WWE fans it's no secret that the WWE has seen a huge decline in ratings in recent years and instead of making an active effort to try and permanently fix whatever issues that they have they do the same freaking thing. Which is they bring out the legends for a quick ratings boost and while having WWE legends is indeed a solid idea for a one off special episode of either Raw or Smackdown the WWE seems to be doing every six months or so and join me as I review the January 4th 2021 edition of Raw which is called "Raw Legends Night" enjoy.
Now just like I did with the first episode of AEW: Dynamite i'm doing this review based of the UK version of Raw. However unlike the debut episode of AEW Dynamite which had at least half of it's show cut for some unknown reason this version of Raw has all of it's segments and matches full intact which for me at least is a very good thing since it means that us fans here is the UK get to fully enjoy the show the way that it was meant to be enjoyed.
For some reason they chose not to follow up on the awesome Alex Bliss angel however they do bring up and resolve that cliffhanger from the end of last weeks Raw. I honestly feel that they should have continued the Alexa Bliss / Fiend / Randy Orton storyline just because the cliffhanger from last week was so good that it was all people were talking about and so they had all of this momentum going into this show but for some reason they chose not continue the great Alexa Bliss / Fiend / Randy Orton storyline.
Instead what they chose to do was have Randy prove how evil he is by talking trash to some of the legends backstage. That to me is not only a waste of Randy Orton but it's also a waste of the legends simply because Randy's focus shouldn't be the legends it should be The Fiend and it's a waste of the legends because all of the legends would have been taking part in much better or even funnier segments and not be in segments that aren't that good.
This was my first time watching a full episode of either Raw or Smackdown in a long time I have kept up with the WWE product but that was through watching the clips posted to the official WWE Youtube channel. As such I really hadn't seen the Thunderdome in action and I have to say that it looks really impressive and I love the fact that the WWE found a way to bring the pyro back simply by having some of the pyro stored inbetween where the fans which I thought was really cool as well as the fact that they have a bunch of pyro ready to go at the stage area which again I thought was really cool.
Now when this show was first announced one of the "legends" that was announced was that of Carlito and well Carlito isn't featured on the show at all. Hell he's not even part of the legends line up during the main event so I gave to wonder why did the WWE bother to advertise Carlito if they knew that they had nothin for him to do on the show to me that seems like your lying since your promising one thing but your giving us another thing entirely.
I will fully admit that I wasn't expecting to laugh as much as I did during the opening Miz Tv segment The New Day (Kofi and Xavier Woods) and The Miz And John Morrison have great chemistry together. Honestly all four of those guys had me laughing during that segment but even tho I liked the Miz Tv segment I do wish that it was a bit shorter since it did go on a little bit to long in my humble opinion.
This is something that's been bugging the living hell out of me since this Raw Legends Night was announced and that's the fact that for some reason Alicia Fox is considered a WWE legend. Alicia Fox is not only still fairly young but she's also not done anything to earn the title of legend and lastly to my knowledge at least she's still a member of the active roster so why in the hell does the WWE think that she's legend when she's so clearly not a legend at all.
I honestly did like the fact that they had all of the legends that we saw on the show come out for the main event hell we even saw a few legends that didn't take part in any backstage segments. That being said however it would have been nice to see some of the legends that can still wrestle like Booker T , Jeff Jarret , Melina and Kurt Angle have some quick matches against some of the younger talent since that way you could have the legends build up the younger talent and it would have been a fun way to have some of the legends remind us as to why there legends in the first place plus it would have made great use some of the legends in my opinion.
THE ONE SPOILER FOR THE ENTIRE SHOW STARTS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In terms of wrestling matches this show had some decent matches with perhaps my personal favourite being the main event featuring Keith Lee vs Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. I'm telling you now those are in at least five to ten or even fifteen years are going to main eventing either PPV's or Wrestlemania together because my god was there match freaking fantastic it was very fast paced and very hard hitting altho i have to wonder how the Raw announce table broke since Keith Lee was driven through it if anything he just clipped the edge of the table.
I have to talk about the ending of the show and the appearance of Goldberg because my god was that a cool surprise. However what wasn't a good surprise is the fact that it looks like were getting Goldberg vs Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship at WWE Royal Rumble 2021 which I can guarantee is something that nobody asked for and Drew win or loose comes out looking bad because if he looses he lost to an old man but if he wins then he just beat up an old man anyone currently active on the male roster could easily challenge Drew for the belt but some reason Vince McMahon wants to see Goldberg vs Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship.
THE ONE SPOILER IN THE ENTIRE REVIEW ENFS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall this show was a waste of potential since we had the potential to see some really cool ideas and matches. While we did get some good matches that was all we got which for a legends show isn't that good we want to see the legends talking up the current roster because that's how you help make the current rosters stars and this is something that Vince McMahon and the writers of Raw don't understand so in about six months there will be another legends night because the ratings wouldn't have improved because Vince McMahon doesn't understand that you have to create stars as such this episode of Raw gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got them from either the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page or Google Images. I honestly have no idea where would be the best images if for some reason wanted images from this legends night since the images are about the same quality on both the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and Google Images altho i will admit that the images that I got from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page are that of the current Raw logo , Alexa Bliss and Alicia Fox and the Mix TV picture with the Alexa Bliss and Alicia Fox images being the most high definition out of the three images that I mentioned so I say use which ever website you want to use.