7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (June 6)
Cena/Styles steals the show, Reigns avoids the crowd, and a former GM has lost his marbles.
If you ever needed to make a case for how Raw is too long and could be improved greatly simply by condensing it to two hours, Monday nights episode would be exhibit A. Monday night was a tale of two Raws: the first hour-plus, and everything else.
Raw opened strong with a solid promo between the six men in the Money in the Bank ladder match, included a really good Cesaro/Chris Jericho bout, showed a video package of Seth Rollins road to this point, and pitted John Cena against AJ Styles in a war of words. All of that came before the midpoint of the episode. If Raw ended there, it wouldve been an easy thumbs-up show.
But it didnt. While he also showed up in the beginning of Raw, former Smackdown GM Teddy Long wore out his welcome with repeated interjections later in the show, Alberto Del Rio bored the crowd, the women drew the short straw for the evening, and Roman Reigns video package left an empty feeling.
Despite there being several more negative points, the big positives were really big. It almost was enough to overcome some of the drawbacks and some of those points are a bit nitpicky but WWE continued its trend of not being able to keep up a strong show for all three hours.
So what wowed the crowd and what sent them to the concession stands? Lets get to it