7 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 13)
3. Samoan Destroyer
Kudos to WWE for not wasting the debut of Samoa Joe on the main roster. The Samoan Submission Machine has left a path of destruction in his first three weeks.
Joe took out Seth Rollins two weeks ago, defeated Roman Reigns last week, and ambushed Sami Zayn on Monday. Zayn had just won a hard-fought match against Rusev when Joe jumped him and left him lying in a heap. It was a beating that continued to establish Joe as a threat to everyone on the roster, heaped more sympathy on Zayn (who was wiped after wrestling Rusev), and set up Joe’s first real feud while Rollins recovers.
Hopefully, WWE isn’t planning to simply make Joe a henchman or intermediary boss on Rollins’ quest to defeat the big boss, Triple H, because they’ve very quickly made him look like a top guy in just three short weeks.