WWE Raw Review - 2nd June 2008

After the lowest viewing ratings in some time for Raw last week WWE really needed to start bringing their A-Game to get the ratings back. We had the fall out from One Night Stand and Mr. McMahon’s Million Dollar Madness to look forward to so I was intrigued to see what Raww was going to be like this week.

Good Points

Good development in the main event scene

After Randy Orton breaking his collarbone at One Night Stand HHH opened the show to inform everyone he had ended the era of Orton. This meant we needed a new challenger so John Cena and Jeff Hardy came down to the ring to both stake their claim for hwy they should be the number one contender. This created the headline match of Raw between Hardy and Cena with the winner getting a shot at HHH. Good to Cena not stuck with JBL and to see Hardy getting his push back after his recent suspension.

Burchill / Kennedy feud

Great to see WWE investing time in this feud. We thought we were going to get a match between the two but Burchill pulled out due to Katie lea having her first match later in the show in his place Umaga stepped into face Mr. Kennedy. This left Burchill with a chance to do a run in and blindside Kennedy in typical heel fashion. Not to be out done later in the show Kennedy attacked Burchill when he came down to celebrate his sisters’ victory.

Chris Jericho turning

Chris Jericho is going through an interesting character progression in the mid card of Raw. After coming back as the fan favourite he has now on many occasions showed heel or close to heel like qualities turning and flipping on some of his opponents. This has been teased for some time now and I for one am looking forward to when he fully lets go.

Bad Points

Mr. McMahon’s Million Dollar Madness

It’s a good way to get people to watch as people will watch for a chance of winning a million but from a televisual view point it sucks. What s entertaining about someone announcing how to win a million dollars. If there was an interesting task that entrants had to complete to win the money that would be one thing but all they have to do is register on WWE.com.

Night off for HHH

After the first fifteen minutes HHH effectively had the night off with only brief non wrestling appearances throughout the show. With both TNA and WWE at the moment they start to need using their champions better on TV.

Lance Cade and Murdoch

No one really knows why they are feuding, Murdoch likes to sing Lance Cade has no character or personality whoever came up with the idea of putting these two against each other.

Overall

No substance. Without Orton now we are left with only two big drawing main event stars and a weak to non existent mid card. The WWE aren’t going to create any new stars over night so they really need to step up their creative ideas to keep us entertained.