Hits & Misses

Stephanie’s Announcement – HIT: Stephanie McMahon can play a babyface, or just a down-the-middle authority figure. That’s how she came across here. She wasn’t a heel which was good. She simply came out, cracked an […]

New Day – HIT: I didn’t like how New Day came to the ring, like their old selves, throwing pancakes to the crowd. After they got into the ring and started talking, they were much […]

RAW HITS AND MISSES Women’s Promos – HIT: The mic work from the three women in the WrestleMania main event was strong to start off Raw. It underscored the big announcement that the Raw Women’s […]

The Miz – HIT: The Miz has always been a heel. Even when he was recently in a babyface tag team with Shane McMahon, you didn’t really trust him. You didn’t really believe him. What […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar talking about Seth Rollins challenging for the Universal Title at WrestleMania. I loved when Heyman put himself over […]

Shane Opens the Show – MISS: This is a marginal Miss. The script was good for Shane McMahon explaining why he turned on The Miz after their loss to The Usos at Fastlane. But, I […]

Shield Good Bye – HIT: WWE had a choice to make knowing that Dean Ambrose was leaving after his contract expires in April. They decided to get one more match with The Shield having a […]

Opening Segment – HIT: The performances from Daniel Bryan and Kevin Owens were good in this opening segment. They had a difficult job of making the fans who still want to see Kofi Kingston getting […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with what turned out to be the start of The Shield reunion saga which would play out over the course of the show. Roman […]

McMahon Chooses Owens – MISS: This might be a pathway to get Kofi Kingston into the WWE Championship match at WrestleMania, by replacing him in the match at Fastlane with Kevin Owens. But, it was […]

Roman Reigns – HIT: Obviously Roman Reigns being in remission is a Hit. The way that WWE handled it could have been better, but over all it was also a Hit. I will just focus […]

Opening Segment – MISS: This Miss is mostly for The Miz’s long emotional apology to Shane McMahon for losing the Smackdown Tag Team Championship to the Usos at Elimination Chamber. I just don’t care. It […]

Hit: Dominik Dijakovic vs. Shane Thorne Honestly, I am kind of confused on if Dominik Dijakovic is a heel, but Shane Thorne definitely was the heel in this match as exemplified in his persona and […]

Charlotte’s Promo – HIT: I still strongly disagree with adding Charlotte Flair to the WrestleMania main event against Ronda Rousey. Once I get past that, I can look at individual moments and performances in that […]

Opening Segment – MISS: Lets just get this out of the way up front: This was a terrible episode of Raw. Even if Charlotte hadn’t been added to the WrestleMania main event in the end, […]

Opening Segment – MISS: I’m just not buying this storyline. It is a shame because the performances were strong. Charlotte did a good job of playing the arrogant heel mocking Becky Lynch for getting suspended […]

Opening Segment – MISS: The parallels between The Man Becky Lynch and Stone Cold Steve Austin are quite clear. But, that doesn’t mean that WWE has to retell the Austin vs. McMahon storyline from 1998 […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Becky Lynch had another great night on the mic after hitting it out of the park in her confrontation with Ronda Rousey on Raw. She had great lines addressing her loss […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a very good start with Seth Rollins coming out to talk about winning The Royal Rumble the night before. He gave a great promo to kick things […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Smackdown got off to a good start with Becky Lynch coming out to talk about her Women’s Title match against Asuka at The Royal Rumble. I particularly liked how she put […]

RAW HITS AND MISSES Opening Segment – MISS: There were good parts of the opening segment, but it went on for far too long and had too many bad things too. Paul Heyman was good […]

Becky Lynch – Asuka – HIT: The interplay between Becky Lynch and Asuka took up several segments at the start of Smackdown and was Hit or Miss. It was good enough to be a marginal […]

Braun Strowman – MISS: If WWE knew all along that Braun Strowman wasn’t going to be able to wrestle Brock Lesnar at The Royal Rumble, then they handled this situation terribly. If they just found […]