Wrestling fans it's been a good few months since I last reviewed a wrestling show and well then with Raw turning thirty I thought that now was the right time to review another wrestling show. Since this show has been apart of every wrestling fans life for exactly thirty years regardless of if we watched the WWE or not and so then join me as I review the show that celebrates turning thirty with the show in question being called simply just "Raw Is XXX" enjoy.
The biggest storyline going into this show was of course The Tribal Court storyline and that's really all we get interms if major storylines. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual storylines going into this show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual storylines that are going into this show was in all honesty really good with the Tribal Court segment being very well told and indeed adding in alot more intrigue going into the Royal Rumble in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
The set for this show isn't what i;d thought that it would be since it's just the regular set that's used for Raw these days and nothing more then that. Which wouldn't be a bad thing if this was just a regular episode of Raw but it's not and so the the set for this show show should really represent all of the other previous Raw sets or if they really wanted to do a call back then they bring back the very first Raw set since just having the regular set just makes it look like just another episode of the show and not an anniversary special.
I'm not really a big fan of the one big tron being a set for the show type of thing since it just screams laziness to me. I didn't like it when they did it at Wrestlemania and I don't like it now it's something that really does need to go since WWE sets have always been creative and having one big tron be the entire set for the show just robs any and all creativity that could be going into creating a great looking set i'm sure that there is a way ti use one tron as the entire set but so far i'm yet to see a show that had this idea nailed down and perfected.
Going into the show there was one match that alot of us wrestling fans where excited to seeing and that;s the women's steel cage match. This match had pretty much all of it's time cut because of the fact that the The Tribal Court segment went longer then expected so instead of cutting time from the Bianca Belair vs Sonya Deville or the Seth Rollins & The Street Profits vs Imperium since both of those matches didn't need to be as long as they were and then when you add in the fact that both matches had incredibly longer segments before the it;s very easy to see where you could have find time to cut from both matches and segments and add them to the steel cage match.
To this shows credit it does use the legends on this show alot better then Legends Night did from just a few short years ago. Since the legends on this show are used to not enhance the current roster but are also used to enhance the current storylines as well where as back on Legends Night they mainly used the legends to make fun of the current roster and to not enhance the then current storylines and that's not a great way to use legends since it hurts the product in the long term where as how they used the legends on this show will only serve to help the product in the long term.
I will admit that the legends in this show were really fun with them getting alot of really segments and interactions. However tho the issue is tho that these segments last long and are there just for pure fanservice and nothing more then that which is to be expected on a legends show but at the same time tho it means that you get a lot of segments that last a lot longer then what is really needed I mean heck the DX segment didn't need to run as long as it does and yet with the match it runs for close to ten minuets and it really doesn't need to be that long at all.
This show should have been more of a celebration of Raw and what it means to the wrestlers and those involved with the WWE. However we don;t get any of that which is a shame because this show was built up as an anniversary special and yet there's nothing on the show gives you a hint of that apart from the wrestlers constantly reminding you of the fact that Raw is turning thirty and that does get annoying after a while but when the show gets the celebration right it really does get it right with the shows opening intro being a prime example of that.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and thirty two minuets and twenty four seconds. Which if i'm right is pretty much the bog standard running time for Raw these days but at the same time even with this large amount of running time the show could have dine with being at the very least five or ten minuets longer just because of the fact it would have then have allowed for the steel cage match to happen and it wold have allowed for the main event to go a bit longer as well.
So now then since is a wrestling show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual wrestling that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With alot of the shows matches having some really good wrestling in it with the best match of the whole show being The Bloodline vs The Judgement Day in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a great show for legends and while it was a huge step up from the dreadful Legends Night episode of Raw it;s not a great anniversary episode and it doesn't represent how great this show can be when it's at it's best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then 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 Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.