Raw Review 5-13-13

WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 5/13/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up with Jerry Lawler telling everybody that there is going to be a dance contest between Jericho and Fandango, in order to settle some aspect of their rivalry. Particularly the dance related portion, b...
by Adam Popovich
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Raw Review 4-29-13

WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 4/29/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up nearly immediately with a strange match between Ricardo Rodriguez, Zeb Colter and Big E Langston, which is strange for a multitude of reasons. The main one being that I feel like I missed something ...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 4/22/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up with Paul Heyman talking. This isn’t inherently a bad thing. Generally when he speaks I listen, because that’s what he’s really really good at. Unfortunately he’s speaking ab...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 04/15/13

Tonight’s Monday Night Raw opens with the currently most boring storyline/feud they have developing currently, which is the whole debacle with Sheamus, Randy Orton and Big Show. Granted I will always prefer it every time ...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Raw and Wrestlemania 29 Recap & Review 4/8/13

Tonight’s Raw follows Wrestlemania 29, the veritable Super Bowl of wrestling, so to speak. The thing about the WWE is that the Raw’s after WM are always more interesting because of their very nature of being directl...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 3/25/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up with CM Punk making his way out to the ring. Punk’s now fully in his ultimate-disrespectful-douchebag mode, and it’s something I just love to death. Granted he doesn’t sound as bel...
by Adam Popovich
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Comics and Wrestling

An Essay on Superhero Comics & Wrestling

There are two distinct types of fandom I believe that share a kinship of sorts, in that they’re both inherently similar, attract the same sense of nostalgia and passion, and occasionally the same sort of ostracism from ma...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 3/11/13

Raw opens tonight with a rather well-edited real life memorial to William Moody, AKA Paul Beater, who unfortunately passed away last week. Seeing a bunch of old WWE clips of him acting all goofy and creepy stirred up a lot of f...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 3/4/13

Tonight’s Raw was a blast from the past with a theme that I can certainly get behind, that theme being “Old School” night. Sure it’s a cheap way to get people excited and induce nostalgia, but seeing tha...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Recap & Review 2/25/13

Tonight’s Raw was a deluge of things that are the main reasons I always feel guilty and ashamed to watch Raw in front of people who aren’t wrestling fans. Wrestling when at it’s best, tells stories effectively...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 2/19/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up after Elimination Chamber, as PPV that managed to somehow surprise me and simultaneously give me exactly what I expected at the same time. There’s plenty of other coverage of that particular P...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 2/11/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up with Paul Heyman taking the center stage, as he begins to make a promo, addressing the audience plainly, asking for mercy from the cacophony of boos, in order to get to say what he has to say. While...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 2/4/13

Tonight’s Raw opens with CM Punk coming out to talk, almost immediately. While I typically don’t care for it whenever Raw opens with Not Wrestling, I can make an exception for Punk because his promos are usually pre...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 1/28/13

Tonight’s episode of Raw follows probably one of the most disappointing Royal Rumbles I’ve seen in years. Disappointing mostly because it was so insanely predictable that it ended up just being depressing rather tha...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 1/21/13

Since our regular Raw Review writer is sitting fourth row at tonight’s event, I will jealously and enviously be writing this review from home. Just six days before the Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View, Raw had the task of sellin...
by Garrett Odzark
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 1/14/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up with a stroll down memory lane, since it’s the 20th Anniversary of Raw being on TV. Seeing a montage of all the opening credits sequences over the years was a fun moment of nostalgia, particul...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 1/7/13

Tonight’s Raw opens up like many others, which is with John Cena making some nonsensical promo about his ability to persevere and never giving up and blah blah blah we’ve all heard it before a thousand times. HeR...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 12/31/12

Tonight’s Raw opens up with Miz TV. There would have been a time when I would have liked this, but now that Miz is face, and thusly has turned into this bizarre, awful version of himself it no longer appeals to me. Fortun...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE’s Daniel Bryan Is a Good Dude

I’m not the type of person to normally gush over feel good stories, nor do I particularly like children, but occasionally some story comes along that will make my heart swell and remind me to stop being a hate filled shre...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 12/10/12

Raw opens up tonight with Dolph Ziggler, standing on top of a ladder in the middle of the ring, his Money In The Bank suitcase suspended over his head. After he goes on a bit about how he’s going to beat Cena to retain hi...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 12/3/12

After the recap of last weeks Raw, we open up with the introduction of Team Hell No, making their way to the ring. To wit, that’s 2 weeks  in a row now that Raw has opened directly with wrestling, and this is something I...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 11/26/12

Tonight’s Raw opens with another very TNA/impact style recap of last weeks main story events, but of all the things Impact does, I think copying this style of recap at the top of the show is one of the lesser things that ...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 11/19/12

Hot off the heels of this last Survivor Series, we’re left with one big thing everyone who knows anything about wrestling is buzzing about. That of course is the debut of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. Durin...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 11/12/12

Raw opens tonight with a recap of the only few moments from last week’s Raw that were worth watching or even knowing about. Last week’s Raw was so incredibly boring, so devoid of entertainment and meaning, that I co...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 10/29/12

Tonight’s Raw opens on the heels of last night’s Hell In A Cell Pay-Per-View, which was actually pretty satisfying if you’re a CM Punk fan. Needless to say, Punk managed to retain the championship, due to the ...
by Adam Popovich
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An Overview of the CM Punk Panel at Wizard World

This weekend I had the honor of spending a great deal of time at the Austin, Texas stop of the Wizard World Comic Con tour. The comic con covered a wide range of media including: comic books, horror movies, pro wrestling, manga...
by Garrett Odzark
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 10/22/12

Tonight’s Raw opens pretty quickly with the finals of the tag team tournament. Almost immediately we see Rey Mysterio enter the arena, quickly followed by Sin Cara and Rhodes Scholars. I know I’ve given Sin Cara and...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 10/15/12

Tonight’s Raw opens up with Big Show walking down into the ring, and giving a promo. He basically just comes out and says how shitty and mean Sheamus has been to him for the last few weeks or so, but shows a video from Sm...
by Adam Popovich
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WWE Monday Night Raw Recap & Review 10/8/12

*Pictures and accompanying text by Cheesebadger! Cheesebadger here! Sometimes I like to get different viewpoints on Raw from different people, just to make sure I’m not insane. I think it’s beneficial every once in ...
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CM Punk Hits Fan Live On Raw!

Sometimes things happen in live events, and at the end of October 8th’s Monday Night Raw, one of those things happened. Visible even on the live broadcast, a fan can be seen to be assaulted by CM Punk, right as Vince McMa...
by Adam Popovich
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