5 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 2)
3. Going Home?
Really, this was the go-home Raw before WrestleMania?
The last Raw before a major PPV can be a mixed bag. If the storylines are all tied up, then WWE is wise to follow a Hippocratic Oath and do no harm. If there are some loose ends, then the goal is to tie them up so everything is ready.
But above all else, the biggest goal is to drive enthusiasm for the PPV. And while this is WrestleMania and there are a lot of huge matches on the card, it really felt like the build for just another PPV. Maybe that’s a function of having watched and dissected these episodes for years now, but it just didn’t feel like a huge deal.
Yes, we all know it has the potential to be an epic event, but the go-home Raw didn’t really hype it up any more than it already was. If Undertaker had showed up, then this would be a lot different. If Braun announced a huge surprise partner like Goldberg, that might have worked. But everything we knew coming out of Raw we mostly knew going into it.
Still looking forward to Sunday though…