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Tonight I'm going to do something I haven't tried to do in years.... watch a whole episode of Monday Night Raw >_>

The episode preview doesn't sound promising... and the El Paso and Dayton tribute is a bit of a downer as a show-starter.

The new theme song sucks. I recognize most of of the people in the theme, though, so not much has changed.

The show is starting with Samoa Joe ranting. He *still* hasn't lost any weight and he *still* just looks like some fan you'd see at a convention rather than a wrestler. And then we skip to a silly flashback of Roman being attacked last week.

Also, who's the announcer team at this point? I recognize Michael Cole and Corey Graves, but who's that with them? Renee? How long has she been an announcer?

Show started off with a half-decent match between Becky Lynch (her nickname is "the Man"? wtf? First I was happy to see was the champ, but that took the ) and Charlotte (whose face looked weird coming out to the ring; didn't think it was her at first. Did she have work done?) vs Natalya (who I was a little surprised to see is still wrestling, considering that Divas tend to have relatively short careers) and Trish Stratus who I was *very* happy to see.

At any rate, I'm confused who the fuck are the faces and heels here. Becky has almost always been a face and, back when I stopped watching, I *thought* Natty was still a heel. Charlotte came out to the ring as a heel and she's facing Trish, who I'd assume is a face again. However, Becky and Charlotte are teamed together?

I will say that Charlotte's in-ring work is a bit better than I remember, although she totally botched that roll-through. (And I love how Charlotte taunted Becky with a fake tag offer.) Natty, on the other hand, I remember being better. She delivered this silly-looking spinning clothesline waaaaaay too slowly.

Trish still looks good, although that's pretty much all she did this match. She never even stepped foot in the ring.

Next they flipped to some ridiculous 24/7 Champ stuff. I'm going to be honest, it's pretty amusing (although the waiting room stunt was predictable) I like Maria Kanellis's new attitude. I'll admit I also like what little of I saw of her in TNA, which was an improvement over how the WWE originally used her.

And ew, Lesnar has the title again? Can they stop bringing him back and handing him the title?

The first real challenge of the night? Sitting through a Brock Lesnar spot (including watching a 5-minute+ recap of a previous week's events).
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