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Another week, another episode of Monday Night RAW aka a 2 hour podcast for an angry bearded white guy.  Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins spoke with Alpha Academy and………..  It led to a stunner from Kevin Owens to Chad Gable  I can't criticize the way Gable says thank you because after all, he's a chad.  The segment followed with a decent tag team match between two former rivals and the Academics.  And like their dating life, the Alphas took an L here.  This is the part where I would be mad at the tag champs getting pinned but those titles, as well as the entire tag division, are so meaningless, I don't have the energy to do so.  T-Bar vs Omos.  T-Bar lost a match and Omos can't wrestle for sh*ts. In other news, the colour of blood is red.  Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley And Liv Morgan vs Becky Lynch, Doudrop And Nikki A.S.H.  Bianca once again proves that she owns all of the EST by leading her team to victory with the KOD on Nikki Ash Ketchum....

 It's been a few weeks since I recapped the visual Nyquil that is Monday Night RAW and it didn't make me question my daily consumption so that's nice, I guess.  Paul Heyman Announces That Brocky Brock Is…….  Defending the title against Bob the lash man on March 5th at Madison Square Garden.  I don't mind a rematch since their previous encounter was decent and there's no way in Joe Pesci's universe that Bobby is taking back the big WWE belt.  The Street Profits vs Alpha Academy.  A decent tag team affair between all four talented individuals.  The academy of alphas defeated the former tag champs thanks to Otis's weight crashing down on Montez Ford which led to Chad Gable grabbing Ford's foot for the victory.  Finn Balor And Tomasso Ciampa vs Dolph Ziggler And Robert Roode.  Ciampa's theme song should be the main theme for Monday Night RAW in that no one will survive the visual atrocity that fans consume on a weekly basis.  He led his tag ...

Monday Night RAW had the "it's not bad" type of episode this week. That's it. That's my take on the red white ropes brand.  Kid Brock Looking Like A Cowboy, Baby!  Massive apologizes for that headline above that is referring to a man that appreciates his "southern heritage".  This opening act was an actual weigh-in for both men. The WWE champion also weighs in on how Bob isn't walking out of the Royal as a 2-time champion because Bobby WHO!?  I enjoyed the way Paul allows Brook Laser to embrace his antics by letting the big man talk. It's actually a fresh way to spice up Heyman and Lesnar's overall chemistry.  Bianca Belair vs Queen Zelina Vega.  Why has this match lasted for more than a minute? I have no idea since Belair could've easily defeated one half of the women's tag champion with ease.  At least the EST won the match with the KOD so that does it, I guess?  Kevin Owens vs Damian Priest For The United States Championship.  Fina...

You would think because I posted a RAW review early, the episode is actually good, right?  I yawned twice instead of 4 or 5 times so that's nice, I guess.  Images via WWE.com   Brock and Brocker Walked Near A Tree. At The Rumble, We're Going To See The One Two Three.  What I was trying to say is that both Lesnar and Lashley interacted with each other for the very first time. And the WWE champion wasted no time to roast Bob (kinda like the Distraction podcast every week).  Side note, Bobby said before all of this that the Hurt Business is no more to which my question is, why did they reunite the stable several months ago? Just like the Kevin Owens pie incident, we'll never know the answer to that question.  To confirm that the Hurt Business is DELETED off of their narrative hard drive, Lashley took out both Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander.  All I can say about it is, utilize your f**king talented performers, world wrestling entertainment!  RK...

 It's the first RAW review of 2022 and my 4th year continuing the war in professional wrestling bullsh*t which also kicked off my sad and miserable adulthood.  With that being said, this week's episode was not terrible.  Brocky Brock Reunited With His Well-suited Funky Bunch.  The best part? Lesnar wanted us to acknowledge his Viking roots with his beard and hair.   Paul Heyman went over the challengers for the fatal 4 way number one contender's match (aka the OG OG OG match at last night's day 1 show) in the most Paul Heyman way possible in that he praises you then proceeds to sh*t talk about you kinda like Tony Khan.  Later that night, Bob Lashley was crowned as the winner thanks to the almighty spear. While I would've preferred a Bobby Lashley and Brock Lesnar match to happen at Wrestlemania, I don't mind seeing it a few months before just because it's been a dream match of mine throughout most of my wrestling fandom.  Paul Heyman's promos are ...

