Official Monday Night Raw Thread: 9/28/2015

They had the crowd going nuts there at the end

I don't know about him, but you just sold me.

I tuned in at the beginning of the show and then the very end. Wow, what a disaster. The MNF blowout was even better than watching this crap. They literally have no star power right now or any storylines that the fans care about. The crowd was dead asleep for most of the main event. It reminded me of, like, a Goldust vs. Marc Mero main event in 1996. I can only imagine how much they're paying Taker and Lesnar for their upcoming matches.

With all this talk I've been reading about "Vince freaking out about low ratings" I can't believe how boring & terrible RAW was tonight...

It actually got worse.... absolutely nothing of value came out of tonight's show.

I can't believe they think people care about Big Show, or seeing Lesnar/Big Show again. Especially when the supposed blowoff to their biggest story of the last three years is coming up in four weeks, and absolutely no one is talking about it.

I mean, maybe it wouldn't be a total joke if the only thing Big Show had done in the last several months was something other than losing a feud to Ryback (and by extension, The Miz.)

But of course, there's no such thing as long term booking in Vince McMahon's world, so this situation was never given any thought prior to the moment they announced it.

It's all about tonight's show, and entertaining tonight's audience. The problem is, they can't even do that anymore.

Well this explains the quietness.
Come on guys, I'm lonely.

OK show, they are clearly trying new things since the ratings are down. Big E stole the show yet again. Paul Heyman cut a "pedestrian" promo by his standards.

I would absolutely love that.

If you want a piece of the show that perfectly summed up everything about WWE right now, take a look at the closing shots of the show.

Wyatt and Roman have their knock-down, drag out brawl. Reigns hits the spear. Camera cuts to the crowd popping.

Nevermind that they didn't pop the whole night. Nevermind that they were bored to tears for 2 hours and 55 minutes. Nevermind that they had an established act return tonight to complete and utter silence. Nevermind that they promised a resolution to this feud and still didn't deliver one. They stood up and cheered in that one moment, and WWE was able to capture it on cameras and show it on national television as if to say, "look how awesome this is! Isn't it great! You need to be here!", and because of that, the show will be viewed as a success.

It's about singular moments and singular nights. The whole of the show and the product don't matter. What they did last week doesn't matter, what they're going to do next week doesn't matter. It's about Vince McMahon perceiving that what he's doing in this moment is going to send the fans home happy. His intentions, in that regard, are great - he wants to give people their money's worth. The problem is, the vast majority of the time, he focus is so concentrated on delivering that one moment, that everything else completely falls apart. That's what we had last night, that's what we've been having for weeks.