6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 11th)

An eventful but dull episode for everyone not named Dean Ambrose.

By Scott Carlson /

Last week, WWE put on a quality Raw with good matches, surprises and a hot crowd. Naturally, that effort was rewarded with one of Raw€™s lowest ratings in years. So with ratings in a freefall, WWE on Monday night turned to the one trick the company pony knows €“ authority figures. But does Triple H equal ratings? We€™ll have to wait to find out. In the meantime, Raw was in go-home mode (already) for WWE€™s next PPV, Payback. We learned the fate of one champion, saw the heart of another, witnessed a burial, watched wrestlers previously buried try to brush off the dirt and saw people still stumped by an old tag team rule. It certainly was an eventful Raw, but nowhere near the level of last week€™s performance. (That probably means ratings will go up.) As with many episodes of Raw, there were two hours of good material in here, but unfortunately, Raw is three hours long. That gives us some brutal segments with confusing booking and bad writing. Sadly for the fans who made it through the entire episode of Raw, the ending looked a lot like last week, so unless you€™re from Cincinnati, you easily could have skipped it. So what rose up and what fell apart? Let€™s find out how the go-home Raw for Payback broke down.