WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (Jan 29)

7. Combined Age: 140

On one hand, the closing moments of Raw were pretty awesome. If you had told me when I was 14 that I would see Goldberg and Undertaker in the same ring in a mere 18 years...I would have been pretty excited, and then confused as to how they were still wrestling. Seeing it play out was admittedly still cool. But then, you realize how amazingly terrible WWE has been about making stars since 2002, and then the whole thing starts to feel kind of depressing.

The go home to the Royal Rumble on the 1998 episode of Raw featured Steve Austin, The Rock, Cactus Jack and others brawling to close out the show. It was young guys on the verge of superstardom, and the company felt confident enough to have them be the focus of the upcoming pay-per-view match. They didn’t have top stars from the decade before like King Kong Bundy, Jake Roberts and The Iron Sheik taking the spotlight in the final segment.

I mean, if I started booking for WWE last week I probably would have done the same thing. There's really no other good options, and that's their own fault. No one thinks that Cesaro, or Sheamus, or The New Day or The Shining Stars have a chance at winning. No full-time acts feel special enough to do it. That's why we're relying on extreme part-time stars to carry this thing.

Raw was fun to see play out, but you also wonder what the hell the company is going to do a couple of years from now when they're completely out of legends to bring in.