5 Ups & 5 Downs For WWE Raw (6 Oct - Results & Review)
1. What Are We Doing Here?
Serious question: Does WWE have any idea what it’s collectively doing these days?
Raw’s main event was a disaster on multiple levels, covering numerous WWE tropes: impromptu match made 90 minutes into the program; a “can they coexist” makeshift tag team facing an experienced duo – and winning; a Raw main event featuring the same interchangeable parts that have dominated the closing bout slot for nearly four months.
The tag match pitting the Usos against LA Knight and CM Punk also was yet another Raw main event in a long line of them where the match itself was unimportant. The result somewhat mattered – with the talking point that Knight stole the pin of Jey Uso from Punk and Jey likely sliding further into Roman Reigns’ camp.
But this was little more than a hastily thrown-together match between the same cast of characters, with average wrestling, no stakes, no heat and minimal crowd reaction. We’re supposed to receive at least three of the four men as huge stars, but fans aren’t exactly living and dying with the actions or story being told in the ring – in fact, they aren’t really what you’d call a “hot” crowd at all.
Gone are the days when Cody Rhodes would team with someone (Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Jey Uso) to take on the Judgment Day in 2023, when the buildings were LOUD for everything. This is a far cry from just two years ago, and it’s truly sad.