak Rumble build. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />2/7/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Mason Ryan: Squash. <br /><br />Bella Twins vs. Eve Torres/Gail Kim: Typical rushed WWE women's match. <br /><br />John Morrison vs. Michael McGillicutty: Very dull match. <br /><br />Jerry Lawler/Daniel Bryan vs. Miz/Ted DiBiase: Not a great match though the Miz/Lawler promo before the match was good. <br /><br />Mark Henry/Sheamus segment: A segment to continue Sheamus' losing streak angle. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Santino Marella: A good match actually though it's bad booking for the Rumble winner to have a competitive match with Santino. <br /><br />John Cena vs. CM Punk: Decent main event though it was only 5 minutes. <br /><br />Not a great show as it had a lot of filler. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />2/28/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Bad opening segment with HHH destroying Sheamus in a way that made him look bad. <br /><br />Evan Bourne vs. Sheamus: SSP and it was over. <br /><br />Michael Cole promo: Bad segment where Jack Swagger was announced as his trainer at Wrestlemania. A world champion is in an announcer's corner... <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Michael McGillicutty: Long and dull match that lasted 5 minutes too long. Orton's promo at the beginning was good though. <br /><br />Miz/Cena/Riley promo: One of Cena's worst with lines about Miz owning 200 cats and 1000 pairs of jeans and how Riley locks himself in a closet and eats toilet paper and Riley saying that toilets should be nicknamed "The John". <br /><br />Divas Battle Royal: Not a great match and Brie Bella gets a title shot. <br /><br />Rock promo: Very good promo. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Alex Riley: A very bad cage match that lasts 12 minutes despite the winner being very obvious. <br /><br />Terrible show to build Wrestlemania. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />5/9/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres vs. Bella Twins: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Kane vs. Mason Ryan: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Alex Riley: Very boring match. <br /><br />Cole/Lawler segment: Very boring promo exchange. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger: Pretty solid match. <br /><br />Miz vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Alberto Del Rio: Pretty good main event with Miz becoming number one contender to the WWE title. <br /><br />Very boring show, especially in the first hour. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />5/16/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good Cena/Riley promo exchange that made the main event. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Kofi Kingston: Decent match. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly vs. Brie Bella: Very bad match. <br /><br />Rey promo: Not a great promo. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. Alberto Del Rio: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Cole/Lawler contract signing: Very bad segment. <br /><br />Big Show/Kane vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Very dull match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Jack Swagger: Pretty good No Holds Barred main event. <br /><br />VERY boring show with weak PPV build. <br /><br />Score: 5 <br /><br />6/6/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty boring segment aside from R-Truth's schtick. <br /><br />Santino Marella vs. Michael McGillicutty: Very boring match. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix/Kelly Kelly vs. Bella Twins: Very boring match. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. CM Punk: Very good match. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Del Rio</place></city> promo: Not a great promo advancing his feud with Big Show. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Zack Ryder: Decent match. <br /><br />Booker T vs. Jack Swagger: Booker's in-ring return was a rushed match in under three minutes that did nothing for anyone involved. <br /><br />John Cena/Alex Riley vs. Miz/R-Truth: Decent main event. <br /><br />Very boring show. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />6/13/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made Piper's Pit for later in the show. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Kane: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Ezekiel Jackson/Daniel Bryan/Sin Cara vs. Cody Rhodes/Wade Barrett/Ted DiBiase: Very rushed 6 man tag. <br /><br />Truth/Hornswoggle segment: Truth attacks Hornswoggle to get more heat. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Orton/Christian promo: Decent promo exchange. <br /><br />Christian vs. Rey Mysterio: Another rushed match. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. John Morrison: No match, just an angle. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler: ANOTHER rushed match. <br /><br />Piper's Pit: Okay segment that made Piper vs. Miz. <br /><br />Roddy Piper vs. Miz: Piper wins $5,000 in a VERY rushed match. <br /><br />12 Diva tag: Lasts under a minute and the faces do a Broadway dance afterwards. Ugh! <br /><br />Austin/Punk promo: Good promo exchange with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Austin</place></city> destroying the Raw GM laptop. <br /><br />John Cena vs. CM Punk: The only good match in three hours, and it's the main event! <br /><br />Okay PPV build but one good match in three hours just shouldn't happen. <br /><br />Score: 3<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6/27/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment that made the opening match. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Kane: Not much of a match as it was more of an angle. <br /><br />Evan Bourne vs. Sin Cara: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston: Pretty solid match. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Big Show: Not much of a cage match but a good angle involving Mark Henry putting Big Show through the cage. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly vs. Nikki Bella: Pretty bad submission match. <br /><br />Miz/Jack Swagger vs. Alex Riley/Rey Mysterio: Very good match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. R-Truth: Decent tables match but it was more about Punk's epic shoot promo afterwards. <br /><br />Very good show. <br /><br />Score: 8</span><br /><br /><br /><br />8/1/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good Punk/HHH promo exchange <br /><br />Divas Battle Royal: Very rushed match with Beth winning and turning heel afterwards. <br /><br />Miz/R-Truth vs. John Morrison/Rey Mysterio: Very solid match. <br /><br />Ziggler/Riley promo: Very disappointing promo exchange. <br /><br />Santino Marella/Zack Ryder vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Very dull match. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Evan Bourne: Glorified squash. <br /><br />Final segment: Pretty good with HHH making Punk/Cena at Summerslam. <br /><br />Not a terrible show but very boring and way below the standards of recent weeks. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />8/15/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: An ADR promo that made his match with Rey Mysterio and didn't feel main event caliber at all. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. John Morrison: Pretty good Falls Count Anywhere match despite no build for it. <br /><br />Miz promo: Complete filler as he promoted Subway in the ring. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres vs. Bella Twins: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Punk/Nash promo: Pretty good though Nash wasn't as good on the mic here as he was in TNA. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Alex Riley: Very bad match. <br /><br />David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty vs. Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne: Very boring match. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Rey Mysterio: Pretty good main event though Cena's promo afterwards didn't click despite it being one of his serious promos. <br /><br />Very bad show. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7/18/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment that made all the night's WWE title tournament matches. <br /><br />Miz vs. Alex Riley: Okay match at best. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. R-Truth: Okay match that was really hurt by the fact that both were heels. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Alberto Del Rio: Good match with Kofi getting the upset win. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. Dolph Ziggler: Very solid match. <br /><br />Miz vs. Kofi Kingston: Very solid match. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. R-Truth: Very good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Vince is about to fire Cena but HHH announces that the board of directors have relieved Vince of his duties and that he will take his place. <br /><br />Very good show full of good wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7/25/11 Raw <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. Miz: Very solid opening match with Rey winning the belt. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Evan Bourne: Squash. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres vs. Melina/Maryse: Not a good match. <br /><br />HHH promo: Pretty good as he reinstated JR, brought back Morrison, and gave Cena his title rematch. <br /><br />Zack Ryder vs. Michael Cole: Squash. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Kofi Kingston: Good match with ADR getting his win back. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Rey Mysterio: Cena wins the belt in a very good match and Punk returns after the match to "Cult Of Personality". Good return though it was pretty rushed. <br /><br />Decent show. <br /><br />Score: 6</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8/22/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. John Morrison: Very solid match. <br /><br />Eve Torres vs. Nikki Bella: Not a good match. <br /><br />Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger: Not as bad as last week but still bad. <br /><br />HHH/Punk/Nash promo: Very good promo exchange between the three. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Meh match. <br /><br />Miz/R-Truth promo: Very good promo. <br /><br />John Cena vs. CM Punk: Very good main event. <br /><br />Solid show. <br /><br />Score: 7</span> <br />8/29/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Punk/HHH/Nash promo exchange. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Randy Orton: Very solid match. <br /><br />Cena/Henry/Christian promo: Very mediocre promo exchange because of Cena's schtick. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Miz: Very solid match. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Sin Cara: Very disappointing match. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston/Evan Bourne vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Not a great match. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly vs. Brie Bella: Not a good natch. <br /><br />Mark Henry/Christian vs. Sheamus/John Cena: Solid main event. <br /><br />A very "meh" show for the first show of the Raw supershow era. <br /><br />Score: 5 <br /><br />9/5/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good despite Nash revealing that he sent the text to himself. <br /><br />Air Boom vs. Jinder Mahal/Great Khali: Very dull match with an obvious outcome. <br /><br />Beth Phoenix vs. Eve Torres: Not a great match. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. R-Truth: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Jerry Lawler/Zack Ryder vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Bad match that served the purpose of burying the heels. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Heath Slater: Very pointless squash match. <br /><br />John Cena/John Morrison/Sheamus/Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler/Christian/Wade Barrett: Very good main event. <br /><br />Not a great show... weak matches for the most part and very weak PPV build. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />9/12/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Not great as it made Cena/Bret vs. ADR/Ricardo for later. <br /><br />John Morrison/Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler: Very rushed match. <br /><br />Miz vs. Kofi Kingston: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Sheamus/Jerry Lawler vs. David Otunga/Michael McGillicutty: Very bad match. <br /><br />John Cena/Bret Hart vs. Alberto Del Rio/Ricardo Rodriguez: A complete nothing match. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly vs. Vickie Guerrero: A bad and pointless match. <br /><br />Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton: Pretty good match with Cody winning. <br /><br />Final segment: A very good Punk/HHH promo although it was VERY shooty. <br /><br />Weak matches for the most part and weak NOC build. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/3/11 Raw <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre: Pretty good match despite the obvious outcome. <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. John Morrison: Squash. <br /><br />Del Rio/Christian/Rhodes/Ziggler/Swagger/Vickie/Otunga/HHH Promo: An okay segment though it didn't really advance the conspiracy angle. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres vs. Beth Phoenix/Natalya: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Santino Marella vs. Jinder Mahal: An absolute filler squash. <br /><br />CM Punk/John Cena/Sheamus/Mason Ryan/Evan Bourne/Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler/Cody Rhodes/Christian/David Otunga/Alberto Del Rio: Very good match. <br /><br />Final segment: HHH is in the ring with the entire WWE roster surrounding the ring, and all give him a vote of no confidence and walk out on him. Very interesting segment. <br /><br />Outside of the awesome final 30 minutes most of this show was complete filler. <br /><br />Score: 5<br /><br />10/10/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good opening segment that made the next match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Sheamus: Very rushed match that was interrupted by Vince, who announed that John Laurinatis was the new Raw GM. <br /><br />Christian vs. John Morrison: Absolute squash. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry: Not a great match until Cody interfered and put a bag over Orton's head. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres vs. Rosa Mendes/Tamina: Very bad women's match. JR was fired after the match by Laurinaitis. <br /><br />Air Boom/Mason Ryan vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler/David Otunga: Very average match with Ryan pinning Ziggler. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio: Decent match until it was turned into a tag match by Laurinaitis for no reason. <br /><br />CM Punk/Alberto Del Rio vs. Miz/R-Truth: Underwhelming return for Miz and R-Truth and the match wasn't very good either. <br /><br />Very rushed show with bad matches and questionable booking. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />10/24/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Lasted half an hour and wasn't very good with HHH and Nash in the main angle. <br /><br />Sheamus/Randy Orton vs. Christian/Cody Rhodes: Very solid match. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Punk/ADR/Laurinaitis promo: Punk was good in this though becoming #1 contender despite no major wins recently didn't click with me. <br /><br />Natalya vs. Alicia Fox: Very weak match with Fox winning. <br /><br />Wade Barrett vs. John Morrison: Very long and dull filler match. <br /><br />Michael Cole promo: Cole shows doctored photos of JR on the titantron and announces that he'll face JR next week and if he loses he'll quit. Ugh... <br /><br />John Cena vs. Miz/R-Truth: More of an angle than a match and Cena announces Rock as his tag partner for Survivor Series. <br /><br />Very poor show coming off interesting storyline developments at Vengeance. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />10/31/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Rock/Cena promo exchange. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Mark Henry: Not a great match. <br /><br />Muppets/Vickie segment: Good promo exchange. <br /><br />Divas Battle Royal: Not a great match. <br /><br />Wade Barrett/Cody Rhodes vs. Air Boom: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Alberto Del Rio: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Santino Marella vs. Jack Swagger: Not a great match. <br /><br />Zack Ryder vs. Dolph Ziggler: Pretty good match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Miz: Dull match, bad booking in Cena handling Miz and R-Truth by himself. <br /><br />Not a great show. Score: 4 <br /><br />11/14/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very bad Michael Cole challenge that involved JR dancing. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston/Sin Cara vs. Cody Rhodes/Hunico: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Mason Ryan vs. Dolph Ziggler: Really bad two minute match. <br /><br />This Is Your Life John Cena: A very disappointing way to bring back Foley. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Jack Swagger: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly vs. Natalya: This match lasted less than a minute. <br /><br />Big Show/CM Punk vs. Mark Henry/Alberto Del Rio: Very dull match. <br /><br />Nash/Santino segment: Complete filler segment. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett: Decent three minute match. <br /><br />Rock/Cena/Awesome Truth segment: Very good promo exchange outside of the Twitter references. <br /><br />For a show that featured both Rock and Foley, this show was very bad. Very little good wrestling and a very poorly paced show. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/5/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Good promo exchange that made most of the show's matches. <br /><br />Miz vs. Randy Orton: Decent match with Miz advancing to TLC. <br /><br />Alberto Del Rio vs. Daniel Bryan: ADR advances to TLC, but in a squash match. Storyline injury or not, <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bryan</place></city> deserved better. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Alicia Fox vs. Divas Of Doom: One minute match. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Zack Ryder: Decent match with Cena advancing to TLC. <br /><br />Zack Ryder vs. Mark Henry: Nothing match with Ryder becoming #1 contender to the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> title after Cena gave Henry the AA. Badly booked as both Ryder and Henry looked weak. Ryder beating Cena would have been stronger booking as it would have put Ryder over and fit into the angle with Cena's boos getting the better of him. <br /><br />Kevin Nash vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler: Decent match. <br /><br />Contract signing: Very good segment. <br /><br />Average leaning towards mediocre show. The Smackdown champ should never be used to put over people in matches that have nothing to do with his storyline. <br /><br />Score: 5.