I suppose you could accuse me of being a "Tuesday Morning Quarterback".  Every Monday, I tune in to Raw on the USA network.  Like most, I am enthralled by the stories and matches, but I watch with a different kind of eye.  Having this website and creating the HOT or NOT weekly column, I do have the site in mind when I watch the show.  In fact, my buddy with whom I watch the show often asks me "was that performance worthy of the list?"

It's easy to be a critic from the couch, but wrestling is a circus act.  I mean that both metaphorically and literally.  Wrestling might have evolved from a carne act but it has always kept the traveling show element.  Thus, you get a chance to be that critic live and in person every now and again.  Yesterday, I was lucky enough to have that chance. 

Surrounded by my peeps (Christian is a heel and no longer owns it so I'm stealing it!), I went to Raw at Nassau Coliseum last night to watch Raw from a much different perspective.  As a result, I felt like doing a regular HOT or NOT didn't made a lot of sense.  I'm still doing one, but the criteria for this one is crowd sensitive.  Those on the HOT list will have successfully garnered the reaction they desired from the crowd while those on the NOT list will have been underwhelming in their performance. 

The New York crowds are weird, but I feel confident in the list I have.  With that in mind, let's get to the lists!