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Hello fans!

Today, I will talk about my Monday Night Raw impressions, and just some other things.

Well, I stayed up to watch Monday Night Raw, and I'm glad I did. This Raw was very well put together, and I thought did a fine job playing off the previous night's Summerslam. The opening match was incredible and it was great that the WWF started off with Y2J and Benoit in a tag match. WWF should start all events this way, then have the interviews second. Anyway, the interview was also excellent (maybe because I am a huge Angle fan!) which did a very good job continuing this HHH/Angle fued.

Speaking of HHH/Angle, I have a complaint with what people are saying. They are complaining about this feud taking too long to build up. Am I the only one confused? The WWF has an awesome feud on their hands and don't want to ruin it by by bringing it along too quickly. It's like baseball now, you bring a prospect along slowly, so he can flourish. If you bring them up too early, it'll be good for a while and then die. I really enjoy this feud lasting like this.

I thought the rest of the show was quite good, but won't go into detail on all the matches, just some important things:

*HHH/Chyna/Guerrero- This was an excellent interplay between these three, as we know Chyna's connection to both. I liked how Angle convinced Guerrero to fight HHH and I am very interested in seeing what happens the next few shows with these 3.

*Rock/Undertaker/Kane- This was also very interesting. I liked how Kane kicked out of a Rock Bottom and a People's Elbow. This shows how powerful rhis monster really is. Undertaker getting involved may bring about a triple threat match at Unforgiven. Or maybe a Taker/Rock match. If that happens, I'd really like to see Taker win the belt. Or even better, have Kane absolutely destroy Taker and have Taker return as his old original (and still his best) gimmick.

Overall, I'd say this Raw did an excellent job of playing off of Summerslam. It could have been better, but I think WWF was holding back any big surprises due to the horrible time slot. I give Raw a 90.

Okay, I will now speak about one of my fellow writers here at Olympicslam.com. He's one good looking mofo, and I think you should know who he is by now. And if you don't, you're what Jay calls an ugly person. Yes it's Jay, the writer of "What Good Looking People Think." His column is awesome, and he writes about some good stuff. He is one of the originals here at Olympicslam.com, and he's also a great guy. You have to check out his columns, which there will be more now that college has started!

Okay that's it, I'll start writing more when I start college, probably 3 a week I hope. Until then... Have a Nice Day!!

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