4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw (24 Mar - Results & Review)
WWE Raw drops the ball with two world title feuds.
There is no simple way to sugarcoat this for WWE fans: Raw on Monday night was a failure of epic proportions for where they are on the road to WrestleMania 41.
Less than four weeks to go until the biggest show of the year, WWE turned in a hugely disappointing show that underwhelmed with its major angles, actively hurting one of its major title programs and spinning its wheels with the likely closing match for the entire PLE.
The world title feud between Gunther and Jey Uso started out with such promise after the Royal Rumble and has completely sputtered, to the point where WWE seemed to be building into the story itself that Jey isn’t a good wrestler. The other men’s world title feud saw John Cena blabber on until finally hitting on a winning message, but it took Cody Rhodes to salvage the lengthy segment.
Rhea Ripley continues to look less impressive by the week in her three-way feud with Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky, but all of them looked terrible Monday night, right down to WWE signposting a triple threat in the most offensive way possible: an authority figure booking a singles match for next week that's guaranteed to end in a schmoz with all three women brawling so he “has no choice” but to book them all in a match.
There were some decent moments on Raw this week, but when two world title feuds crater on the same show and a third spins its wheels, it’s impossible to sing any praises here. This was late Vince McMahon-era bad, a huge disappointment, and a worrying sign less than four weeks out from WrestleMania if they don’t immediately turn things around.
Let’s get to it…