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Ian from Niigata, Japan. (4.0): Best Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Shelton "The Blond" Benjamin. Worst Match: There were other matches? This program was insulting to the following groups of people: The Irish, the adopted, the vertically challenged, and fans of logical booking. There were so many writing and continuity errors this week that I don't have room to cover them all without writing a full guest commentary. The one that annoyed me the most was the announcing during the IC Title match. Who were they trying to push here? All through the match, all we heard was how Shelton can't focus when it counts and how Jeff was severally damaged by The Great Khali last week. The best wrestling match of the show and the announcers (or the lines they were being fed) tied an anchor to it. On the plus side, John Cena's little trick with the ring rope is the kind of thing that shakes the foundation of a classic wrestling trope and just might inspire some desperately needed originally around here. Who knows, we may someday enter the promised land of referees that catch interference by seeing them on the big honking projection monitor.

Bryan Randles, of Detroit Mich. (1.0): Best Match: Hardy/Benjamin. Worst Match: Rest. This is the worst Raw I've seen in a long time. Was it just me, or was Cena in total heel mode for his promo? Something about the whole opening segment seemed off to me. Hardy and Benjamin's match was a bit dissapointing. The Marella-Jillian segment was not funny, which is disappointing because I am among the people who have found Marella entertaining. The initial Hornswoggle skit was lame. The second one was too. Duggan and Daivari in a flag match? I bet someone thought the good ol' folk in Nashville would get a kick out of this. I didn't know Hornswoggle was a child? Oh, Triple H is here to save the day. He rags on Vince, beats the tag champs by himself, and for no reason takes out Londrick. We all know the tag division is dead to WWE, but must they mock it? I wish Triple H was here with me to help make a joke referencing the beating (off) of a dead horse. Basically, except for commercials Triple H was in the ring from 10:00 to 10:30. That's pretty amazing, and an entire waste of time. The entire sequence of moments in the main event were entertaining, but it was hard to be woke from the slumber that was the first hour and fifty minutes. The crowd wasn't reacting how they needed to for the story and it just fizzled because of it. When your top heel beats up your tape face's dad and they're staring eachother down, and the crowd is chanting "you can't wrestle" at the top face, you have a big problem. If they get the same reaction in the next town, they better make a fix fast, because it's hurting their top program badly.

Bryant Mooney of Stamford, Conn. (4.0): Best Match: Benjamin vs. Hardy/"You Can't Wrestle" chants and Hornswoggle-McMahon Worst Match: Cena vs. Marella and Cena period. The Hornswoggle/McMahon storyline was the funniest thing all evening, but everybody else except Triple H and Cena like J.R. would say "were thrown to the woodshed." They started the show off greatly with the IC Title match but after that it just went downhill. I've had enough of Cena, period. When he started off the show I wanted to grab the remote and turn the channel, but I didn't. The flag match was completely pointless and was a mockery of the flag matches from back in the older days when they meant something. Triple H once again buries an already dead tag team division. Most of Triple H's jokes on McMahon were hilarious, though. I can see Candice Michelle being the John Cena of the Women's Division; seriously, they both have about six moves in their arsenal, but continue to beat people who can wrestle better and are stronger than them. I love Candice, but Beth should've won on Sunday. It really killed my spirit when Santino Marella was going to wrestle Cena, they couln't fine anybody better than him? Just like Ron Simmons would say, Damn! Orton vs. Mr. Cena was pointless and completely storylined from the beginning. It leaves the question what more can Orton do to Cena's father. I loved at in the last 30 seconds that you hear the crowd chanting loudly "You Can't Wrestle" until the show closed. It was great to me because the crowd was so against Cena that they didn't care that his father just got RKO'd. It was so good that I started chanting with them in front of my TV until it went off the air. The show as a whole sucked, with about two or three good parts, but where is the wrestling? We get one match of pure wresting, then it's mainly pointless entertainment for the remainder of the show. I've been a devoted Raw fan for years never wanting to miss a show, but now it's just plain awful and I'm looking for different programming to watch on Monday nights. The question is how much longer do I have to suffer each and every Monday?

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