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Friday, October 12, 2018

Best Monday Night Raw Matches

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1999:
  • Mankind Vs The Rock – 04/01/1999 - Probably one of the biggest highlights of the Monday Night Wars and a very proud moment for Mankind. I’d love to see Dave’s official rating for this match, because I believe all the emotion of Foley finally winning the big one was truly deserving for all his hard work. Plus the split roster of ‘The Corporation’ and the face wrestlers (including D-Generation X) surrounding the ring, on top of Stone Cold returning to help Foley win this match makes it so special. Rival company, WCW screwed themselves when they announced Foley winning the WWF Championship (because of a tape-delay) on their live programming of WCW Monday Night Nitro, because more than half the people watching on cable changed to WWF Monday Night Raw. Hm, ‘guess that’ll put a lot of butts in seats’.
  • Stone Cold Vs Undertaker – 28/06/1999 - Technically this match is the highest viewed match in Raw history.
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  • John Cena Vs Shawn Michaels – 23/04/2007 – 4 ¼* - This is one of not only the best Raw matches of all time, but one of Cena’s best matches of all time. They go close to an hour back and forth with no end in sight – if this match was for the WWE Championship that crowd would’ve been absolutely electric.
  • Edge Vs Randy Orton – 30/04/2007 – 4 ¼* - The night following Backlash, these two men faced off against each other in rescheduled match on Raw. Significant because it was one of the rare occasions a Heel faced off against another Heel, and really goes to show how much both men have improved over the last 2-3 years.
  • Triple H Vs Ric Flair – 30/12/2007 – 3 ½* - In late 2007, Ric Flair returned to WWE Television, and Vince McMahon seemed annoyed at this because he made Ric Flair compete in ‘Career Threatening Matches’, basically meaning that the next time Flair would lose by pinfall or submission he would have to retire from WWE. Within the first month of this stipulation, Vince McMahon would make Triple H face his greatest mentor in the business.
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  • John Cena Vs CM Punk – 07/06/2010 - This was a viewer’s choice, this isn’t 100% significant because of that match itself, and it’s more significant for what happens near the end of the match. It’s the debut of the Nexus, the rookies from NXT Season 1 all debuted on WWE Raw and attacked both CM Punk (with Luke Gallows) and John Cena and destroyed the Raw set, as well as everyone at ringside including Justin Roberts.
  • The Miz Vs Daniel Bryan – 13/09/2010 - This is one of Bryan’s first Raw matches and it is very good and its against his Bryans ‘pro’ Miz, but standard heel Miz he works the crowd fantastically.
  • Dolph Ziggler Vs Daniel Bryan – 25/10/2010 - These two men had back-to-back matches, this match took place the following night after Bragging Rights. They also had a third match on the following Smackdown.
  • The Miz Vs Jerry Lawler – 29/11/2010 - Most of The Miz' run as WWE Champion is forgotten besides his match with John Cena in the main event of Wrestlemania 27. But this is a real hidden gem, this match was in a TLC match and it's really worth the watch. It's quite significant because it's interesting to see The Miz, who was a former Tough Enough star & MTV reality TV star who no one believed would stick around for more than a year had won the WWE Championship.
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  • Seth Rollins Vs Daniel Bryan – 02/02/2015 - This match was to see who would face Roman Reigns at Fastlane 2015 in a number one contenders match for Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 31. Nonetheless I wish these two could’ve had a decent feud before Bryan retired.
  • Daniel Bryan Vs Dolph Ziggler - 31/03/2015 - This match was following the Wrestlemania 31 Ladder Match and it’s very good and gets a special moment from the crowd when they give a standing-ovation to both wrestlers. The ending of the match also has the return of WWE Superstar, Sheamus with a unique new look.
  • John Cena Vs Cesaro – 29/06/2015 – 4 ¼* - With Tyson Kidd injured, Cesaro was seemingly left out of the shuffle of what to do mid-2015, so WWE allowed him to show off his talents with John Cena for the United States Championship. This match and their match the week after are easily both some of the best Raw matches from 2015, highly recommend, one with a interference finish and one with a normal finish, highly recommend.
  • Seth Rollins Vs Neville - 03/08/2015 – 4* - One of the best Raw matches in 2015, an up and coming NXT Star recently debuted Neville would get the opportunity to face the WWE Champions Seth Rollins in the opening match of Raw; both men mesh well with each other and I hope these two feud in the future.
  • Roman Reigns Vs Cesaro – 16/11/2015 – 4 ¼* - This may be one of my favourite Roman Reigns matches (please don’t downvote me for that) these two absolutely have great chemistry with each other, and if you don’t trust me watch this match between the two.
2016:
  • The New Day Vs Y2-AJ – 07/03/2016 - This may be my favorite title defense by the New Day in their total 483 days as being WWE Tag Team Champions. The dynamic pairing of ‘Y2-AJ’ worked perfectly and it set up for one of more memorable matches from the Raw brand this year.
  • Dolph Ziggler Vs Triple H – 14/03/2016 - This was one of those matches that people had been waiting to see for a long time; Dolph Ziggler Vs Triple H or Dolph Ziggler Vs The Authority. The people that were ‘keeping Dolph down’. I personally wish this match was at PPV; but hey we got it on Raw and it really showed how good Dolph is when he gets the opportunity.
  • AJ Styles Vs Chris Jericho Vs Kevin Owens Vs Sami Zayn – 04/04/2016 – 4* - The night after ‘Mania can be seen as a ‘reboot’ after a meh Wrestlemania. The main event featured four guys who wanted to become the number one contender for Roman Reigns newly won WWE Championship – however there would only be one phenomenal winner. However, another intriguing point of this match was that it was the return of Cesaro, who was injured and missed Wrestlemania the previous night.
  • Sasha Banks Vs Charlotte – 25/07/2016 - This would be the start of their one-on-one rivalry which would go for the whole year – in shockingly fashion this match started the trend of Sasha winning the Raw Women’s Championship on Raw.
  • Roman Reigns Vs Finn Balor – 25/07/2016 - Upon Finn Balors debut on Raw he was pushed very strongly, he would win a fatal-four way match to advance into a #1 Contenders match with Roman Reigns. He would then go onto defeat him clean in possibly one of the biggest shocks of the year.
  • Roman Reigns Vs Seth Rollins Vs Kevin Owens Vs Big Cass – 29/08/2016 - Probably very important in the long run, Triple H (who was Seth Rollins father figure in the Authority) would turn on him. For what reasons? Completely unknown at this point – but is this the first step into a Seth Rollins face turn and potential great match with Triple H at Wrestlemania? We can only hope so.
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