WWE Monday Night RAW rolls into Omaha, Nebraska tonight with the final red brand stop before Backlash, and for once, the show does not need to manufacture urgency. The urgency is already there. Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu have to stand in the same ring and sign the contract for a World Heavyweight Championship match … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW felt like a show trying to do two things at once: push WWE Backlash into focus and clean up the creative mess left behind after WrestleMania. Some of it worked. Some of it dragged. The best parts of the night were clear: Bron Breakker verbally cooking Seth Rollins, Jacob … Read more
WWE needed last night’s RAW after WrestleMania to feel like a reset, a statement, and a shot of adrenaline after a WrestleMania weekend that a lot of fans came away from calling overproduced, ad-heavy, and a little too polished for its own good. Instead, WWE gave us a show that was useful more than electric. … Read more
WWE needed WrestleMania 42 Night 2 to deliver in the worst way after a Night 1 that felt flat, overproduced, and way too corporate for a show that is supposed to be the biggest spectacle in wrestling. Thankfully, Night 2 was a lot better. It still had some of the same problems that hung over … Read more
WrestleMania 42 Night 2 has a real chance to be the stronger half of WWE’s biggest weekend. Night 1 delivered title changes, two major returns, a headline-grabbing pregnancy announcement, and a chaotic Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton main event that kept the feud alive even after the bell. It also drew plenty of criticism for … Read more
Houston, Texas is a wrestling city. CM Punk said so himself last night, invoking the ghost of Harley Race in the middle of the Toyota Center, and the crowd knew exactly what that meant. With two weeks remaining on the road to WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, the penultimate episode of Raw before the Showcase … Read more
With just two Raws remaining before WrestleMania 42 hits Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, WWE arrives at the Toyota Center in Houston tonight with real business still left on the table. Three matches are official, the final two WrestleMania slots are expected to be filled, and Seth Rollins opens the show responding to Gunther’s calculated … Read more
Last night’s WWE Monday Night RAW from Madison Square Garden was built to feel major, and in the moment it absolutely did. The crowd was hot, the star power was obvious, and WWE loaded the show with enough title matches, returns, attacks, and WrestleMania developments to make the episode feel important from start to finish. … Read more
With WrestleMania 42 now less than a month away, this episode of WWE Monday Night RAW should have felt focused, urgent, and loaded with purpose. Instead, RAW felt like a show with a lot happening but not enough truly connecting the way it should. There were bright spots. Oba Femi continued to look like a … Read more
With WrestleMania 42 now just 39 days away, WWE had a clear mission on Monday Night RAW last night in Seattle: stop circling its biggest stories and finally push a few of them forward with conviction. In that sense, this was a consequential episode. Bayley earned a Women’s Intercontinental Championship opportunity against AJ Lee, Penta … Read more
