WWE fans the last time I reviewed an episode of Raw was all the way back in January and well with a certain return being hyped up to all heck you just know that I had to take a look at this episode and well this episode was certainly something. I will straight up agree with alot of people that Raw is going down the tube right now because yikes was this episode pretty bad and so join me as I review the June 14th 2021 episode of "Raw" enjoy.
Honestly guys and girls whenever I write a review no matter what the review is for I always try and find some good things to talk about in bad products and I try to find some bad things to talk about in good products and well this one was pretty hard to find some good things to talk about it. This is because there was so much bad things in this episode so much so that it wouldn't surprise me if Vince McMahon tore up the script the day of the show.
For those wondering yes they do continue the Alexa Bliss and Shayna Baszler stuff from last week and while I personally don't mind the horror stuff that they are clearly going for with Alexa Bliss. The stuff that they are doing with Alexa Bliss has to also make sense and well the last time that we see Alexa Bliss on this episode of raw makes no sense and it makes hard for anyone to get excited for the Alexa Bliss vs Shayna Baszler at Hell In A Cell this Sunday.
In all honesty the reason why I didn't mention what the storyline for this episode of raw is it's because there are no good storylines going on on Raw right now. Which is a shame because Raw is the flagship show of the WWE and so you'd think that there would be some effort thrown into giving us at least ONE good story but apparently even that is to much for the creative team that is currently working on Raw.
One thing I noticed very freaking quickly is that the first two matches have somebody interfere in the match. Now having someone interfere in a match is a solid idea if it's spaced out but here it happens in the first two matches and making things worse is that the second interference didn't really need to happen during the actual match it could have happened after the match and it would have had the exact same impact.
Now the very thing that made me want to review this episode of Raw was the fact that Eva Marie was due to return and nobody had any idea if she was going to be a wrestler or a manager and well after this episode we still don't know if she's going to be a wrestler. Since even tho Eva Marie does come out dressed to compete she has her friend Piper Niven / Viper wrestle Naomi for her which isn't a bad idea since it makes Eva Marie comes across as heel.
However what makes this entire segment stupid as all heck is the fact the WWE Raw commentary team apparently don't know who Piper Niven / Viper even is. Now granted WWE NXT UK isn't that big in America however what was big was the Mae Yung Classic and Piper Niven / Viper took part in the first ever Mae Young Classic and so the WWE raw commentary team should have known who Piper Niven / Viper even was.
Now I won't lie and say that everything that's in this show is bad because that honestly isn't the case since there are some very entertaining matches and some very entertaining backstage segments. However even some of those backstage segments are pointless like for example we don't need to see Natalya and Tamina brawling with Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose for literally no reason whatsoever because it builds up to nothing in this episode of raw and it's building up to nothing for this Sunday's Hell In A Cell 2021 WWE PPV and so it was a pointless segment.
This episode of WWE Raw had a grand total running time of two hours and five minuets and six seconds and while the overall show is pretty bad the running time was actually one of the things that I liked about this episode. Since everything flowed nicely and so it didn't really feel that long at all in my opinion anyways / at least and if anything this episode actually felt short which is odd because there are ten wrestling matches in this episode of WWE Raw with at least two of them lasting close to twenty minuets.
Now then boys and girls since this is a wrestling show after all and there is actual wrestling on this show that does infact means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling that's featured / presented to us on this very show and well if i'm being really freaking honest here the wrestling that's featured on this very show is very mixed bag. Since there are some genuinely good matches like The New Day vs RK-Bro and Drew McIntyre vs Aj Styles and Drew McIntyre & The Viking Raiders vs Bobby Lashley , AJ Styles & Omos. There are also alot of bad matches with guys like Jeff Hardy who just cannot move as fast as he once could and when you put him in a match against John Morrison a guy who you know can always deliver a good performance it brings the overall quality of the match down in my opinion and out of the three four women's match only Rhea Ripley vs Asuka was the only good one in my opinion since the rest are either bad or just finished way before they freaking naturally should have done in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really bad final build episode of Raw since yeah it really doesn't get me excited for Hell In A Cell at all which given the match card for Hell In A Cell 2021 really shouldn't be the case at all in my opinion. Now then boys and girls i've talked about the good things that are in this very episode of WWE Raw in this very review and i've talked about the bad things that are in this very episode of WWE Raw in this very review and as such this episode of WWE Raw gets a 3.5 out of 10 from this die hard wrestling fan.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personal preferred website to use to get images of this episode of WWE Raw being Google Images simply because there was alot more of a verity of images to choose from which simply wasn't the case with the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page since even tho the images that were featured / presented to us in the official Pro Wrestling fandom fairly high quality and as well as being fairly high definition there simply wasn't enough images that applied to this particular episode of WWE Raw and thus I simply couldn't use them in this very review.