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Tonight is the 20th Anniversary of Monday Night Raw. Well, Jan 11 was the actual anniversary, but close enough. Just as we had the 1000th episode of Raw about six months ago, I would expect a similar show tonight. Not only is this a special show in that regards, but it is also the first Raw in five months with no football competition, so I expect WWE to pull out all the stops tonight. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if The Undertaker, HHH, or Brock Lesnar made some type of return on tonight's show.
Previously, WWE was planning on bringing back legends for tonight's show. Then I heard plans changed. I'm sure plans have changed multiple times since then. The only thing I know scheduled is Ric Flair confronting CM Punk about being The Best in the World. That should be an awesome segment.
Edge was asked to be at Raw tonight but will not be appearing due to a death in the family.
Bret Hart was told he is not needed for tonight's show.
The Rock will put on a Rock Concert tonight on Raw. He did the same thing last year leading into his match with Cena in a segment I really didn't like, but the live crowd was certainly into it.
The Rock was on both Raw and Smackdown last week and performed comedy on both shows. I hated Raw and loved Smackdown. The difference for me was that on Raw, CM Punk was cutting a serious promo, and The Rock responded with stupid comedy, much in the way John Cena does. On Smackdown, he came out in a segment that was meant to be funny, and had what I thought was a hilarious exchange with The Rhodes Scholars.
I've read one scenario where The Rock will continue to do all comedy through The Royal Rumble, and at the show he will LOSE to CM Punk because he did not take him seriously. After The Rumble, The Rock will flip the switch and get serious, and eventually win the WWE Title at Elimination Chamber, setting up Rock vs Cena at Mania. I like this idea.
Have to run for work now. More later.
Also, 2013 Predictions are officially CLOSED. I'm sorry if you did not get yours in, but the thread was open for two weeks. I will go back through the old thread and compile all of the 2013 predictions into a spreadsheet. Give me some time on this, but I will do my best to get it done some time this week. Same goes for all of the member information.