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/12/11 Raw </div><br />Opening segment: Very bad Cole/JR rapoff. This was time that should have been spent on guys who actually have a future in the ring. <br /><br />Slammy 1: Big Show accepts the "holy s***" award for the second ring collapse at Vengeance. <br /><br />Big Show vs. Wade Barrett: Not much of a match. <br /><br />Slammy 2: Punk won the "Pipe Bomb of the Year" award and gives a funny tribute to Johnny Ace. <br /><br />Slammy 3: Kelly won "Diva of the Year" until Beth takes it from her, and Kelly took it right back after slapping her. Bad segment that made the Divas of Doom look very weak. <br /><br />Slammy 4: HHH won "OMG moment of the year" and cut a promo saying that he ended Undertaker's streak when it actually didn't happen. <br /><br />Slammy 5: Otunga and Tony Atlas have a bad segment that makes a match for the "Trending Superstar Of The Year" award. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Zack Ryder: Good match with Dolph winning the award. <br /><br />Slammy 6: Cena wins "Game Changer of the Year" award and cuts a good promo on The Rock. <br /><br />Randy Orton/CM Punk vs. Miz/Alberto Del Rio: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Slammy 7: Snooki won the "A-Lister of the Year" award. Yawn. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Jinder Mahal: No match but a complete filler segent. <br /><br />Slammy 8: Punk wins "Superstar of the Year" but Laurinaitis accepts it on his behalf. <br /><br />Mark Henry vs. John Cena: Bad match but a good Kane return. <br /><br />Very mediocre show. With all the awards the PPV build wasn't what it should be and the wrestling was at the bare minimum. <br /><br />Score: 4<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/19/11 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment that mad the main event and put over Punk, Bryan, and Ryder. <br /><br />Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Alicia Fox vs. Beth Phoenix: Squash... in Alicia's favor. Yeah... <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Jinder Mahal: Squash. <br /><br />Cena/Henry/Kane segment: Good promo exchange until Kane comes out and rips off Cena's shirt. <br /><br />Primo/Epico vs. Usos: Good match. <br /><br />Cody Rhodes vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Miz/Alberto Del Rio/Dolph Ziggler vs. CM Punk/Daniel Bryan/Zack Ryder: Great match with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bryan</place></city> making ADR tap. <br /><br />A good feel good show. <br /><br />Score: 7</div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/2/12 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: The typical Cena promo, and it still gave no reason as to why Cena and Kane were feuding. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan vs. Cody Rhodes: Decent match though WAY too short. <br /><br />Wade Barrett vs. Santino Marella: Squash. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Miz: No match as it was just advancement for Truth/Miz. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Dolph Ziggler: Very good match. <br /><br />Bella Twins vs. Kelly Kelly/Eve Torres: Bad match. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> debut: Very disappointing and boring as he just played to the crowd and left. <br /><br />John Cena/Zack Ryder/Big Show vs. Mark Henry/Jack Swagger: Not a great main event and it had a very B-movie ending with Kane dragging Ryder under the ring, Cena saving Ryder, and flames coming up from the hole in the ring. <br /><br />Not a great show, as the match quality was lacking and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city>'s long awaited return was a disappointment. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />1/9/12 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: A decent Kane promo. <br /><br />Sheamus/Santino Marella vs. Jinder Mahal/Wade Barrett: Very dull match. <br /><br />Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan: Very disappointing match as it was a squash but <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bryan</place></city>'s promo exchange with Big Show afterwards was good. <br /><br />Brodus Clay vs. Curt Hawkins: Squash. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Jack Swagger: Easily the best match of the show. <br /><br />Truth/Ricardo segment: Very awkward segment that had Truth come off as heelish despite clearly being a face last week. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> segment: He just came out and cried, nothing more. <br /><br />Eve Torres vs. Beth Phoenix: Never happened as Kane's music hit, Ryder came out to save Eve, only to find out that his tire was flat. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler: A main event that was a complete backdrop to Kane stalking Ryder and Eve. <br /><br />A very poorly paced show with very little making sense and lacked in good wrestling aside from Punk/Swagger. <br /><br />Score: 2 </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"> </span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/16/12 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: A very good Punk/Ziggler/Foley promo exchange. <br /><br />Air Boom vs. Primo/Epico: Decent tag title match with Primo/Epico retaining. <br /><br />Jack Swagger vs. Zack Ryder: This was more of an angle but it was a very good one with Swagger winning the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region> title. <br /><br />Kelly Kelly/Alicia Fox vs. Bella Twins: Complete nothing match. <br /><br />Truth/Barrett segment: Very funny promo exchange between them. <br /><br />John Cena vs. Jack Swagger: Cena destroys Swagger for hurting Ryder. Swagger looked VERY weak here. <br /><br />Brodus Clay vs. JTG: Squash. <br /><br />Daniel Bryan/CM Punk/Chris Jericho vs. David Otunga/Mark Henry/Dolph Ziggler: Decent match though badly booked with Foley, who wasn't involved in the match, getting the win over Otunga, who looked out of place compared to everybody else in the match. Laurinaitis rightfully reverses the decision, which leads into an awesome Punk/Foley/Laurinaitis promo exchange. <br /><br />Decent show at best. First hour was better than the second. <br /><br />Score: 6</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/23/12 Raw <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Punk/Cena promo exchange. <br /><br />CM Punk/John Cena vs. Jack Swagger/Dolph Ziggler: Solid tag match. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> segment: Good promo from him where he FINALLY speaks. <br /><br />Kane vs. Zack Ryder: More of a beatdown angle than a match, but it was a very good one. <br /><br />Sheamus vs. Jinder Mahal: Squash. <br /><br />Brodus Clay vs. Heath Slater: Squash. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Miz: Good match with Miz becoming the #1 entry into the Rumble because he lost. <br /><br />Final segment: Very good segment with Punk giving Laurinaitis the GTS. <br /><br />Very good show. <br /><br />Score: 7.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/30/12 Raw</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Opening segment: Solid segment that announced the participants in the Elimination Chamber.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Randy Orton vs. Dolph Ziggler: Very good match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Brodus Clay vs. Tyler Reks: Squash.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan: Amazing match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Kofi Kingston vs. Miz: Decent match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Beth Phoenix vs. Eve Torres: Squash. Cena gives a good beatdown on Kane after the match though.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Final segment: Before HHH is about to fire John Laurinaitis, the Undertaker appears. Good segment.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Very good show with two very good matches.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Score: 8</div><br /><span style="color: black;">2/6/12 Raw</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Opening segment: Very good HHH promo about his WM match with Undertaker.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Daniel Bryan vs. Big Show: Not a great match but a good <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bryan</place></city> promo after the match.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Sheamus vs. David Otunga: Squash.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="color: black;"> </span></place></city><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="color: black;">Jericho</span></place></city><span style="color: black;"> promo: Very good promo where he explained why he's the real best in the world.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Wade Barrett/Cody Rhodes vs. Great Khali/Randy Orton: Bad match with Khali pinning Cody.</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Eve Torres/Alicia Fox/Tamina/Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix/Natalya/Bella Twins: Typical one minute women's match.<br /><br /> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">R-Truth vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Chris Jericho vs. The Miz vs. CM Punk<b>: </b>Okay main event with <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> becoming the last EC entrant.<b> </b> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Not a great show. Outside of the promos, not much in terms of good matches and loads of video packages, as well as a very bad pre-taped skit with Kane and Eve to close the show. <br /><br />Score: 3.5</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">2/27/12 Raw</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Opening segment: Very good Jericho/Punk promo exchange.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan: Pretty good match.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Kelly Kelly vs. Nikki Bella: Filler match that lasted less than one minute.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Miz vs. John Cena: Very average match.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Primi/Epico vs. Kofi Kingston/R-Truth vs. Dolph Ziggler/Jack Swagger: Good tag title match with the champs retaining until Kane chokeslammed one member of each team. Bad booking.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Eve promo: Unfortunately one of her worst a she's usually pretty good on the mic.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Rock/Cena promo: Like the last segment, this was one of Rock's worst promos.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;">After the first half hour or so, this show wasn't good.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Score: 4</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/1/05 Impact <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Roderick Strong: While the winner was obvious, the match was pretty good and a good way to introduce AJ to any new fans watching. <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Lex Lovett: This was a complete squash but a solid way of introducing Monty to new fans. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Alex Shelley vs. Petey Williams: A really solid TV match here. Showcased the abilities of all three guys and was the match of the night. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Rhino: This... wasn't a good match though it did do a good job of building up the Hardy/Sabu/Abyss/Rhino stuff leading to a Monster's Ball at BFG that year. <br /><br />Final segment: This was really good as it introduced a good chunk of the tag division in AMW, 3 Live Kru, Team Canada, and the debuting Team 3D, and Jarrett's challenger for BFG was announced in Kevin Nash. <br /><br />This show wasn't anything outstanding but it did its job of introducing a large chunk of guys to the TNA audience, the Styles/Strong and X Division 3 way were good matches, and the final segment was really good. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />10/8/05 Impact <br /><br />3 Live Kru vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: This match was a very solid formula tag match and showcased the abilities of the two teams. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Matt Bentley vs. Austin Aries: Another really solid X Division three way. Introduced Daniels, Bentley, and Aries and showcased their abilities to the fans. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Sonny Siaki: Just a squash that showcased Abyss' power moves. <br /><br />Zbyszko's announcement: Tito Ortiz is announced as the guest referee for Angle/Nash at BFG. This was a good segment to build heat between Jarrett and Nash. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Solid tag team main event here that was booked well (AMW turned heel and 3D just debuted so neither could afford a loss) and introduced the debuting Gail Kim as the valet of Jarrett and AMW. <br /><br />This was a stronger show than last week as this one featured more storyline progression rather than just introductions and the wrestling was a bit better too. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />10/15/05 Impact <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Jerrelle Clark/Mikey Batts: Typical Monty Brown squash match. Nothing more. <br /><br />Matt Bentley vs. David Young: Really solid match between these two. Bentley was very underrated in my opinion. <br /><br />3D funeral segment: In this segment, the references like "Paul and Stephanie" were on a piece of paper, whereas in the skits in the Dusty Rhodes guest host episode of Raw they were spoken by DX. This worked because it was all subtle and the heels in attendance all did a GREAT job. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Sabu: Very decent match here and the stuff after the match created more tension heading into the Monster's Ball. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels X Division challenge: A convincing win over Shark Boy (jobber), a very solid and competitive match against Sonjay Dutt (X Division midcarder), and barely survived AJ Styles at the end. Good match that was VERY well booked. <br /><br />Another really good Impact on Spike. Matches were good as was the entertainment and booking. Only low point was the opening squash. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />10/22/05 Impact <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Elix Skipper: While the winner was obvious this was a good way to introduce Joe to the fans and showcase his abilities. Decent match. <br /><br />Naturals vs. America's Most Wanted: A really good match and despite there being a lot of interference, it all added to the match and was a great way to get AMW over as heels as they were faces for pretty much their entire TNA careers before the last few months of 2005. A clean finish wouldn't have worked that good in this case. <br /><br />Ron Killings vs. Bobby Roode: A very solid midcard match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Jeff Hardy/Lance Hoyt vs. Abyss/Jeff Jarrett/Monty Brown: Very good main event that hyped up multiple BFG matches. <br /><br />A very good go-home episode of Impact here. The matches were good as was the booking and every match was built up in some way. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />10/29/05 Impact <br /><br />Abyss vs. Lance Hoyt: Really good match between two big man wrestlers. It's a shame how both of these guys have declined the last few years... Hoyt can do a Van Terminator but if you've only seen his stuff from 2007-present you wouldn't know that. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Jerelle Clark: Pretty solid X Division match. <br /><br />Sonjay Dutt/AJ Styles vs. Alex Shelley/Roderick Strong: Really good X Division tag and best match of the night. Full of the usual spots that made the X Division so popular back in the day. <br /><br />3 Live Kru vs. <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">America</country-region></place>'s Most Wanted: Pretty solid tag match though not at the level of the previous match. <br /><br />Final segment: A good segment to build the Team 3D/AMW feud. <br /><br />This show was as good as the previous week and better in some aspects, such as the finishes. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />11/3/05 Impact <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Lance Hoyt/Sabu vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Solid opener for TNA's first ever two hour Impact. <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Brian Gamble: Typical Impact squash match. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels/Alex Shelley/Samoa Joe vs. Sonjay Dutt/AJ Styles/Austin Aries: Excellent X Division match filled with all of the wrestlers' usual spots at the time. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Team <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region></place>: Very decent match. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Matt Bentley vs. Petey Williams Ultimate X match: Not as good as the Ultimate X matches on PPV but still really good nonetheless. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Jeff Jarrett: While the end with Jarrett winning back the NWA title wasn't good, the match itself was good however. <br /><br />Very good show for the first ever two hour TNA Impact. The show served its purpose of showcasing the talent on the roster, especially in the X Division, and both X Division matches delivered big time. <br /><br />Score: 8.5 <br /><br />12/17/05 Impact <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Jay Lethal: A pretty good opener that continued Joe's undefeated streak and Lethal got more offense on Joe than most did back then. <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Matt Bentley: Another solid X Division match that also featured Shannon Moore on top of a balcony holding a sign that said "the X Division needs to get punk'd". That's more focus on him than he ever got in his second WWE run I think. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Joe Doering: Typical Impact squash match and Rhino cut a promo on Jarrett after the match. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Pretty decent formula tag match here despite the obvious outcome. <br /><br />Final segment: Pretty good with Jarrett/AMW aligning themselves with Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>, Abyss, and Monty Brown and the continuation of the slow build to Sting's return. <br /><br />Very strong episode of Impact as it set up a lot of storylines and the wrestling was pretty good. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />12/24/05 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good Christmas-based skit involving Christian (imitating Jeff Jarrett), Bentley (as Santa Claus), and Traci. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Eric Young: Very solid match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Chris Sabin: Another solid match that was better than the previous match even. <br /><br />Ron Killings vs. Kenny King: Typical Impact squash match. <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Chris Harris: Very good Impact main event. <br /><br />This show didn't have much in the way of storyline progression, but this show was on Christmas Eve so that's understandable. A lot of good wrestling on this show and an entertaining opening segment makes this a good show. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />12/31/05 Impact <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett/Monty Brown vs. Kenny King/Shark Boy: This was obviously a squash match but it was actually pretty entertaining... better than most Impact squashes. <br /><br />Rhino vs. A1: Another squash match though this was pretty much the same Rhino squash as all the others. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Roderick Strong: Decent match that only served to advance Joe's undefeated streak. