5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 13)

Women carry Raw while Rollins/Rey, Ziggler drag show down.

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You can’t help but feel like WWE is on autopilot these days with these shows. With no organic reaction from fans to shape perception, things just sputter along week to week, with these diminished rosters continuing to muddle through and have somewhat repetitive battles amongst themselves.

Monday’s episode of Raw was the go-home show before The Horror Show at Extreme Rules, a PPV whose additional moniker could become infamous for all the wrong reasons if things go sideways with some of the matches. This is a PPV that wants us to believe Dolph Ziggler is a credible world title challenger and that Rey Mysterio and Seth Rollins are going to settle their differences by trying to rip each other’s eyeball out of its socket.

And yet, this was all part of Raw Monday night. Extreme Rules feels like a PPV that’s on the calendar, so they needed to fill it up. Throw together a couple uninspired feuds, book a few title matches, and voila! Instant PPV.

Unfortunately, an uninspired PPV makes for uninspired TV, so we get another middling episode of Raw to muddle through. It’s just been a long string of average to disappointing programs with nothing really standing out for a while now.

With that said, let’s get to it, starting with the negatives...

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.