6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (13 April - Results & Review)
2. Dragging Pat McAfee Across Brands
If there’s a universal truth in professional wrestling right now, it should be that the Pat McAfee experiment has been a dismal failure that everyone – including the wrestlers themselves – has flamed.
But that didn’t stop WWE from having Roman Reigns invoke McAfee in his show-opening vignette on Raw Monday night. This led to them showing a clip from SmackDown of McAfee talking about CM Punk’s merchandise sales and depositing his check in a bank account labeled “I’m sorry, Saudi Arabia,” - insider stuff that registered with no one.
The video came back to Roman, who said he liked Pat (making him a heel) but noted that an ex-punter would never run his mouth about the Tribal Chief.
What are we doing here? This McAfee dreck has poisoned one world title feud, so why are they insisting on even referencing it in the other world title program? Just leave it alone, cut your losses, and move the hell on. It’s bad enough we got a SmackDown recap that replayed the lowlights from that segment later on; we didn’t need a tie-in to Punk/Roman.