Sometimes, its easy to be harsh on a wrestling promotion.

Throughout Cyberspace, wrestling fans regularly criticise WWE and TNA for the quality of their programming and booking ideas. And sometimes, in fact quite often, the criticism is uncalled for and unjustified.

But not last night.

I’d love to hear from anybody who watched Raw last night and enjoyed it. Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody who watched Raw and have decided to buy this Sunday’s Cyber Sunday (or should that be SMS Sunday?) PPV as a result of watching the show.

WWE presents Summerslam live tonight on pay-per-view. As always, we’ll have live coverage of the show on the front page of the site and hope you can join us from 8pm EST/1am UK time onwards.
Ahead of tonight’s show, Phil Lowe, Mark Bright and Michael Campbell run down tonight’s card for what potentially could be a very good show…
Hell in a Cell: The Undertaker vs. Edge
Michael Campbell: Edge has got to win this. He just has to in order to continue his run of strong credibility as a heel. His character …

Welcome to the second week of my weekly coverage of Raw, with “Raw Bits!” With Summerslam seriously looming overhead, this threatened to be a very good episode indeed, with last week’s solid (in general) edition, and the intriguing use of Mike Adamle hinting at a few changes.
On with the show….
Tender Cuts
(The tasty parts)

Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho received quite the pop for interrupting the segment between JBL and Adamle, earning himself a “Y2J” chant. I would like to think that this response is down to two things- the fact that JBL/Punk may …

The Big News: Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix find each other oddly irresistible.
Show Analysis:
At the beginning of the show, Batista was shown leaving the production truck. There was no reference to Shane or Stephanie McMahon, which is odd given last week was clearly booked as if to set up an intervention this week. The episode description for Raw even said that the McMahons’ plan to reel in Raw would be revealed. I’m not sure why they changed plans.
Batista made his way to the ring and blamed Kane for costing him …

- Night of Champions is tomorrow night, and we’ll have live coverage from 8pm EST/1am UK time. At time of writing, the announced card is as follows:
WWE Champion Triple H vs. John Cena
World Heavyweight Champion Edge vs. Batista
ECW Champion Kane vs. Big Show vs. Mark Henry
World Tag Team Champions Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes vs. Ted DiBiase & TBA
WWE Tag Team Champions John Morrison & The Miz vs. Finlay & Hornswoggle
United States Champion Matt Hardy vs. Chavo Guerrero
WWE Women’s Champion Mickie James vs. Katie Lee Burchill
Chris Jericho will likely be …