[4.0] "Go-home shows should pull all of the storylines together that have been brewing over the past few weeks and make the viewer hyped for the PPV. Well, you can't do that if you haven't had coherent stories or feuds to do that with. The 3 stages main event sounds cool but really they should have announced that either better and/or earlier. Maybe that's one of the issues with only having one weekly show instead of two like I have been used to since smackdown began, before the draft. But, even in the era before smackdown existed, during the attitude era especially, the WWF had no issues at all hyping us up for PPVs with great feuds and stories. Only really good match was the main event here and it was chaotic and fun so I guess did it's job. I really like when Bubba and Trish team up together. I believe they have fun when they're on the same team and it seems like they have good chemistry. I also have been enjoying, for the past year or so, all of the interactions between Booker T and Goldust. They both are much better actors and comedians than they are at wrestling, so I'm glad the WWE recognizes this and keeps them involved in non-wrestling segments and let them play off each other. Everything else here was a shit show and not in a good way. This is probably skippable as I'm sure they'll recap the most important background pieces during the PPV."

[3.0] "Yet another poor PPV go home show for Raw where all of their rivalries feel completely undercooked and the Triple H vs Shawn Michaels was the only match that was getting any substantial build but for some reason waited until this show to tell us it was a 3 Stages of Hell match. There's a really good promo here from Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels attacks Triple H at the end of the show as the showstopper had returned but when you look at the rest of the roster, the list of credible challengers looked very low going forward because of months and months of poor booking and Triple H squashing Jeff Hardy yet again here certainly didn't help matters! The Booker T and Goldust storyline in this where Goldust sees himself as the weak link of the team is quite good and the Tag match booked for the PPV looked interesting at least, but the main event of the show again is disappointing because its really poorly structured where you're advertised with a chaotic car crash fun table match and a majority of it is a boring normal tag match! Also Cheif Morely as a character is completely redundant because he does nothing that Eric Bischoff can't already do."

[6.0] "The RAW rosters was superstars, whereas the Smackdown roster was wrestlers. Jeff Hardy wasn't as over as he was, and he started to show the effects of his drug use here. He's sloppy and not focused. The reason he's gone by March. Not the Jeff Hardy from July against Undertaker. It seems like they're spinning their wheels on Raw until 2003 starts and they can somewhat reboot."

[4.0] "Outside of the tables match and the opener this show was weak in the ring again and featured another off booking decision with Hardy being dominated by HHH despite still being super over. This show also gave off the vibe that HHH was getting his belt back at Armageddon, which he did."

[5.0] "Michaels vs Triple H 3 stages of hell is announced at the start of the show. Flair cuts a good promo on Michaels here where he makes Michael's question his ability after the whole thing is done with. The matches here were fine, but I thought the main event was motn and a low level good match with a ton of chaos. Michaels proves Flair and HHH wrong at the end of the show by attacking both of them and proving he still had it in him, this was a fine show nothing remarkable"