RAW IS SKY SPORTS (WWE Raw)

Member Name: keeks

Product:	WWE Raw
Date:	28/09/01 (115 review reads)
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Advantages: High Octane Entertainment

Disadvantages: Leave your pre-conceptions at the door!

Ok. So I am not male. But I am probably a geek - or geek-ess, whatever the female of the species is called. After moving in with my boyfriend (a "casual" wrestling fan, if there is such a thing) I will admit I only began to watch WWF because it featured oily, muscly men in tight pants. Im not afraid to admit it!
The addiction starts slowly. First you find yourself dragging your carcass out of bed at the ungodly hour of 11 o'clock on a Saturday morning to watch Raw and Livewire on Sky One. Then, thats not enough to satisfy you. You persuade the bill payer of the household that it might be "REEEEEALLY good fun to watch that Pay per view they were going on about on Smackdown last week...., not for me but I know that you enjoy it, darling...."
And then before you know it you are forgoing your Friday night knees up dahhhhn the boozer to watch Raw is War on Sky Sports 1.
It has been expressed on other ops on this site that Raw is the best of WWF's programming. And this, in my mind, is an indisputable fact. There is much to recommend the show to any fan of wrestling, casual or fanatic. There is an energy about Raw that I think sums up why I find the whole "sports entertainment" thang so damn exciting. I feel the "soap opera" vignettes on the show serve up some of the most hilarious gags and set-pieces I have seen. The sight of the (allegedly) 6"2, 260 pound Rock, oiled and be-panted, singing Great Balls of Fire to an elderly and somewhat senile looking Jerry Lee Lewis shall stand out in recent memory. A Stone Cold Steve Austin in-ring serenade from The Alliance ending in an obviously highly amused Austin being drenched in full fat milk. (You had to be there.)And as for the wrestling....
This is the place where the greats wrestle. Where the titles change hands. Where the alliances are set up and broken. This is classic stuff. Lose your pre-conceptions. Dont - for gods sake - watch the watered down kiddie v
ersions on Sky One. Give Raw a shot. As their logo says "WWF Attitude - Get it?" If you do, I guarantee Raw will replace Coronation Street and Brookside as your soap opera of choice.

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