Worst Episodes of RAW

[crash1984]

I am not talking about a Raw where one segment was bad (unless it was an ongoing thing) but Raw's where the entire show was a disaster.

July 3, 2006-A lot of the shows during DX's 2006 run was awful but I believe this to be the worst. To begin with the night before was when Van Dam and Sabu were arrested. This led to the tag team match being changed into a triple threat match for the WWE Championship. Not even a rare title change on free TV could save this show. At the start of the show DX got banned from the building, so they wound up having a big barbecue in the parking lot. During that show was when Candice and Triple H had their fun under the table. Eventually DX takes over the production truck. During this time it shows Coach peeing on Vince's leg. Later on while Vince is cutting an in-ring promo DX plays stupid sound effects. Then When Armando tried to do his speech they would play a belching sound each time. Once might have been funny but not the remaining 3 million times.

1/1/07-The first Raw of 2007 was an absolute nightmare. The show begins with Cena Jobbing. That does not sound bad, however the person he jobbed to was Kevin Federline. At one point during the show I was joking that as bad as Raw was Rob Conway would probably be out. As soon as they came back from commercial guess who comes out. Then Vince fires Rob and takes a shot at Rosie O'Donnell.

1/8/07-As if the previous weeks show was not bad enough. To begin with the night before was when HHH tore his quad again. In order to fill the void on the Raw roster The Great Khali is brought to Raw. As if that was not bad enough this was also the show where they did the Rosie vs. Donald match.

[WorkingInAColeMine]

Little

People's

Court

[Bob Schlapowitz]

The Lakers vs. Nuggets RAW was absolutely embarrassing to watch.

[strykerdarksilence]

Jeremy Piven and Dr Ken host.

Never have I felt such rage at a wrestling show.

[Andrew is Good]

Apr 19, 2011 21:15:43 GMT -5 WorkingInAColeMine said:

Little

People's

Court

Yeah, came into the thread to say that. I made sure to remember that as being the worst Raw ever. I also remember one match, Carlito vs Chris Masters I do believe, and the reason I remembered that was, it was a throwaway match, and it was during a time they were really jobbing Carlito out. So instead of potentially getting an angle built up (I think Eve was involved with Masters at the time), they just had a meaningless match. There were other parts, but Little People's Court took up a lot of time on that show, I felt so bad for the people who paid money to see that.

Another one that comes to mind was one in 2002, which featured THAT Jackie Gayda match, and Kevin Nash's quad blowing out.

[Krimzon]

12/14/2009 - The 2009 Slammy Awards with Guest Host Dennis Miller.

That's the worst episode of wrestling I've seen in 20+ years of watching.

[BigJerichool222]

CGI SNOW.

[MrBRulzOK]

I recall the Slammies episode hosted by Dennis Miller being an all time bad show.

Also the RAW where Cena gave what was essentially a retirement speech and then showed up at the very end of the show anyway.

[Andrew is Good]

Another one was the MacGruber episode, man, that Guest Host idea really pulled out some stinkers.

[8.2.11/SAVIOR_NEZ]

Apr 19, 2011 21:15:43 GMT -5 WorkingInAColeMine said:

Little

People's

Court

This and the RAW right before it, the 2009 Slammy Awards. These two back-to-back RAW episodes were some of the absolute worst television I've ever seen. It nearly caused me to give up on RAW, good thing for me Bret Hart came back shortly after that.

[allenfan69]

The A-Team episode, where Bradley Cooper showed up for 10 seconds, and there was a long, excrutiating story about how the King's crown was kidnapped, was just awful. And Piper was the big heel because Rampage Jackson looked like Mr. T.

And I'm drawing a blank on the show where most of the roster was stuck in Europe because of the volcanic ash. I remember HHH came out and took a verbal cheap shot at Lillian, but I can't remember any of the matches...I think Smackdown dominated the show, but there wasn't much going on with it...any help?

[Andrew is Good]

Apr 19, 2011 21:45:53 GMT -5 allenfan69 said:

The A-Team episode, where Bradley Cooper showed up for 10 seconds, and there was a long, excrutiating story about how the King's crown was kidnapped, was just awful. And Piper was the big heel because Rampage Jackson looked like Mr. T.

And I'm drawing a blank on the show where most of the roster was stuck in Europe because of the volcanic ash. I remember HHH came out and took a verbal cheap shot at Lillian, but I can't remember any of the matches...I think Smackdown dominated the show, but there wasn't much going on with it...any help?

Oh yeah. I think that's the night that can be traced back as the beginning of the downward spiral of Ted Dibiase's career

[joebob27]

I can't cite individual episodes, but I'm pretty sure there's episodes early on, in the Rob Bartlett era, that put some of these to shame.... combined.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Apr 19, 2011 21:19:49 GMT -5 Andrew is Good said:

Another one was the MacGruber episode, man, that Guest Host idea really pulled out some stinkers.

To be fair, that was the episode in which the RAW roster was stuck in Belfast. Besides, who didn't mark for R-Truth getting turned into smoke instead of blowing smoke?

[ben:friendship frog]

I love Cena being pinned by K-Fed. I thought K-Fed did a great job as an annoying little heel in his short WWE stint.

It's not as if he lost clean anyway, Nitro was there interfering and Umaga did a run in hyping up the PPV match between Umaga & Cena.

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What else happened on the episode where the Jackass crew was beat up by Umaga but were laughing like tools during the beating?

[forgottensinpwf]

Apr 19, 2011 21:47:47 GMT -5 Andrew is Good said:

Apr 19, 2011 21:45:53 GMT -5 allenfan69 said:

The A-Team episode, where Bradley Cooper showed up for 10 seconds, and there was a long, excrutiating story about how the King's crown was kidnapped, was just awful. And Piper was the big heel because Rampage Jackson looked like Mr. T.

Oh yeah. I think that's the night that can be traced back as the beginning of the downward spiral of Ted Dibiase's career

Yeah, but I swear something else happened that night.



If only I could remember what it was...

[turkeysandwich]

Apr 19, 2011 21:45:53 GMT -5 allenfan69 said:

The A-Team episode, where Bradley Cooper showed up for 10 seconds, and there was a long, excrutiating story about how the King's crown was kidnapped, was just awful. And Piper was the big heel because Rampage Jackson looked like Mr. T.

This was the 3 hour viewers choice Raw, that was absolutely horrible...

until the end, which was the debut of the Nexus. I still have that episode on my DVR, that is the only Raw I have ever found worthy of keeping, so it''s not the worst.

[allenfan69]

Apr 19, 2011 22:12:17 GMT -5 turkeysandwich said:

Apr 19, 2011 21:45:53 GMT -5 allenfan69 said:

The A-Team episode, where Bradley Cooper showed up for 10 seconds, and there was a long, excrutiating story about how the King's crown was kidnapped, was just awful. And Piper was the big heel because Rampage Jackson looked like Mr. T.

This was the 3 hour viewers choice Raw, that was absolutely horrible...

until the end, which was the debut of the Nexus. I still have that episode on my DVR, that is the only Raw I have ever found worthy of keeping, so it''s not the worst.

That was the same episode?? In that case, I retract my statement. My brain has obviously separated the awesome beatdown from the stinker that was the rest of the episode.

[Disaster Report]

The one with "This is your life, Rock." Does it count as only a segment when it takes up 1/4 of the entire show?