[6.0] "An acceptable opening with a double count-out--no one gets hurt. In a clip, Mongo McMichael teases his first foray into the wrestling business at Mania 11--a development many fans would have preferred to do without. I completely agree with the Million Dollar Corporation's reaction. 'Big Cat' Ernie Ladd assesses Lawrence Taylor's chances against Bam Bam Bigelow. Before his match with Double J, even Barry Horriblewitz gets a chance to speak--yet another indicator of a lack of star power and future storylines. At least the perpetually unsuccessful Barry puts up a valiant fight. The Wrestlemania Report is slowly filling out the card--Ramon gets a rematch, the Blu-Twins face the Allied Powers, and the Gunns take on Owen Hart and a powerful unknown at the PPV. There's also a look back at The Zone, when MOM gruffly turned on the Cowboys. The Hitman is finally served a dose of Lawler, but Bret Hart still has problems on entirely different fronts, because both Hakushi and Backlund are lurking nearby during his match, and this numerical advantage ultimately determines the outcome--albeit in the form of Bull Nakano. A furious end to the show--instead of Barry Horowitz, Bob Backlund signs a contract for a title match for the Intercontinental Championship. Much to Jeff Jarrett's horror. The show touches on Mania a bit and also features a few of its own little storylines. Worth watching."

[6.0] "Nice to see headshrinkers back. Seems like there was a 3-4 month period in 93 where every Raw started with a headshrinkers match lol. i guess I miss their music? the match was ok. The JJ match is entertaining. They did a promo for Horowitz before the match, which made me think this wouldn't be a typical squash, which it wasn't. But again here's Vince fuckin up the promo, talking over Horowitz with random touretes bullshit even though Horowitz was giving a decent promo and ended it promoting monday night raw. Vince lol wtf are you doing? I wish someone would have taken him aside and just said man wtf are you doing please get off the air. Anyway, the JJ matches have been MUCH more entertaining since he brought road dogg as his roadie. Road Dogg is a really good character. As JJ enters the ring, road dogg covers up the camera, lol just like a roadie would. Love it. The match itself was ok. Is this Jeff Jarrett's peak? Todd Pettengill has a decently long segment promoting WrestleMania XI and man this dude looks busted as fuck recently. Weird ass mullet and triple chin. Dude still has a great voice and great at speaking. Just get him behind the camera, k? There's a mini promo of HBK and pam anderson where she does a good job pretending to be somewhat disgusted with him lol. The hart/lawler match was actually entertaining, and I love the very strange racism angle going on here. I've said this a few times before here, but Lawler really does a great job for the WWF during this era, whether it's getting involved in RANDOM ass feuds or pissing people off with his interviews, or whatever else. He's like this wild card/x factor guy who doesn't fit the mold of whatever was going on in the WWF in this era, and it's refreshing. Both him and Bret Hart (and JJ/Road Dogg) are slowly foreshadowing a lot of what's coming with the attitude era."

[6.0] "The standout here is the dark match with Blayze/Holly vs Nakano/Hakushi, which was taped with (bad) commentary by Stan Lane and Gorilla but which is about ten minutes long, has four good workers in it, and ends clean. Otherwise this is a pretty standard episode for the time, with two dirty finishes and a short Jeff Jarrett match (albeit fun for the early appearance of Road Dogg). This despite the fact there's a decent set of workers available. If you don't book for success, your booking won't be successful."

[6.0] "This was an enjoyable episode of RAW with decent build to WM11. The best thing on the show was the Ernie Ladd interview, that man has a way with words and puts over the LT/Bam Bam match in a big way that makes perfect sense. Not a bad match on the show which is always a plus but some of the booking was questionable. A lot of guys who are wrestling at WM can't win their matches against lesser guys (looking at you, Blu brothers). Worth a watch if you have a hour to kill."

[6.0] "This was a good episode of RAW for the era. The matches are more competitive than usual, including Jarrett vs. Horowitz, which was a lot more fun than I expected and wrestled as if Horowitz might have actually pulled off the upset. Lawler vs. Bret is a solid main event, even though it doesn't really get the chance to be as great as it could have been. It's not essential viewing, but it's better than a lot of early RAW episodes for sure."

[7.0] "This was a really entertaining show. All the matches are enjoyable and there's some wacky stuff you could only get in this era like Diesel's Slim Jim commercial and Bull Nakano serving as Lawler's second in the main event."