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What do they expect when they book a bunch of matches nobody cares about? I tried to watch the show but I fell asleep repeatedly before switching it off before ten. Once Cena wins the title at mania, I'll be back to not watching.

They should have had SuperCena take on the entire Raw roster by himself, and win after OVERCOMING THE ODDS! *THAT* would have got a high rating, because SuperCena is our Lord and Saviour. Right? Guys? Hello?

Who cares? A few more people tuning in after "Dancing With The Stars" won't make a difference when it comes to number of buys. If someone is really plopping $54.95 for a show, they will be watching the build up to it.

You know, I've watched every RAW & SMACKDOWN & ECW show that has aired in 2008 without missing a minute of the shows. I must say I really don't "feel" WRESTLEMANIA 24. Outside of Ric Flair possibly wrestling his last match there is nothing that has excited me so much that I have to go & order the event. Granted, there are several matches that I would not mind watching, but I'll just save my money & buy the DVD when it comes out. Maybe next year Vince.

Ah the Cena hate is becoming a parody now. The guy had some of the best matches for the company last year, can sell, can carry a match, shows intensity yet people hate him for no reason other than they hate wiggers (which his character hasn't been in years).

the Cena marks are whining again you keep telling us how Cena is the whole deal and we have to deal with it. No he isn't the whole deal people don't care that much except for his fans who in this slow time for the business. No one missed him when he was gone and his return has done nothing for the business but just sell some merchandise hes not even the biggest draw at Mania and people are going to be rooting more for HHH then him. Mayweather-Big show has been more interesting then Cena's lame return and will have more to do with the buy rate for WM then Cena winning again but of course when the show does a high buy rate the same marks and some of the writers on here will as usual say its because of Cena which will draw a big laugh from most people. People are clamoring more of a HHH win is because he's deserving of it and no his 2 hour title reign in October doesn't really qualify. People being sick of Cena doesn't more money that means less viewers something some of you have a hard time grasping for some reason but I'm not shocked anymore.

If you take the time to seek out a wrestling website and then comment on it, you CLEARLY care about Wrestlemania, the WWE, Monday Night RAW, and everything else involving men in spandex pretending to punch each other. Complaining about the booking of pretend fighting is retarded. Coming to a wrestling website and commenting on just how much you hate the booking of men pretending to fight is worse than that. Seriously, no one cares what you think. Especially not when you'll watch the product no matter what it is.

people wont watch no matter what.. Look at 1994 to early 1997.. bad bad times. people tuned out when they'd had enough. -- Personally I think the problem is that theres no real counter balance for Cena. and that pattern started with brock. When brock came in they shot him to the moon and no one came up with him. he'd have a similar backlash now if he hadn't of left so soon. Cena, came up a bit slower but since his rise its pretty much been the john cena show. and i think this is a representation of wwe's status in a way right now. one big dog, no one else (booked) at same levels. Through out wrestling time.. there has always been the equal and opposite. Hogan vs Savage Flair vs Sting Hart Vs HBk Triple H vs IWC (;P) Austin Vs Rock Angle Vs Some canadian there was always -that- guy who could stand up to the other at a moments notice. that had the best matches with the other, who had the greatest rivalry. who's Cena's ? Edge ? .. maybe a year ago i would have argued that.. but even he wasn't booked right to hold that spot vs cena. -I- feel that Carlito would have been that man. but they messed that up with years of bad jobs and booking. -- and as for ratings.. the system is a sham. there using a system from 30..40, 50 years ago to measure the way people watch tv today ? in the day and age of tivo, dvd, web streams and "time shifting".. there is -no- way that the ratings can be trusted these days. I think, that all digital boxes, tivos ect.. should have a configuration option that simply says "track my viewing habits" that way instead of 2 people in Alabama counting for 2.8 million people or what ever.. anyone that -chooses- to have there viewing "tracked" counts for part of the ratings. you'd get a much better sample rate, and all it would take is a simple..SIMPLE firmware update. (and as it would be an option, there are no privacy issues as you could turn it off when you want.)

DG, the double standard again. Watch, and you're a fool who will watch no matter what and can't complain. Don't watch, and you're being ignorant and can't complain either. So basically, you can't complain. That is what WWE marks (yes MARKS I said it) expect from people, and why wrestling is in a near-Savio Vega style era. For the record, I don't watch anymore. It's just so bad. To be honest I was shocked to learn Wrestlemania is this weekend!! But I check this site every other day or so for that small chance that something is changing for the better. From the news I see, occasional recap, and WWE PPV cards . . it isn't. Wrestling still blows. It's a shame. Cena is a good guy in reality, but his character (unless its changed since 1 year ago . . pffft) is bland, uninteresting, beyond stale, cliche, and formulatic. He's The Rock Lite (tm). You can see the board meetings with big diagrams written in sharpie's on what made the old guys (Rock, Austin, Hogan) work and the douchebags at the E saying "Yeah, we'll have Cena do THAT!" Morons. Cena has potential to be a classic, but IMO, he needs to be a heel for that to happen. His superman thing blows. And yeah? He gets pops? So did the Blue Meanie. And yeah, kids cheer him? Kids also cheer Ben 10, Spongebob's friend Patrick, Hannah Montana, and chocolate sprinkles. I look forward to the day wrestling is exciting again.

