-- 9/21 WWE Raw Reax

Justin James of Columbia, S.C., IT professional/author (5.0): Best: Six-man tag. Worst: Kingston-Swagger. This Raw was fairly bad. What killed me about it is that it had a lot of very good parts, and a lot of pretty bad parts. The Kingston-Swagger match was shaping up nicely until the ridiculous finish, which was why I rated it the worst match of the night. I was looking forward to the match, although the sudden announcement of it made me suspect that the ending would be screwy. Swagger should have just won the match, then whipped Miz next week for the actual belt. Why Jericho gets to be on Raw for reasons other than defending the Unified tag championship (or Big Show on Smackdown, for that matter) is beyond me, but I do appreciate it. Nice to see not one but two spots hyping tomorrow's ECW championship. The Bourne-Miz match could have been great, but they were in a corner with the booking. They are desperate to repair Miz's credibility after the Cena debacle, so they had to make Miz look dominant... but did it have to be over Evan Bourne? Why not Chris Masters? Oh yeah, because his only wins are against Santino. Then again, the Raw roster is so thin, they have joke wrestlers and then they have comedy wrestlers. Cedric's comedy act at the beginning was lame, but thankfully short. He managed to bury half the roster later on, and the only bit that was funny was the Mark Henry/Kool-Aid Man comparison. The Cedric-Chavo match was okay. I knew he would win, but it was nice to see that he didn't get a clean pin, or even do anything himself. I am trying to figure out who the "giant Cedric" was and I coming up empty. The Mickie James-Beth Phoenix match needed to be a lot longer, but it's nice to see them slowly building up Beth Phoenix again. She's a really great performer in my opinion and deserves to be on top. ... John Cena's promo started off in that lame Beavis & Butthead territory than Cena strays into, but then it got much better. The six-man tag was good, and the stipulation added a sense of importance to the match. I was fairly certain that Cena would lose, so I expect him to do his heroic stand next week with an eventual loss leading to him wining at HIAC and finally ending the Orton heel dominance, as Cena promised in his promo. The problem with getting rid of Orton as a top heel is that there is no one to take his place except for Jericho or Big Show. Finally, I love how Legacy is looking so insanely credible. Cody no longer looks like the whipping boy who can't stand up to a guy the size of Triple H. I really hope Legacy beats DX at HIAC to end the feud and move on to something else credible.

Steven Shreve of Franklin, Tenn. (n/a): We decided to skip the first hour of Raw in order to catch the full two-hour season premiere of House, M.D. When we switched on Raw and saw Cena making ridiculous faces at Randy Orton, we were wishing that House had been three hours. When I saw that Cedric the Entertainer brought a goat to Raw and that he was going to wrestle Chavo, we switched to a re-run of King of the Hill. How is it possible that the same company responsible for the awesome ECW and Smackdown shows is also responsible for the trainwreck that Raw has become? I'm sick of Cena's attempts at appealing to nine-year-olds. I'm sick of seeing the never ending embarrassment storyline involving Chavo. I'm sick of the lack of logic. (Cena and Orton can't touch before the HIAC PPV, but they're booked on opposite sides of a six-man tag?) To the WWE people in Connecticut reading this, please let me know when you make Raw worth watching again.

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