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. James Storm: Very good main event here. <br /><br />This was pretty storyline heavy in that the Jarrett/Jackie Gayda storyline advanced and Homicide debuted forming LAX with Konnan and Apolo (for those who don't know, it started out with those three, then Machete was the third guy shortly after due to Apolo leaving for a reason I don't remember, then Hernandez debuted in around April 2006 and LAX finally started to click) attacking Bullet Bob, but that doesn't mean it was a bad show. And the wrestling was pretty good in the final 30 minutes. <br /><br />Score: 7 <br /><br />2/4/06 Impact <br /><br />Team 3D promo: They announce that the fans voted for them to face Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> at Against All odds. Works for me… <br /><br />Rhino vs. Kenny King: Your typical Impact squash. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Jay Lethal: Good match and AJ put over Lethal really well here. <br /><br />Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: Good match and Sabin and Sonjay advance in the tag tournament. <br /><br />LAX vs. Frankie Capone/Rod Steele/Bruce Steele: Typical Impact squash. <br /><br />AAO press conference: A good way to build up Jarrett/Christian for AAO. <br /><br />Naturals vs. Austin Aries/Roderick Strong: A solid main event to finish the show and Aries and Strong advance. <br /><br />A really good angle-based show and the wrestling wasn’t bad either. This show also featured the classic line “Sting’s not gone!”. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />2/11/06 Impact <br /><br />Austin/Aries Roderick Strong vs. Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt: really good opening match and Sabin and Dutt advance to face AMW at AAO. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Diamonds In The Rough: No match though this was great AAO hype as AMW cut a promo on 3D before the match even began and allowed Team <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region></place> to attack them from behind. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Jay Lethal vs. Chasyn Rance: While the winner was obvious this match was pretty good. <br /><br />Abyss/Monty Brown vs. Rhino/Ron Killings: Pretty solid main event. <br /><br />A really good show in the wrestling and PPV build. No complaints whatsoever. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />2/18/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment involving Christian and the #1 contender Monty Brown. It is announced that they'll wrestle for the NWA title at Destination X. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Shannon Moore vs. Roderick Strong: A pretty solid X Division match. <br /><br />LAX vs. La Migre: Squash match. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Austin Aries: Pretty good match until Joe ran in for the DQ and Styles saved Daniels from another musclebuster on a chair. <br /><br />Team 3D/Ron Killings vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: Pretty good main event. <br /><br />This show had a lot of good wrestling and good storyline progression in regards to Christian/Monty, Joe/Styles/Daniels, and the Jarrett/Jackie stuff through backstage skits. Good show. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />2/25/06 Impact <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Dylan Knight: Typical Impact squash match. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Roderick Strong: Very solid X Division match. <br /><br />Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> vs. James Gang: Not a great match and advanced the LAX/James Gang feud. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Shark Boy: Pretty solid match. <br /><br />Rhino/Ron Killings vs. <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">America</country-region></place>’s Most Wanted: Pretty good main event match. <br /><br />Final segment: Shelley video tapes Sting and his family… very entertaining and a really good cliffhanger to end the show. <br /><br />This show had good angle development, good entertainment in the Gail/Jackie backstage skits, and good wrestling as well. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />3/4/06 Impact <br /><br />Abyss/America's Most Wanted/Jeff Jarrett vs. Shark Boy/Cassidy Riley/Norman Smiley/Buck Quartermain: This was obviously a squash match but it was actually pretty entertaining due to the beatdown before the match on the outside. <br /><br />Lance Hoyt vs. Kenny King: Another squash, only this one wasn't as entertaining. <br /><br />LAX/James Gang segment: LAX attacks BG James until Kip makes the save. Wasn't a bad segment. <br /><br />Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> vs. Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt/Jay Lethal: Pretty decent match where Eric Young keeps a video tape hidden in his tights throughout the match until Jarrett takes the tape away from Young. <br /><br />Monty/Christian segment: Good build for the Destination X title match with Monty pouncing Christian off the stage. <br /><br />Video Viewing Party: Really entertaining segment most notable for the heels' facial expressions and the classic line "Steve Borden is coming to TNA!". <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe/Shannon Moore: Pretty good match to finish the show and AJ hangs the X Division title and hangs it on top of the Ultimate X platform to show Joe what he'll have to do to retain his title at Destination X. <br /><br />While the first 30 minutes didn't have the best wrestling, the storyline progression and entertainment was solid throughout and the match quality got better in the final 30 minutes. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />3/11/06 Impact <br /><br />Naturals vs. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Their usual good match. The dirty finish also made Naturals vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> at Destination X which is fine. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Alex Shelley vs. Sonjay Dutt: Really good match and Sabin qualifies for Team TNA in the X Cup and will compete in International X tomorrow night. <br /><br />Christian/Monty interview: Pretty good build for their Destination X match. <br /><br />Diamonds in the Rough/Shannon Moore/Matt Bentley vs. Rhino/Ron Killings/Team 3D: Good match even if the winners were obvious. <br /><br />Very good Impact… lots of good wrestling and decent storyline progression with no bad parts. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />3/18/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty boring. I was REALLY skeptical of Steiner being in TNA due to his bad attitude problems in WCW and declining workrate. <br /><br />Matt Bentley vs. Elix Skipper vs. Sonjay Dutt: Decent match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Cassidy Riley: Squash! <br /><br />LAX vs. Shark Boy/Norman Smiley: Bad match with questionable booking in the babyfaces winning. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/Ron Killings/Rhino vs. America's Most Wanted/Alex Shelley/Shannon Moore: Decent match though Shannon really felt out of place with everybody else and I'm wondering if he regrets going back to WWE to job again, seeing as how this was his last TNA match. <br /><br />Not a great show. Nothing really happened at all and the wrestling was pretty substandard. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />3/25/06 Impact <br /><br />Joe/Sabu segment: Really good and Joe’s opponent for Lockdown is obviously Sabu. <br /><br />Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt/Jay Lethal vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Good match. <br /><br />Sting interview: Really good. <br /><br />Naturals vs. ???: Steiner and Jarrett attack them before their match... awesome. <br /><br />LAX/James Gang segment: While the feud itself wasn't good this segment wasn't bad although this booked an arm wrestling match between Konnan and Bullet Bob in two weeks. What? <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Team <country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region> cage match: Great match and an entertaining aftermath with 3D being beat down by Team <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region></place> and TC singing the Canadian national anthem. <br /><br />Really good show. Lots of very good storyline progression and the wrestling we got was pretty good. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />4/1/06 Impact <br /><br />Team 3D/Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> segment: Really good. <br /><br />James Gang vs. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Decent match because AMW carried it. <br /><br />Abyss segment: Footage airs of him attacking Christian at his house. Awesome segment. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Alex Shelley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Chris Sabin: Good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Another awesome segment that hyped Lethal Lockdown with all the faces appearing in the audience. <br /><br />Awesome show. Not the greatest wrestling show (what we got was still pretty good) but the angle progression was top notch. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/8/06 Impact <br /><br />Abyss vs. AJ Styles: Pretty good match to open Impact. <br /><br />Team 3D promo: Wasn't bad and advanced their feud with Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> very well. <br /><br />Konnan/Bullet Bob arm wrestling: Lame! <br /><br />Shark Boy/Norman Smiley vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Oh wait, it was another awesome Jarrett/Steiner attack. <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Chase Stevens vs. Roderick Strong: Good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Not Sting's best promo but it wasn't bad either. <br /><br />Decent show. Solid wrestling and good PPV build. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />4/13/06 Impact <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Christopher Daniels: Very good opener and Joe wins back his X Division title. <br /><br /><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted vs. Team 3D: Very good match with a lot of brawling in the crowd. <br /><br />Sting vs. Eric Young: Not as good as the other two matches but still a pretty decent main event. <br /><br />A MOTY candidate as the opener and nothing bad generates a perfect score. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/20/06 Impact <br /><br />Team <country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region> vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">USA</place></country-region>: Good match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Rhino/Ron Killings vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Decent match. <br /><br />Abyss/Christian segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett/America's Most Wanted vs. Team 3D/Brother Runt: Solid match but overbooked a bit. <br /><br />Solid show. A good go-home episode that delivered in terms of PPV build and quality wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/27/06 Impact <br /><br />Abyss vs. Rhino: Pretty good opener which started a feud between Rhino and Bobby Roode and the Abyss/Christian feud continues as well. <br /><br />Team <country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region> vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">USA</place></country-region>: Really good X Cup match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Jay Lethal: Another really good X Division match. <br /><br />Final segment: Jarrett and Steiner are in the ring and Sting brings out Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger as possible mystery partners for him at Sacrifice... and they aren't. A good way to build the main event at Sacrifice. <br /><br />Good action and solid storyline progression makes for a good show. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />5/4/06 Impact <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Good opening match that started a feud between the two teams. <br /><br />Team <country-region w:st="on">Mexico</country-region> vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: A pretty good X Cup match. <br /><br />Jarrett/Steiner/Sting segment: Pretty much the same as last week as Sting brought out Rick Steiner this time. <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Alex Shelley: Pretty good main event. <br /><br />A similar show to last week... good matches and solid storyline progression with no bad parts. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />5/11/06 Impact <br /><br />Team 3D/James Gang segment: Very good and hyped up their match at Sacrifice very well. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Puma: Really good X Cup match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Chase Stevens: Typical Impact squash match. <br /><br />Jarrett/Steiner/Sting segment: The same as the last two weeks except Sting announces Samoa Joe as his partner. Awesome. <br /><br /><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>’s Most Wanted/Bobby Roode vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/Rhino: Really good main event. <br /><br />A very strong episode of Impact that built up all the PPV matches really well and had decent wrestling too. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/18/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment to build the KOTM match and the qualifying matches. <br /><br />Petey Williams vs. Chris Sabin: Good match in which Team USA won the X Cup and the Sabin/Nash feud started afterwards. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Chase Stevens: Typical Joe squash match pretty much and the Joe/Steiner feud starts afterwards. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Abyss: A solid KOTM qualifying main event with Abyss winning. <br /><br />A solid episode of Impact to start the Slammiversary build. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/25/06 Impact <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Shark Boy vs. Senshi vs. Jay Lethal: Pretty good match and Nash powerbombs Lethal after he got pinned. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Pretty good match where AMW costs Styles and Daniels the match. <br /><br />James Gang segment: They cut a VERY funny parody of Team 3D. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. Andy Douglas: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Ron Killings vs. Monty Brown: Really solid main event and Killings qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />A great show here... good wrestling and angle development all around and no bad parts whatsoever. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />6/1/06 Impact <br /><br /><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted vs. Naturals: Pretty good match to start the show. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Alex Shelley: Solid X Division match and it advanced the storyline with Sabin and Nash. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett vs. Raven: Very good main event with lots of awesome brawling in the crowd. Jarrett qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />Very good wrestling-based show. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />6/8/06 Impact <br /><br />Sting vs. Scott Steiner: Average KOTM qualifier with Sting qualifying for KOTM via DQ. <br /><br />Steiner/Joe segment: An excellent segment to continue the build to their Slammiversary match. <br /><br />Sonjay Dutt vs. Jerrelle Clark: Solid X Division match. <br /><br />Chris Sabin/James Gang vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: Very solid main event. <br /><br />Another good show to build to Slammiversary. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />6/15/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Christian promo to build up KOTM. <br /><br />Diamonds In The Rough vs. Naturals: Decent match, better Shane Douglas promo afterwards. <br /><br />Kevin Nash vs. Mr. X: Very good comedy match to build Nash vs. Sabin. <br /><br /><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted/Monty Brown/Bobby Roode vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/Raven/Rhino: Very solid main event. <br /><br />A very good go home episode of Impact. A bit more quality wrestling would have been better though. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6/22/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Diamonds In The Rough: Decent match. <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Chasyn Rance: Squash! <br /><br />Team 3D/James Gang segment: It was full of "Yo mama" jokes but both teams' charisma made it work. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Senshi vs. Sonjay Dutt: Great X Division title match that was very well booked. <br /><br />Really good show. Great wrestling and PPV build all around. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />6/29/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Jay Lethal/Chris Sabin vs. Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region>: Good match. <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Norman Smiley: Squash! <br /><br />Team 3D vs. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Great match as it was their usual hardcore brawl. <br /><br />Final segment: Really good and made a bunch of matches for <street w:st="on">Victory Road</street>. <br /><br />Good show. Good wrestling and PPV build throughout, just like last week. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />7/6/06 Impact <br /><br />Sonjay Dutt vs. Homicide: solid match. <br /><br />Eric Young segment: Decent at best. <br /><br />Monty Brown vs. Kenny King: Squash! <br /><br />Paparazzi segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Christian Cage/Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett/Scott Steiner: Solid main event. <br /><br />Solid show. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />7/13/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Rhino sets the ECW title on fire... pretty good segment. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Norman Smiley: Squash! <br /><br />Senshi vs. Jerrelle Clark: Decent match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Paparazzi: Decent match, nothing special. <br /><br />Team 3D/Jay Lethal vs. Team <country-region w:st="on">Canada</country-region>: Good match and Team <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region> has to disband. <br /><br />Good show. Good wrestling and PPV build. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />7/20/06 Impact <br /><br />Naturals vs. Kazarian/Maverick Matt: Decent match. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Robert Adams: Squash! <br /><br />Styles/Daniels/LAX segment: AWESOME segment. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett vs. Jay Lethal: Good match. <br /><br />Good show. Only the squash was a low point. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />8/10/06 Impact <br /><br />Joe/Monty/Rhino segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Kevin Nash/Paparazzi vs. Chris Sabin/Jay Lethal: Decent match. <br /><br />Homicide vs. Christopher Daniels: Good match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Shark Boy: Squash! <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Scott Steiner: Decent match. <br /><br />Solid show. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />8/17/06 Impact <br /><br />LAX/Styles/Daniels segment: Very good. <br /><br />Petey Williams/Paparazzi vs. Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt/Jay Lethal: Good match. <br /><br />Chris Harris vs. Kazarian vs. Chase Stevens vs. BG James: Good match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Ron Killings: good match. <br /><br />Solid show. Not one bad part throughout the show. