WWE RAW Review: 5 Things We Learned (5/12/2014)

We are well on the proverbial "road" towards the Payback PPV that will air Sunday June 1st, 2014. Now with just two RAW broadcasts left to go until the next big WWE PPV event, all eyes are on RAW to see how things are starting to come together in order to help wrap up the rather tasty leftovers from 2014's Extreme Rules just several weeks ago. And things are so very much starting to come together! In the past, this is the time of year for WWE that only occurs and slows things down to a crawl for our viewing pleasure: a lull in great content for their programming creative direction, with no large-scale pay per view to build towards between Wrestlemania and Summerslam. Typically this is the time of year when we see new things tried via WWE Creative, and most of the time those things fail. But this year, it just feels different. With The Shield hitting on every single cylinder and making a huge babyface name for themselves, WWE is red-hot right now. The Evolution reunion is turning into something that works even if just for the sake of building The Shield up as huge heroes, and it is working very, very well. Daniel Bryan also continues to come along very nicely in his starring role as WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Mix in a dab of trying this here or that over there, and WWE has some nice programming for us right now, as they push ahead through what is normally a boring, albeit often needed, down time for them. So as we are just over three weeks out from Payback 2014, let's stop and take a look at the 5 things we learned following this wees RAW broadcast, one of which is a WWE landscape changer for the foreseeable future:
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