Monday Night Raw - 3/28/11 - The annual WrestleMania go-home show...

[Santino]

Cole/Lawler has had a great build, everything else, not so much.

[The GIGGAS]

Quote: Originally Posted by Streets

I've known the main event for some time, but will put it in spoiler tags obviously. Click at your own risk. Spoiler Cena/HHH/Edge/Orton vs. Punk/Barrett/Del Rio/Miz

Almost sounds like a dark main event to me.

[Streets]

Quote: Originally Posted by The GIGGAS

Almost sounds like a dark main event to me.

You know what... that makes sense, lol.

[The GIGGAS]

I almost didn't post that, because I didn't want to temper your excitement. Sounds like a nice match, though, so that'll be fun. I'm sure you'll enjoy tonight!

I just hope for a decent show.

[OSUFan_88]

The fact that Lawler vs Cole has been the most hyped, well built feud tells you all you need to know about this build up to WM.

So very, very lame.

[Streets]

I dunno. I like the Miz-Cena build-up a lot. I think the addition of the Rock adds rather than takes away from the feud (Since Miz-Cena has been done before). People say Miz is a third wheel in his own feud, but that's because he's not on the level of Rock and Cena... yet. But believe he is getting a rub from all of this and it will only help him. He is not getting buried by the other two at all.

The Miz has been fueled by the fact that he is where he is despite the fact that no one ever believed in him. He loves rubbing it in to the crowd how great he is as his gimmick is one big fat "I told you so!". Still, it eats him up that he is STILL getting overlooked by John Cena who is too busy having a Hollywood war of words with an ex-wrestler not involved in their match. He is equally upset that the Rock is overlooking him as well. This has motivated the Miz to use the distraction to get over on Cena each week. The Miz has looked stronger, and more cunning (which is hard to do when opposite Super-Cena), and John hasn't looked too weak as he has been "distracted".

Through this all, we have had entertaining promos from all three. I think it was well done.

As mentioned, Lawler-Cole has been built up spectacularly.

Triple H-Taker has been the worst booked IMO and it's not even close.

Second place goes to Punk vs. Orton. I like Punk bringing up their history and talking about getting his revenge (as if in his mind he's the hero of the story). However, ever since then, he has been booked horribly and has not backed up any of his claims really.

Rhodes-Rey has been GREAT and is not getting the proper respect it deserves here. The buildup to this has been months in the making with Cody's injury, the gimmick change, the Dusty swerve, and Cody busting in Rey's face with his own kneebrace. Overall, a GREAT buildup for an under-card feud.

[Mercury112491]

I feel like I've def seen worse. The Cena/Miz buildup with the Rock has been nice to watch since it's something so different. I feel like I'm seeing The Miz grow before my eyes. If they wanted to send Miz soaring to superstar status they'd have him come out of this the winner(although I doubt the will).

Maybe the difference this year is there are a whole bunch of matches I'm actually looking forward to. Usually theres only 2 or 3 I really wanna see.

[GnarlyKing]

I agree with Streets. The Miz-Cena buildup has been good, Lawler-Cole and Rey-Rhodes have been excellent. Even Edge-Del Rio has been pretty well done, though not great. Punk-Orton started strong but hadn't really gone anywhere other than the same old thing over and over until last week. The rest of the card has been pretty poorly setup though. I know Taker-HHH didn't need much just based on who they are, but it shows a little too much that they're not even trying there.