[3.0] "sorta boring episode. wasn't bad by any means but was not good. Back in 98-99 the wrestling on this show would be acceptable because there would be some funny ass car crash storytelling going on. Here? not so much. Bischoff kissed steph last week and HHH/Flair are now wondering if that means Bischoff is now disloyal to them or some weird shit like that. Shawn michaels interferes for a 2nd straight raw to ensure HHH loses. A promo for Big Poppa Pump appeared to interrupt Lance Storm on the mic. Crowd did not care one bit. Man they are really blowing this, they could have brought steiner in with a much better pop than this. it's really bad. TEST shaved his head. Really they're trying to do literally anything now to make this guy a thing. All of the feuds they matched him up with last year did not work, because he SUCKS as a wrestler. And guess what, giving him more mic time is not doing him any favors either because he SUCKS on the mic. Keep this up and people are gonna start booing stacey. Seriously. Please stop. Batista's debut on raw was good enough, and the women's matchup was at least interesting with ivory coming back and victoria doing ... something.... although she threw a strike with her water bottle at trish on the ramp, which was impressive. Best part of the show was probably Kane doing "suckaaaaaaaaaa". Otherwise it's 100% skippable. Was going to give it a 5 but -2 for TEST still being a thing."

"Kind of a so so show during a very strange period for WWE. I always think of the limbo between attitude era and ruthless aggression as where wrestling lost its edge. Watching these shows sort of proves that thinking."

[5.0] "Overall an ok to good show. None of the wrestling was outright bad and the story was mostly inoffensive compared to last month. Lots of build towards Survivor Series and I'm really curious to experience my first Elimination Chamber. Outside of matches there were some bad/cringe moments - Victoria unnecessarily stripping Terri Runnels, and Test calling his fans "testicles" was only kind of funny the first time. And good/fun moments - I am chuckling at the Randy Orton injury updates and as a Tough Enough nerd, I enjoyed Maven returning from injury to take down Chris Nowinski."

[5.0] "I think the whole thing where Eric Bischoff gives us limited information about the Elimination Chamber every week was brilliant marketing which gave the show a hook to keep tuning in and the Survivor Series card is shaping up nicely. The problem is the wrestling is still really sub standard compared to Smackdown and its filled with storylines that don't really go anywhere. Worse still is the booking for the Elimination Chamber guys is not good because only Triple H and Shawn Michaels had a proper chance of winning and everyone could see it. The show is notable for Batista's devastating second debut that made us forget all about his Deacon days, and theres a pretty odd storyling going on with Test getting a makeover and calling his fans his 'Testicles' much to Stacy Kiebler's delight. It's stupid but she's really funny in that role so it's a pass. There's still obvious long term booking problems because of how damaging things was on Raw for a long time."

[4.0] "Da steht ja immer noch der Kuss von SmackDown! im Raum, welcher noch unklare Intentionen beinhaltet hat. Das erste Match ist in meinen Augen leidlich okay, während danach Victoria zähneknirschend mit ansehen muss, wie Trish einen Sieg einfährt. Das geht natürlich nicht lange gut. Scott Steiners Comeback rückt näher. Und nachdem man sich von Test und Christian getrennt hat, stimmen bei den Un-Americanz auch plötzlich wieder die Resultate. Der Reboot Batistas nimmt Formen an und ein erstes Opfer ist in Aldo Montoya schnell gefunden. In einer längeren Promo versuchen einige Teilnehmer des anstehenden ersten Elimination Chamber Matches etwas Story in die Partie zu pumpen. Test kann mit kurzen Haaren, neuen Shorts und den Beinen von Stacey Keibler an seiner Seite dem Hurricane schnell die Luft aus den Segeln nehmen. Der großmäulige Nowinski hat sich derweil den Unmut von Al Snow und auch Maven eingefangen, der hier sein RAW-Debüt abliefert. Und dann sind da noch RVD und HBK, welche bei den letzten beiden, recht lauwarmen Partien der Show, ganz unterschiedliche Wege in die Elimination Chamber beschreiten. Auf der Haben-Seite kein Wort über Katie Vick und Shawn Michaels ist auch wieder da, im Ring ist das aber alles ausgesprochen dröge. Knapp nicht im roten Bereich."

[3.0] "This was a much better show than the Katie Vick episodes, but still not really a good show, as the matches were all weak outside of the last two, and the HHH promo was your typical HHH reign of terror era promo."

[5.0] "Fine output of Raw here. It doesn't mean much here but Batista made his Raw debut. Triple H & Jericho were having a boring segment until Booker T came, Kane saving Booker from the beatdown was good to set the stage for the main event. The Randy Orton promo was solid again. RVD Christian was solid, the main event was just boring heat from HHH and Jericho but we got HBK announcing he was going to EC after costing HHH the match at least"

[4.0] "Schlechte Ausgabe von RAW. Der Opener war in Ordnung. Das Match ging für mich länger als sechs Minuten. Spike mischt sich zwar ein aber die Faces verlieren dennoch. Die Divas waren schlecht. Ivory ist wieder zurück und sie ist nicht mehr bei SmackDown. Victoria fordert Trish für Survivor Series in einem Hardcore Match heraus. Al Snow und Dreamer vs Regal und Storm war schlecht. Credible vs Batista war schlecht. Das erste und einzige und auch letzte Match für Credible bei RAW. Absolut null Chance hatte er. Während die Promo zwischen Triple H und Booker T lahm begann wurde es erheblich besser als Jericho hinzukam. Ein wenig Hype für das Elimination Chamber Match. Hurricane vs Test war schlecht. Stacy greift hart durch mit Veränderungen für Test. Nun hat er kurze Haare und auch ohne Ablenkung siegt Test. RVD vs Christian war schlecht. Leider ein ziemlich langweiliges Match. RVD siegt weil er eben im Elimination Chamber Match ist und Christian nicht. Ein unnötiges Nowinski Segment gab es noch. Mehr als ein wenig Heat und die Rückkehr von Maven gab es nicht. Der Main-Event war in Ordnung. Die Katie Vick Story ist zum Glück beendet worden. Ganz gutes Match. HBK nimmt die Einladung für das Elimination Chamber Match an."

[6.0] "Solide RAW Ausgabe vom Anfang bis zum Ende mit annehmbarer In-Ring-Action und ordentlicher Weiterführung der laufenden Storys. Vor allem die Test/Stacy Story ist eine kleine, aber feine Sache. Historisch relevant vielleicht noch das RAW Debüt von Batista mit einem Squash gegen Justin Credible."