4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (June 6)
3. Beat The Champ For A Title Shot
Sorry, but the trope of “beating the champ to earn a title shot” is very, very overdone in WWE.
Monday night, we saw the Street Profits tangle with the Usos in a “Championship Contender’s” match, which Byron Saxton helpfully explained as, “If the Street Profits are able to find a way to defeat the champions, you’ve gotta believe that they’re next in line for a title opportunity.”
Yep, that all sounds very solid and not at all arbitrary.
But then, the Profits won via count-out, one of the weakest ways to triumph. Sure, that preserves a real finish to a match, but in reality, it’s a cop-out that gives them zero momentum – you can’t win the titles via count-out, so how does that help you? – and it just makes the Usos look silly losing via count-out.
Sure, a title match between the two should rock, but now we’ve just seen that match. So how will a rematch for the titles be that much more special?