IYO: Should Monday Night RAW go back to 2 hours?

[GD]

Although the first few episodes were fun, the quality of content has degrading ever since. It's also very exhausting. I usually watch it with my roommate and we have a hard time staying awake till eleven because we are babies.

Here are the current "story arcs" on RAW...lets see how they develop and grow.

Foley's team will face off Punk's team in a classic Survivor Series elimination match in order to settle their differences

Foley's team will face off Ziggler's team in a classic Survivor Series elimination mtach for some reason. Maybe because the ppv requires a mandatory classic elimination match.

Mike "The Miz" Mizanin doesn't want to be Team Punk anymore. He loses yet another IC title match. After the match he extends his hand for a handshake only to get dropkicked out of the ring by Kofi Kingston who is suppose to be more grounded and mean now(according to Jim Ross and Michelle Cole).

CM Punk will defend the spinner belt against Ryback and Juaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Cena for better pay-per-view buyrates.

Sheamus doesn't care that he lost the World title as long as he gets to fight.

R-Truth is taking easy on the delusional Little Jimmy thang and has Antonio Cesaro's number.

The Vickie Guerrero - John Cena - AJ Lee angle is enjoyable because the WWE loves to judge your intelligence. It's also very original.

Wade Barrett refuses to join Team Punk (now Team Ziggler) but decides to join it anyway because he wants Paul Heyman to owe him one...which will probably be forgotten.

D Bryan gets an Austin like pop and gets defeated in a couple of minutes. Classic WWE logic.

Brad Maddox is Hunter's new pet project after Senor Sin Cara. If he defeats Ryback on RAW next week, he will be awarded a million dollar

SPOILER: show

contract (kayfabe) by Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Of course he is going to lose and Punk is not going to interfere.


Kaitlyn pins the Divas' Champion of the World Eve Torres. Big whoop! I don't mind. Kaitlyn is hot. Nothing special happening in the divas division. Aksana gives me "hooker" vibes.

For the first time in a blue moon, Alberto Del Rio loses a match to a mid carder. He also doesn't mind joining the team of a person who defeated him for the WWE Championship. He is such a good sport that he goes ahead and claps for his (Punk's) long title reign and future one-year celebration at the same PPV where he lost the belt in the first place. He might have something to do with Rosa in the future. Nice

3MB keep on dominating RAW as Heath Slater (w/Jinder Mahal) gets the biggest victory of his career by pinning one of the Uso twins (Jimmy). It was not at all boring.

Unfortunately, there isn't anything that has me remotely interested. But since anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation, I am compelled to watch it.

[#1-norm-fan]

Originally Posted by Guru Dave D Bryan gets an Austin like pop and gets defeated in a couple of minutes. Classic WWE logic.

That brings up another thing that bugs me with WWE's lack of understanding on how to build guys up. No one outside the main event looks better than anyone else. It seems like everyone is liable to lose to anyone else at any given time and it won't be that big of a deal. They did it a lot with Punk during his face run as champ. The guy was THE WWE CHAMPION and he lost constantly. Made no sense for him to be champion considering he was basically 50/50 to win any match he competed in on Raw. It makes all the wrestlers look like a big pool of mediocrity and it makes the matches boring and meaningless.

That's why I at least love what they're doing with Ryback. They actually have a guy on the roster who is being booked as not being equal to everyone else and if he does get pinned, it's not just gonna be shitty, boring, interchangeable outcome #742. It's gonna be a huge fucking deal.

If there was less "everyone beats everyone else" on the mid-card, you could have outcomes actually mean something there too.