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RAW THOUGHTS/RATINGS, AND OTHER NEWS...
April 18, 2001
By Rick Scaia
WrestleLine/WrestleManiacs
- After peaking a few weeks ago leading into WrestleMania, RAW's ratings took another mild hit this week... the show dropped another couple tenths, doing a 5.1 average over the course of two hours. That's almost back down to where the show was performing before Nitro left the airwaves, indicating that the lack of direct competition from another wrestling product hasn't really helped the Fed at all.
The King is still making waves outside of the WWF. (WOW)
Rest assured, RAW remains strongly positioned as the most powerful weekly series on all of cable TV, so it's not a huge deal.
It amounts to nothing but a contribution from the Peanut Gallery, but I actually thought this past Monday's RAW was a much stronger all-around effort than the prior week's (better-rated) episode. My memory ain't what it once was, but Jericho/Angle may have been just about the best non-main event RAW match in a real long time. Outstanding stuff; good enough that the screw job ending didn't ruin things for me (it just made me curious about the next step in the storyline).
As it turned out, the next step in the storyline was the immediately following Benoit/Regal contest, which was fine with me. But on the grounds that (a) it's true, and (b) it'll piss off CRZ, let me say that well, these two had a better match at the Pillman show. Damn, that feels good.
The only place this past Monday's RAW faltered as compared to last week's was actually in the finish of the show... the main event match itself (HHH vs. Jeff Hardy) was every bit as good as last week's six-person match, but the close of the show left me cold. I'm not upset that HHH took the title back (though I honestly didn't think they'd go so obvious a direction), not at all... I'm just kind of disappointed that they did it in about the only way that could really nullify the good that Jeff's 5 day title reign could do. After a surprising and intense attack by Matt on Austin, the whole Hardys vs. Austin/HHH issue pretty much got flushed down the toilet when Undertaker and Kane had to saunter out and save the poor, hapless "Boyz" from being attacked by grown men.
Maybe the Hardys will come back and get into the mix again, I don't know... but it seems to me we're heading full-speed towards Taker/Kane vs. Austin/HHH with the Hardys on the outside looking in. It'll probably sell more tickets and PPVs that way, but me personally, hey I'm always selfishly looking for the match-ups that I would rather see!
Some other quick thoughts from RAW: I've finally put my finger on it, Raven talks like a character in a Kevin Smith movie (you know, lots of big words that don't sound at all natural or conversational, but which somehow still come across as interesting and/or funny)... the opening interview segment was mostly pointless, but it was CONCISE this week; no taking 25 minutes to accomplish what you can do in 10; thank you, WWF.... it's official: as far as I'm concerned, I no longer miss Jerry Lawler; good as the King was, Heyman's now found his own voice and chemistry with JR, and the results are tremendous (CRZ would note that it's also cool that Heyman's doing a bunch of old school heel commentator tricks, a la Bobby Heenan).... and one final thought: was it just me, or did Test and Billy Gunn (intentionally or unintentionally?) do the "brainless twit" shtick even better than Edge and Christian after that spot with Raven?
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