By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

(Wade Keller's full report on this week's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts and select key quotes was posted exclusively in this week's PWTorch Newsletter released this week for VIP members. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)

- I thought John Cena and Ryback delivered a good final hard sell for their PPV title match, getting across the stips and the intensity of the feud. They also talked up what the WWE Title means, which is always good.

- The "secret admirer" reveal involving Kaitlyn and A.J. Lee got pretty heavy at times and cheesy at other times, but overall it was effective at creating an intense personal issue that I think will give a lot of viewers reason to root for Kaitlyn against A.J. at Payback. Big E. was pretty convincing at the start of the segment, too.

- Daniel Bryan vs. Seth Rollins was a very good TV match. Something is happening in WWE right now where match quality is really being appreciated by fans more than in the past, it seems, and a positive effect of the three-hour Raw format is that WWE brass is going against their previous instincts and featuring longer matches like this more often. It also helps that both The Shield and Daniel Bryan are so over with fans right now.

- Good to see that Mark Henry is returning, and that they’re drawing attention to him as a monster. He is so in-tune with his character now, they can make money with him during what is likely the final stretch of his career ... the length of which is yet to be determined.

- Overall on Curtis Axel, I'm not blown away by Axel’s charisma, natural presence, or mic work. Not awful, but there’s nothing jumping out here.

- Quotebook - Zeb Colter: “I hope the NSA investigates you, Michael Cole, because you are posing as a commentator.”

(Wade Keller's full report on this week's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts and select key quotes was posted exclusively in this week's PWTorch Newsletter released this week for VIP members. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)

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