Before we get to tomorrow’s Monday Night Raw emanating live from Cleveland, OH, we’ll have to go through WWE’s next pay-per-view, Night of Champions. The show starts in a few short hours and follows right on the heels of last week’s Raw from Ottawa, Ontario Canada. As usual, that show spent a fair bit of time setting up the matches for tonight’s card, most of which are championship matches as the show’s title suggests, but it also featured an appearance by WWE Hall of Famer, Bret “Hitman” Hart. This certainly seemed to make the hometown crowd (and me particularly) happy and while we won’t be discussing it in any detail, WWE also brought back Edge and Trish Stratus for last week’s Smackdown in Toronto.

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Last week’s Labor Day edition of the RAW SuperShow from Columbus, Ohio went a long way building up to both this Sunday’s Night of Champions pay-per-view and perhaps gave the first hints of what’s in store for the annual Survivor Series. Tonight’s show should put everything together for the next event and give the typical final word for what we’ll see on Sunday. Regardless of what goes down, it looks like the most interesting match on the card, Triple H versus C.M. Punk, will not involve a championship of any kind on a night where every match is supposed to be a title match.

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With tonight’s Labor Day edition of WWE’s Monday Night Raw fast approaching, it’s time to look back on last week’s show from Tulsa, OK. This was the first of what are being called “Super Shows” for both Raw and Smackdown that will feature talent from each brand on a regular basis. It’s an interesting idea that works at some points but fails at others. We also touch on last week’s special Tuesday night edition of the first Smackdown Super Show.

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WWE’s Monday Night Raw goes live in just under an hour and there’s no better way to get ready for it than to join us in rehashing the events of last Monday in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Being in in the Great White North, the Canadian fans showed their typical passion as well as their typical good taste in who they chose to cheer or jeer that so often agrees with our sensibilities here.

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Everyone here at MLD is a fan of something. Sometimes our interests are wholly our own, but often they intersect and suddenly there’s a lot to talk about. Brian and I have been watching professional wrestling for decades, and this Summer has seen a lot of new interest in what’s happening on World Wrestling Entertainment‘s television programming. It seems to be one of the rare points in time where the business could take a huge leap forward, but it may be fizzling as quickly as it started.

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