From Scott Keith's RAW and Smackdown! reviews:
>Let’s see: RVD: Over. Tommy Dreamer: Over in Philly. Brock Lesnar: Not over. Recipiant of Summerslam title shot: You do the math
>RVD’s their big star for the future but he never does anything meaningful, Brock Lesnar’s their big star for the future but you can hear crickets fart every time he appears – it goes on and on.
>The Brock storms in and lays claim to the
belt, but then does his Shane Douglas impersonation and throws it down. Meanwhile, Bischoff meets Stephanie in the parking lot, where she steals Brock Lesnar away from RAW. Brock is the “Heart of RAW”? Big deal.
>Brock opts for a bearhug, which the crowd takes as a chance to revive Hogan again. However, it turns into the finish, as the arm actually drops on the third try at 10:03. That was a pretty anticlimactic finish, but kudos to Hulk for doing the right thing. * The problem here was that Hogan kept no-selling the offense, so that there was nothing to indicate he would be beat up enough to lose to something like a bearhug. Brock rubs Hogan’s blood on his chest – geez, he’s not just big and mean, he’s unhygienic, too.
>The Bottom Line:
>Well, they’re going for it with Brock, but I just don’t know if Rock can pull off a miracle by both getting a good main event out of him AND getting him over enough to carry the promotion as champion. The fans just don’t buy him as the monster heel du jour or the “next big thing”, and there’s gonna come a point where they have to come to grips with that.
