7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (August 27)
2. Corbin Dominates, Gets DQ Win
After squashing Baron Corbin at SummerSlam, it felt like Finn Balor had turned a corner in his feud with the erstwhile constable of Raw.
But that win came as his alter ego, and Finn the man is too small to overcome the might of Boring Corbin, apparently. Corbin dominated much of their rematch Monday night, beating Balor from pillar to post and then getting the win by using a steel chair, getting DQ’d and then waiving the DQ rule and restarting the match.
The whole “acting GM run amok” angle is fine for what it is, but the gripe here is the fact that Corbin controlled about 80% of the match. It was ridiculous. If Corbin had to resort to cheating to win, shouldn’t he had been overmatched once again, not just put on the defensive for the last 30 seconds of the match?
Seriously, this isn’t hard to book. Balor – who just beat the crap out of Corbin eight days ago and then took Roman Reigns to the limit the next night – should have been on the offensive for much of the match, countering Baron’s punches, forcing the acting GM to resort to underhanded tactics.