Official Monday Night Raw Thread: 3/25/13

Show was disgustingly bad. I was fighting to stay attentive.

Highlight of the night for me was the pop Jericho got when he came out to beat down Fandango. I'm still opposed to this match in general, and think Jericho's talents could be put to far better use (ahem, Ziggler), but at least the crowd is really getting behind Jericho and really hating Fandango for what he's doing.

Punk's promo was decent. Feud is still forced.

Rock/Cena segment was cringe worthy until the very end when Cena started to get heelish. The problem is that they set up was so weak and he made so little sense prior to that that it basically lost all of its flare before they got going. As I mentioned earlier, I wish they'd let Cena work as the heel just for the match, but I doubt it's going to happen.

Newsflash guys..Cena still sucks in the ring. He's as green as he was on day 1. He can't sell the Rock Bottom just like he can't sell any other move. Including his own. Look at how poorly he excutes the STF, and the "AA" which at one time was a Death valley driver. He makes them look weak. He makes everything look weak. Hence why I laughed my friggin ass off when he tried to say he was "Better than The Rock" tonight.. because he isn't. He isn't even close. The crowd said it best all night when they weren't chanting boring, and that's CENA SUCKS

great show! WM is heating up.

Cena has had high quality matches with plenty of opponents. He's not an in ring magician, but in no way does that mean he sucks. It takes two to tango, and John Cena has had some fantastic bouts. You don't get fantastic bouts by being carried.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have gripes with Cena, but I don't think his wrestling ability is one of them. The guy can go.

Raw was a terrible show tonight and actually made me less excited about going to my first Wrestlemania...

I was kicking myself for not going to Raw, since it's in Philly, about 45 minutes from me - now, I feel bad for the people that were there.

My buddy is going to the Smackdown taping Tuesday night - for months, I've been telling him "it'll be good, it's right before Wrestlemania...." now, I'm not so sure. He'll be seeing a weightlifting competition with Mark Henry & Ryback...

Just what everyone wanted to see out of The Rock's 1st appearance in nearly a month - a moderated debate. If I wanted to see that I'd watch C-Span - this is supposed to be WWE.

The segment just went on forever and had no point at all. It was cringe-worthy when Cena took the Rock Bottom and the legends just sat there, staring, seemingly not knowing what to do.

No real developments at all in the Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar feud... a boring promo from Hunter is all we get? You've gotta do better than that, WWE!

Barrett taps out to The Miz, WTF... great, lose any steam Barrett's got going. And why do Wade and Cesaro have SOOO MANY non-title matches on free TV, but then most of Cesaro's title defenses take place on PPV pre-shows? If the title matches are not important enough to make the PPV, then why not have them on Raw/Smackdown?

I actually liked the Kane/Bryan VS. Primetime Players match, but was hoping they'd give Titus a little mic time after last week's Pancake comedy gold... no such luck. The PTP looked great in the ring though... including Dar-ron... so I guess they'll get buried, as usual.

If 3MB can't even beat one man, why would they continue to team up? If there was any logic to it, why would they continue to be a tag team after getting dominated by 1 guy?

Ziggler taps to Jericho, great, is there anyone else who would like to beat Ziggler this year? I don't know that win/loss records really matter in wrestling, but they really seem to be trying to kill any momentum Ziggler is able to build up....

I'm not hating Fandango & Jericho as much as everyone else on here.... I actually think that might be an okay match at Wrestlemania. Although now that we're getting angry Jericho instead of jokey-Jericho, who knows... because that was the part I was enjoying.

The Punk/Undertaker stuff was okay, probably the highlight of the show - and that was over at 8:07.

The following 3 hours and 13 minutes were pure garbage. I can't believe there was a 20 minute overrun for a Q&A SEGMENT.... pure crap.

When will WWE realize that Rock & Cena in the ring JUST TALKING AT EACH OTHER grew old about two years ago? No matter how many different ways they try to have these guys go "face-to-face" it just keeps getting older.

I'm going to bed.

This

Cena ran his mouth, Rock came back to shut him up, Rock won, story over.

The key word is 'their'. Meaning Rock or Cena. Not WWE history.

Undertaker looked to be in better shape than at that random house show a month or two ago.

Anyone ever consider that Cena always selling moves on his ass instead of right on his back is keeping him from getting injured again? Or saving his neck, literally?

Flair takes bumps on his side, and no one complains.
Yes it kind of looks silly, but in the end it might be something the doctors advised Cena to do because it puts less strain on the neck and shoulders where Cena's had problems. Sometimes, too, when you get in the habit of doing something a certain way it's hard to break even for one move.