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />8/24/06 Impact <br /><br />Paparazzi vs. Naturals: Good match. <br /><br />Christian/Rhino segment: Really good segment. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Cassidy Riley: Squash! <br /><br />LAX vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels: Great match. <br /><br />Good show. Lots of solid wrestling and storyline progression. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/12/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good involving Joe and Christian that made the main event. <br /><br />Styles/Daniels/LAX segment: Good segment. <br /><br />Senshi/Petey Williams/Paparazzi vs. Chris Sabin/Sonjay Dutt/Jay Lethal/Shark Boy: Decent match. <br /><br />Diamonds In The Rough vs. Ron Killings/Lance Hoyt: Decent match. <br /><br />Angle interview: Really solid. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Christian Cage: No referee but it was an entertaining fight. <br /><br />Solid show. Solid wrestling and great BFG build. <br /><br />Score: 10</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/19/06 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment to build the Monster’s Ball match. <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Norman Smiley: Squash! <br /><br />Senshi vs. Jay Lethal: Solid match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/James Gang vs. LAX/<country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>'s Most Wanted: Solid match and the stuff after the match with Gail taking the Border Toss gives it a slight boost. <br /><br />Angle/Joe segment: Awesome segment. <br /><br />Good show. Great BFG build and decent wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3/15/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Kaz vs. Jerry Lynn: Good match. <br /><br />LAX/Alex Shelley vs. Team 3D/Brother Runt: Good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Pretty good and made a match for next week. <br /><br />Good show. The build to Lockdown was off to a good start and the wrestling was good. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />3/22/07 Impact <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Samoa Joe/Rhino vs. Serotonin: Decent match and great promo from the babyfaces afterward. <br /><br />Austin Starr vs. Eric Young: Solid match. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Jerry Lynn: No match but two brawls broke out as a result. <br /><br />Christian Cage/AJ Styles vs/ Sting/Abyss: Good match. <br /><br />Good show. The wrestling was good and the Lockdown build remained solid. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />3/29/07 Impact <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Petey Williams vs. Shark Boy vs. Jerry Lynn vs. Austin Starr: Good Xscape match. <br /><br />Christian segment: Steiner's member 3 and Abyss is member 4 but Tomko isn't sure. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Eric Young: Solid match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Abyss: Good match and Tomko swerves Angle by being member 5 of Team Cage. <br /><br />Good show. The same as the last two weeks pretty much. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/5/07 Impact <br /><br />Rhino vs. Tomko: <street w:st="on"></street> <br /><address w:st="on">Solid street</address>fight. <br /><br />VKM vs. LAX: Bad match. <br /><br />Senshi vs. Austin Starr: Decent submission match. <br /><br />Final segment: The whole locker room's at ringside and Cornette makes a bunch of PPV matches. Pretty good segment to close the show. <br /><br />Decent show. Not as good as last week but the storylines still clicked and the wrestling was good for the most part. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />4/12/07 Impact <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Chris Sabin: Solid match. <br /><br />Robert Roode/Jackie Moore vs. Petey Williams/Gail Kim: Good match. <br /><br />LAX/3D segment: Brother Runt gets shot with a taser and it looked REALLY bad. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles: Really good match. <br /><br />Solid show. Good PPV build and the wrestling was very good. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />4/19/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles vs. Rhino: Good match. <br /><br />Chris Harris vs. Robert Roode: Solid match. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Christian Cage/Abyss: Good match. <br /><br />Final segment: Abyss turns face with a VERY bloody beatdown. <br /><br />Very good show. Very well booked and the wrestling wasn’t bad. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />4/26/07 Impact <br /><br />Sting vs. Kurt Angle: Decent match BUT they blew a money match on Impact and gave it 3 MINUTES. <br /><br />Jerry /Petey Williams vs. Senshi/Shark Boy vs. Alex Shelley/Kaz vs. Black Machismo/Sonjay Dutt: Decent match. <br /><br />Roode/Brooks/Young/Jarrett segment: Great segment. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Tomko/Scott Styeiner: Boring match. <br /><br />Sting vs. Christian Cage: ANOTHER wasted main event match and this wasn't as good as the first so... <br /><br />Giving away two money matches on Impact for a combined total of around six minutes of action makes for a bad show. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />5/3/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: pretty good. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Rhino/Samoa Joe: good match. <br /><br />Roode/Cornette segment: Really good. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Jackie Moore: <street w:st="on"></street><br /><address w:st="on">Solid street</address>fight. <br />Sting/Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles vs. Christian Cage: Good match but the end was a bit on the screwy side. <br /><br />Solid show. The wrestling wasn’t bad and the booking was coherent, the complete opposite of last week. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/10/07 Impact <br /><br />Homicide vs. Brother Devon vs. Scott Steiner: Solid match. <br /><br />VKM/Christy segment: While the angle wasn't great this did introduce a new tag team, the Basham Brothers. <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns vs. Jay Lethal/Sonjay Dutt: Good match. <br /><br />Angle/Sting/Christian segment: Really good segment to hype the main event at Sacrifice. <br /><br />Samoa Joe/Rhino/Chris Harris vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels/James Storm: Really good match. <br /><br />Very good show… the wrestling was good and the Sacrifice build was excellent. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />5/17/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good and Cornette announces that nobody’s champion and that there will be KOTM qualifying matches every week until Slammiversary. <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns vs. Jerry Lynn/Tiger Mask: Solid match. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Raven: Pretty good first blood match as it was quite different and still had weapon usage. <br /><br />Roode/Young segment: Pretty decent. I know the Roode/Young feud didn’t click with many but I liked that they didn’t rush it, put Roode over Jarrett first THEN have Young beat Roode. That was good booking though they did drag it out a month too long. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Rhino: Good match and Angle qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />This show was very good. Built Slammiversary very well and the wrestling was good all around. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />5/24/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good segment to build Steiners/Team 3D and Rick Steiner naming all the teams the Steiners beat was a very nice touch to make this match a big deal. <br /><br />Basham/Damaja vs. Lance Hoyt/Kip James: Bad match. <br /><br />Christian Cage/Tomko vs. LAX: Solid match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Sting: Good match and Joe qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />Very solid show. The wrestling was good once again and the Slammiversary build was top notch. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/31/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good as it hyped KOTM well and made the main event. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Christopher Daniels: No match but a good brawl between Daniels and Sting. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Homicide: Pretty good match that started a Rhino/Harris vs. LAX feud. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Kaz: Very good match and advanced the Serotonin angle. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Tomko: Decent main event match and AJ qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />Very solid show. Good Slammiversary hype and not one bad match. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />6/7/07 Impact <br /><br />Robert Roode vs. Jerry Lynn: Pretty good match and the aftermath made Gail Kim vs. Ms. Brooks later. Works for me…. <br /><br />Slammiversary press conference: Pretty entertaining segment to build the PPV. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Ms. Brooks: Solid match. <br /><br />Chris Harris vs. James Storm: Great match and probably the best Impact match of 2007. The finish didn’t even bug me as it put BOTH guys over and created suspense as to who the 5th participant in KOTM will be. <br /><br />Really good wrestling-based show. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />6/14/07 Impact <br /><br />Steiner Brothers/Damaja/Basham vs. VKM/Team 3D: Boring match. <br /><br />Sting/Rhino/Tomko vs. Kurt Angle/AJ Styles/Samoa Joe: Solid match. <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Abyss: Good match and Christian qualifies for KOTM. <br /><br />This show wasn’t up to the standards of the last 5 weeks but it was still good for PPV build and the wrestling wasn’t bad either. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />6/21/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good and made the main event in Joe vs. Sabin vs. Lethal. <br /><br />Eric Young/Rhino vs. James Storm/Robert Roode: Decent match and the aftermath started a Rhino/Storm feud. <br /><br />Chris Harris vs. Raven: Decent match and the aftermath started a Harris/Christian feud. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Samoa Joe vs. Chris Sabin: Really good match although Lethal losing the X Division title to Joe four days after winning it did suck a little. <br /><br />Another good show that had good wrestling and started a lot of feuds. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />7/5/07 Impact <br /><br />Team 3D vs. LAX vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels: Great match to open the show. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Jackie Moore vs. Ms. Brooks: Good match and the aftermath with Brooks and Jackie attacking Gail resulted in a mixed tag for <street w:st="on">Victory Road</street>. <br /><br />Final segment: Really good segment to hype the <street w:st="on">Victory Road</street> main event and get Angle even more over as a heel. <br /><br />Good show. Last week's was only one match that lasted the whole hour so it doesn't get reviewed but it would have gotten a 10. This was the same good wrestling and storyline progression that’s been taking place for months. <br /><br />Score: 10</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/4/07 Impact <br /><br />Rhino vs. Black Reign: Boring... THIS is how you start out the first regular two hour Impact? <br /><br />Sting/Angle segment: Angle was at Sting's son's football game... I knew exactly what would happen and didn't feel it was good for the build to Angle/Sting at BFG. <br /><br />Roode/Brooks interview: A Leticia/Crystal feud was teased. Thank God that didn't happen! <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Jackie Moore: Good match. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Team Pacman: Boring match. <br /><br />10 man gauntlet: Eric Young wins in a good match. <br /><br />LAX/Junior Fatu/<place w:st="on">Samoa</place> Joe vs. Christian Cage/AJ Styles/XXX: Great match. <br /><br />Final segment: Angle attacks Sting's son! <br /><br />Not a great show for TNA's first ever two hour Impact. The first hour had almost nothing good and I wasn’t feeling the Angle/Sting build at all since it was more soap opera build. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />10/11/07 Impact <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Havok: Decent opening match. <br /><br />Angle/Karen/Sting segment: Wasn't very good. <br /><br />Team Pacman vs. XXX: Very boring match. <br /><br />Steiner Brothers promo: Really good build for their match with Team 3D at Bound for Glory. <br /><br />Amazing Kong vs. Gail Kim: Decent match. <br /><br />Chattin' With The Champ: The only edition of Christian's talk show and it was pretty good. <br /><br />Robert Roode vs. Petey Williams: Solid match. <br /><br />Black Reign/Raven vs. Rhino/Abyss: Very bad match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Team 3D vs. LAX/Junior Fatu: Really good main event. <br /><br />Decent show. Full of good wrestling and BFG build. <br /><br />Score: 7 <br /><br />10/25/07 Impact <br /><br />Steiner Brothers/LAX vs. VKM/AJ Styles/Tomko: Good match to open the show. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Eric Young: Solid match, albeit for the LAME “drinking championship”. <br /><br />Petey Williams vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Shark Boy vs. Havok: No real match, which was predictable as Team 3D attacked ALL OF THEM. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Sting: Good match but the booking with Kurt winning back the belt two weeks later was beyond insulting. <br /><br />Tenay/Cornette segment: Very bad. Cornette’s going to review the decision and make a final decision at the end. <br /><br />Awesome Kong vs. Angel Williams: Squash. <br /><br />Junior Fatu vs. Robert Roode: Boring matcg... <br /><br />Final segment: Very bad and a tag match for the TNA title is made. <br /><br />VERY bad show. The second hour was a complete wash and the booking was a middle finger to anybody who ordered BFG. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />11/1/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Kaz: Solid match, drinking contest brings it down a tad. <br /><br />3D/MCMG segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Awesome Kong vs. Christy Hemme: Better than the usual Kong squash due to Christy getting her nose bloodied. <br /><br />Robert Roode/Ms. Brooks vs. Samoa Joe/Gail Kim: Decent match. <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Chris Harris: Solid match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Tomko vs. LAX: Very good match. <br /><br />Good show. Some crap backstage happened but I really like shows with good wrestling and solid progression in the storylines, and this show had both. MUCH better than the debacle last week. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />11/8/07 Impact <br /><br />Christian Cage vs. Kaz: Really good match and the end made sense in that it made Kaz vs. Christian in a ladder match at Genesis. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Alexa Jade: Decent match, nothing more. The stuff afterwards was good build towards the KO title 4 way at Genesis. <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Jay Lethal/Abyss: Solid match. <br /><br />Steiner/AJ takedown challenge: Started off slow but eventually became a decent segment as Steiner made this work. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Robert Roode/James Storm vs. Eric Young/Sting/Samoa Joe: Good match. <br /><br />Outsiders segment: Meh... I was just WAITING for when Hall would get drunk again and fuck up the angle. <br /><br />Pretty good show. Lots of good wrestling and great Genesis build. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />11/15/07 Impact <br /><br />LAX vs. Rock n' Rave Infection: Decent match to open the show. <br /><br />Chris Harris/Gail Kim vs. Robert Roode/Ms. Brooks: Decent match. Good stuff with Roode and Traci after the match. <br /><br />3D/MCMG segment: Really good and Havok AKA Johnny Devine was the guy under the hood and the traitor. Good stuff. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Black Reign vs. Rellik: Boring... <br /><br />Alexa Jade vs. Awesome Kong: Squash! Kong powerbombing Gail Kim after the match was good though. <br /><br />Booker/Sharmell/Cornette segment: Pretty solid as Booker explains why he joined TNA. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Kaz: Really good match and I didn’t mind the ending either. <br /><br />Good show. Not as good as last week but the matches were still good and the storyline progression continued to flow well. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />11/22/07 Impact <br /><br />Brother Devon vs. Chris Sabin vs. Abyss: Really good match. <br /><br />Johnny Devine vs. Samoa Joe vs. Kip James: Decent match. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Jay Lethal vs. Christian Cage: Really good match. <br /><br />Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love vs. ODB: Decent match. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles: Great match. <br /><br />Final segment: Pretty solid outside of AJ in the turkey suit. <br /><br />Really good show. It was a throwaway show but it was Thanksgiving and everything was well booked for the most part. Also, loads of good wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 9.5 <br /><br />11/29/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good. Christian tells Roode that Booker’s there to take Roode’s spot, which made Roode/Booker for later and started the Booker/Roode feud. <br /><br />Eric Young/Gail Kim vs. Jimmy Rave/Christy Hemme: Decent match, nothing special. <br /><br />Storm/Young drinking contest: Meh. This feud was SO pointless… <br /><br />Team 3D vs. Sonjay Dutt/Jay Lethal: Solid match. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Rellik: Boring... <br /><br />Robert Roode vs. Booker T: Solid match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Christian Cage/AJ Styles/Tomko vs. Samoa Joe/Scott Steiner/Abyss/Kaz: Good main event match. <br /><br />Solid show. Lots of solid storyline progression and good wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />12/13/07 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Scott Steiner vs. BG James vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Petey Williams: Good match. <br /><br />FoF 1: Boring... <br /><br />Kaz vs. Rellik: Okay match but the stuff after the match was just bad! Black Reign put his rat Misty in a bag and placed it over Kaz's head. <br /><br />Angelina Love/Velvet Sky vs. Ms. Brooks/Jackie Moore: Bad match with a bad angle in drunk Jackie gaining most of the focus. <br /><br />Abyss/Mitchell/Mesias segment: The attack on Abyss was good but the rest? No. <br /><br />Booker T vs. Chris Harris: Boring match. <br /><br />FoF 2: Boring... <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Johnny Devine: Decent strap match. <br /><br />FoF 3: Very stupid... Steiner gets the X Division title shot and Daniels is fired. They should have kept it on Senshi as he was leaving anyway and it wouldn't have over complicated things. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Robert Roode vs. Christian Cage: Good match. <br /><br />Bad show. The FoF segments took up way too much time and the execution of it was ridiculously convoluted, and this show was full of stupidity outside of those segments with drunk Jackie and the Reign/Rellik stuff. