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HITS & MISSES – 9/26 Raw: Cruiserweights, Highlight Reel, Main Event, Sheamus & Cesaro resolution

September 28, 2016

Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist After taking some time off for a nice long vacation to Hawaii for my 10th Anniversary, I am finally caught up on the last few weeks of wrestling […]

HITS & MISSES – 8/29 Raw: WWE Universal Title four-way, Universal Title ending, Stephanie-Heyman

August 30, 2016

By Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist 8/29 RAW HITS Opening Segment: I didn’t love the opening segment, but it was good enough to get a Hit. It gave some mic time to the […]

HITS & MISSES – 8/22 Raw: Universal Title matches, Universal Title opening segment, Super Reigns, Titus

August 24, 2016

By Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist 8/22 RAW HITS Rollins vs. Zayn: The first of the series of matches to determine who would go on to next week’s fatal-four way to crown a […]

HITS & MISSES – 8/8 WWE Raw: Lesnar-Orton & Balor videos, Rollins promo, Doctors, talk, talk, talk & more talk

August 10, 2016

By Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist 8/8 WWE RAW HITS Cesaro vs. Sheamus: As you can see by the number of Misses below, I found this to be a very bad episode of […]

HITS & MISSES – 8/1 WWE Raw: RKO Outta Nowhere, Opening Segment, Week 2 of Raw

August 3, 2016

By Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist 8/1 RAW HITS Balor – Rollins: The first hour of Raw was pretty bad. I find it hard to believe that it was produced by the same […]

HITS & MISSES – 7/25 Raw: Balor vs. Reigns, Authority Figures, Presentation changes, New Day

July 26, 2016

By Jon Mezzera, PWTorch Hits & Misses specialist RAW HITS 7/25 Balor vs. Cesaro vs. Rusev vs. Owens: While I didn’t like the opening of Raw, the rest of the show was very good, particularly […]

HITS & MISSES – 7/11 Raw: Dean’s Promo, The Club, Women’s match, mid-card title challengers, Wyatts-New Day, Full Draft build-up

July 14, 2016

7/11 RAW HITS Ambrose’s Promo: After a bad first hour of Raw which included two bad matches and a bunch of crap filler, Raw finally got going with the Rollins Report. I’m not giving the […]

HITS & MISSES – 6/27 Raw: Rollins vs. Cena & Ambrose vs. Styles, Women’s tag, Reigns suspension handling, Wyatts-New Day, The Wave

June 30, 2016

6/27 RAW HITS Paige & Banks vs. Charlotte & Brooke: I enjoyed this tag match. Three of the four women in the match are good if not great workers and the fourth is solid with […]

HITS & MISSES – 6/20 Raw: MITB follow-up, Ambrose Night 1, A.J. Styles, Big Johnny, Roman Reigns

June 22, 2016

6/20 RAW HITS Opening Segment: This is a marginal Hit. This was a pretty good way to follow up on the big events from Money in the Bank with Seth Rollins defeating Roman Reigns for […]

HITS & MISSES – 5/23 Raw: MITB qualifiers, Charlotte dumps Ric, The Club breaks up, Heel Rollins,

May 25, 2016

5/23 RAW HITS MITB Focus: I like that WWE had a series of qualifying matches for Money in the Bank. The participants in that match should have to qualify for it. I also think that […]

HITS & MISSES – 5/16 Raw: Styles-Reigns, The First Hour … and then whatever the rest of the show was

May 18, 2016

5/16 RAW HITS Opening Segment: This wasn’t a great opening to Raw, but a good one. I like that WWE gave A.J. Styles time to talk to start off the show. He didn’t get a […]

AJ Styles Royal Rumble

HITS & MISSES – 5/9 Raw: “The Club,” Styles-Reigns, IC Title, Dana Brooke call-up, “New Era,” no main event

May 11, 2016

5/9 RAW HITS The Club Backstage Interview: While I strongly dislike the name “The Club” (more later), I am enjoying the dynamic that WWE is presenting between A.J. Styles and Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows. They were […]

