Ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls i'm a man of my word and when I told you in yesterdays Money In The bank 2021 review that I would be reviewing the very next episode of WWE Raw. I well and truly meant it and well this episode of WWE raw didn't disappoint as much as other episodes of WWE Raw did and so join me as I review the July 19th 2021 episode of the show that is called simply just "WWE Raw" enjoy.
The biggest storylines going into this particular episode of WWE Raw are of course the storyline between Bobby Lashley and Kofi Kingston and the storyline that's currently going on that is currently between Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair. If i'm being well and truly honest here people I honestly do feel that the Rhea Ripley vs Charlotte Flair feud has gone on a bit to long now and I honestly do feel that they should end the Rhea Ripley vs Charlotte Flair feud and just judging by this particular episode of WWE Raw it does seem like that they have ended the Bobby Lashley vs Kofi Kingston feud but I could be well and truly wrong tho.
Now then this show is the first episode of WWE Raw to be held infront of a live crown for well over a year and so celebrate the fans finally being allowed back into watch episodes of WWE programming live we have a new stage / set for both Raw and Smackdown and well just based of the clips of Smackdown that i've seen and the 2021 Money In The bank WWE PPV. It seems like the WWE are using the same stage for both both of the main roster shows and for all PPV's moving forward which for a company that is continuing to make money is not a good thing since that they can very easily have unique sets for all WWE PPV's and that they could also have unique sets for both WWE Smackdown and as well as for WWE Raw as well.
I said this in my Money In The Bank 2021 review and i'll say it again here because it's somethin that really does need to be said but my god does it feel great / nice to have a live crowd appearing at WWE shows once again. Since for me at least having a live crowd appearing at WWE shows is not only apart of the overall WWE product but it's also a great help to those working in WWE creative because now they have that instant reaction and so they can now see what's working and what isn't working and and as well as what people are responding well to and as well as what people aren't responding well to and that will only serve to make the overall product alot better in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I will very fully admit that there was one thing I really wasn't expecting and it's something that honestly did make me laugh and that's the very fact that John Cena and Riddle have a full blown conversation just using the word bro. Honestly whoever came up with that joke deserves alot praise because it was a genuinely funny and as well as being a genuinely entertaining segment in my opinion anyways / at least.
Heck the early parts of this show had some very entertaining and some very funny moments in them like in the six man tag team match when Riddle sprays Omos with the drip stick but Riddle then throws the drip stick back to The Miz and so it looks like that The Miz sprayed Omos with the drip stick and not Riddle. The entire part of that match was very entertaining simply because of The Miz's reaction to the whole thing which to me just goes to show you that The Miz could really do comedy if he ever wanted to do a comedy TV show or comedy movie if that was something that he really wanted to do tho that is.
Now then just like with last week we got another useless "Alexa's Playground" segment with Alexa Bliss , Piper Niven and Eva Marie. I genuinely do enjoy the "Alexa's Playground" segments as they can be quite creepy but here nothing happens to advance the Alexa Bliss vs Eva Marie feud other then we get to see the return of Lilly and we get to see Eva Marie take a very unconvincing trip / fall and that's really / in all honesty it.
This episode of WWE Raw was an episode that was full of returns and debut since we saw the returns of a few superstars and the debut of a new superstar but the biggest return of them all is the fact that we finally got to hear "No More Words" playing across and arena PA system once again. In all honesty it felt so good to hear that theme song once again because in my opinion anyways / at least it is the best WWE singles theme that Jeff hardy has every had.
Now then as you can most likely tell i really did enjoy this episode of WWE Raw as it was a huge step up from more recent episodes. However those issues are still there and they will be rearing their ugly little heads again in the next few weeks simply due to the booking of certain superstars and the booking of a certain superstars debut simply because when this person was on NXT they were booked to look like an unbeatable monster but here this person was booked to look like a chump and not a possible future WWE Universal / WWE Champion.
This particular episode of WWE Raw had a grand total running time of exactly two hours and seven minuets and thirty five seconds and well if i'm being honest apart from the useless "Alexa's Playground" segment. Every single second of this show was used rather well / well used simply because alot of the running time was dedicated to either progressing current storylines or setting up future storylines and in the possible case of one storyline this episode also spent some time concluding a storyline and it's these things that meant that this particular episode of WWE Raw had some great pacing when it came to the overall product.
Now then since there are some actual wrestling matches that are featured / presented to us on this actual WWE wrestling show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual matches that are featured / presented to us on this actual WWE wrestling show and if im being very freaking honest here the matches that are on this show are a huge step down in quality from the matches that we saw at Money In The Bank 2021. Not that the matches that are in this particular episode WWE Raw are bad because there really not but it's because the matches that we saw at Money In The Bank 2021 were so good that it was always going to be hard to top the matches that we saw at Money In The Bank 2921 in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this episode of WWE Raw is perhaps the best of WWE Raw that i've seen in a long time and I hope to god that WWE Raw starts to become better and better with each passing episode but that is something that only time will be fully able to tell us all tho. Now that i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are on / in this particular episode of WWE Raw that means that this particular episode of WWE Raw gets a huge score / rating of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well the boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and from google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images that I used from / of this particular of WWE Raw being Google Images simply because of the wide verity of images that Google Images had and also simply because all of the images that are currently up and on Google Images and that are from this particular episode of WWE Raw are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