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />12/20/07 Impact <br /><br />Booker T/Scott Steiner/LAX vs. Rock n' Rave Infection/James Storm/Robert Roode: Solid opener. <br /><br />3D/Devine segment: VERY funny segment. Bubba saying "HO! HO! HO!" after every dirty joke was awesome. <br /><br />Team 3D/Johnny Devine vs. Motor City Machine Guns/Jay Lethal: Decent match, even if it was a “double north pole” match. <br /><br />Santa's Workshop Knockouts Street Fight: This match was a mess! <br /><br />Rellik vs. Black Reign vs. Abyss vs. Shark Boy: Not a good match. <br /><br />Kaz vs. AJ Styles: Really good match although the stuff with the reindeer suit was pretty dumb. <br /><br />Final segment: Angle puts "Santa Claus" in the ankle lock. Eh… <br /><br />Not a great show. The show was VERY gimmicky with a very Russo-esque feel and the Christmas party skits were the complete opposite of the Thanksgiving skits. <br /><br />Score: 3.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">8/6/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good segment that started an alliance between World Elite and the MEM. <br /><br />Daniels vs. Eric Young: Really good match. <br /><br />Beer Money/Team 3D vs. British Invasion/Booker T/Scott Steiner: Pretty good tag match. <br /><br />Backstage riot: One of the best segments TNA has ever done. Didn't feel scripted at all and was very violent. <br /><br />Traci Brooks/Alissa Flash vs. Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Really good match. Better than I expected as well. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Matt Morgan: Pretty good match... <br /><br />Sting vs. Brutus Magnus: Solid main event, though not spectacular by any means. <br /><br />Excellent episode of Impact. Good wrestling all around and even better storyline progression. Can’t think of one flaw either… <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />8/13/09 Impact <br /><br />Christy Hemme vs. Sojourner Bolt: Very bad match to open the show. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Doug Williams: Decent match to give Hernandez momentum going into Hard Justice. <br /><br />Rhino/Jesse Neal vs. Eric Young/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Not much of a match, more of an angle. The Rhino heel turn was very rushed but still very interesting. <br /><br />ODB vs. Awesome Kong vs. <place w:st="on">Tara</place> vs. Angelina Love: Very good match. <br /><br />Scott Steiner vs. Brother Ray: The weapons and the storyline saved this. If it was a regular match it would have sucked. <br /><br />Foley/Nash contract signing: Pretty good actually. Nash wouldn’t put Foley through the table because he wasn’t getting paid to do it so Foley’s crazy self put himself through the table. Quite awesome. <br /><br />Matt Morgan vs. AJ Styles: Good match and probably the best in their series. <br /><br />Morgan/MEM segment: Great segment that added intrigue for the PPV and teased a Morgan face turn. <br /><br />Not as good as last week but still really good. Wrestling was still solid and the storyline progression remained excellent. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />8/20/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good segment that started the build to Angle/Morgan. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. British Invasion: Really good street fight. <br /><br />Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne: Meh, more of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Homicide: Pretty good. <br /><br />Awesome Kong vs. Christy Hemme vs. Traci Brooks vs. Sarita: Really good match and Traci stealing the pin on Christy after Kong splashed her off the turnbuckle was awesome. <br /><br />D'Angelo Dinero vs. Consequences Creed: Pretty good match to build Dinero. <br /><br />Sting/AJ segment: Pretty good and started the build to Sting/AJ. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Matt Morgan vs. Team 3D: Not a bad main event. <br /><br />Another excellent Impact. The Angelina/Madison squash match was the only real flaw and the good wrestling and storyline progression continued. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />8/27/09 Impact <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Suicide: Wasn't that bad, starting with a match is fresh, and the run-ins gave the X Division some focus and made a tag match for later. <br /><br />World Elite/Hernandez segment: Pretty good. Bashir and Eric Young’s mic work was great and Hernandez played a great babyface throughout. <br /><br />Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Traci Brooks/Sharmell: Was actually pretty good because Sharmell didn't wrestle in this at all. Kong and Saeed advance in the KO tag title tournament. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Jesse Neal: Just a squash but heel Rhino is still awesome nonetheless. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Didn't care for the result at all but this wasn't a bad match at all. <br /><br />Hamada vs. Daffney: AWESOME debut match for Hamada. <br /><br />Samoa Joe/D'Angelo Dinero vs. Daniels/Suicide: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Carter/Lashley segment: Pretty good. Lashley is more interesting in TNA than in WWE because he doesn’t speak as much, isn’t pushed super hard, and is allowed to be more than a black version of Goldberg. <br /><br />Booker T/Scott Steiner/Matt Morgan vs. Hernandez/Sting/AJ Styles: Pretty good main event. <br /><br />Pretty good show though not as good as last week. The good wrestling and storyline progression continues. <br /><br />Score: 8.5 <br /><br />9/3/09 Impact <br /><br />Sting vs. Rhino: Pretty good match. The stuff afterwards made Rhino more interesting than he's been in a long time. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Chris Sabin: Very good match. Shelley's commentary was awesome too. <br /><br />Joe/Daniels segment: Very good. Note to Raw writers, THAT is how you push midcarders! <br /><br />Doug Williams vs. Suicide: Really good. Suicide/Dinero feud continues too. <br /><br />Tara/Christy Hemme vs. Sojourner Bolt/Hamada: Pretty good match. Christy/Tara advance in the KO tag title tournament. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Homicide: Pretty good match. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Doug Williams: Very good match. Longer than both of their matches earlier in the night and was better too. <br /><br />Sting vs. Hernandez: Good for what it was. Hernandez/World Elite was advanced and Sting advanced while Hernandez remained protected. Eric Young dressed as Homicide was awesome. <br /><br />Final segment: Another awesome brawl though not as good as the backstage riot. <br /><br />This show was awesome from start to finish, both wrestling-wise and storyline-wise. I can’t think of a single flaw in the entire two hours so it gets a perfect score. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />9/10/09 Impact <br /><br />Booker T/Scott Steiner vs. British Invasion vs. Team 3D vs. Beer Money: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Angle/Morgan/Sting segment: Pretty good and built both Angle/Morgan and Sting/AJ. <br /><br />Sarita/Taylor Wilde vs. Daffney/Alissa Flash: Pretty good match and Sarita/Taylor advance. <br /><br />D'Angelo Dinero vs. Jay Lethal: Solid match to build up Dinero. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Madison Rayne/Roxxi: Decent match, nothing special. BP advance. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Not a bad match at all and it being short was probably a good thing... <br /><br />World Elite segment: Really good segment involving Eric Young and Hector Guerrero and built up the final segment really well. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Tara</place> vs. Cody Deaner MMA match: Pretty bad but at least Deaner is so bad it's funny, unlike Hornswoggle vs. Chavo which is just plain shit. <br /><br />Samoa Joe/Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Hernandez/World Elite segment: Really good and Homicide's heel turn was very well done. <br /><br />This show wasn't as good as last week but it was still really good. The wrestling and storyline progression were good once again and only the faux MMA match was bad. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />9/17/09 Impact <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Christy Hemme/Tara: Angelina's last match and it wasn't a good one. BP advance to the finals. <br /><br />Suicide vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Solid match. <br /><br />Rhino/Devon promo: Once the insider references stopped this was a very good promo. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Kiyoshi/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Squash... <br /><br />Alissa Flash vs. Cody Deaner: Very stupid match. <br /><br />Mick Foley vs. Kevin Nash: Nothing but punches, elbows, and kicks pretty much. <br /><br />Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Decent match. Sarita/taylor advance to the finals. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Matt Morgan: Very bland and short. <br /><br />Very disappointing show. The last several weeks were full of good wrestling while this was mainly squashes and stupid matches. The PPV build was good but this show felt underwhelming in terms of a show as a whole. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />9/24/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good and a stable war between MEM and World Elite. <br /><br />Suicide vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Really good street fight. <br /><br />Brother Devon vs. Rhino: Good match and good angle afterwards with Rhino goring Brother Ray. <br /><br />AJ/Sting segment: Very good segment to build to the BFG title match. <br /><br />Sarita/Taylor Wilde vs. ODB/Tara: Solid match that was well booked with Kong getting Tara’s attention and ODB being mad at Tara for losing the match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Homicide vs. Daniels: Good match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Eric Young vs. matt Morgan/Hernandez: Solid match. <br /><br />Alissa/Hamada segment: Awesome with Alissa beating on Hamada on a set of bleachers. <br /><br />Bobby Lashley vs. Jethro Holiday: Boring squash match... <br /><br />Abyss/Mick Foley vs. Booker T/Scott Steiner: Decent match, even better stuff after the match starting the Abyss/Foley feud. <br /><br />Very good show. Lots of good wrestling and it started the BFG feuds very well. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />10/1/09 Impact <br /><br />Abyss/Foley promo: Awesome segment. <br /><br />X Division title #1 contendership ladder match: Good match for what it was due to Red tearing the house down. Normally, I would have mentioned how they need to build Red up but Lethal, Creed, Bashir, and Kiyoshi aren't any more higher in the card than he is so that problem would have occurred regardless of who won. <br /><br />Kevin Nash vs. Dr. Stevie: Wow, a decent Nash match! Push Stevie for that alone! <br /><br />Christy Hemme vs. Traci Brooks: Terrible match actually... Traci was just as bad as Christy in this one and it's hard to care about a feud between them when neither are built up that much. <br /><br />ODB vs. Awesome Kong: Good match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Hernandez: Decent match. <br /><br />Beautiful People segment: Decent at best... Lacey Von Erich, who hasn't had many matches, debuts. Velvet Sky isn't the worst wrestler in the group anymore... and Lacey's an upgrade over Angelina in the promo department because even though she's not good, at least she doesn't sound like nails on a chalkboard. <br /><br />Matt Morgan vs. Eric Young: Very boring match. Glad that Morgan isn't in the title match at BFG as he really needs to work on ring psychology. <br /><br />Bobby Lashley/Team 3D vs. British Invasion/Rhino: Decent match. <br /><br />Good show. Not as good as last week but the show flowed really well and the wrestling was good once again. <br /><br />Score: 7.5 <br /><br />10/8/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: GREAT Abyss/Foley promo. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Kevin Nash: Meh... they didn't click in the ring at all. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Amazing Red: Surprisingly enough, this didn't work for me. Lashley came out just as the match was getting started and it was mainly all angle from there. <br /><br />Homicide/D'Angelo Dinero vs. Suicide/Daniels: Solid match. <br /><br />Tag title match contract signing: Decent at best... the brawl is really starting to get overused. <br /><br />8 knockout elimination tag: Best match on the show so far. <br /><br />Sting/Angle segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Joe/Lashley brawl: This was pretty good. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Tara</place> vs. ODB: This was pretty boring and I blame ODB. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Mick Foley vs. Abyss/Matt Morgan: Boring main event. <br /><br />Not much in terms of action but a great show for hyping the PPV. Still a bit underwhelming though. <br /><br />Score: 5.5 <br /><br />10/15/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good and hyped all the MEM feuds very well with the big brawl. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. ODB/Tara/Awesome Kong: Not much of a match. <br /><br />Suicide vs. Amazing Red: Solid match and great build for the X Division title match. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. British Invasion gauntlet match: Pretty good. <br /><br />Tag team brawl: The second brawl of the show but both worked. <br /><br />D'Angelo Dinero vs. Daniels: Good match and Homicide as Suicide was awesome. Great build for the X Division title match. <br /><br />Foley/Abyss segment: Really good and built up Abyss/Foley very well. <br /><br />Hamada vs. Alissa Flash: Really good match. <br /><br />Rhino vs. Bobby Lashley: Pretty good ambulance match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles: Awesome main event that was booked perfectly as neither guy could afford to lose at all heading into marquee matchups for their biggest PPV of the year. <br /><br />Great show. The wrestling was good and a match that is probably the best Impact match ever was the main event. Great storyline progression too. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10/22/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment that turned Angle face and explained that the MEM is no more. <br /><br />Homicide vs. Amazing Red: Solid match and Homicide’s the new #1 contender. <br /><br />Matt Morgan vs. Scott Steiner: Pretty bad match though it started a really entertaining Steiner/Lashley feud. <br /><br />Kevin Nash/Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles/Daniels: Good match. <br /><br />Awesome Kong vs. Raisha Saeed: Decent match actually as it wasn't a squash and it did its job of writing out the Raisha Saeed character. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Rhino: Solid match that furthered the conspiracy theory angle. <br /><br /><place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Motor</placename> <placetype w:st="on">City</placetype></place> Machine Guns vs. Lethal Consequences: Very good Ultimate X match and MCMG are #1 contenders to the tag titles. <br /><br />British Invasion vs. Beer Money: Great Six Sides of Steel match. <br /><br />Final segment: Very good. I generally don’t like wrestlers being rushed into title reigns, but if Desmond Wolfe isn’t champion by this time next year, something is very wrong. This was an awesome segment. <br /><br />Excellent Impact. The whole show felt like the beginning of a new era with new bar graphics containing the wrestlers’ height, weight, finisher, years pro, etc., and the wrestling and booking was excellent as well. The only bad part was Morgan/Steiner but even that had something redeeming about it so… <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />10/29/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Great Angle/Wolfe promo exchange and it made the main event too. <br /><br />Tara vs. Alissa Flash: Solid Knockouts match and Kong lays out <place w:st="on">Tara</place> after the match. <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns vs. Team 3D: Solid match with the aftermath building up the conspiracy theory angle very well. <br /><br />Eric Young vs. Bobby Lashley: Complete squash until Steiner attacks Lashley for the DQ. <br /><br />World Elite segment: Pretty good segment that built up the Nash/Young and Beer Money/British Invasion feuds well. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Hamada/Christy Hemme/ODB: Decent knockouts tag match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Pretty decent No DQ match for what it was. <br /><br />Matt Morgan vs. Rhino: Very bland match that furthered the conspiracy theory angle. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Desmond Wolfe: Pretty good main event that put Wolfe over VERY strongly. <br /><br />Another good Impact. Not as good as last week but the matches were still very solid overall and the PPV build was top notch. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />11/5/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: This was <place w:st="on">Dixie</place> addressing the roster in the Impact Zone before the show... not a very good segment as it felt pointless and was pretty boring. <br /><br />Styles/Daniels/Joe segment: Very solid promo exchange between the three to build their feud and made Styles vs. Daniels for later with Joe as guest ref. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Rob Terry/Eric Young: Very boring match. <br /><br />Desmond Wolfe vs. Cody Deaner: Absolute squash although Wolfe's promo afterwards was brilliant. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Daniels: Didn't happen due to the mystery attacker attacking AJ. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Tara</place> vs. Hamada: Decent match though quite short. <br /><br />Foley/Abyss segment: Great promo exchange between the two and a match is made for next week. <br /><br />Bobby Lashley vs. Homicide: Absolute squash... not the way to use the #1 contender for the X Division title. <br /><br />Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne: Ridiculously short women's match. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Daniels: Solid match though it only got 5 minutes. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Hernandez vs. Team 3D: Not a good main event. <br /><br />This show felt very rushed and thrown together. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />11/12/09 Impact <br /><br />Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Not a good match outside of Raven's return. <br /><br />Alissa Flash vs. Traci Brooks: A squash match though Flash working on Traci'shandicapped arm was excellent ring psychology and a great heel move. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Jim Neidhart: Not a good match at all. <br /><br />Awesome Kong/Beautiful People vs. Tara/ODB/Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Pretty good KO tag. <br /><br />Angle/Wolfe segment: Awesome segment to build to their match at Turning Point. <br /><br />Amazing Red/Motor City Machine Guns vs. World Elite: Pretty good X Division tag match. <br /><br />3D/Rhino/Morgan/Hernandez segment: Another great segment where Dinero's announced as Morgan and Hernandez's partner for their six man tag at the PPV. