6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 14)

By Scott Carlson / October 15, 2019

3. Freak Show In Saudi Arabia

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How else can you describe the current card for Crown Jewel at the end of the month?

The six-match card features only one real, regular “wrestling” match currently, Mansoor versus Cesaro. The rest of the card?

· Seth Rollins versus The Fiend in a falls count anywhere match for the WWE Universal Championship.· Brock Lesnar versus UFC fighter Cain Velasquez for the WWE Championship.· Braun Strowman versus boxer Tyson Fury.· 9-team Tag Team Turmoil match to crown the Best Tag Team in the World. (No, seriously.)· Team Hogan versus Team Flair 5-on-5 tag match.

That is one hell of a freak show card. A one-match “tournament” to name the best tag team (ala the “Best in the World” tourney that gave us Shane McMahon’s gimmick for the past year) and a Survivor Series-esque match just weeks before the actual PPV, plus two singles bouts featuring two athletes with fewer wrestling matches under their belts combined than Jim Ross.

Throw in a Hell in a Cell rematch between Rollins and Bray Wyatt’s Fiend and you’ve got a complete cluster.

Authored by Scott Carlson

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.

First Posted On: 15th Oct 2019

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