7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 30)
Wedding trainwreck drags down final Raw of the decade.
If you stopped Raw after the Andrade/Ricochet match ended, you would walk away from the TV thinking, “That wasn’t a bad episode to end the year. It set up next week nicely with two title matches, the return of Brock Lesnar and made me care about Randy Orton for a minute!”
And then you watch the last half-hour…
The wedding of Lana and Bobby Lashley is going to generate some visceral reactions. Viewers and readers are going to have widely disparate opinions. Some are going to love it and think it was entertaining crap, a Jerry Springer-esque soap opera that was just play silly.
Others are going to think it was abysmal, something rivaling the disgusting Katie Vick segment from years ago in terms of poor, even offensive, writing. Some are going to point to questionable storyline decisions. Some will note the poor acting. Some will add that it ruined the return of a wrestler who fans thought was destined to break out.
Regardless, everyone will be talking about the wedding segment tomorrow. And if you believe the adage that there’s no such thing as bad press, then you’d be very happy about that.
But Raw is in the books for 2019, low ratings and all. Let’s take a look at this and turn the page to 2020.
Let’s get to it…