Calling Raw "below average" this month is being generous. It's been a very cold period for WWE following the hot WrestleMania season, which really wasn't that until they figured out that Daniel Bryan needed to be pushed as the top guy and that was in March. It should have been in January. Sitting through a three hour episode of Raw is difficult because of all the useless segments they have. A lot of them may be building to PPV matches, but they are not being done in a productive way. Do we really care who is dancing with Fandango or who he is kissing? It might lead to a match at some point. Not at Payback, though. That time could go to somebody else that's a part of Payback that could benefit from it. When Raw is a hot show it usually means a PPV is going to be strong because everything is clicking on all cylinders. When it's bad that doesn't always mean that a PPV will be bad because PPVs are built on matches, but it does hurt the anticipation of the show. In the case of Payback, even if the in-ring action is good it's not going to resonate with fans because of how poor the month of May has been.
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