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. British Invasion: Pretty good tag match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles: Solid main event although quite short. <br /><br />Pretty good show. The matches were good for the most part and the PPV build was even better. <br /><br />Score: 7 <br /><br />11/19/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between Foley, Abyss, Stevie, and Raven and a match is made for later. <br /><br />Scott Steiner vs. Amazing Red: Red gets squashed pretty much, and he's also the X Division champion. Bad booking... <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns/Beer Money vs. World Elite: Pretty good tag match. <br /><br />Hamada vs. Taylor Wilde: Very good Knockouts match. <br /><br />Raven/Dr. Stevie vs. Abyss: This was a pretty good match actually. <br /><br />Alissa Flash vs. Sarita: Another good Knockouts match. <br /><br />Team 3D/Rhino vs. Matt Morgan/Hernandez/D'Angelo Dinero: Pretty good street fight although Jesse Neal returning with THAT look was just bizarre. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Kurt Angle vs. Daniels/Desmond Wolfe: Very good main event. <br /><br />Very solid show outside of Red being used as fodder for Scott Steiner. Good matches and started a lot of new storylines. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />11/26/09 Impact <br /><br />Bobby Lashley vs. Abyss: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Desmond Wolfe vs. Suicide: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. D’Angelo Dinero: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Homicide vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Knockouts battle royal: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Bobby Lashley vs. Desmond Wolfe: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Styles/Daniels promo: Pretty good. <br /><br />Bobby Lashley vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match and Lashley’s #1 contender to the TNA title. <br /><br />No real storyline progression (hence why I didn't expand upon much of anything) but this was a Thanksgiving episode and everything was good so… <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />12/3/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good promo exhange between Angle and Desmond Wolfe to build their feud. <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Doug Williams: Very solid match. <br /><br />Homicide vs. Suicide: Very good X Division match. <br /><br />Trash Talkin' With ODB: Not a very good segment due to the mic work, but I do understand what they were trying to accomplish with it. <br /><br />D'Angelo Dinero vs. Jesse Neal: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Eric Young/Kevin Nash: Very boring tag match. <br /><br />Lashley segment: Decent segment, mainly because Kristal did all the talking in it. <br /><br />Daniels vs. Abyss: Pretty bad match. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Dixie</place> interview: Meh... this was just more Hogan build that took place during a build to a PPV that was very lacking. <br /><br />Hamada vs. Sarita: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Raven/Dr. Stevie: This main event was basically a handicap jobber squash. Very anticlimatic finish. <br /><br />VERY boring show... it got off to a hot start but after the first half hour it really colled off due to substandard matches and excessive Hogan promotion. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />12/10/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Nash was great in it but it gave me the feeling that I'd be in for a long night. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. British Invasion: Match was good but Sabin beating three guys? <br /><br />Awesome Kong/Scott Steiner vs. Bobby Lashley/Kristal: This was what I expected pretty much. Not much of a match. <br /><br />Hamada vs. Eric Young: Hamada was VERY impressive but the match was rushed and Young still looks weak by needing the ropes to beat a girl. Any casual fan checking out the show would not take him seriously, and he's supposed to be a big deal too which makes it worse. <br /><br />ODB vs. <place w:st="on">Tara</place>: Despite the stupid gimmick this match was probably the best on the show. <br /><br />Handicap tag match: Solid but Neal pinning Hernandez was just dumb. Neal still looks very unmarketable with his new look, not to mention that he's still very inexperienced, and he pins the guy who had tons of momentum two months ago after an unimpressive spear. Terrible booking. <br /><br />Velvet Sky vs. Lacey Von Erich: This mud wrestling match was what I thought it would be. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Desmond Wolfe: They gave this match away for free in a 5 minute main event. The action was good but they really should have waited till a later PPV or given it a few more minutes. <br /><br />It was better than the spoilers made it out to be but it still wasn’t a very good show. Being wacky for the heck of it isn’t a good idea when you have a HUGE show coming up in a few weeks. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />12/17/09 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: This advanced the boring Foley/Nash stuff and the brawl made TNA look very low rent. <br /><br />ODB vs. Roxxi: Solid match, badly booked… Roxxi beats the KO champ cleanly before her PPV match. Way to make the champ look strong! <br /><br />Brother Ray vs. Matt Morgan: Boring match with Ray actually winning. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Hamada/Awesome Kong vs. Taylor Wilde/Sarita: This lasted two minutes and was sloppy for much of it. Ugh… <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Tatanka: Better than the match with Neidhart but still not great and this challenge being monthly means that it can’t gain any momentum. <br /><br />Dixie/Jarrett segment: BORING! <place w:st="on">Dixie</place> has zero charisma and this Hogan stuff is getting more focus than the PPV build. <br /><br />Daniels vs. Desmond Wolfe: Great match that was well booked, BUT they’re giving this match away already? <br /><br />AJ Styles/Abyss/Bobby Lashley/Tomko/Kurt Angle vs. British Invasion/Scott Steiner/Raven/Dr. Stevie: Decent enough match but a lot of the focus was on the outside and this just didn’t do a good job of selling the PPV. <br /><br />VERY boring Impact in a string of lackluster shows. WAY too skit-heavy and it feels like they’re just phoning in the shows until Hogan comes in. Ugh… <br /><br />Score: 2.5</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/21/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between Angle, Flair, Hogan, and the newly heel turned AJ Styles. It made the main event too which is good. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Hernandez vs. British Invasion: Decent tag title match. <br /><br /><city w:st="on">Orlando</city> <country-region w:st="on">Jordan</country-region> vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Not a great match and Jordan actually won... putting a career jobber in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jordan</place></country-region> over one of your rising stars is VERY dumb booking. <br /><br />Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne: This was pretty much a squash match. <br /><br />Hogan/Hall/Syxx-Pac segment: This wasn't much of a segment as the only thing it accomplished was Hogan firing "The Band". <br /><br />Nasty Boys vs. Kevin Nash/Eric Young: This match was as bad as expected. <br /><br />Mr. Anderson promo: This was very good with Abyss behind Anderson, who was bragging about his win over him at Genesis, pretty much the whole time. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles: Their usual good match but the "Orlando screwjob" was just as bad of an idea as WWE making a feud based on the Montreal screwjob that happened 13 years ago (luckily they added Cena and Batista to it to give it a much needed second dimension). It came off VERY cheap and made TNA REALLY look like a WWE wannabe. <br /><br />Final segment: This was a very good cliffhanger with Bischoff firing Foley although the stupidity of the main event aftermath made this less effective than it should have been. <br /><br />Not a great Impact at all as the wrestling quality was pretty substandard and a lot of the show just felt thrown together. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />2/25/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: This segment was a Flair/AJ vs. Hogan/Abyss promo exchange regarding the <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">HoF</place></city> ring Hogan gave Abyss and the heels telling Abyss to take it off and give it to AJ. The mic work was good but I just couldn't get past the fact that the storyline is based off a ring that the rival promotion, WWE, gave him. <br /><br />Nasty Boys vs. Team 3D: Not a very good tables match... the Nastys are good outside of the ring but definitely not inside of the ring. <br /><br />ODB vs. Daffney: Pretty decent match to get Daffney over as a psycho, nothing more. <br /><br />Beer Money segment: A good promo exchange between them and Morgan/Hernandez where a tag title match between the two teams is made. <br /><br />Jarrett/Bischoff segment: A segment that ends in Bischoff making Jarrett flip burgers. Ugh... <br /><br />Kazarian vs. Brian Kendrick: Decent match where Kazarian becomes #1 contender for the X Division title. <br /><br />Rob Terry vs. Mr. Anderson: Good promo before the match that never was a match... Terry won after a chair shot from Angle on the stage and a running powerslam. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Desmond Wolfe: Abyss won in a complete squash... <br /><br />Final segment: The main event for 3/8 is made in Hogan/Abyss vs. AJ/Flair. Decent segment to finish the show. <br /><br />This show was good at advancing angles and setting up March 8th, but there was less than 15 minutes of wrestling and much of the show revolved around an angle about a WWE HoF ring and the founder of the ompany flipping burgers. Can't give this one even an average score because the last few shows were just awesome while this wasn't. <br /><br />Score: 4 5/3/10 Impact Opening segment: Very good segment where Jay Lethal impersonated Ric Flair and got beat up by AJ Styles, Beer Money, and Desmond Wolfe until Team 3D and RVD come in for the save. Ink Inc. vs. Douglas Williams/Brian Kendrick: Bland match due to Ink Inc. though this started the Kendrick face turn. Anderson/Hardy segment: Very good promo exchange to build their match at Sacrifice. Tara/Sarita/Taylor Wilde vs. Beautiful People: Very short and sloppy match. Beer Money vs. Team 3D vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Good match until it ended with no result. O-Zone: <city w:st="on">Orlando</city> <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jordan</place></country-region>'s talk show segment which built his feud with Rob Terry over the Global title. Meh... AJ Styles vs. Abyss: A 5 minute Monster's Ball match. Rob Van Dam vs. Desmond Wolfe: A 3 minute main event. Final segment: Very boring and confusing promo exchange involving Sting and Hogan. TNA's final Monday night Impact and it was a mess... the final two matches were way shorter than what they should have been and the show just felt very uneven. Score: 3.5 <br /><br />7/29/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: This ECW promo was very inferior to the promo that ended last week's show but it still built up Hardcore Justice nicely and made the main event. <br /><br />Angelina Love vs. Sarita: This match was surprisingly sloppy... Angelina's now #1 contender. <br /><br />Orlando Jordan/Eric Young vs. Ink Inc.: While the mannequin thing was slightly amusing due to Young's charisma, the match wasn't very good and the whole thing felt like filler. <br /><br />Fortune segment: Beer Money are the newest members... that was basically it. Not bad at all but nothing really noteable either. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Very good PPV quality cage match with the Guns winning, making them only down 2-1 to Beer Money. <br /><br />Morgan/Anderson segment: A very good promo exchange until the thing with the security guards, which was just bizarre. <br /><br />Rob Terry vs. Kazarian: Kazarian gets squashed in 30 seconds by Rob Terry... this is a good thing if you DON'T want Fortune to be taken seriously. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Mr. Anderson vs. Matt Morgan/Security Guards: A very bland match that didn't really advance anything. <br /><br />Abyss/RVD/Bischoff segment: Abyss/RVD is announced for August 12 and they have an encounter after Abyss threatens Bischoff with Janice. Good build. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Tommy Dreamer: Pretty decent hardcore match and the aftermath with Raven laying out Dreamer is good build for Hardcore Justice. <br /><br />While this show had an awesome cage match and built up Hardcore Justice very well, much of the show felt like absolute filler and the quality of the show suffered, probably due to the regular TNA roster not having a PPV to build to this month. Also, Kazarian getting squashed by Rob Terry? Who thought that was a good idea? <br /><br />Score: 4 (would have been lower but Beer Money/MCMG was just THAT good) <br /><br />8/5/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: An okay segment to build Hardcore Justice and make the main event. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Taylor Wilde/Hamada: Taylor and Hamada win the KO tag titles here in a very bad match. <br /><br />Rob Terry vs. AJ Styles: Not a great match as it was basically Terry doing moves, then AJ hits the 450 splash to retain the TV title. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Another awesome match between these two teams in an Ultimate X match, with the Guns winning and tying the series as a result. <br /><br />Nash/Hogan segment: Not very good as it only featured guys who were in their primes 15 years ago or even longer, and showed why TNA needs to find an identity. <br /><br /><city w:st="on">Orlando</city> <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jordan</place></country-region> vs. D'Angelo Dinero: A very "meh" filler match. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Ric Flair: A very entertaining street fight that Michael Cole would call "Vintage" Flair. <br /><br />Rob Van Dam/Tommy Dreamer vs. Abyss/Raven: Okay main event match at best as RVD and Dreamer did a good job of carrying the match. <br /><br />Another weak show. The show was lacking in quality wrestling outside of the Ultimate X and street fight, and the show quality suffers when most of your roster won't be on the next PPV, as only the stuff involving ECW guys really built to something. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />8/26/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very dull segment due to <place w:st="on">Dixie</place> and Hogan's usual schtick, despite Fourtune being involved and this making the main event. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. <city w:st="on">Orlando</city> <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jordan</place></country-region>: Not a great match, though Joe got his win back over OJ. <br /><br />Kevin Nash vs. Jeff Jarrett: Very boring match with a weak finish. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. FBI: Absolute squash. <br /><br />Beautiful People/Rayne/biker segment: This feud is getting stale and the segment was full of dialogue you'd hear on Jerry Springer, but at least the girls in TNA actually have personalities. <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns vs. Generation Me: Very good match. <br /><br />Abyss/Rhino brawl: Very good brawl to hype their match at No Surrender. <br /><br />Fourtune vs. Kurt Angle/Jeff Hardy/Mr. Anderson/D'Angelo Dinero: Very solid main event with Dinero teasing a heel turn by blind tagging Angle and pinning Kazarian. <br /><br />An okay show at best. Things picked up as soon as the MCMG/Generation Me match started but the first hour was VERY boring. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />9/2/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical stale Hogan "raising the bar" promo until Abyss mentions that "they" will arrive on 10/10/10, the date of Bound For Glory. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Madison Rayne/Mystery Biker: Atrocious match with Rayne/Biker winning and the biker unmasking as <place w:st="on">Tara</place>. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Stevie Richards: Not much of a match until the surprise Stevie win. Abyss going into a match with Rhino yet he loses after one Steviekick? <br /><br />EV 2.0/Fourtune promo: This was average at best though it did a good job of promoting their matches at No Surrender. <br /><br />Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett: Nothing match though the long term booking that this is a part of looks promising. <br /><br />MCMG/London Brawling promo: A very good segment that built their PPV match (though it never took place) and showcased their personalities very well. <br /><br />Fourtune vs. EV 2.0 elimination match: This was the best match of the night and Fourtune won, which is a good thing. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/Jeff Hardy vs. Mr. Anderson/D'Angelo Dinero: Wasn't as good as the elimination match but still good and built the tournament finals matches involving them very well. <br /><br />A very boring Impact until the MCMG/London Brawling promo took place, then it started to pick up afterwards. Solid No Surrender build though so it doesn't get a terrible score. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />9/16/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: A solid segment that ended up making Angle/Hardy as the main event with the winner facing <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Anderson</place></city> for the title at Bound For Glory. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Kevin Nash: A very "meh" match until the weak double countout finish. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Douglas Williams: Solid X Division title match though Lethal winning made it seem very rushed and the confetti after the match felt unnecessary considering that there was no real feud here and Lethal didn't have a storyline involving an X Division title chase either. <br /><br />Hamada/Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne/Lacey Von Erich: Very bad KO tag title match due to Lacey wrestling for half the match. <br /><br />Dreamer/Fourtune promo: Very good promo where Dreamer puts over Fourtune, especially AJ who beat him in an I Quit match, and Fourtune STILL attacking Dreamer after he called for a truce between Fourtune and EV 2.0. Kendrick's promo challenging anyone from Fourtune to a match sounded a lot like an Ultimate Warrior promo... <br /><br />Brian Kendrick vs. Matt Morgan: Not much of a match until the stupid booking of Kendrick winning after hitting a dropkick, which was his ONLY MOVE in the match. <br /><br />Generation Me promo: It wasn't very good though it did explain their heel turn well. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Hardy: Very good main event though the double pin means that the match was made kinda pointless. Angle and Hardy both advance to the BFG main event as a result. <br /><br />Another weak Impact. While it wasn't as boring as last week's, this week was a complete booking trainwreck and also included a lame backstage skit involving Abyss branding "10/10/10" on some guy as well. Yeah... Score: 3.5 <br /><br />9/23/10 Impact <br /><br />Abyss vs. Rob Terry: Meh. A guy who used to be good and another who has the talent level of the giants WWE was pushing in 2005 makes for a very boring match. <br /><br />Bischoff promos: Both the ones with RVD and Pope were okay, nothing mindblowing. <br /><br />Chris Sabin vs. Jeremy Buck: Pretty solid match here, and the best of the show. