Ladies and gentlemen and wrestling fans alike every single wrestling fan who is worth their salt will tell you that the first Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania. Is always something that's not only truly special but the first episode of Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania is also something that is to be watched to be believed and so join me as I review the April 2nd 2001 episode of the flagship show of the the WWE / WWF with the show in question being called simply just "Raw" enjoy.
Now then of course the main storyline for this episode of the show is the formation of The Two Man Powertrip and if i'm going to be honest here people I really did like how this episode of the show. Dealt with that storyline since they spend most of the episode building up the fact that Triple H could possibly be turning face since both he Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin are deadly rivals and yet they pull a last minuet plot twist which while it doesn't necessarily make sense for the character of Triple H it is still an interesting plot twist in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then the se/ stage / stage set for this era of Raw is perhaps one of the most iconic sets that Raw has ever had in my opinion anyways / at least. This is also the stage /set that I personally grew up with / watching and it is in all honesty a set that holds up really well since it still looks really good twenty years later and in all honesty it's a set that I in all honesty cannot find any single fault with because it's that good of a set in my opinion anyways / at least.
There is in all honesty nothing more that I can say about this set that probably alot more people have already said. Since this set is that iconic altho I will admit that I don't really see any point in incorporating the TNN logo into the top of the set since you can barely see it anyways and so from a promotional standpoint it makes no sense in having it being featured so prominently at the top of this set in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw was the first episode of Monday Night Raw to be held post Wrestlemania Seventeen and as such a huge portion of this episodes running time was spent with the commentators wondering why Stone Cold Steve Austin shook hands with his arch rival Vince McMahon and well sadly we don't get an answer to that question in this episode. Which is a shame because it could have made for a really cool plot twist with / in Stone Cold Steve Austin's plot line Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Now then for some dumb and rather strange reason instead of having Trish Stratus vs Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley end in a no contest. Which really shouldn't be the case at all since this match is a nothing match it's a strap match so you could very easily have a winner and loser in this match and thus having this match end in a no contest projects nobody because neither woman is that well established at this point in their wrestling careers and so it was honestly pointless having this match end in a contest in my opinion anyways / at least.
Also being pointless is the very fact that we even had a strap match since both the strap match match and the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match are literal pee break matches. Altho the Rhyno vs Crash Holly match does help further the fact that Rhyno is just this unstoppable wrestling machine and so having that match be as short as it is oddly makes sense in that regard but at the same when you have to matches back to back which are / that are basically just pee break matches and noting more then that it makes your overall product seem fairly bad but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.
Now then having your opening promo be at the very least fifteen to twenty minuets long isn't a bad thing if your episode / show has at the very least a two plus hour running time. Which sadly isn't the case for this episode and as such having the opening promo at the very least be fifteen to twenty minuets long doesn't work as it only takes up time that could and more importantly should have been given to other matches or to other segments but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways ' at least.
Now then this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and thirty six seconds and well given how long the opening promo for this show is I really do feel like / that this very / particular episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw should have been a little or even alot longer. This is simply because that there are alot of matches that are this particular / very episodes match card that could or even for that matter should have been alot longer then what they actually were / ended up being in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then since this is a wrestling show after all that does infact mean that there infact some actual wrestling matches that are to be found on this wrestling show and so that means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling matches that are featured /presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show and if i'm being honest apart from the strap match the wrestling matches that are / featured / presented to us on this particular / very wrestling show are indeed fairly decent at best. This is simply just because alot of the wrestling that are on this show just simply aren't given enough time which is a shame because one of those matches which isn't given more then enough time is the main event which is The Rock vs Stone Cold Steven Austin inside of a steel cage and is for the WWF Championship this match should have been at the vert least twenty to thirty minuets long since both. The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin can more then keep audiences attention for that long of period of time but instead the match is over and done with in ten minuets which means that things get rushed and thus match should have been great is at best ok in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this wasn't a bad post Wrestlemania Raw but at the same time it's also not a good post Raw Wrestlemania either since there are alot of things that bog this episode down and all of those things could have been and more importantly should have been better if this episode was at the very least two hours long in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are featured / presented to us in this particular / very episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw and as such this episode of WWE / WWF Monday Night Raw erns a grand total score of an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the image that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Google Images , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
