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WWE Raw 10/7/24 Review | Gunther And Sami Zayn SAVE THE SHOW On Weakest Raw In MONTHS

Solomonster Sounds Off

The Solomonster

Sports, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Wrestling

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Reviewing WWE Monday Night Raw's return to two hours, and while I will say nothing bad about the format change, it's clear that there will be an adjustment period for WWE as they navigate booking a two-hour show with three hours-worth of talent.  This was the weakest Raw show in a long time, saved by the World Heavyweight Championship match between Gunther and Sami Zayn, and to a slightly lesser extent, Sheamus and Pete Dunne.

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0:00.0

Tonight was the first W. W. W. W.

0:05.0

Monday Night Raw.

0:07.0

That was two hours in length in more than a decade.

0:12.0

I prayed for this and it happens. I've been praying for this for a very long time.

0:19.3

There's never a huge fan of the three hourhour raw format not week to week. Special episodes fine. Week

0:27.2

to week was never a huge fan of it though so when I heard that raw was going

0:30.6

back to two hours even if only for a limited time.

0:36.2

I was very excited.

0:38.0

So here we go, tonight two hours of raw

0:41.7

and what happens? They make us pay for it.

0:47.4

It's like the monkey's paw.

0:49.3

When the monkey's paw curls, yeah, that's exactly what it is. Actually, you know what tonight's

0:55.6

raw felt like, honestly? When the show was over, I was thinking about it and

0:59.5

it really did with all of the commercials. What they tried to do tonight was take three hours of commercials.

1:05.5

They forgot to tell the network that the show was only two hours long tonight.

1:09.8

They took three hours of commercials and tried to condense them into a two hour television show.

1:15.0

It was the equivalent of trying to shove 10 pounds of shit into a five pound bag.

1:20.8

That was Monday Night Raw tonight.

1:23.0

You know, maybe their strategy, this could actually be genius on their part.

1:28.0

Maybe their strategy is to make the show so unwatchable at two hours that when they go back to when they go

1:36.8

when they go to Netflix and they're back to three hours presumably in January

1:41.6

people are going to be begging for it like oh please

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