Welcome to Raw is Predictable! While being predictable is not necessarily a bad thing, when you can see something coming a mile away and there still are dozens of clues and hints, it kind of takes the fun out of the adventure. Thats what happened Monday night, as Raw plowed through another three-hour program that was about as mysterious as the end to a whodunit movie after youve seen the film five times. At the same time, WWE is doing a decent job of setting the table for Survivor Series, with the five-on-five traditional elimination match almost complete and two other matches set, with a WWE Tag Team Championship match also likely. There have been PPVs where the main matches werent booked until the go-home Raw. The elimination match will probably eat up one-third of Survivor Series when entrances are factored in, so getting that booked is key. The Bray Wyatt-Dean Ambrose feud is shaping up as the secondary main event and could be a show-stealer if allowed to develop properly. Overall, Raw continues down its path of mediocrity, offering flashes of good, glimpses of bland and smatterings of godawful. This is why they invented the DVR to turn three hours into a smidge over two by trimming the excess. So lets see what Raw had to offer.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
