5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 7)

Downs…

7. ‘Commercial’-Free

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With Raw being shunted over to SyFy during the Olympics, WWE needed to do something to try to counter-balance that, so they played up that the first hour of the show would be “commercial-free.”

Of course, a company that regularly twists the truth and bends what is real for entertainment purposes can be counted on to fudge that claim as well. Raw was commercial-free… if you don’t accept certain ads as commercials.

We got ads for WWEShop.com, NXT, SmackDown, a SyFy program that was airing after Raw, the WWE 2K22 video game, and the top 10 Instagram photos from WWE during the past week.

All of these plugs probably added up to about 4 minutes of ads, which is nowhere near as bad as a normal hour of Raw’s commercial breaks, but it was comical to hear them talk about giving fans an hour straight of uninterrupted content and then cut to three straight ad segments.

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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.