WWE Monday Night Raw 8th Mar 10 reviewed

So whilst Hulk Hogan & Ric Flair were battling live on TNA what was billionaire Vince McMahon offering his hordes of fans?

Well the show was more than 16 minutes old before we were offered the 1st match, a 6 Diva tag match which lasted 3 minutes.
Over on TNA they already had a 2 minute long match with no finish (or no start or finish bell either). The divas match was no better (or worse but was slightly longer) than the Triple Threat Knockout Tag match TNA had but at least TNA had gold on the line.

We had a ton of blah including guest host Criss Angel then by 26 mins into the show WWE offered their 2nd match, a tag match between R-Truth & John Morrison vs Big Show & The Miz. TNA were already 4 minutes into their 2nd match by then (a 3 way X Division match which last 7 minutes & was easily a 4 star match with gold on the line yet again) however this match lasted then a minute.

After a shitload more BLAH, some shameless self advertising & plugs for this years Wrestlemania at almost 37 minutes in we got the 3rd match, Randy Orton in a handicap match against Legacy. TNA's 3rd match had already started and finished (lasting just over 3 mins crowning new Knockout Tag Champions) before this even got going. At almost 9 mins long WWEs match was nothing to write home about. After another crapload of nothing WWE eventually decided to have another match. TNAs 4th match only lasted 10 seconds but they also started their 5th match which was only just over a minute long.

65 mins in the show WWEs 4th match was a Money In The Bank Qualifier, Evan Bourne vs William Regal which was only over a minute long. Bourne had an ok match though. TNA started their 6th match at 73 mins into their show, it was a 2 on 1 handicap match that lasted just short of 4 minutes and it was god awful.

Kicking off at the 80 minute mark WWE's 5th & final match of this weeks RAW was John Cena vs Mr McMahon who decided to change the rules at the last minute making it into a handicap gauntlet match so Cena had to face Vladimir Koslov, Drew Mcintyre, Jack Swagger & Mark Henry before changing the rules again adding a no DQ stipulation. After Batista also came down & did a number on Cena McMahon took the win in 8 minutes. WWE's last match was 2 minutes old when TNA's 7th & final match of their show started, although it had technically never started at the top of Impact but it only lasted 8 minutes as well.

RAW - 5 matches, 22 minutes of actual in ring wrestling. No new talent worked.
TNA - 7 matches, 21 minutes of actual in ring wrestling. 2 titles were contested, RVD debuted.

Having watched both shows neither impressed me, if these are supposed to be the 2 biggest wrestling companies on tv today they are both piss poor excuses for shows. Both shows were on for at least 2 hours and both only just had over 20 minutes worth of actual wrestling.

Its a very sad state of affairs indeed.