Welcome to this week's edition of The Raw Story. Let me go ahead and give a few extra notes before we get started:
• Monday night's crowd in San Diego was hot throughout the entire show. It's amazing how much more enjoyable a good crowd can make an episode of Raw. Not to say that this show was great (because it wasn't), but you get my point.
• The commentary Monday night was, dare I say, decent? Compared to what we've become accustomed to over the past year or more, it was exceptional actually. Cole played his character without being too distracting, actually calling the matches, and Lawler seemed to care about the product. Good work, gentlemen.
• Next week I'll do the thing again where I write about both Raw and the PPV in one column. I hope you appreciate the extra work put into that as much as I look forward to getting carpal tunnel.
Now, let's get Raw…
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2012.