1. They did a bad job advertising this Raw. They should have advertised this as maybe the last Raw for Flair as a active wrestler, but instead there was nothing more then a tag team announced. BAD! 2. The show has for the last 2-3 weeks felt like they are just waiting for Wrestlemania. 3. No storylines that keeps you interested and makes it a MUST watch show. 4. Now do remember that Raw before Wrestlemania 19 also got a 3.4. Its not the end of the world.

Heh .. all the Cena fans are hysterical. John Cena has some good matches, but please note its with people who CAN CARRY HIS UNTALENTED ASS ... like HBK, who could probably carry a 200 pound bag of concrete to a good match. Cena is horrible, hopefully after WM the WWE will FINALLY see this and drop him down the card where he belongs, with his stupid game show music and terrible in-ring repitiore.

Why exactly is Cena a bad wrestler? I realize he doesn't have overly flashy moves, and he doesn't go flying off the top rope with crazy dives. He goes out and he WORKS. Yeah, sure, they probably call the match in the back with the road agent, and they go over everything that is supposed to happen. Big deal, if you're on this site, you probably realize that. But John Cena, that guy? He can wrestle. That guy can work a crowd and one hell of a match. Wrestling isn't always about great looking suplexes, awesome submissions, crazy flips and dives and stuff of that nature. Every single wrestler has a different style. His gimmick is that he's just a a real guy, from the streets, and he's a FIGHTER. In a legit fight, do you think a guy is gonna try and maneuver himself behind his attacker/opponent, and try and German Suplex him? No, he's gonna try and punch the guy in the face, or in the ribs. And it's not like Cena is proclaiming himself one way when it's clear he's not. He says exactly who he is, and he acts as such. Just because you don't like that style of wrestling doesn't make him a bad wrestler, or a shitty worker that can't draw shit and doesn't sell enough merchandise. Yeah, that makes a bunch of sense. I work with kids, and everyday, there's atleast one kid at camp who wears a Cena shirt. I also pick kids up from school, and there's DOZENS of kids who wear his shirt all the time. I understand this is a small percentage of the US, and the entire world for that matter, but it's just ignorant to say the guy doesn't sell, and that he should be pushed down to the midcard. Besides, if he got depushed, we'd just get all the haters saying he deserves to be pushed back up and that he's being treated poorly... and so the cycle continues.

Yes, CENA = RATINGS, obviously EVERYBODY LUV CENA OR ELSE! sorry, but this dude sucks big donkey balls and while understand you may love him for whatever weird reason you imagine, keep in mind thats just you and no, that doesnt make you ONLY RIGHT and yes, you can of course deny he doesnt get bood every time and claim other sillyness - it still doesnt make any of that true

Matches John Cena made great: vs. Triple H at WM22 vs. Edge at Unforgiven 2006 vs. Umaga at NYR 2007 vs. Umaga at Royal Rumble 2007 vs. Shawn Michaels at WM23 vs. Shawn Michaels, Randy Orton, and Edge at Backlash 2007 vs. Khali at Judgment Day 2007 vs. Khali at One Night Stand 2007 All of those matches were watchable and enjoyable, and they were hardly because of the other guy. John Cena knows how to play a crowd, how to build a comeback, and how to make an entertaining match. Seriously, you may bitch about John Cena now, but when it's actually safe to appreciate his body of work in five years or so, you'll feel ridiculous for not being on board sooner.

Just compare the build for the main event at WM to the main event at TNA's Lockdown, and you'll see a major difference. TNA actually explained the reasons Joe and Angle want to fight. They actually give the fans a reason to care. WWE, not so much, and why should they? They know kiss-asses like DG will watch just because Cena and HHH are involved. The WWE doesn't have to think long term and exciting finishes as long as they know people will watch. That's why I feel much better about what's going to happen at TNA as compared to WWE in the long run. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Cena fan, and he works hard on his character and wrestling. However, the superman push left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. Should HHH win Sunday and turn heel, at least then it will give people a reason to watch Cena chase him, which would be worth it.

The funny thing is people who complain about Cena and than praise HBK in the next breath. HBK has made a career off of doing the superman/overcoming the odds gimmick but for some strange reason gets a pass, and this is coming from an HBK fan. Not to mention a lot of times HBK completely forgets about selling and does his stupid jump up, many times forgetting that his leg had been getting worked over for an entire match. And to the guy that said Cena can't carry matches, he carried Lashley to a pretty damn good match at the Bash and even was able to get a watchable match out of Kahli (which not too many people have been able to do). I'm not a Cena mark at all but the hate he gets is just starting to get funny now. The thing I like too is when he comes out for his entrance and gets a huge pop and than 3 mins later he gets booed because the sheep remember that it's cool to hate Cena.