10 Worst WWE RAW Moments Of 2019 (So Far)
Could've been 100.
This list is going to be a f*cker to write.
It's almost as difficult a challenge as whittling down the 10 Greatest Pro Wrestlers Ever. How much does drawing power matter? Isn't it everything? Isn't that the ultimate objective of all this?
Do you include Jim Londos, a performer who once drew a six-figure house in his home nation of Greece, where he was received as a national hero? Or El Santo, who similarly was a genuine cultural monument? Or does wrestling date in such a strange and accelerated way that their impression on it doesn't warrant inclusion in 2019? Wrestling is different to cinema, for example. Cinephiles receive their art form as something impervious to time. Wrestling fans who recognise Londos are sub-categorised as "historians", as if Londos is an artefact excavated from the site of an ancient temple.
Bret or Shawn? Misawa or Kobashi?
Do you prioritise that time The Revival were framed as eurgh gays in the shower, or that time they scooted across the ring like dogs with worms in their a*se?
N.B. - If you have worms in your brain, and don't wish to read negative content, please be reminded that this list is entitled '10 Worst WWE RAW Moments Of 2019 (So Far)'. It is not entitled '10 Best WWE RAW Moments Of 2019 (So Far)'. It is entitled '10 Worst WWE RAW Moments Of 2019 (So Far)'.
10. Dana Brooke's Passionate Promo
Right, so a lot of people enjoyed the passion Dana Brooke showed here, and it wasn't inauthentic.
On Wade Keller's Post RAW show recently, an insider called in to put her over. Nobody has worked harder than her over the past three years, this person said. She trains in the Performance Center on her days off, she arrives early, she helps to set up the ring.
All of this is admirable in itself. Even more so, since she has received so few opportunities to showcase her progression. She got one, in March, and was bantered off the face of the earth for her troubles.
Interrupting Ronda Rousey's "carny con-artists" spiel, Dana said, with a weird twirl, "I'm not gonna let you disrespect the WWE Universe!" She told Rousey that she'd worked her tail off to earn the respect of the women's locker room. She loves WWE, she said. She also said, with the warble of an R&B singer, "Each week on RAW..."
"Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Toni Braxton!"
Subjectively, it was cringeworthy.
Objectively, this essentially killed her off.
All of Dana's hard graft and passion amounted for nothing, because she didn't put up a brave, if unsuccessful fight. Rousey annihilated her to no comeback whatsoever, taking as little time destroying her as WWE did building.