10 Reasons WWE RAW 25 Was Such A Letdown

10. Terrible Matches

Look, I know you guys were paying tribute to RAW's roots by having some of it take place in the Manhattan Center, but you do realize the in-ring quality has vastly improved since 1993, right?

From Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt's sub-five minute encounter to an overlong, heat-killing eight-woman tag match, this special episode of the most popular wrestling show of all time seemed to have no interest in putting on good professional wrestling.

In-ring, the only salvageable thing was Roman Reigns and Miz's IC title match, but even then, it didn't feel like a monumental match so much as a perfunctory freeing of Roman from the midcard. All the other matches were heatless and devoid of in-ring spectacle.

The Manhattan Center matches were the most egregious. Here we had Woken Matt Hardy vs. Bray Wyatt, as well as the Bullet Club vs. the Revival in front of a hardcore Hammerstein ballroom crowd, and they were just dead. Hell, at least during the WWECW debacles, they were invested enough to insult the wrestlers and yell, "Change the channel."

This show wasn't worth expending even that energy.