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Monday Night Raw 5/20/13 – Ryback rules at Batista impersonations

As suspected, Extreme Rules was greatly superior to Wrestlemania in terms of match quality, length and storytelling. How do they keep getting this show so right, and the Grandest Stage of Them All so wrong? It’s not worth dwelling over; let’s instead focus on the pay-per-view itself, namely the fact that they’ve incorporated a ridiculous …

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Monday Night Raw 5/13/13 – A bad day to have a bad ankle

The close of this week’s Raw was an apt send-off into the oxymoronic PG-13 Extreme Rules, giving us something we don’t see every week, if ever: Triple H and Brock Lesnar engaging in fisticuffs. It almost didn’t happen; Lesnar was set to strut out of the arena until Hunter, inside of a steel cage, referred …

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Monday Night Raw 4/29/13 – In which Jerry Lawler awaits his pizza delivery

The Extreme Rules card is shaping up to be a killer. In recent years, the first PPV of the WWE’s business year often turns out superior to the Wrestlemania that preceded it, partly because less features are being crammed into the runtime and expectations are comparatively low. So far, we have Brock Lesnar vs. Triple …

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Monday Night Raw 4/22/13 – Undertaker casts long shadow over a sparse London instalment

I was quite proud of the Raw crowd last night – mainly because I was one part of it. Sure, we subsided into self-congratulatory chants such as “We are awesome”, and threatened to derail a great Jericho-Ziggler match with our unending Mexican wave and a penchant for inflatable dolphins. But we made up for our …

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Monday Night Raw 4/15/13 – Ryback, Lesnar and Ziggler comprise a formidable Rogue’s Gallery

I guess it’s finally time to admit defeat. Fandango – or to a greater extent, Fandangoing – is sweeping the nation. It may not have yet reached the level of say, a Harlem Shake or Gangnam Style, but it’s most definitely out there. It’s crossed the border from the niche wrestling market into the mainstream, …

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Monday Night Raw 4/1/13 – The go-home show saves its best gasps ’til last

John Cena made it ten minutes into his promo before being hushed with “boring” chants, the crowd united against him despite his description of Washington DC as a house divided into “Cenacrats” and “Rockpublicans”. The Great One stopped by later in the evening and predictably scored a better reaction from the fans, but his segment …

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Monday Night Raw 3/25/13 – The Road to Wrestlemania is long and arduous

Mr Butter Fingers allowed the Urn [Anderson] to hit the floor just as soon as it arrived back in his hands. “I am not just any other man,” he said, juggling the trophy around his legs. “I am CM Punk and there is nobody in the world that is better than me.” He professed that …

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