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Taylor Wilde/Hamada: This wasn't as sloppy as last week despite LVE spending half the match wrestling once again, but it was very boring and didn't have much heat. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Two good workers, but it was very dull. The brawl afterwards was very boring too... just like with Undertaker and Kane on Smackdown, Sting, Nash, and Jarrett are VERY stale. <br /><br />Anderson/Angle promo: Very good promo as expected from both. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Sabu: A surprisingly boring ladder match here, as nothing exciting happened at all really, which is very underwhelming for a ladder match. <br /><br />Abyss promo: This was just more "they" hype and built his match with RVD at BFG. Another weak show here, which isn't a good sign heading into TNA's biggest PPV of the year. Score: 3.5 <br /><br />10/7/10 Impact (Before The Glory) <br /><br />Opening segment: Abyss bringing out Dixie handcuffed to his arm and threatening her with "Bob", the branding iron, and "Janice", the 2x4 with nails sticking out of it, was bad, but the Bischoff/Pope promo exchange afterwards was solid and made Jarrett/Joe vs. Sting/Nash/Pope at BFG. Thankfully Hogan's not wrestling as he's not in the condition for it. <br /><br />Angelina Love/Velvet Sky vs. Madison Rayne/Tara: Your typical KO match in 2010 (not good) and Angelina and Velvet win, thus own the "Beautiful People" trademark. Mickie's debut after the match was well done and she's the referee for the four way title match at BFG. <br /><br />Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley: Not nearly as good as their Summerslam match in 2006 but still a good hardcore brawl despite the weird booking with Flair still not beating the 10 count even though he STOOD UP before the Flair flop. The Flair/Foley promo and Fourtune beatdown afterwards were very well done. <br /><br />Bischoff/RVD promo: Bischoff calls out Abyss to fire him as it was <place w:st="on">Dixie</place>'s orders but RVD comes out and says that if Abyss is fired, they'll lose him as well because he wants his match. <place w:st="on">Dixie</place> later allowed RVD to have his match, but Abyss will be fired after BFG, win or lose. Segment was what it was. <br /><br />Orlando Jordan/Eric Young vs. Ink Inc.: Complete filler match and the aftermath results in this same match being booked for BFG despite there being no feud on Impact. Meh. <br /><br />Shore promo: The gimmick leaves a lot to be desired but Robbie and Cookie really tried to make it work and even got heel heat inside the Impact Zone. <br /><br />Main event battle royal: A complete mess that did very little to build BFG and Angle wins the cash. <br /><br />A very boring show, which is a huge disappointment considering how good The Whole F'n Show was (as well as last year's Super Impact before BFG) and that this show is the show before TNA's equivalent to Wrestlemania. There wasn't much in terms of quality wrestling, the tag title match at BFG was never even mentioned, and the main event did very little to build interest in the PPV. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />12/9/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical Immortal promo. <br /><br />Brother Ray/"<place w:st="on">Devon</place>" vs. Ink Inc.: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Tara/Mickie segment: Okay segment as everything after <place w:st="on">Tara</place> lip-synching her own theme was good build for their cage match. <br /><br />Motor City Machine Guns vs. Gunner/Murphy: Okay match. <br /><br />Beautiful People vs. Sarita/Daffney: Very bad match. <br /><br />Pope casket segment: Very bad segment. <br /><br />Douglas Williams vs. Abyss: Very rushed match. <br /><br />Double J Double M A challenge: Very funny segment as usual. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. <place w:st="on">Tara</place>: A very good cage match. <br /><br />Outside of the cage match, most of this show was very bad. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />12/16/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical Immortal promo that made the main event. <br /><br />Jay Lethal vs. Robbie E: Pretty good match with Lethal winning the belt. <br /><br />Orlando Jordan/Eric Young vs. Generation Me: Eh match with OJ/EY actually winning. <br /><br />Madison Rayne/Tara vs. Mickie James/Miss Tessmacher: Not a great match as Tessmacher was VERY green. <br /><br />Brother Ray vs. Amazing Red: Squash. <br /><br />Rob Van Dam vs. Rob Terry: Terrible match. <br /><br />Double J Double M A segment: Very funny segment as usual. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Kazarian vs. Matt Morgan/Mr. Anderson: Not a great main event. <br /><br />Very poor show as the matches were very weak and the booking was questionable as usual. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />12/30/10 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very dull segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Robert Roode vs. Chris Sabin: Very solid match. <br /><br />Rob Van Dam vs. Robbie E: Absolute squash match. <br /><br />Kazarian promo: Not very good though it built his feud with Lethal. <br /><br />Sarita vs. Velvet Sky: Terrible strap match. <br /><br />Double J Double M A segment: Pretty good segment that debuted Crimson. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Rob Terry vs. Douglas Williams/Magnus: Pretty solid match as Terry was barely in the match. <br /><br />Madison/Mickie promo: A very good segment to build their feud. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Devon vs. Mr. Anderson/Brother Ray: Very boring main event. <br /><br />A very weak show... bad matches and full of lame OJ/EY comedy skits. <br /><br />Score: 4</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/6/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good segment that made the main event. <br /><br />Double J Double M A challenge: Funny segment as usual, and Angle returns. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Kazarian vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Pope/Joe promo: Very dull promo exchange. <br /><br />Madison Rayne/Sarita vs. Mickie James/Velvet Sky: Not a great match. <br /><br />Douglas Williams vs. Rob Terry: Complete nothing match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Jay Lethal: Not much of a match as it was more of an angle. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett vs. Rob Van Dam: Solid main event. <br /><br />Very average show heading into Genesis. <br /><br />Score: 5 <br /><br />1/20/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Not a great segment. <br /><br />Sarita vs. Velvet Sky vs. Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne: Not a great match. <br /><br />Rob Terry vs. Matt Morgan: Squash. <br /><br />Kazarian vs. Jay Lethal: Solid X Division title match. <br /><br />Jeff/Karen/Kurt promo: Second segment based around this feud. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Tommy Dreamer: Not a great match. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Rob Van Dam/Mr. Anderson: Very good match. <br /><br />Devon/Bully Ray segment: Very good segment to advance their feud. <br /><br />Final segment: Okay segment with Angle and AJ getting the better of Immortal and Abyss walking down the ramp with Janice stuck to his back before collapsing. <br /><br />Not a great show... weak matches and way too much Kurt/Jeff/Karen. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />2/10/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical Immortal promo, but with Immortal burying the Fourtune members on the mic. <br /><br />Devon/Rob Van Dam/Samoa Joe vs. D'Angelo Dinero/Matt Hardy/Bully Ray: Very rushed tables match. <br /><br />Karen/Jeff/Kurt segment: Very bad promo exchange between the three. <br /><br />Sarita/Rosita/Tara/Madison Rayne vs. Mickie James/Velvet Sky/Angelina Love/Winter: Not a great match. <br /><br />Mr. Anderson vs. Matt Morgan: Not a great match. <br /><br />Brian Kendrick vs. Suicide vs. Robbie E: Decent match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle/AJ Styles vs. Jeff Jarrett/Jeff Hardy: Solid main event. <br /><br />Not a good show. <br /><br />Score: 3 <br /><br />3/3/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical Immortal promo to start the show. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. Gunner/Murphy: Very average match. <br /><br />Sarita vs. Velvet Sky: Velvet finally gets her win over Sarita in a very bad two minute match. The aftermath made a six Knockout tag involving Angelina from <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Jersey</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Shore</placetype></place> too. <br /><br />Jeff/Karen wedding renewal: Very bad segment that had OJ as the flower girl. <br /><br />Rob Terry vs. Scott Steiner: Pretty bad match. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Matt Morgan: Another bad match. <br /><br />Wedding Renewal 2: This was as bad as the first. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Sting: Sting wins the world title in a very average match. <br /><br />Very bad show that was made to look better than it was due to it being outside the Impact zone. <br /><br />Score: 1 <br /><br />3/17/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very long and boring segment at times that made the main event. <br /><br />Madison Rayne vs. Alissa Flash: A 15 second squash though the Madison/Mickie promo afterwards was good. <br /><br />Pope segment: Very boring and lame segment that tried to put over Pope as a healer and ended with him beating up Okato. <br /><br />Kurt/Karen/Jeff Jarrett segment: Not a great segment as the Angle/Jarrett feud went south once the MMA challenges were over. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Murphy vs. Rob Terry: Very boring match with Gunner becoming TV champ. <br /><br />Hernandez/Sarita/Rosita vs. Matt Morgan/Winter/Angelina Love: Very rushed street fight. <br /><br />AJ Styles vs. Bully Ray vs. Mr. Anderson vs. Rob Van Dam: Good match which resulted in Bully powerbombing AJ off the stage. <br /><br />VERY bad show outside of the main event. <br /><br />Score: 2 <br /><br />3/24/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Your typical Immortal promo to start the show. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. <place w:st="on">Tara</place>: Pretty good match. <br /><br />D"Angelo Dinero vs. Okato: Very boring squash that was part of a bad angle. <br /><br />Fourtune/Immortal promo: Pretty good promo exchange as Flair and Bully Ray handled most of it. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Devon vs. Mexican America: Not a great street fight. <br /><br />Ink Inc. vs. Scott Steiner/Crimson: Not a great match. <br /><br />Rob Van Dam vs. Mr. Anderson: Very average main event. <br /><br />Not a great show. <br /><br />Score: 3.5 <br /><br />4/28/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Bad segment with Karen Jarrett having all the <place w:st="on">KOs</place> in the ring to find out who Kurt's "mistress" is. This really dragged... <br /><br />Angelina Love vs. Velvet Sky: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Anarquia vs. Chris Sabin: Not a great match. <br /><br />Christopher Daniels vs. Gunner: Solid TV title match. <br /><br />Anderson/Sting/RVD segment: Good promo exchange between the three. <br /><br />Crimson vs. Samoa Joe: Not a great match. <br /><br />Mickie promo: Pretty good promo putting over her KO title win. <br /><br />Sting vs. Bully Ray vs. Mr. Anderson: Pretty good main event. <br /><br />Very average show. <br /><br />Score: 5 <br /><br />5/19/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good opening segment. <br /><br />Sarita/Rosita/Madison Rayne vs. Mickie James/Tara/Miss Tessmacher: Not a great match. <br /><br />Kazarian vs. Abyss: Abyss wins the X Division title in a good match. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Samoa</place> Joe vs. Amazing Red: Squash. <br /><br />AJ/Dreamer segment: Okay at best as I couldn't buy Dreamer as a heel. <br /><br />Angle/Jarrett segment: This was good to build their Slammiversary match. <br /><br />Matt Hardy/Eric Bischoff vs. Generation Me: Bad match with Bischoff pinning Max Buck CLEAN. <br /><br />Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love/Winter: Velvet wins a very bad handicap match. <br /><br />Flair/Roode segment: Very good promo segment. <br /><br />Final segment: Sting cuts a good promo until <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Anderson</place></city> attacks him while dressed as "surfer" Sting. <br /><br />Not a great show... the promos were mostly good but the matches were terrible and the X Division looked weak in their matches. Not good for the first "wrestling matters" show. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />5/26/11 Impact <br /><br />AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Bully Ray/Tommy Dreamer: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Scorpion Sitdown: <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Anderson</place></city>, dressed as surfer Sting, interviews Disco Inferno. Not a great segment as it gave off late WCW vibes. <br /><br />Velvet/ODB promo: Very bad promo exchange as it featured all the typical language degrading women and neither are the best promos in general. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett vs. Matt Morgan: Not a great match. <br /><br />Promo segment: Foley is revealed as a network executive and he makes Abyss vs. Kendrick for the X Division title later. Good segment. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. Winter: Solid match. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Brian Kendrick: Not a great match. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Eric Young: Gunner does the fingerpoke of doom to EY and loses by rollup when he goes to pin him. Bad segment due to redoing one of the key factors in WCW going out of business and booking Gunner to get outsmarted by Eric Young while being portrayed as a threat. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam: Very good main event. <br /><br />Not a good show for the second "wrestling matters" episode. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />6/2/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: A very bad ODB/Velvet brawl. <br /><br />Immortal promo: This was pretty good due to them exchanging with Beer Money and Alex Shelley. <br /><br />Matt Hardy vs. Crimson: Not a great match. <br /><br />Angelina Love vs. Miss Tessmacher: Not a great match. <br /><br />Mr. Anderson vs. Eric Young: <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Anderson</place></city> loses to EY in a bad match, who was dressed up as Great Muta. Not the way to build your title challenger. <br /><br />Kazarian vs. Brian Kendrick: Very good match that was interupted by Abyss. <br /><br />AJ/Ray promo: Very good promo exchange. <br /><br />Jeff Jarrett/Scott Steiner vs. Kurt Angle/Matt Morgan: Decent main event. <br /><br />Not a great show... weak matches and very bad booking. <br /><br />Score: 4 <br /><br />8/4/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between Anderson and Bully Ray. <br /><br />Madison Rayne vs. Miss Tessmacher: Not a great match. <br /><br />Devon vs. AJ Styles: Good match though <place w:st="on">Devon</place> beating AJ with a rollup in 4 minutes is bad booking. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Very boring match with Joe getting -10 points in the BFG series. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Robert Roode: Very good street fight. <br /><br />Austin Aries vs. Alex Shelley: Very good match. <br /><br />Rob Van Dam/Crimson vs. Scott Steiner/Gunner: Very dull main event. <br /><br />Angle/Sting contract signing: Okay at best... good mic work though not nearly enough conflict for a contract signing. <br /><br />Very average show... maybe a little below as it was very boring and the "Janetty" of Team 3D beating the face of TNA in 4 minutes is just stupid. <br /><br />Score: 4.5 <br /><br />8/11/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Not very good as <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Anderson</place></city>'s kicked out of Immortal WEEKS after joining it. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne: Very short and "eh" match. <br /><br />Brian Kendrick vs. Robbie E: This was more of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Beer Money vs. AJ Styles/Rob Van Dam vs. Devon/D'Angelo Dinero: Very good match. <br /><br />Angle promo: Angle explains why he turned heel... which didn't make a whole lot of sense as he aligned with Hogan, who is in the same stable as Jeff and Karen. <br /><br />Tara/Brooke Tessmacher vs. ODB/Jackie: Another match that was more about the angle around it. <br /><br />Jarrett promo: He brings out two Mexican landscapers and proceeds to mock their culture while they speak with stereotypical Mexican accents. Bad segment. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Bully Ray vs. Scott Steiner vs. Crimson: Dull main event with Crimson overcoming the odds against most of Immortal. <br /><br />Very angle-driven show that didn't work well at all. <br /><br />Score: 2<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9/15/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Sting/Flair promo exchange that made the main event. <br /><br />Mexican America vs. Devon/D'Angelo Dinero/Tara/Miss Tessmacher: Not a great match. <br /><br />Fourtune segment: Good segment that put over Roode as the #1 contender and made Roode vs. Kazarian for later. <br /><br />Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love: Not a great match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Matt Morgan: Not a great match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. Kazarian: Good match with Roode retaining his title shot. <br /><br />Sting vs. Ric Flair: Unfortunately, it was a bad match. <br /><br />Subpar episode to start the BFG build. <br /><br />Score: 4</div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9/22/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Not a great promo exchange between Sting and Hogan. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. Miss Tessmacher: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Austin Aries vs. Jesse Sorensen: Solid match. <br /><br />Angle/Roode/Storm segment: Very good promo exchange that made the main event. <br /><br />Mr. Anderson vs. Bully Ray/Jerry Lynn: Solid handicap match. <br /><br />AJ/Daniels segment: Very good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. James Storm: Very good main event. <br /><br />Pretty good Impact. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9/29/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good promo exchange to build the AJ/Roode match. <br /><br />Kid Kash vs. Jesse Sorensen vs. Alex Shelley vs. Zema Ion vs. Brian Kendrick: Good #1 contender's ladder match with Kendrick winning. <br /><br />Jarrett/Kazarian segment: Good promo exchange that resulted in Gunner attacking Kazarian. <br /><br />Hernandez vs. Jesse Neal: No match as Mexican America attacked Ink Inc. and spraypainted "MA" on them. Good segment. <br /><br />Madison Rayne vs. Tara: Not much of a match as it was more about <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Madison</place></city> flirting with Earl Hebner. <br /><br />Crimson/Joe segment: Good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />D'Angelo Dinero vs. Mr. Anderson: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. AJ Styles: Very good match with Roode retaining his title shot. <br /><br />Final segment: Hogan announces his "retirement" in a good promo. <br /><br />Very good Impact. