Official Raw 20th Anniversary Thread: 1/14/13

I keep seeing "awful Raw" but I think it's just a case of people having unrealistic expectations. Nowhere did the WWE even hint that Austin, Taker or Michaels would be present, but the dirt sheets were reporting their appearances as fact, so everybody got their hopes up.

That isn't on the WWE, rather it's on the fake rumor mongers. In reality, it was a much better than average Raw. The Rock Concert was great and his tussle with Punk to close the show was very well done.

Cena vs. Ziggler was a great match even if the booking was poor. Barrett going over Orton clean was unexpected and fantastic. The Shield circling Foley was good. The Rock and Foley backstage was funny. The Miz/Flair/Cesaro segment was entertaining. The anger management was great as always.

There was plenty of good on this show and very little filler, but the vision of many is blinded by expectations that shouldn't have come to be in the first place.

Terrible RAW except for Cena vs. Ziggler and Rock's segment. You would've never known there was anything that was supposed to be special about this episode at all from watching it. Aside from a few video montages and the recycled RAW 1,000 intro this was just a regular episode of RAW. Highly disappointing that there was no Taker, Austin or HBK. I mean, for 's sake the show was in Texas!!

Cena vs. Ziggler was a fantastic match aside from the fact that everybody knew there was no way in hell Ziggler was going over in this match. It's pretty clear from Cena's promo on the NYE RAW that they're setting him up to going back to pretty much being unbeatable from now until Wrestlemania. I have no doubt he's going to win the Rumble, unfortunately. This whole feud has done nothing but feed Ziggler to Cena and made him look weaker than before it started.

The Rock Concert was brilliant, as always, and was the highlight of the show. The one liners were outstanding and I was dying laughing when he said, "FACT: Your manager has Twinkie tits" hahahaha. Just hilarious. Also loved the brawling at the end between him and Punk when things got serious.

So unbelievably pissed austin didn't show AGAIN

it was a good Raw, just disappointing when it started off promising with old intros and VINCE.

agree but HBK and AUSTIN are at some hunting award thing in VEGAS I think. Other than that I guess they are saving Undertaker for his WM feud.

Rey I believe has had some personal problems to attend to at home, and Sin Cara had knee surgery. Although I heard he was at a recent taping, able to actually compete, but they chose not to use him. Not sure if that's true or not.

Thanks bro for the quick response, this is the first I heard of this.

That's exactly what it was, a very average show. But for being as hyped as it was, it didn't quite live up to what I expected.

RAW was not that good at all tonight. They hyped it up like it was suppose to be some big show and it turned out to be a normal program. Where were the old school wrestlers that took apart on RAW through out the 20 years that were suppose to show up tonight? How many times are we going to keep seeing Ric Flair show up on RAW? How many times are we going to see Cena/Ziggler in a match on RAW? How many times are we going to see Sheamus vs 3MB? The Rock concert was not all that great compared to his last one he did on Cena. Nothing good about this RAW what so ever. Well there is one good thing that Mick Foley is getting inducted into the 2013 HOF. I really do hate it when the WWE hypes up a show and makes sound so good than they drop the ball and screw it all up.