MARKED OUT! …checked out… RAW 07/01/13

CM PUNK / *Intercontinental Champion* Curtis Axel def. THE PRIME TIME PLAYERS: MARKED OUT!

Good mat work and a good match overall, but something was missing here. The finish was way too predictable, but since it was still a decent match and we got to see Punk/Heyman’s feud continue to build, I’ll say it was “MARK OUT-able.”

KAITYLN def. ALICIA FOX: …checked out…

[Insert your own comment about how much time this wasted here] NEXT!

STEPHANIE MCMAHON / VICKIE GUERRERO segment: …checked out…

This three-way power struggle better go somewhere good…and relatively fast. I’m already tired of it. The only benefit from it all is that Guerrero could be out and a new GM may be in come next Monday.

ANTONIO CESARO def. CODY RHODES: …checked out…

Again…by this time I need a return, debut, or baller main event to get me back into this program. Ugh. Next please.

*WWE Champion* JOHN CENA def. *World Heavyweight Champion* ALBERTO DEL RIO: …checked out…

Really? I called the finish to this match on Twitter 5 minutes before it started. WAY too predictable. The match wasn’t great, and boy is Del Rio not over as a heel or face. Yikes. I kind of feel sorry for the guy. He can wrestle when he’s in the ring with a great competitor, but his match with Cena was very subpar. Not a very good ending to an already suffering Raw.

RAW 07/01/13 OVERALL: …checked out…

Really? Really? REALLY!?

This is the kind of show we get handed to us just two weeks away from a great PPV card? I’m finding myself excited about Money In The Bank, because the card looks awesome, but the free shows they’re giving us in between each PPV’s are getting stale. All the shows haven’t been terrible, but it makes it worse when the product isn’t great multiple weeks in a row. I checked out of this one completely, and for the first time in a long time, I felt the urge to change the channel. Ugh.

Let’s hope the go-home show next week provides a little bit more for us to enjoy, and a little less SUCK for us to want to forget.

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