(Keller's full report on this week's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts and select key quotes was posted exclusively on the PWTorch VIP website and VIP mobile site on Monday night. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)

By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

- Regarding the opening of Raw immediately following the Battleground non-finish, I don't care what storyline you're trying to tell, when you tell your viewers that the owners of the company didn't bother to stick around to watch a show you just paid $55 for, you feel like a real sucker. Imagine the NFL showing Jerry Jones walking out before yesterday's Cowboys-Bronco's game or drawing attention to it. They'd certainly explain what was so important that he left a huge early season game.

- I'm not sure that Stephanie McMahon trying to blame Big Show for "ruining the main event" of Battleground is going to temper the frustrations paying customers had at the ending of last night's show. It's the right thing to say storyline-wise, but it doesn't change at all the fact that a lot of viewers - nearly all, actually - realize that WWE is in control of such things and their booking "ruined the main event."

- Shawn Michaels's TV return was the surprise a despondent or dismayed WWE audience needed tonight, in the arena and on TV. Once again, when WWE is in trouble, they can always count on HBK to be one phone call away.

- The downside of Michaels returning in the middle of the Triple H Power Trip storyline is that Michaels has apparently watched the abhorrent stuff Triple H has been doing, and he didn't really have anything to say about what has been going on with his "closest personal friend." It's not that it makes him a co-conspirator or anything, but HBK's first appearance would have been better if it was a more serious confrontation of Triple H for what has happened to Hunter since he gained power in the front office. That seems like it's be a more natural first return appearance by Michaels.

- Regarding Curtis Axel, I still think Axel's character is going to click when he decides to be the crazy sidekick character out of TV shows who's just not all there in the head and takes sadistic pleasure in beating on people, isn't the brightest strategist, but is just mentally unstable enough to make up for it.

- Bob Backlund didn't get much of a crowd response, but this crowd was pretty timid all night. Overall, he was as odd and crazy as ever.

(Keller's full report on this week's Raw plus added analysis with more thoughts and select key quotes was posted exclusively on the PWTorch VIP website and VIP mobile site on Monday night. Subscribe here to go VIP: PWTorch.com/GoVIP)

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