Another week, another watered down and downright mid-episode of Monday Night RAW. The show once again, did bring the yawn. A LOT of it, in fact.  Images via WWE.com   Bobby Lashley Wants A Title Opportunity.  The Bob of all Lashleys is added into the WWE championship title picture if he defeats Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and my man, Big Eoooo Wangston which he eventually did.  Like pretty much all of the white dudes with podcast reviews of Monday Night RAW longer than an AEW Rampage episode, I'm not a fan of the champion taking a pin for the sake of adding someone into a title match.  The word that comes to mind with that booking decision is "uninspiring".  Otis vs Riddle.  In a backstage segment before this match took place, Randall wasn't a fan of Riddle's idea of wearing a light brown blazer with the WWE logo but he did tell Riddle that if he defeats Otis then Randall wouldn't mind Riddle wearing that blazer in the near future. I'm not gonna lie, I d...

This was an eventful episode of Monday Night RAW, a few of which for the wrong reasons.  That's it. That's the intro. Images via WWE.com   Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor.  Before the match, Rollins glowed about the WWE championship match at *sigh* Day One (for real, y'all can't bring back New Year's Resolution?)  Side note, I can't help but look at how much of an afterthought Finn Balor is. He's literally replaced Ricochet's role on RAW as being kind there.  I will say, the match was good though. "I didn't realize I almost quoted Fred Hampton with the revolutionary line" Seth Rollins wins with the stomp.  Becky Lynch And Liv Morgan Contract Signing.  This entire segment revolved around Becky Lynch wanting Morgan to have a chip on her shoulder and Liv told Becky to shut up for once (I, for one, also love telling Beckys to shut up).  And then it went South as Liv Morgan brought up how if it wasn't for her greedy contract, her friends would st...

 Monday Night RAW was, like last night's Survivor Series PPV, pretty f'ing skippable.  Images via WWE.com   The entire narrative of this episode revolves around Vince McMahon's egg which sounds so weird to say out of context.  So, who stole that egg? Well, thanks to Sami Zayn's "sources", the person that took The Rock's golden egg (again, so odd to say it without context) from the Netflix film, Red Notice is Austin Theory and he got a WWE championship opportunity later in the episode. I do agree with Vince McMahon. No one likes a snitch.  Looking at you, SEAN. ROSS. SAPP or any other wrestling journalist!  Big E and Austin Theory did deliver a decent match and it ended with Big E retaining the championship due to the good old distraction finish from Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens arguing on the outside which sidelined Austin Theory.  It led to a good old brawl between Seth and Big E while Kevin Owens somehow didn't get involved in all of that. Nothing to...

The reign of good Monday Night RAWs has kinda come to an end?  While it wasn't the most offensive thing I've seen since Randy Orton vomiting out badly burned hot choco, I thought this week's RAW was just there. Nothing really of substance happened here.  Image via WWE.com Kevin Owens Explains His Reasoning For Beating Up Big E.  After Kevin Owens basically said that he's tired of being humble and lowkey, Big E took a beating from The Usos and Riddle came to the big man's rescue which led to a tag team match because that's what you do after seeing multiple people fighting apparently.  During the tag team match, shenanigans happened with Big E and Sethy Rollings and Randal Keith showed up to help his tag team partner, Riddle which led to a 6 man tag team match because apparently somebody asked for a sequel?  Finally, after several and several minutes of stretching something that should've lasted 15 minutes at the very least, we got a clean victory from the hee...

 I've enjoyed Monday Night RAW as of late and if I've read that sentence as recent as a few months ago, I would probably call it "blasphemous".  The question is, did this episode continue its process of good episodes? The answer is yes. This episode was actually good if not great.   Images via WWE.com   Seth Rollins Was Like, "I Know Kevin Owens Is A POS"  The headline above pretty much described the entire in-ring promo segment from Drippy Jesus other than the backstage segment in which Kevin convinces Big Cocoa Butter Rubber E that he isn't the guy he used to be.  And Rollins ran as soon as Kevin Owens showed up. Before the main event match happened, Rollins "came clean" to Big E saying that what happened last week was a plan being set up by himself and Owens. After a good back and forth between those two men, the accidental collision between Kevin Owens and Big E, led to a count-out loss for the prizefighter.  And then, Kevin followed Shotzi...

The red brand delivered a solid episode this week just like the rest of the recent episodes as of late.  I don't know if the white ring ropes had something to do with the recent quality of episodes or not.  Either way, I'll consume it, I guess.  Images via WWE.com   Becky Lynch vs Bianca Belair For The RAW Women's Championship.  A match that should've main evented the show given the performers and even the championship itself.  To the surprise of no one, Becky Lynch retained the raw women's championship due to Lynch pushing Belair onto the top turnbuckle followed by a roll-up.  The finish was kinda bleh to me. Don't get me wrong, I like the match and I don't hate Belair taking a loss at some point because, in professional wrestling, a wrestler either wins or loses (unless your name is Shayna Baszler in that you lose pretty much all the damn time).  But, After all of the build-up and the intrigue surrounding the match, the finish felt so flat and u...