From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
Subject: Monday Night Raw -- A Short Review
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:06:35 GMT

In article <1ius05INN9mr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij) writes:

>Did anybody watch this last night?  What happened?
>Will someone post the matchs and stuff?

The show started with Bobby Heenan trying to get in.  Sean Mooney
wouldn't let him.  Throughout the show, this was a running "gag"
(it's in quotes because I feel gags should actually be funny) as
they kept going to Mooney.  Mooney would pick someone to be interviewed,
and it would always turn out to be Heenan in disguise.  Ha ha.
"Gag" rating: 2/10

Yokozuna squashed Koko B. Ware.  The crowd was into it, which was about
the only good part of the match.  The announcing was horrible.  That
DJ that others have complained about was Heenan's replacement, and
even the most heel-hating mark probably would glady take Heenan back.
Match rating: 3/10
New announcer rating: 0/10

The Steiners squashed some jobbers.  The Steiners have really moved up,
huh?  Now they have to compete for camera time with a clown and a
big Ico-Pro sign.  Still, the match was well-worked for a squash.
Match rating: 5/10

Sean Michael defended the IC title against the allegedly fired Max
Moon.  There were some good spots, but the best part for me was when
McMahon yelled how Monday Night Raw was "uncooked, uncensored, and
uncut" for the hundredth time, and a minute later they cut to a
commercial in the middle of the match -- uncut, huh?  The match ended 
abruptly with a pin by Michaels.
Match rating: 4/10

Razor Ramone was interviewed.  The only good part was that the crowd
cheered for him much more than McMahon would have liked.  He also
threw his toothpick at McMahon, so for a split second you could
hope that it would stick him in the eye.  It didn't.
Interview rating: 3/10

The clown and Crush ran around.  I think this was originally an
interview.  Yawn.
Silliness rating: 1/10

The Undertaker squashed Damion Demento.  UT is now apparently strong
enough to do the Tombstone (kind of).
Match rating: 2/10

I may have missed some things, and this probably isn't in order.  Oh
well.

Overall rating: 3/10

Most of that 3 is for the crowd.  That nice "live" feel was definitely
there, and the smallness of the place made it seem nice and cozy on
TV, like the old NWA tapings.  The matches were pretty bad, and the
announcing was just terrible -- let's just say it's pretty pathetic
when Vince is the best announcer on the team.  The DJ should be fired.
He's not funny.  They did a routine where he did an impression of Mike
Tyson.  Ha ha.  It was poorly done.  It was not very topical.  It was
not funny.  And why did they have to make a big point of sympathizing
with a convicted rapist (McMahon: "You got a RAWWWW deal!")?  That
little routine about sums up the level of the announcing in particular
and the show in general.

I don't understand how people can say "the WWF may not have the best
wrestling, but it IS **great** entertainment."  Oh, is it?

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