6 Reasons Last Night's WWE Raw Made You Change The Channel

By Scott Carlson /

2. Squashes And Meaningless Matches

Monday Night Raw boasted eight matches over three hours, which sounds like a wrestling fan€™s dream, but when you hear that five of the matches didn€™t last three minutes, you realize it wasn€™t a workrate type of show. Seriously, Rusev versus Zack Ryder, Adam Rose versus Titus O€™Neil, Jack Swagger versus Curtis Axel and a six-diva schmozz match. This could have been Wrestling Challenge or WWF Superstars in the late 80s, not Raw in 2014. And the three main matches? We had a tag match between Big Show/Mark Henry and the Wyatts that ended in a DQ, a tag match between Sheamus/Dolph Ziggler and Miz/Cesaro that ended with interference, and the six-man main event that left things where they started, with Cena declaring he€™s ready for his rematch.Sure, some small angles developed from the matches: Henry is going after Rusev, the Usos are going to end up in a title match with the Dust Brothers, and Swagger has moved on to Bo Dallas. But as mentioned before, if you€™re lacking well-written segments and a hot crowd, having subpar wrestling isn€™t going to get Raw back on track. A solid mid-card match might have put fans back in a good mood and salvaged things. Instead, we had Heath Slater getting beat up by Adam Rose€™s bunny.