5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (June 8)

If you can’t get enough Charlotte Flair in your WWE diet, then Raw Monday night was your Super Bowl. Buckle up and enjoy the show.

But if you feel like we’re getting Flair rammed down our collective throats across all three brands to the point where you want her to take a six-week sabbatical – at least from two of the brands – then you were probably groaning at the Poochie-level presence of the Queen. Charlotte was in the opening segment and match Monday night, had a mid-show interview, then closed Raw in a half-hour contest.

It’s the level of overkill where you wonder what WWE is thinking by overloading the go-home Raw before Backlash with a wrestler who isn’t on the card for next Sunday.

Beyond that, Raw featured the latest installment of the Street Profits/Viking Raiders competition, with no actual wrestling match announced. It also gave us the newest chapter of the Rey Mysterio/Seth Rollins feud, which is nowhere near reaching a revenge match.

Raw did deliver a pair of nice matches, including the always entertaining Charlotte versus Asuka, and they seemingly gave a wink toward the impossible build to the Edge/Randy Orton match.

Overall, this wasn’t a great episode, as even the “crowd” felt deflated at times. It had a few bright spots, but not enough to make this required viewing.

With that said, let’s get to it…