3 Ups & 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept. 6)
Hour of tag turmoil gets us back where we were last week; women's division falters.
After watching AEW’s All Out Sunday night, it was going to be tough to keep up the “grading on a curve” mentality we’ve had for a year-plus for WWE. One promotion has shown how to entertain without insulting, provide character development through showing and telling rather than spoon-feeding and producing memorable moments that stay with you long after the show concludes.
Raw is none of that these days. It’s rare that enough stuff clicks to turn off the TV and think that you just watched a very entertaining three hours. You don’t consider going back and rewatching a segment or match that really resonated with you, nor do you go back the following day and tell friends about a can’t-miss segment.
Instead, we got a very odd program on Monday night, where more than half of the show was dedicated to in-ring action, and yet the wrestling was at best passable and most of the time just forgettable time-filler. The women’s division continues to be an anchor dragging the show down, but the rest of it isn’t exactly wrestling Shakespeare.
Raw was always facing an uphill battle going up a day later against what everyone expected would be a very good All Out, but they still could have offered competent programming. That’s not what we got. This was just more content grind to fill time.
Let’s get to it…