sashank_kini-1 Wow, even American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance have more adult stuff now than WWE ( at least the auditions has a number of people abusing the judges) and here is WWE, plodding with one of the worst moves in TV history, by changing itself into PG. Now when I switch sometimes to see what's going on, this is what I get:1) Hornswoggle, the ugly midget sharing his space with the main eventers for apparently no reason except for thrilling the young fans and of course beating Chavo Guerrero, a capable wrestler, in every match2) A guest host (arghh....!) every week to spoil the teaspoon of fun which was otherwise present. All these host are cheap B-grade celebs trying to catapult to fame again, by cracking horrendous, 5 year old jokes and making silly references.3) Cryme Time and a female wrestler (forgot her name, most probably Eve) giving lessons on various "street" words (sob) which are neither street nor cool. They were fun before, stealing stuff and being loud mouths.4) The divas are clad in unwatchable outfits, tying their best to look "sexy, smart and powerful (by the way, I hate this catchphrase) Remember when Torrie, Trish and Sable were there? Those were the times. Plus these divas are bad wrestlers, which adds to the misery. I have seen some old matches of WWE in Vintage collection and the divas over there were "professional" not amateur.5) PG move restricts so many things: almost no blood during matches, DX being terribly irritating, John Cena doing even more of his patriotism act, crowd containing many children (who are so annoying), almost no "heels" etc6) And yeah, why keep PPVs so often. One in every month, have they lost it? No actual feud or rivalry is ever created and the ones that are done look fake and just-till-the-PPV-gets-over ones.7)Vintage Michael Cole and a few of his quotes:" Ladies and Gentlemen, you are watching the longest running television show in history" (every week"" The BRUTAL and VICIOUS assault by (he doesn't use it for anyone else) Randy Orton/Legacy"" A vicious attack on Stephanie McMohan, Triple-H's husband!!!???"WWE is now almost towards its demise. Hope Vince gets up from his slumber and does something ( bring back the TV-14 or attitude era) 2 out of 10 for the current state of WWE.

bh_tafe3 Ah wrestling, I remember you.Growing up in the small Australian country town of Lithgow I had a friend down the road with cable television and every Tuesday night a group of about twenty of us would crowd into his house to watch a show called RAW.And what a show it was! I mean, not many of us really cared about the wrestling matches, they just got in the way of the real point of the show, which was what trouble would Vince McMahon, or in 2000 Triple H, stir up for our heroes The Rock, Steve Austin, Mankind and Kane this week? People weren't watching this for wrestling, they were interested in the characters, they were connected to the characters, to the point where people who truly found the wrestling part boring still loved the show and would park their backsides in front of the telly every week to see what was going to happen to their favourites. Heck, we'd even throw some money in to watch the PPVs every month so we could see what our heroes would do. RAW, every week was an event. A social gathering.But around 2001 something seemed to change. The WWF had bought out their competition. Good on them. Good job boys, but then for some reason they thought that we WWF fans actually cared about the WCW guys. Hello, if anyone had cared about them, wouldn't they still be in business? And so guys who I didn't care about and had no investment in started coming on the show in prominent roles, the guys we cared about went off to do other things and so did we. The magic, the entertaining portion of the show was gone and it was replaced by a straight wrestling show, the show becoming almost unrecognisable from the one I'd come to love in the late nineties.I watch RAW occasionally these days and can't sit long without changing the channel. There is no reason to care about the characters and what they do from week to week. No reason to become emotionally invested in their story lines. The villains aren't evil enough for us to side with the heroes and the heroes are nowhere near interesting enough for people to side with them just for the hell of it.Anyway seven years ago, I stopped going along on Tuesday nights, I was too busy, or more to the point, didn't care enough about RAW to make time to watch it. Not long after that everyone stopped coming.Of those twenty plus people I used to watch wrestling with only two still watch. RAW used to be must see, now all I see when I turn it on is how laziness and a loss of focus has ruined a show I used to get a great deal of enjoyment out of.Oh well, such is life.

the_kiss_army_45 This is the best wrestling show on the planet! Although Smackdown! is good, I still prefer Raw. People say that wrestling today isn't as good as what it was back in the 80's to the late 90's, Well I disagree with that, although wrestling was great then, I say it has not died down a bit. I know a lot of people may disagree with me but who cares. They have great new talent and are still keeping around some old, new guys such as Chris Masters, Carlito , John Cena and Old Guys such as Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan (occasionally) and Mick Foley. Although Mick Foley is not that old, he has been around longer than some other guys. Anyways, I Highly recommend that people tune in every Monday night or whenever they get it, lounge back in your favourite chair, grab a drink, something to eat, just sit back and relax because your about to watch Monday Night Raw baby! 10/10

callanvass I became a WWE addict in late 1997, and started watching Raw back then,i always loved tuning in each week, to see my favorite supers stars Stone Cold Steve Austin, "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton,Bret "The Hit-man" Hart,John Cena,"HBK Shawn Michaels", etc etc, but it wasn't until early 1998 that i really got into it. Sure they may have WWE Smackdown, velocity, and Heat, but none of those shows can ever can compare to the Greatness of Raw, as Raw clearly has so many wonderful memorable moments, plus i loved the Austin Vrs Mcmahon Sega!.Some of my favorite Raw Moments include, Stone Cold Steve Austin driving a Zamboni truck right into the arena and attacking Vince Mcmahon right in the ringStone cold, getting a cement truck and puring it into Vince's brand new corvetteRandy Orton's celebration for being the youngest WWE champion everEvolution Turning on RandyStone Cold driving a beer truck into the arena and giving the corporation a beer bath!Kurt angle driving a milk truck into the arena and giving the alliance a milk bathThe Owen Hart ceremonyThe Rock this is your life segmentStone cold stunning all 4 McMahon's in the ring on WWE Raw homecomingand there is plenty more but just simply cannot remember