Let's see, I just checked the fall TV schedules on the major networks and I'm not gonna be missing anything special..................for now.

So if this is going to be 3 hours long, think creative/Vince will come around and just end the brand split? Gonna need some fresh faces to fill that extra hour.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Not too excited about it. Raw isn't good enough nowadays to warrant the pre-game hype.

IF they do it... knowing them, it will just be more crap, longer commercials, more recap footage, and upper card angles. No new storylines and new talent or deserving talent development. But who knows, they have been doing better for a while.

3 hour Raw's during Wrestlemania season would be great. All year round though I'm not sure. I'm not complaining however. I'd rather more Raw than less Raw. I won't be watching Raw live anymore anyway so I can just skip ads and anything I don't like when I watch it the next day recorded so it'll basically stay as a 2 hour show for me.

Ya pretty much for me too. I catch Raw usually the next day on YouTube without ads. Besides, if it is indeed just a pre-show then chances are the 2 hours of Raw may have less recaps.

May... probably not, though.

Great now I get to sit through another 45 minutes of ads no thanks.

I am real excited, but then again I have no life.

Just keep hearing the Nitro theme in my head...

Won't affect me much, I download Raw ad-free the following day, not like the old days trying to stay awake for Nitro's main event.

Great news. Even though I get home from work around 8:30 or 9 on Mondays.

Terrrrrrrrible idea.

not to be a broken record, but it does have a nitro feel to it. 3 hour nitros was the begining of the end for wcw. I dont think its gonna do anything but suck.

They should have a one hour HHH promo to kick off Raw like they used to do every week in 2003

I never got why when the WWE had three hour RAWs, they just didn't increase match length. It saves them writing more storylines and shit, which burns out people. Just let Dolph Ziggler take up 30 minutes wrestling every now and then. Longer RAWs justified.

I've always thought the perfect formula for a wrestling show was to have a PPV caliber match (A goof 20 minutes) between some upper mid-carders/main eventers who aren't John Cena every week and a followed by a gripping storyline development to end the show. Then fill the show before that with some Midcarder vs Midcarder matches, Upper Midcarder vs Lower Midcarder semi-squashes, non-wrestling storyline development and weekly showcase of the divas division. It means less meaningless matches where your main eventers are constantly losing as a lazy way of building storylines and it keeps the weekly TV intriguing while giving people a reason to watch the PPVs (A show FULL of those awesome matches, getting to see rare losses of upper tier guys, getting to see a guy like Cena in the ring.)

Awesome. More time hopefully to get a few more guys on camera instead of having a bunch of underused guys. :y:

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I CAN'T be the only one who remembers that match (almost 45 mins.)...

That match was awesome. The unexpected length of it on regular TV just a couple of weeks after they'd worked the Wrestlemania main event added to that probably. That should have been the Mania 23 match.