6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 14)
Draft drags show down, Rollins burns it down, literally.
On one hand, you could give Raw a mulligan because the show’s primary focus was the WWE draft, so everything else was secondary.
But the draft itself helped make Raw a waste of time chock full of meaningless segments and frustrating “logic.” Throw in that the company is building to Crown Jewel – a big but ultimately meaningless PPV – and you’ve got a perfect recipe for an episode where you skip the show, read the recaps and hope that when things reset next week, they get back on track, fast.
It really is a shame in some ways. Raw had been chugging along just fine throughout the summer, a marked improvement from several months ago. But lately, it’s taken a nosedive, and the draft forced everything else into a holding pattern. Crown Jewel provided the icing on the s*** cake.
On the positive side, we got a couple decent TV matches and a sweet title change, which was a case of WWE pulling the trigger on an act at the right time.
Hopefully, things are back to normal next week, because there wasn’t much here to rope in new viewers, or even retain regular watchers.
With that said, let’s find out how things stacked up. Let’s get to it…