5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 8)
Braun and Roman continue to beat each other silly while Cesaro & Sheamus run the table.
Buckle for an action-packed three hours of live* (*the performances were live when they were taped before a studio audience) Monday Night Raw from London!
Raw delivered more misses than usual Monday night in terms of bigger whiffs. It was a mostly bland, dull show, with some good brawls mixed in. Ultimately, though, you could opt to watch a few YouTube videos to get caught up rather than sitting through three hours. And when you can say that honestly, then you probably just watched a blah episode.
Taped episodes for some reason are not chock-full of interesting angles or developments, it seems, and this week’s show played into that theory. Raw could best be described as a placeholder, with only a few notable developments.
We saw more authority figures emerge. We saw Kalisto trying to assert himself… and failing. We saw Golden Truth give a huge pep talk to each other… right before falling on their faces. We saw two feuds (Seth Rollins/Samoa Joe, Braun Strowman/Roman Reigns) continue their hatred in convincing ways. And we saw one tag team dominate all others on their way to a tag title shot.
Let’s find out what was YouTube worthy and what was totally skippable. Let’s get to it…