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(Wade Keller's full report on Monday's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts, including Rock's performance before the Chamber PPV, and select key quotes was posted exclusively on the PWTorch VIP website and VIP mobile site. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)

-- The Shield lost something being live without the video cuts and special effects during their mid-ring promo addressing John Cena's team. It wasn’t bad, but it felt unpolished and a bit clunky and orchestrated as opposed to chaotic and natural. They will get better, but they weren’t in a groove on this occasion.

-- Chris Jericho vs. Daniel Bryan was a very good 11-minute match. Crisp action, good timing nice nearfalls and big move reversals, with a strong clean win with ramifications. However, for many reasons, it’s disappointing to see that Bryan's top-rope diving headbutt is still allowed by WWE.

-- Mark Henry's “That’s what I do!” is going to sell t-shirts. It’s a great catch-phrase. I’m not even sure WWE and Henry fully realize it yet. His delivery is money. There is not a more believable act in pro wrestling right now than Henry. Bully Ray as a heel in TNA last year was the last person to come this close, and of course C.M. Punk is right there, too, in the mix, as a believable confident heel. Henry really scares me, though, in a way that takes me back to watching wrestling as a kid and being scared of Sheik Adnon El Kaissey when he came to the AWA hell-bent on taking the World Title back to Iraq.

-- Does Big Show punching out Matt Striker count as a babyface turn? It’s more of a babyface turn than The Miz and Alberto Del Rio went through. On a serious note, shouldn’t the announcers of all people act slightly outraged that Show punched their colleague? Striker isn’t a wrestler and he did nothing wrong. Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler acting like it was no big deal at all undercuts Show’s ability to get any heel heat for that move.

-- The "Zeb Coulter" introductory promo walked a dangerous line. Dangerous for poor Dutch Mantel, who’s got a paycheck coming, but is going to potentially get a real intense kind of backlash heat. He also will be one of those heels who some fans nod along with and cheer because they agree with his viewers, although hopefully the tone and nastiness of his expression of those views turns off even those fans.

-- Quotebook - Jerry Lawler: “Heath Slater is so full of himself, he’s been making fun of all kinds of Superstars. I saw him earlier today and he was making fun of Elvis Presley. He said he sings better than Elvis Presley. He said he dances better than Elvis Presley. I told him I wish he went to the bathroom like Elvis Presley.” Reax: That was a long way to travel for that punchline. Cole, rightfully, groaned a bit.

(Wade Keller's full report on Monday's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts, including Rock's performance before the Chamber PPV, and select key quotes was posted exclusively on the PWTorch VIP website and VIP mobile site. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)


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