5 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 19)

Ups...

5. Action, Action, Action

Go-home episodes of Raw often are talk-heavy, focusing on setting up the matches for the upcoming PPV rather than giving away PPV-quality matches on free TV. Even if we get a really good match on a go-home Raw, it’s a pretty safe bet that we haven’t gotten something like what we got Monday.

Raw kicked off Monday with a gauntlet match that lasted (including commercial breaks and brief respites between mini-matches) for about 100 minutes. Throw in the other two matches and you have two hours of wrestling on a three-hour program. That’s damn near unheard of.

Sure, 90% of the wrestling came from the gauntlet match, but as this column has mentioned before, let’s give credit to WWE for doing things differently occasionally, lest we frighten them off back to what’s familiar and comfortable.