The state of RAW: One fan's opinion

[USAUSA1]

You should re-name this the state of Pro Wrestling?

[DAMN iNATOR]

Originally Posted by USAUSA1 You should re-name this the state of Pro Wrestling?

No, he shouldn't. ECW right now, in my opinion, even seems to be a better product than RAW, and it's a Tuesday Night show that requires subscription to expanded cable as it airs on SyFy (hate that fucking new name -- gay...ANYway...as I was saying...), and the freakin champion is Dreamer, and everyone actually cares about that because as of right now it appears he's headed for a Fatal-4-Way in just under a week with people who actually DESERVE to main event (Shelton, Christian and Kozlov...maybe the last doesn't deserve to necessarily be in the mix, but he seems like the type of guy that will eventually climb the mountain sometime in the near future.)

SmackDown! is by far top notch of the industry's TV programs right now, but that's mainly due to the fact that it has a writer who isn't inept at making sure everyone who deserves their fair shot at at least being on-camera, and then determining how to use them on a week-by-week basis. Plus they also focus less on sketches and backstage stuff, and even the few minutes they spend with that has been quite entertaining lately...it's nice to see Cryme Tyme and Eve trying to "educate" people on street slang, kinda got mixed feelings about Jesse, though, part of me really REALLY wants to LMAO at him, but I can't, because the way they have him act is like a gay Vanilla Ice or something, I dunno. Also not really too excited with this "'Delicious' Pretty Ricky" crap with R-Truth. I hope they see that this really has adds very little if anything to the show, especially when the guy is still on TV as the rapper guy. But overall, yeah, SD! is first-rate. Kudos, boys.

Finally, last, and, sadly least, but somehow managing to make modest, but not significant strides, is TNA. I really don't know where to begin. I understand they're trying their asses off to provide some competition, but between only having a two-hour network cable channel show (iMPACT!), having unhealthy proportions of top notch to mid-card to lower card to jobber to curtain jerker wrestlers, a joke of a women's division, and a mediocre PPV scene 9.75 times out of 10, plus the fact that it seems like every show, they constantly bounce back and forth between matches, backstage lame-ass sketches, then having to see West or Tenay's mugs on-screen, and the occasional crappy video package, and you've got a product that only the TNA faithful since day one, and maybe a few select others, really care about at the moment (for instance, people who may like to follow former WWE alumni, and tune in just to see what they will do week after week or how far they will go in TNA). Overall it's still the "D" show, but surprisingly, only slightly worse than WWE RAW.