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/6/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Beer Money promo to hype thrir match against each other. <br /><br />Kazarian vs. Gunner: Pretty good match because Kazarian carried it. <br /><br />Anderson/Ray promo: Very good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Mickie James/Velvet Sky vs. Winter/Madison Rayne: Pretty solid knockouts match. <br /><br />Bischoff/Hardy promo: Pretty good promo exchange that ends with Bischoff getting the Twist Of Fate. <br /><br />Crimson vs. Samoa Joe: Very boring match. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Bobby Roode: Very good match. <br /><br />Final segment: A very good Sting/Hogan promo exchange. <br /><br />Very good show. Good matches and excellent BFG build. <br /><br />Score: 9</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/13/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Angle/Roode promo exchange. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn/Christopher Daniels: Very solid match. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Matt Morgan: Very rushed match. <br /><br />Mexican America/Ink Inc. promo: Okay promo exchange... nothing terrible, nothing great. <br /><br />Austin Aries/Kid Kash vs. Brian Kendrick/Jesse Sorensen: Very solid match. <br /><br />Knockouts segment: Karen Jarrett gives a motivational speech to the KO title match competitors and bullies Velvet until a catfight starts. Good sement. <br /><br />Mr. Anderson vs. Scott Steiner: Not a great match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. Jeff Jarrett/Gunner: Pretty good handicap match. <br /><br />Sting/Hogan contract signing: Very good segment. <br /><br />Another very good show. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10/20/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Parts of it were good like the Storm part but it lasted 45 MINUTES. <br /><br />Winter/Angelina Love vs. Tara/Brooke Tessmacher: Pretty decent match. <br /><br />Jarrett/Hardy segment: Pretty good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Abyss vs. Gunner: Bad match and Gunner cut a bad promo before it too. <br /><br />Velvet promo: Velvet cut a solid promo until Karen came out, sent out Madison Rayne to teach her a lesson, and swerved her with Gail Kim instead. Good segment. <br /><br />Bischoff/Hogan promo: Not very good as it introduces Bischoff's son as a major character and he hasn't done anything to earn TV time yet. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. James Storm: While the match only lasted one minute, a TNA original won the world title and the celebration and Storm's promo really put over the win. <br /><br />VERY hit/miss show. While it wasn't as terrible as many said, it was a clear step down from the last several weeks of shows. <br /><br />Score: 5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">11/3/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Roode/Storm promo exchange to build the main event. <br /><br />Gail Kim/Madison Rayne vs. Tara/Miss Tessmacher: Good match with Gail/Madison winning the KO tag titles. <br /><br />Garett/Eric segment: Bad promo exchange as Garett isn't ready for a huge push at all. <br /><br />Jesse Sorensen vs. Austin Aries: Good match with Sorensen winning and gaining #1 contendership. <br /><br />Robbie E/Ronnie segment: Bad promo exchange that put Ronnie in a match next week. <br /><br />Bully Ray/Jeff Jarrett vs. Jeff Hardy/Mr. Anderson: Solid match. <br /><br />Morgan/Crimson segment: Decent promo exchange to build their Turning Point match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. James Storm: Very good TNA title match with Roode winning and turning heel. <br /><br />Very good show. Great story progression, lots of good wrestling, and made Roode champ in a role that he's a natural in. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">11/17/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Roode/Storm/AJ promo exchange. <br /><br />Robbie E vs. <place w:st="on">Devon</place>: Not a great match. <br /><br />Austin Aries/Kid Kash vs. Brian Kendrick/Jesse Sorensen: Pretty good tag match. <br /><br />Knockouts Gauntlet: Very good match with Mickie winning #1 contendership. <br /><br />Karen/Hardy segment: Good promo exchange. <br /><br />Crimson/Matt Morgan vs. Mexican America: Bad match with Morgan/Crimson winning the belts. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Garett Bischoff: Bad match with Garett winning again. <br /><br />Final segment: Very good Storm/AJ promo exchange that featured the return of Kurt Angle. <br /><br />Decent show after a PPV. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">11/24/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good Storm/Angle promo exchange to hype the main event elimination match. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Crimson vs. Mexican <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region>: Squash. <br /><br />Knockouts segment: Good promo exchange to make the Thanksgiving thong Thunder match. <br /><br />Angelina Love/Winter/Madison Rayne vs. Velvet Sky/Tara/Miss Tessmacher: Good match for the gimmick, in which the point of it was to be degrading for storyline purposes. <br /><br />Hardy/Jarrett segment: Good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Eric Young vs. Robbie E: Not a great match with Robbie T wearing the turkey suit after the match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Mr. Anderson/Jeff Hardy/Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Jarrett/Bully Ray/Bobby Roode/Christopher Daniels: Very good elimination main event. <br /><br />Pretty good show outside of the turkey suit stuff. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/22/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Hardy/Roode/Bully Ray promo exchange that made the main event. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Kazarian vs. Rob Van Dam/Christopher Daniels: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Zema Ion vs. Anthony Nese: Good match for the 2nd match in the best of three series with Nese winning. <br /><br /><place w:st="on">Tara</place> vs. Miss Tessmacher: Very bad match. <br /><br />Storm/Angle segment: Good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Eric Young/ODB vs. Shannon Moore/Anarquia: Bad match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode/Bully Ray vs. Jeff Hardy/Sting: <street w:st="on"></street>Solid streetfight main event. <br /><br />Solid show here. Good matches and feud progression. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12/29/11 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Surprisingly bad Madison/Sting promo exchange because of the raised voices, though it made the main event. <br /><br />Abyss/Scott Steiner vs. AJ Styles/Kazarian: Not a great match. <br /><br />Abyss/Ray segment: A good segment that made Abyss vs. Bully Ray at Genesis. <br /><br />Zema Ion vs. Anthony Nese: Good final match out of the series with Zema getting the title shot. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Douglas Williams: More of an angle than a match. <br /><br />Roode segment: Good promo exchange between him and his wife to get him more over as a heel. <br />Samoa Joe/Magnus vs. Eric Young/ODB: Bad match. <br /><br />Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam: Good match. <br /><br />Gail Kim vs. Mickie James: Very good main event with Gail retaining the KO title. <br /><br />Very average show bordering on decent. The second hour was better than the first. <br /><br />Score: 5.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/5/12 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good promo exchange that made the six man tag main event. <br /><br />Gail Kim/Madison Rayne vs. Traci Brooks/Mickie James: Solid tag match. <br /><br />Gunner vs. Rob Van Dam: Very boring match. <br /><br />Austin Aries/Kid Kash vs. Zema Ion/Jesse Sorensen: Pretty good match. <br /><br />AJ Styles/Kazarian vs. Samoa Joe/Magnus: Good match with Joe/Magnus becoming #1 contenders. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Abyss/James Storm vs. Bully Ray/Kurt Angle/Bobby Roode: Very good main event. <br /><br />Very good go-home show with lots of quality wrestling. <br /><br />Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/12/12 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Very good segment that made Roode/Hardy for the title as the main event. <br /><br />Matt Morgan/Crimson vs. Robbie E/Robbie T: Squash. <br /><br />Eric/Garett segment: Bad promo exchange as the feud just isn't clicking. <br /><br />ODB vs. Winter: Very bad match. <br /><br />Kazarian/Daniels/AJ segment: Decent promo exchange to build Kazarian's heel turn. <br /><br />James Storm vs. Kurt Angle: Very good match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode vs. Jeff Hardy: Very good main event with Roode retaining the belt. <br /><br />Pretty solid show, mainly because of the beginning and end. <br /><br />Score: 6</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/19/12 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Storm/Roode/Hardy promo exchange that made the main event. <br /><br />Gunner vs. AJ Styles: Decent match. <br /><br />Crimson vs. Magnus: Squash. <br /><br />Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne: Very good cage match. <br /><br />Aries/Shelley segment: Good promo exchange between the two. <br /><br />Eric Young vs. Angelina Love: More of an angle than a match, and a bad one at that. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. James Storm: Very good main event. <br /><br />Pretty good show. <br /><br />Score: 7.5</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1/26/12 Impact <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Roode/Ray/Hardy/Storm brawl. <br /><br />Tara vs. Velvet Sky vs. Mickie James: Pretty decent match with <place w:st="on">Tara</place> winning and becoming #1 contender. <br /><br />Alex Shelley vs. Zema Ion: Solid match. <br /><br />Eric Young/ODB vs. Angelina Love/Winter: Terrible match. <br /><br />AJ/Daniels/Kazarian segment: Good promo exchange between the three. <br /><br />Samoa Joe vs. Matt Morgan: Not a great match. <br /><br />Bobby Roode/Bully Ray vs. James Storm/Jeff Hardy: Good tables match main event. <br /><br />Another good show. <br /><br />Score: 7</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2/2/12 Impact</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Opening segment: Great promo exchange that made the AAO main event and the two main events of the show.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Samoa Joe/Magnus vs. Crimson/Matt Morgan: Pretty solid match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Eric/Garett segment: Meh... Garett should be developed in OVW rather than pushed all the way to the top because of his last name.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Austin Aries vs. Mark Haskins: Very solid match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">James Storm vs. Bobby Roode: Very good match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Gail Kim vs. <place w:st="on">Tara</place>: Solid match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Garett/Eric segment: Hogan's announced as Garett's trainer. Two Garett segments in one show...</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">James Storm vs. Bully Ray: Very good main event.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Very good episode in the <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">UK</country-region></place> due to good matches and a great crowd.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Score: 8</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2/9/12 Impact</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Opening segment: Good promo exchange that made the main event.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels: Very good match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Joe/Magnus promo: Very good promo that results in a brawl between them and Morgan/Crimson.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Austin Aries vs. Alex Shelley vs. Douglas Williams: Very good match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Hogan/Eric/Garett segment: More of the usual, which isn't good.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Mickie James vs. Velvet Sky: This was a decent match.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sting/James Storm vs. Bobby Roode/Bully Ray: Very good main event.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Great show outside of the Bischoff stuff.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Score: 9</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3/1/12 Impact</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Opening segment: Very good Angle/Hardy promo exchange.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels/Kazarian: Pretty good match.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ODB vs. Madison Rayne: Very average match.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Roode/Bully Ray/Aries segment: Good promo exchange that ended up making the main event.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Zema Ion vs. Shannon Moore: Solid match.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mickie James/Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love/Sarita: Pretty good match.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bobby Roode/Bully Ray/Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe/Magnus/James Storm: Very goos main event.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Excellent show.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Score: 9 </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5/1/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good. <br /><br />John Morrison vs. Shelton Benjamin: Good match despite Morrison having no reason for the sudden face turn. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. Kane vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho elimination match: Great match. <br /><br />Layla/Eve danceoff: Boring and really pointless... <br /><br />MVP vs. Dolph Ziggler: Solid match despite the MVP/The View stuff. <br /><br />Edge vs. CM Punk: Great match. <br /><br />Great show. Lots of good wrestling and the only bad part was Layla/Eve. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/8/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Mike Knox: Decent because Truth was there to carry it. <br /><br />Michelle McCool vs. Gail Kim: Solid match. <br /><br />John Morrison vs. Charlie Haas: Good match. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Edge: Good match though not as good as the previous week. <br /><br />Layla/Eve arm wrestling: Boring... <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Great Khali: Boring... <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho: Great match. <br /><br />Good show. Not as good as last week as the Layla/Eve stuff AND Ziggler/Khali dragged the show down a bit but still full of really good matches. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />5/15/09 Smackdown <br /><br />John Morrison/CM Punk vs. WGTT: Great match. <br /><br />Edge/Jericho segment: Really good. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Ricky Ortiz: Complete squash. <br /><br />Hardy promo: Decent at best... good writing but Jeff's really bad on the mic. <br /><br />Gail Kim/Melina vs. Michelle McCool/Alicia Fox: Solid match. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Jimmy Wang Yang: Decent match though the winner was obvious from the start. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Mike Knox: Same as last week but with the face winning instead. <br /><br />Edge vs. Chris Jericho: Great match and aftermath. <br /><br />Really good show. Great storyline progression and only the stupid Hardy/Ortiz squash (did Hardy even NEED it?) sucked. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />5/22/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Pretty good. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin/Charlie Haas/Ricky Ortiz vs. John Morrison/Cryme Tyme: Good whenever Ortiz wasn't in it. <br /><br />Michelle McCool vs. Gail Kim: Solid match. <br /><br />Rey interview: Really good. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk: Good match. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. R-Truth: Solid match. <br /><br />Edge vs. Jeff Hardy: Great match. <br /><br />Good show. A show with no bad parts obviously gets a perfect score. <br /><br />Score: 10 <br /><br />6/5/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin vs. John Morrison: Good match. <br /><br />Jericho/R-Truth segment: Solid but it was one of those "one thing isn't like the other" moments. Truth hardly had anything going for him at the time. <br /><br />Chris Jericho vs. R-Truth: Solid match. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Umaga: Good match. <br /><br />Melina/Gail Kim/Eve Torres vs. Michelle McCool/Layla/Alicia Fox: solid match. <br /><br />The Great Khali vs. Dolph Ziggler: Boring... <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. Edge: Great match. <br /><br />Another really good show. Great storyline progression, good matches, and only Khali/ziggler really sucked. <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />6/12/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Really good. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Great Khali: Boring... <br /><br />Eve Torres/Melina vs. Layla/Michelle McCool: Good because the two girls whose names start with "m" were THAT good in this match. <br /><br />John Morrison/R-Truth vs. WGTT: Solid match. <br /><br /><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jericho</place></city> promo: Great promo with Rey's mask in his hand. <br /><br />CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho: Great match. <br /><br />Edge vs. Jeff Hardy: Really good though not as good as the match before it. <br /><br />Really good show despite the broadcast being in poor quality (everything was in slow motion). <br /><br />Score: 9 <br /><br />6/19/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Great segment. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho: Decent at best because it was pretty short. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. Great Khali: Boring... <br /><br />Melina vs. Alicia Fox: Very sloppy match and the attack by Michelle bumps it up a bit. <br /><br />Edge/Morrison promo: Very good. <br /><br />Edge vs. John Morrison: Great match. <br /><br />Shelton Benjamin/Charlie Haas/Ricky Ortiz vs. R-Truth/Cryme Tyme: Decent at best. <br /><br />Jericho/Mysterio promo: Great segment. <br /><br />Rey Mysterio vs. CM Punk: Good match. <br /><br />Solid show. Although this was a better broadcast than last week the show itself was a slight step down with Khali/Dolph and Melina/Alicia being weak matches. <br /><br />Score: 8 <br /><br />6/26/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Decent at best. <br /><br />R-Truth vs. Shelton Benjamin: Good match. <br /><br />Michelle McCool/Alicia Fox vs. Melina/Gail Kim: Solid match. <br /><br />John Morrison vs. CM Punk: Great match. <br /><br />Jeff Hardy/Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Jericho/Edge: Great cage match. <br /><br />Awesome show. Some solid PPV build and no bad parts mean the obvious. <br /><br />Score: 10</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7/3/09 Smackdown <br /><br />Opening segment: Good Punk/Hardy promo exchange. <br /><br />Finlay vs. Ricky Ortiz: Squash. <br /><br />Dolph Ziggler vs. R-Truth: Pretty good match. <br /><br />Kane vs. Rey Mysterio: Good match. <br /><br />Cryme Tyme vs. Hart Dynasty: Decent tag match. &