I know you're not necessarily posting in here right now but I finally got up to date and read Shotgun. About time I give you some comments.

Continuing to enjoy the reign of terror of Mike Awesome. I can't wait until he destroys Rocky so badly that he's out injured for a few months, before coming back as a heel.

Pillman running riot is always fun. I'm hoping we get another Pillman/Austin showdown at some point.

Being an attitude era child means I love Road Dogg and Billy Gunn forming in here. I expect them to come out on top of this feud with the other mediocre teams involved.

Finally, a few notes. I would LOVE for you to do something with Sunny other than random ring announcing. Understand she recently had the big blow off with Sable, but she's to fun not to utilise more well she's still around.

And finally, the gang wars stuff between DOA/Los Boricuas/NOD was AWFUL in real life. People talk about how good 97/98 was because of the rise of Austin, Bret heel turn, and birth of DX/Attitude, BUT the mid card stunk. Badly. Hoping you find a way to make this somewhat bearable.

Anyway shotgun is shotgun, not much else to say. I'll continue to follow The Pandemic Project to, but hoping this isn't the end of this one due to the timeframe being more of one I'm a fan of.

Glad to see this is continuing mate. Love the full time addition of Taka, and marked out for the Val Venis mention as well. Let's go!

I am enjoying the character shift of of Shawn Michaels as he continues to lean further towards a heel alignment. It feels like not helping Austin (their drama in the opening segment and main event was good btw), was the perfect way to get Shawn booed in his hometown. Which again, in itself, feels like another big step in the character shift. Really well worked throughout the night.

I don't have a lot to say on the Taker stuff because it's closely following real life. Which whilst I've been critical of this method on the past, I'm not sure in relation to this scenario, how you're supposed to fix perfection.

Anyway, the one criticism I potentially have with Shawn and Taker having such personal, character altering journeys happening, it kind of feels like their first time match is the secondary/back up story. Which is a shame because the first time these two are meeting should be felt like a huge deal.

Bret/Austin is the opposite. You've managed to keep this feud hot for so long. Keeping Austin busy with the rest of The Hart Foundation worked on this show.

No Mike Awesome on this show made me.sad lol.

Other things I enjoyed were the more serious side of Goldust, because it felt like a logical reaction. And I LOVE the use of Scorpio as the new member of the nation. Shedding his slave name is awesome.

I am still really worried we are going to get DOA/Boriquas and based off how boring/taxing that was to follow in real life, I'm hoping you find something to give it a spark.

Also seems a copy and pasting error here as the attack on Crush and the Mero/Sable bit appeared twice on this show.

Finally, Mero was at his most enjoyable to watch as the jealous BF to Sable. He played the role perfectly. Looking forward to seeing how you put your own spin on things.

Another solid episode of raw here. Can't wait for Summerslam.

Considering there's no real build towards it at this stage, I'm surprised you've gone the Bulldog/Shawn route for One Night Only. The match doesn't really make a lot of sense at this point.

Love the kayfabe aspect of Raven not signing a contract and resorting to buying a ticket to attend shows.

I'm still not sure in '97, Ken Shamrock or anybody from the UFC had the mainstream appeal to come up against Mike Tyson and seem like a big deal. I actually kind of hope you don't go the Shamrock/Tyson route and give us something else instead.

Three hour PPV's was always going to happen at some point, and really isn't to much of a change booking wise. Just a few additional matches on the card so I'm sure it'll be fine.

The Frontal Martial Arts Wrestling card sounds really good. To be honest, whilst I know it's doubtful, would love to see at least the matches containing WWF guys posted with some detail in here. Card looks that good.

I wish I was on that wrestle vessel

Friday Night's Main Event and One Night Only all sounds positive to me. With this news, and going the Bulldog/Bret route, (love the idea of running it back in their return to the country) I do wonder how you'll book it. I'm very interested.

Card for Summerslam is looking damn good, and even better with the inclusion of Bulldog/Goldust.

Opening with Vader/Shamrock is a damn strong opening match for sure. Glad the two of them just got to beat the hell out of each other. I'll just touch on it all at once here and say everything involving Vader/Mankind was solid tonight, including their later confrontation and Mankind's promo. I wanted to pay a little more attention to Triple H/Shamrock though. I'm just a big fan of considering where we are in the year that now Triple H is getting a chance to prove that he can do some damage without Chyna and Perfect doing his dirty work. Everything here ticked the box for some final hype prior to Summerslam.

Bret's promo here was fine, nothing really new as opposed to repeating his schtick but that's okay. I thought the angle of will Austin be able to compete after Pillman's first attack was played out well throughout the night. Kind of gave the viewer an early hook to follow throughout the show. I also like the fact we got this Austin/Pillman main event because it's something that was never really finished in real life as it should be. Slaughter helping Austin but Austin not caring for it is such a Stone Cold thing, and the ending with the attack from Bret is good, setting up a weakness for him to target at Summerslam. More good work here.

Brian Christopher is honestly just the perfect heel for this Light Heavyweight Division right now. Looks like we might get a tag match based off of what happened on this show which was solid enough.

Juvi being able to drop Awesome here is smart booking. Gives him hope and momentum even if we all know Awesome isn't losing at Summerslam.

Not commenting on the competition stuff although Mero inserting himself in front of Sable during their entrance is noted.

Paul Bearer's promo was fine. Again, not much to say as it's not all that different to what actually happened in real life. I enjoyed the Michaels promo a lot more, especially the audacity to give 'Taker a hard time about his family. I thought this did a good job to portray the hatred, and clever how Shawn managed to circle it all back to being about his desire for the title and how he doesn't care about anything else. Really good.

My only real qualm for the night is probably the aftermath of The Patriot's win. The Hart Foundation and the Americans all getting involved was fine, I just didn't like Goldust's promo. I understand he's trying to get at Bulldog, which worked, but I don't really get how Goldust is going to talk about kissing another man's wife, and Marlena be like okay cool, here's a hug. I get what you're going for that just feels like a really strange character reaction to me.

I think I might have mentioned when you first started the Gang Wars stuff that I was a little concerned because of how dull it was in real life. You've done a good job of keeping the Nation fresh, but it still kind of feels like we're getting very basic "you attack me, I attack you" type stuff from this feud now. Unless Scorpio is going to carry every match the Nation is in, I can feel this getting old and dull fairly quickly post Summerslam.

LOD/Godwinns isn't exactly a feud to write home about but it makes complete sense right now. Headbangers being the sacrificial lambs of sorts worked here.

I'm curious to see how you use Sniper and Recon after their failed run in real life. I'm even more intrigued to know who The Commander is.

Anyway, a pretty strong episode of Raw for the most part. Did a good job of getting me more pumped for Summerslam to.