Hello and welcome to the Raw Review. I'm Adam Wilborn from Watkoordshire Jump by a lot. It's a review last night's episode of Mar-Row. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing, make sure you subscribe to Whatculture Wrestling on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube. We do daily wrestling podcasts where we're not on a review Raw, but also Smackdown

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Hamplet to review last night's roar and they go, Joe! A background jewel! Yeah? Weird to do one of these in the afternoon, isn't it? Yes. We've done it in the afternoon. Behind the curtain. If you have noticed on the What Culture Wrestling podcast YouTube channel, you might find the AW Dynamite preview, not because we've got the bloody day of the week wrong, but it's because AWU, of course, will be going ahead to head to head with NXT tonight.

The preview for that is on the audio feed, NXT that is.

But gauntlet's thrown down by Monday Night Rowell for the other shows to try and follow,

quite frankly.

I've praised Raw a little bit of late, but even I'll admit a lot of it has been

in comparison to SmackDown.

You know, in that once-

Then SmackDown upped its game last week.

And this is it, right? So maybe, just maybe, creatively, they felt, I don't know, like,

who does both shows or what, but there was just a sense that, now we need to push things a little bit more with Smackdown and then Raw's thought, yeah, but Roe's still best, right? So, like, I don't know if these egos exist or any of this is real. You have Road Dog for the week. Yeah, I know, like, it's a custody battle where nobody wants him. It's that.

But like, yeah,

Ro has consistently been the better of the teachers for the longest time.

But I've been sort of nervous with my praise of it lately because I do.

I feel a bit down on WWE in 2025.

I think a lot of people do.

We talked about this at the time.

WrestleMania was relying on the sand, isn't it?

Yes, I agree.

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