HITS & MISSES – 5/2 Raw: Team Reigns vs. Team Styles, Ambrose Asylum, McMahons Everywhere, Talk Talk Talk

May 4, 2016

5/2 RAW HITS Owens vs. Cesaro: While I didn’t like the set-up to this match, the #1 contender match for the Intercontinental Championship between Kevin Owens and Cesaro was very good. Owens and Cesaro are […]

AJ Styles Royal Rumble

HITS & MISSES – 4/18 Raw: Reigns-Styles Doc & Karl Week 2, Enzo & Cass, Wyatts disappear

April 20, 2016

4/18 RAW HITS Jericho vs. Zayn: I got the feeling watching this match that this was just a small sample of what Chris Jericho and Sami Zayn could do in a more important match down […]

HITS & MISSES – 4/11 Raw: Top matches, debuts & NXT call-ups, random Reigns-Wyatts-League, Dr. Phil gets a Hit? (w/Video)

April 13, 2016

RAW HITS Owens vs. Cesaro: While I didn’t like the reasoning behind this match (more later), I thoroughly enjoyed the match itself. It was great to have Cesaro return from injury last week. He was […]

HITS & MISSES – 2/22 Raw: Shane’s Big Return, Styles & Jericho, seriously – Reigns vs. Sheamus main event?

February 24, 2016

2/22 RAW HITS Lesnar – Ambrose: I was not a fan of the first hour of Raw (more later), but the second hour got off to a good start with the segment involving Brock Lesnar, […]

HITS & MISSES – 2/15 Raw: Dean Ambrose, Styles vs. Miz, Heyman-Reigns, Main Event

February 17, 2016

2/15 RAW HITS Fatal Five-Way: After a solid opening with Dean Ambrose and Stephanie McMahon, Raw got going well with this Fatal Five-Way for Ambrose’s Intercontinental Championship. This was a good match that went over […]

HITS & MISSES – 2/1 Raw: Book-ends of the show, Owens-Ziggler, Miz TV, split personality heels, more

February 3, 2016

PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera breaks down this week’s Raw episode with the Hits & Misses… 2/1 RAW HITS Opening Segment: While I didn’t enjoy Raw as a whole, I did enjoy the start of it. […]

HITS & MISSES – 1/28 Smackdown: Highlight Reel, Styles, Lawler, more

January 29, 2016

PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera breaks down this week’s Smackdown episode with the Hits & Misses… SMACKDOWN HITS New Day & The Miz vs. Team Ziggler Opening Eight-Man Tag: While I didn’t enjoy the set-up for […]

HITS & MISSES – 1/25 WWE Raw: Styles-Jericho, Main Event, The Authority, PPV announcement

January 26, 2016

PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera breaks down Monday’s Raw with his Hits & Misses column… RAW HITS Owens vs. Ziggler: After the Royal Rumble, Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens should have gotten the night off. But, […]

HITS & MISSES – 1/18 Raw: Rumble hype, Reigns, Reigns, Jericho, Jericho

January 20, 2016

PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera breaks down this week’s Raw episode with the Hits & Misses on the final Raw before the Royal Rumble… RAW HITS Rusev vs. Reigns: After a poor opening of Raw (more […]

HITS & MISSES – 12/14 WWE Raw: Reigns, McMahon, Divas, more

December 16, 2015

PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera breaks down Monday’s Raw episode with his Hits & Misses column looking at a very newsworthy show from Philadelphia following Sunday’s TLC PPV… NOTE FROM JON: After a few weeks of being overwhelmed personally […]

HITS & MISSES – 11/9 Raw: WWE Tourney, Taker & Kane … and Taker & Kane

November 11, 2015

In this week’s Raw Hits & Misses, PWTorch specialist Jon Mezzera reviews Monday’s U.K. Raw episode featuring the start of the WWE Title tournament and The Undertaker & Kane reuniting … RAW HITS Undertaker /Kane […]

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