Is Brian Gerwitz still the lead writer for Raw?
 

Or is he even on the writing team, for that matter? If not they6 should've fired his ass a long time ago. And dare I say, the writing has been on a huge upswing ever since Triple H and Shawn Michaels were given more power. (By God, I just defended Triple H. *shudders*)

Either way, he still deserves a huge bitchslap for the crap he bombarded me with in the past.

The only stroies that have been well booked on RAW were done by the talent in the feuds. Foley booked his whole deal with Orton and Evolution, and Jericho and Trish have been in charge of their story.

IMO the build to the World Title match at Mania was really weak, and its only seemed good because Benoit actually won.

There's nothing else really going on worth mentioning. So I dont see how the writing has been improved other than the fact that talent has stepped up to write their own stuff.

Yeah, and so far, Michaels vs. Benoit at Backlash is looking pretty weak too. If indeed that was going to be what happens, indicated by Bischoff's foreshadowing.

Yeah, it is. The Backlash website already has it as an official match.

Cool, thanks for pointing that out. If that's already the booked match, then they don't have too awful long. The whole thing about Bischoff saying, "If you don't get traded to SmackDown, I'll make it better by fixing you up with a title shot at Backlash," kind of makes no sense to me at all. Michaels was all like, "I think you just fixed my problem."

I know it's been neglected numerous times before, but there is usually a rematch clause for champs who just lost the strap. The whole feud is making less sense over time. Michaels fights Triple H a bunch of times, and even though the endings were controversial, he didn't once get the title off Trips (talking in the past few months). Then Benoit wins the Rumble, Michaels takes it upon himself to kick Benoit and "sign a contract" to put himself in the match.

Basically, his driving goal being that he wanted to settle it with Trips once and for all at 'Mania. Well, 'Mania rolls around, Benoit makes Trips tap, leaving Michaels not only at like his millionth unsuccessful attempt, but not even involved in the decision. So now instead of Triple H chasing his belt, we got Michaels who all the sudden is gonna forget about Triple H and go after Benoit's title... For no reason at all, other than, "I want to take what is most important to Triple H." Um, hello? If you're fighting the champ, feud with the fuc</>king champ. The belt ISN'T AROUND TRIPLE H'S WAIST RIGHT NOW.

Not to mention that Michaels and Benoit teamed up on RAW and totally owned Evolution together (the part where Benoit had the crossface on, and Michaels superkicked anyone who came in two break the hold was pretty sweet) without so much as a scuffle.

Shi</>t makes no sense. Benoit is gonna win clean, I think.

Yeah, I don't exactly see anything stellar lately. Besides the aforementioned HBK/Benoit "feud" are we going to see a Triple H/Edge program? Why? Because Bischoff is going to tell Hunter "You owe me for bringing you back to Raw and Edge embarassed me last week..so sic 'em!!" Great...

It's a wait and see thing, but the writing team needs ot get some stuff going for Backlash soon.