7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 9)

By Scott Carlson / January 10, 2017

3. In-Ring Bore

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Not every episode of Raw is going to produce a lengthy, in-ring classic, but lately, WWE has been on such a roll that a complaint needs to be lodged now.

Raw put on an episode Monday night that didn’t produce any memorable matches. Sure the Chris Jericho United States Championship victory is a big deal, but fans aren’t clamoring to watch Lince Dorado/Neville, or Titus O’Neil/Kofi Kingston anytime soon. The matches were relatively short and didn’t do anything to stand out.

Sure, you can’t put a PPV-quality match on free TV every week, but you can at least give fans a reason to tune in for three hours other than part-timers showing up to announce for the Rumble.

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: 10th Jan 2017

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