10 Things We Learned From Post-Payback WWE Raw (May 1)

10. Purple Rein

The bulk of the Cruiserweight Division looked to syphon some of the Monday Night Raw heat from the league's topliners in a multi-man match that signified everything wrong with WWE's current presentation of the lightweights.

Whilst TJP and Austin Aries contested an absorbing encounter grounded with the levity of storyline heft and their differing relationships with champion Neville, the remaining field were thrown into a ten minute six-man tag match that was handcuffed by restholds until an exhilarating final stretch.

The silences that soundtrack the dull exchanges between these talented athletes makes the the entire experience of watching the Cruiserweights exhausting, and it's an unfair presentation of performers that can clearly dazzle and delight when the shackles are removed.

WWE love to trumpet WCW's cruiserweight division as a Nitro hotspot during their endless Monday Night War specials, but would benefit from actually watching a match to see why the performances drew such praise.

Virtually all six individuals did something worthy of generating the requisite 'oohs' and 'ahhs' from the live crowd in the final minute or so of the battle, but the insistence on nine minutes of WWE-lite build-up work will ultimately be the division's undoing beyond two or three top talents destined to escape it.