WWE RAW Goes PPV for June 22

Source: PWInsider.com

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-- For the first time, ever, in RAW’s history, the June 22nd edition of Monday night RAW in Green Bay, Wi will broadcast live with no commercial breaks. The show will remain uninterrupted from start to finish. WWE’s creative team will treat this show as a PPV, since they will have no breaks throughout the entire broadcast.

So it really isnt going PPV, just going uninterrupted by commercials. Honestly, I would care more if it were Smackdown! or ECW going uninterrupted, because RAW really just bores me this days. The only reason I tune in is out of habit, to write the review for this blog, and to see The Miz. Sometimes there are rather nice matches, but everything else is uninteresting. Even Santino, one person who I always tuned in to see, has been hurt by a face turn (and the horrid Vickie feud).

I wonder how WWE will make revenue for that week without commercials. Someone mentioned having a split screen with the action taking place on one side and ads being promoted on the other, similar to how the WWE shows replays. Or perhaps we will get a Spacejam-esque ad placement scene from Randy Orton. "Triple H.... Im gonna put on my Adidas, kick your ass ALL over this arena until you cry like a baby in Pampers, then Im going to drive my brand new Honda to Autozone to fix it up, stop at Burger King so I can have it my way, then pay your wife a little visit!"

Maybe not. The idea is interesting, and it would probably make me wanna check it out if I wasnt currently watching RAW anymore, but I just can't see the idea being that good in delivery, outside of some matches getting more time and thus delivering more and better action. So make sure you tune into RAW on June 22 and see how this uninterrupted-by-commercials broadcast goes.