April 21st 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… A big bastard beat down and a little bastard wrestling a bull. I’m here, Justin is here, the llamas are here, it must be the RRC. Bryan/Kane Watching this without knowing Bryan’s dad had died, this seemed a bit of a...

Live from Baltimore, Maryland this is the Raw Deal for episode #1091. Follow me on Twitter @johnreport. Raw opened with a video package about the end of last week’s show when The Shield had to deal with an unfair tag match and then were destroyed by the returning Evolution group. That...

-Back to Australia then for the first time in about a year, and to another city too in Brisbane. Obviously the holy grail for the UFC in Australia is still to do a show in Melbourne, but until the authorities there allow MMA to take place in a cage as opposed to a ring (insane that they...

April 14th 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… Evolution is a mystery, an IC title tournament, and Cena makes terrible jokes. Back once again like a renegade master, it’s the RRC with me and Justin C. I’ll go first. Warrior Tributes The tributes to Warrior were done...

Live from Birmingham, Alabama this is the Raw Deal for episode #1090. Follow me on Twitter @johnreport. Raw opened with WWE Superstars and Divas standing on the stage together. Vince McMahon was there. He was standing beside Eva Marie and Nikki Bella. Some of the talents had Ultimate Warrior...

WWE WrestleMania XXX From the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana April 6, 2014 (Twitter @johnreport) I was at the show and I’m writing this recap one week after it took place. I already did a quickie live thoughts version late on Sunday night, but I know you want the...

This is a five day late edition of the Raw Deal. I don’t usually write this column so late in the week, but I was at WrestleMania 30 on Sunday, then Raw on Monday and when I got back home on Tuesday night I had no time to write this due to other work commitments. What I’ll do is...

April 7th 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… Bryan defends his gold, another new champion, and a sing-along to Cena’s theme. Welcome to the RRC for the most popular show of the year, the Raw after Wrestlemania. We’re both here this week, so I’ll shut up and...

It started, innocently enough, with a kiss. About 14 seconds later, Daniel Bryan had lost the World Heavyweight Championship at the grandest stage of them all, Wrestlemania 28, a night he would say was “the worst night of his career.” But little did we know it would be the start of one of...

Welcome to the fifth edition of Stolen Concepts, a PPV preview format so old I could almost steal it and use it in a column (which I did for this intro and the review descriptions). Over the years, The Oratory has featured a lot of pay-per-view previews, the archives contain heaps of...

March 31st 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… Last minute build, two divas matches and what could have been the Wrestlemania main event. Welcome to the last Raw Review Crew before Wrestlemania. The past couple of weeks seem to have flown by, so with only a few days to go,...

-After literally four years of fighting purely in his home country of Canada, this was GSP’s first fight in Las Vegas since his UFC 100 (!) title defense against Thiago Alves. His opponent? Arguably his most dangerous one yet in heavy-handed wrestler Johny Hendricks. Elsewhere on the card we...

Rather than review each individual hour of Ring of Honor Television, which has lately become a chore rather than something I’m looking forward to each week, I think the best way to review ROH is to look at the company as a whole as they move toward the next big show by breaking down each...

March 24th 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… Lots of drool, spooky bullshit and Lesnar’s squeaky voice. Howdy, it’s time once again for the Raw Review Crew, I’ll tag some brief thoughts down the bottom, first, here’s Justin… RAW Is Sexual...

Live from Brooklyn, New York this is the Raw Deal for episode #1087. Follow me on Twitter @johnreport. There was a video package from last week’s Raw when Daniel Bryan got handcuffed and Triple H beat him up severely. It was a really good angle. As I said last week, heel Triple H is...

-Historically you’d have to consider this a really important show in the development of PRIDE as it was the first to feature a match between homegrown star Kazushi Sakuraba and one of the legendary Gracie clan, in this case Royler. Elsewhere we’ve got Mark Coleman, Wanderlei Silva and Igor...

March 17th 2014: On this week’s Raw Review Crew… Renee’s midriff, a diva pirate and a real sense of direction. How do you do, it’s the Raw Review Crew, where a crew of two do a weekly view. HHH/Orton/Batista Promo I thought this was a very good opening segment, three...

Live from San Antonio, Texas this is the Raw Deal for episode #1086. Follow me on Twitter @johnreport. There was a video from last Monday’s Raw when Daniel Bryan got his way with Triple H accepting a match against him and also a WWE World Title match if he beats Hunter. The...