WWE Raw Review - 14th July 2008

With one week to go to the Great American Bash we had three major feuds developing those being CM Punk vs. Batista, JBL vs. John Cena and Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels. Add to this you have Kane going crazy and still no Vince of general Manager to keep things in check.

Good Points

Shane and Stephanie may be coming to Raw

One of my Raw highlights was the fact that Shane and Stephanie started the show by saying they be coming to Raw next week if there was no change to the out of control nature of the show. I for one would be glad to see Shane back on our screens and I hope it happens. It’s good to be able to see what we would have seen if it hadn’t been for the Benoit incident last year.

Great Ending

One of the best Raw endings in some time this week as JBL put an exclamation point on his feud with John Cena. There has been some great heat built between these two over the last weeks and the cliff-hanger ending to raw is getting people wondering what is going to happen at Great American Bash.

More TV time for Katie Lea and Burchill

Great to see both of them getting full-blown matches on Raw. Hopefully the feud between Burchill and Kofi will continue despite the result of the match between these two on Raw. I think Katie lea and Mickie James can have some more great matches and this feud will really help push the women’s division.

Bad Points

Punk pushed down the card

To give CM Punk any chance of winning people over you have to keep pushing him not booking him way down the card. His match with Kane was thought up out of nowhere and happened around the hour mark of the show. The match was used to get Batista over as he came out and beat on both of them but Batista didn’t need to be built as it is CM Punk who everyone has doubts about not Batista.

Time given to the wrong guys

Tonight it was the turn of Paul London, Snitsky, Jamie Noble, Jim Duggan and Santino who used up valuable time. All of these guys can be used but they need to be used properly and not just as time fillers.

First thirty minutes too chaotic

I like the unpredictability factor in the WWE at the moment but they seem to be having a frantic first few minutes which then calms down for the rest of the show. They need to make the first minutes a little less frantic and pace it through out the show.

Overall

A solid show only down point was not pushing CM Punk but they pushed the other feuds nicely and had a cliff-hanger ending which is always good before a PPV and was reminiscent of the late 90s. Lets hope great American Bash delivers.