6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Raw (June 13)

WWE just can’t help itself when it comes to a three-hour episode of Monday Night Raw. Despite starting strong and stringing together a few good segments, they always manage to include a bunch of clunkers, and it makes 180 minutes of programming just drag.

Raw featured a couple nice matches and some decent angles, but the usual substandard writing, strange booking decisions and general listlessness of the show continued to drag it down. They continued to bury two cruiserweights for reasons that defy logic, but the Miz gets to run down his resumé for the 1,000th time and bore us to tears. The women’s tag division is non-existent, but we’ll have a posedown for the main event.

WWE struggles to put together a consistently good show most weeks, and while duds are bound to be part of a three-hour show, Raw strings too many of them together in a row, while trying to tell us that everything is awesome. And rather than building any new stars, they have a handful of “over” talent, and everyone else is seemingly on their own.

It’s just a disappointing show to watch most weeks, because it’s a talented roster that could put on a highly entertaining show, but they’re apparently forbidden to do so.

Let’s get to it…